amelia23

So I guess I should have recognized something wasn't right when I was twelve or thirteen. As as child, I wasn't over-weight, I didn't really feel different until puberty: acne, weight gain, facial hair, and irregular menses. Everybody told me it was just hormones: "you're a woman now" or "you're just growing up" or "it's adolescence" but the symptoms only got worse as the years came and went.

Pretty soon I didn't have a period, I felt like a mammoth as I crossed the obese line and my body hair was dark and thick, growing faster (except where I wanted it: on my head) or so it seemed. The acne was killing me, facing kids at school, losing confidence and self-esteem throughout high school. It wasn't till I was seventeen or eighteen when my mum was diagnosed with PCOS and I started to learn about what PCOS was. I fit most of the symptoms; I could see myself in my mum's pamphlets, but life went on. College and exams, no time for a diagnoses.

Now I'm nineteen and I don't have insurance, but I know something's not right, and so I've turned back to looking for answers. I hope to learn more about PCOS and find some answers. Thanks for the website.

-Mia

Peaches20nash

I can totally understand your plight. When I first got my period i was ecstatic but after about 2 months I never got another one regularly . being that I was not ttc I felt it was no big deal .so I would get them from time to time and be completely satisfied until I got with the love of my life DH and we begin to TTC nothing happened thank god for the net and women who are willing to share their journey so we can know kinda what to expect and look for with ourselves

amelia23

Thanks for the welcome; I really appreciate it. I'm just so lost at this point that I feel it's time for answers and to gain some insight. I know I want children someday, too, so the better and faster I figure out what might be wrong, the faster and better I can get on the right path.

-Mia