Florence Pugh reveals she froze her eggs after being diagnosed with PCOS and endometriosis

[hewontgo]

Florence Pugh reveals she froze her eggs after being diagnosed with PCOS and endometriosis last year https://t.co/ZTLO3SM8sO pic.twitter.com/fBYeFh5k1q
- Page Six (@PageSix) November 19, 2024

During an episode of the 'She MD' podcast, Pugh, 28, revealed she froze her eggs after learning both conditions could lead to infertility.

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[delleve]

I have PCOS and it sucks so fucking much. I've never wanted bio children, so that piece isn't a concern for me, but all the other symptoms (weight gain, inflammation, insulin resistance that's borderline diabetes for me now, head hair loss, hirsutism, acne, painful and irregular periods, thickened uterine lining and increased cancer risk, mental health issues, list goes on) makes life really difficult. And yet a lot of doctors don't know shit about it and basically tell you to just come back if you want to get pregnant. 🫠

[mzgrottesca]

I was given a PCOS diagnosis that I'm pretty sure was a false positive (most all of my PCOS-like symptoms disappeared once I switched bipolar meds), but I feel thankful to Bernie Sanders and his campaigning for low-income clinics that I was able to get quickly tested and examined for it at a time when I had nearly no income. It is very scary to live in a body that feels foreign, but having access to the tools for diagnostic testing is one small comfort that everyone should have.

[veggie]

i think i've commented about this before on ONTD -- thankfully i didn't have endo, but i do have PCOS. i also had ~15 years of chronic pain and bleeding (10 years where it was constant) where every doctor was just like "idk lmao have u tried not being fat?" and then it turned out that my uterus, like the muscle itself, was literally full of tumor

[neoreulwonhae]

I'm glad you finally got the help you needed but yes, it's horrible that you had to go through so much pain and turmoil that could've completely been avoided if doctors had just fucking listened. When I was about 16 or so I had horrible pain in my pelvic area and went to the ER, they did a CT scan and said they saw 'fluid' in my pelvis but couldn't determine exactly what was going on. For some reason, when my mom was driving me to the hospital, I remember thinking, "well, this is it." Like I had somehow known all along that something was wrong with me and this was the moment I'd become infertile or something. I've never wanted kids, luckily, but it still took ~10 more years to finally get diagnosed. I can only assume that that pain was a cyst rupturing - even though I got an ultrasound after I went to the ER and they didn't find anything (wtf?). And the only reason I got diagnosed in my 20s is because I was researching my own symptoms and discovered PCOS, then went to a gyno and said, "I think I have PCOS." We did blood tests,

[veggie]

oh my god i feel you so hard, we have all the same symptoms, i'm also ADHD, and we're on the same medications. it is absolutely INSANE that we don't know more about PCOS. the lack of knowledge and support for us is criminal, because it affects your life in so many ways. like, it just tessellates out and fucks with everything

[neoreulwonhae]

Like was mentioned earlier, people seem to have this idea that PCOS means you're completely infertile. Nope. If you have PCOS you're likely to have irregular periods, but not always. And even if your period is irregular, it's coming at some point which means you're still ovulating, even if it's not every 28 days. Some people with PCOS truly have no periods, or maybe one a year, but I don't know if that's the majority. It's still plenty possible to get pregnant with PCOS, it just might take longer depending on your specific symptoms. Also I've read that it can be easier for people with PCOS to get pregnant when they're "older" (30s lol) because the hormones start calming down then. But I'm 32 and on 100mg spiro and I've still got dark chin hairs. So. But my periods are regular! So I could theoretically get pregnant, probably pretty easily, if I didn't have an iud. Regular periods/ovulating and PCOS are not mutually exclusive

[insomniachobs]

I've known pretty much my entire reproductive life I had PCOS (I self-diagnosed out of a teen magazine about 10 years before the medical profession caught up - "it's just puberty," they said