Hi! Thanks for creating this tribe. I was told I have PCOS when I was 16 years old and through years of treatment, I did get pregnant. I have a 10 year old daughter. Check out my pictures... she is a true miracle! I wish you well in your journey to conceive. It does happen and the treatments are getting better.

A friend of mine has been trying for 12 years to get pregnant and she is due in Dec.! I'm going to invite her to this tribe and I am sure she will have wonderful words of wisdom for everyone.

Amy~

I also have PCOS. My husband and I tried for four years to get pregnant. In 2004, I started taking Metformin, which helped to regulate my periods somewhat, but did not help me ovulate. In late 2005, I started seeing an infertility specialist at Kaiser. I tried Clomid for a few months, and it seemed to help me ovulate, but I did not get pregnant. I was then switched to Femara, which is actually a treatment for breast cancer (which I do not have).

During this time, my husband had several semen analyses done. They showed low motility and low count. Our specialist set us up with an appointment to talk about more invasive treatment options, which we were planning to decline because of the cost and low success rate. We were seriously looking into adoption.

However, amazingly enough, during my second cycle of Femara, I got pregnant. I was shocked, and actually only took a pregnancy test because the next day I was supposed to have some pretty invasive tests done and hadn't started my period yet.

Our little boy is due 12/27!

I hated people saying to me, "It will happen when you least expect it." or "It will happen when you stop worrying about it." It happened when it happened. I was still just as worried as always, if not more so. I don't know that I'll ever be able to get pregnant again, or if what worked for me will work for anyone else. I just feel happy that it did happen for us, and hope that everyone else who wants to be a Momma CAN! And, to be totally honest, if I didn't get pregnant, we'd be working on the paperwork for adoption right now...either way, I'd be on the pathway to motherhood, and would have been thrilled with that path, too!

Hi Jess...

Amy sent the invite to join the tribe...I am the one that she was talking about in her post.

Hang in there....Almost a year ago, my husband and I gave up trying to have a baby. We decided that the years of trying (infertility treatments: Pergonal shots, clomid, overstimulating, etc...) that we we done...I did not think I could go through it any longer. Back in August of 2005, I started taking Metaformin becasue I was pre diabetic, and I knew that the side effect was possibly pregnancy. I honestly did not think that I would get pregnant. After all these years, I did not think it would be that simple. But low and behold...8 months later, I am having a ababy. I am due on December 31 and I am having a little girl.

I have been where you have been. I did not want to take western meds, but what I was taking just was not helping...I was on herbal supplements for over 4 years, so I can honestly say that they do not work, they made me feel better and releived some of the symptoms of PCOS, but I did not ovulate.

My advice to you by a long time suffer of this damn thing we have called PCOS....give metaformin a chance. There are hardly any side effects, and I actually felt SOOOOOOOOO much better when I was on it. I lost about 30 pounds on it and that is when I started ovulating and BAM! To give you a little more of a leg up, I would try it with clomid, anlong with your herbal supplements to curb the clomid side effects and I would try that for at least a year.

It took only 8 months for me to get pregnant on Metaformin, and I would be considered one of the worst cases of PCOS having ALL but one of the symptoms (hair loss...but its thin).

Don't give up

You can do it

Love you girls!

Valerie

Thank you ladies, reading this is so inspiring and fills me with hope. I have had a lot of thoughts going through my head these days, since I have started this tribe and also talking with my therapist. Since I was 11 years old I had a fear about not being able to get pregnant. I was one of the first girls to start developing, in the 2nd grade I got hair under my arms, then in my nether region followed by breasts, but, i didn't get my period till I was 13. All my friends seemed to develop all at once, not so spread out. I guess as a little girl I though something was wrong with me. I'm so glad I have recognized this fear that has started in me at such a young age, because now, pregnant or not, I can try to heal it, and build my strength. Thanks so much.

I see this tribe hasn't been active in quite a while. Hopefully Jess you'll come back and say you've had a baby in the meantime!

I have unexplained infertility. I've had an HSG and everything was fine. My husband has had a semen analysis and has high sperm count, high motility, etc. He's in perfect condition. I had my first round of IUI yesterday. My doctor found that I have an overly small cervical opening. She's pretty certain that is way I have been unable to get pregnant. However, I WAS able to get pregnant once before (in Dec of 2005 but I miscarried at 8 weeks 2 day).

I've been put on antidepressants during all of this. I've had times where it so consumed me that all I could do was cry. Around my period I could hardly function because I was so upset. The antidepressant has given me my life back. I'm on the lowest dose possible. I don't want to detach from life. But I can cope w/ it all now. I feel so much better! And having been told about the problem w/ my cervical opening gives me a little bit of hope back.

I heard there is a doctor is Colorado that deals with PCOS and does studies on it. He said that 90 percent of the cases are treatable. Michael Swanson--Conceptions Reproductive Associates in Littleton, CO