Just been diagnosed with PCOS

Yes apparently pregnancy can reset your system.
I know someone on another forum who took 2 and a half years and clomid to get pregnant first time then got a surprise BFP when first baby was 6 months old. Unfortunately she miscarried that pregnancy but is pregnant again naturally.

I have also heard it can get better or completely go after a pregnancy!

(surprising because of the subject matter, not because you're all a bunch of meanies)

What a (surprisingly) lovely thread - so full of happy endings.

I'm partway through PCOS dx. My bloods suggest that I have it, but I'm waiting on my scan (beginning of next month) before they can officially diagnose. GP has indicated that they'll prescribe Metformin once the dx comes in.

I'm planning on TTC in the next year or so (am 28, and would ideally like to have started trying by the time I'm 30) so it's great to have some success stories to think of.

Best of luck, Liquorice and all others TTC.

Some really nice stories!! Although I dont think I could cope with 6 you must be super mum!!

I was diagnosed at 34 and given metformin, thought it would make conception really difficult, but I got pregnant the first month of trying, and am now sitting here feeding a five month old baby.

I found a site called soulcysters a lot of help, when I was first diagnosed.

There is definitely hope (as you can see from everyone else!)

After my 3rd baby, I went on the mini pill. I came off after about a year, i never had any periods. I put on lots of weight despite never doing anything different.

Eventually I went to the doctors about it, and after a while, blood tests, scans etc I was diagnosed with PCOS.

I was told at the time that conceiving again naturally would be unlikely as I was fairly badly affected - but at the time I wasn't worried. I felt blessed that I had had my dc young. I went away, but in the circs dh and I weren't very careful. I did lose 2 and a half stone, which I think was key. Ds3 was born 3 days before ds2 started full time school!

because I had had the first 3 fairly closely together, we decided we didn't want ds3 to be lonely, and knowing that the PCOS had disappeared ( they had checked for signs of it at my 12 wk scan and found nothing) and also that your fertility is raised just after a pregnancy we decided to let nature take it's course - and (rather quicker than we thought!) dd2 was born 15 months later.

I was advised at the time that PCOS returns in about 30% of cases.

Sure enough, after approx 3 years it was back with a vengeance.

Again, we were a bit complacent about contraception (i know, i know....) and now we are waiting for baby number 6, due in just over 4 weeks

Thanks for all the well wishes! I came off the pill in June 2011 and didn't have a single period until July 2013 following my surgery. My tubes and womb were found to be normal it was just the pesky ovaries which were the problem!

Hi,

I'm 30, have pcos and found out I am pg last week.

Had been ttc for a year and was diagnosed 2 months ago. I also had added difficulty that dh's results weren't brilliant.

I found my gp to be awful and she totally disregarded the issue despite it being her 'field'.

Good luck and don't despair. It's important to insist if you can on referrals etc if u can and check your oh out too. The fact is having pcos will make it harder to get pg but to what degree depends on your symptoms.

I wondered why they hadn't given you anything there and then!

Congrats flixy I hope it all goes really well for you

I'm 30 and was diagnosed with PCOS in January. I had my Fallopian tubes checked via HSG followed by a laparoscopy in June where my consultant also performed ovarian diathermy (basically burning away the cysts). I conceived naturally the next month, unfortunately that was a chemical pregnancy. However, I conceived again the following month and fingers crossed this is a sticky bean! There are lots of options to treat PCOS, it's definitely not the end of the road.

Well I wasn't really, until diagnosis! Came off the pill (had been on for 9 years) to get my cycles back to regular in Dec last year, we were going to wait until Dec this year to start. I went to doc when AF didn't come back and he referred me. NHS want you to have been trying naturally for 12 months which is why she told me to come back in 6 months I assume

How long have you been TTC gwen?

I'm 27 and was diagnosed about a month ago after no AF after coming off the pill. The consultant I saw was pretty rubbish but I'd done so much research myself beforehand I didn't really need to know much from her anyway. She told me to carry on as we are for now and if nothing's happened she'll check my tubes and DH and then prescribe clomid in 6 months. I have no other symptoms except weird AF and reading the stories on this thread has just made me feel more positive :) good luck to everyone ttc and congrats to everyone already pg!

I am 29 and was diagnosed by a scan last week but have no other symptoms apart from no AF. Going to my GP tomorrow and hoping i can get some clomid too. Fingers crossed for us all x

I don't have a success story yet (crossed fingers and toes), but in the same boat. I have no symptoms but was diagnosed with PCOS in July after TTC for 12 months and 1 period in that whole time. My scan showed paused eggs(?), apparently they aren't growing enough to be released so was prescribed clomid and provera to bring on another period. Hoping to start it this month (keeping fingers and toes crossed).

I was diagnosed at 17. I'm now 24 and have 2 beautiful daughters. I never have regular periods and was always told I would have issues when it came to having children. I resigned myself to the fact that I would never be a mum. I wasn't even trying first time I fell pregnant it was a happy accident. Second time it took me 2 and a half years but it happened.

Woodwaj, no we just had to wait for that first one.

I did the low GI diet. Good Housekeeping did an excellent recipe book which we still use now 4 years on. I wasn't over weight, I have other issues, but anything to help.

I think my mum also had it though she's no longer around to ask. I have non-identical twin brothers & one thing the consultant did as soon as I conceived was get me in for an early scan to "check there's just the one heartbeat". Eek.

So ladies, there is hope but patient and doing all the things you can to help will give you a focus.

I'm 25 and was diagnosed at Christmas - so I can't help really because I have no DC. I just wanted to say that it is lovely to read some positive stories because I was/am devastated. I'm desperate for DC and had two mcs in 2011.

Can I suggest a low GI diet? It's supposed to be really good for PCOS sufferers and I haven't had period pain since I started and have lost a fair bit of weight on it, and my periods seem to be more regular.

I have PCOS. I have two DC, one of whom is 3 weeks old and took almost 2 years to conceive. I took Agnus Castus and it was enough to cause ovulation. Was a long road, but got there in the end. I've had a few ruptured cysts and very strange menstrual cycles, so yeah.

Yes - TTC 16 months, no AF, no other PCOS symptoms but there were the cysts on the scan just like you : ( it's horrible when you first get that diagnosis but in a way it helps to know what you're dealing with. Anyway I conceived naturally and then conceived my second very quickly. I never thought that I'd be the one posting this on an Internet forum, it just seemed so unlikely that it would ever happen but it did in the end. Don't give up hope and good luck x

my mum when I was about 10 wanted another baby after trying for a while and tests and hormone treatment she was role she had pocs and would never have another baby. well they were wrong when I was 21 she had my sister a bit of a surprise for her she thought it was early menopause.