PCOS

April 2011

Okay, its been 4 months. I have not timed anything, I havent taken my temperature every day, no ovulation kit. Literally just pure... trying. My problem is I also havent gotten my period, since January.

Now a little medical history info (If this is TMI then stop reading because it only gets worse from here), when I was 12, the last day of 6th grade in fact, I got my 1st period. It was horrifying, as most of the time it is when you bleed through your jeans and have to tie a jacket around your waist so none of the other middle schoolers can see! I digress. Well I didn't see another period again until my mom took me to the ob/gyn when I was 15 and they concluded that I had a issue in my brain that didn't trigger my period to come. I was put on the pill and told that when I went off it all would be fine. I had some issues the end of my senior year of high school where my pill was changed a bit and that caused quite a stir of events that did result in a miscarriage but I believe everything happens for a reason and that was not my time. So for 10 years, I had extremely regular periods.

Back to 2011, like I said No period. In my head I think, well this is normal because I had been on the pill for so long it needs to get out of my system. My mom told me to go see my ob/gyn anyway. At that first appointment I was asked a millions questions, did blood work, internal ultra sounds- if you have never had one of these its kind of like a long dildo (haha sorry but it is) and they really jam it around to get good looks at the ovaries- and they told me to start a prenatal vitamin. The results concluded that I had developed PCOS. PolyCystic Ovary Syndrome is a condition in which a woman has an imbalance of a female sex hormones. This may lead to menstrual cycle changes, cysts in the ovaries, trouble getting pregnant, and other health changes. I was sent by my ob/gyn to an endocrinologist. Who along with the PCOS also diagnosed me with Hashimoto's disease. In Hashimoto's disease, also known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis, your immune system attacks your thyroid gland. The resulting inflammation often leads to an under active thyroid gland (hypothyroidism). I was put on Synthroid and Metformin. I spent the remander of that summer getting monitored to make sure the medicines were prescribed at the right doses. After things looked good I was sent back to my ob/gyn.