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

fruitloop definately dont say anything about your wedding as they will just say that having a baby quickly is for your inconvience !!!!!!

i would tell him how upset you are that you dont feel like a woman anymore . tell them you have heard of clomid and was thinking of buying it from a doc on the net this will panick them into giving you it .

do you know what annoys me so much clomid is the cheapest fertility drug on the market and should be given out alot more

Hi Pink! HELLLLoooooo to you too!

Sambrads - good luck with the scan! How exciting!

Hello Fruitloop!!! We meet again! Heheheeh
I think it is normal for NHS to make you wait a year before perscribing anything. I have suspected PCO/PCOS and this has been the case since OCtober, however they are still taking their own sweet time. So even if they aren't making you wait on purposee.....it takes a while!

I am at the exact same point as you by the sounds of it. I have had my first appoitnment at the fertility clinic. Going to have a mid-cycle ultrascan again on Monday and possibly again in case i am not actually mid-cycle. In the meantime Dh has to have a sperm test done. We know he is ok as we already have a DS, but they want to rule out everything I guess.

Sambrads, let us know how the scan went when you have chance All good news I hope, maybe even twins thanks to clomid.

hi ya ladies had my scan today and all is well
i am 6weeks and 3 days and i seen a heart beat so im so chuffed

any crack with ya???

they said there was only one baby so fingers crossed its a sticky

Great news, congratulations!! Glad everything went well. How are you feeling? Any sickness yet?

Well if DP needs to do a test, I'll have to take a photo of the look on his face when I tell him, ha ha!
I might try Sam's idea about threatening to buy Clomid on the net

Good Luck Fruitloop! I tried threatening my GP and I obviously wasn't that belieavable as he just told me it wasn't advisable and that the consultant would prescribe.

hah! Here i am still clomid-less....

Good Luck to you Fruitloop!

hello ladies how are you all today???

my freinds have decided to do the 9 mile short marathon for charity and i agreed now im sitting 6 weeks pregnant and have to jog 3 miles every othre night training but i dont want to tell them just yet

its hard work but aleast i will keep fit

Morning!

Good on you Sambrads! I only started jogging 3 weeks ago and I must say I am not getting anywhere quick!
Heheeheh

To be honest...I have never been a fan of running but it is a cheap and effective way of doing exercise....I have given in! It isn't easy though running my amount of body weight around! I much prefer power walking. I tend to mix it up when I am out...I can only run for 1-2 minutes a time before breaking into walking at the moment . Hopefully after a few months I'll be less pathetic! Hahahah

Got another scan this morning....they wan tto catch ovulation to see if indeed it is happening, scary!

Anyway...catch up with you ladies later!

Sambrads, So pleased everything went well with the scan.. i'm sure s/he is a very sticky one!!

Ooh 9 mile marathon... GOOD LUCK lol..

good luck with your appointment dungungirl please let us know how you get on

Ooh i'm having really bad hot flushes this month on Clomid Poor DH doesn't know what to do with himself when we're in the car and i'm doing the same as the dog by sticking my head out of the window... I've decided this is a sign that it's working cos I didn't have it last month and it evidentally didn't work!!

oh i had terrible hot flushes pink it was awful i am actually dreading the menopause already haha

I know what you mean, I can now empathise with my mum!!! Never understood before.

Hi ladies

Had the internal ( yuk) scan yesterday and it seems that I have polycycstic appearences on BOTH ovaries. As far as the sonographer was concerned they looked polycycstic.

Straight after the scan I went to see my nurse at the fertilty clinic and she went through all the blood tests I've had done. TYPICAL! My LH and FSH are in normal balance so my blood work does not scream out a problem.

So I soldier on....

Have to have another scan on Monday next week to see if any of the little eggies are ready to pop!

I am going to get soooooo bored of the hospital...

how is everyone else getting on?

Pink....I am just imagining you with your head stuck out the window....hehehehehehe...

Sam...I am sure the little one will be a very sticky pea indeed!

Hi All,

Duncangirl, ooh nice, an internal scan, ain't life great being us!? When I had also been for previosu scans etc.. sonographer always thought i had polycystic ovaries but blood tests never agreed so always very confusing. It was only the Lap i had done in March 2006 that explained my pain i.e. Endometriosis...

I've just finished my course of Clomid so spent the weekend catching up with sleep if you get what I mean.. DH and I have a hard 3 weeks ahead, if you get what I mean .. Have decided not to miss a day..

Hope you get the clomid Duncangirl...

Hi guys been gone for a while, glad to see were still not giving up. Did my 2nd run of clomid this month going for my lap in 3.5weeks. Sambrads I wish you all the best .
And as for hot flushes, last nite I was so hot I couldnt sleep

Dose acupunture work/help .I was considering it but its very expensive (£35-50) per hour session

Hi Primrose

Welcome back! Hmmm acupunture...depends who you listen to I think. There was an article in the paper just this week and on the news about how it has been found ( without any medical explanation ) that acupunture being done alongside people having IVF does seem to somehow help.

They did suggest why it help but I can't remember....I think itwas something to do with the pricking wakes up the receptors which then improve blood circulation to the organs....or something along those lines anyway.

HOw is everyone else getting on?

It is Friday hooray!

Have another internal scan on Monday ( OH JOY ) but I am looking forward to seing how things may have changed from last scan. It will be day 18. So this will prove whether my theory that I am ovulating ( if at all ) around days 21-23 is correct or not!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend! They reckon it is going to be a cold one!

hi ya ladies how are you all??

dungungirl i had a nice weekend thanks altough i cant eat anything as im so sick but i complain

it will be good that you et your scan on monday and you will see when you ovulate

Hi ladies

Well...it is as good as confirmed. I am joining the PCO club. They haven't confirmed if it is rather PCOS than PCO...but they keep saying 'with PCOS...' so I am assuming...

I also had a real blow yesterday and really need some support...

Had my second internal scan - day 18 of my cycle and my follicles had only grown to 9.6 max. Way off the 20mm needed for ovulation. My cycles are no longer than 32 days, so fertility clinic nurse pretty much confirmed for this cycle at least that I would not ovulate.

This I could accept as I thought....never mind come the 19th march and I get my appointment with the doctor, I will get clomid.

Here comes the blow.

Nurse then turns to me and says that the hospital will not treat anyone with a BMI over 35. My heart sank...

My BMi is about 36 and losing weight is a continues struggle....

It was worse when she then said with a smile that it is a double edged sword for ladies with PCOS as my body is actually doing the opposite!

I felt like the last 3 months and the 1 stone I have worked so hard to lose was worth nothing. That she turned around and slapped me in the face as I hadn't lost the extra half stone more needed.

I was ok all day yesterday as I was busy from 7 am stright through to 9pm.

It all started to hit come bed time...I started to feel really depressed.

This morning I felt physically ill and am an emotional wreck. I cried almost all morning and couldn't get myself into work. I then slept on and off curled up under the duvet in my dark bedroom until midday.

I am feeling so depressed ...I have never felt this low. I really think I am experiencing depression. I don;t care about going to work and just want to sit in my pyjamas under the blanket.

I really need to snap out of this...as I know that the next problem will be my DH will give me a horrible time if my weight is the reason that the doctor won't help us on the 19th.

I am really feeling down...never in my life have I felt like this....

Hello all. A new person here. On 100mg and ovulated once (in dec)and then when we went in last week my prog level was ridicilously low. .

Dungun I am so sorry to hear that. I am feeling very low at present too and worried it will not happen. I will try 150mg this month and see if that makes any difference.

Dungungirl
I no how you feel I ended up on antidepressants due to trying to conceive last year, Which did not help. It is so hard.

I can say from experience. Being depressed does nothing, depression puts even more stress on your cycle, and does nothing but upset the environment around you. Try and use your negative as a poitive, use it as a push to work out eat healthy all that fun stuff, join weight watchers (I did)its a fun way to loose weight and plus you meet people.

BMI of 35 in clinical words is classed as obese, and a lot of doctors will refuse treatment. Please dont let this get you down, stick your 2 finger up to the world and make it a positive.

Thanks Primrose.

Sorry to hear that you got so down last year. It is stressful stuff this TTC.

I have turned my frustration to exercise and am hopefully letting it all out at the gym I joined on Wednesday ( the day after I spent the whole day being depressed).

So here's to positive results!