Hi Mooz and welcome to the thread, the ladies on here are just wonderful and the support and advice is fantastic. I am guessing from what you have said about your cycles, that you are infact ovulating, so that is why your clomid dosage hasn't gone up. I'm not sure about what your FS will say, but I know for me the next step was IUI, but I myself didn't ovulate on clomid by itself even at 150mg. GL with your journey and hope you get the answers that you want.
WBM IKWYM about trying to think you are "normal", but with what we are going through, what is normal, not every cycle is the same. Oh I just realised that we are in the same part of our TWW, GL with the waiting game.
Hi epayne thank u for your kind words and yes what is normal when each cycle can be so different. Yes i did ovulate on my first cycle with clomid i had a bt on day 23 and my fs said i had ovualted and there was no need to put my dosage up as the levels from the bt where high, he also didnt think he would see me again {nor did i} but he sure will be next week lol. GL with your tww aswell i hope your af stays away with mine
hope everyone is doing well whatever stage of your cycle your on, hoping to see alot of BFP really soon from you all
as for me i have had a horrible last couple of weeks, as you may know i have been on metformin since 02/06/10 and got AF a few days after starting, i have had AF constantly the whole of this time apart from 6 days when it stopped at around cycle day 30,and i got high hopes that maybe it was working and that i was going to start to be somewhat normal but sure enough 6 days later it started again and has been going ever since, and this past week has been super super heavy, and to top it off i had to get a referral from the doctor for my appointment next wed with sydney ivf and he was just a rude arrogant man, for starters we kept telling me i seem stressed why would i be stressed i have nothing to stress about, and man i dont think he knew that i was going to yell back at him, i replied with " i wonder why i am stressed this has been going on for over 5.5yrs with everyone telling me im young it will happen and no one really wanting to help me even though every doctor knew i had pcos and was going to need help to achieve being pregnant, and every year that they keep telling me im young i keep getting older, so yeh i am stressed and i have a valid reason to be" he then went on to tell me even fertile couples only have a 30% chance each month and even if i only get my period 2 times a year then i have 2 chances and not to worry, that sent me even more angry and i just thought to myself where on earth did you get your doctors licence because you sure lack on the caring and helping side of it, he didnt even care when i told him i have had AF for going on to 5mths, and then he tried to tell me that the endocrinologist i am seeing is wrong to have put me on metformin as it is going to do nothing for me, i told him that i think i will take the advice from a highly regarded specialist over a local gp, i finally got the referral after walking out of there crying and also fuming in anger, and i see dr hilary joyce next wed so hopefully she will get the ball rolling and actually care and take and interest in us and actually want to help us achieve getting pregnant.
I am so sorry for the long rant i just needed to vent to someone as i am still angry today about the doctors visit yesterday. Also i dont know if i should post in here or somewhere else but does anyone know what our first appointment with sydney ivf will include and how long after your first appointment do you really start to tackle the problem, i really want to take it by the horns and get it going straight away.
Kristie you need to get your self a new GP. It may take a month or so to start any treatments but they will take a whole heap of blood from you and they will require a semen analyisis done on your DH before they will start any treatments.
Do you need to do police checks in Sydney? I'm in Brisbane and we don't. Maybe get the ball rolling on that as well for both of you. Maybe call the clinic and ask what paper work needs to be done before treatments can start and that way you can get the ball rolling and not sit and wait to be told. Unfortunatly you yourself have to be a little pro active in this stuff.
Bec: YAY on the good test results. All the best with the jabbing regime. Hope all goes well for you this time around. Um, does this mean you do not have POCS?
Epayne: hehe, if you have any luck with coming up with ways to convince DH to find out the sex of baby when it happens, can you give me some tips. I think I do want to find out but he is currently adamant that we are not finding out and I really can't keep it as a secret from him, I am bound to slip up for sure. I hope this cycle is a great cycle for you. FX hun.
mooz: Welcome and all the best on this journey. You will find loads of support from this group, they are all so wonderful.
Miss Kris: YAY on AF arriving (IYKWIM). FX for round three.
A big hello to everyone elso here. Sorry for not doing persies to you all, I'm still not too sure where you are all up to.
The only advice i can give you kristy is to make sure you tell the ivf dr everything that you have tried so they dont put you on the same path. My first appointment was to assess me on ways to get preg before ivf but when the metformin, clomid, IUI and ovarian drilling didnt work it all happened pretty fast. I think i went and seen him in late november early december and we got the ball going from there - filling out paper work, councelling and in Victoria we had to do police checks and i think its like a working with children type check. Once all this was done we had to wait for a period which came new years day and i had egg transfer Feb 15 so i think it was pretty fast, but 12 months leading up to it trying other options - but sounds like you have already tried the other options. Good luck with it
Hope everyone else is doing good and look forward to another spurt of BFP's
Everything is going good with me still, getting very big now and extremely excited only just over 5 weeks to go now!
Tammara: yeh we have tried a few options so hopefully that will make the process a bit quicker... Also i researched it a bit online and it seems like you dont need a police check in NSW... Thanks for the advice
Porshe: Thanks for the reply if i have had a full set of blood tests done only in june will they want me to do them again or will brining in the results of those ones be enough, also dh has already had a SA and has the results at home again if we bring them a copy of that will that be enough? no police checks have to be done in NSW so thats one thing to cross off the list, I try to be proactive as we have never wanted something so bad in our lives but i have just had no luck finding a doctor that really wants to get in there and help us achieve our goal, so hopefully my appointment on wed will be the start of a new chapter and we will actually make some progress...
Also does anyone think that accupunture actually helps ttc?
As for everyone else i hope your all doing great and lots of babydust to each and everyone of you...
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