Femera? Metformin? Novarel?

JolenLove

After about a year of trying and getting no where my fiance and i decided to see a doctor. I always knew there was something wrong with me, but never knew exactly what. I was diagnosed with PCOS. From there we went to a specialist and she put me on clomid and metformin. My first month i produced two great sized follicles, but did not concieve. Second month I didnt produce big enough follicles all the while being a complete and i mean utter psycho. I felt extremely discouraged and my df was scared of me  Due to a holiday i wasn't able to start my medications on the correct days so we had to sit that month out, which sent me into a downward spiral because as we all know that's another month knowing we not pregnant and there is no hope to be. We decided to sit out a few months because we were trying to buy a house on top of all of this. Still no house, but we have thrown ourselves back into the game!    So i went back to the doctor and we decided this time around to try Femera. 

So right now I am taking 10mg provera to start my cycle, 1500 mg metformin daily. I'm on day three of provera and i'm just way beside myself with excitement. Once AF gets here i'll take 2.5mg of femera  and then a trigger shot of Novarel 10,000 units if god willing i produce follicles.

Just wondering if anyone else is going through this right now? Or anything close to it? Trying to find someone to bond with because my DF can only understand so much of it. Good luck and Baby Dust to everyone! 

hanncanna

i'm not going through it but i had success with it--i have PCOS too. i've been taking (and i'm still taking) 2000mg of metformin a day. i did provera just like you to bring on AF. then i took femera for days 3-8. ultrasound on day 12 to see if it worked, then a shot of ovidrel the night of day 12. then i had an IUI on day 14. 

 after 5 rounds of this, i got my positive...i'm 16 weeks with twins now.

 you were right to go to femera...clomid made my lining thin out so that even if i was getting my egg fertilized, there was nothing for it to attach to. femera doesn't have that effect. for me it made all the difference. i had way more than 5 cycles but clomid made my lining so bad it wasn't worth it to do an IUI, and i had to cancel the cycle. i tried IUIs on 2 clomid cycles, the first 2. i have totally been there with not producing big enough follicles. out of 2 years of trying, i only got 5 real "tries" with IUIs.

it is horrible to be hopped up on hormones. it is ridiculous to go from completely destroyed on CD1 to hopeful on CD3 as you start your next round of femera! it's impossible to do both of those at once!!! but...you have to find a way to put the failure behind you...act like it was a million years ago...and move forward with hope into your next cycle.

the circle + bloom program for PCOS helped me a lot. it gave me something to do/visualize while i was basically just Waiting to see what was going on with me.

a year ago, i was completely frustrated but trying to scrape up any shred of positivity and hope i could find...and now i still don't quite believe that the heartbeats i hear are My babies, in My belly. i am so thankful that i kept trying and that my babies arrived when they did, right before i lost all hope (and my insurance that was funding this adventure!).

believe me when i say it can work for you. if it doesn't, you'll find something else. don't give up hope and keep plodding away at it. PCOS does not win this battle--you do. 

 

JolenLove

Congrats on your twins! 

 

I didn't have the thinning of my lining but it did affect my CM a little. Can i ask why you decided to do IUI? Only 5 real tries would have shaken me to the core, you are a STRONG woman and I certainly appreciate your response to this!  What is the circle + bloom program? 

Thank you so much! This has upped my mood immensely!

I hope you have two beautiful healthy babies! 

hanncanna

hi there---glad i could help. so many people inspired me, whether i directly spoke to them or not. it's good to be able to give back a little now.

the circle + bloom program i found helpful is  https://www.circlebloom.com/get-started/pcos-programs/

i did an IUI because i was using a known sperm donor, and i could afford to considering my incredible insurance that completely covered all fertility treatments. since it cost me $30, i went ahead and did it so that i knew the sperm was good and was getting right where it needed to be for the best results. i wanted to have as much control/direction over as many elements as possible, considering that those elements were only about 10% of the total situation. there was so much out of my control...having the sperm closer to where it needed to be, and not having to fight to get there, made me feel a little better.

there are also videos about trying to conceive on redbook.com, and youtube of course. those were very helpful to me as well. hearing from people who had success (look for the youtube videos of bubblelush--she videoed her positive pregnancy result!) gave me hope and kept me going.

 thanks for your kindness and your well-wishes! everything you go through now is preparing you for motherhood, like steel being refined in fire. it hurts and it's horrible but it will make you stronger and better prepared in the end. it is a blessing to be prepared and have this time to work out your parenting philosophy with your partner, to take care of yourself and get your mind right for the challenges and sacrifices of parenting. for example, a stupid example, but one that's indicative of the other big ones--i didn't have to quit caffeine while pregnant! while other women struggle with "is this symptom from the pregnancy or from caffeine withdrawl?" i hadn't had a drop in 2 years...so i knew my exhaustion was from the pregnancy. i am so thankful that i had to get completely prepared for pregnancy so far in advance. everything you do during TTC is what's best for the baby once it finally shows up!

take care and "don't stop believin'." 

 

JolenLove

Seriously, you are just awesome!

I honestly can't thank you enough, and my fiance does too (haha he doesnt always want to talk about things or have opinions about things since he is a man and doesnt understand the emotional part of ttc fully)