he_calls_me_angel

Hi, I'm new here....


I'm extremely overwhelmed and kind of terrified.... I'm trying to go though everything on this forum... I'm almost borderline panicked and feel like I can't possibly get through all of the info here.....


Sorry to sound crazy but my Dr. made it sound like PCOS was not a big deal... and she really didn't discuss it with me....

As a teenager I had some menstrual problems and gained 50 pounds in two months (even though I stopped eating figuring food was what was making me fat) I went to the Dr. and found out I am Hypothyroid and was put on meds... all my issues and weight went away...


Then a few years later I started getting thick black hair on my arms then I start getting hair on my stomach then a few on my chin...then gained allot of weight again. My mom kept telling me that she thought I had another hormone issue and needed to see an obgyn... I still suffered another year or so because I was terrified to go but I finally started having so many menstrual issues my mom made me go.

So I was 21 sitting in the office and the Dr. sits down and asks why I am visiting so I tell her about the issues I had been having and and once I finished telling her the first words out of her mouth, she said "I can tell by just looking at you that you have something called PCOS but I'm going to do a hormone work up on you just to be sure" I asked what she meant by just looking at me and she said that my oily skin, the hair on my arms and the way I carry my weight plus the problems I described were givaways.

She gave me a pamplet that just described what happens with the cyst and everything but it never mentioned anything about fertility. Once my exam was finished I asked her what could be done about it and she told me that it was important that I get on birthcontrol that it would help with the problems that I had, but that I was young and we caught the pcos early and it was nothing to worry about. That was the end of it....

The BC helped allot but I still continued to have some problems. I was on the BC for a year and went off of it once my script ran out because I just didn't have the time to go to the Dr. as I was taking care of my sick dad.
During that year my periods were relitivly normal and I was actually ovulating, which I did not realize was not happening before....

I recently went back to the Dr about 5 months ago because I wanted to be on BC before my wedding. My Dr. seemed rushed and basically ran in the room, did my exam wrote the BC script and ran out, so I didn't get the chance to talk to her.

About a month later I found a new Dr to treat my thyroid and he put me on a treatment that actually worked for my thyroid and he told me that he felt that even though I wasn't, that I would benifit form following a diabetic diet. He said that he thought it would improve my thyroid and PCOS symptoms. So I started a low carb diet and I've lost 45 pounds so it worked when nothing else would (following nutrisystem religiously I didn't even loose a pound)....


Anyway I guess all that ranting was a really round about way to ask if I should find a new Dr.?

I found this site by chance, I was looking up something totally unrelated and found a post here and started reading...

I feel really stupid now because I shouldn't have taken so long to reserch this, but I guess I believed my Dr when she said it wasn't anything to worry much over.

Now I'm reading on this site about how many of you have lost babies and how many of you are having problems concieving and now I'm scared...

It will be a few years before DH and I even start thinking about children, but it just didn't cross my mind that PCOS would prevent us from having children ... Honestly since being diagnosed my life was non stop being a caregiver to my dad (who passed recently from colon cancer) and I was so concerned with him I never stopped to think about my own health... to tell the truth my needs and health were not even on the board for me....

Sorry to rant.. I'm just scared now.... I'm glad I found this site...

I'm off to continue reading....

jellybeany

Don't be overwhelmed. I just got diagnosed, too. I got home from the Dr and read up on PCOS. I found out about a book that outlines an insulin resistance diet. I went to the store, bought it, and read it in two days. I started following that along with another Dr. Oz book, and I am having no problems. In just a week, I have more energy, and I just feel better. For me, I'm choosing to battle it head on and not get bogged down and depressed. It's cureable, and there is tons of support out there.

Eva37

yes, getting dx with pcos is overhelming at first. thats why this site is so amazing, theres so much to learn and everyone is so friendly. there is alink to the newbie roadmap in my siggie for you

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