TTC with PCOS (Thread #2)

[RoseBud2015]

If you have been diagnosed with PCOS and would like a small group of very friendly ladies in the same position as you to talk to, then this is the thread for you!

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hmmphh its day 3 on 150g Clomid and feeling OK but a bit terrified I am going to go nuts at any point!

Feeling really negative about it since the 'hunch' comment by the fertility nurse so been researching IVF this evening which also has me feeling fed up and negative. equally annoying is the fact that even though I need to keep loosing weight I cant quite muster the energy... which is odd given I know it will help me achieve that BFP!

Cd39 ...still no AF!

Metformin seemed to work so well that first month now I can't see why it's not carrying on the same way. Feeling down in the dumps, I am
supposed to give it 6 months but obviously having annov cycle.

Prehaps met isn't helping me like I thought!? Anyone else in the same boat?

Gin When I had my annov cycle, AF was only a couple of days 'late' (relatively speaking; irregular cycles and all that!), but I have been known to have an annov cycle and then be waiting for a couple of weeks or more Sorry that's prob not helpful. I often find DTD helps bring on a late AF... May be coincidence, but thought I'd mention it. Stay positive

Fred Ignore, ignore, ignore. How f*ing rude of that nurse?! And completely out of place too! Focus on your next step right here and now rather than look too far ahead. I sooo know what you mean about weight loss! I'm starting again on Monday (away all weekend), so if you want to buddy to check in with, perhaps we could help each other?

Stealth Welcome. Glad your fellow banana has been able to help you so much on your early days on the thread She's a mine of information!

Banana DEF make a formal complaint. Your MOT sounded like such a great idea, then they made you feel so deflated... and it turns out they were totally wrong?!

Battenberg Perhaps your dr thought it was helpful to give you something rather than nothing?? Who knows. I think a couple of others are met takers so they'll be able to advise you. I had trouble with it myself but I know others don't suffer any side effects at all.

Any news on our pg ladies?

Ladies pls help. I'm so confused. Apologies in advance for the me post.

Second cycle of Clomid. I did ovd. 14dpo spotting started. Stopped within an hour. Preg tests bfn. Now 36 hours later all I have is the lightest possible bleed so light that I feel I'm imagining it. Where is AF if I've ovulated? Can you ovulate but not get AF? . it makes no sense. Very grateful to anyone who can shed some light.

I'm going to call the doc but I probably won't be able to get in touch with her till mid next week. I shouldn't start the next round of Clomid unless I get a proper bleed - right?

bettenburg what's your qs on met? I tried to go back and find it but couldn't. Just to add my experience: I had terrible nausea on 1000 mg so I came down to 500 mg but it made no difference to me. No AF for 3 months on it. A second doc I saw said the fact that I get nausea and that I'm of a normal bmi means it probably won't Impact me and that I probbaly don't have insulin resistance. But there are others I know personally who swear by it.

Thanks chandelier! I think I might do a juice cleanse or something a bit mad to give me a kick start. Or just eat fruit and veg for a few days to give myself a kickstart.

I just had a horrible evening I managed to loose one of my cloned tablets while taking them and can't find it anywhere at all. So annoying and upsetting will phone in the morning and see if they will authorise my GP to write a prescription..... But I wonder how much difference taking 4 days of 150g and 1 of 100 will make?

Cobblestones may be implantation spotting? In which case you wouldn't have BFP yet but also wouldn't have AF either. Or some pre menstruation spotting perhaps? Logically it has to be one or the other - keeping fx it's the former xx

Cobblestones I'm feeling the same been taking it around 3 months now I have had one period but that's all.

I'm taking 1500mg but don't get any side effects, also nornal BMI.

Did anyone taking SI find they did sweet FA on the first month?
My temps have been stead now for 21 days, nada, no rise. I ov on day 27 last month so wondering if SI has done nothing at all?

Ladies, will you give me a kick up the arse and tell me to stay away from Dr Google? This morning I took my temp as usual and was really disappointed when I saw a temperature dip (I'm 6DPO with a run of high temps since estimated O date). Bum, that can't be good. Then I Google and see that temp dips can be a secondary oestrogen surge, which could indicate implantation (the so called 'implantation dip') - or obv it might not. And of course I won't know if it's a dip anyway until tomorrow when I see if my temp goes back up again.

But stupidly I Google when implantation occurs, and Wikipedia and a study in the New England Journal of Medicine say between 6 and 10 DPO (average 9 days post ovulation). And then of course I try and use this as an explanation for the dull pinching ache I'm feeling above my pubic bone.

Will you please tell me to stop bloody symptom spotting??!!

I will tell you to stop bananafish but I'd probably do exactly the same thing haha! Google is not our friend!

I've been given 500mg of metformin but I was wondering whether to take it or continue ttc without. I'm not exactly sure why I'm so apprehensive, maybe because my cycles are regular so I don't want to disrupt them!

Freddiesmother I hope you manage to find the tablet or get a new prescription, how unlucky to lose one like that!

Ginfizz hope you're feeling better, any sign of AF?

Banana, I'm trying really hard to stop myself without success. I'm 8dpo, and similarly, high temps since ov, full feeling in breasts, slight nausea today, really exhausted, headaches for the first five days after ov and just today started getting heartburn (which I never get). But I keep trying to convince myself it's got another logical cause!

Hi ladies, hopping over from thread #1. Have had a bit of time off from the thread as the whole no period thing was getting me down (and thinking about it was too much) .

So, I'm currently in the middle of a progesterone withdrawal bleed (courtesy of the consultant at the hospital) with the hope that it will 'kick-start' my system again. Hopefully it should and I'll start ov-ing but if not we'll be onto Clomid etc.

So glad to see people seem to be moving forward and ov-ing, noticing patterns etc, all looking very hopefully. Keeping everything crossed for you ladies!

Hi bucketof -nice to 'meet' you

Ladies I've just finished a really funny book that I massively related to - it's called 'The impatient woman's guide to getting pregnant' by Jean Twenge. Tbh didn't really tell me anything I didn't know already but it's really funny and felt like reading about a kindred spirit amidst the madness of TTC. Few quid on my kindle.

I pissed myself laughing reading her day by day account of going potty during the 2ww - loved the bit where she gets a strange looking temperature (tick!) and starts madly googling (tick!) and comparing other women's charts on Fertility Friend to look for similar patterns (tick!)

Might give some of you a giggle if nothing else

Found it! Such a relief was a massive stress and was feeling a bit emosh about it! Follicle tracking scan a week Monday. Really hoping 150g does it for me. Feeling pretty ropey though

banana thanks for replying to my last post. AF came in full swing yest. After an agonising 48 hours of wondering what was going on. So a lesson in it for me: either clomid has increased my luteal phase or i ovulated 2 days after I got the positive opk. So I'm trying to learn something from this: not to start dtd-ing too soon on a daily basis coz we burn out by the time it's crucial!

Hope everyone else is doing well.

battenburg I don't think Metformin has any neg impact per se if it doesn't work for you. Anyone has any ideas?

Symptom spotting is the worst! I'd tell you to stop banana but I can barely do so myself...

Cobblestone I think I might give it a go I guess it can't hurt! I think I just expected more information from the gynae but she just kind of handed me the prescription like it's antibiotics or something

I know what you mean about being burnt out. The month where I did conceive albiet chemical I only dtd about 2 times in a week ; it's down to luck sometimes I guess..

Freddiesmother glad you found it! How many follicle tracking scans will you be having? I looked into it at a private clinic and they were about £200. I hope it goes well for you fingers crossed.

Hope everyone else is doing okay!

Freddiesmother SO glad you found it, that must be such a relief (I’m relieved for you so can only imagine how you must be feeling!)

Cobblestones big hugs. I’ve taken the opposite conclusion, we need to start DTD earlier! Cos it’s my first cycle off the pill, and as I never expected in a million years to ovulate (last time I came off the pill I had one 9 month long anovulatory cycle!), and cos my body showed absolutely no signs of gearing up to be fertile (no EWCM, CMFM said low and hadn’t had any ‘early warning’ high readings), wasn’t really prioritising DTD for baby making purposes, and cos it was the hottest week of the year we weren’t really feeling much like DTD for recreational purposes. Then when it suddenly went from Low to Peak, was caught a bit on the hop - we got the day before O and day of, but missed the prev 3-4 days in the run up. Next month, even if I’m not getting any signs, I’m going to try and get things going earlier, just in case ... (obv next month I won’t ovulate at all, and I’ll knacker DH out, lol)

So I’m 8 dpo, and predictably I’ve not stayed away from Google, haha. I think I’ve given myself psychosomatic wind, as wishful thinking for the dull ache I’ve got in my lower tummy being implantation cramping, haha. Wishfully hankering after sore boobs too (I’ve never had sore boobs in my life, so I have no idea what they’d feel like even if I were gearing up for a BFP!

Have lovely Sundays ladies x

CD34, 14(?)dpo, BFN Come on then AF, let's be having you...

chandelier

No news from me still, I'm continuing with my AF inducing drug but likely to be about a week before that starts. I enjoyed my break by getting shamefully drunk yesterday with my best friend after she confessed to be ttc for 9months with no luck. No problems that she's aware of, and she didn't want to tell me "because it's no time compared to me" but it was nice to pass on some info and generally chat and drink together
So today I feel the beginnings of pmt (ie feeling all emotional and weepy over nothing) to add to my lovely hangover.

Fingers crossed for everyone!

How is everyone doing? Any sign of AF Chandelier?

Isit hope the hangover is long gone!

I've started taking the metformin, feel very sick and have completely lost my appetite! Don't think I will last very long on it!

No AF from me either, CD 40 something! persevering with the met-luckily I don't seem to suffer from nausea or upset tummy with it. Just trouble remembering to take the tablets

Hi ladies

Well I'm 10 DPO and don't have any sore boobs (apart from when I've been poking them to see if they're sore), have some grumbly cramping which feels like pre AF (well, pre withdrawal bleed feeling - can't remember what a real period feels like!) type grumbling. That or its just another side effect of my usual opioid painkiller-related constipation (hey! Welcome to TMI-r-us!)

I don't feel any different from usual so I think I'm almost certainly out this month. In which case can't wait for AF to arrive so I can get my Day 3 bloods done and find out what's going on post scary scan...

Thinking of you all x