Important! Here's One Thing All Women With PCOS Should Do
Here's one thing all women with PCOS should do. As a PCOS specialist with a decade of experience helping women with PCOS get their bodies prepped for baby? I've got important advice for you.
Because here's the thing, you want to get pregnant.
Am I right?
And you have been trying to get pregnant for years now. 7 years? 11 years?
It's been a long hard journey so far. Full of failed cycles, dismissive fertility advice and countless diets and supplements. You feel like you've tried everything.
And right now, you see pregnancy in your future. But honestly? You're a little worried if it were to happen right now.
Because with your irregular cycles, acne and weight gain? You are worried that even if you did get pregnant, your body is not set up for a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby.
And what you want is to not only increase fertility and move forwards to baby, but you also want to feel healthy! And you want to know that your body is working as it's supposed to.
If that's you, then this advice that I have for you today about the one thing all women with PCOS should do is going to completely turn you in that direction.
It's going to help you step off the one-size-fits-all track that has left you feeling hopeless. Instead, you will walk away knowing there is a path forward to help your body get prepped for baby like you've always wanted.
Let's dive in.
Here's One Thing All Women With PCOS Should Do
That one thing that all women with PCOS should do? Drumroll please!
It's to get an individualized plan from a PCOS specialist.
Yes, it's true. This is the one thing you need if you wan to go from feeling broken and lost to feeling prepped for baby.
Here are a few other reasons why this is important:
It will save you money
It will save you time
Your sanity will come back
You will start seeing results like regular cycles, optimal ovulation and maybe even getting pregnant naturally
What The Other Way Is And Why It Doesn't Work
The other way is working with a doctor who generalizes in all things fertility. Here's why this is a problem.
Usually those doctors have a one-size-fits-all approach to fertility that does not work for PCOS.
To describe this even more, let's take someone named Annie (not a real person)
Annie found out she had PCOS when she was 21. Her periods were all over the place so she went in to get help. Her doctor put her on hormonal birth control to help regulate her periods.
Fast forward 8 years later?
Now Annie is married. She stopped birth control 10 months ago because they want to start trying for kids.
She had one period 30 days after stopping birth control, then the next period was 45 days later and super light. Now all these months later? No period.
She went to see her doctor again because she was concerned that her period hadn't come back. She told her doctor that her and her husband are trying for a baby.
Her doctor tells her to wait for a year and then come back in if nothing has happened since then.
So Annie waits another year. Can you guess what happened? That's right - nothing!
So she goes in to see her doctor one more time.
Her doctor tells her that the next step is timed intercourse with medication.
So she tries that, and it doesn't work.
Her doctor has her try two more cycles just like that. And when those don't work, she tries three more cycles with IUI.
And for Annie and her husband? None of those cycles work.
After the last failed IUI cycle, she goes in to see her doctor another time. Her doctor gives her a referral for IVF and tells her that it's the only option.
Annie leaves heartbroken, feeling lost and like her body has failed her.
Did you recognize anything in Annie's story? Something you've been through yourself?
This is the one-size-fits-all approach to fertility that fails so women with PCOS. Yourself included?
If Annie had done this one thing all women with PCOS should do? Her story would quite possibly look very different. Read on to find out more.
The One Thing All Women With PCOS Should Do Instead
This is exactly why the one thing all that women with PCOS should do instead is so important. Because that one-size-fits-all approach is leaving too many women feeling like they have failed and there is no hope.
But there is hope and I'm here to show you the path.
And that hope is getting an individualized plan from a PCOS specialist. Continue reading to find out why this is so important when you have PCOS and you want to get pregnant.
One Thing All Women With PCOS Should Do: Work With A PCOS Specialist
Working with a PCOS specialist is key when you have PCOS. And that's because the specialist knows how to put together the PCOS pieces.
And that is so important because PCOS is not a condition that fits into a one-size-fits-all box. PCOS is a condition that shows up differently for different people.
Did you know that?
The hormones and symptoms that create your PCOS are different from your friend who has PCOS. Which is different from your sister-in-law.
There is no way that one pill or a one-size-fits-all approach can help you achieve your goals for your PCOS and fertility. And yet too many doctors are giving this as the one and only treatment.
Oh, and by the way, it's not the doctor's fault. It's just that they don't have the bandwidth to study all the PCOS complexities. Essentially it's a problem with the system, not the doctors.
Remember Annie's story from above? Annie may not be a real person but I have heard her story over and over again from the women in my practice.
In order to show you the importance of working with a PCOS specialist, I'm going to share another story.
This is a story about a woman named Sarah. She is someone who worked with me in my practice and I'm going to describe how her story is different from Annie's.
FYI: Sarah is a fake name and I am loosely sharing her details to protect privacy.
Sarah had been working with multiple doctors before seeing me. Her and her husband were on that one-size-fits-all approach and she was feeling really burned-out.
But she wanted to give it one more shot which is why she signed up to go through my PCOS Fertility Transformation Program.
Within the first few weeks of working together, she would tell me that she was blown away by the difference in her treatment plan.
She would tell me how amazing it was to understand why her body was keeping her in a place of irregular cycles and not ovulating. She was able to understand her PCOS in a way that no other doctor had ever helped her. And she could see how streamlined her plan was to help specifically with PCOS.
Within one month of working together? She had a period. And she hadn't had a period in the previous 6 months before that!
Another 30 days forward from that? She had another period. That was testimony enough for her to know that this PCOS-specific plan was keeping her on the right track.
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One Thing All Women With PCOS Should Do: The Power of An Individualized Plan
An individualized plan is the second piece to the PCOS puzzle. Do you see how that works? Because only a PCOS specialist will be able to help you with an individualized plan that is specific to your PCOS and your fertility needs.
So while Sarah was working with me, there were a couple of important things I did with her to help figure out what her body needed for fertility.
The first thing I did was talk to her about her symptoms and her medical history. And I didn't just spend 10 minutes getting some basic information from her. Not at all. Her and I actually spent a whole hour talking about what her body was going through, what she had been through before and how she was currently feeling.
The second thing I did was to help her figure out her PCOS type. No doctor before had even mentioned this to her and she was blown away by how specific it helped her.
And the third thing? I helped her get dialed in on her fertility labs. She had seen multiple doctors before but her lab work was left with some missing pieces which I helped her put together.
And what I found on her lab work was shocking. It was so plain to me why she hadn't been ovulating or having a regular cycle over all these years of trying to get pregnant.
So using that key information about Sarah, I was able to get dialed in on what specifically her body needed.
And what came from that? An individualized plan that was addressing her symptoms, her PCOS type and what came up on her fertility labs.
Sarah was so happy to get this targeted approach because before she was on a bunch of supplements that she didn't know if they worked or not. Once I helped her streamline her supplements, she knew her investment into her supplements was actually working.
She was able to see that there was still a path forward even after all these years of trying and feeling hopeless and lost. She just needed the direction from a PCOS specialist.
Four months after Sarah started working with me? She was pregnant naturally with a healthy baby.
Do you see how Sarah's story was so different from Annie's?
Sarah figured out this one thing all women with PCOS should do and that completely changed her path.
Now, I also want to be clear that it's not that medications are bad. Fertility medications or IVF may very well be an important part of the individualized plan.
But the take-away? It's that without a PCOS specialist who can give you an individualized plan, you are left throwing spaghetti at the wall hoping things stick. Whether it's with medications, diet or supplements. You need the individualized plan to help your body get what it needs to open up fertility.
You don't have to be left feeling like there are no answers and your body is broken. Now that you know the one thing all women with PCOS should do, you also have that hope and path in front of you.
One Thing All Women With PCOS Should Do: Key Takeaways
A one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work for PCOS and it keeps you feeling even more lost and hopeless.
It is possible to turn around your PCOS symptoms, get regular periods and get your body prepped for baby.
The one thing all women with PCOS should do is work with a PCOS specialist who will help them get an individualized plan.
Are you ready to get an individualized plan from a PCOS Specialist?
That's great because as a PCOS specialist I’m here to help you
Hi, I'm Dr. Angela Potter and my fertility superpower is to help you turn around your PCOS symptoms and get prepped for baby!
Your first step is to book a (free!) PCOS Fertility Breakthrough Session.
This session is a fertility gold-mine! You will walk away knowing:
How to turn around your PCOS frustrations to be closer to reaching your fertility goals.
Why what you’ve been doing is leading you away from optimal fertility and what actually works.
What’s been missing from your care that’s keeping you from seeing results.
Clear step-by-step guidance to have your best chance at becoming pregnant.
Which of my powerful PCOS fertility programs is best to help boost your fertility
