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I am looking for anecdotal evidence of PCOS being cured or put in remission, including:
- Facial hair
- Acne
- Fertility
- And of course, obesity
I want to link this information to someone who insists that there is no cure for PCOS, and that they should learn to live with the consequences.
Please post your results here, and get others to post as well.
I had roughly a 30 year history of PCOS symptoms from;
Amenorrhea with my period being extremely unpredictable
Likely fertility issues, but hubby and I never cared enough to find out
Hirsutism causing hair to grow on my chin, which of course is much darker and wirier than any other hair
Ovarian cysts which caused a fair amount of pain
Acanthosis nigricans which are dark patches on the skin which I had on the sides of my neck, armpits, under my boobs and between my thighs
Skin tags of which I had hundreds, literally multiple hundreds that I had frozen off every month mostly on my neck, but some could be in pits, on chest, and even my face.
Cystic acne which I had near my groin, but it can be in more areas
There were more that I can't think of off the top of my head, but it's late here and I already had to go look up spelling on 3 words and I need to go to bed.
Post DS, I no longer take any medications (well, not related to PCOS) and my periods became like clockwork. The hairs on my chin, which I used to have lasered regularly, quit sprouting. So, any that had already sprouted pre-DS, continued to grow until they were also lasered, but no new ones sprouted post-op.
The acanthosis nigricans just disappeared. So did the skin tags, and unlike the hairs, the existing ones I had during surgery didn't need to be frozen off later. I'm not sure if they fell off or reabsorbed, but they are completely gone and I haven't had a single one since. Cystic acne = also gone.
The list of things the DS resolved for me is much longer, but I just named the highlights that were related to my PCOS.