DO I NEED MY OVERIES OUT???

[pompeychickgem]

Hey guys im 22 years old and ive got polycystic overies i was diagnosed back in january 2010. back in december 2007 i had my beautiful daughter and after i had her my periods went back to normal then i went on the injection in 2009 (to stop me gettin pregnant) i was only on that 4 2 months (i had 2 jabs of it) i came off it in july 2009 as me and my husband wanted to try for another baby but i never had a period i went to the doctors in jan 2010 and i had a blood test to confirm i had pcos and i then had a period in feb 2010 and they have seem to have gone back to normal but this last month im in soooooo much pain sometimes i can hardly move its where my overies are the pain is in both sides i have been back to the docs and they are sending me for a scan but someone i no has had to have the overies out because she had pcos and they were causing her so much pain and when and it was dangerous please can someone help me will i need them out??? is there anything i can do to make it better?? i really want another child and i cant without my overies!!!! im really worried thankyou and sorry if i spelt anything wrong xxx

[pompeychickgem]

thanks guy thts reassuring me but the pain im in even now its everyday and im on painkillers which takes the edge off it a little bit why is it so painful? ive got my scan date now which is the 14th june thankyou so much for your replys :) xxx

[msniki412]

I agree with Clysta. For someone of your age, your still very young...removing the ovaries is a bit extreme. Now I could say if you were in your 40's close to 50, then yes that would be an option.

As Clysta said above, there are no cures for pcos...but there are treatments available. Metformin is known to help improve cycles, as well as help with weight loss (if your overweight). Your doctor may want you to go on a birth control for 6 months along with metformin in hopes it will "restore" your cycle, without having to take something to induce an ovulation.

[Clysta]

PCOS is the most common female endocrine disorder. It's also the leading cause of infertility. It just makes it harder for you to conceive because your body isn't ovulating. There is no actual cure for PCOS, but there are treatments for it which can help manage the symptoms and make it easier to handle. There's medicine that they can put you on which can help you to ovulate so you can have children. Other ladies I've talked to with it said that exercise, and weight loss (for those who were overweight and had it) helped a lot to reduce the symptoms.  

Removing your ovaries might lessen your symptoms, but it's an extreme approach to trying to treat PCOS, and is not a cure for it.