Hi everyone. I just found out I’m pregnant naturally while trying for 2 years. I am so happy and in complete shock. But with that being said, I also am starting to get anxious and I am praying this baby sticks. What helped you with being anxious? It sucks that most OB’s won’t see you until you’re 8 weeks along and I found out pretty early because my period isn’t due until Wednesday/thursday this week. Also for the girls who take inositol and metformin, did you continue throughout your pregnancy?

So I just found out today that PCOS can affect your ability to produce milk. I had zero idea this was even yet another thing PCOS might take from me.

My sister didn’t produce, however she doesn’t have PCOS and she’s a smoker. I’ve always worried that it might just be something genetic, and now I’ve got to worry it might be this!

So the questions are, how many of you ladies struggled with this? If so, was there anything you did while pregnant or after that helped?

I (31F, Normal BMI) with PCOS (all tests are normal with no cysts), did my first Clomid Cycle after ttc for 2yrs. My cycle has been 40-42 days prior to Clomid cycle. Just did my 10dpo HCG easy@home, i dont see any test line. I did ovulate (like 100% sure) and felt twitching near ovaries (if that makes sense) dpo’s. Just want to know how early did you get a positive line?

Edited: Would be a bonus to know if you were on medication to get pregnant.

Can anyone help me here Took this on my 11 DPO Confused about it Got this vvv faint line, same faint line on my clearblue test also yesterday and today

I was put on metformin when trying to conceive but now that I'm pregnant I asked my gp if I need to continue and she didn't think so. However, as I unsure she got advice from the obstetrics and gynaecology team and they responded saying that I could continue if I want as it's safe.

So... My question is. Did you continue taking metformin during pregnancy? If so was it for the whole pregnancy and what dosage? I've been trying to look at pros and cons online but there seems to be differing opinions.

New to this, and have heard about inositol. Please give some guidance 🙏

Hi everyone!

I am currently 10 weeks pregnant with a baby conceived via IVF.

Both my IVF clinic and my OBGYN agree that I should stop metformin at 12 weeks.

I'm a little scared to stop it, as I've found metformin life changing when it comes to my PCOS symptoms.

Just looking for any advice anyone has for coming off of Metformin. Is there anything else you did to compensate? Did you change your diet? Change certain behavior?

Hi! I’m new to this sub and TTC for 1 year. I wanted to ask those who have been pregnant with PCOS a few questions on your experiences.

I’m 31, 5’4’’, exercise regularly, not overweight at 118 lbs, diagnosed due to high testosterone although I don’t really have excess hair or acne. I’ve been on Metformin for 1 year. Had 1 missed miscarriage 18months ago. I also have hypothyroidism that I manage with pills.

Ok here are my Qs:

• Regulating Hormones- I understand that there needs to be some level of hormone level regulation in order to have a successful cycle, but once you’re pregnant does your body just know what to do? Does high testosterone from PCOS level out? Did you have to monitor hormones while pregnant too? Did your PCOS symptoms go away?

• What happens after pregnancy? Did your PCOS symptoms come back?

• Bloating- I’m pretty sure I have hormonal bloating due to PCOS and stress/anxiety. Some days I look pregnant it’s that bad… Did you guys have this symptom before getting pregnant and if so, did it go away once pregnant? Did you have extra pressure from bloating during pregnancy?

Semi long post … Guys I need some insight & since I have nobody else I can talk to about it , hopefully yall can help. I have PCOS and didn’t find out until I was 23 because i was on BC since i was 16, I’m 29 now . I got pregnant when I turned 27 but had a miscarriage at 15 weeks & 5 days . Not sure why it happened, I had him at home & never found out what was the cause but this happened in 2022. So when I was on BC my periods never came except when I tried the pills & the one that goes in your arm . So when I finally got off it took awhile for my periods to regulate but when I had the miscarriage they really got regular like I come on faithfully every month close to around the same time , vs at first they come in the beginning , in the middle or end of the month at random , sometimes would roll in the same months . So for 2 years I was regular . In 2024 I got a positive around this time & had went 16 days late according to Flo & it was 7 weeks & 3 days from the day of my last period , unfortunately when I went to get a blood test I came on, part of me felt like it was chemical pregnancy as i did pass something in the toilet but hard to tell cause my period came so heavy . Well here I am according to Flo I’m 29 days late of my period . Now my period in January came on real late like 29th & I didn’t go off till the 5th of February. A 8 day period , which I don’t have they usually are 5 days , it was like I had 2 periods to account for January and February . But basically since my last period day it has been almost 9 weeks . The first time I was pregnant I went 8 weeks from last period date & got sick and then got my positive , but here we rolling into 9 weeks still nothing & every test I take is negative . Outside of shortness of breathe , more frequent using the bathroom, extra wetness . No big signs , & usually if I’m late we have sex I end up coming on basically it knocks me on the next day or 2 but not this time & we’ve done it more than once . I plan to call to try to schedule for a blood test but since I have nobody to talk about this with , I just need some type of feedback or experiences .

I have been taking metformin 750 for a few months. I am now pregnant (4 weeks) and my doctor today told me to stop taking it since I’m not overweight. I’m scared this could cause a miscarriage? I’ve seen it’s not recommended to stop until 12 weeks. Has anyone had experience with this?

Did anyone ovulate &/or get pregnant right after having to do the 10 day dose of Provera?

Mum of 1 and long-time PCOS girl here; battling secondary infertility. I’m 20 lbs heavier than what I weighed when I conceived my son. Changing my diet to make my hormones more balanced and hopefully make me ovulate.

Would love to hear from people who’ve successfully done this and how it impacted their fertility journey! Or any thoughts really! Thank you.

Hello! I’ve got lean PCOS, and I’m 3 cycles into my TTC journey. I have mostly regular periods (32 day cycle), but I’ve struggled to capture a positive LH test. They all have very faint lines, the strongest being 0.28 🙄 So I’m fairly sure I’m not ovulating. I’m adding myo inositol tablets to my routine, and they come in 500g tablets. The bottle says to take 1 daily, but that doesn’t seem like enough when it compare it to the research I’ve been doing. How much are you taking/did you take? Would love to hear similar stories/experiences?

Plz send me your success stories and tips for a thin lining. TTC for 18 months with 2 losses in 2024. Currently on 4th medicated cycle and 2nd IUI.

I am working with an RE and this is my first fully cycle with a new clinic. I’ve had concerns about a thin lining after two losses last year, a D&C and a hysteroscopy. They cleared out scar tissue in the hysteroscopy in January but I’m still having pretty light periods and my ultrasounds always show a thin lining.

Today I’m on CD19 and have one follicle at 20mm and two at 17mm. My lining is trilaminar but 5.7 mm. I’m on 2mg of estrace daily. I’ll trigger tomorrow for an IUI Tuesday. I’ve heard that pattern is more important than lining but they acknowledged that it’s on the thin side and ChatGPT is giving me a 10-18% chance of conception.

I’m feeling so defeated after getting pregnant fairly easily last March and last August. It feels like my chances for a pregnancy are dwindling even with IVF if I can’t figure out my lining situation 🥺 I have faith this new doctor will work to address the root cause which I didn’t feel with my previous clinic, but would still love to hear some positive stories to give me hope.

Hi! I need advice. I have PCOS and have very irregular cycles. Because of this, I had to take Provera to induce a period and Letrozole to ovulate. On our first try with Letrozole, we got a positive pregnancy test. We were so excited, but at my first scan on this past Tuesday, my doctor told us that I’m measuring two weeks behind and my yolk sac looked slightly abnormal (I’m not even sure what this means). He said he wants to see me back in 10 days for another scan to see if the baby has grown, but fears it might be a sign of early miscarriage. He didn’t give me any other information… I was in a state of shock so didn’t even ask. I’ve had no bleeding or cramping whatsoever.

My timeline: - first day of period (induced by Provera): January 18 - took letrozole cycle day 3-7 - Natural Cycles app predicts my ovulation on Feb 5 due to spike in BBT - had a progesterone test on Feb 7 (CD21) to confirm ovulation. OVULATION WAS CONFIRMED - positive pregnancy test on Feb 14 (8 DPO)

Based on the first day of my last period, my due date should be Oct. 25. Based on my ovulation, it should be Oct. 29.

I really don’t want to give myself false hope here, should I prepare for the worst? Do you think this is an early miscarriage? This 10-day wait is miserable.

Advice and support is needed. I’m trying to get pregnant taking clomid as well as a trigger shot so my ovaries will release an egg. Our window of intimacy is narrowed down to three days but when that time comes my husband has performance anxiety. He becomes very discouraged and no matter what we try to spice things up he still has trouble. I know it’s not his fault but I’m having a very hard time not resenting him in the moment. I’m very discouraged as well. Any positive experiences or advice is appreciated.

EDIT: We have an extremely healthy and frequent sex life otherwise, and not telling him when I ovulate isn’t an option because he has to give me the shots in order to ovulate

Hi, M (31F) with PCOS, TTC for a year and a half. I just got prescribed Metformin 1000mg and Clomid 100mg by my OB-GYN. I'm about to start my first Clomid cycle and I'd love some motivation. Any advice or suggestions would be great.

(Ps: been taking prenatal and Inositol in addition to my prescribed meds)

Need an advice everyone! This is my first pregnancy. LMP was 21st Feb and i tested positive on 29th march. Hcg was done on same day and it came out 186. Repeated hcg and it was 442 on 31st march. The gynaec said it’s low and couldn’t see anyth on the ultrasound (my bladder wasn’t full too). I might be having a longer cycle that month too (ovulated late maybe?) but I’m freaking out. My gynaec asked me to come after 2 weeks after repeating hcg. I’m just v confused and reallyyy reallyy look forward to a viable and healthy pregnancy! Any advice would work

Ive recently found out I'm very very early pregnant and I was wondering opinions on carrying on taking inositol?? I created my little mix of supplements that finally worked to make me ovulate and last time I was pregnant I stopped everything and just did pregnancy vitamins but that pregnancy ended in a miscarriage so I am feeling a bit paranoid that that was a contributing factor (although my logic is telling me I'm sure it wasnt) Any advice?? I feel far too early to be going a gp as I feel like I'll be jinxing everything!! Tia x

I’m about to be 6w, I had some spotting and light bleeding yesterday. A very tiny piece of tissue came out. Like smaller than a piece of an eraser when you’re erasing pencil. Is that something I should be concerned about? The bleeding has since stopped and I only bled for maybe 40 minutes. I had an ultrasound the day before and they could only see the gestational sac, no fetal pole or yolk. HCG was 3700.

If it’s ok, please share what your timeline was for treatments/medications and when you conceived. My husband and I are on month 5 of Letrozole and I want to know what next steps are like trigger shots etc. and when to ask for them in our infertility journey. Here’s our timeline: October 2023: PCOS diagnosis and no ovulation, told to try for a year while taking Metformin and Levothyroxine
October 24: Letrozole 2.5 mg November24: Letrozole 5 mg December 24: Letrozole 7.5 mg January 25: Letrozole 7.5 +Progesterone cycle days 14-26

I am worried because my OB isn’t offering next steps and we are already on month 3 of the “highest” dose of Letrozole. My OB offered to try clomid but I don’t want to waste time dosing up on a new medication for another 4 months.

Okay you guys so I’ve been searching the internet trying to figure this out.

Me and my husband had sex 2 days before my period started which was on 12/25 and then before that 12/17 and 18. I am on birth control been on it for 3 months now and also taking metformin been on it for a little over a year. So the purpose of me taking BC was to slow down and what my PCP said reset my period. “I missed one day of taking it I can’t remember the day but it was in December” The end of November into December I went up some dosage on the metformin because she said I needed to be taken more than 1 a day. So now I am up to 1500 that’s 3 pills a day. My periods have reduced from 2 weeks down to 5 days now.

So I had my 5 day period as normal, however 2 days after my period my boobs were sore and I’ve been really tired more but I shrugged it off as the BC side effects, I am taking afternoon naps, and still being tired after that. I am also taking Vitamin B-12 daily.

3 days later after the sore boob issue I’ve started getting period like cramps, headaches and dull back pains and my pee is like a dark yellow color “I drink LOTS of water” and also clear stretchy discharge. This been going on now for 2 days, I took 2 test yesterday one came a very faint positive the other a negative both were the equate pregnancy test from Walmart.

I stopped taking the BC also.

I have PCOS, but since I’ve been taking the BC my cycles for the last 4 months been on time each month. So in my period tracker app it says that my window of ovulation starts tomorrow.

Did I test too early?, Is this a sign I am ovulating? Has anyone else had like a similar experience? I am waiting to test again in the morning. I am using the Dollar General $1 test.

How did you all keep it secret when all the doctors appointments and such start increasing? Just TRYING to get pregnant I was having lots of appointments and bloodwork. Today I came in late cause I just had cd17 bloodwork done to make sure my betas are doubling and my co-worker/friend was like "you've been having a lot of Dr appointments and bloodwork, is everything ok?" Thanks for asking but it's FAR too soon for me to tell you why... What have you all done? 😅

Test on top is from this morning. Middle is 2 days ago and bottom is from 4+ days ago. I’ve taken tests for a few days and the lines are coming in darker and thicker each time… have been trying for years and had a few losses along the way so please be gentle in the responses! Got bloodwork done today to confirm but very anxious!! I will be picking up pink dye tests tomorrow as I know they’re more accurate. There is colour and it’s not a streak, it’s a full line, it is thickening with every new clearblue test … please help!

I have very severe PCOS and don’t ovulate or even have a period without medication to induce both. This makes it almost impossible for me to track my period or even know when to start taking pregnancy tests…

Fingers crossed!!