someone explain fertility to me like I have not read a paper in years
Question in the title, detail here: someone explain fertility to me like I have not read a paper in years. The hair shedding was the thing that frightened me most and the thing that mattered least. It stopped. The one practical change that makes this board’s hardest questions tractable: annotate your log with the…
Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or fertility planning belongs with a clinician. That is not a disclaimer, it is where the answers actually are.
Careful — anything touching pregnancy is not a board question in any form.
Where in the cycle does this fall, if you are tracking it?
Cosigning on fertility changing with weight loss. It catches people who were not expecting it at all.
Correcting myself upthread: the shedding started at week 65 for me, not the week I gave.
PCOS is a diagnosis, not a description, and it matters which you mean
Small fix — insulin resistance is a feature commonly seen in PCOS, not a synonym for it.
symptom patterns can track the cycle rather than the dose
fertility can change with weight loss and that surprises people
Yes — hair shedding tracks the rate of loss and it is temporary. That reassurance is worth repeating.