Hi, I'm 31 and was diagnosed with PCOS about 2 years ago. My periods have never ever been regular...i was a slender active girl with honey blonde hair until around age 11...then i started packing on weight and my hair changed to this coarse curly dark fuzz. I continued to put on weight and deal with *irregular* periods through out high school. When ever i would tell the doctors about it i would get the...it will straighten itself out in time, your body is adjusting as you get older. I didn't have a clue and neither did the docs. 2years ago i went to the doctor because I had been having a period for something in the neighborhood of 3months straight and i was just completely fed up with it.
I know you're thinking 3months? i would have been in there after 1! But remember I'd been told that irregular periods were a *normal* part of growing up.
There are too many doctors out there who just know nothing about PCOS ..even the doctor who diagnosed me gave me absolutely no information. I had no idea it was related to insulin resistance...or that it was the root cause of all these symptoms i've been fighting so long.

I do have a question for all my fellow Cysters out there....I have this rash..it's like thick reddish-brown patches that sometimes itch...it started on my chest and has since spread to my back neck and in the crook of my arms....I've seen on many different PCOS sites that these spots are part of it...but I've yet to see anything about what to do about them. Have any of you had any luck treating this problem? And any tricks on dealing with the excess hair growth on my face chest and back?