Hi everyone (newbie here)

Well, I won't type much, but I wanted to say Hi. I am Tanya, and I have my make-or-break visit with Dr. Michael Barker (Portsmouth Naval in VA) on Monday, April 12th, and hopefully will have my surgery in late April or early May. I have been dealing with PCOS for many years, but of course, being in the military myself, now having my husband in the navy and now myself being a civilian, I didn't always have the best medical care. I am having surgery to, ONE, get rid of PCOS so that eventually I will have a child, TWO, to get healthy for myself and to be able to live up to my potential, and THREE, I am sick of taking SO many meds to control the PCOS, so it's to have my body be able to do its thing on its own-without a lot of meds.

After having a really bad childhood, I was always really thin-until I got out of my bad situation. I started to gain weight, and never had a regular cycle. I never thought too much about it until I was married and wanted to have a baby. I have now been married for 7.5 years, and can't wait to have a child. I have lost 2 babies-one was conceived with Clomid, and one a spontaneous conception. I will be having the RNY, after going through the vetting process since the beginning of December 2009 (Dr. Hain, the WLS program mental health specialist, wanted to ensure I had proper coping skills given my pretty horrid past and this has been my greatest roadblock-getting appointments to civilian providers. through Tricare takes FOREVER). 

I hope to have fun in this group-and I am glad to be here. 

Tanya

Hi Tanya, I see your surgery date is tomorrow - good luck! This is my first time on the PCOS forum, I've been on the main forum and the RNY forum quite a bit. Just remember, they recommend you wait for awhile (one year?) after having surgery before you try to get pregnant so you'll want to use some sort of birth control for awhile. Anyway, best of luck and let us know how you made out when you're able to.

Meg