Got it in one! But I seriously doubt I'd go back to him if we decide to try for number two (don't really like some of the things about the way the new clinic does things).

I'm a bit like you - not overweight and really don't have any of the usual physical signs of PCOS, but when I was sent to do a glucose tolerance test David just about fell out of his chair at my results. He usually only does the eating plan thing with people who are overweight but my insulin levels were so high that he made me do it as well. After transfer and through the early stages of pregnancy I still stuck to the plan as much as I could. It made sense to do so - PCOS can increase the chance of miscarriage and I'd already had three, so I still did what I could to keep the PCOS and my insulin levels under control.

I would balance what I ate over the whole day. Sometimes I would try to eat eggs for breakfast to lift my protein levels, but I'm very much a cereal girl so I would often have my usual cereal for breakfast and then have virtually no carbs for the rest of the day (apart from what you find in fruits and vegies - I would avoid bread, pasta, rice, potato, etc) and stick to things like meat and salads or stir fries with lots of vegies. I even managed to have pizza once without killing the entire day, and I wouldn't stress if one day was a bit high in carbs, as I'd often have others which were low so it would tend to balance out over a week. Except for during that last stim cycle - I was absolutely rigid with it and didn't allow any "carb borrowing" from one day to another. I did it from when I started lucrin right through until I was so ill with morning sickness that the constant need for a ginger nut biscuit to nibble on meant I really had no hope of keeping carbs under the limit.

But it does work. And I know David likes to tell you that and he'll often tell stories about different patients who got nowhere until they followed the plan... and sometimes it helps to actually be able to talk to one of those patients and find out that it is actually true.

One thing I do want to comment on - I was told that the only chance I had of getting pregnant was to use a frozen blastocyst and that I just had to get used to the hyperstimulation because that's what my body just liked to do. Well, I did a cycle without hyperstimulating - and thought all was lost when out of my 20 eggs only 12 were mature and of those only 3 fertilised. We didn't have enough embryos to grow to blastocyst so we transferred at day 3 (and I think this is one thing that his clinic no longer does)... so after being told my only hope was a frozen blast, I got pregnant and stayed pregnant with a fresh day 3.

BW