clomid questions

Trying to conceive 2nd baby. First pregnancy I conceived on first month of trying and gave birth to a beautiful girl. Last year this time started tying for nr 2 and conceived immediatly but miscarried at 8 weeks. Been trying to conceive since Nov 10. No luck. Stopped ovulating 4 months ago. Gynie thinks its PCOS and prescribed glucopase and clomid. I am overweight.

Gynie is suppose to monitor me but due to work commitments and a holiday abroad I was not available to have a sonar done on day 11.

I have always ovulated on day 13 even with first round of Clomid last month. This month tested (OPK) from day 11 an gave up on day 16 without getting a positive and thought I did not ovulate. So yesterday on day 20 I realised my boobs hurt and I had a egg white discharge the day before so was curious and took OPK test and got a positive. Is this strange or normal?

This is very strange to me as I always have short cycles of 25 or 26 days.

Should we bother to BD or are my hormones just a mess?

Trying to conceive 2nd baby. First pregnancy I conceived on first month of trying and gave birth to a beautiful girl. Last year this time started tying for nr 2 and conceived immediatly but miscarried at 8 weeks. Been trying to conceive since Nov 10. No luck. Stopped ovulating 4 months ago. Gynie thinks its PCOS and prescribed glucopase and clomid. I am overweight.

Gynie is suppose to monitor me but due to work commitments and a holiday abroad I was not available to have a sonar done on day 11.

I have always ovulated on day 13 even with first round of Clomid last month. This month tested (OPK) from day 11 an gave up on day 16 without getting a positive and thought I did not ovulate. So yesterday on day 20 I realised my boobs hurt and I had a egg white discharge the day before so was curious and took OPK test and got a positive. Is this strange or normal?

This is very strange to me as I always have short cycles of 25 or 26 days.

Should we bother to BD or are my hormones just a mess?

1st timer you can have up to rounds but then need to take a fairly long break. What many fertility specialists do is to do 3 rounds of clomid and then start IUI with clomid from round 4 to increase chances.

Thanks. Have bought staminigro and sperm-i-prove and scheduled gynae appointment or CD19 (I ovulate on CD 20).

Are you allowed more than 3 rounds or not?

Thanks I will chat to my gynae about this. I conceived my son on clomid (3rd cycle) in 09 and she did check the follicles every month then. She said tgis time I didn't need to be checked but maybe I should get checked this 3rd cycle of clomid in case...

I have also always taken it days 5-9.

Hey 1st Timer

Shame bummer on your AF arriving. So frustrating.

I also have PCOS. I may be wrong, but from what my FS told me is that you shoulnt give someone with PCOS clomid and not monitor the follicles. PCOS is a hormonal disorder which means your system doesnt have all the necessary quantities of hormones to trigger all the processes needed to fall preggers.

My first gynae gave me 3 rounds of clomid and never monitored and it actually did more harm. With PCOS you can still ovulate but the quality of the egg/s being released could be very poor. SO in fact having a positive OPK doesnt really help.

My advice would be is to ask to be checked while taking clomid so you can see if in fact your follicles are producing correctly. The other question is, on which days do you take clomid? Again this can also greatly affect the follicles. For someone with PCOS you would rather have less follicles that mature than have more follicles that are immature. Usually if you take clomid from day 3 you get more follicles but less quality. For me I took from day 5 and got less follicles but more matured.

When I did my first round of clomid with my FS in Jan, he monitored me very closely. When he did the first scan he could see I didnt have enough FSH so he gave me injections which helped to mature the follicles. Once they got to a nice size, he scanned again and when he was happy then we did the trigger shot to make sure the follicles were released.

I don't advise staminogro for your hubby. Its expensive and not really that effective. If you want him to take something, let him take sperm-i-prove. Its about R80 for a months supply and your med aid will pay for it out your funds. Its a multivitamin so wont do him any harm. If you want better quality eggs then take the staminogro. I took that for two months and it did improve my follicles. The fact that you are on multivitamins is great.

If you have any other questions, i can gladly help (from personal experience). but I really would advise that you ask your gynae to be a bit more aggressive. PCOS is not something you can just play around with.

Take care

So i've just finished round 2 of clomid and af arrived today (boohoo) which means we start again next week. I vaguely remember when taking clomid in 2009 my gynae sating they only do 3 rounds. Is this the case? What happens after those 3 rounds? Do I tale a month off and yet again or do I have to look at injections or what? I have PCOS and have a very irregular cycle without the clomid. I am definitely ovulatinf on my current 100mg clomid as I got a positive opk both rounds. I have emailed these q's to my gynae but just wondered if anyone here knew?

Also, I was thinking, should hubby and I be taking stamingo or whatever? I am on pregnavit and the mum 2 b omega. Hubby has no fertility issues. Thoughts? Can these help? I read they are just multivitamins with added zinc...