PCOS Messages for April, 2002: Time article and Re: 10 years too late

Time article and Re: 10 years too late

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:25:21 -0500 (CDT)

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I would like to find the authors of the Time article and eat them for breakfast. Or something equally nasty... OOOOOH how I hated that article. I am 25 and getting married next fall. So I'll be 26. My fiance, however, will only be 23, and he's looking to do the whole wait a few years, go to grad school, etc... OK, fine. So maybe 30 is the youngest I'll get to start trying. Seems too late for me, really, in light of the fact that I KNOW I am going to have difficulties... it doesn't make sense, to me, to wait. I already do have the problem of the biolgocal clock ticking... I always swore I'd never be one of those women but it's ticking away pretty loudly to me these days. It was pretty quiet before the PCOS diagoses and knowing what I'd be up against. Then, my god did it pick up volume. Only really, I guess with PCOS it's more like, you listen to the sound of your biological clock NOT ticking, and THAT is infuriating. I'm hoping the regular periods I've been having stick around so I can feel like finally my clock has been wound up... but anyway. I soooo did not need that Time article. On the one hand, yeah, it's true that waiting can be bad for any woman. But when I look around at all the teen and twenty year old with babies, I don't really see this being something the entire nation needs to be concerned about. I mean... look at how overpopulated this country is - not to mention the world. People are having too mnay kids. In some ways I honestly feel infertility is a good thing and we are wrong to try to fight it - nature is trying to save us from overpopulation. BUT this doesn't stop me from wanting to have an ecological cound number of children myself - one or two. Knowing that I am going to have to wait until I am 30 to start trying is painful enough. Knowing that I am going to have issues is also painful. I did not need the Time article to remind me of this! I must say there are days where an "accidental pregnancy" looks pretty appealing, but between condoms and PCOS its not all that likely to occur. Not to mention I don't want to be pregnant in my wedding gown...

You might notice now the backlash against this article... People has a cover story now on famous moms who had babies first in the 40s... CNN has been running things about women who say waiting was the right choice for them... my boss had her first at 33 and frankly I find that "not so bad" because they waited till they were ready to care for a child... saying that you need to have children young is all well and good but it's not really always the most economically viable option. When we were farmers and self supporting and there was more land and getting married young and reproducing young was common and logical and so on and so forth... fine. But the world is getting crowded, cose of living has gone up, land is scarce... you really have to wait and plan and think harder about such things...

ANYWAY. as for the BCPs until your appointment... very personal decision. BCPs help with the symptoms of PCOS. some argue that they worsen insulin resistance and further deepen the problem, but my doc assures me that this is a temporary worsening... not something to really take into account when you're deciding BCP or no? being on BCPs before going on met might even help you see results with met sooner, since you'd start out with less screwey hormone levels than you'd have naturally. if you're going to hopefully be going on met, i'd say stay on or go on BCPs until then, then go off and do the met alone, unless you want to stay on the pill. my only complaints about the pill are how it is used as a bandaid cure for PCOS - not an issue here - and the intolerable side effects it gives me. If you don't have problems with side effects, I see no reason not to take it if you chose to.

- jodi

At Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Kristin wrote: >
>Thank you everyone who replied; I appreciate the feedback and support. I
>have a feeling it is going to be a long road from here, but I am hoping
>that I can catch many of the symptoms before they get too bad and maybe,
>hopefully, have children eventually. Also, to answer the question one
>person asked, I am 27, so though I am not yet feeling like the "clock is
>ticking," I am at least feeling like it's been wound up. Did anyone
>else see that article in Time this month about fertility? It was rather
>intimidating, especially for those of us with PCOS who have enough to
>worry about with the whole fertility issue.
>
>I took the first step by making an appointment with a specialist in
>endocronology/fertility and gynecology (if you can't decide which is
>better, find a doctor who will do it all! :-)), and I will see him in
>July (he's very sought after, which is good, but also means that that
>first appointment is a ways off). In the meantime, however, does anyone
>have any advice as to whether it might be better to go back on the pill
>for the next few months for some minimal hormone regulation, or should I
>just wait and see? Have your doctors given you any feedback?
>
>Thank you again.

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