Welcome!  I am glad you are here. Grab a lunch and settle back for a long story. I was diagnosed with PCOS on August 3.  I knew I had it long before then, I was just unable to find a doctor with brains enough to figure it out. In 1991 I gave birth to wonderful baby boy. He was 1 month and 1/2 premature and weighed in at 8 lbs 14 1/2 oz! Since then I have had problems. For 4 years I went without a period(yippee! i thought then)unless it was assisted with the help of Provera.  So every 3 or 4 months I would decide it was time to have "a visit" and take the provera.  I couldn't see any reason to voluntarily bring that torture on myself. Now for the past 4 years, that's all I have been having (ick!).  My moods were so unpredictable that my husband thought for sure I was  mental!  I would be so happy talking and laughing. I could leave the room and come back an entire different person.  I would be so mad I could have burried him in the backyard and not missed him for months! There was also the times I would just bawl like a newborn baby for no reason at all.  During the holidays, I kept Kleenex in business.  There should be a warning on all those Hallmark Movies and commercials they play during the movie.  I even cried during the Brady Bunch!!!
I went to several different doctors to find out what the problem was. I was bleeding all the time with heavy clotting.  I even started growing hair where I didn't want it! That's right....on my neck and chin.  My husband sports a full beard and here I was running a very close race with him.  It was horrible.  I plucked it for a few years, then I shaved it for a few years.  I have extremely dark hair so I couldn't hide it.  I bleached it.  I even waxed it. (I DO NOT recommend that.  with the hair came skin)  I heard of a laser hair removal treament.  I called all over town trying to find someone who practiced it.  Finally, I called a dermotology center and yes they did it.  It costs 400.00.  I have been doing those treatments since December 1998, and it is now August 1999.  I go once a month and the hair is gone!  I feel much better about myself now.  I recommend it if you can find someone in your area who does it.  All I ever heard was that if I would lose weight my menses would return to normal. They said it like all I had to do was just say  "poof I want to be skinny!"  If it was just that easy.  I knew there was more wrong with me than just my weight.  Yes, I am overweight, but I knew in my heart that there was something else going on.  My sex drive was almost nil.(hubby will say it was nil). The strain all this put on my marriage was the worst part of all.  I have the most wonderful husband, confused, but never the less, wonderful.   On August 3. 1999 I went to yet another doctor. I explained everything that had happened over the course of the last 8 years.  He did the inevitable exam and scheduled me for a  D& C in a week! Lets recap: no doctor I had been to had even mentioned a  D&C, and now after 30 minutes with me, this one is going to fix me?!!! I was so excited and so scared.  He talked to me after the exam in his office. He said that he was pretty sure I had a disorder called PCOS.  FINALLY! I found my miracle man.He knew what was wrong with me and I didn't have to tell him.  What a relief. I am now on my way to a treament for this disorder.  Please come back often for more updates to my story and what is working and not working for me.  I have a lot of laboratory tests and physical exams to go through over the 2 weeks.  When I have the results, I will put them here.
August 11, 1999: Today I had a D & C to see if we could stop the bleeding.  It really wasn't so bad.  I was out for it, thank goodness.
August 17, 1999: It has been almost a week since the D & C.  It seems to have worked. I have been spotting here and there but it has been wonderful. I go to the doctor tomorrow to find out what we are going to do now.  He thinks he can put me on hormones to help with my periods.  Will keep ya posted!
August 18, 1999: Went to the dr today for the post surg check up. everything was good no cancer.(yippeeeeee)  He put me on provera to see if we could get my menses regualted. (lets hope so) so i guess i am through for a while. thanks for checking back will post anything new here if it happens.  enjoy the rest of my "home"
good luck to you and  god bless
January 13, 2000: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! Well as you can see it has been quite a while since I have been here.  Alot has happened.  I took the provera in september like I was supposed to.  I had a really heavy period that lasted for almost 2 weeks. ICK!!!  So I decided not to do that again.  I wanted to see if my body could do this on it's own.  I mean, that is what I had the D&C for was to clean out my system and get it working again.  So I haven't taken the provera since. I did have a "visit" in october but it only lasted for 2 days.  I am thinking to myself, "this isn't good".  I still however don't take the pills for november.  I had a pretty decent period that month.  I lasted about 4 days and was pretty normal. December brought new hope for me.  I had a real period on my own.  It lasted a little longer than I hoped for.  It was about 9 days.  I am hoping that my body is looking for it's own schedule and will keep on doing it's job for me.  I quit smoking on August 30, 1999 so therfore I am sporting some extra baggage.  I am now going to a doctor to help me lose some of this weight.  This too, will help with PCOS.  Will talk to yall soon.