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PCOS support thread

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satsoooma · 23/03/2017 16:32

Welcome to our fourth PCOS support thread. We are a welcoming bunch, all trying to conceive with PCOS, or suspected PCOS.

Here are the links to our old threads:
When To Expect Period - Provera
PCOS, Periods (or lack of!) and a lovely bunch of ladies
PCOS, Periods, Provera, Pals. Plus All The Bits In Between.

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satsoooma · 07/04/2017 09:09

Thanks everyone.

So I talked to an out-of-hours doctor on the phone last night, who said it was too early for a scan or anything and I would have to just wait and see. A couple of hours later she called back to say that actually, as I had clomid, I she could try and get me a scan at the local early pregnancy unit. I have an appointment early Monday.

I also rang my fertility clinic to ask about a private scan, in case they had something available today, but they don't have any scans until Monday either, so I am going to stick with the NHS. The private guy also said that 20% of women bleed in pregnancy, so it is not good, but not unheard of either, and that it is a good sign that I don't have any pain. He also reckons that I could keep bleeding all weekend - it would still be hard to say what was going on either way.

I thought I might have stopped bleeding last night, but there was more blood this morning. It seems like the very start/end of a light period and is getting darker, but not heavier. I have also lost the feeling that I 'just know' that I am pregnant, but that is a very vague thing anyway.

Looks like I will just have to settle down to a weekend of uncertainty and rest.

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YouBoggleMyMind · 07/04/2017 09:14

Hi Satsooma, thank you for the update. Pleased you can get a scan on Monday. Just sit tight and rest up this weekend. I really hope it's nothing and your pregnancy continues. Xxx

imsuchafool12345 · 07/04/2017 10:03

Hi I was wondering if I could tag on. I'm 23 and have pcos. Over the past week I have been having very faint lines on pregnancy tests but the seem to bw getting weaker and weaker. Doctors wont do nothing (I.e wont send me off for a blood test or see if its something else why I'm getting positives). From monitoring the past two months today I should be welcoming af but nothing. I'm just so upset that I'm seeing these lines and now they're gone.

YouBoggleMyMind · 07/04/2017 10:36

Hi Imsuchafool, sounds like a chemical pregnancy (totally shit and I'm so sorry) guess you just need to wait it out and see what happens or push for bloods to see what is going on.

YouBoggleMyMind · 07/04/2017 10:37

My DH last cousin had her baby early this morning. Called her a hyphenated variation of the name we like so we'll still go ahead with the name I've always wanted if we have a girl.

YouBoggleMyMind · 07/04/2017 10:38

DHs cousin*

SLady · 07/04/2017 10:48

Welcome to the thread tricky and imsuchafool

Good news about the scan satsooma I really have my fingers crossed for you that everything is OK Flowers

imsuchafool12345 · 07/04/2017 10:55

I'm going to push for a blood test and just hope my levels are just really low

AmyC86 · 07/04/2017 20:41

satsooma glad to hear that you've got a scan booked xx sit tight and hopefully things will be fine xx

Welcome to the newbies xxx

How's everyone else getting on? boggle are you still spotting?

YouBoggleMyMind · 07/04/2017 21:04

Hi Amy, brown sludge seems a bit less but still there. Seems to be more watery? Tmi but when I went for a poo earlier, it was really watery and brown. Dunno what to think. 9dpo today. Was in a bad place yesterday, feeling indifferent today. How are you lovely? Xx

AmyC86 · 07/04/2017 21:24

I'm in a really good place at the moment xx even over slept for work by two hours this morning 😂

I said to DH yesterday, we know that clomid worked last time. I know that I've ovulated because I got loads of EWCM & lots of middle pain over night. We've dtd'd every other day for well over a week. So conception is now in the hands of the gods. Tbh, can't believe how relaxed I am xx usually by this time, aprehension has kicked in along with major symptom spotting.

YouBoggleMyMind · 07/04/2017 21:28

Sounds like I lovely place to be Amy!

I on the other hand at just in a panicky not pregnant place! Sad just got to wait and see! Xx

AmyC86 · 07/04/2017 21:36

boggle I've still got an exciting feeling about us both xx

I don't get these feelings often but when I do things I think about happen.

There's a girl in work who's pregnant & I told her that she was having a boy & she found out the other day that she was having a boy.

We WILL get our Xmas babies!!!!! ❤💋

YouBoggleMyMind · 07/04/2017 21:42

I so hope you're right. I really don't want to go back to the fertility clinic. Argh I'm so scared x

AmyC86 · 07/04/2017 22:19

Don't be scared xxx we'll both be fine xxx

YouBoggleMyMind · 07/04/2017 23:17

When do you get the pleasure of testing Amy?

AmyC86 · 08/04/2017 00:34

Probably going to wait out until the 21st xx

FluffyEwok · 08/04/2017 12:42

how's you satsooma?

SummerHopin · 08/04/2017 13:07

Well done Amy that sounds like a good outlook to have.

I'm feeling low today. DH is doing Brighton marathon this weekend and last year we signed up just as we started ttc. We stupidly thought by now we'd have a big bump and for some reason I can't get that out of my head. Everywhere we go we see Buggies and bumps and it makes me feel so sad and also so scared.

Trying not to show this to DH as this weekend is for him. Struggling a bit though Sad

SummerHopin · 08/04/2017 13:07

Ps. Thinking of you satsooma x

ElizabethCatherine · 08/04/2017 17:34

Happy Saturday lovely ladies! I hope you are all enjoying this beautiful sunshine! Had a ice cold cider in the park today. Thought I'd be pregnant this time of year but I'm not so have treated myself to a nice cold one in the sun and reeeelaxed. Definitely helped.

Can anyone tell me if endocrinologists can help us with conceiving? Or is that just for the fertility clinic? I'm waiting for my fertility clinic 1st consult but my acupuncturist told me to go see an endocrinologist instead (because my LH and FSH are both low (no eggs) so clomid can't help me at this point. She said I might need an MRI to check if there is a cyst on my pituitary gland which is causing these hormones to be low. I'm only 27 and when these levels are low is when you go through menopause I think she was saying. God help me.. >.< This stuff is so complicated...

YouBoggleMyMind · 08/04/2017 20:16

I think endocrinologists help you figure out the issue with your hormones, the fertility clinic will be able to help you conceive. I think.

Satsooma, any update?

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satsoooma · 08/04/2017 20:41

I seemed to mostly stop bleeding after 24 hours. I've done enough reading now to know that neither heavy bleeding, nor an abscence of bleeding is a sure sign of anything though. Apparently miscarriages can take weeks? So I am just sitting tight and waiting for the scan.

I feel reasonably positive though, as I have started feeling like I want to throw up. I hope that means my pregnancy hormones are still increasing, which I imagine would be a good sign.

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YouBoggleMyMind · 08/04/2017 20:44

Satsooma, I know it's a waiting game but it sounds positive that the bleeding has stopped and you feel sick. Thinking of you always xxx

FluffyEwok · 08/04/2017 20:46

It does sound like a good sign satsooma x