Can you tell us a little bit about your experience of having PMOS, how it affected you? Yeah,

sure.

So I guess for me, it's been going on for over 30 years.

I had symptoms from my teens and I'm now in my mid 40s.

My symptoms included an irregular cycle, often having very painful periods, issues with my weight and also my mental health.

And in my teens, it was a case of things were probably settled down or this is normal for a teenager, but when it continued, in my 20s I tried seeking support but the GP that I saw at the time unfortunately fobbed me off and told me it's just part of being a woman it's something we have to put up with and also that there wasn't any point in doing blood tests as they're not accurate for women's hormones so for a long time after that I believed it was something I just had to put up with although I did research into it myself and I had an inkling that it was PCOS as it was called at the time.

And then finally it was in my mid thirties that I saw a new GP and they organised an ultrasound to investigate my symptoms and then I got my diagnosis of PMOS.

How do you think that might make a difference?