Dacy is a patient I’ve known for many years.
I first met her at 27 years of age after she’d tried to conceive for 12 months.
She stopped the contraceptive pill and found her periods to occur only every 4 months.
PCOS Stories 14 Megan’s PCOS story
Names have been changed for confidentiality
I saw Megan today for review in my fertility clinic. Megan and her partner John have been trying to conceive with PCOS for the past 3 years.
She has very infrequent menstrual cycles and only has a period about once a year… So to help her get pregnant with PCOS she required fertility treatment to induce ovulation.
PCOS Stories 13 Getting Pregnant With Clomiphene Citrate
I saw Karen today in my fertility clinic.
She is a 32 year old woman whom I had diagnosed as having PCOS after stopping the contraceptive pill to conceive, and not having had a menstrual cycle for 10 months.
For all you women with PCOS this lack of a menstrual cycle indicates no ovulation of an egg…. and is the main reason for not getting pregnant with PCOS.
PCOS Stories 12 Min Yi’s PCOS Story
Names have been changed for confidentiality
I met Min in 2010 after her and husband Jonathon had been trying to conceive on and off for 5 years. Her menstrual cycles were occurring between 8 and 10 weeks apart.
Fertility tests confirmed her PCOS diagnosis and all other fertility investigations on them both came back normal.
Trying To Get Pregnant With PCOS For 7 Months
Q/ Greetings of the day doctor!!
I am 31 Years old, 3 years of marriage and now planning to get pregnant,
but having problem since last 6-7 months.
I have been having PCOS, and trying to get pregnant for last 6 months. My periods are irregular and last time i had my periods was 10th Feb 2011.
I went to my gynae, and she has given me medicine to get periods, and has suggested me to come on the second day of my period, as she suggested me to get pregnant by injecting ovulation. Kindly suggest is it safe??
PCOS Stories 5 – Getting Pregnant With Ovulation Induction
Josie’s Story: Getting Pregnant With Ovulation Induction
I want to talk to you about Josie who by the way is pregnant and well now after her fertility treatment, but she did develop two known problems as a consequence of her fertility treatment.
Josie is a 29 year old university student with PCOS who had been trying to conceive for 18 months before I saw her in my clinic. We tried to help her to conceive through the fertility treatment of ovulation induction with the hormone tablet Clomiphene Citrate (Clomid), but no ovulation occurred despite increasing the tablet dose up to 150 mg of Clomid.
In fertility talk we call this having “Clomid resistance”.
PCOS Stories 3 – Camille’ s PCOS Story
Camille came to visit me today to show me her gorgeous daughter Arina, now 9 months old, and to discuss the next step in getting pregnant with child number 2.
I first meet her and husband Peter back in 2007 with a history of having no menstrual periods since stopping her contraceptive pill 12 months earlier. All her tests confirmed the diagnosis of PCOS.
The fallopian tube tests and semen tests were normal. So lack of ovulation (called anovulatory infertility) was the main cause for their infertility.
Back then Camille was in the overweight range with a body mass index of 29 (normal 19-25, my fertility book discusses BMI in detail). Due to back problems she could not undertake any physical activity to get her weight down.
In 2007 I started her on the fertility treatment tablet Clomid (Clomiphene Citrate) to help induce ovulation of her eggs from the ovary. But despite increasing doses of Clomid over 3 cycles her ovaries did not respond ( see Clomid in Fertility Treatment section) and treatment was therefore stopped.
During this time Camille commenced back treatment and managed to lose 5 kg by increasing exercise and dietary changes. With great delight 4 months later her menstrual cycle had returned to a regular pattern. I received a phone call from her to say she was pregnant and had conceived spontaneously.
I just love hearing pregnancy stories like this.
Just by losing weight and getting her body mass index down to a healthy number for pregnancy, Camille’s menstrual cycle switched back on and she started ovulating in a regular fashion… which of course lead to getting pregnant with PCOS spontaneously.
Studies on women with PCOS have proven that by losing 5%-10% of body weight can improve cycle regularity, ovulation and increase pregnancy chances.
PCOS Stories – Stories About Women With PCOS
“PCOS Stories” are a collection of weekly stories from women with PCOS
My name is Dr Raewyn Teirney and I’m a fertility specialist. I see women daily for IVF and fertility treatment
What I’ll be doing is sharing with you some real stories from women just like you, who are having problems getting pregnant or having difficulty losing weight for pregnancy, and having setbacks such as miscarriages. [Read more…]