BBC seeking help with PCOS feature

tory · 02-25-2003, 03:42 PM

Hi everyone..

I'm a PCOS sufferer, and also a journalist for BBC News Online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news

I've managed to persuade the editor of the Health section to let me do a feature on the difficulties of conceiving with PCOS, and I wonder whether any of you lovely ladies would be interested in being the focus of my piece.

I think it's incredibly important to spread the word on this.. and I promise that any piece will be sensitive and accurate.

All that would be involved would be a telephone interview, and the sending of a photo or two to accompany the piece.

Let me know if you'd like to be involved...

tory
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kryschen · 02-25-2003, 03:44 PM

Is it safe to assume you're only looking for women on your side of the ocean?

tory · 02-25-2003, 03:53 PM

not necessarily - it's an international site, so as long as the time difference wasn't too awful for an interview, and pictures could be scanned in and sent, it wouldn't be a massive problem...

t

kryschen · 02-25-2003, 03:57 PM

Well, if nobody else is interested, I may be - though I didn't have the problems many women have conceiving, probably because I managed to get a great doctor when I was still a pre-teen...I'll hold out unless you don't get many hits

Katia · 03-23-2003, 10:38 PM

I would be happy to help if you need me to. I live in the States, but visit the UK often. My husband is originally from Hertfordshire.

babybean · 03-31-2003, 03:38 PM

Tory,

I am very interested in participating.

I live in Seattle, have been married for 13 years and was finally diagnosed with PCOS at 36 years old (2 years ago).

After over a year of IF treatments resulting in an ectopic pregnancy last year my husband and I are now persuing a domestic infant adoption through a local Seattle agency.

We have been approved since October and are waiting to be matched with a birthmother.

The frustrations that I have faced in my own journey to become a mother are ones that I think others could learn from. I basically diagnosed myself on this board 2 months before a RE diagnosed me with PCOS. I think back over my years of suffering with awful periods, unexplained weightgain and two terrible D&C's that were never fully justified to me.

If I can be of help please feel free to email me at lesliecran@hotmail.com.