Yes, it was my first ever clomid cycle. What really struck me as odd with the current specialist is that there were no instructions to increase the dose, just have another blood test next week if I don't get AF... which I probably won't, and I'm definitely not going to get another blood test! At least not one where the results go back to this guy!

I did tell my GP I wanted a fertility specialist like my rheumatologist... and that's when he suggested the specialist a friend of mine hated and swore she would never go back to, but has been highly recommended by other people. I'm becoming more and more inclined to trust my GP's judgement on this one, simply because trying to find an alternative is proving to be a very difficult process.

The one thing that's really thrown me with the clomid not working is that I was having lots of side effects from it... Do people for whom clomid doesn't work still get all the hot flushes and sleepless nights as well?

I think that just as a bit of an experiment, I might try a 100mg clomid cycle once we reach school holidays, but get my GP to run the blood tests and maybe try to track hormone levels from the start of the cycle, to see if we can find any sign of it doing something for me. I'm guessing it will be ages before we get an appointment with a new specialist, anyway.

BW