Living with PCOS

Phillippa Marossi shares her story, as she believes many women struggle with similar issues to hers and she encourages them to keep the faith when trying to fall pregnant. I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries a number of years ago and after a year of trying to fall pregnant and numerous rounds of medication to induce ovulation, we were referred to a fertility clinic. My husband had low sperm motility and had to start medication for high insulin levels. In August 2015, it was discovered that I also had Stage 3 to 4 endometriosis and I was booked for a laparoscopy to remove the endometriosis. While in surgery, the gynae discovered a septum in my uterus which he removed. The week following the op, I developed a bad bladder infection and went to the gynae for antibiotics. That day, I started vomiting and thought I was having a bad reaction to the medication. I changed antibiotics and continued vomiting. I went back to the gynae to check that there were no post-op complications.

“We claimed this miracle in our lives, as we had been told it would be quite unlikely that I’d fall pregnant naturally.”

He did a scan and a blood test and to our surprise, I was pregnant! Apparently, I had conceived a few days prior to the op and was pregnant during the surgery. My little embryo survived the op and all the medication, and I was 20 weeks pregnant. We claimed this miracle in our lives, as we had been told it would be quite unlikely that I’d fall pregnant naturally. My husband and I hated it when people told us to “put it out of our mind” and “it will happen”. Ironically, we had done just that. We had decided to leave it until I had had the op and he’d undergone a follow-up sperm test after two months. I hope my story inspires some hopeful mommies-to-be to keep their faith, as miracles really do happen!