Reply With QuoteI was told I had PCOS a week before we conceived AmeliaI suspect it was only "PCO", not the syndrome...
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^^ I knew of two young girls that were told by their GP the same speil, told their partners the same thing then fell pg.....
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I was told I had PCOS a week before we conceived Amelia
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I thought maybe I was only PCO because I am not overweight and I don't have excess hair etc. The only symptom I have is irregular cycles, but I was overweight as a child. My FS said that it was PCOS, so I don't know. PCO, PCOS it's all the same I suppose.
I was told I had PCOS a week before we conceived Amelia
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I was diagnosed with PCO but was told I don't have PCOSI have all of the symptoms in varying degrees.
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Maybe It is just all the same? Well, it all leads to one thing-frustration!!
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When my brother was 17 he was going out with a 16 year old girl that was told she was infertile - 3 months later she was pregnant. Apparently because she thought she couldn't have children she didn't bother with contraception.
What kind of doctor tells a 16 year old girl that she can't have kids?!
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OMG What a terrible doctor! So glad that girl was brave enough to discuss it with others so now she can get the correct information. So many GPs don't seem to have any clue about female hormone or even how the OCP works.
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I know I have PCO b/c I have the excess hair and lots of follies on my ovaries, irregular periods however I am not insulin resistant which might be where the PCOS comes into play??
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I don't think I'm insulin resistant either, but lots of follies, like 20 on each ovary
My two cousins have it also, they have weight struggles and cysts, but both have been pregnant! Guess we'll never know for sure what the G.O is with pcos.
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Maybe I can partially clear up the difference between PCO and PCOS. It's confusing because there has been more than one definition used over the years and different doctors use different criteria.
Currently the most widely accepted definition of PCOS is the Rotterdam Criteria (formulated at a conference in Rotterdam) as follows:
You must have 2 of the following 3 features:
Polycystic ovaries on ultrasound examination
Clinical or biochemical hyperandrogenism (ie. hair, acne or high androgens on blood tests)
Menstrual dysfunction with anovulation
But others use a stricter definition and say you have to have all three to qualify. Plus other causes like thyroid dysfunction and Cushings syndrome have to be excluded.
Although impaired glucose tolerance and being overweight are very commonly associated with PCOS they don't actually form part of the diagnostic criteria.
So one doctor can tell a patient they have PCOS while another will tell the same patient they don't and just have PCO. (But if you just have a polycystic ovary appearance on ultrasound and no other problems then it's definitely just PCO.)
Not sure if that made things any clearer?
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Well, that explains why the doctor said it to me. I had (have?) the first and last ones there. Possibly the second, but I haven't been tested for that. Still didn't stop me from conceiving both kids fairly quickly, but that might have been luck :-/
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