PCOS-my doctor said that women with PCOS are have increased fertility as they age - true?
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Anonymous
| I was told that as well. My periods became regular around age 37. However, I completely revamped my diet - cut out all processed foods and lowered my carb intake, so I'm on the fence as to why. |
Anonymous
| I absolutely believe this. We PCOS woman do have a better chance of getting pregnant as we get older. But also along with that is truly making an effort to maintain a good diet and exercise regiment combined will increase ur chances even more. Ur period will regulate itself and your body can begin to run like a well oiled machine. You can feel the difference in your overall health and well-being. I also stioped taking all the cramp the doctors were prescribing me to do called help manage my PCOS. You can manage ur symptoms naturally with a little bit of effort and consistency...Then wallah! You'll find at age 37 you can conceive just as naturally as a woman who doesn't suffer from this awful syndrome. Believe me, I thought I would never get pregnant. I had truly given up hope. Now at age 37 pregnant with my first child. I'm so happy!!!! ??? |
Anonymous
| The New Scientist is not a peer-reviewed scientific journal. |
Anonymous
| These stories are really heart warming and gives me hope of becoming a mom. I had only one period last year January at the age of 40( I just turn 41on May 7,2017) but since the year began I had 3 periods so far and lost a bit of weight. My only problem is my husband who refused to do a sperm test that he was to do over 7yrs now; he even lied that he did it but all now his test results can't? get back the doctor. So I not getting any where with him. It hurts so bad to love someone so much but they do is to lie and deceived you so I decided to get a sperm donor whether he like or not because if I wait on him I will never be a mother, the one thing I want more than anything. He keeps saying he loves me but couldn't be true because if he does he wouldn't be lying and deceiving me. If anyone thinks I'm wrong to go ahead and try to get a donor on my own, please tell me. |
Anonymous
| I have PCOS. I had been told I'd need drugs and procedures to get pregnant, and I chose not to. I also stopped BCPs because I hated the side effects of the hormones, and we figured that we really didn't need to use anything. So I got pregnant twice at 38 and 39 with zero assistance or interventions. You just don't know what your body is going to do. |
Anonymous
Are you planning to stay married to him? Don't have kids with someone you don't trust. |
Anonymous
| 38. PCOS. Surprise natural pregnancy! |
Anonymous
| I just wanted to thank you for posting this, as I can see myself in it. I was never diagnosed with PCOS, nor knew such a thing existed. I had light and very infrequent periods all the way into my mid thirties. I couldn't get pregnant with my first for over a year and only then on pills stimulating ovulation and then on the first try two years later when I was approaching 30. Had all the symptoms described but not weight gain. I am in mid 40 and since around 38 it has been a period nightmare. Every two weeks, I don't know if that means I could get pregnant, but it might as in my 20s I had maybe 4,5 periods per year, so how to get pregnant if you basically aren't ovulating? |
Anonymous
| I have never been diagnosed with PCOS and have no symptoms other than extremely irregular periods (2-4 times/year from age 14-mid 30s) and infertility (resolved by clomid/IUI). But, right when I turned 37, I began having regular periods for the first time in my life. Every 29 days. It is totally bizarre- though I can't comment on fertility impact because we're not trying for more kids. |
Anonymous
| Just wondering, for all of you who have found this premise to be true - did the symptoms (acne, excess hair, etc.) improve along with this? |
Anonymous
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here is what NIH thinks about it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23557762 |
Anonymous
| I have PCOS- pretty severe PCOS with every symptom. I conceived my twins via my first cycle of IVF at age 33. I can tell you that after pregnancy my periods have resumed and I am ovulating as well. |
Anonymous
| This is very interesting. I never had a normal cycle. At 32 I started exercising a lot and lost some weight. My period immediately started to get regular. At 34 I got pregnant without trying. That baby is almost a year old and my cycle is 28 to 34 days now. I'm very interested in this thread. |
Anonymous
This is my experience too. Now in early 40s with regular periods something that never happened in my teens, twenties or thirties. I conceived my last child age 39. |
Anonymous
I know 4 women who did IVF for PCOS and had babies and then got pregnant naturally within a year. One woman had a third boy born when her twins were 11 months old! I think pregnancy must do something to make your hormones more regular. So keep the faith and use birth control after having babies even if you think you don't need to! (Btw met these women in an infertility chat group... don't just randomly have a lot of friends with pcos 
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