NFP question

Re: NFP question

• ootmother2 member

  

  August 2010 edited December 2011

  Generally, conception with PCOS is difficult without treatment.  That consists of about 6 months of Metformin (unless there is diabetes involve).  After that, clomid is used to aid conception.  About half of women with PCOS conceive within a year with this treatment.
  
  You should talke to a doctor well informed on NFP as there are no doctors posting here.
  
  GL
  

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• agapecarrie member

  

  August 2010 edited December 2011

  I started charting 8 years ago BECAUSE of PCOS. My Nfp-doc diagnosed from my charts and helped me to achieve a regular healthy working system. You should use the Creighton method of NFP because this is what the docs use for exactly this problem. Creighton method does not use temp, and is designed FOR irregular cycles.
  
  If you find an NFP-doc, they will likely send you to an NFP creighton teacher, they MIGHT give you a dose or 2 of prometrium (natural progesterone...simply makes the body produce more of its own) to give you a period so that you don't go too long, and then do a test of your blood sugars. Metformin would then be prescribed.
  
  You can help yourself right nown by doing a healthy atkins. Blood sugar spikes is closely related to this condition.
  
  The pill is the worst thing for PCOS.
  
  go to www.omsoul.com and click on medical resources
  

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• ohfour member

  

  August 2010 edited December 2011

  I suggest going to fertilityfriend.com and starting to chart your temps (even if irregular, you may at least be able to see that you've O'd after the fact) and pay attention to CM and learn to do cervix checks maybe? Start practicing now.

  

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• agapecarrie member

  

  August 2010 edited December 2011

  Temps and Cervix checks are not part of the creighton method. If you want to cure/assist your Pcos symptoms with an nfp-doc (napro trained), use the creighton method. Do not mix methods.

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• [Deleted User] member

  

  August 2010 edited December 2011

  Read Taking Charge of Your Fertility. I am reading it now & it has been an eye opener. Although it uses the FAM method, most of the basics are the same and it also explains a lot about the female body that I didn't even know. But it also makes it quite clear the differences between FAM and NFP.

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• GulfCoaster

  

  August 2010 edited December 2011

  I chart *because* I have PCOS.  I have been charting for about 5 years now, long before we were married.  I find it very empowering to know exactly what my body is doing.  Even with PCOS and irregular cycles, for instance, you may be ovulating -- just less often than a woman without PCOS.  Using NFP allows you to know whether or not that is the case.
  
  A lot of women with PCOS take metformin (and not just for six months, as a PP suggested -- I've been on it for about 18 months).  Metformin is a diabetes drug that helps regulate the insulin resistance and blood sugar spikes that often accompany PCOS.  And my doctor told me there are a few studies out there showing that PCOS women who are able to conceive naturally on metformin treatment have a reduced rate of miscarriages compared to PCOS women who are not on metformin and conceive naturally, or PCOS women who use Clomid to bring on ovulation.
  
  Once I started taking metformin, my cycles regularized dramatically and my charts looked very close to "normal."  We have not yet had success TTC, but I feel so much better on the metformin and I can tell my body is closer to working how it should.
  
  You can look up NFP-only doctors at http://onemoresoul.com/nfp-providers .  There are more NFP-only doctors out there than you might think, and a doctor with experience will be able to read your charts and determine how to treat you.  Creighton Model is often recommended for women with medical problems, as PPs said.  (I myself still use the CCLI model, though I've thought of switching to Creighton.)
  
  Good luck.  I find NFP so empowering, especially with my PCOS.

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• mica178 member

  

  August 2010 edited December 2011

  Unless you're on metformin, you'll have a low likelihood of conception.   I am a doctor, but OB/gyn isn't my specialty.  Nonetheless, as a female with friends who have PCOS, I have tried to keep up to date on PCOS literature from a personal interest level.
  
  As PPs mentioned, charting your temperature might reveal a less normal graph than a non-PCOS person, but having that information available would help your physician make recommendations about either NFP or TTC and PCOS management in general.  Best of luck to you!
  

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• LoveTeddy member

  

  August 2010 edited December 2011

  If a woman with PCOS is NOT ovulating taking temperatures is nothing but frustrating! And there ovulatory defects,among other things, that can cause a temperature spike without ovulation. CM is the best indicator of fertility. I am a nurse with PCOS and now a Practitioner of the Creighton System. I wish I had known about this when I was 20.

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