It S Not Your Fault
In the end, Fitzgerald, now 25, diagnosed herself. Just out of college and enjoying a stint in rural Australia with her fiance, she stumbled across a description of polycystic-ovary syndrome (PCOS) in a medical textbook. The symptoms are every woman’s nightmare: obesity, irregular menstruation, infertility, acne, mood swings, facial hair and balding. And they perfectly matched her own. It was a revelation. Fitzgerald logged on to an Internet bulletin board for PCOS women and sobbed tears of relief when a fellow sufferer shouted THIS IS NOT YOUR FAULT into cyberspace....