Hi all, just wanted to write my story.
17 years ago (yes 17 years) I was diagnosed with PCOS. My first problems were infertility problems non exsistant periods etc. After 4 years of trying to conceive and attending fertility clinics only to be told "i was too fat and if I wanted a baby I would lose it". I managed to lose 5 stone and fall pregnant.
It then took me a year and a half to conceive my 2nd. Anyway pregnancy and birth seem to have sorted out the fertility side of my PCOS, my periods are now regular etc.
Its my other symptoms that I have actually found harder:-
Ever since I can remember I have been a very miserable person, moody, no energy, constantly tired, depressed one minute, totally fine the next etc. I knew this must be something to do with PCOS as well as the above I also have the awful facial hair, being obese and the constant craving for sugar/carbs.
For the 17 years on and off I was attending doctors only to be laughed at. Being told all the time the cravings are all in my head, basically handing me diet sheets to try and get my weight sorted. Nothing was ever done as far as the hormone side of things.
I have only had the internet installed for the last 2 years and I am totally shocked that IT WAS NOT ALL IN MY HEAD, I WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!!!!!!. I have walked out of doctors/hospitals nearly in tears, so frustrated and feeling very embarressed at times. I just knew for years that there had to be something out there, some sort of medication to help me feel like a normal person.
When searching for hours on the net about PCOS the one name that kept jumping out at me was METFORIM. A family member is on it and she kept at me to get onto it. Anyway of to the docs I went and she was reluctant to prescribe and referred me to hospital instead in Dec 07. Hospital says its all in my head and wanted me to attend an obsese clinic a sort of counselling thing and THEN they might consider the met. NEEDLESS TO SAY I NEVER WENT BACK. I had a glucose tolerance test done and all came back normal. At this stage I thought "It is all in my head"
I then turned to reading about Insulin resistance and when I read all about the symptoms i screamed out THAT IS ME and then to my horror I read that there is a separate test for insulin resitance that is different to the glucose test. I have NEVER been offered this!!!
The final straw was when I misscarried in April this year (another risk with PCOS). I said enough is enough I need to get my health sorted. So I marched of to my GP today and practically broke down. My GP has been very good in her own way but I think today she FINALLY realised we need to sort this out.
SHE HAS FINALLY PUT ME ON METFORIM
From all the research I have done this medication sounds a miracle. I am only on 500grms twice a day but I am convinced my life is about to change. I only hope I have not raised my hopes up too much.
So women, PLEASE PLEASE never give up, this story was long but its only a little bit of what I have had to go through in the last 17 years to finally get a little pill called METFORIM put into my hands today.
Wish me luck and keep praying that this is the answer I have been looking for as far as moods/sugar cravings/lack of energy/weight gain.
Thanks for listening and keep fighting. We are the only ones who know our bodies.
NEVER GIVE UP!!! V.long sorry!!! 
