Thank goodness for a group of women who know almsot exactly what emotions are going through me before I even begin to express them.
My name is Rachel and I'm 24. I was officially diagnosed with PCOS in 2003, but alway had an irregular period and pain cysts during my teen years. When I turned 19, I really noticed that something was wrong. I started putting on weight in my midsection, hadn't had a cycle for 4 months, and just felt like crud. I was a newlywed, not on birthcontrol....so I just knew I had to be pregnant, I LOOKED pregnant. I probably spent $300 on pregnancy tests that month that all came out negative, so I finally went to my OBGYN-daignosed-given progesterone, metformin and birthcontrol. I felt better physically; however, i had gained 80 pounds in a year.
We decided to go a head and start trying to have a baby; we tried for 18 months. Our first month, I got pregnant.....according to a home pregnancy test on day 28....i started bleeding on day 29. We had 6 months of Clomid, 6 off, then 6 months back on.....during the clomid months, there was only 1 time I actually produced a follicle....and that was our first month. IUI didn't seem rational, as i was annoluvatory. I was referred to a reproductive endocrinologist and I decided that I couldn't take the emotions anymore, and decided to go back to school.
I am currently in my second year of nursing school and work in a local ER. We're planning to start trying again this summer (July), and I am hoping to atleast lose 50 pounds before then.
I go to the doctor in January to have everything looked at and changed, the metformin is dropping my blood sugar into the 50's and 60's. So maybe glucophage extended release is for me? Or a lower dose.
My symptoms include: hair growth under jaw line, darkening of the skin on back of neck, irregular/no cycles, ovarian cysts (one the size of a golf ball in march 2007), weight gain around midline
/Rachel
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