Hi to all,
I was dx PCOS in '97. I have from the beg. of puberty never been normal- so have been fighting with this forever. I did fertility tx's back in '91 that actually were all wrong for my PCOS (had a doc that never investigated why I wasn't having periods or O'ing just slapped some drugs at me and charged me out the wazoo- but then again they didn't know a whole lot back then) so in effect damaged my ovaries with his treatments. I have over the years researched everything there is to know about PCOS and dx myself before they even did and begged docs to give me Met way back in mid 90's- but none listened. Finally by 97 after exp. lap to have a look at what was up in there saw sever scar tissue on both ovaries and tons of adhesions. I finally found a doc (9th one) who was up on research and gave the met to me and took it different times over the years, even tho it never worked for me it did normalize me when I stayed on it. At 39yr dh and I decided it wasn't gonna happen for us so we dropped my maternity insurance and I concentrated on getting my body somewhat normalized- went to a endo. and he perscribed Avandia to get my insulin under control- well 7 months later I apparently O'd for the first time and got preg. with my now 9 month daughter. After 16yrs of trying something finally worked right and I got my little miracle. During the preg. knowing how high of rates PCOS'ers have of m/c I told my OB I would be taking met. the entire preg. whether he liked it or not, they we'rent to happy but I forced the issue. I still to this day think the Met. let me keep the preg. and have as few issues as I did throughout. I found min. research but one main one a Dr. Glueck in Cinn. Ohio that was really working on alot of projects with PCOS'ers and I followed his advice. What I still haven't figured out is why the difference in Avandia to Met and why the Avandia helped me O' when the other didn't.
I'm 40 now and since I've had my daughter have been having reg. cycles about every 30-35 days (which is really abnormal for me- I'm more the 4x a year kinda person). Both dh and I have decided to hurry up and try one more time before I get to far up there in age..lol So am in the process now of getting baselines of all my bloodwork and once thats done go see the endo again to get on Avandia- which by the way all the docs (endo./OB/Peri.) all do not believe the avandia got me preg. but what do they know, I have my daughter..so there (even says on the insert for side affects "caution may cause ovulation in some women")..lol! I'm nervous as heck trying again, so many health issues and age but guess while the balls rolling I'll keep going (having periods that is). So hope this gives encouragement to others, that sometimes miracles do happen. And hopefully soon will get my second little miracle. Thanks for reading.

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Thank you for sharing your story!!

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