TIP: If you want a sweet, make yourself work for it. Don’t keep it in the house. Go out special to buy it, then, throw half of it away immediately for better portion control.

PCOS Options

A. Nothing (makes it worse and puts you at risk)

B. Diabetic Diet/Exercise (Treats PCOS and over all health)

C. Provera (Induces AF only). Provera allows you to accomplish a cycle while allowing you to keep your natural cycle.

D. Clomid (=/< 6 consecutive cycles) (Induces ovarian stimulation only)

E. GlucophageXR (MetforminER), Avandia, et al (Pharmaceutical treatment to PCOS). Glucophage (Metformin) & Clomid together have good ovulation/conception results.  

F. Natural products—Evening Primrose, Cinnemon, Saw Palmetto, etc

G. Ovarian Drilling (Helps "refreshen" ovaries; Helps brings down androgen levels). Thermoscopy aka Ovarian Drilling cleans you out, gives you a fresh start and allows you to be more sensitive to protocol that may have not worked in the past. This proceedure is no longer just for those trying to conceive.

You may, of course, opt to combine several methods. I personally take naturals, Metformin, and have had Ovarian Drilling in 2001 with great success.

BIRTH CONTROL WARNING: Often times doctors prescribe Birth Control Hormones (BCH) for PCOS treatment. Birth control hormones do NOT treat PCOS - it only addresses a womans mentrual cycle, ovarian cysts and possibly ovarian enlargement. These are only symptoms and side affects of PCOS, not the root cause. BCH's give the false impression that your PCOS is being treated because symptoms get better. This is not the case. Once you get off the BCH's your symptoms will come flooding forward worse then before. This is because PCOS gets worse with age if left untreated and since BCH's do not treat the PCOS, it gets worse. In fact, there is a new study out that proves many BCH's may actually increase insulin resistant issue - the core problem to PCOS. It also may increase risk factors because the same risk factors associated with BCH's are the same risk factors associated with PCOS. In my opinion, BCH's should only be used TEMPORARILY for a few cycles if you need to shed a thick lining, or dealing with enlarged ovaries or overenlarged cysts. BCH's are also an alternative to treat a women when precancerous cells are found. If a cycle is the goal, look to provera and treating PCOS at the core problem with a lifestyle overhaul. Our natural cycles are our first guage at how our PCOS is functioning. If you take birth control hormones, you take away that guage.

**Make sure use of any of the above under the care of a physician only.**

 
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2004 Statistics

•6-10% of all Females; ages 5+ years, are PCOS

•30% of all PCOSers register as Insulin Resistant

•50% of all PCOSers are overweight

•40% (up to) of “Unexplained Infertility” patients are actually PCOS and don't even know it!

•30% of all PCOSers do not present cysts

•20% of “Abnormal Glucose Tolerance” tests are PCOS

•40% of “Abnormal Glucose Tolerance” develop diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance by age 40

•20% of all infertility patients deal with ovulation problems

•5% of all infertility patients treat their infertility

•15% of all infertility patients treat their infertility in a mandated state for infertility coverage insurance

•75% of all IVF patients deliver a singleton

•20% of all IVF patients deliver twins

•5% of all IVF patients deliver triplets

•25% of normal pregnancies end in miscarriage

•35-40% of PCOS pregnancies end in miscarriage. This is a 10-15% increase risk over 'normal' pregnancies.