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?
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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
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.
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.
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