Is anyone fighting PCOS?

I was having symptonms of this which in turn caused me to be insulin resistant which in turn caused me to gain weight which in turn causes the PCOS......makes sense? lol I completely understand your frustration. The dr. put me on Metformin for 3 years and I hated it!!! Could not lose weight to save my life and not to mention the medicine made feel horrible all the time!!! After spending thousands of dollars on LA Weightloss, Weight Watchers, etc.... with no luck at all!!! I stopped taking the medicine and started MFP and exercise and I can tell a big difference. I have done alot of research and the best way to reverse this is diet and exercise. It works, I promise!! This is the best I have felt in years....Stay positive and simply take baby steps and try eating healthy and exercise. I understand your frustration all too well. Good Luck!!!!

I have PCOS... :ohwell:

I hope to get rid of it, if capable....I just started on metformin, which I take at night by it self with 6oz of milk followed by 6oz of water, and since I'm sleeping, I don't feel the cramps...when taking during the day, i would get really bad cramps.

Be careful with Metformin it causes liver damage. it is technically a diabetic medicine.

PCOS here!!!! on metformin as well 1700 mg daily. diagnosed 2006. led to many weight issues and infertility:grumble:
i was never told it had anything to do with the liver?? hmm... learn something new everyday..

I have PCOS, the weight gain and loss have both been a pain. I've had it since I was a teen.
I can handle most of the symptoms but the weight has always been annoying.

I didn't know about the liver damage either...:( I'm on a 500mg a day.

Best Wishes to All! :flowerforyou:

haven't seen much on this lately and wanted to check in on my fellow PCOS'ers. hope you are all doing well and kickn some but!

i am 15 wks pregnant and i passed my glucose challenge a few weeks back with a 94! talk about kick *kitten*! i am staying on metformin throughout the pregnancy to prevent hopefully gestational diabetes.

I have it also.
and IT SUCKS .

i was diagnosed with it when i was 15 and i'm 18 now, but it was only because of irregular periods. I've been on metformin since i was 15 and birth control for the regular periods. it took a while for it to sink in and for me to get into a routine for taking the meds. but since i've been taking it, i've gained weight, but it wasn't because of the meds, i was just choosing the wrong things to eat. but i'm still on the meds now and i'm doing fine :happy:

just be patient and talk to your doctor about EVERYTHING you do. honestly, my endocrinologist has become like my best friend. i call him about everything that i think may dumb down my meds because i wanna get this crap done and over with. i haven't had an ultrasound since i was diagnosed so i'm not sure how things are going. but hopefully soon they'll be gone. and i'm especially worried about infertility . i wanna be a mom so bad (when the time comes of course) and if this junk makes me infertile, i won't know what to do. so hopefully this will be in the past soon and i can feel relieved about that little issue.



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I have PCOS and am new to this site (and LOVE it!) I've dealt w/PCOS for 10 years now and after overcoming some recent challenges w/my hormone levels am back on track and ready to shed those pounds! Looking to lose 33 lbs. Any other cysters around?

I have PCOS. I was diagnosed about 7 or 8 years ago. After gaining tons of weight, feeling tired all the time, having dark splotches on my skin, hair growth where it should be, and hardly ever having TOM - I went to the doctor and was diagnosed. I was put on birth control pills and metformin and told that losing weight would be very difficult for me but that I needed to watch my carb intake and exercise more.

The birth control pills made me feel like I was going insane -my emotions were all over the place. At the time I was a single mom with a 4 year old at home - losing your temper and having your emotions all over is not a good option. I went off the birth control pills. My Dr also had me on Metformin - it gave me ulcers and again just made me feel crappy.

The mistake that the Dr. made was telling me that it would be difficult for me to lose weight... as I did with everything else at the time, I used it as an excuse. "I have PCOS and it makes it very hard to lose weight - no matter what I try, I can't seem to lose - could you pass the hot fudge please?" I was awful!

I met my husband a little while after being diagnosed and I was just so daggone happy that I had found someone who loved me in spite of being fat that I ate more. Finally as the scale started getting a little too near the 300 lb mark I got scared. On March 23rd I started MFP at 286 lbs. Today I weighed in at 271. That's 15 pounds in 15 days! Has it been easy? No... but it hasn't been NEARLY as hard as some of the other things I did.

Weight watchers? LOL - thanks, I followed the plan and gained 30 lbs in 3 months
Atkins? I lost 10 pounds in 2 months and felt terrible (and poor) while doing it
Subway Diet - Surprise, surprise - I gained on that too...

Really and truly - following the calories that MFP tells me to and finding an exercise routine that I enjoy has been the key - for me, that's walking on my treadmill and listening to good music.

I'm so glad this thread revived, it was my first and only post and I wasn't sure there were any cysters around...glad to hear from you all!

Pipinana, I know the heartache and disappointment you feel, my dh and I felt it too. I had heavy cycles (sorry, rusty on my abbreviations, laf) in high school and had a bad episode, after which I was put on bc to control and things went on normally. In college a few years later I gained some weight gradually due to poor eating habits but it wasn't much because I was into exercising regularly. I started having ovarian pain so bad that at one point I rushed from class to my OB in the next town and waited hours to see some random fill-in dr. that said "congratulations, you felt yourself ovulate" and changed my bc and pushed me out the door. If he'd had done an ultrasound I'd have been dx w/pcos. Same thing happened w/other drs over the years w/o answers & I didn't know any better.

When my dh started talking about getting married and "our family" I told him I had a feeling I couldn't have kids, something just wasn't right. He was willing to cross that bridge when/if we met it. Several years later we bought our house and I wanted to just go see if I could find out if we'd have any trouble if we wanted to start talking about trying soon...my new dr was old school, he actually LISTENED. He said there wasn't much to suggest I had anything "wrong" and most dr's would say to try for a year and then they'd see me and run some tests. I told him I'd called around and was told that and someone told me he was different. As i decided to leave feeling defeated he said he'd go w/my gut and if there was nothing on the us I could pay for 1/2, since insurance wouldn't cover it. An hour later I returned home hysterical and near tears, having been diagnosed with PCOS...he counted 14 cysts on one and 11 on the other, several sizeable enough to indicate that as the active cause of stabbing pain in that area. When I asked him to write it down, what PCOS stood for he said "no....it's your syndrome, it's important that you remember it and go home and study it.....find out everything you can, search every resource and then decide on a plan to conquer it. Call me when you're ready to fight it." That doctor stuck with me for 2 years of the most painful and emotional journey that had highs and lows so drastic that when I read your post it just flooded my eyes with tears and I couldn't breathe as the memories poured back in.

I'm not a physician, though I've worked for many, ironically, laf, but as I studied, read and searched for answers and help I promised myself to encourage and help any other cysters if the opportunity presented itself. It's lonely, it's down right depressing to want a baby and try so long and so hard that every day is like an eternity for you while others can only try to relate on the surface, going on with things while you are stuck in that place that feels hopeless. I thank PCOS for bringing me empathy where I may have lacked it and for putting the fight in me where I wasn't sure I could find it.

Don't lose hope, pipinana! I'm sure you've visited the numerous cyster boards as I did and have and I don't presume to be any more knowledgeable than the next, but I'm here and willing to listen and help any cysters that want to vent, talk, rant and rave, bounce ideas off of or hear more of my trials/tribulations and eventual "success," for lack of a better word, because it's always ongoing, even when you clear an insurmountable hurdle, the next looms...however, in my experience there is no stronger woman than the woman with a mission to overcome an obstacle!

I apologize for the length, hope this posts :-) I just want to share that none of us are alone, no matter which sx we have or stage of triumph we're beginning. I have literature and info. that helped me and friends thru the past 8 years, let me know if anyone wants to talk.

Btw, my son is seven....and because he was so very hard to conceive, hard to keep b/c of the risks after pg, hard to bring home b/c he was a preemie, it was the fight thru all that that made me feel as strong as I do now. What else could compare?

Be strong cysters and remember how many of us there are!

I to Have PCOS and i cant win with my weight. As soon as i start talking birth control the weight just seems to keep coming . i have managed before comeing here to lose 25 lbs but i had to stop taking birth Control to due it .

:happy: That's awesome Pipinana, boy do you have the right attitude! Sounds to me like you're already a mother, probably to many, you're just waiting for your little one to complete their journey to you. Just think what would happen to those little one's if loving people like you and your dh didn't open your hearts to them.

Keep us posted!

JJ