Hi Guys. New to the forum. Was recently diagnosed with PCOS and started the wonderful world of glucophage this past week. Am having a hard time dealing with all of this and sorting out all of the information. Am looking forward to getting to know all of you!

Hello i delt with pcos for about 14 yrs it is a hard a painfull thing to go through i am sorry to hear about your situation. Me and my husband went through infertility and procedures and surgerys. If you ever need to talk please email me at Jameswife3@aol.com i will try to help you and talk with you about all of it if you have a question i have books on this subject.

Hi there, I was diagnosed with PCOS in September of 2002. I hate it and hate the depression that comes with it. :bighug:

My daughter has had to deal with PCOS. It was three long, hard years. Two miscarriages, fertility treatments, injections, lots of tears, depression but finally with the help of artificial insemination and great doctors at a fertility clinic a successful pregnancy. Hang in there. Miracles do happen.

My husband and I lost few years ago. Prior to that it had been 10yers of trying. I became pregnant without help but we lost our baby at 14 weeks. We became foster parents to adopt waiting children and have had no luck yet in adopting. My mother is a wonderful woman always on the search for help. She had sent me a few web sights that I can share with any of you who may be interested. My doctor a while ago while doing all the fertility treatments and IUI's put me on medformin. I had to sit through this class and a pharmisted told us about medformin and the increasing numbers of deaths by this drug. There was no way after hearing this was I going to take this stuff so I didn't. Sence than we have strugged. My doctor recomends IVF which we are going to do next. But like I said my mother emailed me. One about progesterone had how much our bodies need it. It gives you a list side effects for woman with low progestrone. Also a web sight about insulite. It has info on PCOS. Also they have things you can get to take. I would recommend that you print out all this info and make an apointment with your Dr. See what he thinks. Every Dr. has there own opinion about things but you would have some info to share with him. I am making an appiontment on monday to see my Dr. about it. I am tried of feeling tired. I am tired of all this not getting pregnant junk and scared if I did would I carry to term. If any one would like this info PM me and I will send it to you. You can deside if it's worth thrying or not. I also will keep every one updated on how it works for me...

Hang in there! I also have PCOS. My husband and I went through four years of infertility treatments, surgeries, IUIs. We stopped at IVF. I understand the frustration with the medication. I "loved" the weight gain and acne that came with it. LOL!

We have since adopted two little boys and couldn't be happier. Your miracle will happen...however it comes!

Christa

Please, please, please research everything you can on PCOS, not just the infertility.

I have suffered with this for many, many years and through many, many drs., with no help.

Since I've never married, the infertility really was brought up as "a problem". I am a single mom to a beautiful son that I adopted a year ago.

That aside, now that I'm 40, the effects of letting the PCOS go untreated have caught up with me. I have insulin resistant diabetes, take metformin, and test my blood twice a day. I have hypertension and take medication for that. I have depression and take meds for that.

All of the drs wanted to treat one sympton or another, not the disease. I have a new general doc. who is pushing things. I also have had heavy bleeding, occassionally for extended periods of time, so I am also severly anemic and take HUGE doses of iron for that.

All in all, I'm feeling much, much better with the new doc, and the treatments. I could kick myself for not pushing the issues with previous docs.

I had another sonogram on Friday and have several large cysts. I'm considering a radical hysterectomy to stop the bleeding and anemia and an oopherctomy for the cysts.

But, please, my message is research and make your doc treat the disease, not just the symptoms.

Hi all,
I am also a sufferer of PCOS and Will add my voice to q's mom. You have to treat the whole disease. Many drs will treat it as an infertility issue but it is not just an infertility issue. You are literally fighing for your life.