Is there anyone out there with a positive PCOS story?

I've lost 44 lbs....it took me about 4 and a half months. It came off relatively easy, especially after I started taking 1500 mg of Metformin a day. Success with PCOS is possible, I am still losing and I hope to have a baby one day. My biggest thing that is really freaking me out is that my hair is falling out and thinning, which is a symptom and it sucks and I am sad.

I don't have it but my best friend does, she just had a baby! That baby will be worth the hair loss, but I know it must be hard! Xoxo

I've had PCOS for about ten years... my weight has fluctuated up and down since then but think it is more to do with my dedication, until now. The last journey I took, I lost 40 odd lbs, rather quickly. But this time I am taking my time to make sure it is a lifestyle change, not a weight loss mission. I am at 13 lbs lost since 1 June.

I decided to stop taking any of the drugs that are prescribed for PCOS (I was on Metformin and then Clomid when I was TTC); thankfully my symptoms don't sound as bad as some of the ones I read on here but there are also success stories which are encouraging, as I would like to have children one day!

The joys of being a woman!! :-/

I've lost 44 lbs....it took me about 4 and a half months. It came off relatively easy, especially after I started taking 1500 mg of Metformin a day. Success with PCOS is possible, I am still losing and I hope to have a baby one day. My biggest thing that is really freaking me out is that my hair is falling out and thinning, which is a symptom and it sucks and I am sad.

I don't have PCOS, but my close friend does and she is on baby number two! I couldn't be happier for her, it took her five years to get pregnant the first time, including fertility treatments and she was pregnant with her second before her first child turned 2. It's definitely possible and I wish you the best of luck.

I personally had issues with an autoimmune disorder that made my hair fall out and thin, and it even made it change colors. I grew copper red hair at my left temple and then a short time later it turned grey! I've had grey hair since I was in my early twenties, but I embrace it.

I have PCOS and I had weight loss surgery....That did the trick. Losing weight with PCOS is ridiculously hard.

Love to hear some success stories. I hope I am able to control everything once I have lost some more weight.

I stopped taking spiro a few months ago as it interacts with another medication I have to take (unrelated to pcos or weight gain generally, so no chance I'll be able to go back on it) and decided to sort myself out food-wise. My weight loss was pretty uneventful until I joined the site and started counting calories, but I did end up cutting my metformin down from 1000mg to 500mg in the first few weeks just by eating better and moving more. Tmi, maybe, but this month I got my period for the first time in about five months.

For the record, my physical symptoms are minimal (pretty much gorilla legs and the occasional pimple on my jawline, but obviously they bother me enough to take an anti-androgen) and I lose weight pretty easily so I can't speak from a position of not being able to drop the weight or having a massive problem with, say, facial hair. But I do get pretty vile cramps, on a regular basis, period or no period and having those reduce has a huge impact on my quality of life.

Just wanted to add, I've lost weight before, sometimes sensibly and sometimes while crash dieting. When I lose weight sensibly everything resolves and I feel fantastic, have regular periods and gradually cut down my spiro dosage to 25mg while going off metforminc ompletely. When I go on my crazy little starvation diets the cramps get worse, the occasional jawline pimple turns into the beginnings of pizza face and I'm utterly miserable. This makes me think that there's more than just weight loss involved in managing pcos.

I've had PCOS for about 10 years, and have been trying to actively lose weight for about 23. Given the fluctuations, I've lost 23 lbs. I am really hopeful that I'll lose the other 50-some pounds more quickly than that, because I want nothing more than to have less symptoms! Good luck to everyone here.

I have PCOS and I have lost 23 kg (50lbs) in 11 months. I don't do a low carb diet but I don't eat gluten. Since going gluten free I no longer have the water retention, bloating and horrible pain everyday that I used to have, not everyone with PCOS will be gluten intolerant but it is a lot easier on your belly if you are having issues so it may be an option. My weight loss has been slow but I'm not dieting, just living a healthier lifestyle, I'm also not medicated at all for my PCOS. I have 3 children, and never had issues falling pregnant or staying pregnant which apparently isn't usual, but I have never had irregular periods as a symptom of my PCOS. Just the pain, bloating, excess hair, acne, and a heap of cysts covering my ovaries. You can successfully lose weight with PCOS, just take it easy, don't freak out over gains and don't starve your body. Don't compare yourself with others because everyone is different in how we do things.

Once I stopped treating PCOS as an excuse to be fat and unhealthy I started losing weight. It isn't an excuse to be lazy, you can lose weight and just because it may be slower doesn't mean it's not happening. Just don't give up.

Edited to add - for those of us with excess hair.. weight loss wont fix that in my experience. I've had that since I hit puberty and it was there when I was skinny and there when I was fat and now I'm healthy it's still there. The only thing that helped slow it down a little was going on the pill.

I just logged on here to search for PCOS stories! I did lose weight a few years back by eating a low carb diet alone (I wasn't diagnosed yet, but pretty sure I had it then). I was in the 140s and got down to 118 lbs (I'm 5'3"). After my first baby I was finally diagnosed with PCOS. I weighed 158 lbs and was put on Metformin. I was also unfortunately diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. I ended up losing 10 lbs with Metformin alone and then I got pregnant again. My son is almost 4 months old now and I'm trying to lose weight with diet and exercise this time and the fat is sticking to me like glue. I'm about 148 lbs now and on Metformin only. I think I may need to cut back on the carbs (I try to eat whole wheat and grains). I'm hoping that will aid in my weight loss.