By: Dora
Email: adorable67@yahoo.com
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Date: 29 Jun 2000
Time: 10:22:07
Remote Name: skyline.tulsatech.org
Well, as you can tell.....most men just don't understand what PCOs does to a woman! So I guess I'll start at the beginning too...
I have always been over weight...I can remember being in 1st grade and being taller and weighing the most in the class. It was just something I grew up accepting.....and if I didn't like what was being said...I would fight and then sit on the other kid.....kind of funny now that I think about it! I remember one of my teachers telling my mom that she shouldn't send any desserts in my lunch because I was so puggy.....what a self esteem booster! By the time I was in 6th grade my mom tried taking me to a nutritianist for overweight kids....talk about yucky food and I can't stand powdered milk! I never could loose the weight.....so I just went on being myself and don't get me wrong....I was very active in school sports and had lots of fun....I was pretty good at volleyball and track & field events. By high school I weighed about 200# and was able to keep around that all the way through College....but boy when I graduated...I gained about 30# and lost maybe 10....my periods were always irregular but I usually had one but they were like on a 40 to 68 day cycle.....whenever I would gain or loose 5# I would skip at least a month before my period would restart......as like some of you ...that didn't bother me so much because I wasn't really sexually active or seeking a pregancy.....I kept this kind of cycle for a long time.......
then I met my husband.....took him 3 years to decided that he was the marrying kind..hahaha but of course about 3 months before our wedding .....I started having constant bleedings that took more the a panty liner and a full maxi pad....kind of scared me because I had never been to the gyn before.....never really thought there was a problem to go to one....so here I am 27 years old.....luckly I have a wonder PCP dr who started my on the provera to regulate my periods. That got my cycle back on track and I didn't think anymore about it.....I thought great.....you have sex and nine months later there is a bundle of joy....NOT...
After 2 years of trying and using clomed...my dr had given me a prescription for about 6 months worth and see what happens.....I went back to her now 32, I told her all about the clomed and that I notice 2 out of the six months of taking clomed that I don't think I had ovulated...I had been doing the temp readings too....That's when she told me a little bit about PCOs and that she wanted to send me to a ER.......
so in the fall of 1999 I was offically diagnosed with PCOs with a real strong insulin resistance level and high levels of testostrone....so he put me on Avandia which has help lower the insulin stuff but not doing a whole lot on the testostrone production...not to mention all the hair under my chin and the hair loss on my head...it's a good thing I have a ton of hair on my hair and that it is very thick....now when I get a hair cut though I don't have to have them thin it out so much! Just means I have to clean the drain before my husband gets in..ugh!
My RE is wonderful.....I've tried the clomed with injections for 3 months with no luck in achieving a pregancy so my RE wanted to stop the infertility treatment and working on getting my hormones more normal.......
to reduce the testostrone, he wanted to do the ovarian drilling because my ovaries about about the size of a baseball and most of it is tissue that is producing extra testostrone....which to this day I'm still fighting with my insurance coverage to pay for it. They of course are claiming its just for infertility.....so I'm on my 2 step appeal process and hope to have that done soon.....the hair growth is just getting worst! I swear it grows back twice as fast as I can pluck it...lol
Well, I guess it's time to get off the soap box....thanks for letting me vent....my husband just doesn't understand all this and how my moods are effective by all this....
Thanks for your understanding.
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