clomid club

[ttcbaby117]

caz there is a guest one? where is it?

 

[tink28]

keepsmiling- i would say 7 is fine as ive heard u can test in evening

xxxx

 

[caz & bob]

caz there is a guest one? where is it?

when you got to pay it will come up at the side guest click guest and then scroll down and put your deatalies in hun xxx girls i am 14dpo not 13dpo haha xxxx

 

[keepsmiling]

my lines r usully crap in the evening tho
well if thy r ther is always tomorrow, n lst month i didnt get a pos opk til cd 25 so stil lots of time xx

 

[ttcbaby117]

oh thanks caz I will look for it.

 

[caz & bob]

ok hunnie i always use it haha xxxx

 

[ttcbaby117]

what has cheri told you?

 

[mrphyemma]

Ttc....I'm still undecided, but will make up my mind after I see my doctor this week. Good luck hun.

Emma....I just thought to share this story with you. My boss' wife was having some pain in her uterus area, so she decided to go for a checkup during their summer holiday in America. She went back to the hospital for her results, accompanied by her 3 gorgeous children and her twin sister (who was unmarried at the time, and hadn't had kids yet). She said she noticed that everytime the doctors remarked how cute and adorable the kids were, they kept looking at her twin sister. Eventually, they took her to a private room to give her her results. You know what the doctor told her? That she could never conceive or have kids in her life. That her uterus was a funny shape and it could never hold a pregnancy. She said the doctor's jaw dropped to the ground when he realised the kids he had been admiring were not her twin sister's but hers.

I guess my point is, sometimes when these doctors think they know so much, they don't know squat!

Thank you for sharing that story Isi, it means a lot Its funny you should mention it though as after my HSG not only was I informed I had a blocked tube they also told me I have an "unusual" shaped uterus! Unusual or not it housed 3 babies just fine for me

I often sit and wonder what shape it really is hexagon? star? triangle?

 

[caz & bob]

ttc this is what it looks like hunnie

 

[keepsmiling]

i bet urs is a star shaped emma, cos ur a star lol xx

 

[DragonMummy]

all you with faint lines, get on the superdrug tests! i found them to be the best at showing early lines x

 

[keepsmiling]

i think id use superdrugs, i no lots of ppl that got naf lines with vry test, sued superdrug and bang!! a bfp xx

 

[caz & bob]

all you with faint lines, get on the superdrug tests! i found them to be the best at showing early lines x

i no im going getin some hun i think im going to leave i till wensday if no then im going to test xxxxx

 

[tink28]

good luck keepsmiling!!!

im now seeing my donor 2nite!!! lucky he is understanding. and should get some BD time in during 2moro morning too. im scatty as hell now ive had this positive opk talk about takin me by surprise! xxx

 

[Britt11]

Hey girls,
how are you?
Caz- 14dpo isnt that longer than your normal LP? fx'd for a bfp, I am with DM get a superdrug test- we dont have them here but they sound super sensitive!

As for me girls, just got back from the FS- super frustrated it appears the issues are pretty much on DH's end. His morphology is even worse, down to 6% and his hormone panelling wasnt great at all... anyway, he said the treatment for his condition is IUI and to just keep doing it...he is very happy with all my #'s but doesnt want to wait too super long as my fsh is showing signs of creeping up and he doesnt want it to be too late on my end.
So IUI this cycle again (he said I can take 100mg of Clomid but it doesnt matter as my #'s were so high on the 50) but I think I will as something has got to help.
We will probably try double IUI next cycle and than maybe one more IUI try before going to IVF (which is $10,000 and no coverage)

anyway, feeling a bit bummed and slightly resentful of my husband...is that awful?

 

[lisaf]

tink- its best to get that BD in right when you get the positive OPK. On FF I see lots of women whose temps rise the day after their positive meaning they ovulated within 12 hours. It takes me longer so you could be totally safe, lol.

sarlar - cycle buddies?

emma - If all you get are a few rounds on Clomid... they REALLY should be monitoring you. They could tell what side your eggs were on, if you were close to ovulating etc. Thats just crazy. I still think you should have had a lap done to make sure the left tube was actually blocked since its very possible it wasn't (remember that data I found about HSGs sometimes indicating a blocked tube but the lap shows its clear?). After Clomid there is still Femara and injectibles. I know you'd have to go private and its a little pricey.. but nowhere near as expensive as IVF. The positive is that if you went private, I bet you'd get better service!

 

[lisaf]

Britt - I think your feelings are perfectly normal. Would DH consider donor sperm? It seems like that would be a smart choice at this point. Has he done anything to improve his lifestyle?

If you do go the IVF route - try to find one of those shared risk plans (they often have restrictions like age and # of failed IVF cycles in the past so its best to use one of those plans first try). It costs more, but you get more than one round... usually 2-3 and if all the rounds fail, you get most of your money back.

 

[keepsmiling]

i think ferema in free on nhs anyway emma xx

 

[caz & bob]

Hey girls,
how are you?
Caz- 14dpo isnt that longer than your normal LP? fx'd for a bfp, I am with DM get a superdrug test- we dont have them here but they sound super sensitive!

As for me girls, just got back from the FS- super frustrated it appears the issues are pretty much on DH's end. His morphology is even worse, down to 6% and his hormone panelling wasnt great at all... anyway, he said the treatment for his condition is IUI and to just keep doing it...he is very happy with all my #'s but doesnt want to wait too super long as my fsh is showing signs of creeping up and he doesnt want it to be too late on my end.
So IUI this cycle again (he said I can take 100mg of Clomid but it doesnt matter as my #'s were so high on the 50) but I think I will as something has got to help.
We will probably try double IUI next cycle and than maybe one more IUI try before going to IVF (which is $10,000 and no coverage)

anyway, feeling a bit bummed and slightly resentful of my husband...is that awful?

ye hun im very regular aswell ever 28 to 29 days so dont no whats goin on i have started takein vitamins this month to but it carnt be them xxxx

 

[lisaf]

Had a little fight with OH last night about TTC stuff. First, I wasn't and still am not yet 100% sure I've ovulated (its highly likely but things aren't looking normal yet for me so I'm hesitating until I have better data). He argued with me about how I got a positive OPK so that means I ovulated even if my temps don't rise. He then told me how my ovulation this time was better than the Clomid rounds because I only got a short surge of 3 days instead of a week-long surge (ummmm... I never got a week-long surge on Clomid.. that only happened was when I was having an anovulatory cycle.... which he proceeded to argue with me on and told me I was wrong! I threatened to go pull up my charts and show him how that wasn't true).

Then, he tells me how its so much better that I ovulated naturally... that its better than with medications and that he wasn't thrilled I went on the Clomid in the first place since it 'should' happen naturally. So of course I agree that its better to not need the drugs (since you get unlimited tries if you O naturally!! lol!) it doesn't mean its wrong to use them or need them. I'm not even 100% sure I have O'd this time ... and even if I did, I'm a little afraid its a residual effect of the Clomid and it will only last a cycle or two.... so it makes me feel like I'm some kind of failure if it turns out I didn't O this time or stop O'ing and need to go back on it.

He made me feel like I shouldn't have gone on it in the first place because he's now he thinks this is proof that I can do it on my own and didn't need 'that stuff'. I have no faith at all that I would have ovulated on my own if I had just waited.

To add insult to injury... he's a guy who pops a pill for any little ailment... but apparently its not ok for me to take Clomid when I wasn't ovulating! Hypocrite!!!!
GRRR ... am I just being hormonal here? He's truly been supportive through all of this and maybe I'm just taking what he said the wrong way... or maybe he was just shutting up, smiling and nodding before? Now the true thoughts/feelings come out? (in which case I give him some credit for supporting me in my choice)
I just feel like he hasn't understood any of what I've been going through!! I thought he was really understanding some of these basics but he can't even keep it straight that I had good OPKs on Clomid and that the week of positive OPKs was last December!

Oh, and he said that because this round was natural, he feels like this is our first 'real' time trying!! Makes me feel like he was just dismissing all that I've gone through on those 4 rounds of Clomid... like they didn't count or something...
ARGH... thanks for letting me vent!!