Femara and miscarriage

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Avatar m tn No, the rate decrease if your taking metformin. I also have PCOS and I had a miscarriage in October..every since then I haven't had a period or ovulate on my own so my doctor put me on provera, metformin, and letrozole(femara) to get pregnant but the metformin alone will help you NOT to have a miscarriage...good luck to you sweetie. I think you should ask your doctor about taking metformin, it corrects PCOS also...
691236 tn?1311199974 I ovulate on Clomid - but did not on Femara. I will start Femara again, maybe a higher dose this time with trigger and IUI! Hoping it works this time - but that is pretty much all my RE is prescribing now, he loves it!
Avatar f tn t give Femara, but our new highly respected RE is putting me on Femara and has very high hopes. He said in some studies Femara is 2x more likely to result in pregnancy. Wish me luck! Any others had success with this vs clomid?
629668 tn?1222914854 m on follistim +femara) and 3 ruptured... and we are again submitting and getting ready for IVF, in our last tww before officially moving on to that! SO it was almost a success story, but when we got preg there was a genetic abnormality.. so the good news is that it deifntley happens and sometimes without any help with a morph of 2% along with female issues too! GOOD LUCK! as far as side effects i really don't have any from the femara! keep us updated!
Avatar f tn m just finishing my period now and will start up with the Femara again next month. I had a few headaches but also got lots of EWCM. How long have you been on it?
1160986 tn?1486819725 I took a couple of cycles off from medication and decided to try it again this month. I had 3 good sized follicles after the Femara and Follistim, then triggered Saturday night and had the IUI Monday (38 hours later). Now it's the torturous 2 weeks of waiting!!! Wish us luck! I wish all of you the best of luck too. Stay positive and remember that it WILL happen for all of us... Congratulations to Ecologic!!
Avatar n tn Just before i found out i was pregnant my doctor had prescribed me letrozole femara which I didnt end up needing to take. Unfortunately, because I was so overwhelmed with grief over the miscarriage and could not think rationally, I decided to take the letrozole counting the bleeding from the d&c as a period in which i used from day 2 throught to day 6. As mentioned, it has now been 3 weeks 4days since the d&c and today I had a positive pregnancy test.
1096016 tn?1257365306 I gave the ovidrel shot on 10/20 and had timed sex on 10/21 and 10/22. I have extremely sore breasts and have been feeling light headed and tired...which I guess it could be in my head. I gave in and took a HPT and it was negative today 11/3. Should I give up hope on this cycle?
Avatar n tn i had good results the 1st round on femara. ended in missed miscarriage, so we tryed again this month and not baby, but rd 2 starts in 2 days. just a thought you may want to ask your re about femara 2.
Avatar f tn I have been TTC for three years and struggle with recurrent miscarriage. I am 23 years old, short, and thin (just about 100 lbs.). I have had tons and tons of bloodwork. All comes back normal except I have low estrogen (Day 3= less than 20) and low progesterone (Day 22= 8.4) issues. I have a borderline high FSH level (8.9). I do have pretty bad acne, though it is significantly worse toward the end of the month. My husband has had everything checked and everything has come back great.
1647475 tn?1363137097 I am 29 and we've been TTC for 3 years now without any positive results (no miscarriages either though). I took 6 rounds of Clomid (3 at 50 mg & 3 at 100mg) and nothing. I am seeing a fertility specialist now and this is my first month taking Femara at 5 mg and we'll combine it with IUI as soon as get positive ovulation.
320424 tn?1205500555 t thin your lining (which actually makes miscarriage rates lower with femara) and it actually improved my CM! i have endo and pcos as well, and it can actually be used as an endo suppressive drug, so thats why we choose it initially! good luck!
Avatar f tn He thinks my second miscarriage was due to low progesterone, and said clomid/femara will help increase my chances by producing stronger eggs and a stronger ovulation...and therefore also higher progesterone levels. Oh, and I did four unmedicated IUI cycles over a year ago, and I also always had a nice mature follicle before ovulation. This time around, the follicles are about the same size, but my progesterone levels at 7 dpo much higher (41.4 on my first femara cycle).
Avatar f tn That sounds good to me. I did clomid iui's and it never worked. Then did IVF, chemical pregnancy. . . Then went to new doctor and he started me on femara. I got pregnant my 2nd cycle. My progesterone was 32. So your numbers look good! Especially since you had so many follicles!! Sadly my pg ended in miscarriage around 11 1/2 weeks. But I am now starting femara again in a few days. Good luck!!!
144100 tn?1283522567 Also, I have read that Clomid can lead to endo coming back quicker. Is this true and is it also true of Femara? I am very worried that then endo will come back, and I would really like the Femara to work well!! Thank You!
Avatar f tn I used Clomid for one cycle and it worked. Did you ovulate on Femara? Some women with PCOS have better luck with Femara than they had with Clomid.
Avatar f tn Hi! The first period after a miscarriage is ALWAYS "different". And often the second is too. However, they should begin to sort themselves out soon, and if they don't you might want to check with your MD. If you were my patient, I might give you a short course of Clomid or Femara to make sure that you are ovulating again. Hope this helps!
847330 tn?1238713603 I don't know why my other post wasn't posted. Anyway I am knew to this forum. I wanted to know if anyone knows which process is better for women with PCOS? IVF with Clomid or Femiera Or/ IUI and transfering two eggs or three for a women almost 29ys old. My husband and i don't want to start too late because we want 5kids and also my parents had children in their 40's and they said it's better to start ealier. We had a miscarriage.
Avatar f tn Greetings: I have hepatitis C and am taking 2.5 Femara. My oncologist and my Hep C doc are at odds about the amount i should take. My Hep C doc thinks i should only be taking 1/2 that amount. I'm at a loss as to what to do. I recently had a liver biopsy which showed no scarring and have had Hep C for almost 30 years. I am worried that the Femara may be doing untold damage to my liver. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated!
413852 tn?1317308712 We started with Clomid and tried for 6 months,then Femara for one month and both had no results on me this time.Moved me to Follistim shots for 2 months.first month 75iu and 2nd month 125iu with no luck.This month we did Femara again cycle days 5-9,HCG shot this morning and our first try of IUI tomorrow morning. I have 2 folicles per Ultra Sound (Thank you God and Femara) Left ovary follicle Sunday measured 18 and Right ovary follicle measured 14.
Avatar f tn Has anyone used Femara or Clomid and a "boost" of injectables and gotten a BFP? I will be doing 5mg of Femara CD 4 - 8 and then 150IU's of Menopur CD 9 - 11. We'll go in on CD 12 to check the follies and then hopefully proceed with IUI. I am hoping for more than 1 follicle. With Clomid and Femara I usually only have one follicle. It is usually nice and big though. Any thoughts would be helpful - any! Thanks..
Avatar f tn I have recently taken my first cycle of Femara to make me ovulate. I have PCOS and do not ovulate often. I am now on cycle day 19 and according to my BBT I have not ovulated. Is is a common thing to ovulate late on Femara? If so, how late is too late to hold out hope for ovulation?
Avatar f tn Why do REs start with Clomid and not Femara? We all know that Clomid causes CM dryness and cysts.. then y do REs not start with Femara from the first time itself??? This Q has been bothering me since long.. Anyone knows???
1299014 tn?1273247877 I had 6 IUIs using clomid before and got pregnant but unfortunately I miscarry at 6 wks at most. So my doc suggested Femara on my CD 2 for five days just as Clomid. I was supposed to have an IUI on Tuesday. I had an E2 test yesterday counted 61.94 though I developed 5 eggs ,he said it's low and must have another tomorrow and see if it increases or else he would cancel the IUI . So does Femara causes a drop in the E2 level? Is this normal?it's my very first time to use Femara!
Avatar f tn This is my first time on here so I hope this works. This is my first month doing the ovidrel and femara together so I don't know what to expect. I have done the femara alone and have also done the clomid, but the shot is all very new to me. I have another u/s tomorrow to make sure I can have the ovidrel. It would just be nice to know if this has worked for someone and if it has, how well.
392087 tn?1252605359 I have pcos, and I am currently 17 weeks pregnant. It took me 6 years, and I had one miscarriage. However, it wasn't until I started seeing a RE that things got straightened around enough with my body to actually give us a chance. I was with him for about 9 months before we became pregnant. We tried clomid, but it didn't work. The combination that worked for us was femara with a trigger shot, and IUI (it worked on our second cycle of femara and our first IUI).
Avatar f tn last month was my first month and femara. I had the same spotting, and my cycle was also 30 days. (usually mine is 35 though, so 30 was better for me). . . the spotting bothered me too, I kept hoping that it was implantation bleeding. But no, finally af came full force. This is my second month on it. I o'd the same day this day as last month, so expect the cycle will be 30 days again. Good luck with your IUI!!
725941 tn?1297882209 Another name for it is Femara and like Heather said, it is similar to clomid in that it "tricks" your body into producing more estrogen and should therefore help you ovulate. I also took it for 4 cycles and liked it much better than Clomid, no hot flashes or crazy mood swings. Typically you'll take 5 mg on cd3 through cd7. I've seen it work for a lot of people. It did help me O every cycle, but we just didn't get pregnant for some other reason I guess.
Avatar n tn I hate to tell you but I am on Arimidex and I have joint pain in my hips and knees and my fingers are stiff and swollen -- It started two weeks after I started the Arimidex --- It may be gentler than Femara but for me it hasn't been a walk in the part either -- Sorry your mom is feeling so poorly -- I hope they help her quickly -- maybe she should be taking Calcium with Vitamin D in the meantime