Mother of Pearls PCOS

Endometrial Biopsy due to Amenorrhea caused by PCOS

Posted by Mother of Pearls on Tuesday, May 1, 2012 | 4 comments

Happy Tuesday! Today will be a short post about my experience with endometrial biopsies. I‘ve had three biopsies because as you have read in my previous posts, my cycle had stopped years ago. Because my cycle stopped and I had not taken any Provera or birth control pills to make it come on in over a year, my uterine {or endometrial} lining got too thick. When the lining is too thick, abnormal cells may grow which can cause endometrial cancer. The biopsy detects any abnormalities. I’ve...

Don’t Ignore…Infertility – Please Hear Our Cry! (Part 1 of 3)

Posted by Mother of Pearls on Sunday, April 22, 2012 | 0 comments

Happy Sunday! Today kicks off National Infertility Awareness Week! In honor and celebration, I am doing a series of posts each day to let you in on how infertility has impacted my life. This particular post is Part 1 of a three-part post. It contains a portion of a letter I wrote a few years ago when my husband and I were thinking of applying for a fertility grant to cover the cost of IVF. It contains some misspellings, but I want to leave it as is because when I wrote this letter it...

PCOS: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome – An Animation

Posted by Mother of Pearls on Monday, April 16, 2012 | 0 comments

Please view this video to learn about PCOS: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and use this to educate those who don’t know about it. If you are living with this, it is one of simplest and best explanations I have seen so share this to help others understand what we go through! Oh and that part at the end about “the drilling”…yep I DID THAT! I’ll share about that at some point so stay tuned ...