PCOS and Adenomyosis my experience

 Let me just say this is not for the weak. PCOS and Adenomyosis is terrible. You are miserable. Your hormones are out of whack, your anxiety ramps up and you have this doom feeling and become emotional. Intercourse hurts and it feels like you have something that is heavy on your pelvic and that it is going to fall out or fall through. 

You're hair falls out. You're weight is going up and down and you cannot control it. It does not matter if you cut calories or even diet because it is hard to loose weight.

 Everything is inflamed and it hurts. It also feels like you are burning on both sides of your stomach and it is not a pleasant or fun feeling. 

You're periods are heavy and pad soaking and the pain that you experience from the cramps are so bad it has you in tears and makes it to where you do not want to move.

You're always bloated and no matter what you do it does come back.

You cannot eat a full meal because it will make it seem like you are full and you have to eat small portions at a time so you are full and then a few hours later you are hungry again. 

It can be hard to poop because the weight of everything is pressing on a bowel and it makes it feel like it backed up and constipated. 

You're skin is oily, you can or cannot have acne, I normally do not have acne but sometimes it does appear for a day or two and disappear.

You can grow hair pretty much all over your body and even facial hair that is thick and all this hair will end up coming back quickly if you shave it off. 

You can end up craving sugar and sweets because of the insulin resistance. You can also get dry patches on skin on your wrist and ankles from it also. ( I use Carrot tree oil for mine and then I use gold bond lotion and it makes it soft again.)

This is rough. Something that started out as pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea has finally have a name to it. Adenomyosis and it is the worst. 

If you have to poop, it can cause a lot of pressure and make it so you have uncontrollable diarrhea  because of the pain and pressure and not being able to hold it does happen especially if you are like me with IBS on top of it. 

I was taking Advil, Pamperin and heating pad. ( They have ones you can wear.)

It also does cause insomnia and a lot of sleepless nights! 

To find the Adenomyosis, I had to do a detailed pelvic ultrasound because with all the CT scans they did not find it. They found what looked to be a Fibroid on top of my uterus and I had to get a OBGYN appointment to find what it was and this was it. They gave me three options one was hormone IUD or birth control but they said it was to late for that. 

Another was a hysteroscopy & endometrial ablation or a total hysterectomy in which due to everything being fused together we went the hysteroscopy & endometrial ablation route and it kept me down for about a month due to pain, and infection but after that I am feeling better and feeling like I have my life back. 

If the adenomyosis does come back it can take months or years and then they are going to do a Ovarian Vein Embolization and that is where they go through the groin and pretty much stop the blood from going there so it does not grow back.  

I was taking Fenugreek. Fenugreek helped with balancing hormones and keeping everything aligned including pcos and slowed down hair growth but I wanted something more.

I ended up also taking  Myo Inositol and D-Chiro Inositol with Vitamin D3 + Ashwagandha by intimate. This helps with PCOS and the ovary in which works great and gives you a little boost however you have to take 4 of these daily and I dislike having to do that and I was taking other supplements on top of it. 

I now take Parrox Myo Inositol Supplement, D-Chiro Inositol Folate, DIM, Vitamin D3, B12, K2, Chromium, Bioperine, Ceylon Cinnamon, Zinc, Ashwagandha, Chasteberry, Magnesium, Berberine. It is an all in one capsule and it has everything I need for my PCOS, my Adenomyosis and other things. I only have to take 3 of these day and it makes a difference. I even feel better taking this and I do not have to take 5 different supplements now I can just take this one. 

Get your fenugreek here! They have different mgs of it! 

Parrox Myo inositol all in one here!

 

PCOS: No warned us

 No one tells you how bad PCOS really is and can get. No one tells you how it doesn't matter what you eat you will be bloated and gain weight out of no where.

 No one even talks about how your hair will thin and fall out and your nails may become brittle. No one tells you how your hormones are going to be thrown off, your periods will be off days, weeks, months and even years. You can end up with acne and oily skin.  

 No one tells you about the unwanted body hair, facial hair and all the things you end up going through. The pain, the insomnia, the mood swings along with craving sugar and wanting sugar all the time. 

No one also talks about just because your reproductive hormones are out of whack it is going to make everything in your body out of whack and it is going to end up putting you down. 

PCOS takes a mental toll on you and can make you have anxiety, and depression and a lot of other things and it is totally okay if you have this.  

Here are somethings that can help you balance, I used half of these and they worked great! 

Primrose

Peach perfect inositol multivitamins 

Myo and D-Chiro inositol

Progesto life hormone balance cream

Fenugreek 

If you are having trouble falling asleep I recommend magnesium, it helps way better then any kind of sleeping pills or melatonin. Neither of the two do anything for me and end up staying up all night. If they did something it would make me feel gorgy and drained out. 

I have trouble taking capsles now so I have to find things that I stick in my water.