http://www.soulcysters.net/ SoulCysters.com - PCOS Forum for women with Polcystic Ovarian Syndrome en Sat, 18 May 2013 23:39:48 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.soulcysters.net/images/misc/rss.png http://www.soulcysters.net/ http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347820-I-need-some-advice-on-ttc-again-at-my-current-weight!?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 22:16:48 GMT We thought our family was complete, but now we are longing for one more baby. I feel lost and somewhat nervous about having another child at my current weight. I weigh around 320lbs now..and I turn 34 in July of this year so I feel like if Im going to do this now is the time. My daughter turns 2 this December and would love to give her a sibling! This would be our 4th pregnancy if we had another.... We thought our family was complete, but now we are longing for one more baby. I feel lost and somewhat nervous about having another child at my current weight. I weigh around 320lbs now..and I turn 34 in July of this year so I feel like if Im going to do this now is the time. My daughter turns 2 this December and would love to give her a sibling! This would be our 4th pregnancy if we had another. We lost our first baby girl when she was 6 days old, then we had a miscarriage and finally God gave us Peighton :) We would feel blessed and over the moon if God gives us another miracle. The only other concerns I have are, I would be on lovenox injections again and of course my weight. What do you awesome ladies think? Should I go for it at this weight? Any advice would be appreciated. ]]> Infertility and Trying to Conceive cindilou http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347820-I-need-some-advice-on-ttc-again-at-my-current-weight! http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347819-Cancelled-cycle-now-bright-red-bleeding?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 17:50:00 GMT Hi ladies, Please help me understand what is going on. This whole cycle has been a bit weird since I never got my period last cycle. After doing some bloodtests and seeing that all hormones were really low my RE determined that I was at the beginning of a new cycle. I did the HSG test...all clear...and then started follistim. On Thursday I went in for an ultrasound (this was day 10 of... Hi ladies,

Please help me understand what is going on. This whole cycle has been a bit weird since I never got my period last cycle. After doing some bloodtests and seeing that all hormones were really low my RE determined that I was at the beginning of a new cycle. I did the HSG test...all clear...and then started follistim. On Thursday I went in for an ultrasound (this was day 10 of follistim) and I had 8 mature follies on the red side, so my RE suggested I sit out this cycle because there were so many. Now...two days later, my boobs are really sore (I never have sore boobs) and I'm bleeding (bright red). DH and I BD-ed on Tuesday. Not sure what is going on? Help! Is this normal if you have so many follies? Or if you stop Follistim? So confused. ]]> Infertility and Trying to Conceive yennyenny http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347819-Cancelled-cycle-now-bright-red-bleeding http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347818-Did-I-really-just-get-my-first-O-test?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 16:24:48 GMT Hey ladies! I just wanted to know if you ladies have had false positive ovulation predictor tests? I just took one today (CD 14, I believe) and got my very first smiley face! I did the ClearBlue digital ovulation predictor. I am so excited, because this is the first time I have ever seen a positive on one of these tests. I am just afraid that maybe I am seeing a false positive. Anyone have... Hey ladies!
I just wanted to know if you ladies have had false positive ovulation predictor tests? I just took one today (CD 14, I believe) and got my very first smiley face! I did the ClearBlue digital ovulation predictor. I am so excited, because this is the first time I have ever seen a positive on one of these tests. I am just afraid that maybe I am seeing a false positive. Anyone have experience with this? Either way, my DH is getting lucky tonight! haha :) Thanks in advance for any info! ]]> Infertility and Trying to Conceive AuburnLady http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347818-Did-I-really-just-get-my-first-O-test http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347817-Searching-For-PCOS-Specialist-in-Raleigh-NC?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 16:07:35 GMT I recently moved to Raleigh, NC and got married. I've been seeing a GP doctor who is trying his best to help me, but having virtually no OB/GYN experience, the issue of PCOS is beyond his scope of knowledge. I have been searching for a doctor who has a great deal of experience with PCOS patients, but oddly enough I'm having a lot harder of a time finding one than I thought I would. Living so close to both Duke and UNC hospitals, this should not be so difficult!! Any suggestions?? ]]> Find a Doctor... Withers http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347817-Searching-For-PCOS-Specialist-in-Raleigh-NC http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347816-anyone-on-here-actively-looking-for-a-group-to-talk-about-ttc-after-loss?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 15:15:20 GMT Hi everyone, I am a 27.... well almost 28 year old who is struggling with PCOS. I started by TTC journey last year in Feb. 2012. We did testing with midwife and tried clomid. I was not getting periods at all and had to induce them with provera, then do the clomid. Tried three cycles and had no success... onto RE. After clearing all tests, except for glucose tolerance, but PCOS dx with... Hi everyone,

I am a 27.... well almost 28 year old who is struggling with PCOS. I started by TTC journey last year in Feb. 2012. We did testing with midwife and tried clomid. I was not getting periods at all and had to induce them with provera, then do the clomid. Tried three cycles and had no success... onto RE. After clearing all tests, except for glucose tolerance, but PCOS dx with insulin resistance was verified. Started metformin in October 2012. I got a period in November, did one cycle of injectables and bam! Severe ovarian hyperstimulation followed by BFP! We got twins on the first try! 12 week scan all good.... 18 week scan all good... two little boys <3

All went well until 21 weeks 6 days.... went in due to increased mucous and pelvic pressure. Long story short... I was 4 cm dilated with no options... I was losing my babies. Two healthy, perfect, much wanted little boys with no chance of living on the outside. Heartbroken to say the least... I required a D & E procedure, though I guess it was less physically traumatic as I was already dilated.

It has been 2.5 weeks and I am already thinking about TTC. Our goal remains unchanged, we want a child. We will continue our goal as we grieve our too little peanuts. We had a follow up and midwife says cervix is closed. We will meet with maternal fetal medicine doctor on 6.10.13 to discuss pre-conception plan. Not sure what this will entail as it seems I may have incompetent cervix on top of my PCOS.

So that was my story but I am looking for others to chat with... really hoping to get some support as I will likely be back in the whole fertility treatment world but this time with even more anxiety. Sorry if this post is triggering to others.. and I don't want to be a downer... just looking for some people who might be ready for a bumpy road like me :0) ]]> Coping with Pregnancy Loss jlc20033 http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347816-anyone-on-here-actively-looking-for-a-group-to-talk-about-ttc-after-loss http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347815-PCOS-Highway-to-hell?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 14:10:24 GMT Hello all! My name is Ryan, and I'm a 31 year old woman with PCOS. I was diagnosed when I was 23 years old, after YEARS of misdiagnoses, suffering and confusion. When I was 12 I got my first cycle, and I was regular for all of about 8 months. After that the severe cramping started, along with periods of heavy bleeding and fatigue. Being that my father was raising me alone, he had NO clue how to even begin to help. So he took me to doctors. Lord the doctors!! One said I was too young to worry about the irregularness of my cycles, one said it was IBS, and one even had the nerve to say it was all in my head!! So I suffered silently until I was 18. I married my first husband and he immediately started in on me to have a baby. We tried and tried and eventually he got sick of all my "issues" and ran off with another woman less than 2 years after we married. I turned to my best friend at the time, a young man that I had been friends with for some years. We started a relationship and after about a year I was pregnant. Unfortunately we found out about the pregnancy in the ER where I was having to get an emergency blood transfusion due to massive hemorraging. I was having a miscarriage. I was devastated. I felt like I was less than a woman. Eventually my depression and self-loathing drove him away. We are still friends, forever tied to one another by this secret, but we are both married and trying to build families. After a year or so I tenatively starting trying to date. I met a young man a bit younger than me, and we started our relationship. After 3 years he asked me to marry him and I agreed. Three months later I found out he was cheating on me with my sister. He had the nerve to tell me that he thought he could handle the stress of what my PCOS would entail as far as us getting pregnant, but he was wrong. While I was in Basic for the sheriff's department he packed up our apartment and moved in with her. I found our a few weeks later that she was pregnant. I was devastated. So of course I started down a self-destructive path. I truned to drugs and blew all my money. I totally screwed up my law enforcement career. Eventually I realized that this was NOT where I wanted to be, and I was NOT going to let this beat me. I went back to college and got my degree in Criminal Justice, reconnected with old friends, and eventually married my husband, who was an old high school sweetheart :-) Now we are wanting to start our family, and I'm struggling with some serious weight gain issues and health issues. I am trying hard not to get discouraged. I'm currently seeing a GP who has been monitoring my blood levels. He prescribed me Metformin and is helping me work through the weight issues. I am currently looking for an OB/GYN in the Raleigh area that specializes in PCOS. I'm wanting more help with my PCOS than a GP can offer me. I'm hoping to be able to get a lot of information here as well as maybe being able to help someone here with my experiences! I look forward to talking with you all!! ]]> Withers http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347815-PCOS-Highway-to-hell http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347814-PCO-AND-TRYING-TO-GET-PREGNANT-NATURALLY-can-anyone-help!!!!?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 13:15:27 GMT I'm 18 years old nearly 19, Been with my partner 3 years this June, I cant remember the periods I had in 2010, but I wrote down the periods I had in 2011, I had 8 periods in a year, the longest I went without a period was 78 days and the shortest was 15, and in 2012 I had 5 natural periods up to august, that's when I went on the pill, I was off and on the pill a lot! but when I came off it I had a natural period, and didn't have another so gave the pill another go, but I came off the pill may 9th this year as me n my partner want to try and have a baby, My hormone levels were fine, and I haven't got diabetes and i'm not insulin resistance. My testosterone was only over by one, my cholesterol was a little bit over. I'm only 8stone 10lb. Ive heard that conceive plus is really good? has anyone used it with pco and conceived natural? Or anyone with pco become pregnant natural? I do think I have mild pco, because I found out I had it when I was turning 17. & they didn't even seem bothered about it. Do you think the doctors would give me colmid or metformin? peoples comments would be so helpful. Im worried that it wont ever happen for me! and it makes me worried n upset! I have hair on my upper lip, side off my checks, chin, neck chest, I'm dark haired anyways! My mum sister n nan suffer with hair on there face but they haven't got pco! what are my chances of getting pregnant? I live in the uk! Thanks everyone. I like this website as you can speak too woman that's in the same position as myself! ]]> Infertility and Trying to Conceive abbiejames http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347814-PCO-AND-TRYING-TO-GET-PREGNANT-NATURALLY-can-anyone-help!!!! http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347813-Questions-about-cycle-post-D-amp-C-(some-TMI)?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 12:41:13 GMT Alright, in the words from my OB, he told me to wait to TTC for 3 cycles because he "scraped me good" I had a tremendous amount of bleeding with my M/C. I believe in part from not having had a period for months prior to the pregnancy. I bled for about 6 weeks after the D&C, was 11 weeks along.

I believe I had what was a period last month, was very light and quite pleasant for a period, lasted about 4 days.

This month I've just been spotting, with cramps. Random days with no apparent order to things. The bleeding is mostly dark brown, some mucus and not enough for a tampon or pad. There during one bathroom trip, gone the next. Should I be concerned? Really was hoping to have set the "reset and work right" button on my body with all I've gone through. ]]> Infertility and Trying to Conceive sinnie http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347813-Questions-about-cycle-post-D-amp-C-(some-TMI) http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347812-Antidepressants-and-TTC?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 09:43:38 GMT Hi girls... So.... I came off all of my meds (zipiclone, Seroquel and duloxetine) when we got referred to the fertility clinic. Duloxetine/cymbalta was my main medication, which I tapered last. I took it for major depression and anxiety. I was on a dose of 120mg per day (the average is 60mg per day). I tapered one med at a time, slowly and have been off all meds for approx 3 months now... I... Hi girls...

So.... I came off all of my meds (zipiclone, Seroquel and duloxetine) when we got referred to the fertility clinic. Duloxetine/cymbalta was my main medication, which I tapered last. I took it for major depression and anxiety. I was on a dose of 120mg per day (the average is 60mg per day). I tapered one med at a time, slowly and have been off all meds for approx 3 months now...

I did this because, when we got referred I saw it that we only have this one chance for me to carry a baby. We are receiving treatment on the NHS so we will only get a limited number of cycles (3 IUI and 1 IVF) and I want to know that I have done everything I can possibly do to give us the best possible chance of conceiving and carrying a healthy baby to full term - thus I have wanted to eliminate the risks from the medications. I decided to do it early on, rather than wait till we had conceived so that I wouldn't potentially be dealing with withdrawals and crazy hormones at the same time!! (No Thankyou!!!)

Duloxetine/cymbalta was the hardest one to taper as I was on such a high dose, and the mood swings, irritability and night terrors were not just hard on me but also on my partner... But we made it!!! I was very proud of myself for getting off my meds, especially considering my reasons for doing so...

However, 3 months on and I am starting to feel very low, very moody and very irritable. I seem unable to make a decision about ANYTHING and cannot commit my brain to anything either. I have become very focused on my self and have withdrawn from everyone around me... Literally. I recognise these signs and I am not trying to go there!!!

I do not want to travel down the major depression road again, I have been there way too many times, and have landed in hospital a few times too... I do not want that! I also do not want to be full of meds as we are just about to start treatment... I really do not know what to for the best... I feel like by going back on Duloxetine I will be letting myself, my partner and our future baby down... Uh :(

Has anyone else had to make this decision? And what was your outcome?

Thanks in advance! :i_winkkis:i_heart: ]]> Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Kissimi http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347812-Antidepressants-and-TTC http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347811-Newbie!?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 09:33:13 GMT Hello, just wanted to say hi to everyone. I've got a few posts on here already, but thought I'd introduce myself. I'm from Southern Illinois. I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2010, but really started having the symptoms as early as 1998 or so, with the irregular cycles. I started to get the hairyness after that along with the weight gain and a few others. When I was diagnosed, I was started on desogen birth control and then a low dosage of spironolactone for the hair. Wasn't on the spiro too long and didn't notice any difference mostly because I don't think I was on it long enough. I've not been started on anything else as of yet. I'm hoping to get an ultrasound soon because of the pain I've been having, horrible right sided pelvic pain that happens occasionally. From what I've read on here, it could just be ovulation or a cyst bursting. Not sure, but really want to get it checked out before it happens again. ]]> Newbie Issues... magwheels1984 http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347811-Newbie! http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347810-Another-great-baby-making-breakthrough!?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 06:30:55 GMT http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/135429/uk-researchers-say-time-lapse-imaging-may-boost-ivf This one is from a clinic a friend goes to. I guess they watch how the cells are splitting. http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/...-may-boost-ivf

This one is from a clinic a friend goes to. I guess they watch how the cells are splitting. ]]> Infertility and Trying to Conceive Franca http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347810-Another-great-baby-making-breakthrough! http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347809-Pg-after-weightless?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 04:40:46 GMT Hi ladies. Hope your well! I've decided tomorrow TOMMORROWww I'm cutting out sugar and limiting carbs! And in general just trying to eat clean, then in about a week I am going to do the c25k :) I'm hoping this mixed with met clomid, ill get my bfp, did anyone else get preg while losing weight? ]]> Infertility and Trying to Conceive ashie http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347809-Pg-after-weightless http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347808-Hello!?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 02:58:46 GMT Hello cysters :) I was diagnosed with PCOS in February of 2012, but I believe that I have had it for a while before I was diagnosed. Anyway, in September/October 2012, my cysts got pretty bad.. I had one rupture at least 3 times that month. I was 303 pounds, but I have lost weight and am at 250. (I was diagnosed with a binge eating disorder, but have found freedom from it! It is a daily... Hello cysters :)

I was diagnosed with PCOS in February of 2012, but I believe that I have had it for a while before I was diagnosed. Anyway, in September/October 2012, my cysts got pretty bad.. I had one rupture at least 3 times that month. I was 303 pounds, but I have lost weight and am at 250. (I was diagnosed with a binge eating disorder, but have found freedom from it! It is a daily struggle, but I am stronger than I was before :goodvibes )

Up until this month, my cysts were not as bad as they had been. This month, I have already had one rupture. I have been in a lot of pain.I went to the ER before for this pain, and the doctor was afraid that my ovaries had twisted or something. I am frustrated and do not know what to do!! I have lost weight, and I know I still have more to lose. I have been told that I should go to an Endocrinologist that specializes in PCOS. ]]> Do you have this problem? _dawniiboo_ http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347808-Hello! http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347807-Multivitamin-of-Prenatal?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 02:46:20 GMT I have been trying to find a good multivitamin for PCOS. I have the typical symptoms, hair loss, hirsutism, acne, overweight, and insulin resistance. I have heard taking a prenatal vitamin is best for PCOS instead of a plain womens multivitamin. Has anyone heard this before, or currently doing it? Any info would be GREAT! I have been researching for days, but would much rather hear a firsthand... I have been trying to find a good multivitamin for PCOS. I have the typical symptoms, hair loss, hirsutism, acne, overweight, and insulin resistance. I have heard taking a prenatal vitamin is best for PCOS instead of a plain womens multivitamin. Has anyone heard this before, or currently doing it? Any info would be GREAT! I have been researching for days, but would much rather hear a firsthand experience. Thanks! ]]> Alternative Remedies leannabanana7 http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347807-Multivitamin-of-Prenatal http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347806-Help-with-calories?goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 01:54:32 GMT Hi I have got an app that was suggested on here and I'm eating on average 800 calories a day sometimes as low as 500, I don't feel hungry but someone mentioned I could be putting my body into starvation mode. The app suggested for my size I eat 2250 calories a day but I feel like if I ate that many id be twice the size lol iv wrote below what id normally eat so could people suggest some stiff
to make my calorie intake higher? Thanks x



Breakfast: yoghurt/fruit
Lunch: salad or brown toast
Dinner: chicken fillet normally with stir fry or salad
Snacks: normally 1-2 muesli bars a day
Drinks: just flavoured sugar free water ]]> Roxie.x http://www.soulcysters.net/showthread.php/347806-Help-with-calories