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It's also not all about weight. It's inches too. Give yourself more time. Water weight is easy to gain and lose, but the real deal happens much more gradually and in longer lengths of time.

The first part is correct, we are kept at zero to try to prevent re-occurrence. And re-occurrence depends on how effective the RAI was. I had my TT three years ago and a re-occurrence early last year. It's amazing how much changed in just three years, let alone five. I did mention the weight-loss problem to my endo and I…

Also, buy a new brand. Pick the one that uses words. I had the brand that did pluses and minuses and I couldn't read it. I switched to the brand that uses "pregnant" and "not pregnant" and tested too early. So buy a clearer brand and follow it to the letter.

I did the hypercycle and it worked beautifully. After two failed attempts to generate follicles, the fertility doctor decided to try the hypercycle, calling it "the big guns". Make sure you keep up with the progesterone for the first two trimesters. My kiddo was 7 weeks early. Healthy and huge, but technically preemie…

Howdy! :)

My story's in the sticky topic regarding conceiving. Feel free to add me. We are one and done but I had an incredibly positive experience (not fun, but still positive) and can offer all sorts of support. My little Muppet is now nearly 4 and completely obsessed with Star Wars.

Hm. This should be my first year without cancer, so I could be more active. I also have PCOS so I'm more interested in a fitness challenge than a weight loss challenge. A steps challenge or maybe you could help force me into some quick exercising :)

Ditto. I'm here too lkrajain. You have certainly been through a lot more than I have, but there is one thing I can say and that's that even in the three short years since my first diagnosis, TT, and RAI there have been crazy leaps in the science. Keep positive, ask a thousand questions, and keep pushing those doctors.

Can you go to a different hospital for the next one?

Holy hell Coburn. I'm so sorry. So you're going to do the surgery? After mine, we did RAI again because the science had changed there in the last three years as well. The "nice" thing about that was they said I will never get it again. High risk for all the other cancers, but thyroid doesn't come back a third time.

I'm at www.fitbit.com/user/32VKY4 I average between 8,000 and 9,000 steps a day, so I may not be much of a challenge in the winter :smile:

Once we decided to start trying, I was immediately hustled off to a fertility clinic because of my age (I was 36 at the time). After failing to produce any follicles in the first two attempts, the doc did a "hypercycle" which included self-administered shots in the abdomen. It worked. And with a strict regimen of…

Hi and welcome! Anyone can feel free to add me. I've had PCOS my whole life but due to a nonchalant doctor, didn't do anything about it until recently. I don't log calories anymore, but I do check in on my friends and provide support. On top of the PCOS, I also had thyroid cancer so my posts tend to be a mix of PCOS and…

Nothing definitive. There's very little science to most of these natural cures. Like I said, this little experiment was just for fun. And resulted in no change. My guess is the boils are unrelated to the surgeries. I would look for a topical solution first - detergents, cleansers, some sort of allergy. Second guess would…

So the "C" in PCOS is actually NOT a misnomer? I saw mention of Cushings as a PCOS-like syndrome, are there others? More importantly, if it turns out you don't have PCOS, are you going to leave us? ;)

I am on Spiro now for this. My doc bumped up my dose at the beginning of the year and after about four months I really started to see improvement. I still need to pluck and shave daily, but the hair is much finer and less noticeable, and as a result, I don't feel the need to spend hours working on it like I use to. Like my…

oops, 6mm. My reoccurance was a 6mm nodule. So small the fine needle aspiration thingy required 7 (7!) passes. It was very, very small and the docs were very, very unconcerned. A collective "meh" from the whole lot of them. To their credit, they did acknowledge that watchful waiting is a very tough thing to wrap your head…

So had they not been checking your TSH levels prior to that? If the swelling was related to a failure in the medication, you'd think they would have seen an increase in the TSH....and then started testing for cancer reoccurance. Why blame the heart? That's so weird.

My GP just told me that it was not hereditary. And she kind of said it with a shrug so I have a feeling that, much like cancer, there are all kinds, some hereditary, some not. I thought my mom had it, I swear she told me she had trouble with cycles growing up but now she says no. She did have cysts, but nothing else. I…

And Week 5 - 51,997. That's a total of 255,085. Short of the goal, but better than I was expecting. Not bad for the winter/spring transition and the month immediately following a surgery. Yay!

Week 4 - 47,637

Week 3 - 54,646 steps. Oh yikes. I'm never going to make 300,000. But this was my first challenge ever so I can only go up from here!

Week 2 - 54,328 steps

common misconceptions, especially in regards to cysts.

Week 1 - 46,477 steps

I did!

I'll join you in the rest in a few months when I don't feel like my neck-guts are going to spill out of the incision (sorry to be gross). I'll do the 300,000 step challenge though!! We could post our progress here if you don't mind using the thread for that. Maybe weekly.

Ya know, I always see these threads in the sidebars but I never actually knew what they were. So is it exactly what it says? You vow to do x every day in a month? And what's the etiquette for staying accountable? Do people post daily in the feed or is that considered annoying? I just had neck surgery this week, so the…

Yup - it's a modified Atkins that you'll see in other forums as LCHF (low carb - high fat, we talk about it a lot in the PCOS forums). Keep in mind that when you reduce the carbs, your body still needs energy, so increase the good fats. You're on a good path. My only advice is to make reductions the way that's best for…

We usually do a burger bar. A more contained meal that people could eat with one hand and play with another. Check out the Dice Tower's Top Tens for some great family games. I second Tsuro. Our family favorites are Sheriff of Notthingham, Wits and Wagers, and Citadels. Doodle Quest, Sleeping Queens, and Hay That's My Fish!…