I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was 16 and since then h...

i know how you feel i am now 27 and have been battling as long as you i took metformin and had to be taken off it as my body had a bad reaction to it every time i had taken it. i use to weigh 13st and 3lbs i now weigh 19st 2 lbs and life gets really unbearable sometimes but i just keep going as i am fed up with people saying its pcos all the time and there is nothing you can do about it so i have decided this year i am going to put in 110% and try everything i can to lose weight and if it does not work then i am going to stop worrying and try and get on with my life as i am fed up with pcos taking over my life.

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I was diagnosed with pcos 6 years ago. I am very over weight suffer from depression and bad mood swings, i believe it's all due to pco. I would like to have a baby but as yet there no luck i was 30 in jan 06 and am scared that i havent got much time left. I take metformin twice daily but cant find anything to help with the body hair i dont fancy the thought of waxing i have to shave up to 3 times a week.I even have a very hairy back

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I was only diagnosed last year but have had no support from my GP his responose is to loose weight and that is all he will say. I know that this will help with symptoms loads but as you have all said it isn't easy to loose weight. It's been good to read all your points of view, I will be trying some of the remedies that have been suggested.:yikes::D

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I was diagnosed a year and a half ago after having problems since i was 12 (im now 29!) and after repeatedly telling the docs something was wrong. He even said, "oh whatever, i will send you for a scan even though its a waste of nhs money as u have 2 children" !!! Well I have suffered depression since the age of 15, have put on 2 and a half stome since going on metformin, my hair is thicker and darker, hmmmm, not alot of hope there

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i get very concerned when reading letters like this u almost sound suicidal i have had pcos for 15 yrs been diagnosed for 6 yrs after a great struggle to find the right doctor who would listen to me i get very frustrated when u know there is something wrong and noone will listen i would suggest u find a doctor who will simpothise with u and get a refural to a gynacologist it is not easy but keep fighting i feel like im drugged up on pills every day but its better than how i was feeling

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Yes that has also happend to me. Im 31 years old, have had Pco since i was a teenager. Recently due to me asking the doc's i need help. theyve put me on metformin. Im also taking something for my heavy periods,which once again i had to ask for. Like you, ive got facial hair, male pattern baldness. Hair also on my back, just a little ! thank god.

Now also on tablets for my high blood pressure, which is caused by my PCo. Im also very overweight, but im doing the Paul mckenna system and im loosing weight slowly. Yes loosing weight will be a god send for PCO's but its hard very hard.

YES how comes victoria beckham dont have any symptoms??. I very much doubt that she has PCO's.

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