12: PMOS (PCOS) Part 1: The PMOS Symptoms Women Are Told Are Normal

12: PMOS (PCOS) Part 1: The PMOS Symptoms Women Are Told Are Normal

From The Ovary Club with Alisa Vitti by Moxie Media

July 14, 2026 · 39 min · Episode 12

About this episode

Alisa Vitti shares her personal journey with PMOS symptoms and the challenges of diagnosis.

Note : This episode was recorded before PCOS was renamed PMOS, Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. Throughout this episode and some original episode materials, you may hear or see the former name PCOS used. Before I ever built FLO Living or created the Cycle Syncing® Method, I was a teenager who knew something was wrong with my body and had no language for it. I didn't get my first period until almost 16. Then my period disappeared for months at a time. By 19, my skin, weight, hair growth, sleep, mood, and energy were all telling the same story, but no one could tell me what it meant. In this episode of The Ovary Club, I'm sharing the part of my PMOS story I rarely get to tell in full. I walk through what it felt like to live with painful cystic acne, unexplained weight gain, excess body hair, insomnia, anxiety, depression, brain fog, and missing periods before I finally found a possible answer in a medical journal and received a PMOS diagnosis seven years after my first bleed. I also break down what PMOS actually is, why elevated androgens can disrupt ovulation, why the condition can look different from woman to woman, and why a diagnosis is not always as simple as one…

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Host: Alisa Vitti

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Organizations: FLO Living, Cycle Syncing® Method, PCOS, PMOS, Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome, medical journal

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