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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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Clomid success rates

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alex8 · 08/06/2006 16:37

I know a lot of people on here have taken it. I just wanted to know how many cycles it took to work and what dose were you on? I just feel like hearing a few positive stories.

I just had one of those sinking moments when I read a thread with someohe saying they were 6 months pregnant and I realsied thats what I would have been if I didn't have a miscarriage.

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alex8 · 09/06/2006 20:21

thanks thats really interesting. a puppy and a baby, scary.

I am seeing consultant again at end of june. Am only on 50mg but had follicle tracking (had 2 good size ones) and ovulated so not sure there is a reason to increase the dose but will bring it up.

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PanicPants · 09/06/2006 18:28

Just went and had a look at my diary, it was 50mg for the first 4 months and then it was increased to 100mg for the next 7months .

mummydoc · 09/06/2006 18:18

I took it for 4 cycles at 150mg to concieve DD1 and 100mg 6 cycles DD2 both gorgeous, my consultant told my husband to get me a puppy when i first went on it as he felt i would never concieve with or without fertility treatment so 12 months later i had an un house trained dalmation puppy and a new baby ....( not sure i have ever recovered) HTH stick with it !

PanicPants · 09/06/2006 17:33

dygesterone? Can't remember exactly what it was now

PanicPants · 09/06/2006 17:33

Took 12 cycles of clomid, and consultant was going to increase dose as well. I was also on dydesterone (sp) at first alongside the clomid. I tried very hard not to read the side effects of too much clomid on the leaflet!

My desperation was too great!

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alex8 · 09/06/2006 17:28

Did you take 12 cycles of clomid? Or was it just 12 in total? Sometimes I read tha you can only take 6 but elsewhere it says more.

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PanicPants · 09/06/2006 17:27

alex8 it certainly didn't work first cycle for me!

PanicPants · 09/06/2006 17:26

On 50mg for 5 days (from day 2 to day 6 of cycle) It took me 12 cycles to conceive but I miscarried. So next period I didn't use clomid then fell pg with ds on next cycle!!

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alex8 · 09/06/2006 17:06

thats a lot of people whom it worked for first time. Thats what I feared as the women I know who took it; it either worked frist time or not at all.

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Jen1209 · 09/06/2006 13:43

Hi Alex - same as twiglett, 50mg dose for 5 days, conceived first cycle. Baby due Nov 18th!

Good Luck

hunkermunker · 09/06/2006 00:24

Smallest first dose they give you - is that 50mg?

Had follicle tracking, saw DS1 as an egg because he was the only one I produced that cycle - and conceived first cycle.

Good luck!

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alex8 · 09/06/2006 00:20

thanks everyone. I've only done one cycle so far but no bfp. Follicle scans/blood test showed ovulation but didn't have hcg injection as they didn't think it was necessary. Its good to know it not just first time it worked too as most of the stories I have heard it worked first time so felt pretty dispirited when it didn't.

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AllieBongo · 08/06/2006 18:23

my pal used clomid both times, sorry can't give dosage etc and fell pg on each occasion and went on to have healthy babies, hth also

Twiglett · 08/06/2006 18:21

I was put on 50mg clomid for 5 days .. conceived DD first cycle

HTH

coggy · 08/06/2006 18:20

Alex - i was a clomid success story!
I was on 50mg and had it for three months with an hcg injection on (or around) day 13.
Stopped taking it on the forth cycle due to work commitments (wasn't able to get to have the jab so didn't seem worth taking the tablets either) and fell pg that month!!!
HTH you feel more positive.

Are you on clomid yourself now?