I know this is daft but I really think I need PCOS looked into more! Is there a certain time in month that they should look into it? I relate to a lot of those symptoms!!

• acne - yip
• excess body or facial hair - I know most of us have hair when u look closer but I get one or 2 on my chin ok not uncommon but still a thought.
• unexplained fatigue - yer i think i can relate to that
• sugar craving - pretty much coffee too i have to have coffee an i have to have 2 sugars (in any hot drink in fact or I go mad lol)
• excess weight around the waistline - yip i don't eat much tbh an im not a sweet person yet weight sticks
• mood swings - er yip
• hot flushes (heat intolerance and excess sweating) in young women - yes to hot flushes ...I do sweat a lot an heat annoys me
• sleep disorders including sleep apnoea - can relate to this also
• recurrent spontaneous miscarriages - obvious

http://www.diagnosemefirst.com/PCOS.htm
AG what symptoms can you relate to?

Have you net been tested for this charl????

Am surprised!

If not i hope you can get tests sorted and find out more!

xxx

Well just those standard blood tests but I'm starting to think that wasn't exactly how it should work - It wasn't on any specific date in my cycle.

Symptoms i relate to:

-Irregular or no periods
-Acne
-Excess body or facial hair
-Unexplained fatigue
-Sugar craving
-Excess weight around waistline (my bottom half is a 16/18 but my top half can fit into tops as small as a size 12!)
-Infertility
-Mood swings
-Sleep disorders


I also have a slightly underactive thryroad which i have read can be related

Did you have the cycle day 21 test? Thats the one that i had that determined a possiblity of pcos

i can relate to...

irregular or no periods

acne (just started to get little bits )

excess body or facial hair (only very mild)

unexplained fatigue

Sugar craving

excess weight around the waistline

mood swings

hot flushes (heat intolerance and excess sweating) in young women

acanthosis nigricans: rough, dark skin in the neck folds and arm pits: a mark of severe insulin resistance from any cause (arm pits are very dark, i use skin bleach )

xx

How do you guys deal with the sugar cravings and fatigue?

A friend of mine has this and she has the excess hair, and bless her she has it really bad on her face, I mean she used to shave twice a day. Now she has to have tablets, which played havoc with her until they found the right ones for her and some form of hospital treatment too....

See if you can get a test for it Wobs.....worth a shot! x

I just get on with it AG but I've never really paid attention an nope I was not tested at any certain day of my cycle AG in fact although I told them over an over they didn't even pay attention to the fact I know when I O etc. Hmmmm

Tam what were the tablets can you find out & what were they for? Like Layla only mild but when you look at most women (watch you all run to the mirror lol) most of us do on a closer look. Also my family have the same only worse as they got oler eek