Self treating PCOS infertility with Metformin?

Okay before everyone gets on my case about seeing my doctor let me explain. My husband will be leaving shortly for Afghanistan again. We have been trying for a long time to have a baby but I never get my period (never as in, in the last 2 or so years I’ve had it 3 times) it’s kind of difficult. In my husband’s last deployment his dear friend passed away and since then my hubby has been really determined to make the best out of life and go for what he wants.

Well like I said we have been trying, and trying to do it naturally but I never get my period. So recently I have been doing research and I am pretty sure I have PCOS (poly cystic ovarian syndrome) and I have seen a lot of info and heard from people in my family that metformin has worked to treat their PCOS and help them concieve. So I was wondering if I got metformin and began taking it would there been an extremely risky side effects? For example, chlomid helps ovulation but if used incorrectly it can cause permenant infertility, is there any risk like that with metformin?

I would go to the doctor but in the army appointments are booked so far behind, and the doctors tend to jerk you around a lot before giving you any sort of help. My husband leaves in a few months and I really want to try something before he goes and I have to wait another year.


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Resources for testing/treating infertility?

My insurance doesn’t cover infertility testing or treatment. A doctor told me I may have PCOS but couldn’t find out for sure because of ins reasons. Does anyone know what resources are out there to get tested and treated that don’t cost thousands of dollars?


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I have been ttc with pcos for over 19 months. I have been taking metformin, and now my dr is going to start me on clomid also. Do any of you know the success rate of clomid? Also how likely are you to have twins or higher?


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I want to know if anyone has ever taken herbs (and no prescription drugs) and was able to go on to conceive. If so, what kind of herbs did you try and for how long?
I have been reading about different herbs such as Maca that is supposed to regulate a woman’s hormones naturally. ***My background I am 28, i do not have kids, I have been diagnosed with PCOS, I produce more estrogen and not enough progesterone, and I have been trying to conceive for quite some time now without any luck. I plan to get insurance at my job in May during open enrollement so I can get fertility medicine but I am hoping that maybe if I try the herbal route that it may work and I can finally be a mommy.
Thank you in advance,
Melissa


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I have done some research and found out that if i have a baby then my health issues with Pcos will improve. Do you know if this true in most cases?

I’m not ready to be a mother myself, but i really need my health issues improved so i can hold a job down properly and not have to ring my employer and say i cant come in today because i’m laid up in bed in agony, im sooooo unreliable right now no treatment works either i’ve had injections, the pill (which is spost to be the cure for PCOS but it actually makes me worse) I have had PCOS since i was 14. I am going to be 19 in june and yes i no i’m young and i think people won’t trust a 19year old but i dont smoke and i dont drink. I go walking with my partner up monutains every month when i feel up to it so i am quite healthy.

I would really like to be a surrogant mother for someone, so that we both benefit from the process, they’d be helping me and i’d be helping them.

I have a cyst on my ovary and it keeps coming back, i”ve been told by my GP that my hormone imbalance is fine and the cyst keeps coming back because i do ovulate.I’ve not been on any contraception for 18months me and my partner we’re trying for that ammount of time but it never happened. So i’m not sure wether anyone would accept me
when i have PCOS, and i have never had my own child and i have never had fertility treatment. (but if i ovulate naturally then i think i would be ok) and it might of had somthing to do with my partner with why it never happend for us because as i no it takes two.
What do you think?
Please don’t just put go to your GP i’m looking for proper answers and if anyone has ever been in the same situation
thanks
love to all
xxxx


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What are other causes of infertility?

I know that there is PCOS and Endo, but what else can cause infertility?
And when women go to see a dr, what should they have ruled out?


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