My story
I was 15 when my mom and I sat in a doctor’s office, trying to understand why I still hadn’t had a period. Not late. Not irregular. Never.
Doctors guessed: too thin, too much exercise, vitamins, homeopathy. At 16 I was put on the pill, and I stayed on it for ten years. Nobody connected the missing periods, the thyroid antibodies, the acne and the constant bloating. At 26 a fertility specialist finally said the word PCOS.
You are not broken. Your body is not failing you. You just haven’t been given the right information yet.
After my son was born through IVF, my hair started thinning and the fatigue and sugar cravings became impossible to ignore. That’s when I learned about insulin resistance — and that you can have it with a normal weight. With a nutritionist, a gynecologist and a GP, I built a plan for food, movement, stress and supplements. Slowly, I started to feel normal again.
The fears nobody talks about — that you’re broken, that something about you is fundamentally wrong, that the exhaustion means you’re lazy — those stayed with me for years. It wasn’t laziness. It was PCOS. It was insulin resistance crashing my energy. It was my thyroid. It was my body asking for help in the only language it had.
Why this site
My story isn’t unique. Millions of women are being told they’re too thin for PCOS, handed the pill as the only answer, or left with too much conflicting information to act on. Now that PCOS has been renamed PMOS, there is a chance to explain what this condition really is, and to turn research into a plan you can follow.
Together with the doctors who helped me, I’m building tools and resources based on what actually worked. Not generic advice from a Google search. Not another “just lose weight” recommendation. Real, practical, pattern-specific guidance for women who are tired of being dismissed.