PCOS and Health Update

I've been quiet for some time because I was distracted with some health stuff going on in my life and because I didn't really feel like writing.

First off, my PCOS seems to be under control now. My cycle is currently prompt despite my approaching menopausal age and one cannot complain when one has had irregular cycles all of one's life. I am experiencing no menopausal symptoms. Generally, I'm currently feeling fine and in fact, with so many people coughing in my face, I've surprisingly not succumbed to the flu bug in months.

I've not experienced menopausal symptoms BUT I have been on a wild roller coaster ride since April because I had in fact been experiencing pregnancy-like symptoms. (Life behind closed doors is still pretty exciting for us old farts).

I must say, the experience of being over forty and telling the doctors my symptoms has not been a pleasant one. They were dismissive and made me feel stupid for even thinking I may possibly be pregnant at my age. I KNOW what happened when it happened (because I have it recorded in my calendar) and I KNOW it could have been a possibility with all the symptoms showing. However, I also know that my job requires me to lift heavy equipment (DON'T EVEN ASK ME ABOUT THAT CRAZY PART OF MY LIFE) and I know the aches, pain, nausea, blue veins across the breasts, enlarged boobs, heart palpitations, sleepiness, tiredness, extreme bloatedness, leg cramps and general discomfort I had been experiencing initially could have been caused by anything but a fertilised egg. I also know that it could have been caused by a fertilised egg.

A few weeks after I first started experiencing the symptoms, I had to lift and move some heavy stuff at work. I felt extreme pain in my lower abdomen and experienced odd bleeding thereafter. The symptoms carried on for about 2 to 3 weeks after the bleeding.

See, some people (including the docs) gave me the impression that they thought I was yearning to have a baby again. Really? My oldest is 20 and my youngest is 17 (soon to be 18). Really? Nausea in my mid-forties, how fun! Here I was yearning more to sail into the sunset on a yacht with my lover husband or lie in bed watching Korean dramas for the rest of my life! I won't go into details but after several visits to KKH, a private gynae and scans, I am declared to have a good size womb with NO BABY inside. I've lost a teeny weeny bit of weight since but my belly is still enlarged. Moral of the story? Wild nights will have to be safer.