New Journey, hoping to get some advice on if I’m doing this right.
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Hello beautiful ladies, I’m 28f and I’m currently TTC with lean PCOS.
Iv been TTC for roughly 8 years, now I know that seems like a really long time with no success and that my chances are probably slim. However I think I should explain a little bit of my past and how horrible I was treating my body. Which I hope attributed to me not being successful in the past.
Around the age of 18, I was in a committed long term relationship (still with the same man, and married now) I always wanted to be a mother so it didn’t matter to me when it happened. I wasn’t actively trying outside of unprotected sex. During this time I started to drink a lot, which turned into a 9-10 year battle with alcoholism. I have since quit drinking and I’m proud to say I am 14 months sober.
Back in 2023 I was trying to get serious about conceiving so I set up an appointment with a fertility doctor. I did a HSG procedure and was finally diagnosed with PCOS. My tubes are open but both ovaries are polycystic. The only real information that I got from the doctors is that I was anovulating. I was put on letrozol for I would say roughly 3-4 cycles. However I was still battling my alcoholism during this and wasn’t taking this as serious as I should have. I stopped taking the letrozol and doing all the blood test. Not only was I deep in my addiction but it also started to take a toll on my mental health, and to top it off my insurance went from great to really crappy. Blood test bills started to accumulate and I chose to stop.
My doctor never told me if I was insulin resistant, how I should change eating habits, or how to properly take care of my body to have a successful pregnancy. I started this roughly around September of 23 and she expected us to have a baby by the summer of 24. She really only seemed to care that I was a smoker. (I still am and eventually that will be another habit I plan to quit).
After I finally decided to quit drinking, I told my self to wait 1 year to focus on staying sober. To my amazement, I stuck with it and now I’m ready to put my focus on being healthier, treating my PCOS symptoms and eventually having a healthy baby.
In the past month Iv started drinking spearmint tea 2 times a day to help with my acne and testosterone levels. About two weeks after starting that I also added myo inositol & D chiro 40:1 ratio into my routine. I’m starting to eat healthier and more consistently. My exact routine on work days is immediately brew my tea, add my inositol. Wait roughly 30-40mins before having a cheese stick (to buffer the sugar) and my first cup of coffee. On my first break at work I eat a hard boiled egg, 1/2 a cheese stick, and some almonds. On my lunch break I have a mix of healthy fats and fruits and then for dinner I try to also have a well balanced meal. Finish my night off with my last cup of tea with inositol and my prenatals. On days I don’t work, my routine is a little different, but I’m still following the same rules as my work days. Making sure to eat two times in the morning, always buffering my foods, and eating healthy foods.
I currently weight 94lb and can’t seem to get my weight up. I’m 5” tall so yes 94 is slightly underweight but I’m not extremely malnourished. I just recently started to eat more regularly, about a month or two ago I was only eating a cheese stick in the morning, then eating dinner and piling my face with sweets at the end of the night. I’m still craving sugar like crazy, and not fully taking sugar away from myself. I always have a healthy fat/ protein before any sugar (almonds, cheese stick, turkey rolls) to help buffer the sugar spike.
My current journey is trying to take better care of my skin, trying to gain healthy weight, regulate my periods and stop having false periods, and the end goal is to conceive naturally and without medical intervention if possible. My current cycle is off and on, but most months I fall into a “regular” cycle pattern. However it’s not an actual cycle, it’s almost always breakthrough bleeding.
The last 3-4 months Iv been dealing with lots of medical bills because of a ruptured and very infected cyst on my elbow, this required 6 doctors visit, and 2 surgeon visit alongside the surgery I needed to get done. I have a bunch of medical bills that I’m slowly trying to pay off. So right now, medical intervention with my fertility is out of the question. Eventually when my medical bills are all payed off and if my attempts at conceiving naturally, doesn’t pay off then I will go back to the fertility specialist.
I’m new to trying to nourish and properly take care of my body, and I’m willing to be patient on this timeline as I know I’m trying to fix a lot of things at once. I’m just hoping maybe someone who’s been down this road and knows more about it, can tell me if I’m doing this right. Any feedback is good feedback to me, thank you all in advance. :)