anyone else with PCOS trying to get pregnant?
It's so great reading everyone's announcements and seeing all of your positive pregnancy tests, but I am left terrified.
I got my career going, I scored the most amazing husband a girl could dream of, we just bought our first house, we have a wonderful social life and supportive family. We have it all...almost. And we decided that the one thing we don't have yet but are ready to have, is a baby. Hopefully several. But I have PCOS.
Weight gain, can't lose it. Hair growth where it shouldn't be. Hormones are a wreck; your typical PCOS nightmare. I had an IUD for 2 years (placed when hubby and I started dating), and just over a month ago it was removed. I had one 4 day period almost immediately after having it out, and have had nothing since. No spotting or anything. I have had uncontrollable cravings and my emotions have been all over the place. Slight breast tenderness but not as bad as I have had before. I had one day where I cramped slightly, but moreso located to the left where I have had a problem with cysts rupturing before. Now I am having smell aversions. It has only been 5 weeks since the IUD came out, and I am terrified because I don't want to get my hopes up. I'm sitting here staring at a pregnancy test and I can't bring myself to take it. My husband lovingly jokes about the baby he put in me when I mention a symptom, but it's almost too much for me to handle because I can't laugh at the situation, it's much too scary.
Is there anyone else on this app with PCOS that can relate? It feels very lonely because none of my friends have PCOS nor are they trying to conceive. My husband is my rock but this is one thing that he doesn't understand, and no one faults him for it. He just tries to keep his cool when our parents constantly ask us for grandchildren.
Relevant: I'm currently on 1,000mg Metformin HCL (common medication for management of PCOS to stave off developing T2DM) and started taking prenatals when the IUD was removed.
Fingers crossed! But I'm still too scared to pee on that stick.
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