PCOS, SPOTTING + TTC

[ttccrazywoman]

Hi Ladies,

I thought id join and post on here to see if I could find any answers that I am unable to online..

A bit of background as follows -

I got married a year ago and immediately have been TTC...No luck at all and all of a sudden my periods stopped in September 2017. After 4 months of no periods I went to my doctors and was told I have PCOS, he put me on 1500mg of Metaformin which tbh did not agree at all with my body, I became really ill, bad tummy, being sick, basically most of the side effects..So I gave it up and then all of a sudden BOOM my period started on the usual date in January, I was estatic..it lasted 7 days (4 days longer then usual) and was really heavy (I wasnt complaining though) ..anyways to cut a long story short, it got to February and instead of starting my period, on the same date I started spotting, very very light only when I wiped with a tissue, first it was brown, then it was red, it would stop for half a day, back on for a few days, back off for a day and back on for a week...now its over 3 weeks later and im still spotting..One day that I stopped (around 2 saturdays ago) I had sex with my husband as I thought it stopped for good..only to finish and see that were both covered in bright red blood (sorry TMI) that night it actually leaked in my pjs, so I thought the sex had maybe started my period..but no. The next day I spotted brown and since that have just been spotting..again yesterday it stopped so I had a shower and had sex..later on I started spotting again..very very light this time..Has this happened to anyone? I havent ever been on the pill, never had kids, not been on meds now since my periods stopped and only took it for a week if less and keep getting negatives on every pregnancy test going..and this is all started since ive been TTC harder...any help?! I have arranged a doctors appointment for next wednesday as its so difficult to find time to go there with work but I just wanted some views on if its happened to other people and what the cause could be....please let me know your thoughts :)

Sorry this is happening to you. Pcos can be a real bitch. Pcos and sugar/ carbs do not make good bedfellows. Cut out sugar and go low gi (basically the south beach diet). If you're overweight (common with pcos) this should also enable you to lose some weight.

You may want to investigate my inosotol (I take inofolic, which has it in), which helps the body deal with sugar.

Unfortunately, one of the only meds out there to help is metformin. Taking it with a low carb/ no sugar diet would help with side effects.

I have the same issue but unfortunately mine has been going on for years. The pill is the best way to control it for me. I've tried every other method of contraception over the years and have had exactly the problem you are describing. For some reason the pill regulates everything and I don't have to worry about bleeding or spotting outside of the expected times... to feel for you, it is absolutely horrible

• I feel for you