PCOS story

pink77 · 10-27-2009, 02:15 AM

This is my first post, so I hope this is what we do here...

I am a thin cyster with two children - one adopted and one bio. It took us a looong time to get to parenthood. We started TTC in 2002 and saw a RE in 2003, where I was diagnosed with PCOS. We tried clomid, metformin, FSH, IUI. In 2007 we stopped pursuing a biological child and focused on adoption. I had surgery in Oct '07 because an ultrasound (done at our last fertility treatment) showed a large white mass on the R ovary. The mass was removed (they thought it was a dermoid cyst but was just scar tissue, as it turns out). We adopted our daughter in Nov. 2007 as a newborn. In December 2007 (yes the very next month) we found out we were expecting. Pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding have all gone well. The only hard part was GETTING there!

I look forward to getting to know all of you and your stories.

shellabelle424 · 10-28-2009, 02:24 PM

wow congratulations that is wonderful. did you follow any kind of diet or take any natural meds???

pink77 · 10-29-2009, 02:15 AM

I don't think I was even taking met at the time. I remember drinking lots of coca-cola and Starbucks at the time because I was soooo tired from the nightwaking with our (adopted) newborn. So when I became pregnant I was a little surprised because when I had been taking met, avoiding sugars/starches, etc. nothing happened. But really the thing that helped was the surgery where they worked on the ovary. I wanted to share about the surgery because perhaps more people would benefit from it. I should add I am a thin cyster and seemed resistant to really ANYTHING we tried, so I did not think a little laproscopy was going to do a bit of good in the fertility department. I was just fearful of there being cancer or something.