Getting Pregnant with PCOS Quickly: 3 Truths You Need to Know
You want to be getting pregnant with PCOS quickly. I hear you. You just want to get your period, ovulate and have a baby. Am I right?
Did you know that between 5 and 6 million women have PCOS? According to the Endocrine Society, it's the most common hormone disorder in women of child-bearing age.
And did you know that of those women who have PCOS, around 80% of them have issues getting pregnant?
So you are not alone in your fertility struggles and there are many people diligently working to help figure out answers for PCOS fertility issues.
But the big question on your mind is, how quickly can I get pregnant?
Honestly, I can't answer for sure. Your PCOS story is different from someone else's so your fertility journey is going to be different.
I've worked with people who have gotten pregnant in a couple of cycles and I've worked with people who have gotten pregnant after a year or more.
When you're thinking about getting pregnant quickly with PCOS, there are a few considerations for you to think about. Let's talk through them.
3 PCOS Fertility Truths
Getting Pregnant with PCOS Quickly Truth #1: There is no magic pill, but there is a path forward
There is no magic pill to help open up PCOS fertility. There are certainly pills and medications that are used, but they aren't magic.
You may be familiar with metformin, or clomid, or letrozole. These are the medications and pills that are used to help improve fertility with PCOS.
Do they work in every case? No, they don't.
If there were a magic pill, many fertility doctors would be bloody rich and everyone who would want to get pregnant, could.
But that's not the case, is it?
The thing is, these medications I just mentioned can be really helpful on the fertility path. But they aren't the be-all-end-all to optimizing fertility with PCOS.
This is not to get you discouraged! Because even though there is no one magic pill that fixes PCOS fertility struggles, there is a path forward that increases your chances.
So let's talk about this path forward to help PCOS fertility
This path is improving specific PCOS-fertility health issues.
And what do I mean by that?
I mean that if you're trying clomid, but you haven't done anything to improve egg quality, your chances of getting pregnant are lower than your neighbor who is focusing on egg quality.
If you don't have a fertility-specific food plan in place and blood sugar issues aren't taken care of, your chances of getting pregnant are lower than your sister-in-law who is taking care of those.
So while there is no magic pill, there is still a powerful way to move forward optimizing your fertility health so you have the best chances you can at getting pregnant.
Getting pregnant with PCOS quickly, can it happen? Sure it's a possibility. But because of the ins and outs of PCOS, the best results are come after your health is optimized in a variety of ways.
Getting Pregnant With PCOS Quickly Truth #2: A cookie cutter approach doesn't work, an individualized plan does
Some doctors only have one option to help PCOS fertility. Here's an example of the type of advice that's given about PCOS...
"My doctor wouldn't even give me an option for any medication to aid me. Said weight loss would fix it."
Have you gotten this type of advice before? This is what's known as a cookie-cutter approach (very scientific term!). A cookie-cutter approach is like insulin for diabetes. It works every.single.time that it's used and it's the only thing that's used.
PCOS fertility issues don't respond well to this cookie cutter, one-size-fits-all approach because there are different reasons fertility is not working.
Did you know that in order to get diagnosed with PCOS, you need to have at least 2 out of 3 criteria? So your two things causing PCOS may be different from hundreds of other women with PCOS.
How should we expect that one approach will fix all these different issues?
Now you may be thinking, sure, that makes sense with a medication. But how about weight loss? Doesn't that fix most all things?
Weight loss being the answer to many health issues is a common misconception. I have worked with countless women who are quite skinny and still have PCOS and fertility struggles.
So what does work?
What works for a complex syndrome like PCOS is an individualized approach. Do you see how your needs are going to be different than other women with PCOS? Do you see how having a doctor curate a fertility plan specifically for you will unlock fertility potential?
If you don't have elevated testosterone like many women with PCOS do, a testosterone-lowering medication wouldn't work for you. But maybe you have thyroid issues along with PCOS. So your plan needs to have thyroid support along with ovulation support.
If you're interested in getting pregnant quickly, you want to be working with a PCOS fertility specialist who can help identify your specific fertility needs and get you a plan that addresses those.
Getting Pregnant With PCOS Quickly Truth #3: The best time to start optimizing fertility is today
You've now realized that getting pregnant with PCOS quickly may not happen. There are a variety of different PCOS issues that need to get figured out before pregnancy can happen.
Don't let this discourage you or let you lose hope, instead, let this be a beacon of hope.
You now know that if you want to get pregnant with PCOS quickly, you need to take care of fertility-specific issues that are keeping you from getting pregnant, and you need that plan to be individualized to your needs.
If getting pregnant quickly with PCOS is your goal, the best day to start is today.
Yes, there are things that need to get started and tweaked in your fertility plan. Yes, it may take more focus and more time than you originally thought, but if you start today then you are one day closer to optimal fertility.
The next few months will pass by regardless of what you do.
Do you want to look back and say, "Darn, why didn't I start doing this months ago?"
Or do you want to look back and say, "Not only am I optimizing my fertility health, but I am also happier, more fulfilled and my relationships are better because I'm not feeling bad about myself."
The choice is yours.
In Summary
Getting pregnant with PCOS quickly has happened for some, but it's not the norm.
What helps PCOS fertility the most is an individualized plan that finds what PCOS-specific issues are keeping you from getting pregnant, and then addresses them with an individualized fertility plan.
The more individualized plan = the best chance at getting pregnant with PCOS
If you want to talk about your specific situation and see how I can help, book a call with me here.
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