Femara with pcos

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1160836 tn?1332330169 Thank you I ov early this cycle thanks to femara I O on cycle day 11 is that normal with femara? I am hoping since I had mu ovarian drilling done in OCt of this year that the femara will help to O better.
Avatar f tn ve Only Tried One cycle Of Clomid And Did Ovulate With It Before My Dr Switched Me To Femara. Provera Induced Period, Cd 2, Start Femara 2.5Mg Tomorrow. Anyone Ever Have Success With Femara With No Pcos Or Iui?
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.
506810 tn?1210691647 Hey everyone. I'm Danielle i'm new here:) I was diagnosed with PCOS last January and started metformin and provera (to start my period). I just took clomid a couple weeks ago on days 3-7. My doctor said i had like 20 follicles but none were mature. Does anyone know a reason why they didn't mature? So now she took me off of metformin and I just started avandia. And wheneveer I start my next period she's gonna put me on Femara and an hcg shot.
Avatar f tn yes i do have pcos, I have already taken 5 rounds of clomid with metformin and have yet to ovulate. I had ovarian drilling two weeks ago and i am suppose to start femara soon.
586512 tn?1218512079 I'm also taking metformin, though I haven't been diagnosed with PCOS. Doc said it would help with the lining of my uterus. We tried 3 cycles of clomid and IUIs. No success. Clomid gave me hot flashes and may have made my cervical mucus hostile. This cycle, I took femara and had IUIs (in 2ww). I didn't have hot flashes, but my progesterone level went down slightly when tested on CD 19, compared to when I was on clomid.
2110560 tn?1334179580 This is true, but the reasoning is super complicated. I have thin PCOS. I had to have ovarian drilling done before I was able to conceive. And even then I needed a cocktail of Femara and menopur plus a trigger shot to help it happen. Hope you don't have to go through all that. Good luck.
1190279 tn?1324936257 I would ask about a combo cycle. Femara or clomid cd3-7 and then some kind if injectibles (follitism or something like menopur) cd8 until your follicles are mature and ready to be triggered. This is way cheaper then injections only and has a lower likelihood is producing high order multiples. This is what ended up working for me when clomid and Femara alone didn't. I am now 18 weeks pregnant with my second. Good luck.
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 so us ladies with pcos when we are given clomid our cysts might get bigger instead of singling out a follicle to mature. so for women with pcos femara is a better choice. I have already taken five rounds of clomid with metformin and i did not ovulate. did you take the femara yet?
Avatar f tn t entirely understand, Metformin reduces the insulin insensitivity that is a part of the PCOS. The Femara would help you to ovulate regularly and speed up the time to conception. I prefer Femara over Clomid because it has fewer side effects and (in my experience) works better. I would also recommend that you continue with your healthy lifestyle! I hope that this is helpful to you!
1626928 tn?1378850167 Thank you so much for the response. At this time my endometriosis is confined to my right ovary only with no growth in over a year. I have been seeing a fertility dr and just recently switched to a new one who will be monitoring me better. I had some crazy emotional side effects with clomid so I'm hoping I won't with femara. Also, I did not take metformin with clomid so I'm hoping that will help.
Avatar f tn I was diagnosed with PCOS around 8 years ago, and have been trying to conceive for the last 4. I have never sought any medical help until now. My doctorput me on metformin and recommended that I lose weight, so I'm trying that now. Best of luck to your brother and sister in law.
Avatar f tn And if you are diagnosed see a reproductive endocrinologist, i cannot stress that enough i wasted a year with my obgyn who told me she knew how to treat pcos. My RE said my previous treatment is why my cysts grew so fast! Good luck I hope you did ovulate, I am here if you need to talk, this month it will be 3 years ttc for us.
Avatar f tn I am a 29yr femalen and I am ttc I had all the blood work done and its showing I have PCOS. I was put on metformin 500mg last month and had one cycle of femara 2.5mg and my doctor said it was not working as fast as he wanted to accoriding to the u/s. He said my PCOS was still hindering my ovaries from working properly.So I am going to see a specialist next week. He also increased the metformin to 1000mg and it will increase again on the 14th to 1500mg.
992128 tn?1364371742 I had joint and lower back pain, it hurt to walk and I felt immense pain. My RE said it had nothing to do with femara but the moment I started until 4 or 5 days later until the pills were done I had pain. The next day miraculously I was fine, no more pain. This was my experience.
415687 tn?1228746275 Your next step is injectibles with IUI or timed BD. But because you have Pcos you have the risk of growing many follicles while on injectibles and you cannot release all of them cause you can have hyperstimulation. I did six rounds of clomit and ovulated only once. Then i went to an Re and he put me on a combo of clomit+injectibles.I did this thing three times and got pregnant all three. The first two unfortunately ended in m/c and i'm currently preggo again.
1650143 tn?1343745554 I was told yesterday I have pcos.. they are going to start with iui's first then if not successful next would be ivf.. anybody get pregnant having pcos doing iui's??
328927 tn?1227761840 I have mild PCOS and responded to Clomid with 1 follicle for two cycles (one bd, another iui). I skipped a month w/meds and O'd on my own. I just started Femara cd3-7 and Follistim 75 cd5-9, and haven't been able to find out any real live stories of BFP with this protocol, how many tries it took and number and size of follies normally seen. I was also wondering how many follicles is to few, and how many are too many where the RE could cancel a cycle in fear of OHSS?
Avatar f tn Hi,I am suffering with pcos ,this cycle doctor given femara + 3 menogon injection and today is my 8thday of cycle, still eggs are small, may I know how long it will take to get results on menogon..
Avatar f tn Have headaches in the evening usually on CD17 and CD18 and a bloated feeling most of teh days , have observed this in the last few cycles. Is this common with Femara or Progesterone. A bit worried bcos, I also have PCOS and with the weight increase it might hamper my chances of conception. Any advise anyone ?
405855 tn?1217100767 I see trhat my follicles grow very rapidly with Femara. My lead follicle was 32 mm on CD14 in the last cycle, so my RE asked me to come in early in the next. So in my second cycle I went in on CD12 and found my follicle was 28 mm, that's when they gave me trigger shot this time. My question is that am I not supposed to get a LH surge when the follicle grows like 18-22mm and then I should be ovulating. Why at both times I did not get a surge at that size and why did I not ovulate.
478429 tn?1265244387 we finally got our BFP while on femara,,, never used any other drugs beforehand, started right with femara, my RE really likes it, esp with endo patients.. it was our third cycle of femara, but also used low dose follistim, trigger (novarel) and IUI.. we have male factor, one ovary, endo, pcos and LUFS, ugh! i had three follies and two ruptured our bfp cycle...
873190 tn?1304812975 No, I do not have PCOS. The idea behind Clomid or Femara for me is to ovulate more than one egg, giving me more chances that one of them will be "good" and it will get fertilized.
Avatar f tn I agree with cheescake, clomid has been known to cause cysts in women more than femara... it also thins the lining of the uterus and femara doesn't , however it can produce more follies than femara.. i would defintely ask your doctor! i got one cyst on femara.. well two others, but the resolved on their own, and the reason i got those was due to endo and pcos not letting my follies rupture, so then they just grew bigger into cysts!
Avatar f tn m on my way to have a trigger shot for an IUI tomorrow after getting a helluva period out of nowhere with no medical intervention and then taking 7.5 mg femara days 5-9. I had an ultra sound on day 15 (yesterday) and I wasn't expecting much. Nothing ever seems to work and I usually get bad news with ultra sounds. I had literally stopped trying to be optimistic. And she said,  "woah.