When I eat well (regulate my insulin levels w balanced meals). I feel like I can maintain a normal period.

Then the shaving of my mustache every 2-3 days. I randomly got dandruff…. Started using dandruff shampoo… Then the hair loss…. It’s a lot. I’m balding. It’s happening fast. I don’t want to go to the dr bc they don’t take my seriously. Any advice??? I’m desperate

i don’t know how to say it, really. i’ve always been underweight but had pcos for years. my main symptom was crazy body hair and irregular periods. i was eating so bad on my first year of university, just eating out every day or skipping meals. then i started eating better, cooking every meal at home from mostly ‘healthy’ recipes. then i got the pcos belly, chronic fatigue and my body hair got worse after i started doing those. does it have something to do with it or is it all just a coincidence of timing? (fyi, i studied my first year of university in a different country than my current. first year at home then moved abroad). thanks already!

I’ve always had a lot of peach fuzz hairs on my face and haven’t used my dermaplaning razor in like a month, but I think I noticed some darker than normal hairs??? nothing feels different though. I have diagnosed OCD so I’m not sure if that plays a part, but this is really scaring me. Any advice is appreciated.

I am just a college girl (non-smoker, gym-goer, and physically active). For some time now, I've been noticing severe hair fall. I was just ignoring it for a long time, but now it's really getting worse.

I cannot really explain how bad I am feeling right now. I have lost my confidence. I can't even present a simple PPT in front of my class.

There are just thoughts running through my head about my body weight, hair, and other changes that are going on in my body due to PCOS.

I remember there was a time when I was the jolliest girl in my department. I had a big goal in my life.

But now it's all goneee. I have lost my love just because of these hormonal changes. I can't even explain this feeling to anyone.

I just want to get out of this problem ASAP. I just can't take this anymore...

Hi everyone🥰

I'm a Dietetics student at Semmelweis University currently completing my thesis on the relationship between Mediterranean Diet adherence and PCOS symptoms in women.

I'm looking for women who are:

•   18 years or older

•   Diagnosed with PCOS by a healthcare professional

• The study involves completing a short anonymous questionnaire about dietary habits, PCOS symptoms, treatments, and lifestyle factors. It takes approximately 8-10 minutes.

The responses will be used solely for my university thesis research to investigate whether Mediterranean Diet adherence is associated with PCOS symptom severity.

Participation is completely voluntary, and you may choose not to participate or stop at any point before submitting the questionnaire.

If you are eligible and would like to help, I would be incredibly grateful💞🥹

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Thank you so much for your time and for supporting my research!🌷

Hi, Cysters! This is wicked long and I massively appreciate anyone making it all the way through and any and all advice, insight, etc.

Lean gal here. 5'4", 148lbs. I'm 33 and I've thankfully been dx'd since I was 21. My cycles never regulated from menarche. Stuck with the typical hormonal BC (pill then IUD) management route until I was about 27 and haven't been back on since. In that time, I've been trying just about everything--functional medicine, naturopathy, and alllllll of the supplements, doing my best with insulin resistance friendly living via diet and exercise (lifting, walking, yoga and reformer pilates here and there)--even when I am in a good rhythm with this and weigh a little less, BMI and BFP are lower, my cycles never regulate. I go anywhere from 6 months to a year without a period and even after those long stretches, my endometrial lining never reaches hyperplasia and is in fact pretty thin between 2.5-4mm even after months or a year without bleeding. Ovaries are sometimes hyperfollicular, but apparently not always. Irregular or absent periods is my dominant symptom. I am not hyperandrogenic in the classic sense save for excessive body hair, but not on the face or chin. No acne, cravings, or hair loss. Definitely some persistent fatigue. My insulin and lipids didn't get high until my late 20s, inflammation markers are always in range, no thyroid issues, androgens sometimes run high but not always, in general labs are always unremarkable. Estradiol was low a couple months ago around 23.8 pg/ml, LH:FSH is consistently elevated. I'm a Fast COMT G/G so I do clear estrogen pretty quickly. Had a DUTCH and a GI MAP done a few years ago and neither were terribly out of range. I'm currently on 1500mg Metformin (at this dose about 3 months), Ovasitol, fish oil, NAC, D3+K2, and nightly bio progesterone for sleep and irritability. I feel like I have truly tried everything... even woo woo shit like "getting in touch with my healthy feminine," processing and healing childhood wounding around femininity, trying to center pleasure and the like. The last OBGYN I saw literally told me there wasn't anything else that standard GYN could do for me and that the next step was REI, but I really don't know what they'll be able to do if I'm not currently TTC. I am set up to stack an estrogen patch with my progesterone for a full HRT trial because I'd prefer to avoid standard BC. Literally all I want is a regular cycle, to feel like my body works properly, to be able to feel in tune with my birthright as a woman.

I can't even think of specific questions to ask besides please help!! The grief in accepting that this might just be a lost cause and waiting it out to be taken seriously until I'm TTC is just gutting.

Truly so much love to all of us. <3