Femara / Letrozole thread

[molulife]

Well... I have gotten pregnant twice on femara 2.5mg and with that I have always ovulated late. I miscarried both times. After that my doctor upped my dosage to 5mg and it's always been bfn and I ovulated on day 15 on the dot. My theory is that my follicles are just growing big but the egg is not maturing. So this time I am going back to 2.5mg and going to try. Let's see...fingers crossed!

 

[pirate1974]

I'm on both femara and clomid which is weird bc from what I can tell they do the same thing. I'm also on metformin but I've been on that for 10 years for PCOS and so me being on that has nothing to do with the clomid and femara. Anyone on that? I took my first pills yesterday. I'm so scared of the side effects that are to come!!! I'm counting down until thursday night for my last pill!!!

 

[Jenntt]

That's interesting. That's probably why my doc had me on 2.5 for 5 days then after my 12 day check another 2.5 for 5 days. He said the length of time matters not the dosage. I ended up with 3 mature. Fingers crossed!!

Hi Pirate! They actually don't do the same thing. He explained it but I don't have the diagram. That's why girls with PCOS don't respond to clomid and do femara. One deals with fsh and other lh. Don't quote me that's how I understood it. I'm also on metformin. Have been since Nov. The stomach issues are the worst!! He started me slowly - 1 500mg for a week every other day then upped to every day, now 3 a day. It has definitely improved my cycles. The metformin should be keeping your insulin down to help the femara/clomid work better. Hopefully, you won't have bad side effects! All the best and good luck!!

 

[Asryellah]

Nice to have more Ladies here I wish all of us will succeed soon and this thread will become a Legend

Hopefully pirate you won't have bad sideaffects! From Letrozole they are pretty light as for me.

Molu, I hope your theory will work you do have success with the meds so lets hope this is The Cycle

Im also trying on a theory, I bought myself soft cups as I've read lots of success stories of those on ttc. Well today the first is in
Havent used those before so im pretty worried of getting it out tomorrow but should be easy? Has anyone tried?

 

[pirate1974]

Thanks everyone! What are soft cups? I'm intrigued!

 

[Jenntt]

What the heck are soft cups?? 😂

 

[Jenntt]

You're right Asry - I really hope we all can look back at this and laugh one day!! 😂

 

[molulife]

Jenntt- are you on your tww. Fingers crossed for you....

 

[Jenntt]

Hi Molu! Thank you. The tests have been negative and my temp dropped big time today. Af should come today. Anxious to start the next cycle already!

So now I'll be a week behind you girls! I hope we all get our BFPs!!!

 

[Asryellah]

Hi Ladies! Soft cups are menstrual cups. I guess there are different brands and some called diva cups? Also heard of the term conseption caps. But you can Google lots of BFP's by using soft cups while ttc. Heres one from this Forum
https://babyandbump.momtastic.com/trying-to-conceive/1725235-ttc-3-soft-cup-preseed.html

So after bd you put one in and it keeps the spermies right up close to where they should be without leaking right out

And, if anyone interested it was easy to pop in and take out in the morning, I didnt keep it 12 hrs as I didnt want to be at work trying to get it out

 

[molulife]

I do use preseed, and both the time that I got pregnant I used preseed. I haven never used soft cups....maybe I should.

Andddd I start my next cycle today and so it begins. I feel so good having this group.

 

[Asryellah]

I do use preseed, and both the time that I got pregnant I used preseed. I haven never used soft cups....maybe I should.

Andddd I start my next cycle today and so it begins. I feel so good having this group.

Me too so good to have ppl going through the same thing!

I'm starting to have o pains I so hope that I get to jump that man of mine today and hopefully have pos in opk, it was not in the morning yet though.
But I'm pushing cd13 already and afraid that if my o goes to that cd 16-18 again will be disappointment.

 

[Jenntt]

Verrrrry interesting! Thanks for sharing. Yeah not something you want to do on your lunch break. Haha

Still no af. Really not sure what's up...

 

[Alyna]

Thanks all for the good luck vibes! I'm sending them right back at you! I had never heard the Diva cup recommendation. It does make sense! We always try to do the deed at night, so that I can lie down for as long as possible to keep the little swimmers in me as long as possible. It's sort of the same principle!

We've been using Pre-seed for about a year. So far no luck.

As I mentioned up thread, this is my first cycle on an HCG injection. I expected aches in my ovaries for a couple days after the shot, but I'm 6 dpo and I'm still getting the aches and now pelvic aches to boot! Is this normal? The aches aren't as bad as menstrual cramps, but some of them are pretty close!

 

[Asryellah]

Have you tested Jenntt?
Are you on progesterone? That might aswell lengthen your cycle as well as pregnancy

Alyna, hcg shot might give you all the pg-symptoms. And ovary twinges in lutheal phase are from corpus luteum working. Did you have more than one follicle? If two left then there would be two corpus luteum
Cant remember were you going to test the trigger out?

I gave myself the shot yesterday. OPK was not positive, but had all the o pains. Now i have the feeling that i messed it all up not waiting for the opk positive - as I was advised. Dunno. Well, I just have to wait it out again. Need to pick up progesterone supps from pharmacy too. I havent o'ed yet, but plan is to start those on dpo 3.
I prob will start testing trigger out on dpo 6 too.

 

[Jenntt]

Hi Alyna- cramps are totally normal. They should go away soon. Fingers crossed for your BFP soon! what day will you start testing? 😉

Hi Asry - eagerness got the best of ya! 😁Haha oh well, you know your body so if you felt it, I say go with it! 😃

Hite Molu- I'm happy to have this group of girls too!👍 😍

I've been off progesterone for 5 or 6 days. Last month it came on exactly cd 14 after only day being off it. I didn't think I had anymore tests left but after I peed this morning I found one! Doh!! On Monday night I had SEVERE cramps!! And still no af. I dunno! I left a message for doc. I'll test this afternoon.

Ok! So you both are pretty much in the 2ww!! Molu just starting this cycle so fingers crossed this our month girls!! 🙏

 

[Asryellah]

https://community.babycenter.com/post/a32751333/femara_bfp_reporting_thread

This to read if you feel like need for success stories

 

[Alyna]

Alyna, hcg shot might give you all the pg-symptoms. And ovary twinges in lutheal phase are from corpus luteum working. Did you have more than one follicle? If two left then there would be two corpus luteum
Cant remember were you going to test the trigger out?

Thanks! I had two nice big round follicles (one in each ovary). The cramps are definitely improving and only happen occasionally now. I'm not testing out, because I honestly don't want to get my hopes up or obsess about if it's a real BFP or just the vestiges of the trigger shot. I'm going to the doc tomorrow morning to get my progesterone levels checked since it's been a week since ovulation. I plan to ask the nurse when I should test. AF is due on Tuesday for me since my cycles are short.

Jenntt, I'm keeping my fingers and toes crossed for you!

Asry, I was told to take the trigger shot when my OPK was negative to force my body to ovulate sooner than it typically does, so I don't think taking the shot early would be too big of a problem for you. Good luck!

 

[Jenntt]

Hey girls! Af showed up finally! Cycle day 1!! Just behind you girls! 😃

 

[Asryellah]

Jenntt, bring it on hopefully this is the cycle now

Alyna, that's nice that you get your progesterones tomorrow. Will that number give anything out that might tell you you've got bun in the oven? Well not many days anymore to wait so you are the next one we are cheering for am I right? Or did I Miss someone?

That's good to know that you were told to trigger even with neg opk. Really easier my mind thanks for that now I need not to worry so much. As there is enough to worry anyways. I think I ovulated today. I had huge cramps in the afternoon, really painful. Only weird thing was that my temps were up already this morning. So did I already O?
I was awake for 2 hrs before took the temp though as our dog woke us up at 04 am I was soooo pissed and coulndnt get to sleep again..

So happy its weekend hope you all have a fab one