PCOS: Please tell me your positive stories

If it's positive pcos stories you're after I'm more than happy to share as mine is very new and a tiny bit awesome!

Diagnosed 10 years ago, ttc 6 years. Redid bloods and scan in November to see where we go from here. Gp has decreed I no longer have pcos!! I no longer meet enough of the criteria!! It is possible to beat it! Reason for no bfp appears to be an unrelated and treatable problem!

Being reasonably good diet wise is one thing I think may have helped. That and supplements, although gp says that bodies change anyway and I may have beat it without actually doing anything.
I advocate an organic homemade diet, although am still a chocolate and wine fiend. There's no need to give up everything!

Supplements I take are Agnus Castus and epo from cd1 to ov day. Zinc, b6 and 7seas ttc bits all cycle.

Good luck all

Whether you're sufferer or not these stories might be enough to bring tears to your eyes, I'll leave you alone now...

www.marksdailyapple.com/i-didn%E2%80%99t-just-%E2%80%9Cmanage%E2%80%9D-my-condition-i-beat-it-and-wiped-the-floor-with-it/#axzz3OFFnNg2v

www.marksdailyapple.com/forum/thread41253.html

www.marksdailyapple.com/tons-of-doctors-and-no-solution/#axzz3OFFnNg2v

Regarding the exercise stuff I mentioned above that really only applies if you are physically able without risk of injury. I'm assuming anyone considering getting pregnant is able enough to walk, so knock yourself out with that. The other stuff particularly the sprinting really only applies if you're not overweight.

If I had to put a number on it I'd say diet, low-stress levels and good sleep is 80%, exercise would be 20%.

Good Luck! :)

I’m not a doctor and I don’t know anything about you, your congenital predispositions or what condition your lifestyle has left you in, but I can say that if anything natural can help it would be this…

A diet completely void of grains, vegetable oil, and sugar (basically a low carb, primal/paleo diet) abundant in healthy fats such as mono-unsaturated and saturated (loads of pastured eggs, grass-fed butter, coconut oil, avocado oil, avocados, grass-fed fatty cuts of meat), loads of non-starchy vegetables (particularly those leafy greens) and plenty of fish.

A lifestyle low in stress, high in restful sleep (that means undisturbed sleep in a very dark room, without bright lights or the use of glowing screens i.e no TV /iPad/computer/Phone within 2 hours before bed, of course it might help not to drink caffeinated drinks in the afternoons) with lots of very-low strenuous exercise (such as walking), a small amount of body-weight exercise (pull-ups, push-ups, squats and planks) and very tiny amounts of high intensity (literally a 7-10 minute session of sprint-rest-sprint-rest-sprint-rest) once every 7-10 days. No chronic cardio exercise 7 days a week!!

I don’t know if links work in this forum, here’s the link: If it doesn’t work just search YouTube for “dietdoctor fertility” and look for the interview with Michael D. Fox, M.D.

For in-depth reading on this philosophy hunt down MarksDailyApple. They have a section for success stories, they go way beyond weight loss! and I vaguely recall people conquering their PCOS problems.

Good Luck!

I have a friend with PCOS who's now pregnant with #2 so there are certainly some positives out there!

I'm joining this thread though as I also have PCOS and have been TTC for 30+ months now so hearing some more positives would be a good boost!!

I have a friend who have severe pcos who now has 2 beautiful dd's both natural conception. She was using the implant between the pregnancies which worked really well for her

Hi, I was diagnosed when I was 16. I went on the pill at 18 to regulate periods (am now 31). I came off in April to ttc. Wasn't getting proper periods and appeared not to be ovulating, then in October got a BFP and am now 18 weeks pregnant! So, only took five months in the end. I know how stressful it is and how worrying but positive stories are out there and I found my GP to be really supportive. She had already started running various tests when I fell pregnant. Good luck!