I know these topics have been covered before and my situation seems to be freakishly unique so not sure why I am posting except I can't keep driving DH mad!
I'm 30. I always had regular ovulatory cycles before going on the pill, went straight back to normal after coming off, then conceived first time trying. Mc'd at 10 weeks. That was in January. AF never came back and I was diagnosed with PCOS (ultrasound and blood tests).
Have spent the last few months feeling so hopeless and cheated by my stupid body. Then I had a weird AF in mid-July, a spot of blood 12 days later, and another weird (but slightly more normal) AF 22 days after the first one (am now on CD10).
Just saw the gynie (finally) and she says no point in treating cause it looks like my cycle is 'waking up' again. She says as I used to ovulate, I will again - she thinks it is stress not PCOS that has stopped me ov'ing (since it seems I've always had PCOS - or PCO at least - and ov'd the whole time). The 'stress' explanation does seem likely since in the last 6 months I've mc'd, been told I'm 'subfertile', 2 close family members have become seriously ill (one of them terminal), I broke some bones in a car crash caused by a drunk driver and due to all that my work has gone completely down the toilet.
Gynie thinks the spot of blood mid-cycle was a sign of early or 'weak' ovulation caused by hormones that are still a bit out of kilter, but predicts it will normalise over the next couple of months, so has sent me away without any treatment to keep an eye on my cycle.
I really want to believe her but for some reason am still worried sick about it, which cannot be helping!! Has anyone else had cycles stop due to stress, and what were they like when they started again? Or anyone with PCOS whose normal cycles have resumed after a bad patch?
I did have a similar thing happen many moons ago in the carefree days of life before TTC - AF went awol during my university finals and came back after about 5 months - but I can't remember if it was 'normal' straight away cause I paid absolutely no attention back then!
Also she told me not to bother temping/charting cause it will only stress me out more, but I want to because I find the not knowing even more stressful - have never temped before but feel it will give me more of a sense of control - any thoughts?
Would love to chat to others with similar experiences, advice about charting, or generally anything nice and helpful to say
oops, sorry this is so long!
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weird cycles, terrible year... just looking for a bit of support/ positive encouragement I guess!
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2ndDestiny · 14/08/2009 12:54
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