I'm not sure that you can technically be borderline PCOS, i yhink its case of you have it or you don't. But, it can be really tricky to diagnose. Usually its based on your symptoms, as not all women with it have cysts on their ovaries and hormones are tricky little buggers that can be correct sometimes and not others.
I had numerous blood tests over a few years, all which came back is perfect, and then one day, a student gp ran some and came back with a slightly abnormal result on one and rang and endocrinologist who suggested it might be and what other tests she could run to confirm. She ran them and concluded that i had it, i had a scan with a private gynae who said i had cysts on my ovaries and they are text book. I've since had more tests and scans, and they've said i have no cysts and my hormones are normal and therefore i can't possibly have it - well, you tell that the hair on my chin!!
PCOS stands for polycystic ovarian syndrome meaning, many cysts on the ovaries with other symptoms, but like i said you do not have to have cysts to have the syndrome. Usually, there's a slight elevation of testosterone flowing through your system, which causes your body to have these wonderful symptoms and cyst growth. Its possible that you have other dodgy hormones too.
Symptons can include:
Male pattern baldness (i.e. receding hairline or thinning)
hairness where women don't normally get hair, such as chin
erratic/absent periods
weight gain and difficulty losing weight - usually due to insulin resistance
infertility
acne
Having PCOS does NOT automatically mean that you won't be able to have children, some people do others do not, i fell very quickly despite having irregular periods but a friend of mine took 14 years to fall pregnant, another has never fallen pregnant.
There is no cure for PCOS, which sucks, but there are things you can do to help the symptoms and even get rid of them completely. There are creams for excess hair, creams and tablets for acne, and they say that a low Gi diet is really good for women with PCOS to lose or maintain their weight. I've found that the bigger i get, the worse my symptoms are, so for me, my PCOS clearly affects my weight, or maybe my weight affects my PCOS, its a vicious cycle. Someone once mentioned to me that taking Evening Primrose or Starflower supplements would help to regulate my cycle, now i'm not one for taking meds and thought it was a load of old codswallop but given that my cycle was becoming more erratic, i decided i'd try it, within a few weeks of taking Starflower supplements, they started to regulate and i had a 28 day cycle for the first time in years!
