Trying To Conceive - PCOS - On Clomid, Metformin Too?
Aug 3, 2015
My wife and I have been trying to conceive for a long time using a known sperm donor. I have PCOS and very rarely ovulate. I am currently taking 100mg clomid (50mg didn't bring on ovulation). I have read reports that metformin can help with ovulation. Would a doctor prescribe that if I requested it and stated my reasons? I desperately want to be ovulating to give us a chance a conceiving, any advice on how to increase the chances of ovulation and pregnancy would be much appreciated.
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I'm 21 and been TTC for 2 years I know some people say it's young but I feel ready, I got diagnosed with PCOS when I was 15 I have never been pregnant, my periods are normally 2 month apart. I'm a healthy weight too.
My doctor put me on Metformin 1 week ago I'm currently on 2x 500mg I'm also taking folic acid and vitamin b6, i just feel like I'm never going to be a mum.
Has anyone got a success stories of taking metformin?
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Should I continue taking metformin during pregnancy?
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I have pcos. I am taking all these vitamins. Are there any more tricks in the bag my husband and I should know before we start on this adventure. Do people generally get pregnant fairly easy with pcos? Ugh. Its the waiting that is going to kill me. Words of encouragement?
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I'm 25 years. I get abortion before one year...i have pcos..i want to get pregnant but not... till 4 months my periods are not regular...
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Okay So I've NEVER Had a cycle not once but never I found out that I have pcos last year December my doctor put me on birth control to make my cycle come but after .2 months of being.on provera the birth control pill I never got it. so I waited a couple months it never came natural so I went back to the doctor AUGUST 21 2012 they put me on metformin 2000 Mg a day and for metformin it work different for some ppl but for the past 2 weeks I have been getting pregnancy symptoms like nausea headaches I been having going to the restroom to pee a lot I have diarrhea also lower stomach pains thats feels like cramps now at night time I have a hard time sleeping In extra bloated and just feel pregnant I know that you don't have to have a cycle to get pregnant as long as you ovulating you can get pregnant its SEPTEMBER 15 do anyone think im pregnant or could it be my mind playing jokes I have took.2 pregnancy test both negative I have low.hormones so that's probably why idk what too do any SUGGESTION ?
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I've got a cyst on my left ovary which is causing me so much pain spreading to the right lower abdomen and lower back too. My nights have been help for at least a month as the pain gets worse at night. My last period was on the 25th of March and I've been given clomid and tamoxifen to used CD5-9 which I haven't been able to use since my period hasn't come. Now I can't even use the drugs if I get a period because of the cyst. In serious pain right now and don't know what to do to get rid of the pain, get a period, ovulate and try to take in again.
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I stopped taking Seasonique January 1, 2012. I have had extremely irregular periods since then, but they were always regular before I started taking birth control pills in 2009. I had one in January, one in March, one in June, and none since.. My husband and I are ready to have a baby. I know they say that it may take up to a year for your periods to regulate after stopping birth control pills, but I don't feel like I have even started to regulate a little bit. I have been to my family doctor several times. This last time they mentioned potentially having PCOS. I have some (but not all) symptoms of this. I am on the heavy side, and they said lose weight. I have been eating a low-carb diet for the past 3 and a half weeks, and I've lost 17.5 pounds. (I'm working towards more, but I'm trying to be very healthy about it in case I should get pregnant and not be aware of it.) The doctor has checked my thyroid previously, and it was fine. They said if we aren't pregnant by the end of this year, they will refer me to a specialist. The NP I saw the last time mentioned potentially using Clomid to assist. I have googled and read and googled and read, and I just don't know what to do or think. It's very difficult to be patient, as I am sure you all know, but I'm trying very hard.
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I started my first round of Clomid 2 weeks ago. Last year I had 2 miscarriages early in the pregnancies. When ultrasounds were done to evaluate pregnancies the gestational sac's were empty. My doctor decided to prescribe me Clomid and I was wondering if anyone had success with Clomid after miscarriages.
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I have been using Clomid for the last 5 month to try and repair my low test levels. I have been having to self diagnose and medicate as my doctor will not take me seriously as my levels just scrape the normal range, I know myself that my levels are not right. Before going on Clomid I had no sex drive, no morning wood, ever!! tense and irritable and lethargic. A week after I started on Clomid my sex drive was back, morning wood every day really felt back to normal. unfortunately the positive effects have slowly diminished over the last few weeks to a point that I feel as bad if not worse than before, morning wood gone, no energy and feeling pretty miserable.
I am wondering, does anyone else have this experience of Clomid working for a time and then just stopping all of a sudden?
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I'm a pcos patient, I've been taken clomid 100mg for two month, in the first month there was ovulation and the follicle size reach 17 with no luck, in second month the follicle didn't respond to clomid and still small, now in my third month i took 150mg clomid and ovacare tablet, i go for ovulation follow up in day 9 and day 11 and see that i have multiple follicles but all of them are small
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So I was talking with a friend of mine who has diabetes like me and I told her that I was taking Metformin. She said she takes SR Metformin and I asked her what it was because mine doesn't say SR. She showed me the bottle of the prescription and sure enough it says SR Metformin. Does anyone know what the SR is in this prescription Metformin? Is it something that is new on the market? I wonder if I should be taking it too?
She doesn't seem to get the diarrhea like I do with Metformin. If that is the reason, I want to start taking it because I don't like some of the other side effects I get with it.
I hope someone can shed light on this. I would like to know more about it from other people . It is hard to know how pills act from reading the list of side effects that are listed on some websites. It is better to know first hand by other people.
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We are trying to conceive baby number 4 i had my implanon removed on the 26th of April, I had a period a week before it was removed then I had another period on the 17t of may exactly 28 days since my last period, that was very very light and only lasted 2 day, I was due for another Period on the 14th of june and it still hasn't arrived I've done tests and im not pregnant, Is it normal to have a 28 day cycle then have an irregular cycles? This is all new to me in the 11 yrs i've been having periods i've ALWAYS been regular 28 day cycles.
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I am 23 years old .. I have polycystic ovary syndrome .. So don't have regular periods.. But for the past 9 months periods have been regular but haven't had one for 2 months ..haven't been on any contraception for 7 years ( same partner 8 years) .. Last Tuesday I took a PT came back negative then Wednesday I had been fine all morning then in the afternoon was randomly sick wasn't sick again but felt sick for 4 days .. Then tonight I had dinner and was heaving eating mushrooms ( I love mushrooms) & hash brown tasted funny but nobody else fought they did .. I have also had a whitey colour discharge && have been having night sweats.
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I was diagnosed with PCOS at 13. In late teen/early 20'a, dx with insulin resistance (IR) and put on Glucophage. It was great at first. I was able to lose weight for the first time, and so on. Took me off it after I lost weight. Years later went back on it, as again the weight issue, and that time I could not tolerate it. Major side effects. Doc said my choices were to endure the side effects or learn to live with the IR symptoms. My symptoms then were weight gain with inability to lose, facial hair, excess testosterone levels, excess androgen, cysts on ovaries, etc., so I told myself to just learn to live with it.
Fast forward to present day and now I am 48. My husband and I were never able to conceive, and now I am having major problems, all of which I can trace back to IR. I have a gene mutation called APOE. When you have this, you usually are Choline deficient and this in turn can attribute to developing IR. Right now I am having major digestive issues with gas, bloating and reflux, racing heart (heart was checked out by a cardiologist and it was fine), vagus nerve overreaction, (all due to the bloated stomach pressing up against the vagus nerve), fatty liver (non-alcohol related, but IR and choline related), low stomach acid, muscle spasms (despite plenty of daily magnesium, potassium levels are normal), anxiety attacks, feel like I am going to pass out, etc. I am now treating with naturopath, as I have Lyme disease and Epstein-Barr as well and no traditional doctor has been able to help me. she has been a Godsend. She has run a battery of stomach tests on me, of which I am getting the results today. Since I cannot take Glucophage, she has a natural alternative to it, without the side effects, which I am probably going to end up taking. I am just wondering if anyone else has had any of the symptoms from the IR that I am having. The worst is the upper stomach bloating and gas. I look and feel like I am 10 months pregnant, and I'm not eating carbs or other things to make me gassy.
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I was curious to know about the medication called metformin. It is for diabetics to help their bodies secrete more insulin. But I heard that patients may also lose weight on it. Yes! It's true! I am a type 2 diabetic and I weigh about 260 and I think this medication would be great to have. I need to lose a bit of weight and this medication can help me two ways -- help me lose weight and lower my blood sugars. Has anyone else been on this medication and lost a lot of weight? I hope to lose at least 50 pounds so that I can see my blood sugars go down better. Maybe I don't have to watch my carbs so closely either.
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Does Metformin really help? I am a diabetic that has done diet and exercise to control my blood sugars and now the doctor wants me on medication. My friend is on metformin and she still has high blood sugars so I don't want to be on a medication that can mess up my body and have my sugars still elevated. Has anyone else been on Metformin and experienced how it works for you? Has your blood sugars gone down at all? I have another friend that hates taking metformin. She says she has diarrhea from it so bad that she has made a mess in her pants from taking it. She quit taking it and she has stopped having loose stools. I don't want that side effect to happen to me. Should I ask the doctor if I can try another alternative? I much rather stick with the diabetic diet and try to control my sugars that way.
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hi, my gf is under treatment for PCOS and hypoThyroid and take Harmoni - F (Cyproterone Acetate, Ethinylestradiol & Folic Acid) and Femella tablets from a week. We had sex last night with protection (condom) i ejaculated outside but i found that the condom was punctured with 4-5 holes . will she get pregnant? Should she take any contraceptive pills to avoid pregnancy?
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i was diagnosed with PCOS a week back for which the doctor prescribed deviry 10mg (10 tablets for 5 days). during the last day of my course i had unprotected sex but he didn't ejaculate inside me. should i take emergency contraceptives? are there any chances of pregnancy? does deviry act as an oral contraceptive?
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I was diagnosed with PCOS via ultrasound. I had severe acne, irregular periods and STRONG cravings for particular foods. I also found i became depressed.
Is there much treatment out there? My dr said that only healthy eating and exercise can help - which obviously i try do on a day to day basis generally.
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I am a 24 year old female. For the last 5 years my periods have been very irregular, at one time I didn't have one for 3 months and assumed I had PCOS. I lost weight and all was back to normal. That was 4 years ago but now for the last 8 months I have had light spotting in between periods which then developed into heavier bleeding and now I have been bleeding for the most part of 4 weeks. I have noticed it is usually brought on after Orgasm (non penetrative). It is always bright red, clotty and I would say a Moderate bleed. I have been with the same partner for 5 years and we always use protection. I had a smear when the spotting initially started and all was normal. What could this be? I have developed some facial hair and have real trouble with my weight so I just assume it is PCOS but I don't associate PCOS with excessive bleeding, especially for a month straight? P.S I have never taken birth control, I am not on any prescription medicine.
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