- Chef Amaka revealed she was diagnosed with PCOS just months after marrying Aproko Doctor after her menstrual cycle stopped.
The wife of well-known medical content developer Aproko Doctor recently discussed her continued battle with PCOS, a hormonal disorder that has impacted her fertility since the first few months of their marriage.
She revealed that just three months after she and Aproko Doctor wed in June 2020, her menstrual cycle stopped entirely. A hospital visit confirmed what she had not yet put a name to: PCOS, a condition she said she had first begun to suspect when she noticed significant weight gain and a broader upper-body frame developing over time. PCOS is the most common gynaecological endocrine disorder affecting women of reproductive age globally, estimated to affect between four and twenty per cent of women worldwide.
In Nigeria, studies have placed its prevalence among women of reproductive age at between thirteen and eighteen per cent, with many cases going undetected due to limited awareness and delayed diagnosis. One of its most distressing consequences is its strong link to anovulation, the absence of ovulation, which directly disrupts a woman’s ability to conceive. For Chef Amaka, the condition has carried weight beyond the physical. She described how her body changes, appearing visibly larger than her husband in photographs, have made her a frequent target of online trolling.
Comments have varied from referring to her as the “man of the house” to making fun of Aproko Doctor for not having a kid yet. Some trolls have even suggested that she physically abuses her spouse only because she looks larger than him.
She claimed that the thing that has most frequently made her cry is the ridicule of her spouse.
“One of the things that has brought tears to my eyes is seeing my husband being mocked by trolls for not being able to father a child,” she said, adding that the comments cut deeper, knowing they stem from a condition she is already fighting privately.
One of Nigeria’s most well-known health education platforms was created by Aproko Doctor, whose real name is Dr. Chinonso Egemba. He uses social media to simplify complicated medical concepts for common people.
His wife’s choice to openly discuss PCOS gives a condition he has previously discussed in his own public health programming a more intimate touch.
Although Chef Amaka has not disclosed the level of therapy or fertility help she is now pursuing, her openness about the situation has garnered a lot of support online, with many women posting similar diagnoses in response.
