Keli: I agree that it would be great to be UTD during the big move if it happens. I hate moving and it would be the best excuse not to do too much, lol. So glad to hear everything is going well for you and your pregnancy.
Epayne: Thanks for the support. Glad that AF arrived for you. GL with the round of Clomid.
Bec: Thanks for the support from you also. We are looking at moving to a place in Victoria and we currently live in QLD so I cant exactly go to the closest city to check out who is around unfortunately. It would make things alot easier though. Maybe my current OB can help me out with that. I did start a thread somewhere on here asking if anyone could recommend someone in the area we were looking at going but I haven't had any replies. I cant even remember what the thread was under. GL with your round of Clomid. Thats great that you had very little SE. Hope you enjoy your hol's. I suppose it is good that you are on Hol's cause you dont have the stress of work and TTC.
Rhi: I'm booked in for the 16th of july for the lap. Little bit nervous about it. I am a bit worried that that is when AF will be here, not too sure if that will mean that I can not go through with it than or if it doesn't make a difference. Sorry TMI.
Exactly, why cant getting UTD and carrying to full term just be easy and you don't have to make these other decisions.
Miss Kris: Thanks for the KUP translation. When Keli put it at the end of some of her posts, for the life of me I could not work out what it meant but now that i know it is so basic, lol.
ShanShan: Welcome to BB and this thread. The ladies in here are awesome and very supportive. As for the Clomid SE, everyone is different. I had bad lower back pain and pain in my sides. I also had horrible hot flushes. Other than that, I was pretty good. AFM stands for As For Me. I can tell you this cause I asked the same question when I entered this forum. GL with your TTC journey.
AFM: Nothing new to tell really. Still trying to work everything out that I posted about last time.
Hope you are all well and had a lovely weekend. Baby dust to you all.
hey guys
just wanted to jump in and say i conceived with both kids with met/clomid #1 and just clomid for #2. so 3 preg- all with clomid my first one was an angel baby. I have PCOS had a levovist first with number one but with number 2 just took the clomid- i also took clomid at night to help with all the hot flushes
Hope- you can still have a lap if you have AF
anyways - jsut wanted to encourage you all and i know you will all be out of this thread and in belly buddies before 2011!
Welcome to ShanShan! Hoping your stay is short SE for me with Clomid were hot flushes, insomnia, moodiness and overly sensitive. Some mentioned weight gain, but I have not experienced this.
Bec - Yay! for school holidays. I just spent the day with my sister (rarely have time to do that these days) and it was really good
Liz - GL with this round of Clomid. FX for you
Hope - I hope AF is not due then, b/c my GYNO wouldn't do the lap when AF was due b/c he said there is too much blood???
Where abouts are you moving to? I will try to find your thread in the meantime......
Porsche - How is the IVF stuff going - sorry haven't been able to check on the other thread and all the names for everything is confusing :S
M22 - Thanks for posting your sucess with Clomid, I hope that we all can leave ASAP and become belly buddies rather than roller-coaster ttc budies
AFM - CD 11 so we are full on into the swing on DTD. Thank goodness I should O sometimes this week/early next b/c I am back at work next week and that is going to knock me around since I have had 5 months of long service leave and sleep ins!
If that did not work it is at: Forum - Maternity Care Providers and Places to Birth - Obstetrician Recommendations and Discussions - VIC & TAS Obstetricians
titled "Womens Health Doctor (Gyno/Obstetrics) in or around Kerang/Echuca Victoria".
We are still not 100% sure if we will be heading down there. It's just something we are looking at at the moment. If we do it will probably be in the next 3 months or so. I know Shepparton and Bendigo are about 1 hour and 45 mins away. I just like to be a little bit organised, thats just the way i am. If you could help that would be greatly appreciated but if you are unaware of anyone in this area, not to worry and thankyou so much anyway.
Bec- I haven't yet ovualted since going on clomid and not sure if I did before hand, so to answer your question, I really don't know. I was thinknig of starting around CD 8 which will be 2 days after finishing clomid.
porsche, you're a bit right with it being difficult doing a test at work. I am thinking I will try and do them when I get home from work which is anywhere from 4:30-6:30.
AFM- at least now AF has calmed down at bit now and I don't feel like my insides are being pulled out of me . I only have one more day on clomid and then it is time too see if it has worked this cycle and DTD at the right time. Thank you so much for your support and advice with the OPK tests, I now have some idea of what I am doing.
DH and I have been TTC since May 2009. As I have terrible skin and what seems like a hormonal in-balance I went to the doctor to get tested back in June last year and as such was diagnosed with PCOS. So, we knew that conceiving would be a battle so settled in for the long haul. We decided not to let this dominate our lives, but as the 1 year mark approached my concerns started to heighten so I booked in to see the doctor to see if any other testing was needed, as a consequence was referred to Sydney IVF. After our first consultation he decided that I wasn't ovulating properly or at all so put me on clomid 25mg. Plus referred DH to be checked - everything was in the normal ranges except for Sperm Morphologoy which was 0%, however the doctor said this was not a cause for concern and that we need to concentrate on me.
So I am on CD3 of cycle No. 2 of Clomid. I take the tablets at night to try and minimise the side effects (as I am that girl who seems to get every side effect known to man ;-).
My mantra thoughout this whole time is to try and carry on as normal, but I found last month I got quite depressed towards the end and I was way too focused on what was happening, so this month I am going to try and chill out a bit more and try not to emotional eat - I put on 4kgs last month from eating comfort food - this is no a good thing since I am a fitness instructor and under watchful eye of members (if you get my drift ;-).
So.... Let's hope that #2 is my month - although DH seems to think it will be the third go!!
Welcome Pumpgirl, I hope your stay in here is a short one. All the best on your TTC journey and I hope that Clomid does the trick for you. You will find this forum very helpful, I know I have. Baby dust to you.
Thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome and for letting me know what the SE of clomid are (DH is hoping I don't get the mood swings).
Rhi - I don't envy you going back to work after 5 months off. I struggle to return after only a week away, it probably doesn't help that my office usually looks like a bomb has hit it when I leave which doesn't make it any easier to re enter after a week away. I will have to work on this, lol. Hopefully you will get a BFP soo so you won't have to go back for long.
Hope - Thanks for the AFM translation, makes a lot of sense now I know what it is. GL with finding an OB/Gyn if you do move. I live 2 hours from mine but luckily he is very good and rings me with any results, posts out scripts or BT request forms and lets me fax my BBT charts to him if I have any concerns between appointments which I really appreciate as it means I don't have to waste a day of leave to go to an appointment for something I can do over the phone. Especially as I am trying to save up as much of my leave as possible for when I need it in the future, hopefully the very near future FX'd.
Bec – I had (and still have) a lot of SE with the Metformin so hopefully the Clomid ones won’t be as bad. I hope you are enjoying and relaxing on your holidays (probably not easy with your little one running around, relaxing I mean as I am sure he would make it enjoyable)
Epayne – I am glad you are feeling better. As for your concerns on the cost of having a child, my DH had the same concerns when we started. I told him that we will never be in the perfect financial place with the huge farm debt that he has so there is no point worrying and we will cope (although I am still hoping to win the $50 million tonight FX’d, lol). I went to boarding school for 4 years where there was a mix of the “rich” girls all the way down to the girls whose parents were struggling to send them to school. I know which ones were happier and it wasn’t the ones with money. Now I am not saying that it is bad to have money but it all depends what you give up to get it. In my experience a lot of the girls I went to school with rarely saw their parents as they were too busy working or travelling. I am extremely lucky to have (in my opinion) the best parents in the world. Now I will admit that I am spoilt, but the things I remember most about growing up are these – My parents always tried to make sure that one if not both of them were at any events I was involved in (a dad going to a netball carnival wasn’t a common occurrence back then, lol), driving me back to school at 5am on a Monday morning so I could spend that extra night at home, my mum reading with me every night, my dad instilling in me a love of sport that still brings us together, and always ready for a chat and a hug when I needed them. These things mean more to me than anything they ever bought me. I am lucky that I still get to see them nearly everyday as I work with my mum and my dad does work with us a lot as well. As long as you love your child (which I am positive you will) they will be the luckiest child in the world.
AFM – I am still waiting for AF to arrive! Isn’t amazing how when you don’t want her to show she is there like clockwork but when you are waiting she goes MIA. If she doesn’t show by tomorrow I think I will send my BBT chart to the Dr and see what he thinks.
Sorry if I have missed anyone as I am still trying to get up to date.
Hope to see lots of BFP on here in the near future FX’d for everyone (and toes too).
Welcome pumpgirl! It took me so long to write my last thread that I didn't realise there was someone else new on here (I somehow deleted it 3 times).
I hope everything goes well with this round for you and I love the positive attitude you have to it all. As for the pressure not to put on weight I understand completely as I am in the fitness industry too and the clothes we have to wear to instruct don't usually hide anything, lol. The tiniest bit of weight gain tends to start the members off on the "Are you pregnant?" tangent which just makes you feel twice as bad cause then you don't just get reminded of what you are struggling to achieve but that you look fat!
Thanks very much everyone - shan shan, so good to know someone in the same industry, it is a little hard to not focus on your body when all this is happening but I suppose we need to just accept bloating will be part of it - I have to admit this has sort of calmed down since AF arrived!!
On reading through the previous posts perhaps my weight gain is from the clomid not the crazy amount of carbs I ate last month - but since I now have saddlebags I doubt Clomid can take full responsibility :-)
I had some pretty awful side effects last month:
* mood swings - one minute the normal pumpgirl, followed by a swift change to a raging maniac with a vegence - the next a sobbing mess (I am no much of a cryer but it really felt good the day that I let rip)
* hot flushes at night (presumably since I take the tablets in the evening)
* cramping from around 4dpo - which was a problem since I had sold myself that I was pregnant
* Bloating - I looked preggers even though I wasn't
But was thankful I didn't get the headaches and that apart form the mild cramping all other major side effects subsided after CD12.
Does anyone know the average number that women take using clomid - obviously this is different for everyone?
Also, does anyone have a DH with morphology problems?
This is such a great network which seems really supportive and I am pleased to be part of your community - fingers crossed for everyone.
This is just a quick post because they are cracking down on net surfing at work hehehehehe!
Welcome ShanShan and Pumpgirl!! I will read everyone elses post soon!!
But i just wanted to say 1 more sleep until i go to my FS!! YAY!
I am excited for tomorrow morning and FX that he goes "here have some drugs" and just puts me straight to the clomid instead of messing around with a zillion other tests i have already had!! Lol!
Welcome Pumpgirl. Hope your stay is short and sweet!
Kris- good luck with the FS! Hopefully he listens well and diagnoses you properly. (and hopefully you get some drugs that will help! IYKWIM)
Shan-I really hope AF arrives so you can start afresh (or that you're UTD of course!)
Hope- Welcome back- Bendigo to Melbourne isn't too bad: freeway driving the whole way now. Shp is a bit further, but Bendigo is a pretty big regional city so you might be able to get a FS there with a bit of luck.
Liz- hopefully you o this month and then get pregnant! I have everything crossed for you hon.
Rhi- I am loving school holidays. I am actually catching up for lunch with my sisters on Thursday, which is a rare occassion, so I know what you mean. I hope your long service leave has helped you feel more relaxed and at peace with everything too. Good luck getting back to the grind.
G'day Porsche! Where are you up to now? Still sniffing?
Hi everyone else!
AFM: CD13 , so hoping to o early next week. DH and I are off for a 3 day romantic getaway for our anniversary from Sat-Mon so it would be great if o was around then. The sweetheart got me a beautiful mohogany wooden box filled with French chocolates, all the way from France. It's about the most remantic thing he's ever done! It was a lovely surprise though.
It's nice to be on holidays and have time to sort my head out and reassess where I'm at. I get a bit wrapped up in the TTC thing, and it's been lovely to just relax and reaffirm that it WILL happen. For all of us.
I'm feeling very positive about this month. I suspect we'll see a few BFP's! to you all!
Bec
Bec - No I'm not sniffing at the moment. I'm on BCP for the next 10 days. I'll start sniffing again on Saturday. The BCP is to make sure Af comes and then we can start stims and then EPU etc... I wish it would all hurry up lol. I'm feeling ill at the moment. I feel really nauseous. I was the same yestersay as well. I hope I'm not comming down with something we are going camping on the weekend and that's all I need.
Welcome Pumpgirl and wishing you the best of luck on Clomid. There is also another thread about PCOS & tips on eating low GI to assist with the control of it & the weight gain. Are you on Metformin for PCOS? Sorry I can't help with the 0% morphology - my DH SA come back all clear, so I am the only probelm:S
Kris- good luck with the FS! I hope you can get a clear plan of attack.
Shan- I hope AF arrives soon so you can start your next cycle
Hope- I did find your post but I can't offer any recommendations - sorry I actually live in SE suburbs, so far away from Bendigo area.
Liz- FX for this cycle.
Bec- So glad to hear that you are enjoying your school holidays. Sounds like you are perhaps on a winning cycle this month?! FX Oh & your DH is the sweetest - what a gorgeous gift. Have fun on you romantic w/end away
So went to the FS this morning and he has started me on 50mg of clomid.
As i don't get periods at all, he said to start it tonight and count as if i am on day 5 of a period ... which i thought was very weird ... but anyway!!
He was bery positive and an absolute delight, my DH was with me and the Dr said, "now don't you listen to anyone who says you should wait 3 days for your husbands sperm to be optimum or that you should do it every other day! these are your fertile days and i want you to go like the clappers!!" Lol! My DH absolutely loved it! Plus he is getting really involved and counted out what my fertile days and is pretty stoked its on his birthday! lol he is hoping for a bday present i guess! *sigh* lmao!!
Sorry again i haven't replied to your girls!! Im going to jump on my phone tonight and go through and read everyone's properly!
RhiChiChi - Thanks for that link, no not on Metformin for my PCOS. I don't have a lot of the symptoms, the main symptoms seem to be Acne (not cool having wrinkles and pimples :-), irregular cycles and the cysts. Thankfully I don't really have problems with weight except for when I pig out and although I am complaining, my BMI is still at the low end of the spectrum. But maybe he might end up putting me on it in three months - when I have my follow-up apt??
Miss Kris - Congrats on starting the clomid, I think half the battle is just starting and feeling like you are doing something! I hope that you get by without any side effects and it happens for you first go - we will probably be around the same cycle time
Becnxavi - I agree a break away can do you the world of good, I went to the Hunter Valley this weekend and it was a god send given that AF came, but because I had such a nice weekend with DH I wasn't as devastated as what I thought I would be - it's good to gain perspective. It will happen it's just a matter of when - fingers crossed sooner than later!! I find that it is easy to get sucked into the TTC vortex and once your there seems hard to get out so that's why although I am on this forum I am not letting it dominate my life, I just don't want to loose my early 30's to this if that makes sense??
Does most people here have friends / family with fertility problems, feels like my whole inner circle is either TTC or undergoing IVF treatment - wonder if it is an age thing?
AFM - CD4 (2 tablets down) funny dreams started last night (another SE I forgot to mention - does anyone else get that). I also forgot to mention being dry - again anyone else have that, do you think this makes it harder for implantation etc? Maybe I should research on "safe" lube?
Hi Pumpgirl,
get some preseed! I have mine at the ready lol i bought it off a website called lullabye conceptions, if you google preseed it comes up with it.
feel free to PM me
. I only have one more day on clomid and then it is time too see if it has worked this cycle and DTD at the right time. Thank you so much for your support and advice with the OPK tests, I now have some idea of what I am doing.
and 
to all
. The sweetheart got me a beautiful mohogany wooden box filled with French chocolates, all the way from France. It's about the most remantic thing he's ever done! It was a lovely surprise though.
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