CD1 BUDDIES? I have PCOS, but everyone is welcome. O day is the 21st

[kbird]

Today is CD 16 for me, I have been doing the opks and not even getting a slight second line. I think I'm not ovulating. I go next week to do the CD21 labs so they can check if I am or not, then I may be starting Clomid if I'm not. OH also goes for a SA next week. I did temps for about a week but they are just all over the place, so stopped doing those again. We BD on CD14 and we will again tonight just incase I O late, but I don't believe this will be month... not until I start Oing,

 

[Excited2See]

Today is CD 16 for me, I have been doing the opks and not even getting a slight second line. I think I'm not ovulating. I go next week to do the CD21 labs so they can check if I am or not, then I may be starting Clomid if I'm not. OH also goes for a SA next week. I did temps for about a week but they are just all over the place, so stopped doing those again. We BD on CD14 and we will again tonight just incase I O late, but I don't believe this will be month... not until I start Oing,

Are you seeing an RE? If you have long cycles you might just ovulate later. For exams I usually ovulate on CD21-23. If I ovulate on CD21 evening my bloodwook might mistakenly show an annovulatory cycle.

If you're not seeing an RE please consider seeing one. Clomid I monitored can be very harmful for your reproductive health and can thin your lining to the point an egg may not implant. You need to be monitored. That includes CD3. They should also do a baseline sonogram/ultrasound. This will measure your ovaries, uterus and follicle count.

 

[kbird]

What is RE? I am seeing and OBGYN. My cycle are usually 27days but the last 2 months they were 35 days. Before I was getting very close lines around CD13 & 14 but never darker than the control line so that lead me to believe I'm not O'ing and this month I haven't even got a faint line. Well I have heard good and bad about Clomid. Is there other drug to help you O or are you trying to do it completely natural?

 

[Excited2See]

What is RE? I am seeing and OBGYN. My cycle are usually 27days but the last 2 months they were 35 days. Before I was getting very close lines around CD13 & 14 but never darker than the control line so that lead me to believe I'm not O'ing and this month I haven't even got a faint line. Well I have heard good and bad about Clomid. Is there other drug to help you O or are you trying to do it completely natural?

An RE is a reproductive Endocrinologist. They are the only one that should be giving you Clomid. Ask for a referral to a RE. OB's have not received the training needed for Clomid.

A 35 day cycle is not abnormal. Very few women have th 27- 28 day cycle we learn about in school and cycle lengths can change at anytime. That is why I always recommend temping because not every women can turn an OPK positive. And depending on your luteal phase length (stage after egg has been released you could be testing too early.)

For example you have a 35 day cycle with a 12 day luteal phase, that means you ovulate on CD 23. That means you are using your OPK's early.

Let's say you have a 28 days cycle with a 16 day luteal but you're testing CD14, you will miss your window because you are testing too late.

The best way to know your luteal phase is to temp. OPK detects surges. Sometimes your body gears up to ovulate but it is delayed for reasons beyond your control. And then your body ovulates later.

Here is a link to my chart. As you can see I have a 33-35 day cycle. A luteal phase ranging from 10-12.

My Ovulation Chart


I am not anti- CLomid! I am only making others aware of what Clomid can do if not monitored.
Here is a warning from the drug manufacturer:
Clinical Considerations

To avoid inadvertent CLOMID administration during early pregnancy, appropriate tests should be utilized during each treatment cycle to determine whether ovulation and/or pregnancy occurs. Patients should be evaluated carefully to exclude ovarian enlargement or ovarian cyst formation between each treatment cycle. The next course of CLOMID therapy should be delayed until these conditions have been excluded.
and
Prolonged use of clomiphene citrate tablets USP may increase the risk of a borderline or invasive ovarian tumor (see ADVERSE REACTIONS).
There are other drugs like Femara that you can use besides Clomid. If we have more 8 cycles of :BFN: I am heading to my RE. I already have the referral just giving ourselves time because I know a healthy couple with no known issues have a 20% chance of conceiving each month with perfect timing.



Hope I answered any questions but please feel free to shoot anymore questions my way.

 

[babylaw720]

Can I join you ladies? PCOS, unfortunately not at the beginning of my cycle, I'm at some point of a very long weird cycle, cd53.A little history on me, dh and I have been ttc since we got married July 2013. Cycles were regular 35 day (to the hour). In september, af started to get kind of funky. There is a good chance that I had an early mc in October, although it was never confirmed. Since then, my cycles have varied. I went from December 7 until May 16 with no af. It was in early May that my ob said she thinks it is PCOS, although all my hormones and cbc came back normal. No ultrasound has been done. She put me on Metformin 500mg for the first week and 1000mg after that. After experiencing bad side effects, she wanted me to take the metformin down to just 500mg per day because I'm not actually insulin resistant. So I don't really know what's going on. First cycle on metformin was 45 days, this is my second cycle and its cd53. Looking for any support... Would love some cycle buddies.

 

[cdelmar]

Today is CD 16 for me, I have been doing the opks and not even getting a slight second line. I think I'm not ovulating. I go next week to do the CD21 labs so they can check if I am or not, then I may be starting Clomid if I'm not. OH also goes for a SA next week. I did temps for about a week but they are just all over the place, so stopped doing those again. We BD on CD14 and we will again tonight just incase I O late, but I don't believe this will be month... not until I start Oing,

I agree with Excited2See about checking for ovulation. The only definite way we as women can check for ourselves if in fact we are O-ing is if we temp and check CM!

Well AF is gone and excited for TTC this cycle

 

[Excited2See]

Can I join you ladies? PCOS, unfortunately not at the beginning of my cycle, I'm at some point of a very long weird cycle, cd53.A little history on me, dh and I have been ttc since we got married July 2013. Cycles were regular 35 day (to the hour). In september, af started to get kind of funky. There is a good chance that I had an early mc in October, although it was never confirmed. Since then, my cycles have varied. I went from December 7 until May 16 with no af. It was in early May that my ob said she thinks it is PCOS, although all my hormones and cbc came back normal. No ultrasound has been done. She put me on Metformin 500mg for the first week and 1000mg after that. After experiencing bad side effects, she wanted me to take the metformin down to just 500mg per day because I'm not actually insulin resistant. So I don't really know what's going on. First cycle on metformin was 45 days, this is my second cycle and its cd53. Looking for any support... Would love some cycle buddies.

babylaw720 I will offer any support that I can. However I have bad news in regards to your OB.

1. Get a new OB. Any OB that gives you metformin and you aren't IR is careless with your health. You shouldn't be taking metformin at all if you aren't insulin resistant.
1b. You can have PCOS without having all the symptoms. That's why it is a syndrome. There is a scale to it's severity.
1c. She/He should've done an ultrasound since they didn't do bloodwork.
1d. She started you at much too high a dose for not having done bloodwork.

2. Never go 60 days without :AF: UNLESS you're breatsfeeding. BF can cause wacky cycles.

3. Get a Basal Body Thermomether, download fertilityfriend app on your smart phone and start charting if you're not.

4. PCOS may delay ovulation but you can get pregnant with it.

5. I'm sorry about you (possible) loss.

 

[Excited2See]

Today is CD 16 for me, I have been doing the opks and not even getting a slight second line. I think I'm not ovulating. I go next week to do the CD21 labs so they can check if I am or not, then I may be starting Clomid if I'm not. OH also goes for a SA next week. I did temps for about a week but they are just all over the place, so stopped doing those again. We BD on CD14 and we will again tonight just incase I O late, but I don't believe this will be month... not until I start Oing,

Temp vaginally. It will smooth out your graph. A rocky chart might indicate that you're sleeping with your mouth open.

 

[cdelmar]

Not me

 

[babylaw720]

Can I join you ladies? PCOS, unfortunately not at the beginning of my cycle, I'm at some point of a very long weird cycle, cd53.A little history on me, dh and I have been ttc since we got married July 2013. Cycles were regular 35 day (to the hour). In september, af started to get kind of funky. There is a good chance that I had an early mc in October, although it was never confirmed. Since then, my cycles have varied. I went from December 7 until May 16 with no af. It was in early May that my ob said she thinks it is PCOS, although all my hormones and cbc came back normal. No ultrasound has been done. She put me on Metformin 500mg for the first week and 1000mg after that. After experiencing bad side effects, she wanted me to take the metformin down to just 500mg per day because I'm not actually insulin resistant. So I don't really know what's going on. First cycle on metformin was 45 days, this is my second cycle and its cd53. Looking for any support... Would love some cycle buddies.

babylaw720 I will offer any support that I can. However I have bad news in regards to your OB.

1. Get a new OB. Any OB that gives you metformin and you aren't IR is careless with your health. You shouldn't be taking metformin at all if you aren't insulin resistant.
1b. You can have PCOS without having all the symptoms. That's why it is a syndrome. There is a scale to it's severity.
1c. She/He should've done an ultrasound since they didn't do bloodwork.
1d. She started you at much too high a dose for not having done bloodwork.

2. Never go 60 days without :AF: UNLESS you're breatsfeeding. BF can cause wacky cycles.

3. Get a Basal Body Thermomether, download fertilityfriend app on your smart phone and start charting if you're not.

4. PCOS may delay ovulation but you can get pregnant with it.

5. I'm sorry about you (possible) loss.

I agree that I don't think I should be on metformin. She did do bloodwork, and all the results came back great. All of my hormones were good, my blood sugar was good, my fluids and electrolytes were good. I'm not anemic. There were no levels that came back in my bloodwork that were outside of the normal range. She talked about doing an ultrasound but every time I asked for it would just brush me off.
As far as af, what am I supposed to do when it's not showing up? I had gone to my ob in feb when it had been 2 months and she told me she wasn't concerned and to come back when it had been 4 months. When I went back after 5 months of no af, she told me about the PCOS and did the bloodwork. She told me that pcos is a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning that once they have ruled out everything else, that must be the problem, and she talked about an ultrasound that never happened.
I take my temp at the same time every day (give or take 10 mins), my chart is linked into my signature.
I'm just at the point where I don't know what to do anymore. I live in a small town and there's not many options for OB, I think there may be one other in town, who works for the same practice. I get frustrated with my cycles. I get frustrated with my OB. And now, after over a year, starting to feel like it won't happen.

 

[shudknow]

Hi ladies, I joined this group but then totally forgot about it.

Based on my OPks, looks like I ovulated on CD15 this cycle which happens very rarely that I have a perfect 29-30 day cycle I think OH and I timed very well so now it is a waiting game. I am 9dpo now and dont fee anything different. Life is going on as usual and I have a strong feeling that I am not pregnant....anyway expected AF date is 3rd of sept..

Good luck to all !

 

[Curlymikes]

Hi all. I am 6dpo and wanting days to go by fast to see if i am pregnant. I am going to test friday morning when i am 9dpo. When are the rest of you planning to test?

 

[Girly123]

I am 10dpo and gutted my bbt temps dipped again on 9dpo and stayed down even more on 10dpo so I am sure I am out. Had what I thought may be implantation dip on 7dpo as well so really gutted. https://i.imgur.com/P4ZIJkR.png

 

[cdelmar]

CD11 over here. No O here yet, temps are low and lines are getting darker on opks!

 

[babylaw720]

cd59 here **sigh**, possibly 4 days dpo....

 

[Timetotry]

Hi Ladies!
I was diagnosed with PCOS a couple of weeks ago. It's still hard for me to accept but I'm slowly coming to terms with it.
I was started on metformin and just had my HSG done (all clear! Yay something positive)
No clue how my cycles will respond to the metformin, I'm excited and nervous. Anyone else use metformin?

eta, I got so excited to post I missed Babylaws post! Metformin side effects suck! How are you doing on 500 mg?

 

[babylaw720]

Hi Ladies!
I was diagnosed with PCOS a couple of weeks ago. It's still hard for me to accept but I'm slowly coming to terms with it.
I was started on metformin and just had my HSG done (all clear! Yay something positive)
No clue how my cycles will respond to the metformin, I'm excited and nervous. Anyone else use metformin?

eta, I got so excited to post I missed Babylaws post! Metformin side effects suck! How are you doing on 500 mg?

The side effects are better on 500mg, but I don't think it's really doing anything for me. My cycles are still really long, and I'm not insulin resistant so I don't know why they expected it to do anything....

 

[Curlymikes]

I just got my bfp! Im 9dpo and i took the test at 7pm after about a 5 hour hold. I sm happy but after 2 mcs and a chemical i am cautiously excited. I hope it gets darker cause it was faint but definitely there! There is hope for those of us with pcos!

 

[cdelmar]

Curly!!!

 

[Timetotry]

Congrats Curly!!!