Clomid thread 2019

[Bear88]

Hi all,

Am about to start my Clomid journey and reading through the 2018 Clomid thread this is what I'm looking for. It's extremely difficult to talk about the issues with people who don't actually understand them so if anyone wants to join in the more the merrier!

I'm 30
TTC #1
Cycle #?? Been trying for 5 years
Have mild Prolactinoma
Taking daily 1mg Bromocriptine for tumour
Just been given 3 months of Clomid
Am also slightly overweight but have never ovulated.

@Pinktruffle
That's really positive news and congratulations. It spurs me on to keep taking all these supplements I'm on. Did you keep taking them once you knew you were pregnant?

Unfortunately, I lost the baby. I know that Inofolic can help prevent miscarriage due to calamity of events, I want able to keep taking the Inofolic in the 2 weeks leading up to my miscarriage. I think it may have had an impact.

@papercottage ^

@Pinktruffle, thanks for sharing your experience with Inofolic. I'm on my last box and was unsure whether to buy more but I think I will go for another 6 months and see how we get on. Try not to beat yourself up about not taking it before the miscarriage, I would think it's highly unlikely that that's the reason why. I know it's hard though, I still wonder if I could have done anything differently to prevent my mmc. Fingers crossed we all get our bfps soon!

I’ve just left a voicemail for my Drs secretary asking if he would be willing to increase the dose if I am not successful this cycle. 7dpo and counting.

Hopefully they get back to me before then.

Ah bugger. They’ve got back to me, but my Dr is on A/L until the 20th May, so looks like if it’s a bfn this time I’ll be on another 50mg cycle this time.

That's a shame @doomkittycleo, hopefully it won't be a bfn!

I'm at the docs now. Going tot all about counselling and ask for blood tests to see if I'm ovulating

*to ask about

That's a shame your dr is away @doomkittycleo

Good luck at the doctor @Pinktruffle

I've not read anything about inofolic so will look it up. had an early miscarriage last February/March and do wonder if it could have been prevented. Probably not, but it you can never stop wondering.

All this talk about Inofolic and I hadn’t heard of it. I’ve done a google search and it looks like it’s the same thing as my Spanish friend gave me that she had left over from TTC.

That product was called ovusitol. I used it last month, but it’s now ran out. I’ve looked online for Inofolic, but it’s pretty pricey.

Where can I buy it for the best price? I haven’t been diagnosed as PCOS, but at the scan I had when TTC DD they said I had a several tiny undeveloped follicles, so it could be a mild case or something (just guessing as Dr just said I wasn’t ovulating, never diagnosed anything).

Hi @Pinktruffle, I'm so sorry that I misread about your miscarriage. I agree that you shouldn't blame it on not taking your tablets, there are so many unknown reasons and as I keep being told getting pregnant in the first place is a good sign. Somehow this doesn't comfort me much but others may be. I am beginning to wonder though if my body's inability to produce progesterone is what caused my miscarriage. As it is needed to maintain a pregnancy, is there help available with this if I do get pregnant? Are progesterone injections/tablets a thing? I worry that without the help, I will miscarry again. Is there some scientific explanation that I'm unaware of?

I have found sachets of inofolic are cheaper but these you have to mix with a drink!
Has anyone had the DHEA supplement recommended to them?

@papercottage, I took the pregnacare with added DHEA last time. As far as I’m aware it’s just another type of fish oil, so good for brain development and overall health. Not sure how much difference it makes to fertility though.

Ah, never mind, I’m wrong. I was thinking of DHA not dhea.

@Papercottage progesterone can be given on the form of pessaries or injections (according to the ivf consultations I've been to) but whether a gp would prescribe them I don't know. I take the Inofolic sachets too but I'm not good with soluble medication so I rang them and they said to pour it on my tongue and then just have a drink of water which works well for me

I buy my Inofolic from Amazon in powder form, I pay £15.99 for the tub and use 2 scoops twice a day, its lasts me about 6 weeks. Its finer than the packet stuff so I find it mixes better in water.

I finally got a positive OPK (CD16). I went to the docs and left some pee behind for hubby to text, he texted me just before I went in saying it was positive so I didnt mention the blood tests to her. She did say we were BD'ing too much and need to give hubby's sperm a chance to regenerate, we did it yesterday so I asked whether we should do it tonight and she said no, yesterday should cover it.

She has also referred me for counselling, we discussed going on medication and I said no as I don't want to be on anything if I'm TTC. She said she would see if she could expedite my referral so hopefully.m I'll be picked up some time soon

@Pinktruffle gp appointment sounds positive. Great you had the positive opk. How often do you and dh have sex then? We go for every other day from day 8 ish and every day for a few days when get the positive opk and every other day for a week after as I don't trust the opks. It's such a chore but maybe we do it too much.

@seven201 DH and I do the same as you, every other night after about CD8 until we get to the ovulation time so from CD13 -CD15/16 we do every night and then back to every other night for a week.

The GP said that we aren't giving his sperm enough time to recover and it will be poor quality sperm which is a) likely to lead to conception and implantation and b) more likely to result in miscarriage. She said we should be giving him at least 24 -36 hours for the sperm to regenerate before we try again and reassured me that sperm lives for 7 days inside the uterus and the stronger quality sperm is likely to survive the longest.

@Pinktruffle thanks. agh I hate all the conflicting advice on this. I wish there was a king or queen doctor of ttc who could write a definitive guide! I always thought 24hrs was long enough for sperm as long as the man has 'good' sperm. So maybe every 3 days, then every other day then back to every three days would be a good amount of sex... aghhhhhhhhh

That should say a) less likely to lead to conception....

@seven201 yeah I know what you mean, it's hard to know. But I think maybe outside of ovulation time might take it a little easier and leave two nights between BD because it becomes such a chore and I don't want it to feel so negative.

@pinktruffle and @seven201 the leaflet given to me by our Dr (fertility one not GP), says to BD at the start of the cycle, then to abstain from BD for 5 days until positive opk (as this is how long sperm takes to mature), then to BD for the following 3 days due to it being 12-72 hours after the LH surge when you ovulate.

Well @doomkittycleo, in that case we are definitely doing it too much. She said 2 - 3 times a week but we were going for 3 sometimes 4 times a week. I guess we need slow things down a little

@doomkittycleo that sounds completely insane! I've never read or been told anything like that before. The fertility doctor I saw last year just said "keep having lots of sex" but I didn't ask the one I saw last week. I think we'll downgrade the amount of sex we have yaaaaaaayyyyy then. I think I'd be too worried about missing the positive opk to wait five days.

This is the page of the info given by my Dr