I have PCOs......need help!!!!?

Question

hi everyone out there..
the doctor diagnosed me for PCOS. so what shall i do now? how am i suppose to know went is my fertile day to have sex with my hubby? i hope someone could help me...

Answer 1

One of the problems that many women with PCOS have is that our hormones are out of balance...we start to ripen eggs to ovulate, but we get stuck, and we don't ovulate. You can't get pregnant if you're not ovulating, so it's important first to figure out whether you are or aren't ovulating. You can do this by using over the counter ovulation predictor kits (that you buy in most stores near the pregnancy test) or by learning to chart your cycles. You chart your cycles using a special thermometer called a Basal Body Thermometer, where you measure your temperature at the same time each day, as soon as you wake up, before you sit up or get out of bed or anything else. You also use other fertility signs-your cervical mucous, and position and texture, to figure out if and when you're ovulating. You can learn more about charting from the website fertilityfriend.com or the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility.

The next thing to do is to get things under control. The two most common treatments for PCOS are birth control pills (which are no good if you want to get pregnant) or medications like metformin, which is used to treat diabetics, but also helps treat some of the problems of PCOS, like insulin resistance, and help with some of the hormone imbalances. Often, a low carb, or low g/i diet is suggested, or diets similar to what a type 2 diabetic would follow. Weight loss, even a little, helps a lot of women with PCOS. Some women find that after they begin metformin, they have regular menstrual cycles and ovulate on their own. Others find they still need a little help with ovulation, and are prescribed Clomid or other drugs to help. The most recent evidence seems to point to using both metformin and clomid together for the best results.

Talk to your doctor, and consider establishing a relationship with a reproductive endocrinologist, who can help you manage your hormone levels, and treat fertility issues. Soulcysters.com is a great resource for lots of PCOS information.

Good luck.

Answer 2

if you are ttc then you should see a reproductive endocrinologist. the option for pcos are
1) metformin
2) metformin w/ fertility drugs
3) fertility drugs

other things that might be helpful
1) if u r overweight then try to loose weight. even a few pounds might help balance your body.
2) take good multivitamin, omega fish oils and b-complex.
3) exercise even if you ar enot overweight, it helps your body balance hormones

if you want to try herbs then try vitex, saw palmetto only until you conceive. don't use them while pregnant. it takes awhile for the herbs to have an effect. don't do the herbs if you are doing fertility drugs.

best of luck. pcos is so poorly understood by the medical profession.

Answer 3

hi its ok calm down my girl alot of people have it I am one of them soI will try to help you with my exsperences...k.first of all when you have pcos you dont know when your fertile days are see sometimes we olivulate and sometimes we dont thats why its so hard for us try i have been trying for 9 years with one miscarrage and never been ever to get pg again still trying .I wasted so much money on olivulation test and it was just a waste of money I had to take the next step because I couldnt stand it >so I whent to my primary care doctor and i told her i wanted a kid so she sent me to an endocrinenlogist .The first thing they do there is put you on metformin to help you olivlate but its not mediformin 500mg its mediformin 500 er theres a diffrence this one stay in your blood and its self releasing ...the other makes your blood sugar jump all over the place and makes you sick .So then before that they take some blood test.Then you stay on mediformin for a few months then they send you to a gyoloist if you dont get pg now mediformin is for bloodsugar too .so there test that but clomid is a fility pill that i want but you must be on mediformin first because you take clomid durring your period so its gotta be regulated so then you go see the endrocronlogist so dont exspect a mircle right away i see my in may and yes i am getting very impation but you need to push this issue with your doctor if this is really what you want and dont give because my doctor i have had for 20 years said because i wasent healthy not to persuit this till one day i said i cant stand this going 3 months and no periods its driving me crazy i felt like totally giving up but i havent so hang in there k

Answer 4

Is that bad,i want to have a baby but I'm so scared, can you help me find some information or some thing do you know of anything

Answer 5

go see a reproductive endocrinologist they specialize in infertility
I did after seeing several gyno. who could not help me
My new dr. has a plan for me to help with trying to conceive and then meds for afterwards