PCOS and early ovulation with chlomid

[CBrown80]

Has anyone with PCOS and long cycles ever ovulated much sooner than expected?

My cycles were always long (ranging for the last year and a half from 34-57) and on my first month with chlomid, I ovulated 16 days after taking it. So ovulation was still late.

Im on my 2nd month of chlomid and my ovulation strip come back positive earlier this evening (10 days after I took my last chlomid), although my FLO app said my ovulation would be around end of next week.

Has anyone had this before?

In my case Clomid induced ovulation and installed a cycle by month 2, from not ovulating at all, so sounds promising.
(used for 4 months with no joy and no periods after, got pregnant months later somehow, then dc 2 conceived on month 2 of Clomid)

Went from a 28-39 day cycle to always ovulating cd 16 with clomid.

Does anyone know if you can get false positive OPK test when taking Chlomid? It might be silly what I am asking but having a positive opk so early in my cycle (because I always ovulate really late or not at all) is difficult to believe

I haven't. False positives aren't that uncommon. You can get an lh surge and then not ovulate. More common in women with pcos who already have high lh. That is why they often track a clomid cycle with ultrasound scans and blood tests, to ensure you ov.

Temping might be a good idea if you haven't had a tracked cycle.

Hi PhysicsKate. My first one was. Had a scan and a blood test and the nurse said to me she is happy with the way I respond to Chlomid (50mg cycle day 2 to day 6) and she wont have to see me on my 2nd and 3rd round of Chlomid. She said if I am not lucky, then I will need to another consultation. I think I will need to start temping too just to be sure

The nurse should be seeing you on your second and third round of clomid; monthly monitoring is essential as clomid can affect blood hormone levels markedly. Also if you are not monitored you have no idea of whether its doing what it is supposed to be doing or otherwise. Clomid's main job is to make the ovaries work harder.

Clomid can increase LH levels so the OPK may well read that level instead giving you a false result. They're not ideal at all to use if taking clomid.

Temping and PCOS are uneasy bedfellows; I would not use temp charting at all if PCOS is present precisely because it can be unreliable. Blood tests would be far more useful.