After years now of scans and appointments with a gynae about my reproductive health, And general feelings of exhaustion and poor health it has just been determined (pending blood tests for confirmation) that I have PCOS. Just had a phone appointment with GP who said to me that polycystic ovaries “are just one of those things” and I got the impression he was basically content to leave it there. To give some background, I had no problems or symptoms of PCOS until after birth of my second child, during which I had gestation diabetes. Since then I’ve had periods lasting 14 days of bleeding that are anywhere from 36 to 25 days apart, as well as bleeding between periods on occasion. I’ve also got bad acne along my jaw line and gets spots on my chest, excess facial hair, suffer with anxiety and joint pain, get tingling in my limbs. At the moment my feet are so stiff and painful in the morning and after sitting down for short periods it hurts to walk. When I mentioned this to the GP he said he didn’t think that was anything to worry about. In the end I got a bit fed up and said I was hoping to explore Metformin as a treatment for PCOS, to which he said it wouldn’t help my weight, my acne or my excess hair, purely my fertility. Obviously I’m not a medical professional but this isn’t what my research online has said at all about Metformin, it’s a widely used treatment for the symptoms of PCOS and can slow the progression into type 2 diabetes, something I’m concerned about having had gestation diabetes and my own father having type 2 diabetes. Eventually I persisted on the “I’d like some kind of treatment to ease my symptoms and make me feel healthier” he agreed to do blood tests and look talk about trying metformin. Is it unreasonable to feel like it shouldn’t be that hard work to get some help? Maybe I’m being over sensitive I don’t know.