TEEN Mom Kailyn Lowry revealed she has PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome, on her latest podcast episode.
She shared her diagnosis came after she believed she had CANCER following heavy period bleeding.
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Kailyn shared on her Coffee Convos Podcast with Lindsie Chrisley that before she was diagnosed with PCOS “I was having such heavy periods. I was bleeding through three and four changes of clothes per day during my period… and I would bleed through my mattress. I would bleed through everything.”
She added her gynecologist order labwork and an ultrasound which found she had almost 10 cysts on one ovary, and the other had a cyst that was half the size of the organ.
Before speaking with her doctor the Teen Mom 2 star googled what the labwork results could mean saying: “… the first thing that came in my mind, I’m like ‘oh my god I have cancer.’ I’m like crying. I don’t want to die… I literally cried myself to sleep.”
However, she was eventually diagnosed with PCOS, which affects women’s hormone levels.
Earlier this week Kailyn shared on Instagram she recently experienced a health concern and been to the doctors to investigate.
She captioned the video: “A couple weeks ago I talked about my heavy bleeding & scared to learn the answers & what was going on with my health.
“This weekend we recorded an episode where I share my diagnosis & what I’ll be doing to (hopefully) help @coffeeconvospodcast new episode drops on Thursday.”
Kailyn has four sons, Isaac, 11, with her ex Jo Rivera, Lincoln, seven, with her ex-husband Javi Marroquin and Lux, three, and Creed, six months with former partner Chris Lopez.
