singthesorrow83

Hello all,

I found this site because I have absolutely had it with my doctors and I wanted to branch out and see what I could find.

I have had one long road of nonsense regarding my PCOS. I started my period at 11 years old, and it has not one time ever been regular. I will go months with nothing, and have gone over a year with no period, then I will go in phases, like now, when I bleed non stop. I have currently been bleeding since March of 09, which makes it eight months. I am 26, and at the age of 24 finally got my doctor to realize something was wrong. On top of the menstrual issues, I gained massive amounts of weight since high school, have facial hair issues, thinning hair on my head, oily skin and scalp, and severe anxiety and depression issues. I am constantly fatigued and feeling icky. I have joint pain and severe swelling issues, so bad that I cannot stand to work at a job on my feet. In my late teens and early twenties I went on birth control like most women, and had severe reactions to both that I tried, which were orthtricyclin-lo and the depo shot. After years of feeling horrible and all these issues and being told it was no big deal, I went online myself and found PCOS... took the info to my doctor. She looked up PCOS and put me on Metformin. I began losing chunks of hair from my head and my sugar kept plummeting. I took myself off. She tested my levels, said they were off, and sent me to an endocrinologist. My endo is a very irritating, frustrating man, who barely looked at my information and told me it was either a BCP or nothing. I am very leery of BCP and would like to avoid it at all costs. He then told me my ultrasounds showed a very thick uterine lining even with all this bleeding, and sent me to an OB GYN to schedule a D and C. The OB GYN said he would not do it, and insisted I go on Yaz or no treatment at all. Even though it is against instinct and judgment, I started Yaz over a week ago. I have bouts of nausea, an incredibly increased appetite, leg pain and extremely tired and weepy.

At this point, after months of blood work showing "sky high" testosterone and DHEAs, low sugar, tons of cysts on my ovaries, etc. etc., I have had it. I do not wish to continue with the Yaz. Metformin did nothing for me except cause more issues. Please... is there ANYONE out there in my shoes?? I am in tears trying to figure this out on my own. I feel like its me against all of my doctors, and I am sick to death of hearing contradicting information, forced medications and not listening to my questions. Any advice? Please??