Go to drs if I suspect PCOS?

[rainingagain]

Sorry posting here for traffic as I have an appointment later this morning

I realised last week I may have PCOS
I have very irregular and very infrequent periods (am 33)

Have gained a lot of weight

Facial hair 🙈

Heavy periods when I do have them

However I've never had trouble conceiving

My question is, is there any point going to the doctors? What an I hoping to get from it? I've read you can go on the pill but I'm unable to have any kind of hormonal contraceptives anyway.
I don't want to waste a valuable doctors appointment For then to basically book bloods and then say yes you have PCOS and then off I go

Get a test, other things have similar symptoms. Dr Google doesn’t always get a diagnosis right.

Of course you go - you don't say "I have PCOS" but you go because of the weight gain, facial hair and heavy periods.

Doctors are not just life or death, they are also there to improve your quality of life and these three things are not just something to put up with, not if they can be helped.

If you must, think of it as an investment that makes you less likely to bother them with obesity related problems later!

Thank you :)

I also fell with the weight gain well I'm just greedy and way far too much so that's the reason for it. Feels like a cop out saying something else could be contributing to it

A diagnosis is still helpful even if you can’t take hormonal medication. First of all, for symptom management (there are prescriptions for heavy periods that aren’t hormonal, like tranexamic acid, and to moderate facial hair growth). But secondly, and most importantly, PCOS is a metabolic disease a little like diabetes. You need to get your insulin under control, and the GP may prescribe to help with that depending on how serious it is, or otherwise can advise you on adopting a Mediterranean style diet to manage blood sugar.

Don’t ignore it. Be ready to push gently, as doctors can be quite dismissive. But you deserve proper support both for your quality of life and your long term health outcomes.

In my opinion it's pointless as they do nothing for you unless your trying for a baby and struggling.
A strict low carb diet is the only thing that helps with my weight loss and hairyness lol

@rainingagain its not greed, it’s your food hormones being out of whack and sending crazy strong signals to your brain to eat too much. Please don’t think it’s a flaw in your character, it’s a medical issue and a hallmark of PCOS.

Same as a previous poster, little help in my experience other than stick me on the pill.

It's also worth asking for a diabetes test, PCOS makes you more susceptible to diabetes and it's a condition that's best caught early s9 you can make the necessary diet/medication changes to get/keep it in control.

Thanks, I'll go this morning and hopefully they'll order bloods and then will go from there

I've had I think one period in the last two years so I guess that's reason enough to go!

So glad I went she has ordered blood tests for hormones, cholesterol, diabetes etc. ordered a scan of ovaries and advised on weight loss and to follow up in a month