Mako - Yeah i eat pretty healthy and although i don't go out of my way to exercise i do a lot of walking around our farm (we have 5 acres!) and in general. When i lost all the weight during my pg i thought it would stay off but it did'nt. Even though i was eating healthy and the way i did during my pg there was nothing i could do to keep it off.
To check you insulin levels, is that the same test that do while you are pg?? Cause when i did them tests the levels were fine.
I did go for blood tests to check the levels of my hormones last year and my testosterone levels were a little elivated. Not sure wether that has anything to do with it.
Thanks heaps for your advice girls. I wish i could go today and have somebody tell me what is going on. The waiting is the hardest part.
Yes, elevated testosterone levels have something to do with it. It is a common feature of insulin resistant PCOS. But you can still have IR PCOS without it - since there is more than one kind of androgen (male hormone) that is overproduced in a woman w/ PCOS, and a testosterone test just checks for one kind. My testosterone levels are normal, but my other androgens (which have never been tested in me) are surely not (because I have a mo' unless I bleach it!!).
Also, when you get a GTT done when you are pregnant, they may not test insulin response - they may only test glucose response. They need to test both insulin and glucose response to test for IR.
But from what you are saying, it sounds like you may have a problem w/ insulin. Pregnancy and b/feeding can actually make the hormones of a PCOS woman behave more like normal women, but once that is over, they go back to being whacky and as a result most women find it hard to loose weight, and put it on very quickly.
Have you checked out www.posaa.asn.au? You might find some useful info on there that might help explain things better to you.
Shellshell I am only taking clomid as my b/t didn't show any signs of insulin resistance. So who knows what else could be going on with my body . I go back to specialist on the 20th so may need to ask her to test again.
Sara I think the test is different to the one they do during pregnancy but I am not 100% sure.
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. I go back to specialist on the 20th so may need to ask her to test again. 
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