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Feb 07, 2026, 09:25 PM
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My PCP keeps saying she believes this is why my periods are awful (if they come) and were never regular in my life. I found out my mom has it so maybe passed it on to me?
Looking to hear other experiences
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Feb 08, 2026, 07:19 AM
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Yes @MuddyBoots - it causes irregular periods, and hair growth in weird undesirable places. I have dealt with it most of my life. However now that I am older and in perimenopause,, the symptoms have lessened a lot. I don't think my mom had it, but maybe my grandma did. My sister has it too.
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Feb 09, 2026, 01:59 AM
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I do not have it, but I know that there is a body shape associated with PCOS, and you do not have that body shape. I do not know if everyone with PCOS has this body shape, though.
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Feb 09, 2026, 02:16 AM
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Feb 09, 2026, 02:40 AM
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Same for me with antipsychotic weight gain, but not outside the antipsychotic weight gain. I hear you. I think there is a morning cortisol test you can take to r/u Cushing's syndrome.
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Feb 09, 2026, 03:00 AM
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They suspected a potential brain tumor a ways back so tested my cortisol and it was fine as a wined up swine getting whipped with a vine. Ooh now I wanna get wined and whipped but yeah the never-been-regular periods that leave me incapacitated and anemic when they come, family history, and a few other little things have my PCP convinced it's PCOS and I should bring it to my obgyn
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Feb 09, 2026, 03:20 AM
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Do you at least take iron? With a little vitamin C, food or drink?
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Feb 09, 2026, 03:41 AM
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No, I haven't dropped down to anemic levels since last April/my last menstrual 'cycle' (I gotta laugh at calling it a "cycle"). Even when the eating disorder is bad I don't have an issue there outside of the 20 or so times I've menstruated in my life. Except that one time I blacked out for like 3 weeks and found myself in WV. That was weird.
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Feb 10, 2026, 08:03 AM
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I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was 16. Yeah, irregular periods that were really heavy when I did get them, too much facial hair, and lifelong struggles with weight. It was actually a relief for me to hit menopause.
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Feb 13, 2026, 08:56 PM
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I never heard of this and had to look it up lol. I did have trouble with excessive hair: Hairy arms, hairy legs, hair on my fingers above my knuckles, toes too, thick bushy eyebrows. I felt like an ape 🦍 woman and was reluctant to wear short sleeves. I know there’s a name for the hairy problem but I can’t remember it and don’t feel like looking it up. I still remember being 14 and a girl told me I should pluck my eyebrows.
Never thought about asking why I had the problem. Periods are a pain, literally and figuratively. MEN don’t have to go through anything like that, once a month for at least 40 years!  And those products are expensive.Like Split I was relieved to hit menopause, even though it had its own symptoms, because no more periods!  But they came back briefly when I started HRT. I was going to start a thread on it but was discouraged as the site isn’t busy anymore. And I didn’t want to start a thread and get few or no replies. I get enough of that in real life. ——— Sent from my iPhone 📱
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Feb 13, 2026, 11:50 PM
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Hirsutism. You had a mild case of hirsutism, no night owl.
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Feb 18, 2026, 05:39 PM
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I saw my gynecologist today and she is going to give me provera to shed the uterus lining that’s been there almost a year now and then do an ultrasound. If the ultrasound doesn’t show anything she can do blood work if I want to but I’m also getting back on birth control since I did feel better on it (safer and also just more regulated), and it can change the blood test results so it’s up to me if I want to wait a while.
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#13
Yesterday, 03:17 AM
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Ultrasound confirmed PCOS
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Yesterday, 10:40 PM
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Bad news, but at least you know what is going on. Not that you needed yet another dx, with your bouquet of dx's.
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Yesterday, 11:25 PM
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Hell, it kinda explains “half of half of” my other diagnoses. Who isn’t going to have emotional lability with high testosterone and unopposed estrogen?
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