TTC & Taking Clomid &/0r Metformin ~ Nov/Dec 2007

**sushee** · November 21st, 2007, 09:59 AM

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**emma83** · November 21st, 2007, 05:16 PM

Good afternoon ladies,

As promised I have posted again after using a FMU sample to test again this morning and unfortunately another (very very) faint positive.
AF is due this Saturday so I think I will wait until then to test again so that I can keep my hopes up a little bit longer...I am required to go into Concept (fertility centre) on Saturday anyway as part of taking Clomid - so I figure I'll wait until then.
Keep your fingers and toes crossed for me, won't you ladies!!

Ems

**Indadhanu** · November 22nd, 2007, 06:53 AM

Emma, I've got everything crossed for you!!!!! Are you having HCG boosters?

Belle, I have been ok, not feeling too bad... the first two weeks after taking Clomid are the worst, and then I feel a bit like normal again after ovulation... glad we're taking a break, I know I won't have to take it for a while! How are you?

I am testing on Saturday (Shel's request... lol, funny story... we are on a sex ban because she doesn't want anything to go wrong, but if it comes back negative then we can do it... according to her lol!) but I think it will be too early anyway, and it'll be negative, gonna get a 3 pack, first response (are they a bad brand? ) and try again Monday and maybe Wednesday before FS appt. Good luck to everyone!

P.S. my fav tests are confirm, I've never gotten an evap line on them like I have on Foretel... but you can't use them early ( I think) because they are only 20-25, and the first response ones are 10 (I think! lol).

***Belle*** · November 22nd, 2007, 07:55 AM

Em - goodluck on the weekend! fingers crossed for you!

What are HCG boosters?

Yeah im ok Leasha, good to hear you are good,im tired but ok, going away to see the Inlaws next week in Melb so shall be interesting staying in separate beds lol. I will test on Sunday i think if AF hasnt arrives.

**Indadhanu** · November 22nd, 2007, 08:49 AM

Belle, some people have HCG booster too help support the LP... an injection every couple of days, and if you test when you've had one, it can give a false positive if you test too early. I have a HCG trigger shot to stimulate ovulation... which means I can't test until at least 10 days after the injection, or I'll end up getting a false positive...

ickimum · November 22nd, 2007, 02:14 PM

Well after 4 months of stress and uncertainty, my pathology from a D&C has come back clear from pre canerous cells and my OBGYN has started me on Clomid, I am day 8 YAHOO. I am having lots of abdo pain, around the ovaries

so I am praying thats a good sign

I have my first scan tomorrow at 9.30 and we are planning where to go and what to do. I want to go with AI for the conception part, our last go with Clomid our Dr at the time didn't feel it was needed and I had 7 cycles with no luck, but I was completly miss diagnosed and managed so who knows if I had my hyperplasia then as well.
My new OBGYN is great, very up on PCOS and all my issues so she is wanting to do all she can to get me "with child" LOL as granny would say.
I am excited, scared and happy all rolled into one.............I never thought this time would come for me when I got the Hyperplasia diagnosis 4 months ago, I thought I would be booking in for a hysterectomy!!!!
Thank God our Dr gave us a go to clear it with hormone treatment and now is giving us a chance to have a baby................I can't wait until tomorrow, if no eggs well its back to the drawing board I guess.
Sorry for the rambling, I am just happy to be back here..............I couldn't face being here with all the baby talk after I got my nasty results, BUT I am so pleased to be back,
Hugs Nicki

Alisia, Is this the only time you take HCG boosters, my girlfriend is telling me I should be on them now, with the clomid.........doesn't sound right to me, I will of course ask my Dr tomorrow. I thought you just took them to ovulate!
Nicki

Fingers crossed for sure Ems.................Lots of growing baby vibes sent your way,
Nicki

**Indadhanu** · November 22nd, 2007, 02:27 PM

icki... I wouldn't have though you take them at the beginning, only to induce ovualtion, and then after if needed, for the LP...? thats what I thought anyway.

**emma83** · November 22nd, 2007, 03:27 PM

Hi ladies,

Leasha0986 - My FS doesn't have me on HCG injections - hasn't mentioned them yet, so I don't know if its a possibility later on?

Ickimum, Belle and Leasha0986 - Thankyou for your well wishes. I did another test this arvo and the faint line has gone

Am still going in for a blood test on Saturday - but now am doubtful anything will show up. What a bummer!

Best of luck ladies - where is everyone in their cycle?

**Indadhanu** · November 23rd, 2007, 05:58 AM

Emma... Oh bummer! It looked so good with the faint lines and everything..... I'm so sorry :hugs: GL for the BT anyway, I hope you get a wonderful surprise.

Emmalina · November 23rd, 2007, 03:18 PM

that's so disappointing Emma, have been holding back on posting my experience last cycle - I got faint lines too, tested on about days 32 and 34 and got faint lines both times but blood test neg on day 37 (when AF FINALLY arrived). What test were you using? I used discover and I won't be using them again, I can't trust them now! Although of course the other possibility is a chemical pregnancy, that might produce enough HCG to trigger a tester. And I figure chemical pregnancies are cause for hope, you're half way there (whoever said there's no such thing as being 'half pregnant' had obviously never been through assisted conception!)

Good luck tomorrow anyway.

ickimum · November 23rd, 2007, 05:43 PM

Oh well no eggs, and no lining of the uterus, so no luck this cycle and my OBGYN has placed me on the Pill for 2 months to try and get everything back in to a cycle after the Precancerous treatment that I was on.............since the precanerous cells thrive in a thick estrogen friendly enviroment, I was on progestone to 3 months to stripe the uterus of any chance of forming them, now of course that is working against egg production so the Dr is thinking 2 months of "normal" and regulated cycles will get me really ready for clomid.
Also to day she found a "solid lump" on my Left ovary(very small), and has sent me to have a high level scan done and I managed to get in on Monday. THANK GOD as I am sure you all know waiting is terrible!!! My obgyn is very hopeful its not a cancerous lump but is airing on the side of caution and acting fast on this. One good thing is this lump wasn't there in July or September, when I had surgery and scans at that time.
Oh well I guess life just isn't alway a place of happiness and Joy............I am okay about the Pill side of things, just want to know that I do not have ovarian Cancer !!! I will get the results after the scan as they have a Dr on site that comes and talks to you about things after the scan.
Hugs Nicki

**theresep** · November 24th, 2007, 06:17 AM

Ickimum - my best wishes go with you for a clear scan on Monday - gosh, you have alot on your plate.... i know the worry of the wait, as i had a malignant melanoma when i was 25, which thankfully was found early.
Reading your message has put my day in perspective.... i woke up with my cranky pants on, and thought oh no, i'm irritable and snappy, so you know what that means..... pmt... AF .. although i'm only on day 21. Still atleast another week to see if the clomid has helped.... and this is different, my sense of smell seems to be out of whack?

Have a BT on Monday to check my day 23 progesterone levels - are there any of you ladies out there who can give me an insight as to what levels are considered good?

Wishing all a great weekend! And all the best for monday ickimum, fingers crossed.

**lynros** · November 26th, 2007, 05:02 PM

Hi ladies (sorry not to mention you all by name)
I'm a new member to BB and have recently joined a number of threads although I think this is probably the right thread for me at the moment.
I have unexplained infertility and like some of you I'm also on Clomid - 2nd cycle. AF due this Sunday - I'm over the disappointment month after month, so I've promised myself not to test unless AF is at least 1 week overdue.
My FS only suggests I do 3 cycles of clomid - from there my options are injections or IVF. Does anyone have an opinion on injections? I'm not sure whether to jump straight to IVF.
Anyway, I'm still catching up on all your stories, but in the meantime my fingers are crossed

for everybody.

ickimum · November 27th, 2007, 07:10 AM

Thanks for the best wishes, it worked no tumors nothing.......not sure what the obgyn was seeing on Friday but the high level scan was clear of tumors PTL, But we did find that Clomid did work this cycle, 3 eggs all ready for release, but the bummer is I have NO lining to speak of so we have decided to let it go this month, I am not risking unhealthy preg or miscarrage due to poor lining, let alone the fact that its unlikely a preg would take hold anyway. my Obgyn is away until Jan 14th, so I am taking the pill until then in the hope that the lining will get back to normal after the 3 months of progestone I was on............anyway, I am keeping check here over the Christmas break, Good luck everyone,
Hugs Nicki

**nicjay** · November 27th, 2007, 10:15 AM

Nicki, that's great news about your scan not finding any tumour, but bummer about no lining

Don't blame you in the least for not wanting to take a chance.

Hope everything gets back to normal for you soon. Sorry I should have given you my well wishes in my last post

**theresep** · November 26th, 2007, 07:40 PM

Hi lynros, and welcome.... i've only recently joined this thread also, as i'm on my 1st clomid cycle.
I too have unexplained infertility, and my Dr has suggested 3 clomid cycles, then IUI, and then IVF if needed - i'm not too sure about injections, i haven't read much info about them - or are they tied in with IUI?
For me, i'm ok with taking small steps, and if that is no good, then eventually i will arrive at IVF - i guess i've been trying to take the least invasive treatment option over the straight to IVF option, and DH and i have only recently settled into our own home, where we will be staying put for atleast 5 yrs, so financially the small steps have suited us also! But every one is different, so only the two of you can do what suits your needs.
I definitely understand the disappointment each month - i think i've only used a HPT about 5 or 6 times over the last 2 years, as i just new that we hadn't hit the jackpot - actually my Dr was surprised when i casually mentioned at my last appointment that i didn't have any HPT's in the house!!
Best wishes to you, i'm sure someone on this thread will have some info on injections - collectively, there is so much knowledge contained on bellybelly regarding fertility, i'm amazed at what i've learnt! And everyone is so supportive.

Enough from me tonight, i need some sleep!

**Indadhanu** · November 27th, 2007, 05:21 AM

Well, 75mg of Clomid has done the trick!

I am pregnant! 4th try lucky lol! Go to FS tomorrow afternoon, for BT referral.

Emmalina · November 27th, 2007, 05:52 AM

Great news Alisia, well done!

Hi lynros and theresep, good luck with your clomid journeys, I hope it's a short sweet one. I am also unexplained and finally hit the jackpot in 2005 after a m/c and four years TTC, DD born in 2006. My FS last time did not start me on clomid, we jumped straight to ovulation induction using injections, then after a couple of those did IUI (again, using injections) and then onto IVF. After four failed IVFs we conceived naturally on a break after a chemical preg on IVF. This is probably the last thing you want to hear but when you're an 'unexplained' no matter what you do to try and get some control over this process, in the end it comes down to sheer luck and you never know when you're going to strike it lucky. That's why I don't use HPTs as a rule either. Except last month, which was my first month on clomid (my OB suggested I give it a try for 3 months) and I went a bit nuts on it and started testing as soon as I got my good day 21 progesterone back which just drags out the torture and wastes money!

I'm seeing my FS tomorrow and I suspect she will recommend I fast track it onto IVF. I think age has a lot to do with it. I was 31 when I first saw the FS. I'm 37 now. I don't think she'll want to waste time with clomid.

Injections aren't really so terrible, IVF sucks and costs a bomb, but when you do strike it lucky in the end, it all seems worth while.

Good luck to everyone!!!

Emmalina