TTC & Taking Clomid &/0r Metformin ~ Feb 2006

[briggsy's girl]

Hi Julia

welcome, and i really hope your stay here is a really brief one!
i think the days that docs get you to take clomid all depends on the doctors - from what i've read, they're no particular reason why they choose different days - although days 5-9 usually results in later O if it does it's job! as for taking clmid at night, i was advised this was the best way to take them to avoid the side effects. apparently if you take them at night, the bulk of the hormonal fluctuation (including the natural ones) occur while you're asleep and you avoid a lot of the nasties! i had 3 cycles of clomid (up to 150mg - 3 tabs) per day, and had pretty negligible side effects.

HTH

[Hayseed]

Hi Julia

welcome, and i really hope your stay here is a really brief one!
i think the days that docs get you to take clomid all depends on the doctors - from what i've read, they're no particular reason why they choose different days - although days 5-9 usually results in later O if it does it's job! as for taking clmid at night, i was advised this was the best way to take them to avoid the side effects. apparently if you take them at night, the bulk of the hormonal fluctuation (including the natural ones) occur while you're asleep and you avoid a lot of the nasties! i had 3 cycles of clomid (up to 150mg - 3 tabs) per day, and had pretty negligible side effects.

HTH

For my last rounds of clomid (3 cycles), I was on CD5 - 9. This time, my FS is putting me on CD2 - 6. I asked him what the difference manes and he said that taking it earlier can stimulate more eggs to be released and hence, DH has a few more targets to "shoot for". He said that taking clomid earlier can mean increased chance of having multiples. TBH, I haven't researched it much beyond what my FS has told me, so I'm not 100% why this is the case.

Belinda, I am on 100mg clomid - same as last time. I have 2 tabs a day.

Penny, don't use your OPKs first thing in the morning. Use them from about 10am through to 6pm. And try to use at the same time every day. If you use your first morning urine, you may miss the LH surge that day, as the majority of the urine you have built up is from the previous night. So I would suggest using them later. I usually do mine around lunchtime. OPKs are different to HPTs which should be done first thing in the morning to catch all the build up of HCG. HTH and I am not telling you to suck eggs!!

Ladies, thanks for your well wishes. I also hope that this next cycle is the one. But I have been kicked in the guts so many times, that I am sort of hardened to the whole process now. Even when I get a BFP, I still don't rejoice until I get past the 16 weeks mark of the pg!! Sad....but true.