PCOS Message Board - View Single Post - by chance have you gone to see a specialist for PCOS yet??

funkydiva77 · 07-07-2008, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by wonkey

If this is nosey then please ignore: I am curious that you've also had a child at the same age I was when I had mine, did you find that your symptoms started showing after you'd had your baby? I was diagnosed a year after I had my son -after my AF went AWOL after about two-three months after I had my son (I put off seeing the doctor for another 9 months! :/ )

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Hi there leannewo, you just up the road

Yes I was 18 when he was born, my symptoms started straight after, AF was never on time and all over the place it was not till he was about 3 and after having perfect skin all my life I started to get acne. It took another 5 years (8years old) that hirsutism and alopecia set in and has gotten progressively worse since.

How I found out I had PCOS was because I was trying to find a cure for my skin and on my quest was sent for a pelvic scan as I had suspicions from internet research and was confirmed a diagnosis for PCOS but that was just last year and my son is nearly 12 years old.

I believe I had left it for too long as my symptoms of IR have had all that time to send me into premature (pre) diabetes. I am now on the mad rush to try and manage my condition and maybe reverse some of the damage to other internal organs, basically had to drastically change my diet and exercise regularly which I was not doing for the whole time since my son was born. I had a lifestyle of eating junk food, going for hours without food, drinking and smoking anything that I was given. All of this unhealthy living has caught up with me and im only 30?? I am very aware now to really look after myself because without your health, what do you have?