Anyone else suffer from polycystic ovaries?

[thirtysomething]

Just wondering how everyone else copes with this affliction - mine didn't (eventually!) stop me from having children but has returned again after baby number 2 and now I'm getting a bit broody and am pretty convinced I'd have to go down the whole clomid route if I wanted another baby. I knwo I should be content with the two lovely children I have but all my friends are either pregnant or trying for babies and it's making me a bit sad. Plus it's so hard to lose weight anf feel confident with PCOS!

Well, out of the problem of being able to know if I'm going to have my period next week or next year, no problem (though this may be completely unrelated). The fertility treatment I followed in order to get pregnant was as simple as two different sets of pills taken during three months, I got pregnant at the first try, so, not much to worry about...

I meant "not being able to know"

Chandra - did you have to wait a long time to get the fertility treatment?

Honestly speaking, what took time was not the fertility treatment but to get an appointment with the ginecologyst, the horrible GP I was registered with at that time was a recently graduated practicioner that din't have a clue what polycistic ovaries were, the sister in the practice knew about the condition but this stupid girl didn't and made a big fuss about sending me to the NHS ginecologyst claiming that I wanted to abuse NHS funds (I'm foreigner but have European citizen rights and have paid a huge amount of taxes during the six years I have lived here). At the end she told me I would need to wait for 8months for an appointment, I got so angry about being treated like this that I flew to my country to see a ginecologyst, and paid for the treatment myself (you would not believe that a 3month course of this medicines cost less than £40) I just took it for a month, I got pregnant at the first try.

The important or difficult thing is to be referred to the ginecologyst but if your GP doesn't, go private I don't exdpect it will be terribly expensive.

Hi Thirtysomething, I dont have PCOS but other ov problems which are preventing me having baby #2. Clomid worked for me last year but I miscarried, clomid hasnt worked since and I am looking into alternatives. Have you looked into the low glyceamic index diets recommended for PCOS sufferers? I have more info if you are interested.

Also, have you looked into Metformin? It is often used instead of clomid and apparently is very effective.

thanks bunny - yes, I'm looking into the GI diet - have just bought the book, sounds quite un-fun though, especially to a chocoholic! I've also read somewhere that weight-bearing exercise is supposed to help PCOS sufferers conceive but can't remember why this is the case. Good luck with conceiving no. 2!