#15: Pharmacist: The Biggest PCOS Fertility Myth! What Every Woman Should Know Before Marriage

You had mentioned that there were some misunderstandings that people have of it.

What would you say are the biggest myths people have for PCOS?

The biggest myth I hear very often is that it's a sentence for infertility.

You see so many young women don't even want to let their fiancés or potential husbands know that they have it.

Or they don't want their in-laws knowing because they're going to be judged.

They think it's just a reproductive problem that will stop them from giving birth.

When in actual sense, women with PCOS do give birth to healthy babies.

And I think every woman, another myth I hear is every woman that is overweight or just women that are overweight have PMOS.

There are also lean people that have PMOS.

Also, another myth is that all symptoms are the same.

While PCOS or PMOS is symptom specific, every woman has a specific type of symptom depending on the type of PMOS she has.

So these three are the most common myths.

So depending on the type,

meaning there are different types?

Yes, there are different types.

There are four categories, I would say.

There's the insulin-resistant PCOS, adrenal PCOS, post-spill PCOS, and inflammatory PCOS.

And what do each of them look

like? From the name insulin resistant, you see them having issues like acantosis nigricans, where you see darkening around the area and around the joints.

They tend to be overweight.

Then adrenal PCOS.

In such women, you see excess cortisol levels.

They have a moon face, a very round face, a lipid hump in the back, and what we refer to as the cortisol belly, the protruding belly.

Then for the inflammatory PCOS, it shows things like hirsutism, hair growth on the face, acne.

and whatnot.