help please!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pcos

hi there, just writing in regards to my pcos. my husband and i have been ttc for the past 2 years. tried clomid 4 times bfn. been trying puregon/ pregnyl for 5 months now no luck . its been so hard especially the 2ww. also i feel everyone around me is pregnant but not me i get really down about that esp i work in retail and i see kids all the time. im happy for them but i know its selfish to think why are they and not me but i cant help it. im currently 5dpo i feel so emotional and stressed i always do on the 2ww as i always analize everything and think i am pregnant and im not. i want to know how a pregnant females suppose to feel. everyone tells me you know when your pregnant. i am very impatient and over all these treatments i feel like im cursed or something as im only 25 and nothings working. i have one more go on puregon/pregnyl then i have no choice but to do ivf i am really scared about the ivf situation but i have no choice i have to do it. i pray to god i have a baby soon as this is such a emotional rollercoaster and no one understands how i feel. any success stories please to help me cheer up

I'm probably not the success story you want to hear, but I have a two year old son that is the result of IVF treatment. My PCOS was pretty severe and add to that my husband's crappy sperm and we had no choice but to go straight for IVF - but I can encourage you that while IVF is scary, it does work.

As for knowing when you are pregnant - some do, some don't. I start getting morning sickness from the minute implantation occurs, but I also know of others who don't. And I have a friend who is an obstetrician and she says it is completely true that some women don't even know they are pregnant until the minute they go into labour.

Try to take your mind off it and relax for a little bit... but I know Christmas can be hard as it really shows you what you are missing. :hug:

BW

Hi there,

I too have PCOS and tried clomid for about 4 times - didn't even get me to ovulate. The I tried injectables for about 6 months, it was great in the fact that it got me to ovulate, but every month I had AF turn up.

I too was terrified of turning to IVF. In my mind it was my safety net if that makes any sense. I was so sure that I would fall pregnant via one of the other methods that IVF was always just my back up plan. I was so frightened when it became evident that I would have to try IVF as after that there was nothing else to try.

BUT - I can safely say that as scary as it was and as emotionally draining as the whole process was, I am a success story. I had one stimulated cycle in which I had a fresh transfer which resulted in a BFN. However that cycle also created another 7 embryos which were frozen. I went straight into a HRT FET after my stimulated cycle and finally got my BFP! I now have a 20 month old daughter asleep in her room as a result.

After being so terrified of trying IVF, if I had the ability to look into the future I think IVF would have been my first choice as it was obviously what I needed to get my BFP. Wouldn't it be great for us gals that have fertility issues to be blessed with the ability to see into the future!

In regards to knowing if you are pregnant, I thought I was pregnant every cycle of AR that I went through, but I knew I was pregnant from almost the moment my DD was transfered into me. I can't pinpoint exactly what it was, but I just felt different. There were no particular physical signs for me until my MS kicked in at 6 weeks 4 days, but I really just knew.

I wish you so much luck, I know what a terrifying hard decision it is to make. My thought was that I HAD to try everything to see if I could get my baby. As terrified as I was I just knew that the right thing for me to do was give IVF a shot.

I hope you can come to a decision that you are comfortable with.

Happy to chat should you need it.

Janie xxx