Young PCOS'ers! ~ 35 BFPs down!! ~

[Katerz]

Hiiii!

Can i join you?! Im 25, hubby and i have been married 1 yr and 8 months and have been ttc for around 4 years. Diagnosed with PCOS two weeks ago after an ongoing battle with getting my GP to refer me to fertility clinic. She was of the opinion i should let mother nature do her thing and age is on my side so its ok...tut.

Anyway, lovely specialist has given me Provera to start on friday and then i start with clomid on CD2.

:wave: kate :wave:

 

[hopefulfor1st]

Cd 24, woke upto cramPs....I must have ov'ed! Will know in a few hours though. But I hope af isn't on her way.

 

[nlk]

I don't know if you guys do a lot of ss or not buuut I'm driving myself crazy over here!! And I don't know if it has anything related to the metformin or not, considering it's my first cycle w/o bc pills and the metformin
I think I ov'd on may 1st or 2nd, so that would put me at about 6 or 7 DPO and I've had mild cramping since 2DPO. Yesterday I was so achey I felt like I was getting the flu or something and had pains in my lower back and down into my legs/hips...and still more cramping very down low. And I never get cramps until af shows. Anybody experience this?

sorry, i can help with metformin symptoms i think there are a few people on here that have tried it though, so maybe they will be able to shed a bit more light on it for you?


katerz welcome! of course you can come and join in! youll like it here it sucks that your gp was so unhelpful...i know how you feel, mine told me i was being negative, assuming something was wrong with me!

hopeful hoping AF stays away for you! for about nine months, yeah?

mumface i had hormone testing done, and my testosterone levels were high. that was the first indicator for my doctor, that made them push for further testing. however, i know that not everyone has high levels, so just because you dont have that, doesnt mean you dont have pcos. it may just be pco.

 

[ghinspire22]

I am miserable today. Hubby I gone on business and I haven't ovulated. I feel depressed.

 

[Matilda85]

Hi

Hope you don't mind if I join too, I've been lurking for a week or two but now that I've officially been disagnosed with PCOS thought I would join.

I'm 26, married, from Australia, been TTC since Feb of this year. Always suspected there was something not right with me since I only use to get a couple of AF a year at most. Had an IUS last week and also got a bunch of blood tests which confirmed PCOS.

I started my first round of Clomid this cycle - taking 25mg on days 5-9. Today was my last tablet. I haven't had any side effects which I'm a little disappointed about at least it would've felt like it was working. It's a pretty low dose so hopefully it'll work once it's increased (if it doesn't work this time). Am booked in for another scan Monday to see if I've ovulated. I am crossing my fingers so much, I just want to ovulate so I at least have a chance of getting my BFP.

 

[StayHopeful]

I turn 26 tomorrow...

Well I'm finishing up my 2nd cycle of Clomid, 11dpo today and got a bfn. I hope it was just too early to test, but I'm starting to think this isn't my month.

 

[Qwerty24]

I am miserable today. Hubby I gone on business and I haven't ovulated. I feel depressed.

Awww. Maybe you'll catch that egg when he gets home. GL!

 

[RainAngel]

Actually I am older, I turn 29 next month

Nice to meet u all ladies.
Glad to know you are hear for support and to pick your brains on previous experiences with symptoms, meds and everything ttc

close enough. lol. its actually very nice to find ladies here close to my age. most of the ones i've seen are 18-25 or 32-36.

 

[RainAngel]

I don't know if you guys do a lot of ss or not buuut I'm driving myself crazy over here!! And I don't know if it has anything related to the metformin or not, considering it's my first cycle w/o bc pills and the metformin
I think I ov'd on may 1st or 2nd, so that would put me at about 6 or 7 DPO and I've had mild cramping since 2DPO. Yesterday I was so achey I felt like I was getting the flu or something and had pains in my lower back and down into my legs/hips...and still more cramping very down low. And I never get cramps until af shows. Anybody experience this?

ooh, we have a close cycle! i ov'd the 1st.

cramps are a very common, big, side effect of metformin.

 

[hopefulfor1st]

i dont know if i got good news or bad today.....

so, i took my clomid 5-9 (although it wasnt really cd 5 as i was anovulatory so doc just said "the day u start, well name day5")
had my progesterone cd 22 and just got it back today.... a disappointing 7!!!
the nurse suggested that she thought i had oved later, and my prog wasnt all the way up when i had my bloods monday, so has booked me in again for cd29 next monday to test them again. now im worried if i oved late, at the time i was all bded out! we dtd cd7,9,11,13,15,17 and 20 so not enough towards the end of cycle!
i guess what im asking is what a 7 means in terms of progesterone? is it like day after o? or do u think it means no o??

 

[nlk]

i wouldnt say a level of 7 is a sign of ovulating. its meant to be pretty high if youve ovulated....i think the guideline is about 20-25 OR HIGHER to say youve ovulated. maybe it is that youve just ovulated later than you thought? it sounds like you might have done. also, have you thought about asking for a scan rather than CD21 bloods? they can scan you just before they expect you to ovulate, and then they can give you a rough estimate of when they think you will...that way, they can also tell you whether there is no follicle there, or whether you are going to ovulate later. personally, i prefer being scanned to having bloods, because it seems more accurate. and id rather know before i ovulate, rather than 'did i' sort of thing.

 

[hopefulfor1st]

i wouldnt say a level of 7 is a sign of ovulating. its meant to be pretty high if youve ovulated....i think the guideline is about 20-25 OR HIGHER to say youve ovulated. maybe it is that youve just ovulated later than you thought? it sounds like you might have done. also, have you thought about asking for a scan rather than CD21 bloods? they can scan you just before they expect you to ovulate, and then they can give you a rough estimate of when they think you will...that way, they can also tell you whether there is no follicle there, or whether you are going to ovulate later. personally, i prefer being scanned to having bloods, because it seems more accurate. and id rather know before i ovulate, rather than 'did i' sort of thing.

theyve never offered a scan, and i work every day so cant really go get them. they thought possibly id oved later and it was maybe just on its way up when they drew bloods, so theyre doing it again monday to see if its higher. my boobs just started really hurting sunday(cd21), and tuesday i noticed the lotiony cm but not sure if id had that a few days(cd23)..,.but i cant have oved that late? around cd14 i noticed the watery cm but it never progessed to ewcm and i had quite a dark but not pos opk. by 2 days later my opk was back to a barely line, which it still is

 

[nlk]

with the scans, i have mine at 7 in the morning. so its befpre work. but i get what you mean. you could have just ovulated really late....i dont think its unheard of with clomid. but hopefully your next bloods will be better! if you started noticing things later on, it sounds like thats a big possibility. FX'd for you....and make sure you let us know what happens! x

 

[hopefulfor1st]

the pathology labs are open business hours here...same as my work i do have thurs mornings and every 2nd fri off but the chance of the cycle days falling on my days off r slim! im already late 4 work mon mornings for my bloods this week and next.
the thing that upsets me is if i did ov late... id already given up the bding and was enjoying the rest! we dtd 7,9,11,13,15,17 and 20.. and IF my bloods on cd22 revealed "recent ovulation" ive only got in one day that could potentially get in!

 

[nlk]

theres still a chance, i think. remember that sperm can survive for up to 7 days..so dont write it off just yet. i know its upsetting, and i was so gutted when my first cycle didnt work. but remember that you actually ovulated! that in itself is a massive achievement, if i remember that youre like me and that youve never ovulated before??

clomid helps along a journey thats, for most, already been overly long, or overly difficult. it makes it easier, but remember that its still a pretty difficult thing. ovulating is the first step; if AF arrives, and you ovulated late, then youve learnt something about your body. also, i think if they now up your dose, you would ovulate sooner, but im not 100%.

hang in there. i know it sucks to find out it didnt work, but youre now one step closer to getting pregnant

 

[hopefulfor1st]

weirdest feeling today.... is this a clomid thing?
pressure like feeling across lower abdomen, like right where the crease is between your vagina and that fatty pouch part of your belly under the belly button.
like the kind of pressure / fullness u feel when u really need to pee! but i dont lol. im even more aware of it when i walk i can feel it moving with my body. argh wtf. has the clomid swollen my insides? do i need to worry hmm.
crappiest part is not even knowing if i oved from the clomid argh

has anyone experienced this???

my post from sunday(the day before my progesterone test monday)....possibly i was ovulating then ? my boobs started hurting that day too

 

[nlk]

im not sure, sorry. its really difficult, because a lot of the symptoms might be from the clomid. i found that i felt quite....tender, almost? but when i spoke to my FS about it, i was told that it could be from the clomid. so its really difficult to know where the clomid symptoms stop, and the ovulation or even pregnancy symptoms begin.

i guess all you can go on is whether AF shows or not, and whether you get a positive hpt. it sounds like you probably ovulated then, but cant be sure! sorry, im pretty sure this was a useless post. when is AF due?

 

[hopefulfor1st]

im not sure, sorry. its really difficult, because a lot of the symptoms might be from the clomid. i found that i felt quite....tender, almost? but when i spoke to my FS about it, i was told that it could be from the clomid. so its really difficult to know where the clomid symptoms stop, and the ovulation or even pregnancy symptoms begin.

i guess all you can go on is whether AF shows or not, and whether you get a positive hpt. it sounds like you probably ovulated then, but cant be sure! sorry, im pretty sure this was a useless post. when is AF due?

that is the million dollar question! i guess i have to wait for next weeks blood to actually confirm ov, but if on monday they suspected "recent ov" then i guess ill estimate sunday i oved, so put today as 3 dpo...if said "o" actually existed... thats the hardest part

 

[Butterfly14]

Hi ladies. Im 26 and was diagnosed with pcos in 2007. Have tried Metformin - didnt work, tried 50mg clomid - didnt work, tried 100mg clomid - got bfp on cycle 4! but ended in early mc , have had 5 more cycles of 100mg - no bfps. Im now onto cycle 2 of Soy xx

 

[nlk]

i know. im so sorry youre having such a rough time with it all. its such an awful thing to be going through, and im just happy that there are so many others in this group who we can all relate to. try not to dwell on it too much. is there any way that you can have multiple bloods done next cycle, so that you can track how your progesterone levels change? it might help you to pinpoint when ovulation is occurring. make sure you keep track of your cycle as much as possible, because ovulation occurs about 11-14 days BEFORE your next AF. so it might help you keep track of it if they wont monitor you more.

all i cant do is send some serious hugs your way, and hope that next cycle is your month!!