Help TTC

H I have a 28-32 day cycle so quite normal too.  Am in cycle 11 TTC.  Was going to try vitex just as I wanted to feel like I was doing something something so started grasping at straws!!  decided after reading lots of posts and also google research that it's not worth.  JMO tho.  Vitex has been known to screw up ones "normal" cycle. 

 

Totally your choice but read up on it a little first is my recommendation.

Thanks Bobsta and lisa- i was in two mind about the vitex. i didnt want to take it coz of the resons Bobsta said but thought it also might be good to balance out my hormones

i think ill start taking metaformin (instead of vitex) next cycle and it sounds like it will sort out my hormones as well

it pisses me off that the doctors havent even tested my hormones (or actually done any tests at all) it means i going into this whole thing blind

H I thought to diagnose you with PCOS they would have had to test your hormone levels, how did they diagnose it otherwise?

When I got tested for it, they did blood tests for hormones and insulin levels etc and I had a scan, but it all came back normal apart from a very marginally higher than normal testosterone level- which is why they thought I might have it, but turns out I didnt. They should test that for you as well I think.   

I think you are well within your rights to ask for bloods for your hormones or failing that change doctor because they really should have done that in the first place. I think it would be helpful to know exactly what you're dealing with. And what the metaformin is and why they want you to take it to, just so you understand what it is and how it's going to help....

Doctors are so frustrating huh.

Edited by lisaas101

I was the same as Lisa, had bloods which revealed a slightly elevated level of testosterone, but an internal scan shoed no cysts, so PCO and PCOS were both ruled out (turns out they arent the same thing, to have PCO you have to have/had cysts, while PCOS means you display the symptoms, but not neccessarliy cysts)

I tried vitex as I had shorter than nomral cycles, and it made no difference, so I figured what was shorter than normal for anyone else, must be normal for ME

Metformin on the other hand I did go on, not so much because of the possibility of PCOS, but to help lose weight, and to take advantage of the side effect of boosting fertility. I lost maybe 2-3kg, but that was mostly the side effects of taking it that were causing the weight loss, which wasnt a healthy way to do it (it constantly gave me the scoots which just made me dehydrated instead) and went on something else to lose weight and 10kg later I finally got preg..

If you can afford to, try going directly to FA (or F+ if you have one in the area) and they will do bloods first.. it will cost a bit (app $200 for first vist which includes bloods, internal scan, and an SA on hubby) but it was worth it for us to have some answers, we'd been acitvely TTCing for 9 months at that point