Ok, so I had a bit of an experience that I wanted to share. I was recently diagnosed w/ PCOS in July '05. I have had the symptoms for years however. I am from Indiana but attend school in Utah. I was diagnosed before I came back out to Utah, started the medication once I got to Utah, and so nobody from Indiana had seen me since I started it, until I went home for 3 weeks christmas break. Well as I see myself every day, I wasn't totally positive if anything was working, and I know with the spiro, they say a lot of times that it takes quite awhile to notice any changes. Well when I went home, a LOT of people were telling me that my hair was looking better that they could see little hairs growing in (which I have noticed that much myself), and that I looked like I lost weight (which I've only lost 7 lbs, but hey). Well I was w/ one of my friends right before I left, and her aunt has her own hair salon. I've met this aunt a few times, but haven't seen her in at least a year. Well we went over there cuz my friend was getting her hair done, and her aunt was telling me I was looking a lot better than the last time she saw me, and was asking me about it, thinking I was told I had aclopecia (however you spell that...). Well I informed her about getting diagnosed w/ PCOS, and explained to her what it was. She hadn't heard of it before, but she has female clients that she thinks (after I told her some of the symptoms) may possibly have it. Some will ask her questions and she doesn't have the answers. So she was excited to hear about it, because now she has info to possibly help them out. I gave her the url to this site, because of all the great information here, and this is where I learned the most about it. So now she's going to spread the word to some of her clients, so that they can look into things just to see. She's happy to at least have some kinda direction to turn them to. Oh, and I do have to say, I was in a hurry that morning and didn't get a chance to put on makeup (I NEVER leave the house w/o foundation) but I didn't think I'd be seeing anyone but my friend at the time I left, so I didn't really care w/ her. So her aunt was telling me how great I looked and I felt like crap and self conscious w/o makeup. Well then, when I made it home, I looked in the mirror (something I didn't even have time to do before I left) and amazingly enough, I looked fine. Couldn't even hardly see facial hair or anything. The meds are definitely working. I have really dark coarse hair, and it's usually quite noticable, I always felt like I had a shadow just 2 hrs after shaving. I previously had noticed that it wasn't quite as bad as it used to be, but I didn't realize just how much better it was. Now I don't have to be quite as self-conscious as I used to be (easier said than done though) and so that's going to be something I'm going to work at this year. And the meds are still fairly new, so there's definitely a chance things will get even better
PCOS experience 
