ANY ADVICE ON CLOMID????

we didn't manage it last night, both totally knackered. Maybe blown it for this month but we'll see.

crikey loubie, that's the way to do it (the toy boy I mean!)

good news about the positive on the OPKs, good luck.

Yay, I got a smily face on my OPK today - I know it's not guaranteed that I will OV but it would be so good to get a BFP on my last try before Clomid

I suppose it helps having a toy boy - he's 25 I'm 37

I'm making the most of it before I'm too old!!

really glad to hear you're changing GPs, Lunar, I really hope you get someone more helpful (and I'm sure you will, they couldn't be less helpful could they!)

Roobedo, - "JUST GIVE ME THE SPERM" - exactly.

Loubie, ah well, you are lucky to have an 'up for it' DP, my friend has one of those, she says he's like a battery "ever ready". And good for you for being spontaneous. My acunpuncturist (now that sounds a bit poncy) says that's the best way to get pregnant, just do it when you feel like it. WOuld take me 10 years to get pregnant if I followed his advice!

The Sperm Meets Egg plan is where you abstain from sex from AF starting until CD9 (I think), then you DTD every other day until you get a +ve on an OPK, then you do it that day, the following 2 days, miss a day and then have one final effort the day after that.

But we're way to spontaneous for that, my OH doesn't like 'doing it to order' as he puts it. Luckily he's got a high sex drive so I don't have to worry about him not being up for it on the vital days, as long as he thinks he's not got to do it, we're OK.

I don't know about the every other day theory either - it doesn't work for us, we tend to DTD most days from around CD6 until the last week of my cycle by which time I'm knackered and really not in the mood any more

Glad to hear you're getting somewhere lunarsea, hopefully you'll have some good news soon

Katie - lol imagining 'major events'. Know what you mean about wanting him to get on with it though - sometimes feel like shouting JUST GIVE ME THE SPERM!

Really hope it works for you katie. Well I've got a couple of (very minor) bits of good news. Have managed to persuade another GP practice to take us on, so once the paperwork has gone through hopefully we'll got some more positive reaction from them. And have arranged to see a consultant privately - he does say bring a referal letter from your GP, but hopefully he'll just accept that GP isn't being helpful, and see us anyway, as it's not as if insurance is paying to need the letter from that point of view. Nothing really that dramatic, but hopefully a step in the right direction.

god I wish Twig, he just seems to have a problem with that concept. It's like "come ON, get ON with it man".

was snurking in recognition of 'he seems to think that every time has to be a major bloody event!'

wham bam thank you man is what you need

Twig - it's hard to be a sex godess every night you know.....

let us know about the injection Roobedo, what does it do again? (does it shoot the egg out? IIRC)

loubie - what is the 'sperm meets egg' plan? sounds like a new type of diet!

snurk

yes we've been trying it every other night (or less sometimes) for the last 15 months so this month decided to really go for it. In Zita West's book (conception / fertility guru woman albeit a bit yurt-ish) says that it's a myth about the sperm quality thing and just to do it as often as poss.

It does get a bit wearing though doesn't it ? DP is not very good and just getting on with it, he seems to think that every time has to be a major bloody event!

We were told that too Twiglett - apparently 3/4 times a week gives the best results. We tried the 'Sperm Meets Egg' plan last month but to be honest didn't get on with it - we'd rather just DTD 'as and when' IYKWIM

Good luck tomorrow Roobedoo, hope your follicles are the correct size!

Hi Milesy,, As u know i was on clomid and although i had to double my dose it works i have 2 daughters to prove it!!

you can use standard ovulation predictor kits on clomid I think

you might as well

can I just mention that our consultant told us to have sex every other day for the best quality sperm

It gets a bit dull doesn't it! DH and I have taken to early morning quickies to get it out of the way! I'm on CD16 and I haven't ov'd yet so have to keep going. Going to have v busy week if I get the injection tomorrow. Anyway, enough about me - guess you should keep going just to be sure, if you can bare it! BTW, very impressed by your efforts so far. Assuming egg sign on persona means its a good time for BD.

can't believe I am asking on a public forum whether to have sex tonight!!

well we managed to BD on days 10,11, 12 and 13. Today is day 14 (have egg symbol on persona and did yesterday)do you think we should do again tonight? bloody knackered!

I can't remember exactly when the blood tests I had done were now....if I remember rightly the first one was January and it came back borderline and that was the cycle I got PG. Maybe that's why I m/c because my progesterone level was too low.

I then had them done in Feb and that came back too low which is why I was referred to the specialist. I definitely had them done in April at the hospital ready for my first appointment and that was low too, so maybe I've only had them done 3 times, not 4.....it all goes into a blur after a while!

The strange thing is though, that even on the months I know I haven't OV'd, FF has always given me cross hairs, so I now take what it tells me with a pinch of salt!

well I'm on day 13, got the egg symbol on my persona (although can't trust that as it says in instructions not to use if you're on fertility drugs) but I have the weirdness feeling; the same as when you really need a wee and are holding it in. That slightly painful bladder feeling. Odd. god I hope it's this month, the whole TTC thing does get very boring after 15 months.

Loubie - if you've got pregnant before then you must have oved (obviously!)

I think I must have more anovolutary cycles than normal then...I've had my 21 day blood levels checked 4 times and not once did they show I had OV'd!!

But, like I say, I must do occasionally otherwise I wouldn't have got PG in Jan?

Oh well, at least the Clomid should sort that out for me

Fingers crossed for everybody, I hope we all get what we want so much