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I found out I had PCOS in 2/99 when I had my consult with my OB...or rather old OB/GYN.  I was a late bloomer when it came to AF...not even starting until a wee****il I turned 15.  I spotted for a week and that was it...for a few months.  I'd have AF...wait 3 months...AF again...waited 6m AF again then I went a whole year before my next AF.  Doc's explaination was that teenage girls normally aren't regular.  Huh...whatever.  I went on the pill when I got serious about my DH (I was 17...we'd been kinda seeing eachother for about a year) and all was good.  We got married in 10/96 and in 7/96 I stopped taking the pill as we wanted kids and since I wasn't regular we figured it would take a little...had no idea it would take me 9 years to get pregnant.  Anyway after I stopped the pill my body went haywire and I started massive weight gain & facial hair.  I started seeing a doc about it in the summer of 97 and she didn't have a clue in her head to save her own life let alone anyone elses.  She said that my weight gain caused my absence of periods and facial hair.  I started popping diet pills and over a year only lost 30lb.  Oh and through all this AF never returned and when I brought it up with her she'd tell me 'oh we'll worry about that after you get under 200lb'...well I never did.  One day I went in for my weigh in and was told that she was no longer a part of the medical group and that they could not see me but were going to establish me with another doc. 

I chose to switch medical groups and elected my old OB/GYN (he just left the group last month) as my PCP as he also did that.  My 1st visit with him he listened to my history and diagnosed me immediately.  WHAT A RELIEF!!  It wasn't all in my head!  Then of course we began the clomid/provera cycle to get prego...many years later aftger my bypass I was finally able to be PCOS symptom free & a mom of 2!

Kristy