I have found at least three cases of PCOS in my father's family including myself. There are another two to whom I have not spoken yet. These women are all small in size with infertility despite any treatment and two failed marriages.
What is the likelihood of this frequency in a family? I would be interested in any comments.
Me too...my younger sister and I have it. Here condition is more pronounced than mine with different symptoms and different degrees -- I have heavy cycles, hers light. She has excessive hair; me no. We both have skin tags and brown discolorations but hers started ten years or more before mine. I think that contributes to the diagnosis difficulties.
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i think my mum had/has it too - though it wasn't known about much back then. she was fertile, but i think that's because she kept her weight within a good range. however, thinking back on it now, when she had an ectopic pregnancy, she was at her highest weight and was at that time classed as obese.
i'm pretty sure my grandmother had leanings towards pcos too. same body type as my mum and me. she had a hysterectomy in her 50s due to heavy periods or something like that. unfortunatley she went on to get alzheimers and died from it at 75.
my sister on the other hand is completely different and is as fertile as a bunny rabbit. the only thing i'd say that she had that has any relation is bad acne.
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My great auntie on my mothers side had PCOS, she had a ovary removed back in the day where there wasnt much known. I'm not sure but my cousin on my father's side may have it too, but its hard to know since we barely even speak to them. When I was being diagnosed my doctor told me it was common it runs in the family but there are cases where it doesnt.
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I don't know my family history because I'm adopted! But I will certainly be keeping an eye on my little girl when she nears puberty. I pray she doesn't get PCOS but if she does, I can get her treated sooner than I was. (My symptoms started at age 11 with puberty, and I was diagnosed at 28.)
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Both me and my sister have it. i also have a cousin on my mums side who has it. i think a couple of cousin's on my dadn's side has it, but it's not information that they would share.
Also my dad has several cousins who all have fertility issues, not sure it thats to do with PCOS or other factors.
Out of them all, I'm the only one with weight issues
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I thought i was the only person in my family with it, but i discovered recently that both my aunts on my dad's side have pcos, as well as at least one of my cousins. I don't have a lot of female cousins, but i think that another one may have it also, however it's not the kind of thing that i could talk about with her. One of my aunt's also has ir. There's nobody on my mother's side with pcos. It's funny, you'd think that female problems would be carried by females. Obviously not, though.
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Possible/probable ir, but i haven't gone back to endo yet because i'm trying to do this w/o meds.
ibs dx: 2001 - mebeverine when necessary.
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I must have gotten mine from my mother's side of the family. She was adopted, and doesn't know alot about her real parent's side of the family, she doesn't know who her father is at all, and she knows very little about her mother. My mother had a hysterictimy (sp?) at I think, 21, after she had my younger sister, and had endemetriosis (sp?) she also had alot of problems with giving birth...I don't know if she had any miscarriges or not, but she had one stillbirth, but I almsot died, and my mother was very sick with both me and my sister. I'm not sure if my mother has PCOS, but she does have skin tags. I've never talked to her about it...I think I will though.
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I believe it went back to my Mother's Father's Mother. According to my Mother, she only had two sons and several miscarriages. My Mother has 7 sister and 5 of them (including my Mom) have PCOS. I'm not too close to my Cousins because they live in another Country, but I've heard one of my Cousins has been diagnosed with it so far.
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I'm the only one in the family with the diagnosis. Though from talking to family members about other females in mom's family, though I am no doctor it does sound as though several women have had pcos. I am mom's only child she had several miscarriages. All on my mom's side: My grandmother had 2 miscarriages, her sister had 4 that are known of, and her other sister 3 and one son. On my grandfather's side, 2 women, one never even being able to conceive, the other multiple miscarriages. Some of them did have some weight issues. But from looking at pics they've had skin tags, excess hair etc.. But there was no research on it back then, they didn't even have a name for it. I think that we're the generation that will help continue to prove long term genetic links to pcos being heriditary and give the medical community more information than they can imagine, to help future generations.
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heredity and PCOS 
