femara and multiple births

HI, Induction of ovulation with the help of drugs like femara, is associated with the risk of multiple births and twin pregnancy. Once you conceive an ultrasound scan can be done to see whether it is a singleton or twin pregnancy. Consult your Doctor. The answer is based on information provided. Exact advice is not possible without a proper examination and investigations. You are requested to consult your Doctor. Take care and keep us posted.

m taking a break this month and will start my follistim + timed intercourse cycle in May. RE wants to put me on a very low dose b/c i have pcos i am at high risk for multiple births and if i produce more then 4 mature follicles she will want to cancel the cycle due to my young age (26) and triplets or more. I almost want to just say screw it and BD anyway if she cancels my cycle since im paying out of pocket why not go all the way to the end.. if i conceive and its multiple births then so be it.

i did two clomid cycles and then my dr. switched me to femara (much better) clomid can dry up your CM, but with femara i got lots of CM. I am supposed to be on a break, seeing my RE 5-6, but I had leftover clomid and went ahead with this month on my own. i did get the bad headache. we'll see what happens!

Has anyone here had multiple births with follistim, I have 2 mature eggs and 5 small ones and I am really afraid of multiple birth due to high risk, does any one know what are the chances would be for me to have multiple births

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!

I had femara or letrazole cd 3-7 and ultra sound cd 12 but It shows only one folicle 14mm so they didn't shot trigger and they told me I have to waite couple of days. I was wondering why my ov is so late and why this time my folicel is too small because I was on clomid and I had lot of folicle and all of them more than 17mm ,so is it possible with this small I get pregnant or not , polease let me your experience I'm really frustrated/.

Hello! Yes, cramping from both ovaries is common from Femara and Clomid (and other similar ovulatory drugs) by increasing amounts of Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH). Under normal hormone levels a race progresses for one follicle to become the largest, but when there's extra FSH multiple follicles will become enlarged in both ovaries. This is most likely what you're feeling, as I've had similar symptoms from Clomid.

Taking100mg right now. I've used clomid multiple times over the last five years, ovulated ONCE! Switched to femara and ovulated twice. I had clomid sitting around so that's why I'm using it right now.

If you want to try something natural, Vitex Fruit does help women ovulate who are having difficulty ovulating. Women with PCOS, who don't ovulate consistantly have taken this with success in attaining pregnancy. I have a close friend who wasn't ovulating due to PCOS, took Vitex for 2-3 months and was pregnant. My husband and I also tried Vitex after almost 3 years of infertility and it worked for us. Vitex works by genlty balancing your progesterone levels.

Hello.. i have not taken clomid.. however i have taken femara and injectables multiple times (and its worked 3 times!) i have severe endo as well.. and i always get the pain around O time with femara and especially with femara +injectables.. not sure if its just ovulation itself or the growing ovaries or a direct result of the endo getting inflammed.. but the cycles that i have gotten pregnant i have the worst pains it seems! where i could barely walk.. and urinating etc were really painful..

I also took Femara 5 mg/day on days 3-7. I have read that doctors usually start you on 2.5 or 5 mg and then increase it by increments of 2.5 if the lower dosage doesn't work. I have taken both Clomid and Femara and have to say that I liked the Femara much better. Not as many side effects (except headaches) and I just overall felt better. It definitely helped me produce a nice follie and definitely O every time.

My first pregnancy took me 11 months to conceive and took HCG shots with no result-then tried wth femara and got pregnant-this was 7 mths ago....I am now naturally pregnant the second time!!!All goes to say that there is always hope and no matter what people tell you...don't give up!!!!

but my temps used to get up to 99 or so druing the tww before, so not sure which is better, they are in the 97 range since being on femara and progesterone.. Well any change from negative cycles is a good thing i think so I hopet that its a good sign for you!!! keep us updated!

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!

I am on the third cycle of Femara, trigger shot and back to back IUI - which I had done within 24 hours and then 36 hours. My doc likes to do two rounds of iui back to back for more success. I hope this helps. I find out tomorrow if I am preggers...

Jon and Kate did not do IVF. The only thing they did was IUI which is what my sister and bil did and they would have had twins if she was able to carry them to term. They lost them a year ago yesterday. It is less likely with IUI to get multiples than with IVF but it is still possible, especially with clomid like she was on. With my sister's last round of IUI they said she had 3 folicles that were all big enough and 2 more that were slightly smaller than they would want.

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.

they say most of the time when you are in your first pregnancy you feel around 20-22 weeks after more then one or more births you can feel it around 13-20 weeks.

This is just my opinion of course, but if Clomid didn't work for you, then it would probably make sense to try something different. I took them both and I definitely had less side effects on the Femara and i know it's supposed to be better for your lining and your CM. I would definitely talk to the doctor about it. Femara is really a breast cancer drug, but it's "off-label" use is for Fertility, so I think some doctors don't prescribe it.

Other factors that can increase your chances of having twins include having a maternal family history of multiple births (fraternal), and of course, using fertility treatments (in vitro fertilization or fertility drugs).

I, too, have joint pain and swelling in hands (and sometimes feet) w/femara. I have developed a trigger finger and dequervains tendonitis in bilateral wrist w/thumb pain. Had to go off med for a month and also have sites injected w/cortisone. Never had any of this before. Oncologist said she had seen trigger finger before no dequervains tendonitis? Wondering if anyone out there has had any of these side effects? And what do you think of this? I am miserable w/all this discomfort.

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!

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..

My husband and I ttc in 2005, but with no luck (6 rounds of clomid) I was obese and in 2009, I had gastric bypass and have lost 185+ lbs. I am now close to 4 years out and my husband and I have started TTC again since July of this year. My period started coming on its on about a month and half after taking my last birth control pill. In December, my gyno put me on Metformin 750mg 2 times a day. Then in January added 5mg Femara (days 3-7), also did that in Feb.

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?

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