From PCOS to Pregnant!!

Elena

This post is dedicated to all my ladies out there with PCOS... I know your pain and I've shed those tears. I'm gonna tell y'all exactly what happened to me. And hopefully, this will help someone out there who is hurting and thinking they will never get their BFP. To begin, my husband and I started ttc Aug 2016. In March 2017 I was diagnosed with PCOS when I went to my PCP for help figuring out why I couldnt get pregnant. I had all the classic symptoms: acne, high testosterone, cystic ovaries, hirsutism, irregular periods and hair loss.

To make a long story short this is what I tried to help me get pregnant: Metformin for months - it did nothing for me considering I am not prediabetic. Preseed - used only once because it made BD'ing too slippery (sorry, tmi).

Temping - helpful in showing my temps were irregular and my hormones were out of whack but that is it. Checked Cervical Mucus - More helpful than temping alone. Supplements - took myoinositol, dchiro, biotin & prenatal vitamins daily. Drank spearmint tea to lower my testosterone (highly recommend! It helped bring my T down from 192 to 24 in one month!) Diet - did low carb for 3 mos and lost 15lbs. But loss too much weight and became bony. Been off low carb for a month because my hair is shedding. So in other words, got pregnant eating carbs!

What was different this month? I stopped tracking and using Glow to help ease the stress of having no success ttc. Decided to stop the metformin and stick with supplements. Tried to eat a regular diet without carb restrictions. And one last thing, but it's the most important thing...

I put ALL MY FAITH IN GOD... Yes, in fact the day I got my BFP I was up at 4:30am because I couldn't sleep. So I decided to talk to God. I was telling Him how much it hurt me not being able to get pregnant. The pain... you feel it in your body. It physically hurts. And cant count how many times I've cried out to God asking Him "why me? why cant I get pregnant? will I never be a mom?" For a while, I had been coming to terms with the fact that I had to trust in God's timing. It took time to let go.

But back to my story...That morning I decided to take a pregnancy test because my period was 3 days past due and I had a gyno appt scheduled that SAME day to get info about starting Clomid. So I grab my test and run off to the bathroom to test while my husband was asleep. Then I see this.

A clear answer... But boy, I tell ya I was in shock the whole morning. I ended up going to my appt but instead of getting a prescription for Clomid, the MA performs 3 pregnancy tests. The first is faint - the doctor says it's negative (because I had already peed twice before, my urine must've been diluted).

Then the MA tries 2 more tests and interrupts the appt to show the Dr and guess what I see... 2 tests with 2 lines each. Not wanting to get my hopes up, I ask for a blood test. Im still waiting for the results, but I'm sure it will be positive as well. Best believe I went home and peed on more sticks. 4 more to be exact lol.

Of all the advice I have read and tried to take myself, I always got hung up on the old "it'll happen when it happens." I hated reading it and hearing it. But to be quite honest, it's true.

If God wants it to happen, it will happen and no sooner or later than when He has determined is the right time. In fact we had BD'd only twice during my fertile period because we were doing it when we wanted to, not because we were on a specific schedule. So have faith my loves... Even through the tears, the pain, the BFNs. Keep praying and thank God daily for your blessings. Im sorry this was long, I'll post a separate post about my early pregnancy symptoms if anyone is interested. Thanks for reading!

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