Clomid and Femara

emwaiting

We had to do IVF for DS and we are going to be working on #2 now and was wondering if anyone has done the Clomid and Femara together??  Any luck?  It is all a blur from when we were doing these with DS.  Just waiting for Aunt Flow to return to give my OB a call to find out when we are starting things!

TJ1979

I've never heard of clomid and femara together. They do the same thing, so I would be afraid of an insane number of follies. What is your diagnosis?

emwaiting

Endo and PCOS mainly.  My doctor will be monitoring my follicles with u/s so we don't get a crazy number of them and I end up an Octomom!  

TJ1979

I'm just saying I don't understand the point. It would be like taking Tylenol and Advil at the same time for a headache. Now maybe a different drug that worked differently, like injects, that I can see. I have just never heard of clomid and femara together.

itsmevkb

I've heard of using them together but it's not something I've tried (and I've tried just about everything!)  Independently, I had better success with Femara than Clomid.

Hopeful1981

Yes, I only used Clomid once (prescribed by my OB who clearly didn't know WTF she was doing, for a variety of reasons) on a natural cycle.  BFN.  Then the first RE switched me to Femera because he said "Clomid is archaic, Femera is better."  I did Femera with a couple IUI's.  I have never heard of Clomid and Femera on an IVF cycle.  Normally you would do injectibles.

The first RE I saw I did Menopur and Bravelle.  My current RE has me on Follistim and Menopur.  It worked before so I am doing that again.

GL!

emwaiting

We aren't back to the IVF quite yet.  We had to do it with #1 and while trying for #2 we are seeing if my first pregnancy could have possibly helped and we won't have to get so deep into things this time.  When we did IVF I was doing the Bravelle and all of the fun injections.