The Sun's Article - Futility Drug (Clomid)

[Carlyanne15]

In todays Sun is a article on Clomid, and the headline reads
'Stimulant Lowers Chance of Falling Pregnant'

Do not want to upset you all, but i've read the article and its a load of Rubbish.
We took Clomid and Concieved FIRST ATTEMPT! 17weeks tomorrow, Squiggle Due 17th Jan

Not sure if any of you have seen this but, please dont believe everything you read! It does work for a lot of people!

Love C x

 

[Uvlollypop]

i have seen this on the news channels too, just seems like another study to scare monger people of course its not going to work for all the people all the time but i know plenty of people who it has worked for so dont give up!

 

[aflight84]

Dr's wont stop prescribing it either not only does it work but it's so cheap!
one months' supply costs the nhs under £1.50 they charge us £7.60 so they actually make money giving it to us unlike other drugs!

 

[seosage]

It was a study about both clomid and IUI - particularly I think on unexplained infertility - so whilst clomid works for those with say PCOS - it is not, it seems, worthwhile for those with no known cause..

There's an article about it on the BBC news website too - I heard them talking about it on the Today program on the radio this morning. They were interviewing Professor Winston who was pretty scathing about both IUI AND clomid. Given that we spent £3K on 2 rounds of medicated IUI (which both failed) - we were kind of interested to hear it.

 

[Arcanegirl]

I saw this in the metro paper today aswell. great timing since my IUI is tomorrow and were unexplained infertlity.

 

[seosage]

ArcaneGirl - well - some small words of encouragement then - they had 3 groups - one they gave clomid, one group who did IUI and one group that did IUI - the success rate of the IUI WAS actually the highest - they just didn't think it was high enough to be statistically significant. It was something like IUI 20%, control group, 16% and Clomid group 14%

 

[seosage]

Oh - actually IUI was slightly better than I first said - just found the quote:

Of those who tried to conceive naturally, 17% became pregnant and gave birth to a live baby.

For clomid, the birth rate was 14%, and insemination 23% - not significantly different from the chances of success with no intervention.

 

[Loula]

Was it not IVF rather than IUI they included in the study? Or did I mishear that on BBC this am?

 

[seosage]

Nope - IUI - here's the link https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7547400.stm

 

[maz]

I have unexplained infertility and mentioned IUI to my consultant a couple of months ago. He basically said I'd be wasting my time and money as the increased chances of conception would be negligible and IVF has a better success rate. I am 31 though and think that if I'd been 21 IUI may well have been a better option. Apparently there is a higher increase of success from IUI whenever you're younger.

But - who really knows? I guess with something like infertility you can never know for sure what the outcome might be.

 

[CareBear]

I think what they are trying to say is that the treatments work well if you don't ovulate but if you do and have unexplained infertility then it isn't going to increase your chances of conceiving. I can understand this will prescribing just clomid but I have to confess I don't understand with IUI. I think though the research has been done to try and stop doctors prescribing clomid and IUI willy nilly a lot of docs seem to be prescribing these without doing laparascopys which I personally think should be done first cause whats the point in prescribing treatment if you have no idea if tubes are clear and therefore the egg can't get to the right place

 

[porkpie1981]

i have seen this on the news channels too, just seems like another study to scare monger people of course its not going to work for all the people all the time but i know plenty of people who it has worked for so dont give up!

yep i seen that also and was scared to meantion it as didnt want to scare any1. I hope it isnt true

 

[Loula]

Yup it wasn't made clear ( at least on the BBC thing I saw) that Clomid will only work if you aren't ovulating/oving regularly( and even then not always anyway!) no woman who is already ovulating regularly would be given Clomid ( one would think?)