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Getting pregnant without knowing I had PCOS (although the doctors did)

May 22, 2008

Don't give up hope...
by: Jodi

Try the Herbalife products they are wonderful!! The cell-u-loss will help with your fluid retention issues.

Jodi

Dec 06, 2007

wow
by: Anonymous

this article really helped me you are the best grandma because i know what to say to my doctor
now.
thank you,
jenny.

Dec 06, 2007

I understand how you feel
by: Barbara

I am 50 and was diagnosed in 1966 when I was 9 years old but no one told me or my mother. I had early puberty and was bullied & beaten at school. Teachers even bullied me and called "abnormal." Doctors told my mother that I was 'probably sexually active' or 'putting things in myself' or 'high strung' as the reasons for the intense bleeds I got every 6 -9 months.

At 18, as a favor, the doctor who delivered me saw me as a favor to my mother (who was calling me a 'freak' and blaming me for my symptoms). I was by then suffering from deep suical depressions which since became clinical depression. This doctor told my mother I had Stein-Leventhal and put me on Provera which, for a couple years - helped tremendously.

When I was 19 I was put on birth control and it did help, it seemed but of course it only masked symptoms.

I got pregnant at 19 and at 20 on birth control!! and had 2 abortions. I was no promiscuous. It just seemed the couple times I did have sex I got pregnant.

I married at 28 and went off BCPs and on to infertility treatment. I was with a doctor who was well known but a bit unorthodox - I had a lot of problems with all the drugs. I almost gave up but on my 40th birthday - my last IVF - I conceived and had twins whom I adore.

My marriage ended though. The infertility treatment was too much. My mother blamed me for the PCOS for the rest of my life. My ex-husband started to abuse me verbally & emotionally and it just got worse every year we went childless. We lost friends who thought I was 'contagious' with my childlessness.

I gained 100lbs AFTER the pregnant (and 18 months of SEVERE Post Partum Depression) when I was barely eating. I had another well-known doctor give me a brochure for Weight Watchers. Finally, I met another PCOS sufferer online who referred me to the man who is my endocrinologist & PCOS specialist now. I am still trying to take off the weight but Metformin has helped me tremendously.

I am still medicated for depression, I am divorced and have almost no self-esteem but my children mean the world to me. However, as I tell others with PCOS - I will never stop being infertile and going through those degrading procedures. And I will never feel like a real woman.

People who tell a PCOer if they 'lost weight' they'd be happy are wrong. Thanks for sharing your story!

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Dec 06, 2007
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I am 50 and was diagnosed in 1966 when I was 9 years old but no one told me or my mother. I had early puberty and was bullied & beaten at school. Teachers even bullied me and called "abnormal." Doctors told my mother that I was 'probably sexually active' or 'putting things in myself' or 'high strung' as the reasons for the intense bleeds I got every 6 -9 months. At 18, as a favor, the doctor who delivered me saw me as a favor to my mother (who was calling me a 'freak' and blaming me for my symptoms). I was by then suffering from deep suical depressions which since became clinical depression. This doctor told my mother I had Stein-Leventhal and put me on Provera which, for a couple years - helped tremendously. When I was 19 I was put on birth control and it did help, it seemed but of course it only masked symptoms. I got pregnant at 19 and at 20 on birth control!! and had 2 abortions. I was no promiscuous. It just seemed the couple times I did have sex I got pregnant. I married at 28 and went off BCPs and on to infertility treatment. I was with a doctor who was well known but a bit unorthodox - I had a lot of problems with all the drugs. I almost gave up but on my 40th birthday - my last IVF - I conceived and had twins whom I adore. My marriage ended though. The infertility treatment was too much. My mother blamed me for the PCOS for the rest of my life. My ex-husband started to abuse me verbally & emotionally and it just got worse every year we went childless. We lost friends who thought I was 'contagious' with my childlessness. I gained 100lbs AFTER the pregnant (and 18 months of SEVERE Post Partum Depression) when I was barely eating. I had another well-known doctor give me a brochure for Weight Watchers. Finally, I met another PCOS sufferer online who referred me to the man who is my endocrinologist & PCOS specialist now. I am still trying to take off the weight but Metformin has helped me tremendously. I am still medicated for depression, I am divorced and have almost no self-esteem but my children mean the world to me. However, as I tell others with PCOS - I will never stop being infertile and going through those degrading procedures. And I will never feel like a real woman. People who tell a PCOer if they 'lost weight' they'd be happy are wrong. Thanks for sharing your story!

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