Intro for myself and my infertility....

Introduction...

Hey-lo! My name is Angie, I'm 24 years old!...Married. Yeah, I think that says it all. So heres my intro to my infertility.

Well this is my first posting! I love to write...not much of a talker but writing, that I can do! I have been wanting to blog about my experiences with TTC and infertility. Let me tell you, it realllly stinks! While most women can sneeze and get pregnant there are us infertile ladies that spend every waking moment trying to have a baby. If you are shy about going to the OBGYN to get your yearly pap and don't like showing your "hoo hoo" to just anyone.....then infertility is definately not for you! Welcome to legs spread open hell!

So why am I infertile... I am the unproud owner of a wonderful thing called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome....or better known as PCOS. Just a few things I have the pleasure of "suffering" from..:

*Male pattern hair growth.
(yep, you guessed it! Chest, face, stomach, back, toes, fingers...you name it grows there & I shave/wax/pluck it off... I spend at least an hour a day plucking)
*Infertility
*No Periods
(while most of you are thinking how awesome that would be, it's a real pain in the ass if you want to have a kid!)
*Don't Ovulate
(yay me!)
*Hair thinning...
(you know how you joke to your dad about how his hair is leaving his head and growing on his back...yep that's me. 24 and going to be bald before I'm 30....I'm sure)
*Ovarian Cysts
(or what we PCOSers like to call "The Pearls of Doom" Because the cysts look like a string of pearls around the ovary)
*Depression
*Insulin Resistance
*Adult acne
*Weight Gain
*Almost impossible to lose weight
*Almost guaranteed to have Diabetes
*High Risk of Heart attack
*High Risk for stroke
*High Risk for high blood pressure
*High Risk for Heart Disease

So doesn't this sound awesome! Wouldn't you just love to vacation in PCOS land...hmmm, totally not fun! I have had it since I was 13, and told when I was 16 that I would never have children...Who in the hell would tell a 16 year old that?? Well my doctor did. I went through some major depression issues.

My current potion for my Infertility is:

Metformin (insulin resistance)
Clomid (fertility drug)
Evening Primrose Oil (to make my skin look ravishing...or maybe for the hormone imbalance)
Prenatals (on the off chance that I will ever infact conceive)
Provera (to jump start my periods)

Ohhh and the numorous side effects that each and every pill have....that of which I have the pleasure of enduring.

Well I guess that about sums it up.....stay tuned!