Obesity (PCOS related ) and fertility treatment

[BeckiF]

Hi

Has anyone else that is as overweight as I am (although dp says I am just damned sexy!! Bless!) been turned away for fertility treatment? We have our 1st appt on Thursday but already know we are going to be told that I have to lose weight.

Does anyone have experience of being overweight but having sucessful treatment?

I'm sure you know all this already (haven't read through all thread) but worth that PCOS weight gain is really really linked to insulin resistance in most cases - may be worth seeing a nutritionist for some help with blood sugar balancing and perhaps taking some supplements to help with insulin resistance. I see alot of clients with PCOS as am particularly focused on fertility in my practice, and have a great deal of success with weight loss and often natural conception also through general hormone balancing.

Really not trying to blow my own trumpet or self advertise (and feel a bit of a fraud saying this as I struggle to loose post baby pounds!) but it is just something I feel really passionate about. When people have insulin resistance it is so hard to loose weight without help, and many of my clients have found it so frustrating and demoralising when doctors just say loose weight and leave them to get on with it.

really should preview - first line should say 'worth saying that'

Percy - nice to hear from someone who knows about and is sympathetic to the syndrome. For hormone balancing, I am sure a short course of Agnus Castus helped me get pregnant with ds and the d?2 I am now expecting. I'd be interested to hear more about your suggestions for diet (not diets!) etc if that's giving away too much professional info!

hi blue cow - thanks for the post. Non diet diets are a funny old thing that unfortunately are so specific to the person - but what i would say is that in so many cases of PCOS there is an underlying cause that is the reason for a real and genuine difficulty in loosing weight - why it irritates me so much that people are left to battle it out alone! Until they address this, they will always find it much harder than it need be if you know what I mean.

If pushed to recommend a diet with no knowledge of someone I would say I would bail out and recommend a book called Natural Alternatives to Dieting by Marilyn Glenville (£9.99).

Agnus Castus can be really helpful - so pleased it worked for you.

Thanks Percy - I like Marilyn's Nutritional Health Handbook for Women si I'd be happy to reead something else by her.

Hi I have pcos and need to have donor IVF. I have been on metformin for over a year and have actually been able to lose weight. I had to go and see a infertility consultant to prescribe metformin but I wouldn't be without it now. Good luck with your weight loss it is very hard I know.

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