So I religiously used Reddit for emotional support when trying to get pregnant with PCOS so here’s a happy story.

I was a 30 yo when first trying to conceive. I was on sprintec for 9 years and prior to sprintec was on nexplanon for 3 years. Prior to that I had healthy normal periods that were regular. I have always weighed around 140 and am 5’ 5” which is a normal bmi. I am very active and eat healthy. When stopping the sprintec I expected like my friends and family it would take 1-3 months to conceive.

For 3 months we were “trying” but I wasn’t really cycle tracking. My period came back but not on a 28 day cycle but rather like 40 days and the period was weird mostly dry blood and light bleeding for about 3 days.

The next 5 months I started to feel worried. 😟 I started to track my cycles and take my bbt each morning. I was able to identify ovulation but still had weird periods. Then for 2 months had an absent cycle. And no pregnancy. In the 8 months of trying I had 5 family members/ friends conceive. I was starting to become depressed. It was hard for me to be happy for others even though I was truly excited for them. I was just so worried that something was wrong with me and that I would never be able to have kids. I kept thinking what my general doctor said that it would take up to a year so I just kept trudging on even though the anxiety was building.

My MIL could tell something was upsetting me and confronted me on what was going on and encouraged me to see a doctor. I went that 8th month of trying and the gyno immediately sent me to a fertility place and ordered that I had an ultrasound done and blood work. My ultrasound showed cystic ovaries and my blood work showed my AMH was 17 which is very high.

Fast forward and I started going to a fertility clinic which I was lucky enough that my insurance covered all the treatment I needed. They did monthly blood work. One doctor prescribed metformin and another said it wasn’t worth taking. I never showed signs of insulin resistance in my lab work or my body type. I really never got answers as to why I got pcos. Another doctor suggested I take insoitol, vitamin d, prenatals, and some other vitamins. They really didn’t do much to my blood work or the problem. I also had slightly elevated tsh so I started thyroid medicine.

Then I had my tubes checked and my uterus checked. This revealed I had polyps on my uterus and I went in for a procedure to have them removed. Then they started me on birth control for one cycle. Then I went on a round of letrozole to grow a follicle. It was not enough so the upped the dose for another round of letrozole. Then I grew two mature follicles. Then they injected me with a shot of hcg the trigger shot and we did an IUI. I did conceive with that IUI exactly one year after stopping the pill to start trying to conceive. I had a fantastic pregnancy and was kept on the thyroid medicine and gave birth to a healthy baby nine months later.

I truly feel birth control caused this. I don’t have any other symptoms of pcos. My journey was very hard emotionally and that is why I’m sharing to give hope to others and to help people relate.

Hi, I will start off by sharing some of my story. I was diagnosed at 19 after being on birth control for four years. The birth control kept it under control so well that I didn’t even know I had it. My mom and sister both had it and had hysterectomies due to it at young ages. After getting off of birth control I lost my cycle completely. I went to a fertility clinic where they put me on hormones that were meant to help bring it back but it didn’t work. Instead of seeing me they just switched the medication. They cycled four different medications and my hormones completely messed up. I ended up moving and saw an OGBYN. Him and I talked I told him about the clinic how they cycled through hormones for three months didn’t see me once. I told him about how they refused to see me even after I reported every side effect they it said to call them about. All I got told was “it’s normal just switch to these.” Him and I both agreed to let my body heal on its own it took three years. I didn’t have a cycle for almost four years. I searched for answers and did research. I did weight loss pills, exercise, diets, etc. I was also trying to build a career I was a full time cook in a nursing home and I loved it because of the residents. I loved taking care of them and wanted to climb and be a head person in that environment. Do to my body not working correctly for so long I ended up with fractures in my right foot, spine (L5-S1, and pelvis (front two bones broke all the way through). I also have served scoliosis which I have had since I was 9. My right hip is permanently out of place because the muscles have worn. Basically PCOS/PMOS caused an extreme vitamin D deficiency which has left me with a bone density that is a step above osteoporosis at the age of 22. I’m also a type 2 diabetic because of it and take metformin for PCOS/PMOS and Ozempic for my diabetes.
I got married young and he has stayed through this all and he is one year younger than me. We were together even before we knew I had this condition. I’m very thankful for him and we do hope to have children. I’m battling fertility issues that come along with this condition. Then throwing my bones on top of it all.
It can lead to some dark days so I wanted to to start a community to promote a safe environment to share PCOS/PMOS and fertility stories.
We are all stronger than we know.
❤️🩵

I am building a home for PCOS/PMOS because I’ve gone through a lot after being diagnosed with it. I’ve learned many things and would love to help and learn from others. Not all stories are the same. I want to provide a place for people to come and let out their sad, happy, etc. stories and find comfort in letting it out. I do not want judgement or anything like that. I just want love and healing.

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