Just been diagnosed with PCOS

[Liquoriceallsort]

Very sad

Have been ttc for 9 months, had my ultrasound today and she showed me the black dots on the scan.

It did show I had ovulated but she said my tubes could be blocked.

Does anyone have this who has successfully gone on to conceive naturally?

I am 29 and was diagnosed by a scan last week but have no other symptoms apart from no AF. Going to my GP tomorrow and hoping i can get some clomid too. Fingers crossed for us all x

I'm 27 and was diagnosed about a month ago after no AF after coming off the pill. The consultant I saw was pretty rubbish but I'd done so much research myself beforehand I didn't really need to know much from her anyway. She told me to carry on as we are for now and if nothing's happened she'll check my tubes and DH and then prescribe clomid in 6 months. I have no other symptoms except weird AF and reading the stories on this thread has just made me feel more positive :) good luck to everyone ttc and congrats to everyone already pg!

How long have you been TTC gwen?

Well I wasn't really, until diagnosis! Came off the pill (had been on for 9 years) to get my cycles back to regular in Dec last year, we were going to wait until Dec this year to start. I went to doc when AF didn't come back and he referred me. NHS want you to have been trying naturally for 12 months which is why she told me to come back in 6 months I assume

I'm 30 and was diagnosed with PCOS in January. I had my Fallopian tubes checked via HSG followed by a laparoscopy in June where my consultant also performed ovarian diathermy (basically burning away the cysts). I conceived naturally the next month, unfortunately that was a chemical pregnancy. However, I conceived again the following month and fingers crossed this is a sticky bean! There are lots of options to treat PCOS, it's definitely not the end of the road.

I wondered why they hadn't given you anything there and then!

Congrats flixy I hope it all goes really well for you

Fingers crossed and congrats flixy!

Were your tubes blocked? Did you have periods after coming off the pill?

Hi,

I'm 30, have pcos and found out I am pg last week.

Had been ttc for a year and was diagnosed 2 months ago. I also had added difficulty that dh's results weren't brilliant.

I found my gp to be awful and she totally disregarded the issue despite it being her 'field'.

Good luck and don't despair. It's important to insist if you can on referrals etc if u can and check your oh out too. The fact is having pcos will make it harder to get pg but to what degree depends on your symptoms.

Thanks for all the well wishes! I came off the pill in June 2011 and didn't have a single period until July 2013 following my surgery. My tubes and womb were found to be normal it was just the pesky ovaries which were the problem!

There is definitely hope (as you can see from everyone else!)

After my 3rd baby, I went on the mini pill. I came off after about a year, i never had any periods. I put on lots of weight despite never doing anything different.

Eventually I went to the doctors about it, and after a while, blood tests, scans etc I was diagnosed with PCOS.

I was told at the time that conceiving again naturally would be unlikely as I was fairly badly affected - but at the time I wasn't worried. I felt blessed that I had had my dc young. I went away, but in the circs dh and I weren't very careful. I did lose 2 and a half stone, which I think was key. Ds3 was born 3 days before ds2 started full time school!

because I had had the first 3 fairly closely together, we decided we didn't want ds3 to be lonely, and knowing that the PCOS had disappeared ( they had checked for signs of it at my 12 wk scan and found nothing) and also that your fertility is raised just after a pregnancy we decided to let nature take it's course - and (rather quicker than we thought!) dd2 was born 15 months later.

I was advised at the time that PCOS returns in about 30% of cases.

Sure enough, after approx 3 years it was back with a vengeance.

Again, we were a bit complacent about contraception (i know, i know....) and now we are waiting for baby number 6, due in just over 4 weeks

I was diagnosed at 34 and given metformin, thought it would make conception really difficult, but I got pregnant the first month of trying, and am now sitting here feeding a five month old baby.

I found a site called soulcysters a lot of help, when I was first diagnosed.

Some really nice stories!! Although I dont think I could cope with 6 you must be super mum!!

What a (surprisingly) lovely thread - so full of happy endings.

I'm partway through PCOS dx. My bloods suggest that I have it, but I'm waiting on my scan (beginning of next month) before they can officially diagnose. GP has indicated that they'll prescribe Metformin once the dx comes in.

I'm planning on TTC in the next year or so (am 28, and would ideally like to have started trying by the time I'm 30) so it's great to have some success stories to think of.

Best of luck, Liquorice and all others TTC.

(surprising because of the subject matter, not because you're all a bunch of meanies)

I did not know pcos could disappear!!

I have also heard it can get better or completely go after a pregnancy!

Yes apparently pregnancy can reset your system.
I know someone on another forum who took 2 and a half years and clomid to get pregnant first time then got a surprise BFP when first baby was 6 months old. Unfortunately she miscarried that pregnancy but is pregnant again naturally.