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Oh Meg, I guess asking if you are ok is pretty useless. Goodness, what a week you must have had. I know there is nothing anyone can say or do at this point to make you feel at ease, so hopefully you will feel that you can come in here and chat to any of us at any time and hopefully ease your burden a little.
My thoughts are with you at the moment sweetie xxoo
Hi,
Much better news, another colonoscopy and more biopsies by the surgeon, he doesn't think it is cancer. How lucky is my dad if it turns out to be true? He has a 10cm tumor in his bowel and they think it is pre cancerous, all depends on the next lot of biopsies so my fingers are crossed!!!!
Anyhow, how are you? Egg? I hope so sweetie!! Fingers crossed for you!!!!!
Meagan
Oh Meagan I hope so much that it isn't cancerous - I have my fingers crossed. When do you get the results? My mum had bowel cancer 7 years ago and they removed part of her bowel and she is fine now. She has regular checkups so hopefully it has gone for good. It is so scary when something like this affects your family. My thoughts are with you and your family.
Metformin did give me an upset stomach - I think this is why it helps me lose weight! I think my body was just getting used to it and I had to stop taking it.
Hi to Belinda too - hope you are well.
Everything is going ok with me at the moment. I had a bit of a scare at the ob's yesterday. He couldn't find bubs heartbeat - I was so hysterical! It was weird because I could feel bubs moving which didn't make sense, I thought my mind was playing tricks on me again. Then he tried to find my heartbeat and I didn't have one! The batteries weren't working properly in the doppler!!!!! I am never ever having a doppler check again - it was frightening! I went to the hospital after for a scan and bubs was fine, moving around heaps.................I just don't need these scares!
Hi,
I know i am a little late into this thread but just thought i would stick my nose in! I was told i had pcos at the age of 15. Im now 25. I had my ovaries drilled, saw a big professor at sydney womens hospital, had bone density scans the works. They were worried obviously about my hormone levels as they though iwas going to go through the change of life at any moment. So i was put on most of the drugs possible to treat pcos. I had acne, hair growth and weight gain plus many many others. When i ovulated (or was suppose to the pain was that bad i was in bed for approx 2 days straight.
But anyway enough complainging about me. My cousin who suffers also from pcos had trouble concieving also. She tried everything possible for 5 years with no outcome. She was sick of her weight, even though she was never really big, and joined sure slim and BOOM she was pregnant within 3 months. Her ob believes that this form of diet is worked off your hormones therefore prepared her for pregnancy! So anything is possible!
Hang in there... I hope you have good news sometime in the near future
Katiexxx
Hi Katie, welcome to our little thread. I hope you find support and reassurance here that you are not along in this PCOS journey. Sounds like you have all the classic symptoms. Hopefully we can all get to know each other and help each other out with questions etc. Again welcome xxoo
Meg, wow, that would be fantastic news if it isn't cancerous. What a relief that would be. I have everything crossed for your dad. when will he find out definitely?
No O for me last month, well at least I don't think so anyway. I got AF last Thursday, which was great because it means that my cycles are shortening. So anyway, I decided to go on clomid again this month and am up to day 5 of taking that. Hopefully O should happen around the right time which would be fab!!
Lynn how are you going matey? Bloody hell, what a scare that must have been for you. Stupid OB, wouldnt you think they would check stuff like that routinely. Imagine how many others he could have scared, but I can't believe murphys law - that it happened to you!! That is the LAST thing you needed. Other than that, how is the pg going? How are you feeling now hun?
Hey Katie - welcome to our little group. It is so good to be able to *talk* with people that understand the frustrations of PCOS.
Meagan - how is your dad going?
Belinda - how frustrating going through a cycle and not even ovulating! I had a few of those before the fsh/iui worked. I hope the Clomid does the trick for you this month :pray: The pg is going well.........physically but mentally........well.........I'm doing ok. Bubs is moving so much and it just scares me that it is getting tangled in the cord. I know that lots of babies get tangled in the cord and they can get untangled but I just hate the bl00dy thing and it scares me that something will go wrong again...........I'm trying to be positive but it is sooooo hard.
Hey just a question - did anyone find that their body actually got worse each time they tried to fall pg. We feel pg with Cooper on Clomid but this pg it didn't work and my body didn't respond to it so we had to do FSH/IUI. Not that I am even thinking about the next one until this is out but I have started to wonder whether my body is getting worse and whether FSH/IUI will work again?
yeah late joiner here too i have had pcos since i was around 12 so i was put straight on the pill my symptoms included:
*periods every one or 2 weeks
*thick hair
*oily skin*
*bad acne
*a weird brown patch of skin
*being overwieght
Later i discovered i had endo too. Recently suffered an mc and now im scared ill never conceive again my DF thinks it will all work out but i dont hold the same hope really call me pessimistic but thats how it is :(
Hi Sara, welcome to our little group. Hope you can get some support here and hopefully contribute some support too. Good luck with the TTC journey, its a long and hard one but Im sure you'll get there in the end and its well worth it!!
Hey Lynn, glad you are feeling a little better. I know what you mean re the cord thing, I would be petrified too. I guess being more tuned in to this little one's movements is a good and bad thing, you would be constantly checking and worrying. How often do you have OB appointments? More than usual because of what happened with Cooper or just the same as everyone else?
Hi Katie and Megs, how are you both? HOpe things are going well for you both.
Megs, how's your dad? Any news yet?
Nothing much happening for me, Im at CD 11 today, so BD fest for me... I've got everything crossed (except my legs tee he he) that the clomid worked this time and I will fall pg this cycle...
Lynn - to answer your question re the difficulty each time you want to fall pg, I haven't really got anything to guage it against, because we had to do IVF with the first pg. So I guess that's as "hard" as you can get.
I've tried clomid this time to try and see whether it will work for me or not, Im really hoping that it does...If not, who knows. I know DH doesn't want to go through IVF again, and quite frankly, neither do I...
Hi Sara - welcome to our thread and I am so sorry for the loss of your precious bub. I had the same fear about never been able to conceive again. It took us 2 years to conceive Cooper on Clomid and I was so scared that it would take that long again or even worse that Coops would be our only child. When we started TTC Clomid didn't work and it made my fears even worse..........luckily fsh/iui worked for us. It is a very hard decision of deciding when to try again and only one that you and your DF can make. For us we started TTC straight away because of my age but because we didn't know how long it would take. Best wishes for whenever you start TTC :hug:
Belinda - I have ob appointments fortnightly. I have done this from day one. I also have a scan weekly just to check that everything is ok. From 30 weeks I will see my ob weekly and will have more monitoring and scans. Good luck on the bed fest - what are you doing on here, go and get busy girl!!!! I hope so much that this month works for you :pray:
Hi to everyone else, hope you are having a nice weekend!
Hi Girls.
We are hoping that all the biopsy results might be back tomorrow... Fingers crossed they are okay and we can start to plan the surgery to take the tumor out!!! What an emotional roller coaster!! There must be a positive side to it all in that it will bring us even closer!!
Hi MrsA and Katie, hope you enjoy this little thread and it is of help to you both. PCOS is a crappy disorder!! We are united in that opinion!!;)
MrsAznrabbit - I am sorry for your loss and you are right it is very hard to remain positive when you have had the loss of a baby, nothing ever feels that it will be right ever again, give yourself time and be kind to yourself, we are always here if you need us.
Belinda - how are you? I guess you must be busy!?!?!?!?!:p I will keep everything crossed for you!!!!!!! I am glad you decided to try something else to TTC - sometimes alternative therapy works in beautifully with traditional medicine.
Lynn - OMG!!! No wonder you were scared, you should have smacked your OB in the head with the doppler!!! Then used it to check for a brain!!!! I am sure everything will work out, you will have your little *Hope* in your arms before you know it, I think it is only natural to be scared, worried and frightened, you would have never expected what happened with Cooper, it is bound to bring up a lot of memories and feelings, not to mention is hasn't been that long, you can only deal with it and your feelings as it happens and love each other, little Cooper and your beautiful little one in your tummy. You are a beautiful Mummy and deserve only beautiful things. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks, you know the weird thing is i never really worried about it until i got pregnant and MC. My DF has complete faith in me and thats why he wants to wait but thats hard as i have no faith in myself does this make any sense or am i just rambling? I just know it wont be easy as my mom and grandmother had PCOS and Endo but my grandmother had to try 4 years after getting married to have her first and another 4 for the second, my mom had her 1st at 22 and had 9mcs up until she had me at 30. So i think im kind of scaring myself here maybe i think ill be like that maybe my problem lies there.
Hi girls. How are we all??
Sara - I know you are worried because of your family history, but please don't worry, they have made huge advances in this field (reproductive I mean) and Im sure it will be all ok for you. Isn't it funny that you don't think about having a baby until its taken away from you. Its a cruel joke I think... I notice on your "location" that you are United Kingdom/United States. Whats the go there? Do you live in both at different times? Or originally from one and living in the other? I also noticed that you are trying to wait another 2 years before trying again? What is the reason behind that decision? I hope that you feel like you can come in here at any time and rant and vent about this stupid syndrome (thanks for that saying Megs) and that we can help you through it, or at the very least, help you to see some positives in what you are going through and sometimes have a laugh or two. Just remember, you got pregnant once on your own, it WILL and CAN happen again. Just because your mum/grandmother had things one way, doesn't necessarily mean that you will have it that way too. Chin up honey xxoo
Lynn - that's great that you are on more ob appointments and more scans. Does that help put your mind at ease just a little?
Megs - wow, I hope the op all goes really smoothly for your dad. You are right, this will bring you all closer and remind you how important and special family really is. I wish you and your family all the very best matey xxoo Let us know what his results come back with today. I'll be thinking of you all day xxoo
Not much happening here. I can't remember if I've said that we have our house on the market or not? Anyway, we do and I think it might be sold. Waaaaaaa :( Im gonna miss my house if we go. We built this house in 99/2000 and we've got loads of memories here. But I know we are moving on to bigger and better things and we can make lots more memories in our new house. We are planning to build again - yeah I know, we're MAD!! I think we will know by the end of this week if its definitely going through.....eeeeekkk!!
Hi Bathsheba and Cessie - where are you two lovely ladies??? Hope you are back in here soon so we can catch up on what you are up to xxoo
Hi All.
Sara - Yes what you are saying makes sense, I felt after I lost my bubbies like a complete failure, angry, heartbroken, yes I rambled, thought of all of the 'what ifs'. Even months after, although it had eased I still had and do have my sad moments, but I go with it, feel what I need to feel and then go on. I am really torn at the moment whether I want any more or not, my last pregnancy wasn't planned and I wasn't sure if there was going to be anymore children, so I am wary of wanting more at this stage. I said I would give myself six months to think about it and not make any emotional decisions, well it has been nearly twelve months and I am still torn, another part of me is really terrified to REALLY want another baby as I know it isn't going to be straight forward, where as I was blessed with my boys to fall pregnant easily I don't know if I am ready to face the fact that I may not be able to fall pregnant again - see raving!!! I think sometimes you think the worst and hope for the best, it is a way to protect yourself, if you are waiting two years then that is okay, you are very young - set yourself up in life a little more, enjoy this time with your DF and get your body as ready as possible for your next pregnancy, see all the experts, and make sure you give yourself time to heal from your recent loss.
Belinda - thanks for your nice thoughts, keep those fingers crossed!!! I have Jasper home sick today, poor little thing has been throwing up HEAPS, I haven't known either of my boys to throw up so much, every 20 minutes at one stage!! He is looking a little brighter today. I hope your house sells, I don't think you are mad building again, I LOVED building my house!!! I think you do or you don't if you hated it the first time you would never do it again!! How exciting, choosing bricks, tiles carpets etc etc. I am jealous!!! We built in 99 and it would be great to move to something bigger.
When do you test? How does clomid work exactly, it stimulates ovulation doesn't it? See, this is why I am terrified to want to try again, you guys are all experts in all of this TTC and I am terrified to become one, you are very brave ladies, I am a big sook!!!! If my cycles are about 5 months would something like that help? Ohhhh see, starting to ask questions!!
Better go,
Meagan
Meagan - I hope you get the results you are after for your dad. I have everything crossed for you :pray: Thank you for your beautiful words :hug: Is your son called Jasper? I looooooooove the name Jasper! I bet he is a real cutie!
Belinda - Ohhh I'm so jealous of you building again. We built our house in 01 and I am so ready to build again. I think Meagan is right, you either love it or you don't. Good luck with getting your house sold!
Sara - like Meagan I felt like a complete failure when we lost Cooper. I think it is a natural feeling. And they have come a long way medically in helping people like us to fall pg. Although it took us 2 years to conceive Cooper I didn't actually know I had PCOS until after a year of trying. Good luck!
Well another scare for me today..............does this ever get easier :cry: Every morning I have breakfast and a drink and bub wakes up and I feel a bit relieved for the day. Well this morning.........nothing. So I layed down and had cold drink, hot drink, cold drink, hot drink - nothing! I rang DH upset and confused because these things usually work to waking bubs up. So I called my ob and went up to the hospital for a CTG scan. I was petrified - it was the first time I have been back in the delivery suites since Cooper's birth. They hooked me up and to my relief there was the heartbeat.............bubs was in a funny position so I couldn't feel it moving - DOESN'T IT KNOW IT CAN'T DO THAT TO ME!!!!!! Anyway after calming down and coming home and resting, bubs has been a good little bubbie and is kicking away and letting me know all is ok. I hate these frights!! And to top it off my face has broken out!! :wall: I don't know if it is all the stress or what - anyway enough whinging from me today. Hope everyone is having a good day.
Hi Girls.
Results are all good!!!!!!:happyforyou::happyforyou::happyforyou:
Surgery is booked for the 7th of November, they will still check what they take out for cancer but so far so good, he is a very lucky man!!!!!!
Lynn - Oh you poor darling!! Next time have ten huge coffees!! Naughty baby!!! Scaring his/her mummy like that!!!!! I think sweetie that you will never fully relax until your baby is here in your arms and then you can sing from the roof tops!!!
Yep, he is our youngest Jasper Cooper (which is my maiden name). Jasper is a great name and he has a wonderful little personality!!! He is a very affectionate and loving little boy, but he has his own mind and tries to boss all of us around, he is very secure in his little world and knows how well he is loved, he is a very creative little soul, invents great stories and incredible lands and plays happily and creatively on his own and from when he was tiny he could lie like an angel!!!! He is five now and since he was about three when I put him to bed he says "Good night!! I love you!! I hope you have a lovely dream!!!!" So sweet to his mummy!!!!:) He is also sensitive, he would hate to think I was ever upset with him, but he get over things quickly, not like Josh who can be moody (although he has his little lovable traits to). And he often just comes up and cuddles me and tells me how much he loves me!! Mummies little man!!!
I must say the one thing I am obsessed with is my boys eyes, Josh has the most stunning hazel eyes with green on the outside and stunning gold flecks really unusual, Jasper has beautiful big brown eyes, I walk past sometimes and make them tip their heads back so I can gaze into their eyes, they truely are the windows to the soul!! Josh says "Muuuuuuummmmmm!!" he is ten and all embarrassed about his mum when she adores him (you'd think he'd be grateful I wasn't yelling) but he gets a little pleased smile on his face.
Take care,
Meagan
Oh Meagan that is wonderful news :confetti: Sending you and your dad heaps of positive vibes and that he is on the road to recovery very very soon :hug:
You are so right - until this bub is here I will never fully relax. I have had heaps of movement this morning so all is good! But I have my usual Tuesday u/s today so more reassurance won't hurt ;)
OMG I love that name!! DH and I have already decided that if we have another boy it will have Cooper as a middle name. He sounds so adoreable...........just like his name. I loved reading about how your describe your little ones and you sound like such a proud and wonderful mummy. I hope one day soon I will be able to write such things :hug:
Hi Everyone!!!
Still on a high!!!
Lynn - You should just call this little one Jasper Cooper, I must say it is an awesome name for a little one!! I think it is nice that you will remember Cooper by using his name as a middle name, Joshua is Joshua Daniel, I didn't really like the name Daniel but he is named after DH's older brother who died of cot death aged three months and his mum was really pleased, so there you go. I hope your little one continues with the baby gymnastics, it will all be fine!! It is just in the interim, it must be the longest 40 weeks of your life. Will they let you go full term? Are you having a C/S or a vaginal birth? I think you are having a girl!!!! :)
Belinda how is the house sale going? Fingers crossed!!
Meagan
Oh Meagan, I am soooo pleased for your dad and happy that you have some sort of settled feelings after the op. what great news!! I hope things will just keep looking up from here xxoo House sale is going ahead I think, well it seems that way. We haven't exchanged contracts yet but it will probably be late this week or early next week. Im getting a little bit sad now, I love our house, we built it and everything about this house is "us" so it will be very sad to leave all that behind. I just have to keep telling myself that we will make new memories in the new house....PS: I loved how you were talking about your boys, you really adore them huh!! I can just imagine their eyes after you describing them. You got any photos posted in the gallery of them?
Lynn, how did your u/s go yesterday morning? hope you are a little more settled today, hopefully there are no hiccups from the dr anymore to scare you....
have i asked you lovely ladies whether you take metformin or not?
I do but I don't think it is doing anything for me....its supposed to help you ovulate if you are insulin resistant, but I am pretty sure its not even doing that for me...
CD14 today, so Im bding just in case I do O...
Hi ladies I am around and just so busy at the mo, but I do read whats going on, just no time to respond!!
Meagan I am glad your dads results are good. I was just reading about you talking about your boys eyes, My two have beatufil big dark brown eyes with the most wonderful thick long eye lashes adn I love nothing better to snuggle up on my bed with them and just look into their beautiful eyes and kiss their soft little cheeks and just thank my lucky stars that i have those two on my life.
Belinda good luck with all your house stuff going on, I would be so sad to leave my little house( and I do mean little!!) but we all fit in here somehow.
Lyn I hope you dont have any more scares, wow only fourtween weeks to go... "only fourteen weeks" I hear you say , thats a eternity.
and to everyone else hello, last time I tried to flick back to the last few pages I lost what i had typed so so i cant pop in my two cents to you all!!
My life is just going along we have the most amazingly busy this month this month , october is party month for us , so I wiil be gald when its over! then we hit next month and we start all the prep transition stuff in november for my big boys big year next year. Oh he's going to be going to school........
Ok enough about me I dont want bleat to much ,
Hope you are all well and I hope to be able to be a bit more around from now on.
Take care
Meagan - that is beautiful that you honoured your DH's brother by using his name. And yes it is the longest 40 weeks ever!!! Well the longest 25 weeks so far. It just seems so far away! I don't think I will be going to term - ob thinks it will be worse for me and bubs but we just need to see how I am (how mental I am that is :p ) I didn't lose Cooper in labour so I guess in a way I still trust my body that I can give birth vaginally but I don't trust the cord so it will depend on where the cord is and what it is doing prior to birth. I would prefer to go vaginally but at the end of the day I just need a screaming baby and I don't really care how it comes out. How is your dad feeling?
Belinda - scan went well yesterday - bubs is growing nicely and the cord is free so that is always a positive. I took metformin with this bub but didn't ovulate when I took it with Clomid. I was still on it when we did FSH/IUI and I ovulated but it is hard to know whether it helped or not. One thing I think it did help with was losing weight. I presume I will go back on it once I have had this bub but that is something I will need to talk to my fs about. Can you talk to your dr about trying something else or being monitored?
Cessie - yes I did say 'only 14 weeks!!!!' it does feel like an eternity but I'm sure once I get there I will look back and think how fast it went.........well maybe :rolleyes: Wow you do sound busy this month - have fun!
Hi All
This thread has been going a little while but I just wanted to jump in and join you with your frustrations with PCOS! I was diagnosed only recently after coming off the pill and TTC for approx 12 months. The main reason I went the the dr was because my my cycle was so irregular and practically non-existant! Like a lot of you the problems I had when I was younger were ignored and treated by putting me on the pill. Luckily I responded very well to Clomid and fell pg quickly, although you'll note from my signature that it didn't last :(
My dr says I have milder PCOS as I don't have insulin resistance and my weight is normal and stable However, I still have a lot of the awful symptoms associated with PCOS. My skin is terrible - I have acne everywhere! I too often find myself stroking my chin and looking for stray 'whiskers' as I like to call them! And I have the lovely belly stripe to go with it. And of course TTC is a nightmare when you rarely get AF....
So I just wanted to vent with you all! It seems that PCOS is actually very common. Does anyone know if it is becomming more common or is it just being diagnosed more these days? And does anyone know why we get it, what causes it?
Cheers
Fi
Hi ladies, another PCOS Cyster here.
I'm Belinda, 32yo, I was dx with PCOS in March 04. Had the symptoms for years but I didn't realise that they were symptoms until someone commented on my chin hairs and said it was caused by "something hormonal". I googled a few things and whadda ya know, PCOS described it perfectly. So I had the ultrasounds and blood tests to confirm it all, I was single at the time so my gyno prescribed Diane 35 pill to help regulate my hormones better. But I had side effects from the pill so stopped taking it. About 3-4 months after stopping the pill I had a stroke which shocked the life out of me. It won't stop me from being able to have children though.
I've been TTC for over two years now. I was taking Clomid in early 06 and I fell pregnant twice but miscarried in June, then in August. Stopped taking Clomid after that because I was on a break from TTC but funnily enough my body continued to ovulate from that point on! I started acupuncture the cycle after the second miscarriage so I believed that the acupuncture was making me ovulate when it probably had more to do with losing some weight and getting regular exercise.
I don't do acupuncture anymore due to the cost but my cycles are still reasonably regular, usually 28-33 days but about once every six months I'll have a 35+ day cycle. They normally coincide with illness or stress so I'm not alarmed when AF doesn't show up.
November 23rd I'm booked in for a Lap/HSG/Hysteroscopy to find out why I'm still not conceiving despite ovulating regularly. I am absolutely certain that DH and I have been getting the timing right so now my gyno is concerned that I might have blocked tubes. I'm so frightened that we would have to resort to IVF, we simply cannot afford it and probably wouldn't be able to for a few years due to our financial situation.
This is turning into an epic post from me so I won't bombard you with too much info for now, I just wanted to say hello and hopefully get to know you all better very soon.
hey there, I'm new here, as you can see lol. aaaanyway, im 25 and have PCOS. was diagnosed when i was 19. Never had a regular preiod after my first one at 14 my Dr used to tell me that it was "normal". I suffer from the excess hair growth especially on my chin and sides of my face, weight, always infrequent or absent periods up until earlier this year when i lost over 10kgs, i have had a period every month since feb yay! also oily hair and skin which i was told was a side affect of PCOS too. Anyways, im a foster carer, have had my lil girl since she was 3 mths old, we have her for ever, very rare case :) shes almost 4. I love her to death. My partner and i have been having unprotected sex for many many many years and never conceived. I spoke to my doctor(new one) recently and he said that they wouldnt consider me to have fertility problems unless we've been "trying" for a baby for 12mths. I would just like some assistance with getting the ball rolling for when we'd like to start trying, which will be in the next year or so i think.
Where do i start? Any suggestions?
the uk/us thing is my fiance is from the states i have to wait for my college course to finish before i come over on green card, which is gay. However i stay in the states at every chance that i get for up to 3 months at a time. The two years is the date i will be able to stay permanently over there we see it as better to wait until then thats all. Complicated yes, worth the hassle yep yep. Worrying about my DF right now he was in a car accident the other day :( he wasnt hurt but his car has a huge scratch and the tire has blew out. This guy who rammed into him decided to change lanes on a corner! Anyways i try not to let things bother me but its tough sometimes :(
Hi Carlie,:
If you've been having regular unprotected intercourse for many many years then you ought to have conceived by now! I think your doctor is a moron if he doesn't think you've got a fertility issue. There are so many other couples who have been doing the same as you but have made the surprise discovery that they are pregnant. The fact that you're not having regular cycles is enough cause for concern to warrant investigation by a gyno or FS.
My advice - find a new doctor who will take you seriously. And if you must, stretch the truth a little and say that you've been "trying" for two years because in all honesty, it's been alot longer than that but you've taken the relaxed approach until now.
Hi Fi, Belinda and Carlie, welcome to our little thread. I started this thread in the hopes that we would find women with similar issues and hopefully we could support each other through the stuff that only we know we have to face on a daily basis. I hope that you find support and comfort here and hopefully feel at ease to talk about what you go through daily.
Good luck to all of you who are trying to conceive. I am amongst you at the moment. I conceived my son through IVF and am really hoping to conceive again naturally this time. I have been undergoing acupuncture for a year now and more recently started to take herbs.
Fi I noticed you are another newcastle girl (yay!) where abouts are you from? Which FS do you see? I am with Dr Hedges at Hunter IVF. I too have the "milder" case of PCOS, so not sure why then I find it harder than most women with PCOS to fall pg??? As for your question re the commonality of PCOS, its becoming much more common, they are now thinking that one in 8 women have PCOS. I think its got a lot to do with our lifestyle and the foods that we eat.
Hi Belinda. I am Belinda and 32 as well. What a coincidence!! What's your date of birth? Would be funny if we were the same day too. tee he he! Wow about the stroke, my goodness, are you ok? Was it a mild one? Do you know if the PCOS caused the stroke? Good luck with the tests. I hope that all it is is blocked tubes, as they are easily fixed xxoo Keep us up to date on your progress matey xxoo
Hi Carlie, Wow to being a foster carer. How did you get into that at such a young age? As for where to start with TTC, I guess you could just go to your GP and ask for a referal to a fertility specialist, considering you already know that you have PCOS, you should be able to skip the whole 12 month waiting business and go straight to a specialist. They will then do some tests and assess your individual case and go from there, each fertility specialist is different though. And they may recommend a different course for you than they do for someone else. I started on a pill called clomid, which supposedly makes you ovulate. You either react to it or you don't. Unfortunately I didn't react to it, so we then went to AIH/IUI and then finally IVF. If you need to know anything about the process of any of these, I will try to help you out as best I can. Good luck with it though xxoo
Sara, good to hear from you. Wow your situation is complicated. How are you coping with being away from fiance? I bet its tough, but look towards the future, it will be something worth looking forward to.
Hi Lynn, how are you feeling honey? Im really glad that your U/S went well, and that the cord is free. I can't imagine how worried you are at the moment. I am thinking about having a monitored cycle. Not keen for it, but Im thinking it might be the only way to really know what's going on. POOOO!
Megs, how is your dad matey? Any news yet? How are you holding up? Thanks for asking about the house sale, I think its going ahead now, we haven't got exchange but its not far off.
Hi Cessie and Bathsheba and anyone else I've missed.
8th December, so not long til I'm 33 :cry::
The doctors didn't call my stroke mild, but I think it was a mild one compared to how bad some of the other stroke patients were when I was in hospital. I was allowed to go home after 3 weeks, many others were in there for months before they learnt to walk again. It was really sad and a real eye opener for me.
I was never told what caused the stroke but I believe PCOS had something to do with it. It was an ischaemic stroke as opposed to a blood clot which makes me think it is PCOS related.
Thank you for your good wishes, I am feeling so miserable tonight, seems like this TTC rollercoaster never ends.
hi all
wow - so many of us with this stupid PCOS!! On the one hand I feel releived that I am not alone but on the other hand I just get so frustrated and wonder why we are all suffering from this!
gumnut baby, I'm so sorry about the stroke! How awful for you at such a young age. I hope you have made a full recovery. And good luck with the lap etc on the 23rd, I hope they can find the problem and fix it easily enough. The girls on this site will give you plenty of support to help you through this difficult and frustrating time.
Carlie - I would definitely get some more answers and a referral to a FS. If you have been TTC for many years with no luck then you really need to find out why and get the treatment that you need. I have PCOS and responded well to Clomid but other people dont and need to try other treatments so it is important that you talk to a specialist to get the right information.
belmarks - I'm in Tighes Hill, about 10 mins out of Newcastle centre. I've only been here about 18 months, I grew up in Melbourne but moved here for my DF who grew up in Scone and wanted to be closer to his family (we met overseas and he moved to Melb with me for 5 years, so now its my turn to be away from my family!) I see dr McIlveen at her office in The Junction, I think she also works for Sydney IVF, Newcastle. She is really fantastic.
Hi to everyone else
hope you all had a nice weekend!
Fi
gumnut, i know how you feel hun about the rollercoaster. I never thought things could be so hard. I am sorry to hear about your stroke thats not right having one at 32 i always thought it was an older persons condition or an extremely unhealthy one. I hope you get well soon.
bel, yeah it is very complicated but we do love each other very much, it seems the only thing we fight about is when to have a baby. I want one asap, he wants one in 5+ years time when he has his masters degree. He has compromised with me but it doesn't feel right because deep inside i know he truly doesn't want it, does that make sense? And all this US health insurance stuff boggles my mind, why cant be free like the UK, and it would seem for maternity cover you would have to wait 2 years after taking the policy out to be covered it makes no sense.
Hi girls, how are we all?
Sara, I have a friend in the UK at the moment and she's had two babies there and says the health care system there is fabulous so I know what you mean regarding the differences between countries. I knew that the US was bad, they are pretty strict on private health and also IVF is through the roof there. I hope you can do something in the UK. I understand regarding your DF deciding or wanting to wait. I guess he could be worried about how you would cope especially considering the distance between you already. I hope you come to a mutually acceptable decision soon.
Hi Fi, welcome to Newcastle. I moved back here in 93 and met my DH back then, and decided to stay. Obviously we weren't married then though tee he he. Are you working in Newcastle anywhere? I haven't heard anything about your dr, I hope she is good for you though. I started my journey at sydney IVF and moved over to Hunter IVF because my dr is one of the founding drs of that clinic.
Hi gumnutbaby (belinda). Wow, I am still reeling from your news of a stroke. Can you explain what an ischaemic stroke is? Sorry for my ignorance, I just have never known anyone to have a stroke. Do you think that blood pressure and the pill might have had something to do with it? I know when I used to be on the pill a million years ago they used to tell me that they had to check my blood pressure to ensure I wasnt a stroke candidate on the pill....
Hi Lynn, how are you matey?
Megs, how's your dad recovering? Any news yet on the results of his tests? I have everything crossed for you and your dad honey. How are the boys going? Do they understand what is happening to their Pop/Grandpa??
Does anyone in here have weight fluctuations from one day to the next of a kilo or so? I jumped on the scales yesterday and have put on a kilo since the day before. I am carrying a bit of fluid atm and not sure whether that has something to do with it?
Im not sure what's going on with my cycle, I don't know whether I O'd or not this month, even though I have taken clomid earlier in my cycle. Ahhh, the joys of POCS!!!
Hi everyone!!
Wow, we found a whole new bunch of people to chat to!!
Girls I am with you on the hairy chin, gross, plus the soft pelt on your cheeks and mad sideburns!! Zits, oily hair and skin, yep and yep, charming isn't it????
Fi - LOL:cryinglaugh: when I read about the belly stripe, that was one of my whinges earlier in the thread, how gross it it???????? I mean where next? I have fine hairs on either side of my stripe, am I turning into a gorilla??? GROSS!!!
Belinda - hows thing going? Weight gain? Mate I have stacked it on, 5 kilos in 4 months, see what happens when you quit smoking!!! Has the house sold?
Lynn- How is little hope? Hope he/she is behaving!!!!
My dad is doing really well, he is to have his first surgery on Wednesday next week, they will retest all the tissue they remove, they cant guarentee they will get it all as it is so big, if it is cancerous or it comes back it will mean he will have to have a colostomy bag, but lets hope that isn't the case.:pray:
Anyway, hope you are all well.
Meagan
Hey Megs, good to hear from you. Good luck for Wednesday, I'll be thinking of you all xxoo
Im at another stage of my cycle this month where I am disillusioned and "over it" big time. It seems that I haven't O'd again this month, even though I took clomid. I am going to phone my fertility specialist I think and get monitored. I really really really don't want to do that though, its just that time is marching on and Im still not pg and I am starting to think that it is never going to happen ever again.
Stupid PCOS! I hate having this dumb "syndrome"!!!
sorry for the "down" post girls.....
Just had to vent :(
Hi Everyone
Have any of you ever been on the pill "Estelle'? My FS just prescribed it for me as due to my recent m/c I'm not really ready to TTC again just yet, everything is just too recent and painful. She said if I was to take a break for a few months then I should go on the pill as it's not good to go long periods without AF. She said Estelle would help with the acne, hair etc and as soon as I'm ready I can start Clomid again anyway, so being on the pill will just regulate everything and give me control over my cycle and when I try again. Prior to TTC I had no idea that I had PCOS so was not on any pill specifically to treat PCOS symptoms.
I really hope it works and that I soon have beautiful clear skin - how wonderful that would be! :)
Megs, I read your post yesterday and was thinking of you today when my FS asked me if I had much problem with unwanted hair..... YES! Funny thing was, yesterday I actually 'de-haired' my belly as I knew my FS would want to check out how my scars were healing (had a lap about 2 weeks ago for suspected ectopic pg). So I proudly showed her my hairless tummy, it was very funny!! Must say though - man it hurt when I got rid of the hair!! I used my silk epil.... ouch! And it made me realise that I was a hell of a lot hairier than I previously thought as those 'fine hairs either side' were longer and courser than I would have liked! So revolting
Belmarks - have you O'd on previous Clomid cycles? I've only every done one cycle and I O'd but I have heard that sometimes it works one month and not the next. Hope your FS had some answers for you. It WILL happen for you so try to stay positive, sometimes things just dont happen as quickly as we would like them to.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Fi
not been on estelle but i have tried others, it should clear up acne nicely it did mine. However i discovered i cant take oestrogen, as i suffer from migrane and it amplifies it, so they put me on the depo provera injection, which helps...no periods yay! ....acne Boo!
Trying to find a compromise between me and my DF is hard. Hes now saying wait until my US health insurance comes through, but some policies take up to 2 years to take effect which is stupid!
Hi Girls,
Just been reading through this forum and decided that i had to reply.
I am 25 and even though i have not been diagnosed with PCOS i think i might have it and i am petrified!
My symptoms include
irrational behaviour/thoughts
moodiness
bad skin
sleepless nights (at times)
We have just decided that we will TTC and i am so scared that it is not going to happen. I have bought some ovulation test thingys but im so scared that i will not be ovulating at all.
My periods were regular in my teens then i had a dull annoying paing in my right side. i went for ultrasounds and i had a 13cm long x 5cm blob. Which i am still not sure what it was. The next night i had sharp stabbing pains in my abdomen and was doubled over in pain, i went to the doctor the next day and after ultrasounds were done they put it down to the blob was an egg that didnt release as normal and therfore burst. After reading a few articles i have realised that this may have been a etopic pregnancy..? but why wasnt this picked up?
I was then put on the pill and then onto Depo as my periods on the right hand side became painful. Does this sound normal?? Should i be getting myself checked?
I was so relieved to find that there are more people like me out there who have these symptoms, i thought i was some kind of freak, i hate these symptoms and i just want them to go away. I would really love to be able to fall pregnant, but i have this feeling in the back of my mind that i will not be able to.
Sorry for the neverending story guys, i just need to speak to someone!.. help anyone!? :(
Any unusual pain should be checked hun and your symptoms do sound like pcos which isnt always picked up on an US mine werent i had to have a laporoscamy however its spelled. So if you think you have it push your doc to give you one. The regular (combined) pill should relieve the excess hair symptoms and acne and stuff but the rest you usually have to deal with im afraid :( If you need to talk just send me a pm i may take a while because im in the uk but i will do my best. :)
Hi Missy82, my best and only advice for you at this stage is to get a referral to a fertility specialist and get checked properly. I know that the internet is a wonderful thing these days, but it can make even the sanest of us "self diagnose" because there is so much information available. But truly, you are best to go and see your gp and ask to see a specialist if you are worried that you may have PCOS symptoms. Do you still have irregular periods?
Hi Fi - haven't even heard of "estelle" but I hope it works. I just dont understand why these drs are so gung ho about putting us all on the pill like its a magical cure for what we've got, it just masks what is really going on underneath. And I just think that if you are trying to fall pregnant, why do they put you on the pill? isn't that defeating the purpose?
I always say "get a second opinion" especially if you are unsure about what your gp/fs is telling you...
Megs, hows your dad?
Lynn how are you hun?
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to give sufferers of PCOS a little hope, and I mean only a little!!!
I was diagnosed with PCOS a little under a year ago, I am 23. I have always had excess hair growth and was always teased in school (blondie too which means no Lazer Hair Removal for me grrrrr), prone to breakouts and extremely moody. I was put on the pill when I was 15 because I was getting AF every 2 weeks and have never known life without the pill till just before I was diagnosed.
I went into hospital while O/S with extremely painful AF pains and although I was put on Codine I still could not move, so as soon as I got back to Aus I went to a specialist. I chose to stay off the pill when I was diagnosed because I found that the pains were much less severe although I was lucky to get AF once every 3 or 4 months.
When I was diagnosed I was also told that I wasn't producing a normal amount of Endometrium. I was severely underproducing it. I am not sure if that is one of the symptoms of PCOS or not. Either way I wasn't fazed in the slightest, even though I knew it meant I would have difficulty having kids. All I ever wanted was my own family (after a very big struggle with my childhood) but life plans had changed and I wanted to join the Police Force.
So I went in for a Lap, they removed some fluid from previously burst cysts and another large cyst from my left ovary. It was then that I was told for the first time that my left ovary was in a terrible state. Again I wasn't too fazed, however, my grandparents cried.
I went back on the pill after my BF moved in, I guess just to be extra safe, but found that I was back to the crippling pain and once the packet was up decided to look for a Cervical Cap instead (not easily obtained so I learnt).
Try to understand this...... I honestly can't.
I went off the pill for 5 months, back on for 3 months and then off again for 1 month.
I fell pregnant naturally within that month and am now 8 weeks (keeping our fingers & legs crossed I will stay that way, but it never leaves my mind how scared I am of a MC).
My cousin has been on Clomid for 6 months and nothing. She also had PCOS.
Although it was never a decision, I was looked down on because I was so close to finishing my year long application for the Police and cancelled it. How could I not though?? What if this was my only chance?? Some people just don't understand.
My new doctor now says that I only had PCO (can he puhleeesssseee explain the fuzz on my chin then) but in the same tone also tells me I am very lucky.
Point of all this is...... it does happen. Everyone is different to everyone else.
Change of topic a little....
I was very interested and surprised to hear a few of you have had drilling. As far as I knew it wasn't very widely practised and was seen as a last resort for doctors. It must have been awful but it was what I was thinking of requesting if I ever came to the point where I was trying to have kids and it just wasn't happening for me.
On a final note....
I always felt that If I hadn't been on the pill, implant, depo then back to the pill I wouldn't have even had the problems that I did. Medical research though says otherwise.
I HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE that PCOS is controlled by the Pill. In the same way they 'control' HIV with medication. The pill feeds your body the hormone that your ovaries are lacking to produce, it helps to prevent diabetes and if you find a good enough pill slows excess hair growth, but more important it stops your body from ovulating (or in PCOS case, trying to). By stopping your ovaries from trying to release an egg you are stopping the production of cysts. Cysts are semi-mature to mature eggs that were never able to be fully released by the ovary (due to lack of hormones I think). Prevention of cysts means prevention of further Laps to remove cysts and in worst case scenarios lifetime infertility from a cyst that has twisted around a fallopian tube.
I am no researcher, nurse or doctor though, so if you want to know more I would find a doctor that is happy to sit down and talk to you about the condition.