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My favorite part of PCOS is forgetting for months that I have eggs, then one day feeling like someone took a rusty viking sword right through my left ovary for almost a full week.

But yeah, tell me more about how it’s “just a period cramp” and I should just “ignore it like a proper adult.” There are more important things I have to get done, right?

Guys I’m so angry I don’t know what’s wrong with my body. I’m so drained right now because of my blood sugar. This morning it was at 169, I’ll check again at lunch but like ZAMN. IDEK WHATS WRONG WITH ME CAUSE MY MOM HAS PRE DIABETES AND PCOS AND MY DAD HAS HYPO-GLICEMIA(however you spell that) AND IT MAKES ME ANGRY CAUSE GRRRRR

Having PCOS genuinely feels like having a fully developed monster in my body. I'll be happy and strong one minute and in an instant, the only thing I want to do is curl up and cry until I feel my entire soul has been depleted of any emotions. Don't get me wrong, I have been depressed way before my PCOS symptoms started but I can still clearly remember the time of my life when I completely lost control of myself. One summer, when I was actually at the peak of my physical fitness, I gained several pounds in weeks, lost any and every will to live and realised that my body is no longer listening or responding to me. To feel that helpless, especially when your life is constantly stressed and every other person is forcing you to study more, work harder, eat healthier, lose weight and all you want to do is wail so loud it shatters the whole world. My parents keep telling me it's just me being lazy and I believe them and end up hating myself more. With all this mental torture, my body goes through such high inflammations that it genuinely feels like I am burning in hell for 2 weeks straight until my period does arrive. I wake up more tired than I went to sleep and don't remember the last time I felt good about myself. There is no medical help or emotional support and as always, I have to help myself. It is truly excruciating.

Especially when they don't work properly and you are naturally unable to reproduce 🥰

Every time someone talks about how it's our "purpose" or how we're "meant to" to reproduce, I want to tear my reproductive organs out and slam them down on the table.

Listen, people that hopefully come across this. If you feel alienated or something because you don't know who any of these characters are, DON'T LET THAT DISTRACT YOU.

This isn't about the characters, this is about something in real life that a lot of people NEED TO KNOW. Please, please, PLEASE reblog this and, if you can, use tags that apply to all the details in this comic so that it will reach as many people as you can

I am sincerely BEGGING you to reblog this. Even if you don't have tags, just reblogging will get more people to see it. PLEASE REBLOG. IT'S NOT HARD AT ALL. Just hit the reblog button AT LEAST. Please.

Putting all of the tags on this took a simple five minutes. I swear that's the maximum. Please just reblog.

September is PCOS awareness month. I've been hard at work on this comic. I've used my comfort ocs and characters in order to describe my experience with PCOS. I always put a part of myself in my ocs when I make them. In this comic, Pexio is worried he can't help the human he's assigned to as a guardian pinata because he doesn't understand the condition she's been diagnosed with. Ana teaches Pexio and JJ about PCOS and the effects it can have on women mentally, emotionally and physically. (with Sun and Moon's help) If any of my art were to blow up and get a ton of attention, please let it be this comic. I was invalidated, lost and hating myself thanks to my PCOS, other conditions and issues on top of it and...toxicity. I still am. Even with some of the help I'm finally getting after so long. If I can do one thing, I want to touch someone's heart. I want to make them feel seen and valid. I want to give someone else the validation and love that I didn't get. I hope you enjoy the comic :3 I put my heart and soul into it.

September is PCOS Awareness month, and I'd like to point out some of the many symptoms people with PCOS deal with everyday...

moon face

excessive body hair, arm, chests, back, face, legs and buttocks

irregular periods

painful periods

extremely heavy periods

constant bloating

mood swings

struggle to lose weight

struggle to gain weight

food cravings

high cholesterol

insulin resistance

oily skin

acne

insomnia

fatigue

sleep apnea

depression

anxiety

tubular breasts

dark and sensitive underarms

skin tags

belly fat

high testosterone

excessive hair loss

thinning hair

pelvic pain

infertility

ovarian cysts

And so much more, as well as having to struggle to even find a doctor who will take any of our symptoms and pain seriously. The medical industry needs to take better care of women, intersex and trans folks with PCOS and Endometriosis.

Our pains are real and we deserve better.