My husband and I have been married for almost seven years and have been trying to get pregnant for three. My body has not yet responded to any medications and the driver behind this is my insulin resistance. My fertility specialist has now classified me as high risk and discontinued her treatments due to my A1C levels. Without lose of weight, my condition, PCOS and Insulin Resistance will prevent me from getting pregnant. Throughout this ordeal, I have been treated by an endocrinologist to assist with weightloss, but it has been unsuccessful.

I have attempted to see three different doctors in the U.S. Two offices refused to see me because my BMI is 33.4 and not 35. Stuck at 33, my chances of having a child seemed slim. I started looking into Mexico and now have a surgery date for October 11th. I am very excited and look forward to feeling better physically and just about myself in general. I am most excited about the increased chance of becoming a mother.

My doctor is Dr. Jose Rodriguez (JoseBand)

Its amazing how fast people become fertile after losing weight. Not even clomid worked for me. I too was diagnosed with PCOS, I had my surgery in 02/21/07 and dropped 50lbs four months later became pregnant. I've heard lots of stories like that. If you have any questions let me know. Goodluck to you!

My husband and I have been married for almost seven years and have been trying to get pregnant for three. My body has not yet responded to any medications and the driver behind this is my insulin resistance. My fertility specialist has now classified me as high risk and discontinued her treatments due to my A1C levels. Without lose of weight, my condition, PCOS and Insulin Resistance will prevent me from getting pregnant. Throughout this ordeal, I have been treated by an endocrinologist to assist with weightloss, but it has been unsuccessful.

I have attempted to see three different doctors in the U.S. Two offices refused to see me because my BMI is 33.4 and not 35. Stuck at 33, my chances of having a child seemed slim. I started looking into Mexico and now have a surgery date for October 11th. I am very excited and look forward to feeling better physically and just about myself in general. I am most excited about the increased chance of becoming a mother.

My doctor is Dr. Jose Rodriguez (JoseBand)

When you got pregnant, did you return to the fertility specialist for assistance?

This is my PCOS story.. . I wrote it a long time ago.. and it is copied from my old LowCarb Website.

Hey there: Kick up your feet and stay a while, as you read my PCOS story.

Hello, I'm Tracy... I was first diagnosed with PCOS while undergoing infertility treatment during my early 20's. (Mid 30's now) ..... Period at age 9, Birth Control pills at age 16-18, Married at 18 no birth control, no babies... finally at age 22 I sought treatment. I was told that I had the thyroid of an 80 year old man, and that I had PCOS.. he put me on synthroid for my HYPO-thyroid, and told me that it was just my body type that caused me to have PCOS... no offer of help or anything... just to accept it. Since I had PCOS, I wasn't able to ovulate.. my periods had NEVER been regular except when on birth control pills...... Treatment didn't work: charting, pills, shots... nothing could budge my follicles to pop out any mature eggs..... so I went on with my life, childless.... then fast forward to 1999... I was surfing the net and came accross an article "Losing Weight With an underactive Thyroid" Well, this peaked my interest, and from this article they mentioned Low Carbing and Dr. Atkins..... I was like "What the HECK" is low carbing???? Well anyway, on my lunch break I went to the book store and bought Dr. A's book, I started to read, and read, and read.. and that night I threw away the nasty slim fast, and made myself a bunless cheeseburger.... I had been starving myself on Low Fat Slimfast shakes and GAINING weight....... I would cry because I was hungry and then to get on the scale and actualy GAIN weight... life just wasn't fair..... ok.... so I took dr. A's advice and decided to devote 2 weeks of my life to the diet.... I did... meat, cheese, eggs, and water.... I started dropping weight like crazy.. 14 lbs during induction.. my husband was shocked... but as the pounds came off and the sizes went down... everyone soon became a believer.

OK...... so, I was about 3-4 months into the program when I realized by looking at my weight chart that my period was starting a pattern of every 28 days... I couldn't believe it.... from the first month my cycles had reset themselves to be just like a regular person!!!! THIS WAS A MIRACLE... my cycles were SO regular that I could set a clock by them... so I suspected that I was ovulating too.... my hopes of being a mom returned.... and BAMM, a few well timed whoopee sessions and I ended up preggo... unfortunately I suffered 3 miscarriages right in a row.

So here I was down 80 lbs, PCOS symptoms were non-existant, and I FINALLY saw the little pink link on a home pregnancy test all with out meds or dr's... but life was unfair and I lost 3 precious babies.... all at about 7-9 weeks... one after I even saw the Heart Beat... that one killed me, and I went into a deep depression.. and I started feeding my sadness with High Carb things... I really feel that I was sabbotaging myself..... Lots of other Life events followed... got caught up in a corporate meger/layoff... so my job of 12 years went bye, bye.. and so did my husband my best friend since age 15.... had replaced me with someone who he said was "just like me" just 10 years younger...... so ok..... divorce, heartbreak, money issues... yada, yada, yada..... life goes on! Get your butt up and live life!...... ok so time passed... I hooked up with a new guy... technically my "rebound" guy from hell.... we both started LC'ng, the wieght had returned and my periods were slipping to sporadic bursts at no particular time.... PCOS had taken it's hold again.... anyway I told him, If I start LC'ng I might end up preggo........ he didn't believe me.... but ONE month after starting to eat right again....

I ended up preggo... and now I have a son who is the light of my life!

April, 2004 I rededicated my eat life to Low Carb.... it may not be for everyone.. but it is what keeps my PCOS in check and I lose weight as a side effect!

Edited August 11, 2005....... my little Low Carb miracle has now turned two years old. It was funny, that during my first Low Carb journey where I had 3 misscarriages.. no one wanted to believe that a formerly infertile woman could get preggers, simply by changing her diet. I had started seeing articles in the Atkins Center magazines for open calls for women with PCOS that had noticed changes in their cycles or had gotten pregnant because of this WOE... I called and told them of my experience.. as so many had done... NOW, in 2005... every PCOS website will lead you to a Low Carb way of eating, also they've developed drugs to help with the symptoms... .I feel proud to have been "IN" on the discovery of this phenom...... you will see LOTS of women popping up pregnant all over the Low Carb Friends website, and many threads where the gals are pregnant and doing a maintenance level of LC'ng to help control the amount of weight they gain during pregnancy.... IT IS AWESOME!

I feel like broadcasting to the world.... I AM FINALLY A MOM!!!!!!!!!

All thanks to the Low Carb way of eating.

Oh and now my Atkins baby is 4!

I view the band as my ENFORCED low carb helper! GOOD LUCK!

Nope, in fact, as soon as I found out I found an OB doc who I now see all the time. I still havent gotten a defill and Im alreadys 17weeks, I currently have 3.1cc in my band and have only gained 4lbs and baby is fine:) I'm still able to eat also I supplement with my protein shakes, mvi, and iron. I think you mentioned that you were having the lapband done in Mexico, you might want to start looking around the area for a doc that will do your fills/defills. I have monthly appointments with both my surgeon and ob docs, so lots of appointments and close monitoring, but worth the time:) Hope this helps, how did you surgery go?

When you got pregnant, did you return to the fertility specialist for assistance?

My surgery was great! My recovery has been effortless and everything is going well. I was surprised by the immediate weightloss because of my low BMI and the absence of any fill right now. I was told to expect 2-3 lbs a week and I almost immediately dropped 10lbs. I'm at a stand still now, but I'm excited that to see so much progress during the healing phase.

Great, its good to hear everything went just as planned!

My surgery was great! My recovery has been effortless and everything is going well. I was surprised by the immediate weightloss because of my low BMI and the absence of any fill right now. I was told to expect 2-3 lbs a week and I almost immediately dropped 10lbs. I'm at a stand still now, but I'm excited that to see so much progress during the healing phase.

Congrats. I hope your weight loss goes well and you get prego.