Nolly, does PCO cause any symptoms though, such as irregular cycles?
OPKs have worked for me! Temping as well. But I know that for many with PCOS these methods are unreliable.
6 weeks doesn't sound too bad, hope they'll be helpful!
I read an interesting article in the newspaper on menstrual cycles. Sorry it's not in English, but I can explain what it said. A professor in gynaecology has rebutted research that the cycles of women who live in the same house adjust to each other. Well, I thought, if that had been the case it could solve our problems!
Anyway, he said that the length of cycles depends on several factors. One is weight, because hormones stored in fat lengthen cycles. Another one is age, because young women have more eggs than older women, and therefore the process to chose the dominant egg takes longer. In an older woman fewer eggs compete with each other for maturation, which doesn't take much time. He said that for most women the cycle length can be a surprise every time and the follicular phase can differ greatly, from two to four weeks.
But I thought a woman usually has stable cycles looking at the short term (i.e. a year and not 20 years)?
It is a nicer way of looking at long cycles though - wow I have so many good eggs it takes ages for one of them to win the fight for maturation!