I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2005. My Mom kept trying to say I had it since 1997, I didn't believe her. Each year I kept telling her the doctor didn't say anything about it. After I married my husband and had my insurance at my work, (I got a great job with great health care in 2005), I was formally diagnosed. We tried for 4 years and then gave up. I was told until I lost the weight, I wouldn't get pregnant, so they put me on a low carb, 45 carbs for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner each, and 30 carbs each for 3 snacks. Within 1 month of being on this, I conceived my son. He's 2 now. The dietitian said having the carbs like that would make my body process my insulin and balance my hormones.

When Alex turned 2, we started trying to conceive again. It's be a month of really trying, and I worry about it. Since the 7th of January 2011, I have lost 48 pounds, and I have never tried Clomid or any other pills. Hubby has a deal with me, that if we don't naturally conceive a sibling for Alex by the time he is 3, then we will ask for the Clomid. So I have a goal to get down to 200 pounds by December. I'm fluctuating between 258 to 256 this last two weeks. I think my OB/GYN will be impressed that I lost 104 pounds since 2011, and will be okay with me trying it.

Hi, I'm Lena and 29 years old and was recently diagnosed with PCOS (2yrs ago) for years I have tried to lose weight and was active in HS but could never be what was a called a healthy range. Just got my latest results back from the doc last week and my insulin is finally to a point where I cshould be able to lose weight easier now. The doctor told me if I can just get my testoterone down I should see the weight fall off. It would be nice but I keep trucking away. Just nice to know that after all this time to see results.

Hi I'm Lisa in the uk. I'm 37 and although not TTC currently I suffer with every symptom of pcos except acne. I had my son (now 4) with help from clomid metformin (2000mg) and various combinations of natural supplements and herbs.
I put on all the weight I had lost before conceiving once lo was born and now it's time to control the symptoms anc stop blaming pcos for my weight gain. It is a slow battle but I'm determined to feel better and look after myself. I already feel better since losing a few pounds since January but not sure if I'm mastering a low gi diet. It is so hard to resist chocolate and carbs. Any advice??

When you're doing it, match a protein with a carb for every meal, it boosts burn, per my dietitian.

Hi all,

I am from the coast of Maine in the US. I have been TTC for 7 years with one unfortunate miscarraige last year. I just recently saw an actual fertility specialist and I found the PCOS Diet book whose author works with my new doctor. I hope over the next months to lose enough weight to get some help done in my blood system and be able to conceive again and hopefully be successful with the pregnancy. I dont blame PCOS for my weight but I am glad to start learning how to work with it to be able to accomplish my goals. I am blad to find a group of people who know what this is like.

Glad to be here for you. Any questions you have, We'll be happy to help you with.

I've just been diagnosed with PCOS although I've been suffering from the symptoms for 20 years! Now 34 I wanted answers and finally got a good doctor to take my list of symptoms seriously.

Hoping now that I have the right information I can diet in a more effective way... my aim is to get down to a BMI of 25-30 so I'm eligable for IVF if other medication fails to help. My current BMI is 37 - so it'll take a while!

Good luck with your journeys - I hope we can all pal up to support one another

Hello All!


I was diagnosed with PCOS about 8 years ago and have just ballooned since then to a whopping 360lbs! Currently sitting at 338! YAY for weight loss! I have been pregnant once but miscarried at 9 weeks for unknown reasons about 1.5 months ago. I have tried everything from metformin, clomid, gonal F, menopur, follitisum, ovidrel, etc...and nothing worked until I discovered Femara...first round and bam got pregnant.

Anyhoo I am here on a low carb, low gi diet and until I get down to my goal weight I will not be trying again....I really need to recover still.

Best of luck girls!

Kristen

thanks for that info. i actually feel that i have lost inches but really want the pounds i guess i am just rushing things. i will definitely try your suggestion

I lost 10 inches before I noticed a huge scale loss.

Hey ya'll my name is Kambria, I am 23 and was diagnosed with PCOS about 7-8 years ago, after getting fatally sick from the patch. Doctor told me I have had much longer since 7th grade. My body went through puberty but didn't actually go through it, I know it makes no sense. In 6th grade I was petite and thin, in 7th grade I gained alot of weight, not a couple of pounds but 20 or so in just a few months. I spent the next 3-4 years in doctors offices and with specialists because my thyroid wasn't working, my insulin levels weren't normal, but I was active in sports and in general. After several times of changing doctors I finally got one that diagnosed me and put me on medications.

I take metformin and birth control, oh and a multivitamin. This has been a rough road. I can't have too much of certain hormones or I get fatally sick and migraines so going through trial and error with birth control was awful. But I am on one that is great, yay! I find that losing weight is a constant battle no matter that I work out 5 days a week for 1-2 hours and have a completely different diet than what I did when I first started.

Hi everyone. This is actually the first time I've ever put "my story" online.

My story- I was diagnosed with PCOS at 13, and did not see any symptoms until I was about 21. I don't consider myself infertile because I've been pregnant before yet I don't have children. I've been married going on 4 years in July. We have not been actively trying, though we have not been avoiding pregnancy. We go with the notion that pregnancy is such a huge blessing, that when God wants it to happen it does and when he doesn't, it doesn't. I'm living proof of that. Insulin resistance is another thing I'm fighting. 2000 metformin a day. Was rough at first... gets better when you stick with it and don't try to eat greasy/sugary things with it. In 2010 I was hospitalized with a weakened heart, a symptom of the PCOS. I went in with my heart pumping at 19% (normal is at least 35%) and with my last echo I was at 30% after more weight loss I'll be completely cured.... God is GOOD.

My "issue"- I don't ovulate at my current weight. I ovulated with no problem and had a period when I was under 250lbs. I have 20 more lbs to go to be under 250 lbs, and even then we will not be actively trying because of the weakened heart. When we decide to try, I will need to be under close watch by my heart docs. I'm cool with that, my heart is quite healthy these days and getting to my ultimate goal weight of 165, it's going to be even better. So with a million and one tests and things, I've found out even as recently as today that my uterus and ovaries are in great shape. My ovaries are consistent with those of a woman enduring PCOS, however I don't have any cysts at the moment. They are a little larger. LOL... everything in this here body is larger. If I don't get better soon though... All of this mess can get even worse. Which leads me to...

My hope - I will endure this "storm" or learning experience, taking on what the Lord wants for me rather than what I want Him to want for me, and I will get to where He wants me to be. If He wants this for me, it will be. But It won't be ANYTHING if I do not live a healthy life like he wants me to. My hope is to be the best that I can possibly be. Mother or no mother, I'll have a body that does what it was designed to do, and all it's going to take is some faith, prayer, and discipline.

Ladies, whether you're ttc or wtt like me... It's a long road. It's good to know that we can have each other's backs and help each other out. I do plan on seeing a dietitian. I think I've seen enough endo's and gyn's for the time being. I don't even plan on seeing my endocrinologist again until I've lost another 25 lbs. So this is part what nature has given us, and the other part is how willing we are to grab it by the horns and make the best of it. I am no longer angry at my ovaries. My ovaries saved me from dying on a delivery table because I was too hard headed in the first place to be healthy like I'm supposed to be. To God be the glory for a hard head making a soft behind!

I tend to have something to say about alot. Usually what I say involves the Lord. I can't help it, I love Him because He heard my cry. If this offends you, please just pass me by and God bless ya anyhow. You'll often see me say, "I'm not infertile... I'm just not allowed to have kids yet." or "My period's been hiding from me lately" and that's about as real as it gets for me. Especially since there's nothing standing in the way of me and a BFP but my own GUT. lol.

Blessing ladies. Feel free to add me, I surely will be reading posts and adding you.

Good Morning From Georgia,

I was married when I was told I had PCOS after a couple of years trying to get pregnant. Saw a fertility doctor and he told it was PCOS. I had heard of it, but wasn't 100% sure of it. The more I read that day the more depressed I got. I was heavy then, and he told me to lose weight, it would help my chances of getting pregnant. In the past I had been on BCP and they made me crazy. I had always suffered horrible painful long periods and everyone around said, "oh that's normal, you're young." Even I knew something was wrong. After a couple of years of fertility treatment, my eggs never matured enough for me to get pregnant. I was in the gym, I was losing the weight. But never got pregnant. Everyone around me was though and it just put a knife in heart. Rather than my husband wrapping me in a hug that I needed so bad, he would scream and yell at me and tell me to get over it. ONE DOES NOT YELL AT A HORMONAL, WEEPING, BABY CRAVING MOODY WOMAN W/O PAYING FOR IT! We've been divorced now for 8 years. He remarried 7 months after our divorce and rubs in my face every chance he gets that he has a 6 year old daughter. Went as far as taking her to my parents' house after she was born! THAT STARTED AN ALL OUT WAR FOR ME!

He has since apologized to me, and understands being on both sides of the knife, wanting a child so bad but can't, to finally having a baby and watching it grow. I put on a brave face and tell people daily I didn't want children, cos I do not want to get into the whole PCOS story.

Today I am
CHUBBY
CAN GROW A BEARD IF I WANTED
THINNING HAIR ON TOP
DID I MENTION CHUBBY
SKIN TAGS
DISCOLORATION UNDER ARMS AND IN THE INNER THIGH AREA

October of 2011, I saw a new GYN who wasn't taking new patients but my cousin begged him to see me. The 4 periods I had for 2011 all lasted 12-19 days. And I missed a lot of those days from work due to the heavy bleeding and lets not for the cramps. He wanted to put me on birthcontrol. By this point I wanted a hysterectomy! I was sick of the misery. I wasn't having kids. Not at 39 yrs old. Just SPAY ME NOW. I told him I was around guns all day at work BCP were not an option. They made me crazy! NO KIDDING! ! ! I had a Hydro Thermal Ablation done. http://www.hcfw.com/767/Hydro-thermal_Ablation_(HTA).aspx I had it done on a Friday I was off from work, and went back to work on Sunday. I have not had a period since Sept. I am HAPPPY! But I still have the lovely side effects of PCOS!

When I come back in my next life, I am going to be man! My bff's boyfriend made a snide comment about women's mood swings being in our heads, and hormones were not real....i replied,,,in your next life, the devil is going to see to it you get my non working ovaries and uterus and you're going to be so miserable with periods, cramps, bloating, hormones, you're gonna wanna hang yourself! He gave me a worried look! :-)

Thank the good Lord, I do have any signs of heart disease or diabetes.

Terri....the cranky dispatcher!

HI All

Nice to see a great group of people here.

My name is Stephanie. Diagnosed with PCOS 6 years ago. Been TTC ever since. We are now hopefully going to be on the waiting list to adopt any day now. Just waiting to hear from the agency that we are approved!

I found out about this website from my dietician. I need to start eating better and exercising. THen I am going to consider trying that DCI (Insotol).