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I had my first period at age 12 and 15 years later, I've had about 12 periods in that period. I have all the symptoms and I would go from doctor to doctor begging for someone to make sense of all of this. I finally saw a doctor at a women's health clinic when I was getting a colposcopy and I explained my symptoms to her (including acanthosis nigricans) when we were talking and she sent me for tests. The ultrasound showed cysts all over my left ovary. Bloodwork was hard to interpret because they didn't know where I was in my cycle so they could have been normal but she didn't want to take the chance with that. I was put on metformin (500mg/day and Yasmin). 9 months later when I was experience a period of major depression, I stopped taking all medications (including anti-depressants) and I undid everything I'd worked so hard to get achieve. AN is back and worse than ever. Hair growth on my face is yuck. I gained 10 lbs in a month. I'm probably taking a huge chance, but until I get back into see her, I've decided to take 1500mg/day of met and I'm back on yasmin in the hopes that it will get my IR under control. I had bloodwork done and I have to go in for another glucose type test which involves fasting. Not sure of the details because her nurse just called me and told me to go get some more bloodwork done.

Sorry for the long post. That's my story!