Denied Clomid because PCT say I am overweight

No worries

I educated my then GP about how diet affects PCOS - they seem to know very little about it! When I told her what I had done she was like 'Oh yes, of course that would work...' But she wouldn't have known to suggest it to me.

Definitely read the Colette Harris book - when you have you'll know more about how to treat PCOS than your GP does! But in the meantime, try to eat 6 tiny meals a day rather than 3 big meals. Avoid sugar and artificial sweeteners like poison. Always eat some protein with every meal. Try to get your 5 a day from veg rather than lots of fruit.

It's not about how you fit into today's "weight demographic", it's about you as an individual, and whether the treatment will work effectively with this excess weight, and how a pregnancy will affect you
no-one's denying you anything, or calling your personality or parenting skills into question
what the consultant has done is asked you to go away, lose some weight that then have another crack at it with ENHANCED chances....he wants you to conceive, it's just that his judgement and experience is telling him that you need to get some of that weight off to have that enhanced chance

I don't think anyone has said you are overweight by choice have they? I think some really useful suggestions have been made - and nobody (including the doctors) are 'judging' your ability to be a mother based on your BMI. The issue here is whether your weight is affecting your ovulation. I am sure that the doctor you saw today would have said exactly the same things to a woman who came to him wanting Clomid who was 4 stone underweight. Weight can affect fertility - if it doesn't then great but if you don't know whether it is or not - and that's your position - then you have to try losing a bit and see what happens. I know how hard it is - I really do.

can you swim?

Swimming is excellent exercise and you should be able to do it even with your hip.

no-one has said you are fat so you should not be a mum ! nor has anyone said only thin women make good mothers.

what people have said is that losing weight could help you get pregnant without intervention or make the intervention more likely to work

that is a totally different thing, and you are being quite defensive.

i am sorry you have struggled with your weight for so long, and i do hope you get the treatment you need, or even better, get pregnant naturally.

I actually refused Metformin as I preferred to go with lifestyle change. You can show them all if you stick to a diabetic diet for long enough.

Doh! Messed up the link - try again

this book

HMS - if you have PCOS, it's worth going for a GI diet/diabetic type diet. If you stabilise your insulin levels that can help stabilise your hormone levels. This will help you to lose weight and therefore be a better candidate for Clomid, but also might help you conceive naturally.

book www.amazon.co.uk/PCOS-Diet-Book-Nutritional-Polycystic/dp/0007131844/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=boo ks&qid=1215705441&sr=8-1 is very helpful

Ironically the fresh fruit you're eating might not be the best thing for someone with PCOS - protein is your friend, sugar is your enemy, including fruit sugar. It will be much harder to lose the weight initially for you than for someone who doesn't have PCOS, but your PCOS symptoms should alleviate the more weight you lose. I found weightwatchers the best diet to be compatible with PCOS.

4 stone overweight is unhealthy.

You may not have high blood pressure or collesterol at the moment but your heart is already working harder than it should. add another 2/3/4 stone of pregnancy weight into the occasion and the additional weight you are carrying around goes from 4 stone to 8 stone and is seriously risky for your health.

if you are overweight the risk of high blood pressure in pregnancy increases signifficantly, which in turn increases the risk of pre-eclamcia which in turn increases the risk of premature delivery/c-section.

These risks aren't made up by the nhs so they can justify refusing treatment, they're real risks.

Even if you take a potential pregnancy out of the equasion, losing weight will make you feel 10 times better about yourself.

Join weightwatchers, watch what you eat and drink, do some exercise and in 6 months you could be a whole new person looking forward to a life as a mummy.

4 stone off, or even 2 stone off could make the most massive difference to your fertility and to the kind of pregnancy you have.

also, if weight affects fertility, i think it is reasonable to encourage weight loss, they have not refused to treat you, just delayed to give you time to get some weight off.

it would be remiss of teh PCT to fund treatment for a drug that would not be necessary or would work a lot better if the patient was not as overweight.

is your weight affected by the PCOS?

Lauralou1, if you have PCOS has your GP mentioned Metformin to you? It's a drug that is used for type 2 diabetes but it has been used in the last few years for women with PCOS who have trouble loosing weight. It doesn't actually make you loose weight but does help your body respond better to dieting.

hi hannahflowerisnahana

are you on clomid ?

Nothing wrong with eating choccy if you exercise to burn it off...

Just think, this is something which is at least partly under your control, no consultant telling you what to do...you lose your weight by yourself for yourself
start today, and who knows...you may not need any intervention at all by the time the 6 months are up.

you need to stop being in denial!

go on - start today!

I suspect the PCT have this as a criteria because being overweight can affect fertility. Why would you expect them to pay for a drug - which is not without side effects - when there is another factor that you could tun in your favour instead. You should get support with this though - ask your GP to refer you to a dietician. What about exercise? I find cycling a fabulous way of exercising - I get to sit down and I get everywhere much quicker!! Good Luck - I hope you get pregnant very, very soon

weightwatchers

lighterlife

hms my consultant has refered me to a dietician one on one as he doesnt think group sessions agood enough i have my first consultation with her on wednesday why dont you phone you fertility clinic and ask about something like that they dont seem to understand that it is a lot harder for people with pcos to lose wght

hoold are you ?

well you need ot get support

lighterlife
your doctor
weight watchers

you can do it
and you will feel so much beter for it