I am a prolific blogger

Please check out my blog site at Organique Gal.

For specific posts on PCOS, there's a dropdown list in the sidebar that says "Fascinating Topics" and choose the topic "PCOS".

Now that we have that out of the way... I have had PCOS since my teens. I had two incidents of cysts bursting around 1995/1996, but was never officially dx'd until April 8, 2008.

My husband I have been seeing a fertility specialist since that time. I had been on Metformin for a couple years before that because my MD felt I was probably a cyster, but couldn't positively dx.

Unfortunately my body does NOT like Metformin, and I gained 50 lbs when I started taking it. I stopped taking it because I felt sick the whole time I was on it, and got tired of feeling worse instead of better.

I don't get my period any longer, so I've taken progesterone a few times the last year to induce a period. Definitely not fun.

We had our appointment with the fertility speciliast this summer, and he recommended we start a round of drugs to induce ovulation. After reading through the possible side effects, we decided to forego that route.

My husband's sister is a Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor, and she offered to treat us. Since August 11th we have been under her care. We completely cut out all sugar and all sweeteners (except low GI agave nectar), dairy, soy, caffeine, wheat, vinegar, citruts, and yeast.

I was 278 lbs when we started and lost 10 lbs the first month. The second month I gained half a pound for 3 weeks in a row. Talk about FRUSTRATED! I went and got a full blood lab done by my MD, and he put me on a restricted cal diet. I started that on October 23rd. The first 5 days I lost 2.5 lbs. Then the following week I lost 3.5 lbs.

We are coming up to 3 months since we started the healing cleanse with my SIL, and for the first time in 20 years I feel hope that I will be able to lose this weight and get healthy. And maybe even get pregnant!

We have one 6 year old son (from my first marriage... my husband has adopted him), and we would love to have one more child. Unbelievably, my husband also has fertility issues that were not resolved with the surgery he underwent to embolize one of his testes varicose veins.

So... that's me. I'm 33 years old, I love writing. In fact I'm working on writing my first novel right now. I blog a lot on the site I posted above about my quest for a natural organic life. I hope you'll take some time to check it out... pass it on to your friends...

Hugs,

April