i have never taken anything to help me sleep as i have to get up at 7 every morning to go to work! it doesn't help also that i'm sat at a desk all day staring at a computer screen! have you thought about seeing if you can be prescribed something different? sometimes i don't actually feel tired but my eyes go very tired and i just feel like closing them and never opening them! Although does't help being in my current situation having trouble with my other half!
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Thanks, I'm sure it will be, a swift kicking usually puts him in his place! hehe! He tends to suffer from PMS worse than I do and I think thats saying something! Hope your feeling better too x
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awww that is really sweet. it is good when you can talk to someone about everything. it really helps a lot. my fiance can be sensitive a lot of the time but doesn't like me giving him the gruesome details lol... i've been a little annoyed over the weekend but i can see the funny side i guess lol i was given medication from the dr to bring my period on as i was a week late and she wants to see if i'm ovulating as me and my fiance are ttc. Anyway, i paid for the medication and the very next day i came on! how annoying!
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aww that is so typical! Periods are so crap arent they?!
Yeh its great to have someone to talk to and who understands and i do go into gruesome stuff but she says she loves it when i 'share'!! Lol!
But she undersstands that its good for me to come on here and talk to peeps with PCOS as however much she tries, she doesnt know exactly what it's like.
Hope you're having a good week Sending out sunshine as it's raining here and its horrible!
yes i know exactly what you mean. Before i joined this site i used to think i was the only person with PCOS and i couldn't actually believe the amount of women who suffer from it. i was diagnosed only a few years ago although i have suffered since i was about 16. Drs here just don't seem to want to know. i talk to my mum about most things makes me feel better. i'm not having a bad week though feeling a bit rough. usually do on my period. hope your week is going good. where are you from? weather here is horrible it's so cold!
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I live in Sheffield, England. The autumn's been really nice when it's not raining!
I'm quite lucky regarding my diagnosis as i used to work with my gynaecologist in a private hospital. I spoke to him before i saw him formally and he was sure i had it. Then i just got my doctor to refer me to see him privately. This meant i had to pay for blood tests and scans but he wavered the consultant fee cos i knew him (which was so good of him). I did have private medical insurance, but because i'd been to my doctor previously about my bad periods and acne, they called it a previously existing condition and wouldnt pay.
Anyway for the moment i'm doing ok on met 850 3 times a day and dianette contracetive pill, however i do want a baby so i will probably need more treatment than that when i ttc.
hiya just wanted to update again. went to the doctors following my blood tests. she went through them in detail. understood much better. She then went on to tell me that she wasn't going to put me on met as she thought it would do no good. she has now prescribed me with norethisterone so she can then do more tests and see if i am ovulating then depending on the outcome she is going to prescribe me with clomid. i am so pleased i went ahead and changed my doctor i really feel i'm getting somewhere now.
Hi Leanne,
Hope you don't mind me asking but I'm still trying to figure out how the NHS actually works! Years ago when I lived in the states the dr put me on metformin but took me off as it wasn't helping. Since I moved over here I went to my GP who referred me to a specialist (who I HATE with a passion). He put me back on Metformin which I have been on for the last four years and it hasn't done me any good.He told me at my last appointment that no medication will work for me which I don't believe one bit. It's about finding the right treatment for me as not all of us are the same. What I'd like to ask if you don't mind is, you said you switched drs. Do you mean GP or specialist? I want to switch specialists so bad but I was told that we would have to start our treatment all over again. My husband and I have been ttc since we got married. If I go back to my GP can they do any sort of treatment since I have been referred to a specialist or do I have be referred to a different one? I know you may not have all the answers but I was just hoping for a bit of advice as I just don't understand the NHS!!
Hiya, of course I don't mind. I actually meant that I changed GP. I went to 3 different GP's before this one and each one told me that there was nothing that could be done to treat any symptoms of PCOS. The second one I saw actually told me, when I went to see them about ttc, that there was no hope in me having children! This, amongst other things made me seek help elsewhere, when I went to see the last GP, I told him I had PCOS and that me and my fiance were also ttc. He told me I couldnt do anything without loosing weight and prescribed me dieting pills, even though I told him the pills made me ill the last time I took them (xenical, Orlistat they were). Anyway, I found that he wouldn't help me. I asked him if I could see a specialist, and he told me there was no need. That they couldn't do anything for me. So just last month I decided I'd had enough, after talking to so many people, everyone telling me that you had to push in order to get what you wanted. I went in there armed with all the info i could get and I told this GP exactly what I wanted and what I knew, and I wouldn't take no for an answer. I really really believe that, because the GP's here in the UK don't want to know about PCOS (or very few of them) you really have to push, and keep pushing to get what you want. I have never seen a specialist myself, only my GP. On the first time of seeing her, after I had told her everything, she just smiled at me and said, she could treat the symptoms of PCOS but not the actual syndrom! Which is what I wanted all along. I then told her that me and my fiance had been ttc for over a year now with no luck, and the first thing she did was send me for blood tests, which all came back perfect. Now she is sending me for another blood test at the end of the month to see if I am ovulating, then she is going to start me on Clomid at the beginning of next year! Sorry if I am really going on, but, you said that you don't get on with your gp and I feel that you need a good relationship with them in order to help you as much as possible. I suggest that you go back to your GP and ask them about other ways to help you conceive. If they don't help you, I would seriously think about finding another GP who is going to help you. I seriously don't believe that you will have to start your treatment etc all over again, because when you move GPs etc all of your information on your files move with you. If you have already got all the infomation there on your files, they will just refer to that and go from there!
I'm so sorry if I have waffled on, you have probably fallen asleep reading this! lol. I really hope I have helped you and I wish you all the luck in the world! Please let me know how you get on, and if you want any other information, or I can help in any othe way, just let me know. x x x
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You didn't waffle on Leanne! I really appreciate it. It's not the GP we don't get along with. It's the actual fertility speciailst we had been referred to 4 years ago. When we went back to our GP about 6 weeks ago he was the one that said we could search for a different specialist but that he couldn't recommend one and that we would have to start all over again. I wish the GP's and specialist would understand that I want to treat the systems before ttc. Our last appointment with our fertility specialist just wasn't understanding our frustrations. We walked out of there with him scheduling us to start IUI treatment but also telling us it will most probably fail! That's not even what I wanted. I wanted someone to understand that I first one to treat the PCOS and to help me get to a place where I can start ovulating. My GP did say my age was starting to play a factor as well. I am so disheartened....
i seriously don't think you would have to start all over again. i mean what's the point in trying things you have already done!? seems very pointless and a waste of your time as well as theirs. Have you thought about finding another specialist and having a chat with them? ask them what the procedure would be if you went to see them. You never know. I know how disheartened you must feel now but please don't give up. Keep at them both. If either of them are not listening to you, you really have to make them listen and don't take no for an answer! good luck! xxx
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Sending out sunshine as it's raining here and its horrible!
