Hi everyone!! My name is Rissa and I am a 20 year old from Georgia. I am engaged to a wonderful man named Paul and we are getting married 03/30/2008. He has two beautiful little boys from a previous marriage and we are trying to have a child of our own. We officially started trying this past week and my doctor just put me on Metformin for my PCOS. I'm hoping this group will help me!

Ris

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Hi Ris -

That's great that a Dr. already put you on meds for the PCOS.

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Welcome!! Best wishes to you.

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Hi!! Welcome!

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Doc pretty much went along with what I thought was best since I'd done so much research on it.

He pretty much said that if I wasn't already ovulating that the first three months would be a crap shoot that I could use OPK if I wanted but I could just wait until the 4th month. He said it normally takes 3 months for it to really start working.

I'm not sure about that though. Do any of you know??

Anyway, I had a pos. OPK on Tuesday. So maybe I was already ovulating anyway.

He also said if I didn't conceive within 6 months or so that we could try clomid. I'm kind of skeptical of that though.

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Ris - my money is on learning how to temp and doing the OPK's. That way YOU tell your dr what's going on with your body. Also I can't remember details...but I know that PCOS can affect your OPK's.

I know that 2 of our preggos Christina and Mere got pregnant with PCOS...oh wait I think Lisa did too. So you are in good company.

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I wonder why he would suggest OPKs if PCOS can affect them?

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don't know but if you look at the instructions with your OPK it says the following.

Certain medical conditions & medication may or may not affect the reliability of this test for predicting ovulation. These can include pregnancy, post partum, menopausal symptoms, breat feeding, birth control pills, some fertility medications and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Women with medically diagnosed fertility problems should ask their physicans if the product is suitable for them.

But I know that some of the PCOS girls here used them so hopefully they'll be able to give you more insight.

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It may just be rare for PCOS to affect them but they still have to mention it in the disclaimer.

Who knows.

I guess we'll see....since my doc finds them suitable maybe it'll work.

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I think PCOS can affect OPKS because women with PCOS have elevated levels of LH throughout their cycle, which would give you positive OPKs even though you aren't ovulating. You won't know that unless you get bloodwork done to confirm PCOS though. If you don't have a confirmed diagnosis, I think it's a little weird that your doc is giving you Metformin.

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no no no....i was diagnosed with PCOS over 3 years ago.

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Oh! Okay! That makes sense then. Did they tell you if you have elevated LH levels? If you don't, then an OPK should probably work fine for you.

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They didn't say.

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Welcome Rissa!

I'm one of the PCOS gals that Besty mentioned. I never bothered with OPKs because I almost never ovulated, and I didn't see the point in spending the money for something that wasn't gonna happen anyway. I learned to temp, and it always told me for sure if I had O'ed or not (most likely not). During the year DH and are were TTC, I only O'ed 2x. Once randomly, and once on clomid that got me my BFP.

Welcome to the group! You'll love it here!

Welcome Rissa!

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Thanks guys. I know that I ovulate at some point...obviously since I got the pos OPK unless it was a fluke. I'd conceived before but it ended up to be an ectopic pregnancy but this was almost two years ago or so in a previous relationship.

It is encouraging to me that Paul already has two beautiful boys because I know that his fertility is fine and it helps me because I'll still have them even if I never have a child of my own.

I've grown a lot closer to God in the time I've been with Paul and I've always had this instinct that things would be easy with us and that we won't have a hard time conceiving. We will see. We decided not to be sexually active at all until we were engaged which is when we decided we would start trying to conceive our first child. We got engaged last month after being together for one year exactly (he proposed exactly one year after we first said I love you) and so this is our first month trying.

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Rissa~

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Rissa- Welcome to the group! Join us over on the infertility or TTC side! I'm over on the ttc side, not brave enough to go to the infertility side yet. This will be me and my husbands 6th month ttc after a m/c last september. Babydust to you!

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