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What is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)? PCOS is a health problem that can affect a woman’s menstrual cycle, fertility, hormones, insulin production, heart, blood vessels, and appearance. Women with PCOS have these characteristics: • high levels of male hormones, also called androgens • an irregular or no menstrual cycle • may or may not have many small cysts in their ovaries. Cysts are fluid-filled sacs. PCOS is the most common hormonal reproductive problem in women of childbearing age. How many women have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)? An estimated five to 10 percent of women of childbearing age have PCOS. What causes Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)? No one knows the exact cause of PCOS. Women with PCOS frequently have a mother or sister with PCOS. But there is not yet enough evidence to say there is a genetic link to this disorder. Many women with PCOS have a weight problem. So researchers are looking at the relationship between PCOS and the body’s ability to make insulin. Insulin is a hormone that regulates the change of sugar, starches, and other food into energy for the body’s use or for storage. Since some women with PCOS make too much insulin, it’s possible that the ovaries react by making too many male hormones, called androgens. This can lead to acne, excessive hair growth, weight gain, and ovulation problems. This is the shorts and cleared I found about this Syndrome. Many women have it and aren’t even aware of it until they decide to have children. The emotional frustrating role coast when faced with the fact that “it isn’t all working as it should” can be devastating. There are a few very good mailing lists on the Internet, where women from all over the world connect and try to support each other. They exchange experiences, share feelings, tell each other what worked for some one else, but the thing they all resent is hearing the doctors telling them they must loose weight. Not all, but most of women with PCO are overweighted, but can’t see the link between that and the fact they cannot conceive. BUT this is probably the most important key to conception and caring though of a healthy pregnancy. When medicine takes over, the first step is usually the use of Clomiphene citrate (CC, Clomid, Serophene) to stimulate ovulation. In most cases this has not the expected result, so a treatment with HCG (Human chorionic gonadotropin) hormones is the second stage and the last one IVF. Each step takes at least 6 months, but there are gaps in between, and some couples do try for over 10 years. If you know any one with this problem and serious about conceiving, they will need some “tough love”. Loosing weight; exercise; relax body and mind will help their body to get the balance needed. It is a very sensitive subject to talk about, but much easier then raise children! It must be done in a healthy way, no rushes, change the nutritional habits, and “visualize” their body releasing the toxic matters. A secret that has been observed is the use of the “vibrating plate”. It looks like a scale that vibrates at high speed. It is available in most sport clubs. About 80% of women that use it experience regular cycles and do get pregnant. Some of them like me, even without the use of any drug/hormone. I was actually using it to help me loose the extra weight I had put on, without knowing that that extra was my daughter. You should NOT use it while pregnant thought. Please read carefully all instructions and follow the rules. And just for the record, underweight is has harmful and overweight. There are no guarantees for successful pregnancies, but this is something we all HAVE control of: Nutritional and weight balance. It is not easy in the beginning, but after 2 weeks your body is already functioning differently and before you know it, it has become your life style. After having my son I lost over 30kg (pregnancy/hormones treatment and just plane gluttony were some of the things to get me that overweighted). It took me about 2 years and my motivation: I wanted to be worthy of the gift of becoming a mother. I wanted to live long and healthy, I owed my son that much. I need and am on the way of going back to that “motion”, so if any one wants to join me: together we are stronger!!! Boa noite, Anabela
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