anyone else starting clomid next month, or can share their clomid experiences?

[Kamal87]

Hi Girls,
I have been TTC for three years but in jan 2013 i found i hv PCOS. Now i am going to start Clomid from Oct. Anybody there who will start clomid frm oct?? I am really excited and on the same time little bit worried, plz give me some hope.

 

[Starbunny711]

Hi Girls,
I have been TTC for three years but in jan 2013 i found i hv PCOS. Now i am going to start Clomid from Oct. Anybody there who will start clomid frm oct?? I am really excited and on the same time little bit worried, plz give me some hope.

Hey, Kamal87! Welcome to the thread! Good luck with your first round of clomid!! FX for you! I'm on my first round currently (well, my first cycle with clomid, on CD14). I, too, have PCOS. I'm really hoping it works for me. I should find out if it has worked or not around mid-October.

 

[MummyDonz]

My specialist has said to stop using opk's and temping as it is causing unnecessary worry for me. Just take the clomid as he advised. I guess I'll just see if I get a period this cycle. If not, guess I didn't ovulate. Now in cd14 so we'll see what happens.

 

[skarcm2010]

My specialist has said to stop using opk's and temping as it is causing unnecessary worry for me. Just take the clomid as he advised. I guess I'll just see if I get a period this cycle. If not, guess I didn't ovulate. Now in cd14 so we'll see what happens.

MummyDonz - let us know how you fair.

 

[skarcm2010]

Kamal87 - Welcome I also have PCOS and am on my second cycle of Clomid. Good luck to you and keep us posted.

 

[Lemonade]

I was not feeling like I had all the information from yesterday and I didn't get to directly talk to my own doctor. This morning I emailed my doctor to ask some more questions. One question I asked her was how big was my largest follicle (the other doctor yesterday didn't tell me). She came back and said 16mm. That is definitely more positive than the other doctor led me to believe. I'm going to keep the faith until there is a reason for me not to.

A 16mm sounds good! There is definitely not a reason to lose hope


Starbunny - great news that you got a positive OPK! Hope your DH feels better soon so you can get back to baby making.

Welcome Kamal! I have PCOS too, and am on my third cycle of Clomid. I hope your Clomid journey is short and you get your BFP soon

Good luck MummyDonz, hopefully you are able to relax a bit and not worry too much.

I just got back from my second scan and I have a 19mm follicle...finally a mature follicle seen on screen! The 12mm follicle on my left ovary has shrunk back (or disappeared, not sure, but there was nothing over 11mm...). My lining is 10.1mm, so the nurse said everything looked "ideal". I just need to get a confirmed ovulation now, so going for a CD21 a blood test next Thursday, which will actually be CD21

 

[skarcm2010]

Lemonade - That is great news!!! Sounds like everything is on track for you this cycle. Keeping my fingers crossed that you get good news next Thursday.

 

[Kamal87]

Thnx Starbunny711 nd Fx for you n i hope it'll work for you
I'm 26 years old nd hv been married for five years. When i found out i have PCOS, it was really shoked for me becaz my periods have always been regular (29-30) n i'm nt overweight. Gyn. told that i don't ovulate regular. Now i'm waiting for my periods to start so i can start my first round of clomid. Let's see wht will happen next month..

Skarcm2010 Thnx dear and Good luck.

Lemonade thanks! I hope we get soon good news from you

 

[hopefulfor1st]

My specialist has said to stop using opk's and temping as it is causing unnecessary worry for me. Just take the clomid as he advised. I guess I'll just see if I get a period this cycle. If not, guess I didn't ovulate. Now in cd14 so we'll see what happens.

I agree 100% if you are having regular sex what do u have to benefit from it

 

[hopefulfor1st]

Hi Girls,
I have been TTC for three years but in jan 2013 i found i hv PCOS. Now i am going to start Clomid from Oct. Anybody there who will start clomid frm oct?? I am really excited and on the same time little bit worried, plz give me some hope.

I was going to start a few days ago but blood work showed I was in my 2ww...so now I'm waiting on AF so I can start!

 

[skarcm2010]

I was going to start a few days ago but blood work showed I was in my 2ww...so now I'm waiting on AF so I can start!

Hopefully AF will arrive on time so that you can get started.

 

[Kamal87]

Hi Girls,
I have been TTC for three years but in jan 2013 i found i hv PCOS. Now i am going to start Clomid from Oct. Anybody there who will start clomid frm oct?? I am really excited and on the same time little bit worried, plz give me some hope.

I was going to start a few days ago but blood work showed I was in my 2ww...so now I'm waiting on AF so I can start!

hopefulfor1st Good luck and will start clomid together

 

[hopefulfor1st]

Hi Girls,
I have been TTC for three years but in jan 2013 i found i hv PCOS. Now i am going to start Clomid from Oct. Anybody there who will start clomid frm oct?? I am really excited and on the same time little bit worried, plz give me some hope.

I was going to start a few days ago but blood work showed I was in my 2ww...so now I'm waiting on AF so I can start!

hopefulfor1st Good luck and will start clomid together

Yes all I know is on Wednesday I had a blood test before starting clomid and it showed my progesterone was in the tww! My progesterone was only 6.1 so that means I was either very early in my tww and it was still on its way up (here's hoping!) or I was late in my tww and hadn't conceived (otherwise it would have gone up and stayed up) so I'm HOPING AF won't show and I don't need to start clomid!

 

[Kamal87]

Hi Girls,
I have been TTC for three years but in jan 2013 i found i hv PCOS. Now i am going to start Clomid from Oct. Anybody there who will start clomid frm oct?? I am really excited and on the same time little bit worried, plz give me some hope.

I was going to start a few days ago but blood work showed I was in my 2ww...so now I'm waiting on AF so I can start!

hopefulfor1st Good luck and will start clomid together

Yes all I know is on Wednesday I had a blood test before starting clomid and it showed my progesterone was in the tww! My progesterone was only 6.1 so that means I was either very early in my tww and it was still on its way up (here's hoping!) or I was late in my tww and hadn't conceived (otherwise it would have gone up and stayed up) so I'm HOPING AF won't show and I don't need to start clomid!

Ok n good luck, keep us posting hopefulfor1st

 

[Lemonade]

Wow, great news that you are in the TWW, hopeful! Maybe you will get a BFP and not need to start Clomid?!

My OPK was positive tonight (CD 16) so let the BDing begin!

Question for you all....at my scan the nurse gave me a request for blood work to test for ovulation (so I can go to my GP instead of the hospital) and said to go in for the blood test on Thursday, which would be 7 days since my scan. I know from testing with OPKs that I won't actually ovulate until tomorrow, or more likely Monday and according to what I've read, progesterone peaks at 7DPO, which would be Sunday 6th or Monday 7th for me. Would it even be positive for ovulation if I am only 3/4DPO? What should I do - go in Thursday like I was told and risk it being too early or wait until the following Monday? Thanks for your advice!

 

[skarcm2010]

Wow, great news that you are in the TWW, hopeful! Maybe you will get a BFP and not need to start Clomid?!

My OPK was positive tonight (CD 16) so let the BDing begin!

Question for you all....at my scan the nurse gave me a request for blood work to test for ovulation (so I can go to my GP instead of the hospital) and said to go in for the blood test on Thursday, which would be 7 days since my scan. I know from testing with OPKs that I won't actually ovulate until tomorrow, or more likely Monday and according to what I've read, progesterone peaks at 7DPO, which would be Sunday 6th or Monday 7th for me. Would it even be positive for ovulation if I am only 3/4DPO? What should I do - go in Thursday like I was told and risk it being too early or wait until the following Monday? Thanks for your advice!

Hi Lemonade - My doctor says that anything over 5 is considered ovulation. This confused me because I read online that unmedicated cycles should be over 10 and medicated over 15. She said the number would depend on how good the corpus luteum is and then also like with me when I gave her all my information we found out that I had my test to soon. Last cycle we checked to early, but she still knew. We thought I had ovulated earlier, but actually I had ovulated sometime right before the test. I got my positive OPK today and have my progesterone test this coming Friday. I will be emailing my doctor tomorrow to see if she still wants me to do it on Friday. I will let you know what she says. Good luck and keep me posted.

 

[Lemonade]

Thanks Skarcm, that's really useful. It would be really interesting to hear what your doctor says. Good news that you got you +OPK too!

I'm waiting for my OPK to go negative (I surged for 2 days last cycle too) and then I think I'll make a decision. I'm leaning towards going in Friday and hoping for a later in the day appointment. My GP is always closed over the weekend and don't really want to leave it until Monday as my nurse said Thursday.

 

[hopefulfor1st]

Thanks Skarcm, that's really useful. It would be really interesting to hear what your doctor says. Good news that you got you +OPK too!

I'm waiting for my OPK to go negative (I surged for 2 days last cycle too) and then I think I'll make a decision. I'm leaning towards going in Friday and hoping for a later in the day appointment. My GP is always closed over the weekend and don't really want to leave it until Monday as my nurse said Thursday.

On my clomid round I had what i later realised was ov pain on the Sunday (cd21) and my blood test was 8am Monday (cd22), my progesterone came in at 7.1 and my fs said either weak ov (non viable for pregnancy) or late ov so did another blood cd29 and it was 36. Then I realized the pain from the Sunday was ov and I'd oved cd21, cd31 I got a positive hpt (10dpo) so my point is that even the day after ov they were able to confirm I'd oved they just did it again a week later to be sure and by then it was much higher, so I think at 4/5 dpo would be fine! Oh and that ov date was confirmed with my dating scan.
I had a blood test Wednesday just gone too and my progesterone was 6.1 so I'm thinking I'm about 6dpo if we assume my numbers are about the same but I guess we'll see within 8 days!

 

[Starbunny711]

I'm on CD18 today. I think I may have had some OV pain on Saturday (CD16), but I can't be sure. Since then, I've not really had any sensation "down there" whereas before and up to CD16, I'd had cramping and then the sharp pain on CD16, so I'm hoping (really, really hoping) that means I've ovulated. I've got my CD21 blood test this Thursday. I'll probably go in mid-morning to get my blood test. Does anyone know how long it takes to get the results for a progesterone blood draw?

Good luck to everyone!!

 

[Trina86]

Hi Starbunny, I got my progesterone results back in 24 hours. Not sure if its possible to get them sooner though.