First Blog Post! About me!

This is my first blog, so let me start out with telling you about me. I am 25 years old, I'm engaged to a wonderful man, we are getting married on June 6, 2012. I have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). If you're here, I assume that you know what PCOS is. However if you do not know what it is I will give you a brief explanation that I have taken from WebMD.
PCOS is a problem in which a woman's hormones are out of balance. It can cause problems with monthly cycles and cause difficulties getting pregnant. Untreated PCOS can lead to serious medical problems including diabetes and heart disease.
PCOS has been a very big part of my life. I was diagnosed when I was 17, in a brutal way. I had my exam and the doctor bluntly said "You have PCOS, you're not likely going to ever have children. At the time of my diagnosis, I wanted more than anything to have a big loving family one day, so you can imagine the pain of that blow.
I have at least 90% of the symptoms of PCOS. The primary symptoms I have struggled with the most are the facial hair and the weight loss problems. I am slowly working on losing the weight, which I now have to take Metformin every night to regulate my insulin, without it I am completely unable to lose weight. It wouldn't matter if I was eating the minimum calories and exercising like crazy, I would gain weight vs lose it. As for the facial hair, it has killed me emotionally since I was 13 years old. You can't name a way of removal that I haven't tried at some point. I have however had five appointments with my wonderful dermatologist Dr. Deborah Armstrong for laser hair removal. It has worked wonders for me! And while I still have to shave daily, the hair is no where near as bad as it was a year ago! I am so happy that I was able to work up the courage to get help with it!

Off the PCOS topic. Some other things I may post about is, my furbaby Cheese E Poof, she is a cat and is 12 years old. I love to read and game (video games, board games, and Magic: the Gathering) my family and friends are the most important things in my life, I don't know what I would do with out my incredible support system.