Clomid club - before, during and after

[keepsmiling]

I asked but he did say he was gunna ask me if I wanted it next app so even tho I asked he was thibkin of askib already
I'm on 150mg clonid wen af shows with follie tracking again xx

 

[caz & bob]

girls vicky good luck with the op hun at least you have the ball rolling to see whats wrong x x x

 

[ReadyWithLove]

Hi everyone. I'm new to this board but what to know if I could get some advice about clomid. My doctors are beginning to think I have PCOS and I meet with the fertility specialist this Thursday. Are the side effects of clomid significant? Is anyone using the generic form? Has anyone else with pcos also gotten multiple positive opk's in various times of the month? Thanks. The last question I think I'm going to ask on the PCOS board. Oh and if you look at my chart yes I've taken an hpt every day all with bfn. Any advice is wonderful.

 

[caz & bob]

girls hope your all well lovely here today got a line full of washing out just got back of the field with the dogs x x x

 

[missin_a_girl]

Hello, I am also new to this. Dh and I have been ttc for over 2 yrs with no luck. i do not O so I going to start Clomid. Just waiting on Af to come. Doctor said 50mg 5-9 but I am thinking of doing it 2-6. How many of you had success with that date and what mg were you on when you got your....?
I am sorry if I am asking alot of questions. This is my first time and no one I know been or even heard of Clomid. Thank in Advance....

 

[lisaf]

Hello, I am also new to this. Dh and I have been ttc for over 2 yrs with no luck. i do not O so I going to start Clomid. Just waiting on Af to come. Doctor said 50mg 5-9 but I am thinking of doing it 2-6. How many of you had success with that date and what mg were you on when you got your....?
I am sorry if I am asking alot of questions. This is my first time and no one I know been or even heard of Clomid. Thank in Advance....

I took clomid days 3-7 ... doctors seem to have a preference for this, but there doesn't seem to be strong evidence over certain cycle days working better than others. The theory is that taking it earlier gives you more eggs, and taking it later gives you healthier eggs.... I don't think thats been proven and probably varies from woman to woman.

50mg got me ovulating since I hadn't been before... but I had low progesterone issues even with the clomid.
I didn't get pregnant until I went up to 100mg which got my progesterone levels up to normal.
Happy to offer any advice or help you want on this! There's another, more active, clomid club over in the LTTTC section but it gets very busy there and it can be hard to keep up or even notice if someone is replying to you. Just offering that as another option/resource for help/support/advice since there are tons of girls in there currently on clomid. It gets pretty quite on this thread.

 

[missin_a_girl]

Thank you so much. I called my doctor and he said it was ok to start at 3-7. So I guess i will just wait for Af to come and I am so excited..... How many round were you on?

 

[lisaf]

Thank you so much. I called my doctor and he said it was ok to start at 3-7. So I guess i will just wait for Af to come and I am so excited..... How many round were you on?

I did 4 rounds at 50mg, took a 2 cycle break, then took 1 round of 100mg to get my BFP. I did 4 rounds at 50mg because the doc I was seeing didn't want to increase my dose since it was making me ovulate.
Kind of a long story, lol... 2 cycles unmonitored, then 2 cycles with progesterone tests showing my progesterone was low.

 

[missin_a_girl]

Speaking of the devil. Af is here... first time in my life that I am excited about it being here. Two more days and I will start the clomid. I hope I am one of those lucky ladies and get a bfp in my first cycle.

 

[lisaf]

Speaking of the devil. Af is here... first time in my life that I am excited about it being here. Two more days and I will start the clomid. I hope I am one of those lucky ladies and get a bfp in my first cycle.

lol totally! Just keep in mind that some of clomid's side effects may cause you to have symptoms that you normally don't that may seem like pregnancy. I had sore boobs on my first clomid cycle which I'd never had before... got my hopes WAY up

 

[missin_a_girl]

I normally get sore books before Af comes. Well for the last six months or so. I pretty much went thru my stage of getting my hopes up. Then when she comes I would cry for a few days. I am gonna try to stay calm thru this process. Well, I am gonna really try. I am excited yet nervous at the same for some reason. That's why I am glad I found this website. I'm hooked. My hubby keeps asking me are you still on the forums? Yup I am. Lol. Thank u
Did you take any else while on clomid ? Like mucunex , pre seed, yams ?

 

[ReadyWithLove]

yams??? and why do I keep reading about soy is good soy is bad... I never know what to believe anymore.

 

[caz & bob]

girls hope your all we i have just come back from a lovely wake up to the dam and back very windy here x x x

 

[keepsmiling]

It's windy here too

Aweful weather caz

well incd 1 today yay xx

 

[lisaf]

Soy CAN be good... but if you are on clomid, you should not take most herbal supplements like soy or vitex/chasteberry. If you have a thyroid problem, soy can be really bad. So lots of women take soy without having had their thyroid test which is why it can be 'bad'.

I tried Vitex during my natural cycles and it didn't do much for me, but I was also on a lot lower dose than many girls on this forum who take it.

During clomid, I took a B-complex vitamin, fish oil capsules, daily multivitamin (all with the approval of my FS). On my successful cycle, I used preseed and softcups (with my special 'scoop' method - I can explain if you want but its a little TMI).

 

[keepsmiling]

Yuh lisa explain this scoop method plzzz
thibkin about soft cups but iv got visions of me putting them in wrong and gettin them stuck:0 cud u imagine xx

 

[lisaf]

they're very hard to get stuck... if they are hard to remove, you might just have to try a couple different positions to remove (standing with foot on toilet lid, lying down etc)
Actually, when I saw my first one I was a bit panicked about fitting it in because its quite large looking. There are videos online about how to insert them though!

So my fear was that I was somehow trapping the sperm on the outside of the softcup, lol. Hence the scooping method:

Spoiler

Basically, before inserting the softcup, I would take it and gently scrape it along the edge of my vagina/labia. I would gather quite a bit of semen that way and I would insert it after I scooped up the spilled out semen. Not sure if it really helps, but it at least put my mind at ease about popping the softcup in and blocking sperm, lol!!

 

[VickyLou]

Hey ladies just a quick message to let you all no i had my surgery yesterday. In alot of pain today and major chest pains which are normal apparently. Back home really uncomfortable but hopefully it will soon feel better.

Anyway i had my tubes flushed and overies drilled and a dnc. Apparently i showed no signs of having endo so they want to do more tests and scans etc when i am actually on my period to find out what goes on when i bleed, so they can see why im in so much pain during af and sex.

Hope all is well with everyone else. Sorry if this doesnt make sence still abit spaced out. xxxx

 

[lisaf]

glad you got your surgery.. strange about the lack of endo
hope you have a quick recovery!!

 

[caz & bob]

girls yayyy glad you havent got endo hun fx vicky its not much to worry about hun x x x