can I start a PCOS Vent your frustrations Thread? lol

Dear PCOS,
You are the absolute worst. You have ruined my present chance of motherhood, you make weight loss a horrid challenge, and you make my face look like a 15 year old boys'. You make my moods whacky, my menstration heavy or non existant, and my hair thin. But PCOS, you are NOT me, and I will no longer allow you to be the definition of my life. I WILL lose weight, I WILL have a clear face, I WILL one day become the mother I always dreamed.

:drinker:

Dear PCOS

You suck!
You kept yourself hidden while I was young and on the pill, as soon as I decide to have kids - HELLO!!! I am sick of ovulation tests, blood tests, preg tests, scans etc.... only to be told in a patronising way by my doctor "you just need to loose weight!" HA easier said than done..... oh and not to mention the "you do realise you are at a much higher risk of diabetes and heart disease" great! anything else?
YES here have some extra facial hair - thats fun, mood swings and a bout of depression plus a serious lack of motivation, Oh and not to mention all the extra weight that makes u feel like an outcast in society anyway.

ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH

anyway thats all off my chest now..... I have started my journey to weight loss, as thats all my doctors will help with. I know I can beat this and still dream of holding my own baby in my arms... maybe one day with a lot of effort, help and support!

Love to all of u suffering with PCOS.
Happy to have u as a friend
Em x

Its their answer to everything - just lose weight!!!!! grrrrrrrrrrr

Dear PCOS,
I hate you. I hate the fact that I will probably never conceive the one thing that I want the most. I started my period at nine years old, and now I'm 29. It has never been normal. I almost DIED because of you. I had to have a blood transfusion after having my period for over three months! My heart couldn't take it, and I almost went into cardiac arrest. You have made my life hell.

I WILL lose weight and beat you! I have been so depressed and so discouraged. Reading all these other posts make me realize I'm not the only one. Thank you for starting this thread!

Hello fellow cysters!

My name is Yvette and I am 25 years old. I was diagnosed with PCOS about a year ago when my husband and I started to worry about why I wasn't getting pregnant. I was like "finally, an explanation as to why I had bad acne, facial hair, and excess weight in junior high." Needless to say, I was not very attractive and of course very depressed. It is really hard to fit in when all of your siblings and most of your family is thin. Of course, they all thought that I just ate too much, even though I was literally starving myself. Now I know why I never lost much weight.

So now that I have my explanation as to why my teenage years were a nightmare, I now have to deal with the infertility problem on top of the acne breakouts, waxing and constant fight with my weight. Never really had regular periods until I went on BC when I was 17 and lost some weight with a low carb diet, which I have gained all back in recent years so my periods are few and far between :mad:. I was started on provera and clomid when I got diagnosed. The provera induced my period and I ovulated (yay!) on 100mg of clomid. After a year of these clomid cycles, still no pregnancy. My GYN referred me to RE and he put me on Metformin last week. The side effects suck, but I hope that it will help me lose weight and help me get that Big Fat Positive that I have been hoping for.

I am sooo glad that I found this thread because no one in my life seems to understand the emotional stress that comes with PCOS. I actually felt some comfort in reading all of your posts, something that I could not find anywhere else.

I want to let you know that you are all beautiful, strong, women and I would love to hear how everything is going. Feel free to send me a friend request and good luck on your weight loss journey.

Thank you, PCOS, for making me feel like less than a woman. For making me feel like I'm some freak of nature existing in-between genders. For making me have to starve myself simply to maintain a weight, much less lose weight. I'm sick of the excess body hair in embarrassing places, it's something no one, let alone a child should have to deal with. For all the times I was laughed at for being overweight on the playground, all the times the other kids would call me 'Hobbit' (because of my disgusting hair growing on my chin and face) and 'Pluto' (because I was as fat as a planet... get it? Isn't that so funny?)

All you do, PCOS, is try to destroy my self-confidence and my dreams of looking and feeling feminine. You are the worst.
It is more than depressing when I realize you are something I will have to fight tooth-and-claw for the rest of my life.
I will always have to deny myself a slice of birthday cake while watching all my skinny beautiful friends stuff their faces and stay slim. I will probably have to pop metformin like House pops vicodin today until the day I die. I will always have to look in the mirror and see a hairy, oily face staring back at me with fine, oily, thinning hair on top of my head. I will always feel like a freak of nature and less feminine than I want to feel.

I hate you, PCOS. I do not want you in my life, go curl up and decay.

(((HUGS))) to my soul cysters! We are going to get through this.

Wish me luck ladies.....I am in the 2ww, again (cycle #12). This could be it, provided I get through the next 11 days without going crazy.
Any ladies experience cold/flu like symptoms during the 2ww, that ended with a BFP? Just curious because it came out of nowhere, with a stuffy/runny nose and a sore throat and it is the first time it has happened in the 2ww.

Lots of sticky baby dust to you Melroxsox and all other ladies ttc!!!!!

Dear PCOS,

Thanks again for the wonderful experience of internal vaginal ultrasound, several times a year. Thanks for those scintinating times when a cyst bursts, ending any chance of my evening featuring anything except rocking, clutching, and perhaps an exciting ER visit.... and the inability to go off hormonal birth control without you going freaking nuts and causing me to gain craptons of weight, and you to get worse.

Thanks for making me pluck my facial hair weekly; for making weight loss a mountain of effort, and for deepening my singing voice to a place where I'm not particularly comfortable with using it anymore. Oh, and the acne at near 30 ... that is SPECIAL.

P.S. - I hate you. Die in a fire.

Update: I am still in shock but I got a faint positive on Thursday night 11/17 and a faint positive on Friday 11/18. This morning I got my BFP!!!!!!!!! It is still not official until I see my OBGYN, but OMG!!!! We have literally been trying since '08 and I never thought it would happen. The only thing that was different this time was the metformin, that stuff is the real deal.


Hope all you ladies are doing great.


and to you PCOS, I won this time!!!!!