angelina7988
02-22-2009, 12:51 AM
I was diagnoised with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome when i was 17 years old, i have been in and out of the doctors since then back in 2005 of Decemeber. I know there are people out there with worst, but as i gett older this disease is affecting my life. at 19 me and my fiancee started to try fro a baby it took a year and nothing when we gave up i beacme pregnant but didnt know until i misscarried. i didnt report it and just let it happened at home with my now ex fiancee, I can say this experince changed my life in so many ways. i wasnt that far long though, my step mom who an nusre talked me through it as i experine this journey.
My body couldnt handle that miracle but in my eye I believe God sent us a message saying i Can have children just not right now. which was a true thing because financially i couldnt. dealing with the PCOS my hormones are not always normal. My modd swings are worse. My depression has turned into a habit that i cant get out of i am on two antidepressants. My Pcos affects me from working all i want to do is have a good paying job. I am curently taking this semster off from college because my stress levels and my Pcos keps affecting me . I cry about 75% of my day recently, i maek deicsions based on my emotions more than my heart and i seem to keep confusing myself mreo than anything. I had 4 surgeries since then. The pain i deal with my ovaries also affects me. the pain get worse to where i cant walk to even lay down the doctor says recently i things look fine but when i read online that cyst may not be there there could just be pain. scartissue can be an issue. When i had my surgery t 17 my appendix was attaching to my right oavry creating its owns blood vessels how that is posible i dont know i have adamaged right fallopian tube but they dd reconstruct it. I am curretnly on Metiforminand birth control but i fel like thats not helping. I am premenopuasal and have been since i was 17. I jsut want to know other girls expereinces.
I deal with hair growth, Depression/anxiety, Infertility, Painfull periods/irregular and more. I also am on myspace where i have some supporters.
My body couldnt handle that miracle but in my eye I believe God sent us a message saying i Can have children just not right now. which was a true thing because financially i couldnt. dealing with the PCOS my hormones are not always normal. My modd swings are worse. My depression has turned into a habit that i cant get out of i am on two antidepressants. My Pcos affects me from working all i want to do is have a good paying job. I am curently taking this semster off from college because my stress levels and my Pcos keps affecting me . I cry about 75% of my day recently, i maek deicsions based on my emotions more than my heart and i seem to keep confusing myself mreo than anything. I had 4 surgeries since then. The pain i deal with my ovaries also affects me. the pain get worse to where i cant walk to even lay down the doctor says recently i things look fine but when i read online that cyst may not be there there could just be pain. scartissue can be an issue. When i had my surgery t 17 my appendix was attaching to my right oavry creating its owns blood vessels how that is posible i dont know i have adamaged right fallopian tube but they dd reconstruct it. I am curretnly on Metiforminand birth control but i fel like thats not helping. I am premenopuasal and have been since i was 17. I jsut want to know other girls expereinces.
I deal with hair growth, Depression/anxiety, Infertility, Painfull periods/irregular and more. I also am on myspace where i have some supporters.
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estria
02-22-2009, 06:32 PM
Hi Angelina,
I am sorry to hear about all of the trouble you are going through. Why don't you do some reading on your condition in order to better understand what your body is experiencing ?
For example, being premenopausal simply means before menopause .. did you perhaps mean perimenopausal ? Premenopausal women are all women from the age of their first period until menopause at around the age of 50 when your periods stop forever. Perimenopausal women are women who are approaching menopause and usually this condition is present anywhere from 5 to 10 years before menopause (ie. from about age 40 or so). You are too young for perimenopause, unless you have had your ovaries removed and are going through surgical menopause. If you are premenopausal, this means that you are normal.
PCOS should not rule your life so try not to let it take hold of you. You can still have a normal and wonderful life with children. My cousin has PCOS and she had two beautiful children. You need to watch out for certain risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure and a few others that go with this condition but this should not ruin your life. As for hair growth, I fully understand. I myself am hirsute (I have hairgrowth on my face and more hair than normal on the rest of my body). If facial hair is a bother, get some electrolysis done. This is what I did when I was in my teens and my facial hair only returned ever so slightly over these many years (I am 42 years of age).
Don't despair and don't think about children just yet. Work on yourself and your career and you will have plenty of time to raise a family once you are settled and happy in what you want to do in life.
Best of luck to you.
Best,
Estria
I am sorry to hear about all of the trouble you are going through. Why don't you do some reading on your condition in order to better understand what your body is experiencing ?
For example, being premenopausal simply means before menopause .. did you perhaps mean perimenopausal ? Premenopausal women are all women from the age of their first period until menopause at around the age of 50 when your periods stop forever. Perimenopausal women are women who are approaching menopause and usually this condition is present anywhere from 5 to 10 years before menopause (ie. from about age 40 or so). You are too young for perimenopause, unless you have had your ovaries removed and are going through surgical menopause. If you are premenopausal, this means that you are normal.
PCOS should not rule your life so try not to let it take hold of you. You can still have a normal and wonderful life with children. My cousin has PCOS and she had two beautiful children. You need to watch out for certain risks such as diabetes, high blood pressure and a few others that go with this condition but this should not ruin your life. As for hair growth, I fully understand. I myself am hirsute (I have hairgrowth on my face and more hair than normal on the rest of my body). If facial hair is a bother, get some electrolysis done. This is what I did when I was in my teens and my facial hair only returned ever so slightly over these many years (I am 42 years of age).
Don't despair and don't think about children just yet. Work on yourself and your career and you will have plenty of time to raise a family once you are settled and happy in what you want to do in life.
Best of luck to you.
Best,
Estria
angelina7988
02-22-2009, 09:14 PM
thank You for responding to my sotry i am thankful to know! ou are right! and i ahve been trying my hardest, i started dieting a month ago and ive lost 9 lbs. 15 more to go i think thats a start. for children my sister has pcos too she had 2 beautful children she had a hystrorectomy at 22 thats what scares me most. if i am goin to end up like her!
chocolate29
02-22-2009, 11:31 PM
Wow, you poor lady. :(
Seriously look into the herb vitex. I had pcos about 10 yrs ago. That was when I was overweight and not really healthy.
After some time I lost a lot of weight and really started getting into eating right and taking vitamins.
After so so long I found this herb vitex that I started taking because even after having lost a lot of weight my periods still were not regular. It took a few months at least to get back to normal.
I don't take it anymore now and haven't for a couple of years. I'm in shape now and eat good and get exercise and am very normal thankfully.
Of course, I don't know if you are taking medicines or anything, but as with any herbs you think about taking it's a very good idea to look into whether it would be safe for you to take.
I never went to a doctor or anything. I just followed how I was feeling and went along with what I felt was right.
I wish you the best!
Seriously look into the herb vitex. I had pcos about 10 yrs ago. That was when I was overweight and not really healthy.
After some time I lost a lot of weight and really started getting into eating right and taking vitamins.
After so so long I found this herb vitex that I started taking because even after having lost a lot of weight my periods still were not regular. It took a few months at least to get back to normal.
I don't take it anymore now and haven't for a couple of years. I'm in shape now and eat good and get exercise and am very normal thankfully.
Of course, I don't know if you are taking medicines or anything, but as with any herbs you think about taking it's a very good idea to look into whether it would be safe for you to take.
I never went to a doctor or anything. I just followed how I was feeling and went along with what I felt was right.
I wish you the best!
estria
02-23-2009, 11:44 AM
Chocolate29 makes an excellent point. A healthy diet and exercise will definitely minimize your symptoms. Vitamins are also a good idea. I take a minimum one a day vitamin tablet plus 1000 mg of vitamin C everyday. I try to limit carbs as much as possible, although I don't cut them out altogether (just eat less of them).
Congratulations on having lost some weight. I hope you are doing it healthfully and not by starving yourself. Starving yourself will make things worse as your body will take a defensive response and slow down your metabolism. Just eat three well balanced meals (a bit of protein, a bit of starch and LOTS of veggies ... fruit for dessert and a glass of water to wash it all down) and a healthy snack if you need it (like some fruit and a handful of almonds which are full of calcium, iron and magnesium .. something we women need). Add a wonderfully refreshing walk everyday (try to do it at the same time everyday so that you are less likely to miss days) and you will become fit, healthy and happy.
All the best to you !
Estria
Congratulations on having lost some weight. I hope you are doing it healthfully and not by starving yourself. Starving yourself will make things worse as your body will take a defensive response and slow down your metabolism. Just eat three well balanced meals (a bit of protein, a bit of starch and LOTS of veggies ... fruit for dessert and a glass of water to wash it all down) and a healthy snack if you need it (like some fruit and a handful of almonds which are full of calcium, iron and magnesium .. something we women need). Add a wonderfully refreshing walk everyday (try to do it at the same time everyday so that you are less likely to miss days) and you will become fit, healthy and happy.
All the best to you !
Estria
angelina7988
02-23-2009, 11:52 PM
i am going to try that! Thank you No i wasnt doing healthy, as a teen i had a eatin problem with starving yself and amking myself vomit but my fiancee taught me to take better care of myself. i dont vomit no more but i did eat once a day but now im back at home i am made to eat properly. small meals like a diabetic person. becuase my dad is one so we eat like that. its quite easy and less intake each time. i am taking metiformin for PCOS prenatal vitamins for low iron because i bleed to much. and i am taking yasmin to regulate my periods an ovluate. but now they are lesser days and no every month.
estria
02-24-2009, 08:37 AM
Hi Angelina,
If you find that Yasmin is not regulating your periods, see if you can get a change of pill. Also keep in mind that you are really having your period when you are on the pill. It is only withdrawal bleeding.
In your natural state (ie. without the pill) you usually ovulate (ie. release an egg into the uterus) about 15 days after the start of your period. At this point your ovaries begin to produce more relative progesterone in order to prepare your uterus for conception. If the egg is not fertilized by around 15 days after ovulation, your body will shed its lining and the whole process begins again.
With the birthcontrol pill you are not supposed to ovulate so obviously your body will not work in the same way. The pill is a series of synthetic hormones that mimick your cycle. During the seven days of sugar pills or no pills, you will bleed from hormone withdrawal (ie. withdrawal bleeding) and the bleeding will stop once you begin the pill cycle again. Some of the newer pills do not have a withdrawal period and women do not get any bleeding at all .. some others have you bleed only four times a year and so on. Some of these pills are so strong in relative progesterone that your uterine lining atrophies (becomes extremely thin) and may sometimes bleed or spot. This is why I stopped the pill because I began to bleed a lot more and not during the withdrawal period. This was after 20 years of successful use. Once I stopped the pill, my periods returned to normal (at this point they were real periods).
I think all women should know how the pill works in their body. It basically interferes with the ovulation process and is supposed to keep eggs from being released into the fallopian tubes. In addition, your menstrual cycle is not a true menstrual cycle .. it is a mimicked cycle controlled by synthetic hormones. Your real cycles are therefore not necessarily being regulated, just suppressed.
Hope this helps. Keep up the healthy diet and exercise .. this is the best thing you can do for yourself. By the way, a "diabetic diet" like your dad's is actually what we should ALL be eating. A sufficient amount of protein, controlled starch and plenty of fruits and veggies (although diabetics should control a bit more the types of fruits and veggies .. more or less in order to lower their glycemic index and maintain a steady and not too high sugar level in their bloodstream).
Take care.
Best,
Estria
If you find that Yasmin is not regulating your periods, see if you can get a change of pill. Also keep in mind that you are really having your period when you are on the pill. It is only withdrawal bleeding.
In your natural state (ie. without the pill) you usually ovulate (ie. release an egg into the uterus) about 15 days after the start of your period. At this point your ovaries begin to produce more relative progesterone in order to prepare your uterus for conception. If the egg is not fertilized by around 15 days after ovulation, your body will shed its lining and the whole process begins again.
With the birthcontrol pill you are not supposed to ovulate so obviously your body will not work in the same way. The pill is a series of synthetic hormones that mimick your cycle. During the seven days of sugar pills or no pills, you will bleed from hormone withdrawal (ie. withdrawal bleeding) and the bleeding will stop once you begin the pill cycle again. Some of the newer pills do not have a withdrawal period and women do not get any bleeding at all .. some others have you bleed only four times a year and so on. Some of these pills are so strong in relative progesterone that your uterine lining atrophies (becomes extremely thin) and may sometimes bleed or spot. This is why I stopped the pill because I began to bleed a lot more and not during the withdrawal period. This was after 20 years of successful use. Once I stopped the pill, my periods returned to normal (at this point they were real periods).
I think all women should know how the pill works in their body. It basically interferes with the ovulation process and is supposed to keep eggs from being released into the fallopian tubes. In addition, your menstrual cycle is not a true menstrual cycle .. it is a mimicked cycle controlled by synthetic hormones. Your real cycles are therefore not necessarily being regulated, just suppressed.
Hope this helps. Keep up the healthy diet and exercise .. this is the best thing you can do for yourself. By the way, a "diabetic diet" like your dad's is actually what we should ALL be eating. A sufficient amount of protein, controlled starch and plenty of fruits and veggies (although diabetics should control a bit more the types of fruits and veggies .. more or less in order to lower their glycemic index and maintain a steady and not too high sugar level in their bloodstream).
Take care.
Best,
Estria
estria
02-24-2009, 08:39 AM
Hello again Angelina,
Just to correct a typo in my previous message that may be confusing for you. I meant to say that you are NOT really having your period when you are on the pill and that it is only withdrawal bleeding .. ie. your withdrawal bleeding is not really a period.
Best,
Estria
Just to correct a typo in my previous message that may be confusing for you. I meant to say that you are NOT really having your period when you are on the pill and that it is only withdrawal bleeding .. ie. your withdrawal bleeding is not really a period.
Best,
Estria
angelina7988
02-24-2009, 08:19 PM
i didnt know that about the pill, i dont belive Birth control but ever since i was diagnoised the doctors instist it. i dont know anymore at the moment i fel like i need a doctor who really knows what pcos really is. i live in small town where the medical system isnt great. eveytime i've seen a different ob/gyn 3'x since then of the day i was diagnosed and they ask me what it was? yea the one doctor that diagnoised me was all about gettin me the right treatment then his liscence expired i wish he was still in the community because he knew everything did my surgeries and saved my life! i almost died from internal bleeding my appendix was startin to atched to my right ovary creating its own bloode vessels i never heard a such thing. i just found out htis from the new specialist that in town she read me all my records if my PCOS. shes from Washington D.C and she makes me feel comfortable and knows what she doing
patty kay
10-17-2009, 05:40 AM
Hello Angelina,
I was diagnosed with pcos when I was fourteen. Thankfully, I had a great doctor, whom I still have to this day, and she knows what pcos is and knows what to do and how to treat it. My symptoms where severe depression, irregular periods, I would go nine months with nothing then a month and a half with a period, very fun in middle school (sarcastic) and I had horrible acne and fluctuating weight. My doctor put me on Yasmin birth control for regular periods. I have tried not taking, just because I wanted to see if I could could do things naturally, but I gained about twenty pounds, depression was horrible, acne was insane and I didn't even get a period. I tried just a regular birth control, same thing.
The reason why Yasmin works for women with pcos is because it has an anti-testosterone hormone in it and pcos is all about excess testosterone which causes the excess facial hair, weight gain, and the actual egg for your period from being released. Pretty confusing, I know. I've been on Yasmin for about six years and I love it, I will never change until I try and get pregnant. I also take glucophage (metformin) to help lower blood sugar, help lose weight, help prevent diabetes.
I am really sorry to hear about your miscarraige, I imagine that is hard to deal with, as well as your surgeries. My mom had a miscarraige after my older sister, if she had it, I might not be here, I am the youngest, I think god has plans and I was meant to be here for a reason. Oh, sad to hear about the appendix as well, when my mom gave birth to my older brother, she hemmohraged, and the doctor was, lets say an a-hole about it. She could have sued, but she was just greatful to be alive.
Anyhoo, pcos is very frustrating, but we are not alone! Hope I helped:]
~Patty Kay~
I was diagnosed with pcos when I was fourteen. Thankfully, I had a great doctor, whom I still have to this day, and she knows what pcos is and knows what to do and how to treat it. My symptoms where severe depression, irregular periods, I would go nine months with nothing then a month and a half with a period, very fun in middle school (sarcastic) and I had horrible acne and fluctuating weight. My doctor put me on Yasmin birth control for regular periods. I have tried not taking, just because I wanted to see if I could could do things naturally, but I gained about twenty pounds, depression was horrible, acne was insane and I didn't even get a period. I tried just a regular birth control, same thing.
The reason why Yasmin works for women with pcos is because it has an anti-testosterone hormone in it and pcos is all about excess testosterone which causes the excess facial hair, weight gain, and the actual egg for your period from being released. Pretty confusing, I know. I've been on Yasmin for about six years and I love it, I will never change until I try and get pregnant. I also take glucophage (metformin) to help lower blood sugar, help lose weight, help prevent diabetes.
I am really sorry to hear about your miscarraige, I imagine that is hard to deal with, as well as your surgeries. My mom had a miscarraige after my older sister, if she had it, I might not be here, I am the youngest, I think god has plans and I was meant to be here for a reason. Oh, sad to hear about the appendix as well, when my mom gave birth to my older brother, she hemmohraged, and the doctor was, lets say an a-hole about it. She could have sued, but she was just greatful to be alive.
Anyhoo, pcos is very frustrating, but we are not alone! Hope I helped:]
~Patty Kay~