I was just told I've got pcos this week. And the more I think about it, the more confused I get.
At first I didn't even understand what it was, I simply went to the doctor to get my first pap and to be put on birth control.
I told her I've got sever anexity ect and she in addition of putting me on meds, told me she thought I may have PCOS. Which when she explained it, it seemed easy peazy and something meds would fix right up.
I'm 20 years old, all my life I was told I had a thyroid problem.
Well, I've always been overweight as well for the most part.(now i'm 6' - 6'1 280 or so lbs) I never took my thryoid meds like i was supposed to. My gyno thought it was strange my doctors never upped my dose. Anyway, she did complete blood work on me.
When I got the call from the nurse saying i've got pcos ect ect, she in addition told me my thyroid levels were normal...WTF I dont understand, does that mean I don't have a thyroid problem?
Also, I stopped having periods on a normal basis about 5 years ago after a very depressing lose in my family.
I went to a gyno and she told me It was stress, she also did a sonagram(sp) of my ovaries to check for cyst.
And as far as I know, there wasn't any.
So, how can I have this and it JUST now come out?
I've never had problems with losing weight. I won't lie, it's just a matter of being dedicated enough for me. Which I do lack sometimes, well a lot of the time. But at one time I was, and I lost a lot of weight. I never really crave carbs or sugars, i do have hair in weird places. I have depression and anexity, sometimes dark skin on my neck... but if i scrub it goes away, so i always assumed it was something from my necklace. and I do lose my hair, but I also color my hair and bleach it constantly(or, well used to :p )
I'm just having a hard time understanding everything I guess, I suppose she is basising all this on my blood work.
But can't my thyroid play into all this as well?
Ugh I'm so confused. and i'm kind've upset, i just had blood work done 5 months ago with my regular dr. I don't understand how I can go my whole life with something, and no one ever say 'hey this may be what you've got'
It just doesn't make sense to me, you know?
I just was hoping someone could shine some light on the situation and give me your opinion about it, please help with my confusion. I'm scared and worried and have no idea how to deal with all this.
i didn't even realise how serious it was until my boyfriend did research and told me. now i'm just even more depressed. blah
I am pretty new to it myself, so I am not sure I can answer all of your questions, but I want to encourage you. I was scared to go to the gyno my whole life for fear they would tell me I couldn't have a child. Then when I did go, I found out that I had PCOS, and there was a possibility that I could have a child. Anyhow, first off, DON'T believe everything you read on the internet! PCOS is very serious, and a lot of people don't know about it, but it is not a death sentence. Your family physician wouldn't have been looking for it, where your GYNO was. At least your GYNO did try to explain it to you. Lots of them don't. You can have PCOS without the ovarian cysts. Anyhow, I don't really know what else to say other than, take some time and peruse these boards. You will find the most amazing stories, and they will encourage you more than you know!
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A little bit of it does, but so does the PCOS.
I'm going to my doctor on monday to get the depo shot(all i can afford) so I think I may bring it up to her.
I undrrstand the fear that you are having... While I am not exactly like you, I was told I had PCOS by my Gyno and they only put me on Birth Control. There was no real explainations to my other symptoms or any notices of other problems that could occur. I would suggest doing your own research. I ended up going to an endocrinologist that specializes in Infertility. They ran a glucose test on me and thats when I found out I was hypoglcemic and needed to put on Metformin.
If you want more information on my struggles you can see my youtube videos I started but need to update. My username is acock16 (weird user name I know my last name is Hancock, and Im too lazy to change my username to flipmutt)
I have lost a total of 40 pounds from doing the Atkins and really focusing on my life and how I want to live it. I hope it helps and feel free to contact me!
Thanks so much for all the replies.
My doctor seems pretty certain it's PCOS and i trust her, she's a fantastic doctor.
I did find out, that i've lost 7 pounds in less than a week on my own, as soon as i found out i started cutting a lot of carbs and jump ropping and crunches every other day. she also put me on metformin today, so i'm hoping i'll see an even bigger improvement with my weight.
Help? confused. 
