Missed periods with pcos

[Emerald95]

New to this, not really sure what I'm doing to be honest but I have nobody else to mention this to really.So in April 2020 we decided to start trying for a baby in June 2021 I found out I have pcos and the fertility doctors told me in July 2021 to lose weight. Since may 2022 I have not missed a period at all even if they've been a bit irregular, until now, I am 2 weeks late, negative pregnancy tests. It's so deflating, my doctors won't help because I haven't managed to lose the weight and it's affecting my mental health so much

[Solly-44]

I’m sorry, in my experience drs have always been really unhelpful when it comes to pcos. Really mine only want to know when it gets to the 3 month mark because then they can prescribe Norethisterone or similar to bring a bleed on. The only thing I’ve ever found that even vaguely regulated my cycle was myo inositol. You have to take a high dose and it’s pricey but might be worth looking into xx

[Emerald95 in reply to Solly-44]

Yeah they just don't seem to care, especially as I'm overweight it's infuriating, I think I actually have some in my cupboard I'll have to look x

[Kittykat198]

My experience has been the same with drs and pcos I’m afraid. Lose weight is their go to and it’s so frustrating and unfair! When I was thinner, I was just thinner with absent periods not magically fertile!

I had tried myo insitol too on the advice of my consultant as it has performed well and like metformin in studies about promoting ovulation. oh and I took a prenatal tablet with b12 which lots of women with pcos struggle with too. I think these helped a bit too.

I did have to lose some weight for Ivf and I found having my thyroid testing helped! My results were completely out which doesn’t help with losing weight at all but taking a small dose of levothyroxine really helped with that.

Best of luck x

[Emerald95 in reply to Kittykat198]

Ah thank you, low and behold my period came this afternoon, 15 days late

[Kittykat198 in reply to Emerald95]

Frustrating and relieving all at once x

[Solly-44 in reply to Kittykat198]

Yes yes yes to you first paragraph! I’m a bit overweight now but for years was much thinner, like a size 10 and guess what, no periods and infertile then too. It makes me so cross that lose weight is their big (and often only) solution.

[Kittykat198 in reply to Solly-44]

it genuinely makes me feel cross too! so many times I felt fobbed off by the doctors when in reality, women with higher bmis get pregnant and have babies all the time! I was about 8 stone when diagnosed in my early 20s so definitely wouldn’t have benefited from losing weight then!! Grrr!!!