PCOS

[BZButterfly79 19]

I am humbly asking all of the post ops who before surgery had been diagnosed with PCOS, if you have you know all the symptoms which are too painful for me to list here, what I want to know from you is whether or not your symptoms lessened, went away, and do you feel better now in respect to the PCOS. I spent 3 years going to my OBGYN telling him something was wrong and he told me that PCOS was in woman's head that if I stopped being lazy and exercised I wouldn't have any problems(yes I switched doctors). Thank you for your reply and your honesty.

[Was a humpty dumpty 35]

I was diagnosed in my early 20's. I was very heavy when I got married and did have trouble conceiving. Both times I did get pregnant I weighed 128 pounds. Of course I was never able to keep it off.

I had a hysterectomy about 6 years ago due to all kinds of problems.

[kate 0]

I am humbly asking all of the post ops who before surgery had been diagnosed with PCOS, if you have you know all the symptoms which are too painful for me to list here, what I want to know from you is whether or not your symptoms lessened, went away, and do you feel better now in respect to the PCOS. I spent 3 years going to my OBGYN telling him something was wrong and he told me that PCOS was in woman's head that if I stopped being lazy and exercised I wouldn't have any problems(yes I switched doctors). Thank you for your reply and your honesty.

Hi I am only three weeks out from the sleeve surgery, but all the things my doctor told me about your body resetting itself is true...I have not only felt differences with my body I can tell things are changing...I was diabetic and had htn along with the PCOS, the diabetes and htn are gone and things are still changing for me so hang in there I have a very good outcome already and I think with great certainty that I will not have this issue in atleast in the intensity that I have had in the near future....Good Luck!!!

[seattle sleeve 1]

I am humbly asking all of the post ops who before surgery had been diagnosed with PCOS, if you have you know all the symptoms which are too painful for me to list here, what I want to know from you is whether or not your symptoms lessened, went away, and do you feel better now in respect to the PCOS. I spent 3 years going to my OBGYN telling him something was wrong and he told me that PCOS was in woman's head that if I stopped being lazy and exercised I wouldn't have any problems(yes I switched doctors). Thank you for your reply and your honesty.

wow, your first dr sounds like an ass!

When my surgeon asked me about what meds I took and I mentioned I took metformin for PCOS, he laughed and said that after this surgery I wouldn't need it anymore, he said he's seen the PCOS problems reverse in many women, so I am very much looking forward to seeing that!

[mp8btpc 33]

I am currently googling PCOS...I know what it stands for but not sure what it entails.

EDIT: ok wow it sounds NO FUN at all. If surgery can help aleviate it that would be wonderful for sure! Good luck and best wishes.

[Alish 2]

I'm almost 3 months out, the only difference I've noticed with my PCOS is weight loss. I do get periods since I've had 10% of my ovaries removed though, so I can't really say on that. Google "ovarian drilling for PCOS"; I had something kind of like this. That made my cycles become regular for the most part, it did not cure my infertility.

I don't think you would need metformin after this surgery at all, since your body learns to work with such a small amount of food I'm sure that your insulin resistance will regulate. You can probably expect your cycles to regulate, but as far as the other symptoms disappearing...that's a long shot. I've been a "thin" PCOSer; I've been very thin at points in my life for very long stretches and I've never had my symptoms disappear. I worked out for 3 years when I was younger, I had excellent muscle tone; my periods returned to normal for two years but none of my other symptoms went away. Working out is supposed to lower overall testosterone in PCOS women.

I'm lucky to not have horrible symptoms, I do get irregular periods, facial and body hair, overweight (hopefully not anymore after the sleeve!), and skin tags. I don't get the dark Patches and I'm grateful for that. I can honestly say my Hair growth has not slowed down at all since my surgery, and my skin tags are still in abundance. My periods have been kind of wonky also, probably due to the weight loss and exercise.

I think the best bet for the embarrassing PCOS symptoms is laser hair removal, I'm planing to get this at some point. I can live with the skin tags. As for infertility, that's usually not to hard to deal with if you don't get periods, usually all that is needed is something like Clomid or Femara to induce ovulation. The weight loss is a big one but I've done the sleeve for that YAY!

You wanted to know if I feel better in respects to my PCOS? Well that would be yes, I do. I think that is just based on weight loss though, the PCOS made it hard for me to lose weight and let me tell you that 38lbs makes a huge difference on how easy it is to move!!!!!!

I think you will feel a million times better with a sleeve, and once you lose some weight your periods should get normal. It usually doesn't take long, maybe 2 months after the sleeve...possible even 4-6 weeks. Should be about the same amount of time that it would take the Met to work.

Feel free to message me if you have any questions

[mp8btpc 33]

I am curious...with the extra testosterone, pardon my bluntness but does that make you more sexual? I had only heard of PCOS once before joining this website. I had no idea it was not all that rare.

[Alish 2]

I am curious...with the extra testosterone, pardon my bluntness but does that make you more sexual? I had only heard of PCOS once before joining this website. I had no idea it was not all that rare.

In my case no, and I've never really heard another PCOSer say that it made them more sexual. Generally, when a woman is around ovulation is when she is feeling the most "sexual", as for us PCOS women we don't ovulate normally and so we don't get that "need"; kind of like how being on birth control that prevents ovulation. Your sex drive is still there but not like it is off of them. The testosterone gives us the wonderful extra hair growth in the wrong places, and Hair loss. There my be some women that are more sexual but I'm not one of them unless it's around my fertile time.

The reason you've probably never heard of that many women having it is because it was majorly under-diagnosed. I had a similar experiance with a DR. as the original poster. He basically told me "no, women with PCOS look a certain way; you don't have it, you're fine". Actually, I still get DR.'s telling me there is no way I have it...then I show them the blood work and ultrasounds and they are like "wow, you do". So it's still really under-diagnosed and one of those things that DR's have set in stone as far as symptoms and the way someone looks who has PCOS. It's unfortunate, and I'm lucky to have found a fertility specialist that does educational seminars on PCOS to teach the masses.

[pcos_chick 23]

I'm Pre-op but I can share what my doctors have told me... which is this surgery will NOT cure my PCOS (not the in way some diabetics are cured) but it will help the symptoms 75% if I can lose the weight. The more you weigh the more the symptoms increase. They did say that I would be able to stop the Metformin though they didn't say when specifically. I think the big factor there is that I'm done having little ones (two lovely girls, go go metformin!) My surgeon said I'd stop taking it three days before surgery but after I'm healed up it would depend on my rate of weight loss and other symptoms (sugar cravings, etc.)

Hope that helps.