PCOS
Women's health or something like it. I have Polycystic Ovary syndrome, it plays very little role in my life except to occasionally annoy me. Essentially for me, personally, it's harder for me to lose weight and and my periods aren't regular and by that I mean anywhere between 30 days and 3 months was/is normal. It might and I stress might make having children more difficult if I should choose to do that but I haven't even tried so I don't know. The contraceptive pill masks most of the symptoms of PCOS so lots of women don't know they have it. It affects 8-13% of women of reproductive age ( jeanhailes.org.au ). I didn't find out I had it until I was in my late 20's even though I had never had regular periods. In part this was my fault, I never thought to bring up that fact with any medical practitioners I saw. It was just normal for me and I'd Googled it. The internet told me I wasn't that weird. Then I went on the pill and that made my period r...