pcos?

[apple1234]

Hi, just wanted some advice really so any input would be welcomed. I had a miscarriage in Oct 2008 - 5 weeks and then fell pregnant with my first son two months after. My husband and i have been trying for our second since October last year. In Feb this year i had a miscarriage at 5 weeks, it took 8 weeks for hpts to turn negative. I then had two normal periods and then found out i was pregnant after having a perios bleed for four days?? Yes i took tests even though i thought i was having a period? weird i know!. Anyway that pregnancy failed a week after i found out i was pregnant and again it took 8 weeks for hcg to get out of my system. Anyway i am seeing a specialist privately in the UK and he thought that it was odd that the hcg staying in my system for so long after each miscarriage. Anyway here is where i am really confused after seeing him today. I have always always always ovulated on about day 18/19 of a 29 day cycle, meaning i have a short luteal phase. I get pos opks, loads of ewcm and severve ov pain meaning that i have to lie down during ovulation. Of course i know that does not guarantee ovulation but out of 4 goes this year - 2 have been concieved following these signs. My husband also works away and i have been lucky enough to ovulate at the weekends. Anyway the doctor would NOT and i mean NOT agree that you can ovulate on day18/19 of a 29 day cycle!!He kept saying it was against science! And i was like well if i ovulated on day 14/15/16/17 of my cycle then i must have got pregnant by a ghost man because my husband would not have been there!!!Anyway it just so happens that i got a pos opk yesterday and loads of ewcm -loads tmi. I even said to my husband i bet i get pain tomorrow and ov tomorrow. So i told the doc and he said lets do a scan to see. Straight away on the scan he went to my right ovary where i could feel the same tell tale pain - there were about 9 follicles and he said no your not ovulating and you ovary looks polycysticish - yes with ish on the end!! He wasnt even bothered about the left, which had about three follicles in it. He kept saying that he had been right - even though he hadnt mentioned pcos to me! Anyway i have had the pain so bad i have been in bed for three hours - and i dont know what to think. I have always concieved following these signs and now he says i want ovulating - i dont know whether to trust him because of what he said about my cycles - he said a woman had to have a 14 day luteal phase and this does not change - this is always the case!!! Any thoughts would be welcome esp about the scan - i looked at some pcos scans on the internet and they seem to have follicles around the sides - mine had them in the middle??Also he did it so quick that i didnt really have time to see if there was a larger one which seems to be the norn with ovulation??

 

[apple1234]

Also just to add he said he reckons I ovulated on Tuesday and there is no corpus luteum so prescribed me progesterone supplements. And when I told him about the ewcm he was like no what you had was thick clumpy cm and I was like NOOOO I know my cm was ew I had even shown it to my husband because I couldn't believe there was so much again tmi probably for my husband as well!

 

[bumski]

Oh Hun he sounds like a bit of a nob! (sorry lol)
I don't see how you can have pcos if you ov, a major symptom of it no ov, although you could have pco without the syndrome part, therefore lots of follies but not the effects.

You are obviously ov when you say as you know your BD days not him, there is a problem it seems with your lutuel phase and this can be helped, I would research it a bit and put the evidence to him.

GL to you x

 

[apple1234]

Thanks for replying, i have just been for another scan elsewhere and everything is normal!!!!!I cannot believe i wasted money going to see him, angry but relieved! I agree about the Luteal Phase and i have said the same since i tried to get pg with my son. I think i am going to speak to my GP and ask for clomid to encourage earlier ovulation and then prog to support the luteal phase. Sex ed at school doesnt tell you how hard it can be to get pregnant!!oh and as you can imagine i have been calling him much worse names than nob!!!xx

 

[bumski]

Ha ha! I don't blame you, I have wasted SO much time listening to Drs and would not be this far down the line if I hadn't pushed and pushed!

Saying that I first went to gp about 8 years ago and was told I DIDN'T have pcos! Stupid Drs, I have since been told and proven I have it severe on one ovary and less on the other!

Glad to hear it's all looking good in there for you and I agree, push for the progesterone as that may really help you, GL x

 

[apple1234]

thanks for the reply, it is unbelievable that we put our trust in these people and they can get it so wrong x