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The most common cause of female infertility – polycystic ovary syndrome – may be caused by a hormonal imbalance before birth. The finding has led to a cure in mice, and a drug trial is set to begin in women later this year.
Polycystic ovary syndrome affects up to one in five women worldwide, three-quarters of whom struggle to fall pregnant. The condition is typically characterised by high levels of testosterone, ovarian cysts, irregular menstrual cycles, and problems regulating sugar, but the causes have long been a mystery. “It’s by far the most common hormonal condition affecting women of reproductive age but it hasn’t received a lot of attention,” says Robert Norman at the University of Adelaide in Australia.
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giving a presentation on the medicinal use of the peony and there's enough about menstruation that I should have a full slide on it but like. I'm not explaining how it works or anything (that's someone else's job) I'm just saying that it does,,,, so what pictures do I put on this slide,, blood??????
Listen, people that hopefully come across this. If you feel alienated or something because you don't know who any of these characters are, DON'T LET THAT DISTRACT YOU.
This isn't about the characters, this is about something in real life that a lot of people NEED TO KNOW. Please, please, PLEASE reblog this and, if you can, use tags that apply to all the details in this comic so that it will reach as many people as you can
I am sincerely BEGGING you to reblog this. Even if you don't have tags, just reblogging will get more people to see it. PLEASE REBLOG. IT'S NOT HARD AT ALL. Just hit the reblog button AT LEAST. Please.
Putting all of the tags on this took a simple five minutes. I swear that's the maximum. Please just reblog.
September is PCOS awareness month. I've been hard at work on this comic. I've used my comfort ocs and characters in order to describe my experience with PCOS. I always put a part of myself in my ocs when I make them. In this comic, Pexio is worried he can't help the human he's assigned to as a guardian pinata because he doesn't understand the condition she's been diagnosed with. Ana teaches Pexio and JJ about PCOS and the effects it can have on women mentally, emotionally and physically. (with Sun and Moon's help) If any of my art were to blow up and get a ton of attention, please let it be this comic. I was invalidated, lost and hating myself thanks to my PCOS, other conditions and issues on top of it and...toxicity. I still am. Even with some of the help I'm finally getting after so long. If I can do one thing, I want to touch someone's heart. I want to make them feel seen and valid. I want to give someone else the validation and love that I didn't get. I hope you enjoy the comic :3 I put my heart and soul into it.
Just realized the thing that was very much a disability is actually a disability and not a mental illness
Normalising certain things can be dangerous - especially around mental illness and physical illness. A good example of this is how period pain has been normalised.
People with periods often dismiss their pain on the basis of "everyone gets a little pain", doctors dismiss painful periods, specialists dismiss them too as it's so normalised to have painful periods where it can be a symptom of severe chronic illness; endometriosis, polycystic ovaries, adenomyosis, even kinds of gynecological cancers can present as "a painful period"
Destigmatising painful periods (and honestly, pelvic health for all people) helps to push societal acceptance and awareness of the fact that those issues exist, and allows for conversation when problems arise.
By claiming those with PCOS need to fit a certain criteria to be 'valid' as intersex people, you are further enforcing the idea that sex is binary, just with a third option. Congratulations, you've fucked us over more lmao!
Hello, I recently got diagnosed with pcos. My whole life I’ve been raise to be a girl, when I was 18 I decided I wanted to go by they/them and be agender. I’m 20 now and was wondering if having pcos means I’ve been intersex my whole life and not even now it. I’ve just seen it brought up a lot in pcos groups and I never even thought about that. I’m just a little confused is all. My doctor didn’t really give me any information about that.
If it helps, while there are people who will try to push you out of intersex spaces for having PCOS, there are also plenty of others who accept us into intersex spaces. As for your doctor not mentioning it, I can only imagine it has something to do with medical bias against intersex people and the field's need to erase us all. See, if PCOS, a very common condition, is intersex, that means intersex people are even less rare. They want to sweep intersex people under the rug, in order to enforce their idea of 'binary sex'. That all being said though, it is ultimately up to you whether you want to use the intersex label due to having PCOS. I personally believe that PCOS, by default, makes one intersex, but I'm not one to enforce labels.
Not to be an annoying activist or anything, but I honestly really don't appreciate Kat Blaque, a PERISEX person, talking over intersex people because of what the infamously intersexist medical field has to say about PCOS. 'Doctors say that PCOS isn't an intersex condition' yeah and doctors have said that homosexuality is an illness. The medical field ain't perfect and can fuck up and grow.
I did NOT get put on hormones at 13 to 'fix' myself just for some perisex person to come along and say I'm not intersex because I don't have a medically recognized variation, despite the fact that things like CAH get misdiagnosed as PCOS and vice versa all the fucking time. Maybe we should take what the medical field says with a grain of salt and listen to actual members of communities. :/
September is PCOS Awareness month, and I'd like to point out some of the many symptoms people with PCOS deal with everyday...
moon face
excessive body hair, arm, chests, back, face, legs and buttocks
irregular periods
painful periods
extremely heavy periods
constant bloating
mood swings
struggle to lose weight
struggle to gain weight
food cravings
high cholesterol
insulin resistance
oily skin
acne
insomnia
fatigue
sleep apnea
depression
anxiety
tubular breasts
dark and sensitive underarms
skin tags
belly fat
high testosterone
excessive hair loss
thinning hair
pelvic pain
infertility
ovarian cysts
And so much more, as well as having to struggle to even find a doctor who will take any of our symptoms and pain seriously. The medical industry needs to take better care of women, intersex and trans folks with PCOS and Endometriosis.
Our pains are real and we deserve better.
PCOS TTC
I’m late by 4 days. It means nothing when you’re PCOS but this time it’s more complicated than all that.
I bled for 8 weeks and they gave me a pill to stop it. When you’re TTC it feels like a betrayal to take something like that, but it was making me so ill something had to be done.
The hope was it would “reset” me, maybe even make me ovulate. What it did wasgive me a period within the next month. One month to the day it made the 8 week bleed stop. It’s the first time in forever i’d had an on time period and it gave me hope. We’re a month on, i feel off, like i should be on a period, but yeah nothing.
It’s complicated because we finally saw the fertility doctor afew weeks ago and he gave me the very long and daunting list of what is going to happen to me.
Surgery being the most frightening.
But first things first. They have a pill that will force me to ovulate, make me super fertile. The problem is you have to start it after your next bleed. Being PCOS the problem here is an obvious one.
So first they may have to force a bleed. More pills.
All of this could have started straight after that visit but there was a complication. My partner spilled his sperm count sampke when he did it. He had to redo it, so we now have a delay of two weeks and then a further delay while they get a count.
The fact that this fell during the time i should have come on again was a huge inconvenience and hence why any delay is both bad and also good.
Well see what happens when, but it means so much that this super fertility pill works because the next stage is exploratory surgery to take a look at my tubes and, while they’re in there, ovarian drilling.
It terrifies me.
*Me starving myself to lose weight *
My PCOS, that makes me pile on weight because that's just what it does: hi :)
*6 months with no weight change at all when I'm 10lbs away from my first gw *