I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries in my late teens (I was and continue to be very small framed and lean contrary to most descriptions of those affected by PCOS) and prescribed birth control pills to reduce the size of cyst that covered one ovary entirely and a large portion of the other. Due to side effects of the birth control pills (depression, weight gain, etc) I discontinued them... They didn't do much to regulate my periods anyway. For over a decade I was experienced extremely irregular cycles, very light and occurring randomly no more than four times a year. Despite this I did become pregnant at age 30, but the abnormal cycles and almost absent menses persisted.
Around the age of 34 I began seeing a pain management specialist for for unrelated , chronic pain I had also experienced for decades. It seemed that as my pain was becoming managed (although it was still not managed adequately at that time) my menstrual cycle became more regular than before, as if my reproductive cycle could finally begin to work as pain was lessened. It took 10 years of failed attempts to get pregnant the first time at age 30. But after I began a regular and adequate regime of narcotic pain medications, my cycles became very regular and I easily became pregnant and delivered two healthy babies 18 months apart, at age 39 and 41! I am now 42, my pain is being managed relatively well by Butrans patch and oxycodone. My periods have been like clockwork over the past three years... Until this past month. During the past thirty days I have had 3 cycles. This change occurred almost simultaneously to an increase of the dosage of my oxycodone from 10mg pills to 15mg pills.
I am sharing this because I find it so intriguing that this medication 1.) obviously has a profound affect upon female reproduction and 2.) the effects can obviously be extremely varied.
Hopefully someone will do more research on the phenomena we have experienced.
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I was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries in my late teens (I was and continue to be very small framed and lean contrary to most descriptions of those affected by PCOS) and prescribed birth control pills to reduce the size of cyst that covered one ovary entirely and a large portion of the other. Due to side effects of the birth control pills (depression, weight gain, etc) I discontinued them... They didn't do much to regulate my periods anyway. For over a decade I was experienced extremely irregular cycles, very light and occurring randomly no more than four times a year. Despite this I did become pregnant at age 30, but the abnormal cycles and almost absent menses persisted.
November 18, 2015 - 12:02pmAround the age of 34 I began seeing a pain management specialist for for unrelated , chronic pain I had also experienced for decades. It seemed that as my pain was becoming managed (although it was still not managed adequately at that time) my menstrual cycle became more regular than before, as if my reproductive cycle could finally begin to work as pain was lessened. It took 10 years of failed attempts to get pregnant the first time at age 30. But after I began a regular and adequate regime of narcotic pain medications, my cycles became very regular and I easily became pregnant and delivered two healthy babies 18 months apart, at age 39 and 41! I am now 42, my pain is being managed relatively well by Butrans patch and oxycodone. My periods have been like clockwork over the past three years... Until this past month. During the past thirty days I have had 3 cycles. This change occurred almost simultaneously to an increase of the dosage of my oxycodone from 10mg pills to 15mg pills.
I am sharing this because I find it so intriguing that this medication 1.) obviously has a profound affect upon female reproduction and 2.) the effects can obviously be extremely varied.
Hopefully someone will do more research on the phenomena we have experienced.
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