I would like to introduce Lex, a reader of the website. Lex has stepped up to the plate and wanted to tell her PCOS story.
When I was diagnosed with PCOS I was 18 years old. I, however, knew something was different before hand. Many of my friends had their periods and I still had not gotten mines until way later than my peers had. My mom brought it up to my pediatrician. He assumed I was just a late bloomer, but could not explain why my breasts had come in but I had no period. He then assured us that with time my body would “catch up” and all would be well. Eventually, my first period did come and it was left alone.
Being young, I didn’t feel any particular way about it. I didn’t think about the changes going forward, but at 21.. Who really would think about it? As long as I was excelling in life and having fun – What else mattered?
I dealt with the symptoms I had at the time by literally dealing them. My symptoms from age 18 – 21 were: Hot flashes, irregular periods, sometimes no periods (as long 6 months at a time), painful excessive periods, skin tags (dark blotches on the skin particularly around the neck, and the face, and excessive weight gain and weight loss.
