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Making Sense of PCOS
Answers to Common Questions About Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
By Shel Franco
Does PCOS Mean Infertility?
"Most women with PCOS are infertile," Dr. Glueck says. But it is not impossible to conceive. Once ovulation is re-established some women do become pregnant. With proper care, the pregnancy can go full term.
Kindra Hooton Guest, of Birmingham, Alab., found that after months of different fertility drugs and dosages, something finally clicked. "[My OB/GYN] started me on Provera to induce a period and had me chart my cycles and take my temperature every morning," she says. "After two months of no temperature changes, [the doctors] realized I was not ovulating and started me on Clomid. I still did not ovulate, so they increased the dosage."
Six months later, Hooton Guest was sent to a fertility specialist. He tried a higher dose of Clomid at a different time during her menstrual cycle. "I got pregnant that month," she says.
According to data from CARS, "The PCOS ovaries are typically 1.5 to three times normal size. In some cases the ovary is virtually filled with small cysts."
When Cindy Price, of Franklin, Ind., saw her ovaries on the ultrasound screen, she couldn't determine what she was seeing. "The follicles just looked like a bunch of white dots on the screen to me," she says. But her doctor 
knew. "She said that [the follicle build-up] was not shedding off like it should, which was classic PCOS," Franklin says.
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Re: Making Sense of PCOS by anonymous on 06/23/2009 05:48AM
pleaz help me i want to concieve but m sufring with pcos plus secondry amenorrhea and andrgenisation.thanx m doctr