https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 18 May 2026 17:01:42 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1447433 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 05:36:03 +0000 mjane 1447433@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skipra: Yeah I felt like I had a minor stomach bug all last week, and when I said that to a friend she suggested that maybe I'd just forgotten how unpleasant a period feels. But still nothing to show for it... That's great that you got pregnant again right away! </p> <p>@MaryM: So interesting! Not sure if NFP is for me but that makes a lot of sense. </p> <p>@Sapphiresun: @travelgirl1: Here's hoping for some periods all around! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1447400 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 01:59:05 +0000 Sapphiresun 1447400@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm 7 mos PP with PCOS and still no period, but I'm curious to hear about others. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1447099 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:58:11 +0000 travelgirl1 1447099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm almost 16 months pp and still haven't had a period : ( We breastfeed exclusively but I have an appointment with a fertility clinic next month as I don't think my body is going to start working without help. I hope you get your period back soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1447090 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:56:00 +0000 emg86 1447090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mjane: Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1446982 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:44:06 +0000 skipra 1446982@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I breastfed DS and never went on the pill. I guess I had my first period when DS was about 11 months. I honestly just thought I had a 24 stomach thing since I was kind of achy and crampy with diarrhea for a day (sorry tmi). I did have a bit of spotting. It was super light and didn't even fill a pantyliner. Lasted a day or two. I got pregnant two weeks later so I don't know if they would've become more regular in time or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445471 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:43:08 +0000 MaryM 1445471@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I have been using the BBT version of NFP. I'm Catholic, so taking the class was part of our marriage prep, but my OB/GYN is also a Catholic practice so they teach it also. It's basically the same as what TCOYF teaches. We followed it for more than two years and didn't get pregnant until I slacked off on my charting in December.</p> <p>I think switching to that GYNO is one of the best things I've done for my health. Once she diagnosed me with PCOS I looked back over my entire post-pubescent life and was astounded no one thought of it before. I was a little bitter actually!</p> <p>I had been charting for a few months before I switched doctors and they looked at my charts when I switched to them. Just from looking at my thermo-shifts (or lack there of) they did one blood test and confirmed my hormones were completely out of whack and that I had PCOS. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445446 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:37:32 +0000 mjane 1445446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@emg86: Congratulations!! That is so exciting! And interesting about your cycles... I am always so happy to hear of PCOS babies! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445442 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:36:41 +0000 mjane 1445442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MaryM: OMG not preachy at all! I agree with you in principle completely! I actually tried to find an endo who would treat the root cause (i.e. not prescribe BCP) and failed, and then I just gave up and got lazy, and felt pretty committed to my laziness :) Really interesting to hear about the metformin and helping with the insulin resistance as well! What did you do for birth control while on metformin (or if you were not preventing, what does your doctor recommend usually)? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445333 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:15:21 +0000 emg86 1445333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have PCOS, a 9 month old and breastfeed. I got a period at 4 months pp and to my surprise they became regular 40ish day cycles. And now, surprise...I'm pregnant again. Lol. I thought my PCOS had kicked back in but it turned out I had ovulated early and got pregnant. I do have a friend with PCOS who didn't get a cycle until about 14 months pp and it happened when she started weaning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445249 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:53:44 +0000 MaryM 1445249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I stopped taking BCP before DH and I got married. They were doing horrible things to my mood and drive...and evidently hiding other problems! (I didn't know I had PCOS until I went off it!)</p> <p>I go to a NaPro doctor now who doesn't prescribe BC. I've found they've been really amazing at trying to "fix" the problem instead of hiding it (BCP treat the symptoms, but not necessarily the cause). I know it's a "to each their own" situation, so I hope you don't read that as me preaching...I just realized that BCP were doing more to my body than I realized!</p> <p>Metformin has helped with the insulin resistant part of PCOS (and as a sweet bonus gift has made it so much easier to lose weight). I do take it daily. </p> <p>I know doctors are somewhat split on this, but my doctors also believe that metformin can help lower the rate of miscarriage for women with PCOS to a normal level (though it didn't seem to work that way for me this time). </p> <p>The progesterone was more of an "as needed" thing. They gave me two month's worth when I needed it just in case it didn't work the first time. Well, it worked much better than I would have ever wanted it to! (It was seriously the worst period I've ever had, but looking back and seeing how on track I was after that, I think overall it was worth it) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445226 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:45:28 +0000 mjane 1445226@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MaryM: Oh man, I'm so sorry. I hope someone can provide some helpful advice. my sister (who also has PCOS) found acupuncture helpful in getting her cycles back after she had a MC, and then got pregnant right away. </p> <p>I never took metformin; I think my BC was still regulating my cycles when I got pregnant (immediately after coming off of it). I have always resisted taking anything other than oral contraceptives to regulate my periods, even though I guess my ideas might change in the future (and I certainly would have been open to taking medications to get pregnant, it just didn't work out that way). You take it regularly instead of BC? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445213 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:43:26 +0000 Mrs. Jump Rope 1445213@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I went back on BCP at 12w PP and got a period after starting the pack. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445180 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:37:02 +0000 MaryM 1445180@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm listening in because I've been wondering the same post-MC. </p> <p>I needed progesterone to kickstart my cycles about 2 years ago. I'm wondering if I'll end up needing that again. I've had a lot of PMS symptoms lately, but am pretty sure it's too soon for me to have a true period again, but I'm hopefully it might be a sign that my body is reacting correctly to my hormonal changes!</p> <p>Are you on metformin or anything else for the PCOS?</p> <p>My gyn put me on that first and it started to shorten my cycles, but I still wasn't ovulating so she put me on progesterone. It was one hell of a month, but it did the trick! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/pcos-amp-periods-post-partum#post-1445160 Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:32:29 +0000 mjane 1445160@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm 9 months post-partum with my EBF baby girl. I'm wondering if anyone in similar circumstances who had PCOS got a period on their own after baby, and when? I'm not doing any hormonal birth control at the moment, though I think I'll go back on the pill once I wean sometime after 12 months. </p> <p>I had an awful week of stomach aches last week and other funny hormonal stuff and wondered if I was ovulating or getting my period, but that seemed unlikely since I would often go months and months without a period before I was on BC/pregnant. So I'm just curious about others' experiences with periods and PCOS postpartum, whether or not you breastfed! Thanks! </p>