What do you do if you’re young, and by all accounts ‘healthy’ and slim ...but you’ve suddenly been told that you’re infertile and need IUI or IVF to conceive?
Well if you’re Sara, you don’t take that as gospel and you seek a second and third opinion.
Today’s podcast is another real-life story with the amazing Sara who I’ve had the pleasure of working with inside The PCOS Protocol.
Like many of us, Sara had been on birth control since a young age and came off after getting married. She had been trying to get pregnant for a year, and when the drug Clomid wasn’t successful, she was told:
“I think you might have lean PCOS, but how we’re going to get around that is by doing IUI”
But she didn’t accept this solution.
“We’d been kind of trying to get pregnant with 6th grade knowledge of how to get pregnant and then suddenly our next option was IVF. It just didn't stack up. I want to understand my body and why we were not conceiving, rather than just jumping straight to IVI and IVF.”
She subsequently found out that her insulin wasn’t working properly- even though she is lean. After tweaking her diet and lifestyle she also learnt to track her cycles to identify when she was leading up to ovulation.
She ovulated 4 months later and got pregnant with that ovulation.
Highlights, takeaways and quick wins
What do you do if you’re young, and by all accounts ‘healthy’ and slim ...but you’ve suddenly been told that you’re infertile and need IUI or IVF to conceive?
Well if you’re Sara, you don’t take that as gospel and you seek a second and third opinion.
Today’s podcast is another real-life story with the amazing Sara who I’ve had the pleasure of working with inside The PCOS Protocol.
Like many of us, Sara had been on birth control since a young age and came off after getting married. She had been trying to get pregnant for a year, and when the drug Clomid wasn’t successful, she was told:
“I think you might have lean PCOS, but how we’re going to get around that is by doing IUI”
But she didn’t accept this solution.
“We’d been kind of trying to get pregnant with 6th grade knowledge of how to get pregnant and then suddenly our next option was IVF. It just didn't stack up. I want to understand my body and why we were not conceiving, rather than just jumping straight to IVI and IVF.”
She subsequently found out that her insulin wasn’t working properly- even though she is lean. After tweaking her diet and lifestyle she also learnt to track her cycles to identify when she was leading up to ovulation.
She ovulated 4 months later and got pregnant with that ovulation.
Highlights, takeaways and quick wins