Hi Sam,
First of all, congratulations on your beautiful baby! Secondly, you have my sympathies re: feeling like you're hormonally out of control. It must be hard to cope with post-pregnancy hormones and PCOS re-rearing its' ugly head!
A couple of things which might help:
- go to Holland and Barrett and ask for a consultation. I did this recenty, and described my symptoms- hair thinning and crazy hormones- and the assistant there was brilliant, really understanding and recommended quite a bit of useful stuff
- I know this will be hard when you're breastfeeding, but think about changing your diet. I bought the PCOS diet book by Colette Harris and went through it and made a spreadsheet (geek!) of all the things she recommends to eat which I will actually eat. Now I've changed to brown carbs only, sweet potato rather than normal potato, eating nuts and seeds each day, oily fish twice a week, cut caffeine down to two cups a day (I can't do without it altogether!) and cut down alcohol (I now do one drink on, one drink off). All of this has had an effect on my mood
- a couple of months ago I was put on antidepressants by my doctor- again, not an option if you're breastfeeding- but he also put me on a course of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at the Zion Centre in Hulme, through Manchester Self-help Services. This really has been incredibly helpful for me, as it teaches you to remap your thinking patterns- I now find it much easier to identify a PCOS-hormone-induced irrational thought and behaviour and to talk myself out of it!
- come to a meeting! We've been totally rubbish at getting this sorted but hopefully we'll sort one out soon. Are you on the Facebook group? Search for Verity Manchester or follow this link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1431752 ... rk_t=groupx