i guess one ray of hope for me is that she's had PCOS and endo since she was still in puberty, so perhaps i have escaped them?
Sorry Hoobley, it doesn't really work that way, at least with Endo. I'd never had any problems, perfect cycles, no problems conceiving (fell prg twice, once without trying, the second time on the first attempt) but between my first and second pregnancies I developed a cyst on my ovary which we later discovered was an endometrioma. I still fell prg while I had the cyst but sadly we lost our baby. We will never really know what impact the cyst had on my ovulation and therefore that pregnancy.

Technically, I do not have endometriosis - the cyst was single site endo, two laps have shown that it is no where else in my body. Very uncommon apparently.

My cyst developed after DD was born and probably in the second six months of breastfeeding (I b/fed her till 16 months) so I don't know if it was the hormonal changes in my body that triggered it??

Anyway, it did an awful lot of damage and my once 'perfect' fertility is no longer

I've been told that it can happen to anyone at any time so really none of us are really safe from it I guess.

I am really worried about developing another cyst during the time that I'm b'feeding this baby because obviously during that time I can't use the general treatment which is normally some form of birth control to keep it at bay. Something for me to discuss with my FS I guess.