PCOS Question

emiannie

How quickly can exercise have an effect on PCOS?  I started exercising two weeks ago (3 times a week for about an hour, give or take) and AF arrived today right on time!  (Well, close to time anyway...I'm not tracking, but it's been about a month.)  So I'm wondering if it's the exercise that caused it?  I've been off BCPs for a month now...so I guess I could still be regular from that...I don't really know.

I just know I've never been so happy to see red!  :-)

Sarafuss

I've haven't had AF on my own since before age 15 when I went on BCP's.  So I have no idea how quickly diet/exercise helps.  But I wanted to say that I would be ecstatic to see red also!  Yay! 

dundasgirl

Nice job on the exercise!  I wish I would get off my butt and do something.  I need more hours (without kids) in the day.

One OB I had said the pill is out right away....another said you can't be sure the first month.  So how's that for conflicting ideas? LOL

mrsolsenk12

Prior to TTC i exeecised a lot and my period never regulated. However i wasn't being treated for PCOS with Met or anything so that might have affected it.

rachel06

I don't have an answer for you. Not to be Debbie Downer but I exercised regularly & I never had AF or ovulated even with Met.

emiannie

rachel06:

I don't have an answer for you. Not to be Debbie Downer but I exercised regularly & I never had AF or ovulated even with Met.

You're not Debbie Downer...I get it.  I did ovulate on Met.  I just never exercised before...a girl can dream right?  

LVBlvd

Exercise never helped/hurt me.  I have worked out my whole life.  The only thing that changed my cycles for the better was pregnancy.

my*heart*is*his

I don't know - but I started exercising right after New Year's 2010, dropped about 7 lbs, and unknowingly conceived DD #2 about three weeks after I started (around day 70-something of my cycle!) So, stranger things have happened!