Clomd Pill Poppers

Perfect thanks! :-)

oh i was wondering where this thread went! hi all! Thistle yay for a new house! nothing like owning your own home  we are settled now but still a bit of a mess in the spare room..but i just close the door and walk away lol. will get onto it eventually. itll be babys room once we have number 2, so itll be unpacked eventually lol. and ohhh a puppy! what kind do you have?? i have a cat who would hate a dog in the house so we cant get one until she dies which probably wont be for another 10 years knowing her.. love puppies!  who knows? you might get a surprise BFP before you have a chance to do IUI!! hope so! x x Kerny how are you going?

Hi girls! It's been a while - I couldn't find the forum and then I've been in Australia at a conference. Was really good and DH came over for the weekend which was nice. We got home today and I am now really tired.

Since I had my HSG this cycle, I've been so much more relaxed. Had a few drinks over in OZ, been drinking a bit of coffee and not worried as much about taking my temps. It has been nice not to stress about it all. I plan to get back into it all next cycle.     

Thistlefern - 2 puppies that is so awesome! Hope you are getting through the unpacking. We are also thinking about IUI. It won't be this cycle coming due to work commitments but possibly the following cycle.   The specialist hasn't really been able to explain how it would help with our issues (which appear to be with implantation and endometrium lining) so we are quite reluctant to spend the money and get our hopes up if it is unlikely to help. I am finding it quite hard to decide what to do. Have you decided for certain?

Soda - glad to hear you are all settled. Awesome about your temps. Got my FX for you.     

TF - to be honest the specialist hasn't really said definitely that is what the issue is but when I raised it with him (and also the acupuncturist) they both agreed that it could be that. I have pretty bad circulation too. And I just read about how sitting down a lot, which I do at work all day, can mean that there is not enough blood flow where it needs to go. That is good about the massage therapist and AF increasing - the same thing happened with me and acupuncture. I think that it is a good sign - it means the lining is building and then shedding properly. I think we are pretty definite about not doing IUI. The specialist has referred us for public funding for some other drug treatment which would cost about $3k to do privately so we might wait for that. I really want to move onto something before Christmas though. I hate feeling like time is just slipping away!    

TF - I think the other drugs are injections, I think they are called gonadotropins. My understanding is that they are still used to induce ovulation but I am hoping that the hormones might stop the spotting. We will have been off contraception for 2 years and have been getting treatment for a year. I am a little bit younger (I turn 31 in March). The doctors keeps saying that I am still relatively young but I am worried as being younger it should be easier to get pregnant. I am worried that as time goes on it is going to get harder and harder and our chances will get smaller and smaller.

It is day 1 for me. We weren't really trying last cycle since I had the HSG. We aren't on any drugs or anything this cycle but are going to try to eat healthy, not drink and (most importantly) BD at the right time.    

Hope the next 9 days go speedily for you. FX!

Not sure if any of you are still on here.
Kerny - How are things going for you being clomid-free this cycle?
AF arrived for me yesterday and we've decided to stop the clomid too. I'd been on it for 4 months with no luck so thought I'd see how my body copes being off it. We've decided not to go ahead with IUI for now and just wait for IVF early next year. I'll do all the usual stuff of eating healthily, no alcohol, no caffeine and just try to focus on the new house and puppies and see how it goes.
I'm not sure I belong anywhere on this forum now which is quite sad as it's good to chat to people and see how everyone's doing. Maybe it would still be nice to update anyway? Or maybe we should start a general infertility thread for those of us who are just plodding along and not trying anything in particular?
Good luck to you all.

I'm officially going to be in here soon - next week I'll start taking the pill to bring on AF later in the month, and then after Labour Weekend I'll start popping! I'm excited to finally be doing something instead of just waiting!

Any tips? I've heard mention that taking it at night lessens any side effects, is there anything else I should know?


ThistleFern - I hung out in here all the time when TTC the first time around and I never popped one clomid pill, it was just a nice place to hang out and chat with others who knew what going through infertility was like.

Thanks monkeys. I'm only doing a Reviewed Cycle - so just day 21 prog - unless my first cycle doing that shows up anything alarming. I was surprised the Dr didn't want to do a monitored but I guess perhaps 50mg isn't a huge dose?

I think I will hang around here for a little while. It's good to have the support :-)
Monkeys - Good luck with the monitored cycle this month. Sounds like they're doing everything possible to help it stick this time. Sorry about your losses. You're right about the first two weeks going quickly with all the tests and scans (epsecially if you're like me and had to have LH/oestradiol bloods taken every day for a week to check for ov!) The TWW is painfully slow though. Distraction is the key!
Ariel - I think I only had a day 21 test when I started out on 50mg and when that didn't do anything they increased it to 100mg and started doing scans too. I took Clomid during the day and didn't have any side effects at all so I don't really have any tips. If anything I was probably better on it than not so I'm a little bit worried about what this drug-free cycle has in store.
Kerny- Great news about the lack of spotting this month! Hopefully everything is on track now. Good luck!

Ariel - 50mg may be enough for you, especially if you already ovulate on your own and just need it to be a bit more regular. Fingers crossed that you don't have to wait long for that BFP. It is awful when you get your hopes up only to get a BFN. A couple of months ago I had a really good cycle and got what seemed to be implantation bleeding for the first time ever so when AF arrived on time it was even more disappointing that normal.
That's a great story about your DD. Did you do anything differently that month that may have helped?