Polycystic ovarian syndrome

I don't really know why i'm writng this. Just having a really down day, and to top it off one of my oldest friends just called me and cheerfully told me she's pregnant. How many times...

How much can i tell you how i understand!!

I have been blessed with a 2 year old myself, and have been trying again since he was 3 months old. NO LUCK. TO say that it is frusterating is an understatement. Especially considering that all of my friends are getting pregnant left and right. All you can do is pray about it, I guess. Is anyone else doing anything besides the typical prometrium, clomid, and glucophage combination?? I am dying to get pregnant again and will do just about anything. God bless all of you ladies. I understand how you feel!!!

Polycycstic ovarian syndrome

I have just read about someone who has exactly the same feelings as me. I have polycystic ovaries and have been trying for a family for over 4 years now. I wanted to do it the 'right way' by making sure I was married first as I am an old fashioned kinda girl but yet to no avail!
I am the only person out of my 24 friends who do not have any children and is not pregnant. I thought I could handle it but have since found that my best friend is pregnant and I am having trouble coping with it. I am happy for her so I am also so insanely jelous that I could cry just looking at her every growing bump! I would never tell her that but it's really difficult to cope with.
Some day sI am ok and quite up beat about it all and other days I can hardly lift my head off the pillow for fear of balling my eyes out at everyone!

Lots of young unmarried school kids in my area have kids as easy as shelling peas, life is so unfair.

Pco

Hi there, just wanted to say i was 15 when i fell pregnant, 16 when i had my son, and i'm now 17. Yes i'm unmarried..But i'm still with the babies father, and am studying to be a nurse. I know what you mean by unfair thought, teens and adults! that get pregnant, and don't care properly for their children.

I Was told a few months ago, i have PCO..A blood test revealed it, although he didn't send me for an Ultra Sound, he said i have them.

I'm scared about never being unable to conceive again, but im blessed i have my son, and im very lucky.

Keep Trying, i've heard lots of miracle stories..hopefully one will become for you

Kezia x

In no how you feel

i am in the same boat as you and have just been given progesterone and clomid i was told taking this would recterfy my period straight awway and hasnt as this is the ninth day of my period and it is really doing my head in i just want a baby thats all and to top it all off my sis has two beautiful children and as they are so young somtimes they get mixed up and call me mum and i get so upset at that i jus wish i could have a baby i know this wont make you feel better but maybe as i begin you can help me by telling me what fertility drugs you have been on as i would like to know more about you it sounds like we can maybe help eachother please write back. I am so sorry i can not help you as much as you want but hope me and you can help eachother in the best ways we can. Speak to you soon i hope and i hope you feel better than that day xx PS i bet also you feel that no one knos how you feel aswell i felt like that before i read your message so thankyou in a way i feel better knowing that you feel the same but do wish you never had to go through this as i would not wish this up on my worst enemy xxxxxx

Response

Hi there, please don't for one minute think that you are alone in the way you feel. I am 24 years old, married for 3 years, just found out a month ago that I have PCOS and am stressing, crying, can't sleep, everyone around me is falling pregnant, accept me. Just feel like screaming. I know exactly how you feel.
Please let me know if you are on any medication, my doctor has out me on Metformin.

Only metformin??

What about Clomid?? That is how I got pregnant the first time. I have been trying again for 2 years, but have not been lucky yet.

Response from canada

Hello! My name is janet and i am 22 years old. I have been engaged for 3 years, and as we were planning our wedding, I thought I was pregnant. so off to the Dr. I went, only to find out I wasnt pregnant (which at the time felt like a relief until....) but something was wrong. I went for an ultrasound and boom, I was told I had severe Poly-cystic Ovarian disease. I had no clue what that meant, except my dr. told me that there was a great chance I would never have children. I was so upset, my life was like a roller coaster, going from thinking your pregnant, to finding out, you probably would never have children was a huge Blow to me. I cried and cried ( i love children, always wanted 3, I work in a daycare, i work with special needs children.. I adore them). I got so depressed i stopped planning my wedding. My fiance' loves children and is 8 years older than me, so I thought if i couldnt give him a child, then he deserved better.... although that was totally not how he was thinking. so I went to a specialist to learn more. He told me that i was young and couldnt help me.... so I went to another dr. all I really wanted to know was more about this disease. Anyways, I met this wonderful Dr. who explained everything to me. He gave me a perscription for progestin (a hormone) to maybe make me get my period... my eggs werent dropping at all) and the next month, I got my period, which was a good sign. then he asked us if we wanted to try and have a baby, of courrse our answer was yes! So he gave me Chlomid... I got pregnant after being told I never would. I now have an 8 month old baby. (Still not married, but planning again)
I just wanted to share my story. I know I am young, but please if your in the same boat I was in... dont give up! Your turn will come!!!! I honestly think that worrying made things harder. Clear your mind, and have a positive attitude, and your baby will come!!!

Metformin

i know i have only just joined but i just anted to let you know wa on metformin for 5 years and it didnt make a difference in me but maybe it will in you GOOD LUCK

Pcos/vasectomy reversal

I also have PCOS and we found out when I was 15. I gained a lot of weight and we could not stop it. I was a VERY active child and there was no reason for the weight. My whole family is very healthy and I was starting to feel like I did not fit in. My mother took me to the doctor because I was having pain cramps even when I was not bleeding. They did a U/S and found out I had PCOS not only did I have PCOS but It was VERY Bad. By the time I was 19 I have had 8 surgerys to remove cysts and D&Cs and everything else. I have to tell you, being so young and having doctors always working on your privates really can pull a kid down. Well, I was 23 and found out I was pregnant (I was not trying) the guy I was dating bolted and I did not care. After hearing doctors tell me for the past 8 years that It did not look like I would be able to get pregnant and I did. Well, I went to the doctor that had done all my surgerys and he was in shock he was like wow you are pregnant. Total shock. I even had to show my parents on paper so they would believe me. Well, about 5 - 6 weeks into it I had a M/C tottaly killed me. I did not know what to do with myself. Well, I then met my now husband a couple months after all this went on. We started dating and He told me that he had a vasectomy and I just kept telling myself well this one wont last and just hung around for the (tmi good sex) then fell in love. Well then we married i was so sad all i have ever wanted in life was to be a mother and now look I have 3 step kids that hate me and there mother does everything in her power to make them hate me and I will just have to deal with never being a mother. then after talking to my husband he desided I was so good with his kids that I should get to have one one my own. So we started weighing our options. Looked into the Vasectomy reversal we have a friend that had it done and now has a little boy and the looked into adoption and it was just not something we could do because of money. Well, we busted our butts for 2 years and on March 8.th 2007 my husband had a vasectomy reversal. Not only that he has live sperm and only had to have a VV on both sides. things are looking great I have myslef up to 2000mg a day of Glucophage (Metformin) and take my Prenatal vit everyday. Wish me luck. Also I believe there is a thing of trying to hard!

Wow

Wow, After reading all of these I dont feel so alone.... I am 24 and found out I had PCOS about 3 years ago, My husband and I over the last year were getting ready to have a baby so I started seeing a Fertility Specialist. I have been there for a year now and I am starting to get to the point where i feel nothing is working... I haven't ovulated, I cant get a period with our Progesterone injections or Pessaries.... I have been doing a lot of research and have been talking to people and they say that they took Clomid and Provera and with in 3 months they were pregnant....
Sometimes I feel so down about the hole thing, they say lose weight, I have but as soon as I have the hormones it comes back on again and I have to start all over... My husband and I are going travelling in April and was really hoping that while we were away being relaxed that something could happen and I could come back pregnant but my doctor on the weekend assured me that it wasn't going to happen. I just started to break down as soon as I got home, it is so hard and I haven't even being doing it all for that long...
Well i just wanted to let people know me and vent a little as well, if anyone has any advice that would be awesome.
Thanks Leishy

Hello

sorry my addvise is not very positive ..but .. TELL YOUR DOC HE IS A JERK for teeling you that ..hold on to any hope you need ..and you know stanger things have happend .. relaxing can do alot .. Best of Luck to you

Pos

please stick with it, i have pos and went through taking all the tablets and diets, like they were going out of fashion.
every one was havng babies and not me i know how you feel.
then 3 years down the line as i had just given up i found out i was having a baby , who is now nearly 1 and i am thinking of going through it all again. it dose work.
take care.

Dont give up

im 19 had pcos since i was 17, i was on the depo injection for 2 years and put a lot of weight on thats why i ended up with pcos, i went to the doctors to see why i wasnt having my periods, they just kept saying loose weight, 2 years on still no periods so went back and they sent me for a scan, scan came bk i had pcos, so i was put on metformin 3 tablets a day, and told to loose at least 2 1/2 stone by may ,i have 2 more months to go before im bk up at hosp and ive already lost nearly 3 stone, ive been reading up alot about it etc...and most of the sucessful stories that i have read have been woman who have lost weight and been taking metformin,

so dont give up,just keep focused on your goal of conceiving, and im sure you will get there in the end xxxxxxxxxx

Pos

Hey
im 18 and i have just been dignoised with polycistic ovarian syndrome a few weeks ago, i am only 18, and its made me very depressed. also the doctors said that i have 25% of havin children but as i am in so much pain they r giving me a 6 months to see if it gets better. i have a couple of friends that have the same condition as me but they have no chance at concieving, they have been through what i have but i have spoken to them and asked them that if you had a chance 2 concieve well 25% at 18 would you have a baby n they would. for people who have this problem like me what would you do?
Please help??
x

Cry

all i have been doing this evening is crying so i thought id come on here to vent a little. i was diagnosed with pcos at 17 im nearly 19 now and i have been married over a year and we havent used contraception once. its so hard when all you can think about is having children, i know im still very young but if you knew my life you would know ive lived enough to fill a 40 yr old life time. so having children now seems like the right time were both ready.... i soooo understand how everyone who has this stupid problem feels. its almost debilitating. knowing that there is a woman down the road who is about to have a baby kills enough without knowing that shes not going to give it the love and suppport that it deserves.
does anyone understand. tell me im not alone..... does it seem fair to you?

i am also 18.. and have just got diagnosed with PCOS.... and i think that your chances of having children will be less if you do leave it too long... the doctors will say at your age dont worry. but thats so stupid.. i am willing to fall pregnant any time.. i wouldnt risk not been able too.. i am so down about the whole situation of mine and are trying more herbal remidies to help my problem and so far so good..good luk

Diagnosis??

hiya, sorry 2 hear u got pcos, how did u actually get diagnosed wit pcos as i av been quiried bout it n gota av more tests done?? x x

25% chance of having children based on what?

Based on what? PCOS means your hormones are out of whack, and ovulation is essentially halted (so the egg stays in the fluid filled sac on the ovary and is not released). There are lots of side effects possible (but not always present), directly related to the hormone issue.

How you dr can give you a 25% chance of conceiving (what - ever? each month?) By the way, 25% chance of conoceiving each month is the AVERAGE for normal "reproductively perfect" women!!. E.g it takes on average at least 4 months of unprotected sex for a reproductively healthy couple to become pregnant.

Ask some more questions. I would also think pain related to PCOS is unusual - perhaps you also have endrometriosis and this is why your Dr. is saying what he is saying.

Please ask more questions because what you are describing doesn't really add up.

Help

Hey
Readin these im so scared, im 16 and i have hair growth on my chest also on my stomach. I am so scared about going to the doctors because im embarest i feel like a man does anyone else have this problem. I think i have PCOS but im so scared to go to the doctors to find out please someone help xx

I am so confused!

i am 18... and have just been diagnosed..but the doctor has only done blood test which showed a surge in my hormone levals...
the doctor has not yet sent me for a ultra sound to have a look at my overies to see if the cysts are are present...
she tried to put me on somthing to get me to have my period.. but i decided to go herbal and it worked only took 8 days for me to get them and they seemed to have worked...
i want a baby in the next 12 months... but i dont know exactrly who would be best to talk to...the doctor doesnt seem to want to help me fall pregnant becoz of my age.. what should i do??? please help