If you have PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) then you’ll know that getting pregnant can prove more challenging than for women without it. It can affect your fertility by a number of ways including over mature eggs (due to extended cycles), miscarriages, hormone imbalances and sometimes blockages.
But don’t dispair because the good news is that most women with PCOS can and will get pregnant and go on to have happy healthy babies. This article will go over some of the treatment methods that you can try to improve your fertility and chances of having a baby.
The main criteria as to whether you’ll be able to get pregnant or not is whether you ovulate. It doesn’t matter if you ovulate irregularly, late or even skip months. As long as your body is releasing an egg it’s possible to conceive.
Your first step is to start living as healthy a lifestyle as possible. I know that you were probably expecting me to recommend a pill of some kind, but getting yourself in shape will help improve your hormone balance significantly and shouldn’t be overlooked as a starting point. That includes a good diet, exercise and stress relief regime.
If you are overweight then losing weight into a health weight range can improve your hormone balance as well. Many women with PCOS are usually over the recommended weight and by losing a few pounds this can sometimes correct your fertility.
Vitex (Angus Castus) is a great herb to help improve your chances of falling pregnant because it works by balancing the oestrogen and progesterone in the body. It does take a while for the herbs to do their magic but many women with PCOS (and other fertility issues) claim great success by taking Vitex.
Charting your cycles for a few months will let you know if you are deficient in either oestrogen (you will ovulate early with short cycles) or progesterone (short luteal phase and/or frequent miscarriages). If the latter is the case (which is more common) then taking a progesterone suppository or cream (available from your doctor) can be enough to conceive and deliver a healthy child.
And of course there are always fertility drugs like Clomid to help you get pregnant. In fact Clomid is said to work within 6 months of taking it for around 70% of women with PCOS. It’s usually the first step in treating fertility problems and works for many women (including me).
Overall don’t give up. Getting pregnant with PCOS is not only possible for most women it’s also likely so if one method doesn’t work for you keep trying until you do. Good luck and baby dust.
Hello i am Nicole i have just found out a couple of days ago that i have PCOS and i am only 20 years old everyone around me family friends ect seem to be having children i do want them some day i am really scared incase i cant my partner is older then me he is 24 and time is ticking or him i hav been with him 3 and abit years and i am scared that years goes and i still havent gave him a baby and he leaves me and another thing i always think about since i got my results is i am useless what is the point in me being here because i was put here to make babies and i told my partner and he aid dont be silly i love you but its true why give us all the things to make a baby then so nastily take it away. I have read up alot of PCOS since i found out i had it and having PCOS you are lucky to have a baby i just hope i am one of those lucky ones i was born to have children i am so good with them so why take that away from a good person that will love and care for them when all them evil people in the world can have them and dont look after them and most end up on a long list of children which are put into care. I never thought really of having a child as being a gift i thought it was just a normal thing until i happened to you well gift is probably the wrong word to use because all children are gifts but now i relise just how special it really is even when you are not pregnant i am just wishing upon the biggest brightest star that i can and will have children and thank you for giving me more information.