First clomid pill popped last night

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After more than a decade of fertility problems/miscarriages and then 2 miracle kids, we are embarking on our last ditch attempt for #3. It may be greedy, it may be foolish but we would love to have a bigger family. i don't seem able to get pg without intervention so clomid has been prescribed again.

If it doesn't work then I think we will finally have closure on a very long fertility journey. Even if it DOES work then it will be another miracle if I can hang on to the pg. I have had 7 m/c over the years.

We are very very lucky to have our 2 dcs but fingers crossed the lucky pills have one more dose of baby dust inside.

Just popped out to cash in my private prescription - £8.46 for two courses of 100mg. Didn't think that was bad!

Of course I hope I don't need it at all - but only 5dpo today so can't get that excited!

You're right. I think I will have to invest in OV sticks. Not expensive off Ebay - will buy a shedload, like I do HPTs!

I think next cycle I will go in all guns blazing, use OV sticks, increase the Clomid to 150mg and hope that it works.

Hi, sorry I have been absent but I have been so busy. I have tried to catch up with you all and had a read through. Congrats to kea - great news.

I just wanted to ask if anyone has an opinion on this:-

We are moving in 2 weeks and only confirmed where we are moving to a few days ago, the house is full of stuff and time is ticking by so i am STRESSED. I have had the 2 lines on an OPK 3 times this month and have failed to ovulate after. I keep checking my temp and it is still low, then a few days go by and I feel like I'm about to ovulate, i check on the OPK's and they say yes, we do some shagging and then no temp rise. It's very frustrating. I purposely didn't take clomid this month cos I suspected it would be a stressful time and i only had 2 months supply left.

so, do you think A) my body is trying to ovulate but the stress is stopping it. B) the one months worth of clomid I took last month has cocked up my system, C) I have suddenly developed PCOS in my 40s or God forbid D) I'm pre-menopausal?????

I am worried that i might be damaging my ovaries in some way. Also there is an E option - the thermometer could be broken cos I am getting very erratic temps but only 1 that suggested I was post ovulation.

Sorry to barge on and waffle on about me

Hi hippychick66, good to have you back!

Obviously all the caveats apply re. I'm not medically qualified rah rah rah, but from what you've said there and what I've read, I reckon the stress of the move could definitely have contributed to a few false starts on the ovulation front. I had a similar situation in April when my body was gearing up for O (and OPKs confirmed it) but then I took at 13hr flight and O retreated - finally O'ed about 2 weeks later but by that point I'd given it up as an anovulatory cycle and no BD-ing was done whatsoever!

Probably worth getting a new thermometer to be on the safe side though?

I had a meltdown last night - was really pleased and secretly hopeful as I normally start to spot brown (sorry!) 2-5 dpo and yesterday at 8pm on 6dpo I still had nothing. But last night about 10pm before I went to bed I wiped, and had bright pinky/red watery spotting. I'd LOVE to think it was implantation bleeding, but I had this kind of spotting one cycle before at 3dpo and I'm fairly certain it wasn't implantation bleeding at that point because it would have been way too early. Think it's just my messed up, uncorrected by the Clomid luteal phase defect rearing its unpleasant head.

That said, my temp had gone up a nice couple of notches this morning so I'm not going to get all despondent before it drops back down and my period starts full throttle.

Hope everyone else is well x

thanks mrs - deep down i do think it's stress (I just have to keep shagging - yawn yawn!!) - i hope the spotting is not bad news for you. X

Evening Ladies - I wonder if I might join you/

We have been ttc no 2 for 19 months with no joy. Been through all the normal tests etc and nothing obvious coming up and consultant has today prescribed us 3 months of Clomid to see if that can do the trick.

I have pretty regular cycles and do seem to be ov'ing and so was a bit surprised that they suggested this (but I think that says more about my lack of knowledge on the subject!).

Anyway, I have to start on day 2 of my next cycle so just wondered if anyone had any helpful hints or tales to tell?

Oooh, and a question if I may...

Do the pills have to be taken at the same time or any specific time in the day?

Thanks x

hello biscuitsandtea - good luck with the clomid. Yes i ovulate regularly too and do wonder what will happen with clomid - but what the hell - in for a penny etc.

The only advise i can give is to take the tabs at night. I have heard they can give you a headache or make you feel sick (not that they did that to me), and obviously better to sleep through all that.

And did it work Hippy? Thanks for the pointers though x

I've only tried one months worth at the moment and was not successful but don't let that put you off

Morning ladies,

Hope you are all well.

Hippy has that egg popped yet? Did you say on another thread somewhere you were going to check with your GP about this big long ov? Hope it sorts itself out for you xx

My temperature dropped again this morning (about 7 or 8 dpo I think) so looks like I will be doing the Clomid once AF rolls in - but could still be waiting a week for that :(

Ah well - we'll just have to see what happens.

Time for a xx

biscuits got another positive on the OPk today. Spoke to my GP but to be honest I think i know more about the subject than she does. She just said she thinks stress has stopped me from oving and I'm now on the second half of the cycle. (that doesn't make sense to me at all cos no temp rise but ho hum) She doesn't think producing an egg and not popping it will do me any harm and expects things to be fine once we've moved and the stress is over.

I googled people having a weeks worth of positive opks and they all turned out to be pregnant - so i did a hpt and got a big fat zero - the only stick not to give me a second line.

I hope the temp drop isn't bad news for you.

X

Hello, how is everyone doing?
Got AF today (BOO!) but on the plus side I managed to get a 12 day LP this cycle - my best ever! Plus my progesterone test at 7dpo was really good.
So... onto round 2 of Clomid 100mg.
Good luck to all x