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CLOMID first timer....

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cheekycurls · 05/09/2011 17:52

I can't seem to find any clomid threads that are active, so thought I would start this one.

Currently just finished taking my last tablet (50mg) on my first month of clomid, I'm very excited & nervous at the same time.

So many things going on in my head, no one to really talk to, symptoms are a bitch (but must mean something is working if I have symptoms yeah?!) Confused

has anyone taken clomid without being monitored? My consultant isn't going to scan me to check on follicles, I just have to go back to see her in 3 weeks (not sure what for?) Blush

Really hoping this works! Hmm

But if anyone wants to join me on a clomid ride, share info or success stories, feel free to...... Smile

OP posts:
goldengirl71 · 04/11/2012 20:38

Meluv!! It's a miracle! Your two thick lines are fabulous news and it's cheered me right up. Deffo get bed-rocking, love, as you should ovulate within 24-36 hours of your LH surge. Good luck! Grin

Annalou84 · 04/11/2012 20:56

Meluv that's fantastic news I'm so chuffed for you :) what's your cycle day????

Golden good good good luck for tomorrow :)

Meluv · 04/11/2012 21:23

Grin thanks girls can't believe after all the moaning I've done am made thanks for all ya advice golden and annlou am on cd 22 Hun golden told me around cd 21 she was hours out prob .... Y is good luck for golden Tom what have I missed xxxx

Annalou84 · 04/11/2012 22:00

Meluv I'm on cd20. Have you been having 2nd faint lines before you got the positive?? As I had a few where it was faint but Since Friday I've had nothing :(

Meluv · 04/11/2012 22:23

Hi annalou I did have a few like ya self with the fainter line Hun then nothing I just took them as a negative Hun .... I have had my clear egg whitey discharge started yesterday an then around 5pm this evening I got the two dark lines luv .... I am just made up I got them as I never have had them before ever they mean nothing as some say clomid mess with the result of them but it may be coincidence but when golden worked out my most fertile days with my cycles being long she told me my best days were around about days 20 21 or 22 ... I felt awful saying I had two lines as I no u have been waiting for the same thing Hun it's all ups and downs for all of us on hear its one huge emotional roller coaster Hun always hear for use all girls xxx

positiveme · 05/11/2012 05:24

Hi all,

Im soo happy to find this thread. I was really depressed for few months after I was diagnosed with PCOS.

after 1 yr of marriage we are trying to conceive. The doctor put me on 500mg metformin 3times a day for two months. I dint get my periods still.

I have consulted a new doctor few days before and she prescribed me metformin 250 mg twice a day. As we were intrested in tt conceive and i dint have my periods yet, she put me on dupharston (Dydrogesterone) for 12 days and asked me to have clomid the second day of my periods.

After i read through many threads what i understadn is that usually metformin dosages are increased gradually. what I dont understand is y she has given me 25o mg (decreased dosage).

Im trying to be positive as its only been 4 days since i started taking dupharston to get my periods. I am soo desperate to become pregnant..

But i donno how the outcome is gonna be.. or if i will ovulate.. as the whole process is the first time.

When i keep thinking about all this I get depressed but keeping my fingers crossed and trying to be optimistic.

Will keep posted as I have no one to share with all these.

Meluv · 05/11/2012 07:13

Hello positiveme an welcome lovely I must confess I don't no a lot about pcos at all but there are lovely girls on hear that share your problem and am sure they will be so happy to help an chat with you we are all on the clomid journey and we are all very supportive of each other we are all lovely girls with the same aim an dream having a lovely lil baby we are all at different stages and all have different issues as to y we not getting caught but we r all hear for each other as this can be very stressfull journey and it wears you down at times ... U r never alone with the girls on hear there is always one of us to chat to and help u the best way they can big hugs lovely Smile x

Meluv · 05/11/2012 07:19

golden I not sure what I have missed lovely as annalou was wishing u luck for today am not going to miss out so hears mine I raise my glass Wine hears to golden and wishing you lots and lots and lots of luck lovely I hope u get the best news ever mwah X

summerintherosegarden · 05/11/2012 09:00

meluv I am so chuffed for you, what brilliant news, 2 weeks til test date now! I think annalou was referring to the fact that golden should be testing tomorrow...

positive welcome to the thread, we all share that experience of not having anyone to really share our thoughts with (partners are amazing but they don't really know what it feels like, right?) I also have PCOS though I have not been prescribed metformin; however, I understand that it can have quite a lot of side effects and 1500mg a day is a lot to start you on which is probably why the doctor decreased your dose - just to allow your body to get used to it.

I'm on my third cycle of clomid now and didn't ovulate either of the first two times, we'll find out whether I did this cycle on Friday. The thing to do is just to view at as a long journey...if it works for you first month that is wonderful and fantastic, but if it doesn't, you just have to keep on fighting. This is hard so don't let anyone try to belittle your feelings! Any time you need a rant or anything else, this is the place. I hope your period arrives soon so you can get cracking with the clomid.

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 10:13

I'm sorry but I'm dreadfully upset by the dramatic drop in temperature this morning. I was, of course, expecting it, but after having been woken in the night at 4am with nausea and my nipples really tender I confess to feeling a little excited. With this temperature, though, I have to expect AF - which would normally be due tomorrow. I am hugely upset, you know, because, with the knowledge that TWO eggs were released and none fertilised I am now doubly panicky about the quality of my eggs.

Sorry I haven't welcomed you before moaning about myself, Positiveme. I know nothing of metformin or any of the drugs you mention. Thank goodness for Summer and others like her who know what they're on about. Good luck on your journey Thanks

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 10:32

Okay, so, the good news....I rang the hospital (thanks for pushing me, Summer) for my day 21 progesterone result and it was 71.6!! See? The Clomid has worked and I ovulated I just have ancient shitty eggs because I'm 41

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 10:35

Just so you can take courage: my day 21 score pre-Clomid was 18.5.

Christelle2207 · 05/11/2012 11:22

Sorry about the temp drop but that is an amazing prog. score. how much clomid are you taking?

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 12:00

I've just completed my first cycle of 50mg, Christelle. When I rang the consultant's secretary I cried and told her that, although it's wonderful that I definitely ovulated (I released two eggs) I somehow feel even worse that they weren't fertilised. When I asked her if and when the consultant would consider increasing my dose to 100mg she said, "but it's worked already - you've ovulated!" Hmm

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 12:04

...I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Clomid actually working and making us ovulate is only half the battle - we've got to get the fucking sperm to fertilise the eggs. I have high hopes for all you young 'uns with PCOS etc. Once they succeed in getting you to ovulate you'll be laughing with your infantile eggs.

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 12:06

My last post was number 666 on the thread Hmm

Christelle2207 · 05/11/2012 12:27

i think more people conceive on their 2nd cycle tham their first. yes youve ovulates but perhaps some hormones havent got themselves into gear yet. anyway not over yet is it- i have heard of temp dips at implantation.

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 15:44

Thanks, Christelle, it is kind of you to offer me hope, but I don't think an impantation dip at 13DPO would bode well! Sad I wonder why cycle two fares better? Interesting.

I am having a horrible day (sorry to moan) just waiting for AF. I'm grumpy, too, and am taking it out on everyone on facebook who annoys the hell out of me anyway. I am on a mission to get defriended. I don't care. Yet another 'friend' is pregnant. She is 38 with two kids of 14 & 18 and she is an ex-porn actress (not that this has anything to do with anything). The other two of my 'friends' who have just had babies are back on amphetimene and cocaine within weeks of having their children in a desperate bid to regain their figures and some 'kudos'. One of them doesn't mention her baby - ever. Not out of respect for my sensitivities but because he is the least interesting thing in her life. She's just flown back from Belgium where she had her tits re-done and an acid peel which almost bloody killed her.

I must not judge...I must not judge...I must not judge.

Another thing that's pissing me off is the box of Milk Tray DP bought me yesterday (sweetheart). What the fuck have Cadbury's done?? Who needs a honey-flavoured caramel? I nearly threw up. Isn't it enough that I already have to toss the vomit-inducing turkish delight into the bin? And what happened to the fabulously gritty fudge? It's morphed into a lame Milky Way texture Angry

I think we can all safely assume that my period is, indeed, on its way. Does anyone mind if I continue to rant randomly on here whilst the hormones dictate my mood? Shock

Annalou84 · 05/11/2012 16:08

Carry on golden!!!! you have slightly cheered me up like you I'm having a shit day I do not want to talk to no on in the office and I want to smack that bitch previously mentioned weeks ago!!!

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 16:11

Annalou, have you considered superimposing her head onto a vile beastiality website?

Annalou84 · 05/11/2012 18:21

I might just do that lol x

Annalou84 · 05/11/2012 20:22

Why am I not getting any positive ovulation tests :( I just don't think clomid is going to work for me. I've got 1 more chance pick my tablets up next week. I was sat in the doctors today and this young couple came I'm obviously pregnant looked like the type that will never work a day in their life no older than 18 and me and my husband both have good jobs do our deeds for society, be there for all my friends it just feels like I've been shit on from a great height

summerintherosegarden · 05/11/2012 20:46

Aw golden I am so pleased that you ovulated. Remember that even a 'normal' couple only has a 25% chance of conceiving any given month; the important thing is that you are definitely ovulating now, just because this month may not (and I'm not ruling it out til there's blood in your pants) have worked most definitely doesn't meant that your eggs are shit.

I find it hard enough having friends who are madly in love with their babies, I can't imagine how it'd make me feel having friends off getting chemical peels and doing drugs with newborns. So yes please rant away, I wouldn't be able to hold that in.

BUT please spare the delicious Turkish Delight from your bin! Save them and send them to me! Oh how I love Turkish Delight...not too sure about the honey flavoured caramel though, haven't had a Milk Tray in a long time but that sounds plain wrong, I do prefer a galaxy caramel to a cadburys one in general though...

Annalou I know, it is SO hard when you see people that probably shouldn't be parents and you have so much love and stability to give a baby. As my DH always says, very sadly there is no correlation between emotional ability to parent and physical ability to parent.

What is next for you after clomid? Do you have a game plan with the doctors?

Annalou84 · 05/11/2012 21:06

Well I have 1 more round of clomid then we will be referred to a specialist. I just feel down today I know it's mostly self pitty
But it's a horrible when you really want something and it feels like you may never get it :(

goldengirl71 · 05/11/2012 22:20

Annalou, you CANNOT say that Clomid will not work for you. Please try and stay positive and rational even though I have been feeling exactly the same as you today May I say I have a feeling you will feel alot more informed and in control when you are referred to a specialist. I promise there is lots of help out there for women just like you who have as little faith in their bodies as you. Until you get referred, try to understand how unlikely it is that the OPKs will help you in your current situation. Look at me...I had a beautifully strong positive OPK this month, I released two eggs and had well-timed sex. My period is still on its way in the next few hours. Let's not give up. We owe it to ourselves not to listen to the nagging doubts which will bring us down. Here, have these Flowers. They were very expensive so put them in water straight away, o.k, Annalou? x

Summer, you are the queen of sweethearts. What happens on Friday? Scan or blood tests? Scan, I think. How exciting! Are you nervous? How do you feel? You've been asking others if they have a 'plan' beyond Clomid. What's yours?

Hello to everybody else. How are you all, lovely ladies? xx