INFERTILITY/FERTILITY/PCOS PART 1

Let's talk about our current situation to try and have a baby!

I was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) at 19years old. PCOS is a condition by where it makes it hard for a woman to fall pregnant, your periods can be few and far between, you struggle to ovulate, you can have excessive growth of hair and facial hair or even gain excessive weight. 

So I was diagnosed with this horrible condition and unlucky for me I had the excessive facial hair, the excessive weight gain and periods that would arrive and be their for a whole month, wouldn't see them for 6 months or more and I was not ovulating at all. 

At that time I was around the 100kg mark and was given the contraceptive pill to try and bring my periods back and hope that I would lose some weight, it helped my periods return for a short space of time but it never helped reduce the symptoms of PCOS or lose any weight. 

I was then taken of the pill and give duromine (a weight loss pill with legal speed in it) yes I lost some weight but once you are taken off it you then end up putting twice the anount of weight on, and my weight kept ballooning as I kept comfort eating. 

I ended back on the pill for a while and we focused on planning our wedding. 

After getting married we decided we would start trying for a family, we tried for a few months with no success! So we decided we both needed to lose some weight and started our own weight loss regime and managed to lose 17kgs which brought me down at the time to 157kgs. But then we started trying for a baby again and we weren't falling pregnant so we decided to give up for a while and I began comfort eating and not watching my weight so I truly have no idea how much I weighed before I lost the weight before surgery. 

A lot of issues come about and we ended up moving from the western suburbs of Melbourne and down to South Gippsland. 2years after moving down this way I decided to get lap and surgery as we truly wanted a family but I wasn't going to get pregnant being so heavy and having PCOS that was out of whack. 

It was advised when I had surgery in June 2014 that I was to wait at least a year before we could try to fall pregnant. 

We then decided to get Rob tested as he has a condition called CAH (congenital adrenal hyperplasia) this condition they are born with and go through puberty at the age of two in the regards of growing pubic hair, underarm hair and then as they hit 9 years of age they have fully grown beards. Because of this condition and the early development rob was given steroids from a baby to stunt the excessive growth that their bodiesgo through  from  the time they are a baby. 

Rob then completed a sperm analysis test to see what was going on, when the results came back that rob was infertile and nothing was seen on the test not even dead sperm it was the most heartbreaking thing we had gone through, knowing how badly we wanted a baby and not being able to have a child together absolutely killed us.

When we left the doctors that we needed to take some time to come to terms with it all, so continued on our journey to try and lose weight and explore our options much later on. 

Tune in a few days for Part 2. 

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