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Second Month on Clomid and No Period but Negative Pregnancy Test

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Astrogirl · 22/12/2003 21:29

I have been on CLomid for the last 2 months. The first month it obviously didnt work. I suffered with the worse period I have ever had in my life, with servere cramp and excessively heavy bleeding. Followed the instructions the second month with the Clomid, and was hopping around on day 28 when there was no period. Did a pregnancy test but it was negative. Due to irregular periods cos of my PCOS waited until day 30 and took another test. It flashed Not Pregnant. Today is day 32 and still no period. I have another batch of Clomid to take before I go back to the hospital. The appointment, I have now realised means I will not be taking Clomid for one month. After reading so much info here on the net, I am starting to believe that Homerton Hospital is not treating me correctly, as they are only doing the blood test and not giving me an ultrasound.

At the moment I am a mess trying to get my head round everything that is happening, but I am spending more time crying than anything else and I hope that somebody will be able to offer me some advice as I am going crazy at the moment. The husband is excellent, but Im still not coping.

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Astrogirl · 31/12/2003 15:25

Thanks for all your comments they have helped.

Finally after five pregnancy tests, I have now started my period. Another heavy one. So this is round 3 of clomid for me this month and I think that I will buy the ovulation kit this month to help me, because today is day 40 and now im totally lost with what my body is doing.

Happy New Year

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miriamw · 23/12/2003 17:05

If you have PCOS then although Clomid may help regulate your cycles, there is no guarantee, and so your cycle may be as long as it ever has been (which may also mean that your Day 21 blood test won't necessarily show whether you ovulated or not). I'm afraid that you're playing a waiting game, and if you don't get a period, you should probably test every 3 or 4 days (the doctors would say weekly, but I could never hold out that long).

AFAIK Homerton just does NHS treatment, and so it would be unlikely to scan whilst on Clomid. My NHS hospital basically put all women on irregular cycles onto Clomid for 3-6 months as this seemed to be successful for about 50% of patients (and obviously unsuccessful for the other 50%). However I was told to take ovulation predictor tests from about Day 9 of my cycle, and they did scan me during one cycle of Clomid (and as they could see that I wasn't responding at all to Clomid that finished my clomid treatment). If you have another cycle itmight be worth using ovulation predictor tests, esp if your cycle is irregular - after all you don't want to get the wrong days!

Clomid will make you quite hormonal - this is fairly normal though not very helpful I'm afraid.

I'm not sure what you meant by the comment that you will not be taking Clomid for one month - is that because the hospital has just given you 3 months worth? This would be fairly normal as they may wish to increase the dose. What daily dose are you on?

But as bunny2 and kiransmum have said - you could be pg - you just don't know it yet. Good luck!

kiransmum · 23/12/2003 08:32

I got pregnant with Clomid first month with DS1 but I'm trying for another one and I've given up on Clomid.It isn't making me ovulate and gives me this ridiculous 2 or 3 month cycle. It is so frustrating when you don't know what's happening isn't it? I've lost count of the number of pregnany tests I've done because I can't understand why my period hasn't come.It might be that Clomid isn't working for you either but you never know you could be pregnant.

bunny2 · 22/12/2003 23:21

I dont want to get your hopes up but ... 2nd month of clomid I got no period and did 4 tests before getting a positive one. I eventually got the result I wanted around day 35. I hope this is the case for you. Good luck.