Okay here is a little background:
I am 23 and my husband is 34. We have been married for a little over 3 years. We have also been TTC for the entire length of our marriage. I have PCOS.
Due to the PCOS I have a lot of hormonal problems. I have had so much lab work and so many ultra sounds.. I have been to 4 different doctors. None of which could find anything that could help.
I have taken: clomid, femara, bravelle, metformin, prenatals, spironolactone...
I haven't had success with anything. I feel like the only thing that I haven't tried is IVF. I have considered it and looked into it.. It's just so expensive. There is no gaurauntee it will work. I don't think that is an option that I can take.
I have been so discouraged lately.. I thought about adoption or fostering too. My husband isn't up for that. He wants to exhaust every other option first.
I have recently been back to my OB/GYN and she is recomending that I start fresh. She wants me to start taking Clomid again. BUT this time she wants to pair it with some kind of steroid. She says that sometimes women who don't respond to Clomid alone, will respond to it with this steroid.
My periods are really irregular right now. I hadn't had one for about 6 mo. so my doctor gave me Provera to jump start it. I bled for 26 days. Quit for 10 days. Started bleeding again for 34 days. My OB/GYN gave me some BC to take to make it stop. (i'm still spotting here and there)
After I finish up the BC for this month she wants to start me on the fertility meds.
I have hope.. But it seems like every time I get my hopes up I get hurt in the end. The disappointment time after time really starts to wear on a person. Especially when that persons hormones are so all over the place. It is becoming increasingly difficult not to get discouraged.
I would love some feedback if anyone else is going or has gone through the same kind of situation...
I am 23 and my husband is 34. We have been married for a little over 3 years. We have also been TTC for the entire length of our marriage. I have PCOS.
Due to the PCOS I have a lot of hormonal problems. I have had so much lab work and so many ultra sounds.. I have been to 4 different doctors. None of which could find anything that could help.
I have taken: clomid, femara, bravelle, metformin, prenatals, spironolactone...
I haven't had success with anything. I feel like the only thing that I haven't tried is IVF. I have considered it and looked into it.. It's just so expensive. There is no gaurauntee it will work. I don't think that is an option that I can take.
I have been so discouraged lately.. I thought about adoption or fostering too. My husband isn't up for that. He wants to exhaust every other option first.
I have recently been back to my OB/GYN and she is recomending that I start fresh. She wants me to start taking Clomid again. BUT this time she wants to pair it with some kind of steroid. She says that sometimes women who don't respond to Clomid alone, will respond to it with this steroid.
My periods are really irregular right now. I hadn't had one for about 6 mo. so my doctor gave me Provera to jump start it. I bled for 26 days. Quit for 10 days. Started bleeding again for 34 days. My OB/GYN gave me some BC to take to make it stop. (i'm still spotting here and there)
After I finish up the BC for this month she wants to start me on the fertility meds.
I have hope.. But it seems like every time I get my hopes up I get hurt in the end. The disappointment time after time really starts to wear on a person. Especially when that persons hormones are so all over the place. It is becoming increasingly difficult not to get discouraged.
I would love some feedback if anyone else is going or has gone through the same kind of situation...
. The idea is it damages the thick outer coating around a PCOS ovary, which produces the abnormal hormones, and therefore helps restore normal ovarian function. If that alone doesn't work, often women respond better to oral meds after the op. 
