TAKING CLOMID FOR THE FIRST TIME AND REALLY EXCITED AND SCARED!!!!

[sambrads]

HELLO EVERYONE !!!!
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO CONCIEVE FOR NEARLY A YEAR AND WITH NO LUCK AND AN UNDERACTIVE THYROID THE DOCTOR HAS PRESCRIBED ME WITH CLOMID!!!
I TOOK MY PERIOD ON 23RD DEC AND TOOK IT DAY 1 _ 5 I AM DUE TO GET MY BLOODS TAKEN ON 11TH THEN 23RD IS BIG TEST DAY!!!
I HAVE READ SO MANY SUCCESS STORIES BUT I CANT HELP FEELING NEGITIVE AS I DONT WANT TO GET LET DOWN !!!

HAS ANYONE GOT ANY SUPPORT OR ADVICE OR FEELING THE SAME??
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

hi all

does anyone no what the success rate is with clomid ?

dungungirl how are you ?
you havent been on for a couple of days
r u looking forward to your appointment or not ............

see u later love lauralou1

hi ya
viksam, how r u doing girl?
im doing better thx for asking..
lauralou, the success of clomid is quite high but i dont know the stats.
dungungirl, any good news?
i am off clomid for now but am trying out preseed. anyone here is taking preseed as well?
i think i should start a new thread with MNer's taking Preseed
btw tested with a HPT yesterday and got a BFN with is reassuring cos' nothing's left inside me anymore and will be starting to ttc asap..
goodluck to us n take care all ..
will pop in to see you guys often now

Hi nandos I havent tried preseed, not to sure what it is, will go look it up in a min. However i did do a first today, i had acupuncture. It was well wierd, it didnt hurt and i didnt really feel any different afterwards. I remember someone saying they felt like they were walking on a cloud afterwards but i didnt. Anyhow i shall carry on with it for a while, its worth a try isnt it. Im about to join the gym too so soon i shall be thin(in my dreams), fit, healthy and in tip top condition so at least i will feel like i have done something different to change my luck.
supersteph Hows things?? Stay in touch if you can, we do worry about everyone!!

Hi to everyone else!!XX

Hello all, I have had no more spotting so keeping fingers crossed. Did my 7th pregnancy test today that still tells me Im pregnant. I dont beleave it as I still dont feel any different. I am looking forward to my 6 week scan on 12th June. I will feel a lot more happier after I know my bean is doing well. good luck to you all. xx

hi supersteph congaulations

i think i would be the same as you checking just to make sure i wasnt dreaming .

hope everything goes well xxxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you I will keep you all informed. xx

Hi All, just popping in to say Fingers Crossed for you Supersteph i know exactly how nerve racking it is waiting for that early scan. Don't forget they may need to do internal to get heart beat so don't panic!!! It's an amazing experience and I still do not believe I am pregnant. Have to remind myself as i run round the garen after my chickens and ducks!!

Thank you pink, every one is so suportive on this thead. xx

Steph How wierd it must be. You have used 7 tests!! Im sure i would be exactly the same as you. Are you doing anything differently? Diet, excersize etc. Only 10 days to go to ur scan, How do you feel about that?

Day 25 for me.........huff.........nothing more to say is there!!

Hi to everyone else!!
xx

Hello ladies

Have been away from MN for a few days - family over, weekend madness - the usual!

Had my appointment with the consultant at the hospital yesterday.

Well...I am OFFICIALLY in LIMBO!

I have killed myself to get my bmi below 35 - yesterday it was 33.7 but yet ....as i thought it was for nothing!

Consultant looked through my paperwork, we talked through the miscarriage and the dates, looked at past blood test results...and then she said it.

'THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO FOR YOU RIGHT NOW!'

WHHHHATTTT!!!!!

I told her that yesterday was a 'point' in this journey and something had to happen to push my efforts forward.

What did she give me? NOT CLOMID? NOT A LAP AND DYE!
A DISCHARGE FORM!!! She bloody discharged me from the subfertility unit! Told me to go and try for another 6 months ( as I managed to get pregnant in Feb ) and then if nothing happens to get the GP to refer me back to them.

I pleaded with her that there must be something she could do, but she was insistent there was nothing. She wasn't prepared to do a Lap&Dye until 6 months time.

OH MY GOD! I think I might jump in front of a bus or something! ( not seriously)

In tears, I was taken into a separate room by one of the nurses - Sharon a lovely nurse whom has always been kind and understanding. I sobbed to her and let it all out. I told her that was it! And that risk or no risk, if the NHS weren't going to help me then I would have to take things into my own hands. So I told her that I already had some 50mg clomid tablets and that I was going to use them as I have to do something! I am NOT willing to sit about and let another 6 months dissappear with no result.

Bless her, she understood the desperation and advised me on the dosage of clomid and the possible side effects and gave me a bit on info.

It is sooooooooooo crap though!

I mean.....what the!!!!!!

GRRRRRRRRRRRR...........................

Dungungirl - I am so sorry that is so terrible. they just don't seem to listen do they? they put everyone into a box and once you fit into it you can have the treatment within that box. Utter nonsense.

Is there any chance you could pay to go privately? I found my private consultant so much more understanding and time giving (of course because your paying for it directly but it worked).

If not, go for the Clomid but be aware of any severe side effects!!! Not sure what the nurse will have told you BUT my advice from consultant is day 2-6 (inclusive) abstain from day 10 to night of 12 and go for it!!! Try and take them at the same time each day. Have you got mroe than 1 months worth????

hi dungungirl

i cant beleieve she wont help u that is terrible cant u go and see another doctor ?

u should ask for a second oppinion

be careful if you are going to take the clomid you have got
as u wont be getting checked like you should

i asked my doctor if i had to have lab&dye but he said no not unless i have to do iui

i cant beleive she gave u discharge forms
go to ur gp and ask them to send u to another consultant a male on lol.......

take care love lauralou

dungungirl

Im sorry. Its amazing as my doctor just gave me clomid, as if it were sweets and each time i wanted more out came the perscription, I also had the lap&dye which was good, concevied the following month after.(I also had a bit of a wait 4months i think it was)

I wish you all the best i admire your stuggle and strength, and hope your dream comes true soon

Superstepth
Congratulations

dungungirl (shock)
what did they do that for? These dr's are mad.. For ladies like us that have problems ttc we need help.
My darling if you are going to take the clomid please becarful as you won't be having the scan to let you know what is happening inside. I wish you the best and baby dust to you please keep in touch. Hugs and kisses xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ladies info please i have just had my 1st round of clomid and last week i have been at the hospital twice for scan's as my nurse wanted to check the size of my foillices. I went for a scan yesterday and my foillice is bigger and i am doin it every other day. Next week i have to go for a blood test to see if i have ovulated. i am expexcting a bundle of joy? or what should i be expecting to hear? i got my gp to sign me off work because of all these visits and i haven't told work as they don't need to know anything.i am resting and listening to my body. please can anyone help me. I feel a dull ache on my left side is that anything?

Thanks ladies.

THis was not what I had hoped to have to do. I REALLY wanted to be monitored properly - but alas....

Just hope that I get on ok with it on my own.

prim Thanks for the info. Yes the nurse told me to take it from day 2-6 of cycle. She didn;t tell me about going for it after day 12 though! So thanks for the tip!

lauralou
I have really had enough of them at the hospital and I heard from a friend who is a GP that the other consultant ( the man! ) is worse than the woman consultant I saw! Seems he is a grumpy old so and so who is very stuck in his ways! So I don't think I would anywhere with him either! I am planning to talk to my GP friend and find out from her what she might recommend I do next.

nandos
I will be starting that clomid once AF arrives....she is due anyday!

pink
You are right there! I have pcos and secondary infertility and she discharges me!!! JUST because I don't fit in the classic 'box'. Rubbish NHS. I could go private for a short spell but I don't know whether DH would be up for it right now..

cam75
I really wished I could have been monitored properly, but the NHS has taken that option away so I hope it all goes ok!

hi cam

i am starting clomid next week for the first time a bit scared exspecially about the side effects and how they will effect me as i am working every day what did your gp say ?

what type of symptoms have you had ?
i hope i dont have to many ...........lol

why are you having so many scans my consultant said i will only have one on the 11th day ?

sorry for all the questions just a bit anxious ...........

good luck and baby dust for you xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

All i Would suggest is if DH is happy with it, go private see consultant stress your desire and need for clomid cos no one is getting any younger and if he is anything like mine he will write to your GP to suggest it. Then your GP should prescibe it as then you get it for hardly anything. Also, i did not have any monitoring whilst taking clomid other than the day 21 blood test to see if it works. My consultant didn't feel the scans were necessary as any signs of something going wrong are more likely to be experienced physically i.e. high temperature, sickness, severe pain etc... and therefore all the scan does is what the blood test does. In this respect the lack of the scan etc.. wouldn't worry me it is more that you are aware of the side effects and get to gp ASAP if anything goes wrong like hyperstimulation which will present itself with the above side effects.

Good Luck and keep us all informed of your progess. x

Dungungirl

Whilst I am really sad to hear your story PLEASE don't self subscribe Clomid.

If your fertility problems aren't of the type where Clomid is appropriate it can have the reverse affect and shut down your ovaries completely.

I have recently had all the blood tests to see if Clomid was appropriate but my gynae has said there is no way he can give it me as, for me, the above could happen.

Please don't take it unless prescribed professionsally

Good luck

lauralou,

My gp is the best as i have not advised work what i am doing she signed me off for 2 weeks.
My side effects have been hot flushes which i am still having!!! and feeling sick and extremley tired. Nothing major thank god. The nurse is lovely. I am not sure why i am bening scanned so much but as long as everything is ok i am happy with it. Next week i am having a blood test next week.
I did have some dull aches but it is normal i have been also taking folic acid as well and i am taking metformin to help lose weight so it is all go at the mo. I am resting and drinking loads of water and eating fruit and veg. The nurse said i had to cut out sweets ans stuff, it's hard for me as i love my chocolates but i can give it up for a baby that is how i see it.
How are your dr's?
ask any questin you want

Hi Dungungirl,

I would go along with what stuarts said about being careful with prescription drugs...what if something went wrong? Are you ovulating?

I am on Clomid at the moment, and my PCT don't even do scans. However, there is no indication that I am failing to ovulate, about which I telephoned my consultant (he wasn't the one who prescribed). I said that I was concerned that Clomid would just make me waste all my eggs without good reason, and also that I was not being scanned.

He said he thought I should come off the Clomid and start IUI, which seems to make more sense to me.

In the meantime I'm just doing one more month on Clomid, in the hope it might lengthen my cycle, as I have a luteal phase defect.

Even though I have been prescribed with Clomid for subfertlity (ttc 25months), I do worry about overproducing eggs and OHSS!

What ever you decide, I hope it's the right decision, and that you get your heart's desire asap!

thanks cam75

my gp is really good and my consultant is also good they are helping me lots

we have been ttc for 4 years now got diagnosed with pcos 2 years ago on my right ovary got metformin went back 6 months later to see if the metformin had worked and they told me i now have cysts on both ovarys

it just seems like a vicious circle

just hope that clomid works my friend said it sounds like a magic drug ...........lol

hopefully she wont be wrong
what days on your cycle have you been told to have intercouse ?

what date of ur cycle do you take the test ?

love lauralou xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

lauralou anytime,
with pcos it is so hard. I wish i had this before ivf it would have been so much better. ivf is so much more intense and it is over so quick and no end result.
I have to have intercourse every other day not sure when to take a test? i will be going to get a blood test due next week so i guess it won't be long from there really.

What days do you have to take your tablet? i was 2-6

cam75

yes i am same 2-6 then 11th day is internal scan and21 st day blood tests

i think i will ask the nurse when i go for the scan what days to have intercoure she should be able to tell

how times have u had ivf

just the once, i was on the waiting list for ages then my number was up.
It was amazing and disappointing that it never took i fertlized 3 babies and then they were gone.
It took me awhile to get it over with but i have and now hopefully it works this time.
I had to give myself injections which was hard.
i am not back to work for another 2wks if that i am relaxing until the seed is planted...

stuarts and Chochosan

Thanks for concern. I take this decision with a very heavy heart. I have been attending the subfertility unit for 6 months - I was referred 8 months ago. I have been TTC for now almost 1.5 years.

I went via the unit as i wanted them to help me professionally, so that I was monitored properly.
They took that option away.

So, I have now not much of choice as we don't really have the funds to pay to go private.

I know a few ladies on MN who have taken a low dosage of clomid without monitoring and most of them are pregnant now.

Even the fertility nurse advised me it would be ok as long as I took a mere 25g dosage just to give things a kick.

The consultant is assuming I do tend to ovulate more than not ( not many tests to prove this! ). I do however have an average 8 day luteal phase...which isn't very long...so am hoping just a low osage of clomid will help enough!