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Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: by the sea
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Hi! I'm new here, and I haven't been diagnosed yet, but reading through all the symptoms and personal stories, i find that I can relate to almost all.
I have always been hairier than most.....I started shaving my legs at age 7. I started my period at age 14, at age 16 I started having late periods, nothing drastic at first...every other month or so I'd skip. But I was involved in a lot of things so i chalked it up to stress.I didn't consider my self overweight, but I have always been larger....I'm tall : 5'9" and my average weight was around 150 all through school. When I became sexually active at age 19, that's when things started becoming abnormal......I went 3 months without a period, and again I chalked it up to stress, as I had moved and was having boy trouble....I took a p.test every month even I really did not think I was pregnant. They were all negative.
I then met my first husband and after we moved in together I stopped having periods. I went 6 months without one......I had blood work done by my childhood dr, a pap smear, and an ultrasound. The blood work showed that I had elevated testosterone levels, which I kind of figured because of the HAIR, hairy legs, arms, and even a mustache. But again nothing was found, most likely because the dr didn't know what to test for.
It ended up being 8 months of no periods, with a different dr ginving me A-men, to stimulate a period, it worked for that month and after that irregularity resumed.
I just assumed I was stressed out, by this time I was married, and we were trying to conceive without success.I gained 20 pounds despite the fact that I wasn't eating normally, I was never hungry and would go a couple days without eating anything. I was in a bad relationship and completely stressed out all the time....but I didn't go back to the dr, i couldn't afford to, and I didn't miss my periods.
My marriage ended in divorce and a month later my periods resumed, I had normal periods for about 5 months...i met a new man, and was quite happy, we decided to try to conceive, as crazy as that sounds, and a month and a half later we were pregnant! My pregnancy went well, toward the end I gained a bunch of weight, but was healthy, no problems. Birth went fine, and I had a beautiful baby girl weighing in at 10 lbs 2 oz. and 22 inches long! She was checked for diabetes because of her size and was found negative. I lost all but 5 pounds of my baby weight.....my periods never resumed normally, it was 6 months after the birth of my daughter, 3 months after stopping nursing that I finally had one, then it was three months before the next one. Then 6 months till the third.....so it's been 4 years since I had my daughter and my cycles have been averaging about 72 days...I haven't had a period since April. I have gained 40 pounds total since high school...so I'm now at 190/195, 20 pounds since giving birth.
I still have skin breakouts.....I still have excess body hair, I am tired a lot, very irritable, moody, emotional, loss of libido, trouble sleeping ( i don't remember the last time i went a full night without waking up), loss of appetite, can't lose weight despite not eating much. I do crave sweets, but I don't eat very many carbs now, and it seems to have helped somewhat with my mood swings. And my husband and I have been trying to conceive for about 8 months now, but it's hard to figure out when I'm ovulating if I have no cycle, if I'm ovulating at all.
So I have not been diagnosed, but everything seems to fit, and I have no idea where to find a Dr who deals with this particular "disease". I don't know where to start. I don't know where to look. Any help would be a blessing. Thanks in advance, and I'm so happy to have found this site. Looking forward to talking with you ladies!
Jennie |
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