I was just handed the official dx yesterday - yay for my re! I've been lurking here for a while, but was waiting on the results of the bloodwork to actually register.
My name is Gwen, and I now (officially) have PCOS.
I've had the symptoms all of my life. When I was 14, I got my first period...and never got one again. I went to the gyn at 16, who ran a panel of bloodwork, which came back with elevated testosterone. She put me on the pill and sent me on my way. I had never heard of PCOS and had no idea what the implications were.
In 2005 I was riding horses with a friend up at a training barn, and the trainer had some health magazines lying around. As I was trying to unwind my muscles in the bath one evening, I was flicking through a magazine when an article on PCOS appeared. Funny, I thought, that sounds like me! I took that article to my doctor at the student medical center, but she sort of brushed it aside. Since I was about to graduate - and thus would end the health insurance - I let it go.
In 2007 I moved to England (for the second time) and tried again. The NHS is lovely, but has flaws...you can get a bad doctor there as easily as you can here in the US! I was told "eat less exercise more!" - even though I ride horses, am an active gym member, and count calories to the point of maddening obsession. No luck.
This year we (my husband and I) are living in the US and I went back to the original gyn who ran the bloods when I was 16, twelve years ago. I mentioned PCOS, and she nodded, sent me to an re, and now one month and seven vials of bloodwork later I have the diagnosis! It's exciting to finally have an answer to the things that have been bothering me - the excess facial hair, the inability to lose weight (though, to be fair, a love of UK sweets has not helped in that regard!), the complete and total lack of a period...
I am now just started on the Met and spiro (which scares me). Would love to hear some real-life experiences from people on the same...!
Wow...so....here I am! 
