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PCOS

Anyone who has been diagnosed with this. . . could you explain the symptoms you had?  I've read what the internet has said, but the webites I found are actually quite vague. I'd love to hear stories of real women who have dealt with this?  Thanks.
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hi i m also diagnosed with PCOS. I am having excess hair growth on my body nd face and delayed period cycles. i m married 4 one year and m nt able to ovulate naturally. other tests are nomal. doc recommended me to have medicines and injections every month to make eggs and to rupture them. Am i getting the right treatment? Plz help if anyone can.....
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374593 tn?1257879950
hello! i also have been diagnosed wtih pcos.. I only have one ovary left (from severe endo! : (   ) and it does have the typical "strand of pearls" appearance, which is the ONLY reason they tested me for it, i'm underweight and have regular periods every 30 days.. however when i do Ovulate my follicles have a hard time actually rupturing, so we finally got preggo after months of fertility treatments making more eggs and using a trigger shot!   i also ate a very low carb diet especially around O time this month and this is the same month we got our BFP ! GOOD LUCK!
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Thanks so much for the replies.  It helps to know what real people go through.  I am going in this week for some blood work, as my doctor thinks it is "possible" that I have this.  I have been having regular menses, but have been having pain in my ovaries so my doc thought it would be good if I got checked out.
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I just read natemomma's reply and we said the same exact thing except I did not mention infertility. With PCOS it is possible that you STOP ovulating. So getting this treated is important if you're TTC. AND... with time and medication, the PCOS can even go away.
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PCOS isn't a "one-size fits all" syndrome. You could have two symptoms, or you could have fifteen and still be diagnosed. Symptoms that you would notice WITHOUT tests would be:

irregular periods
crampy feeling, sometimes painful (where the ovaries are)
hair growth on your face, chest, running down from you belly button
excessive hair loss from your head
acne/breakouts
weight gain/inability to lose weight NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!

Those are just a few symptoms! If you suspect you have it, your doctor will do a blood test to check your hormone levels because your levels would be "off" if you had PCOS. Also, they'd do an ultrasound at some point to see if you have the cysts on your ovaries. And finally a glucose and insulin test to determine if you have insulin resistance (common with PCOSers).

Personally I have high testosterone and a few tiny cysts on my ovaries. My insulin and glucose are perfect, as are my TSH and LH hormones. I only have those two symptoms and I was diagnosed.
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279230 tn?1259923903
I have it, but mine is not a typical case, or so the doctors say.  I have cysts on my ovaries, but they aren't in the typical arrangement, as I just have a few here and there, not a strand of them.  The other main symptom for me was no ovulation (therefore no periods).  I was able to get pregnant though, with the help of a Reproductive Endocrinologist.  Good luck to you, and I hope you get some more answers.  You might also want to check out the fertility forum here on med-help.  The girls over there know a ton about PCOS.  I learned alot there when I was trying to get pregnant.
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427258 tn?1266445242
Polycystic ovary syndrome is a problem in which a woman’s hormones are out of balance. It can cause problems with your periods and make it difficult to get pregnant. For reasons that are not well understood, in PCOS the hormones get out of balance. One hormone change triggers another, which changes another. This makes a vicious circle of out-of-balance hormones.

Symptoms tend to be mild at first. You may have only a few symptoms or a lot of them. The most common symptoms are:
Acne.
Weight gain and trouble losing weight.
Extra hair on the face and body. Often women get thicker and darker facial hair and more hair on the chest, belly, and back.
Thinning hair on the scalp.
Irregular periods. Often women with PCOS have fewer than nine periods a year. Some women have no periods. Others have very heavy bleeding.
Fertility problems. Many women with PCOS have trouble getting pregnant (infertility).

**This information was found off webmd.com**

I had pain in my ovaried quite often and had multiple scans done which showed my ovaries looked like chocolate-chip cookies. I didn't have a period for 2 years and when I finally did get one, there seemed to be no cycle pattern what-so-ever. My doctor tried to jumpstart my cycles with medication and that seemed to finally work and after those 2 years and some odd months I was able to concieve my 2nd child.
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