“Can you have PCOS and still ovulate every month?”

PCOS is a complex diagnosis; it has variable degrees of manifesting, but the main issue with PCOS is a higher than normal percentage of Free Testosterone and variable female hormones that go from age appropriate to low and age inappropriate. Every woman will cycle month to month from normal age appropriate to abnormal age inappropriate hormone levels, sometimes every 2-4 months, but it can also happen as low as every 8-16 months; the only way to know is to follow hormone levels with your doctor on a regular basis. Whatever pattern of normal vs. abnormal hormone levels you then have will dictate how often you will ovulate. There are very few resources for the lay person that explain PCOS; it will be in my next book that I write, but that book is still in its development stage. Please check out my other 2 books, Blossoming and Full Bloom, which go into significant, but easy to read detail about hormone balancing in adolescence through perimenopause, menopause, and beyond.

Some women with PCOS do ovulate, some will have stretches where they ovulate regularly, it would be important to confirm that you truly are ovulating with ovulation tests or progesterone levels.