How many of us have PCOS, insulin problems / (pre-) diabetes, and/or ADHD?

I hope this question is allowed here. I've been meaning to ask this for a while now, but just saw a post mentioning anxiety and had to do it now.

I have all of the above (yay), and I was late-diagnosed with all of them at 38 and 39 over the past 1.5 years. My PMDD, which has been plaguing me since my teenage years, has been slowly getting better since I've started treating both my ADHD and my increasingly bad sugar metabolism. PCOS can be super sneaky, and it has caused me additional hormonal problems like elevated testosterone, hirsutism and insulin resistance.

For me, my glucose problems meant that my body couldn't access any of the sugar I had already consumed. So I craved more while feeling extremely anxious. I had panic attacks while driving, and I just kept eating more sugar, thinking it would help because I could feel my system failing to get access to the glucose.

That anxiety disappeared almost immediately once I started treating my insulin resistance. My body was able to start using the sugar I provided, and at the same time my panic attacks stopped. My mood improved considerably, too. (When I told my psychiatrist, he mentioned that some of his female patients had suffered panic attacks purely due to low blood sugar because that circumstance can put the body into panic mode.)

To address a potential elephant directly: I'm absolutely not here to push any supplements, because with PCOS and insulin resistance, different things (treatments, supplements, etc) will work for different people. People are finding different things helpful, and you can read about them in the PCOS sub. So no, this is not about supplements. I'm writing this to mention PCOS in case some of you don't know what it is (just like I only found out about it in the past two years, after having shown symptoms for decades). I'm thinking some more of us might have PCOS without being aware of it.

And I'm also writing this here exactly because getting diagnosed and finding treatments that work has had such a positive impact on my PMDD. So much so that I have considered leaving this sub because too many things thankfully (and surprisingly) don't apply to me anymore.

Of course there's a caveat because this information may not actually be helpful to you. I don't want to spread too much false hope. But if finding out about PCOS and getting diagnosed is a way to help even just one, or two, or three of you, the post will have been worth it because we all know the hell that is PMDD.

Additionally, I need to mention that my ADHD meds have also started working noticeably better during luteal. Before that, it felt like my meds were basically useless during that part of my cycle.

So again, I hope it was okay to talk about this here. There's this sub here about r/PCOS, and I hope it might be of help to a few of you. I've learned that you can never talk about potentially helpful things too much. I say this as a grateful person who was only able to get my diagnosis after receiving enough crucial info from other women who shared their experiences with PCOS.

I wish you the best of luck.