Dr. Hillary's PCOS Story | Cultivate Fertility

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In this video, Dr. Hillary opens up about her personal struggles with infertility and PCOS:
"I was the girl who never got her period.
I was a ballet dancer and athlete. In my teens I was put on the pill to regulate my periods, and for years I did have a period, but my body didn’t agree with the hormones.
When I was 22, a doctor told me I had PCOS and would likely be infertile.
And I was like… wait, what?!
I realized that I’d been covering up a problem by taking the pill instead of trying to get to the bottom of why I didn’t have a period in the first place. And I felt like no one was helping me figure this out.
It was this frustrating feeling that I couldn’t do a very basic thing the body is supposed to do.
I felt like I was doing something wrong because I didn’t have a regular period. I was constantly thinking about being told that I was probably infertile, and it was a hopeless and terrifying feeling. I had an overwhelming sense that I didn’t understand what my body was telling me.
At the time, I was pre-med and the stress was all-consuming. It was impacting my entire body, including my reproductive system.
And it seemed like nothing I was doing was working.
So I turned to a naturopathic doctor for help.
I started regulating my cycle. I got aggressive about tracking my periods and working on my high testosterone and low progesterone. I was basically obsessive.
I stopped eating so much soy. I started taking herbs to regulate. I balanced out the hormonal imbalances that were caused by the PCOS.
That’s when I switched my focus from psychiatry to become a naturopathic doctor instead. I knew I wanted to spend my life helping other women naturally conceive the same way I had.
When I wanted to get pregnant, my cycles were three months long. So trying to figure out when I was ovulating was difficult.
But I had already known I would want to get pregnant one day, so I had started doing all this work a year in advance.
And when it was time to get pregnant, my body was ready.
I got pregnant, naturally!"
-Dr. Hillary, Cultivate Fertility
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