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kellinc1 · January 2010

So....unfortunatley my body is not cooperating with this TTC thing and I am on my second round of Provera. My first cycle off of BCP was 68 days and this 2nd cycle was 40 when I decided to end it with Provera. I am hopeful that this second round will kick my ovaries into gear!

For those of you that had to use Provera.....how many cycles did you have to use it? Tell me your story....give me some positive hope!

Happy 2010 to everyone!!!

jastl32 · January 2010

I'm not sure if my situation will apply as I have PCOS and don't ovulate on my own. So, I had to use provera to initiate a period and then I did medicated cycles until I found something that got me to ovulate. Femara made me ovulate, so I didn't need provera after that. It took me 10 months before we found something to get me to ovulate.

HTH!

jastl32 · January 2010

I forgot to mention that Provera doesn't get you to ovulate - it only gets you to shed your lining. That alone will most likely not get you to regulate unless you take it every month if you don't get your period after 35 days.

kellinc1 · January 2010

Yeah, I know that Provera only helps me to end a long cycle. My doctor is mentioning Clomid since I am not ovulating, but I am kind of holding on to the hope that my body will kick start with Provera and begin to ovulate on its own. Wishful thinking, I am afraid.

I have heard of it happening though, so I was wanting to hear some feedback from women that that has happened to.

Congrats on your BFP after trying for such a long time. Smile

Sunflower730 · January 2010

I used provera alot to bring on periods for medicated cycles. It never kick started my body to ovulate. After 5 years we needed to use injections.

WaitingOnAMiracle · January 2010

jastl32:
I'm not sure if my situation will apply as I have PCOS and don't ovulate on my own. So, I had to use provera to initiate a period and then I did medicated cycles until I found something that got me to ovulate. Femara made me ovulate, so I didn't need provera after that. It took me 10 months before we found something to get me to ovulate.

HTH!

This for me as well. I tried Clomid unmonitored with my OBGYN and never ovulated. I did end up ovulating on higher doses of clomid BUT only after being closely monitored (Ultrasounds to check follicle growth) follwed by trigger shots.

I know the thought of moving on to clomid can be scary, but if you do it I highly recommend going with an RE. The extra monitoring really helps. There are only a limited cycles of clomid you can have and it would suck to use them up on unmonitored/annovulatory cycles.

I ovulated on Femara on my own, without trigger shots. There is no limit (that I know of) of how many femara cycles you can do. If you wont be monitored I would recommend Femara. It also has less "moodiness" side effects.

Luv2Run1st · January 2010

Interesting thing happened to me with Provera. 1st time took it to induce period followed by Clomid CD 3-7. No apparent signs of ovulation or my period by CD 28 so MD said to restart my cycle again and took Provera again on CD 29. This time, my period never started and I was charting my temps which kept going up up up. So I thought that was strange, took a pregnancy test and got a positive. Turns out, I just happened to ovulate on the 1st day that I took the Provera. I know Provera is not supposed to have any effect on ovulation but who knows...I have yet to talk about this with my doctor to find out what she thinks happened. So...I was very surprised considering I had an appointment scheduled with a RE for January 4th. Instead I now had a prenatal appointment for January 13th.

Basically, anything can happen and the body is going to do whatever it wants to do.

kellinc1 · January 2010

Luv2Run1st:

Interesting thing happened to me with Provera. 1st time took it to induce period followed by Clomid CD 3-7. No apparent signs of ovulation or my period by CD 28 so MD said to restart my cycle again and took Provera again on CD 29. This time, my period never started and I was charting my temps which kept going up up up. So I thought that was strange, took a pregnancy test and got a positive. Turns out, I just happened to ovulate on the 1st day that I took the Provera. I know Provera is not supposed to have any effect on ovulation but who knows...I have yet to talk about this with my doctor to find out what she thinks happened. So...I was very surprised considering I had an appointment scheduled with a RE for January 4th. Instead I now had a prenatal appointment for January 13th.

Basically, anything can happen and the body is going to do whatever it wants to do.

Wow...that is great! Congrats! I am hoping that happens for me. I know that it is very unlikely that you can get pregant while on Provera so you may just be a lucky one! I will keep my fingers crossed for myself though!

jastl32 · January 2010

Luv2Run1st:

Interesting thing happened to me with Provera. 1st time took it to induce period followed by Clomid CD 3-7. No apparent signs of ovulation or my period by CD 28 so MD said to restart my cycle again and took Provera again on CD 29. This time, my period never started and I was charting my temps which kept going up up up. So I thought that was strange, took a pregnancy test and got a positive. Turns out, I just happened to ovulate on the 1st day that I took the Provera. I know Provera is not supposed to have any effect on ovulation but who knows...I have yet to talk about this with my doctor to find out what she thinks happened. So...I was very surprised considering I had an appointment scheduled with a RE for January 4th. Instead I now had a prenatal appointment for January 13th.

Basically, anything can happen and the body is going to do whatever it wants to do.

If you ovulated on the first day of taking the pills, you probably would have ovulated then anyway.

Congrats!

jastl32 · January 2010

WaitingOnAMiracle:

jastl32:
I'm not sure if my situation will apply as I have PCOS and don't ovulate on my own. So, I had to use provera to initiate a period and then I did medicated cycles until I found something that got me to ovulate. Femara made me ovulate, so I didn't need provera after that. It took me 10 months before we found something to get me to ovulate.

HTH!

This for me as well. I tried Clomid unmonitored with my OBGYN and never ovulated. I did end up ovulating on higher doses of clomid BUT only after being closely monitored (Ultrasounds to check follicle growth) follwed by trigger shots.

I know the thought of moving on to clomid can be scary, but if you do it I highly recommend going with an RE. The extra monitoring really helps. There are only a limited cycles of clomid you can have and it would suck to use them up on unmonitored/annovulatory cycles.

I ovulated on Femara on my own, without trigger shots. There is no limit (that I know of) of how many femara cycles you can do. If you wont be monitored I would recommend Femara. It also has less "moodiness" side effects.

This.

My RE also said that since femara does not have the negative impacts that clomid does and the "shorter life span" (ie/how long it stays in your system) that the number of cycles on it does not need to be limited the way clomid does.

MelH926 · January 2010

I had a rare experience. I went off BCP in August, and my 1st cycle was 46 days. 60 days later, I still didn't have a period and I wasn't pregnant, so my doctor prescribed provera. 14 days later I STILL didn't get my period, so I tested... and it was positive! This was just yesterday, and I took 2 more tests to make sure I'm not getting a false positive! My 1st appointment isn't until next Friday, and I have absolutely no idea how far along I am since my cycles were long. I'm assuming I ovulated while I was on Provera, so I'm probably around 5 weeks or so. I also have read other stories about BFPs after provera, so hang in there :-)

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