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A girl I work with is 19 years old and has just been diagnosed with PCOS. The only symptoms she has are irregular cycles and she is slightly overweight. Her GP has told her.................YOU PROBABLY WON'T BE ABLE TO HAVE KIDS :o:o:o
What an ASS! Who says that to a 19 year old girl?! I told her today that there are PLENTY of women who go on to have children with PCOS. Grrr, so angry with this idiot GP!
Holy cow! Such a bad doctor. I understand warning PCOS people that PCOS can cause difficulty conceiving, but surelly he could have told her all the treatments that are now available? Sadly I've found so many GP's are ignorant about TTC.
That makes me so mad!! She sounds like me at 19 and if I had been me I would have been devastated.
Well guess what Dr PCOS=NoKids, I've got one DS and one on the way - both conceived naturally and with PCOS...
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!!
Sounds like that Dr needs to go back to Med School, because he is totally wrong. Difficulty in conceiving - probably, but she is not infertile. I would have been devastated if I was told that at 19.
Whats worse is that she probably thinks she wont need contraception.
I know, I nearly died when she told me. She's not even TTC either! I assured her that when she does decide to have kids, there are plenty of options available. Also she told the GP she was thinking about going on the contraceptive pill. The GP said that if she were to go on the pill, it will basically make her infertile????? Any truth behind this?
My mother has PCS (not PCOS, her cysts are on her womb and everywhere else.). She shouldn't have gotten pregnant. She's been pregnant 5 times. 4 live births, one stillbirth and a m/c.
PCOS doesn't mean No Kids
I have two different friends who have believed for years that they probably can't conceive because of PCOS, just on some gp's opinion. Makes me so mad.
There are plenty of doctors who say the wrong things, sending women into bad emotional states. A doctor did that to me - diagnosed me with possible PCOS, told me it would be difficult for me to conceive, I'd need medical assistance.... cue me in tears and a complete state for ages. Until I saw another doctor who told me the first doctor had run blood tests for hormone function whilst I was on the pill (doh!) and that they didn't count. The frigging idiot. I felt like an idiot as well, but I'm not the one with a medical degree. Google doesn't count.
I suggest she see another doctor. PCOS is one thing. Conception is another. It may make things more difficult, it may not. Everyone is different. I hope she's not too distraught.
btw - was the diagnosis made with blood tests and ultrasound? Normally it involves an ultrasound of the ovaries.
Yeah, she had an ultrasound and some BT. She is getting a second opinion on how to manage it too. What a d*ck!:
What an idiot GP. If it helps I was put on the pill by my fs during the time I wasn't trying to conceive to protect my bone health as my cycles were so irregular. There was never any mention of it making me infertile!
Janie xxx
Doncha love idiot Drs :wall: when my DH and I went to the medical centre to get the results of his semen analysis, the Dr looked them up on the computer and said "well you'll never have children"... And nothing else...
He was wrong obviously! (check my sig ;) )
Geeze, they get paid to be idiots!
Omg I am SO sick of this!!! Stacks of girls my age are going around saying they can get pregnant because they have PCOS. So not true.
As a young woman with infrequent periods i had an ultrasound that identified some cysts and i was advised that the contraceptive pill can protect you from getting more cysts on the ovaries. I haven't researched to find out if this is true, but that was the advice i was given.:
That's what I have heard. I couldn't understand why they would say that to her. I starting to wonder weather it was a real GP or one of those dodgey ones from overseas that practice with no license!:
I was 19 when i was diagnosed with PCOS and told i probably won't be able to have kids. I was told to change my diet lost some weight and go from there. Sure enough i only had to lose 9kgs and i fell pregnant!
I hope she is ok and tell her to join BB if she needs some support xoxo
Direct her to POSAA, it's where she'll get access to the best advice, and also a directory for PCOS experts in her state. There's also the new Evidence Based Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of PCOS that she'd benefit from reading - by the sounds of things, she should also direct her doctor to it. It's the first of its kind and was only released in August, so hopefully these kinds of experiences won't happen for much longer.
I know squat about PCOS but a friend of mine at MG has it and from what I gather she uses the pill to help control her periods/the pain of periods?
Thankfully she sounds responsible... I know a few 19 year olds that would just say, well that's that then and go around not using contraception after being told they wouldn't be able to have kids.
^^ I knew of two young girls that were told by their GP the same speil, told their partners the same thing then fell pg.....
I was told I had PCOS a week before we conceived Amelia :lol: I suspect it was only "PCO", not the syndrome...
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 diagnosed with PCO but was told I don't have PCOS :dunno: I have all of the symptoms in varying degrees.
Maybe It is just all the same? Well, it all leads to one thing-frustration!! :lol:
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?!
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.
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??
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.
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?
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 :-/: