help! Want to conceive!

[MMpixie12]

I was diagnosed with PCOS 10 years ago and also Type 2 insulin dependant diabetes at the same time. I have recently been told that I now have high blood pressure and cholesterol. However I am struggling to conceive.

For the last 2 years and 3 months I have been try to have a baby, but I keeping getting negative results each time I take a test.

my blood sugars are well controlled and usually around 7.3 average mmol- aswell as my hypertension and my cholesterol using medication prescribed.

how can I get pregnant?

[Pcosaged37_]

Are you taking myo inostol ? And metformin ? And vit d ? And eating low gi foods ? Are you under the fertility clinic? Do you have regular cycles and ovulate each month ? Has your progsterone been checked? And thyroid and prolactin ?

I really recommend hertility health - they test / check your amh

[MMpixie12 in reply to Pcosaged37_]

My AMH is high.

I used fertility 5 months ago and they advised me of the above. I have just been referred to a fertility specialty.

I’m not taking instil, or vitamin D so I will start that soon. I do have regular cycles or what are considered regular to me anyway (out of the norm for the average person). However I’m not sure if I ovulate every month though. This is something I will need to look into more soon. How can I check?

I have started eating low GI foods and it’s been a few weeks now.

Any other advice you can provide me with?

Thank you for taking your time to reply!

[Pcosaged37_ in reply to MMpixie12]

High amh = often pcos.Are you uk based ?

The ovulation tests off Amazon - green wrapper - cost about 4 gbp - use am and pm from when your period ends...

For some people they can tell ovulation due to ovulation boobs and / or ovulation discharge.

Goodto use ovulation tests though.

Do take daily vit d.

1000iu is good , can buy in holland and barrett or on amazon.

[MMpixie12]

yes I am UK based. I live in wales.

Right I shall get some of those from Amazon today then. I am due to finish my period in a few days and will start testing straight after.

Fantastic I will take regular vitamin D aswell and order this for myself too.

Thank you so much for your support, it’s good to know I’m not alone in all this.

[Pcosaged37_ in reply to MMpixie12]

Keep your head up

[Afive]

Hi - I'll leave this here as I think it might help. When trying to get pregnant you should start folic acid and vitD. If your BMI is high, you need higher dose vitD. The "recommend" 10ug is not enough for people with PCOS, go at least 100ug (4000IU) or higher (depending on your BMI). Ideally you want to have blood tests before to see where you're currently at.

To help keep diabetes under control and maintain cholesterol levels ok, you can use inositol+choline (H&B have these, expensive but worth it). Choline (like folic acid) is very important during first trimester.

You mentioned that you've been trying for a while, and I know it can be frustrating (I tried for almost a year and a half!). What did it for me was the inositol, I got pregnant 3 months after starting that. You need to track your ovulation though...

With PCOS you can have cycles where there are several LH surges (what the ovulation strips detect), so you can't tell with 100% certainty that you ovulated (and when) unless you test each day (at the same time of the day! - very important as LH excreted varies during the day). And compare the intensity of the bands. Note that keeping such attention on your cycle can trigger lots of anxiety which doesn't help getting pregnant, so it might be better just to have sex every other day to increase your chances (and take the supplements!).

Anyway, you should get referral to hospital fertily/endocrinology to test for other infertility reasons. After 1 year of trying without success (and I had the lenght of my cycles documented for 2 years) my GP requested a bunch of testings for me and my partner. It's important that both are tested, because PCOS might make it harder for you, but you don't have any guarantee that your partner is not having a negative effect as well.

Good luck🤞