Hi everyone! I'm 26 (soon to be 27) and I'm new here and I just want to say how happy I am to have found this place! I was diagnosed about 2.5 weeks ago and while I thought I was dealing well with everything, I recently had some sort of a breakdown. I don't feel girly anymore. I know that "physically" nothing about me has changed, but I feel different. Almost defective. I was just wondering if anyone else has gone through these feelings and how did you deal? How did your significant others help? I feel bad running to my fiancee with everything because he doesn't understand. BTW, is anyone having the hair growth problem? How do you fix it? Also, I was taking bcp for 10+ years and these problems didn't start until after I stopped back in June. My doctor said the pills could have been masking the symptoms. Anyone else have that problem?
Sorry I'm rambling, I just feel like I have so much to say and I'm happy to have found a place to get questions answered and people understand what I'm going through.
The interesting thing about BC pills is that I was on them for years (since I was 13) to try to regulate my periods. I went off of them for a while and then my doctor suspected I had PCOS (but didn't do any tests), so she put me back on the pill. I got the WORST abdominal pain! I have a very high tolerance for pain, but this was really bad. Turns out, the pain was coming from the pill. I tried a variety of different pills and they all did the same thing. This had never happened to me when I was taking them before!
I totally understand about talking to your signif. I feel sorry for my husband with all of the mood swings and just the general constant talking about my health. I can't help it--this is something that affects me, body and mind, and it's difficult to pretend that it's not happening. So, instead I end up talking to him about it all the time. He has been so supportive. It took me 10 years to finally get diagnosed and he has been by my side the entire time helping me and telling me not to give up. I was just finally diagnosed about a week or two ago and I feel like "now what?" I'm happy to find this website, too!
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Hi! I'm new too! I just took about a half hour explaining my situation in a blog. Feel free to read it. I just turned 23 and was diagnosed today. Officially diagnosed today but was speculated for over two months by both my family doc and ob/gyn. I completely know how you feel. I've had many days where I have been depressed and moped to my husband about how "incomplete" I am as a woman and how "broken" I am. He's been really supportive and is trying to help however he can. At first he didn't really understand why it was such a big deal. I explained it to him the best way I knew how. Not that I'm anti fem but naturally as female of the species we have the function and role of bearing children and being the caretaker and nurturer. The male role is to protect and provide. I told him... imagine that you can not on your own provide for me. That you have to ask for help and get assistance to perform your role as a man. Essentially that is how we feel. That we cannot function properly on our own and we need help. Anyone with an ounce of pride knows how "defective" that can feel like. Sorry to ramble on you! I was only on the pill for a little over 3 years and they told me the same thing. That whether or not we had taken them our bodies would still be the same today. I have dark hair on my lower belly. Almost like a mans happy trail. Its pretty embarrassing to me. If you can handle it... I get it waxed and pluck the dark ones in between waxes. I don't know all about your condition but I hope that it all works out for you.
I don't have the dark hair too bad on my belly. I have it on my face a little though. Like "side burns". I gotta tell you though, atfter reading what some of you go through, I was NOT ashamed to go into the bathroom and pluck it! For the longest time I felt like, if I ignore it, it will go away or then other people can't see it, etc. I finally had to face my fear and just have at it. My new motto is "If a hair doesn't belong there, I will pluck it with no fear!" lol. I also started tanning and, while I know that's not very good for your skin, it makes me feel better mentally and physically. I keep getting my nails done, and I've started taking more pride in my appearance. Like, putting on makeup in the morning, trying to do something with my hair (not just putting it in a pony tail and going), and little things like that. You'd be surprised how better you feel (and more feminine) when you take the time to do that!
As far as my fiancee, he does the best he can. The only way I could think to describe it was to ask him how he would feel if, after all these years, he found out he wasn't producing sperm. Would he feel like less of a man if he couldn't father children? He finally got to understanding how I was feeling and still wants to marry me. I know if sounds stupid, but I actually thought he wouldn't want to knowing that I may not be able to have kids. Turns out, he actually loves me for me! Who knew? Lol. Thanks for letting me ramble again!
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i personally cant take bcp. There is alink to the newbie roadmap in my siggie for you
