About Clomid

I was on clomid for about 1 year and it did nothing for me- literally!! It is very mild and I beleive really only helps if there is nothing wrong... I had endometriosis so it did not help me. I am just being honest by saying I would not waste too much time using the clomid, it took us 5 years to have our first baby and it was because of the endometriosis. I have several friends who have went to the shir institute in St. Louis Missouri and they ALL have babys now... jsut a thought. J

Hi E. I was on clomid after 3 years of not getting prego. I did not work for me - I had blockages in my tubes that was causing my problem (other wise who know I might have a litter :)). But, I can tell you get ready for a roller coaster. 1) it will screw with your emotions, just get ready for that. 2) You will feel like a 55 year old woman with the hot flashes. I am not kidding about that. I sleep in flannel pj and about 3 blankets even in summer and I went to sleeping with no blanket and hardly any clothes :) My husband didn't mind but the sweating was unreal.

Those are my two major things that I remember. I would make sure that you need to do the drug thing first - see a specialist and make sure you don't have a blockage etc... It's not the worth the chance of a high risk situation if you don't need to go there.

Good luck!

Hi,

My sister did Clomid, and it helped her. I did a different drug, I did Metaphormin (spelling?). It helped He within a month. I understand your concerns. However, the only thing with my siter is her son was very premature, I am not sure if that has caused his fine motor skills, and led to ADDHD and PDD-NOS. I was three weeks early, my water broke.

I think you should be fine. I know it is scary, but I think you should be OK. I am not a doctor so I suggest you should talk to your OB about your concerns.

We got a late start too. I had Maria when I was 33.

I hope this helps you a little.

Good luck, and keep us posted.

C.
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I took Clomid with both of my children and got pregnant on the first month with my daughter and pregnant on the 2nd month with my son. I didn't notice any side effects at all. I thought it was great.

Good luck!

E. , My husband and I were together for 3 years and no babies. I went to a fertility specialist (I was 30) and we did all the testing and he put me on clomid. The first month on it we got pregnant. We had a boy!! And 6 years later we wanted to have another baby, so back to the doc we went!!! Being older we had to do clomid for 6 months (at stronger dosages each month!!) Well we got pregnant with twins!!!!They are girls and they truly are mircles because we were giving up hope and was on our last month of trying!! It is never to late I was 36 when we had the twins!! Good luck to you and your husband!!! God bless!!
M.

I think you will like www.fertileheart.com web site. It is a web site for women struggling with infertility. I struggled with infertility for 3 years and this web site was great. I will warn you most of the women on this web site are very deperarate to become pregnant and are trying natural rememdies, which I disagree with. I think if it happens it will happen. It did for me. I went through one of year of all sorts of fertility treatments. Clomid was the first and then on to injectable drugs. I was finally told I had less than 3% chance of conceving and to consider donor egg or adoption. One year later, I became pregnant on my own. I now have a healthy little boy who will turn 2 years old March 31st. I conceived him when I 40 years old. I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure and was taking estrogen when I got pregnant. The estrogen reversed my high FSH level, which was 69. It went back to normal 10 and under upon taking estrogen. My doctor is still clueless as to why and how this happened.

I am a mother of a six year old boy and 2 1/2 year old twin boys. My 1st preg. resulted in a miscarriage then we had our first boy. After about a year and a half we decided to try again but had another miscarriage that sent my body into very early menopause. My doctor decided to try Clomid. I was on 25mg for 1 month and the next month we were pregnant with our twin boys! The side affects of clomid are hard to take but the outcome was well worth it! Good Luck!!

Just DO NOT go to Dr. Wilbois (St. Louis). The used car salesperson of the fertility business, he just wants to sell you some eggs that he has in stock, and his service of installing them. We went on to have a child the natural way after he told us it was impossible. Shift your life so you can be calm, positive, and upbeat. And trust your body. Best to you!

I can tell you anything you want to know about Clomid! We've been through 12 rounds of IUIs with Clomid and also with injectable fertility meds. The biggest side effects I had (and I took 150mg/day) are the hot flashes and the mood swings. They can be pretty severe so don't think you're crazy when you experience them. It's just the meds making you bonkers.

Feel free to send me a message directly if you need any more tips and tricks!

Hi E. - Am late to respond here. . . We did clomid two or three different times for 6 month stint and to no avail, no pg. . . I, like you, had all my tests run, etc. and everything came back ok . . Finally - we did IVF W/Peter Ahlering (SIRM) in STL. and we now have 10.5 month old daughter. I have two friends who got pg with clomid. I say take for a swirl (pending your age) but if it doesnt work out - I would look into an RE . . GOod Luck!

I was on Clomid after trying for over a year. I have had cancer, a hole in one tube and I got pregnant in only a few months on it. We are getting ready to try for baby number 2 and it if takes longer then I want I will be calling the Dr to get it again. I have not side effects at all. Good Luck!!

A.

I did several rounds of CLomid several years ago. Clomid alone wasn't strong enough for me, so we had to move to injectables. I know many women, though, who have conceived on Clomid. I have used some herbs and have conceived 3 times on those, also. I wish you the best of luck and should you have any questions, email me any time!

Hi E.-

I did chlomid and chlomid with IUIs (3 cycles). I had no problems with the chlomid, but I usually don't get side effects from medicine anyway. Unfortunately it didn't work for us, so we ended up going to a fertility specialist (which I would highly encourage you to do after 3 years with no luck either). Tests showed my uterine lining was borderline thin, and chlomid usually makes this worse, so that definitely wasn't the right drug for us. Turns out my FSH was too high anyway, so we ended up adopting a beautiful baby boy about a year ago. Best of luck, and don't wait to long to see a specialist - ours had me diagnosed the first month and saved us the agony of spending more time trying to get pregnant. Let us know what happens!

M.

I got pregnant after 2 months on clomid. Not to scare you, but I did have premature labor. My son was also born with a congenital heart defect. We are still to this day unsure what caused the defect. So far, I don't think the docs linked clomid to his heart condition. But, it defintely got me pregnant!

All I know is that my sister used it after her miscarriage. It worked for them, and they got pg with their daughter a few months after starting it.

Good luck!

Hi E.. My name is J.. I'm 34 years old and now pregnant with my 2nd child. Long story short - I was pregnant 6 years ago and very late in the pregnancy it was discovered that our son was stillborn. Being it was our first pregnancy, my husband & I were devastated and very eager to get pregnant again. When it didn't happen fast enough (about 6 months later), my ob-gyn put me on Clomid to help things along. Unfortunately, after only a few months on it, I ended up with very large ovarian cysts because of the clomid. It was very painful and the cysts had to be drained. Thankfully, there was no permanent damage to my ovaries. I did have to be put on birth control pills for several months to keep them from coming back. It took a long time to get over that and prolonged my getting pregnant the 2nd time. My advice would be to make sure your doctor is monitoring you closely to make sure you don't end up with cysts. I have heard many success stories with Clomid, it just didn't work for me. So don't give up on it - just be careful. Good luck to you!!!!

Hi E.

I'm 33 and my son just turned 16 months - he was a Clomid baby. We tried for 1-1/2 years before going on it. We too had all the other tests prior to it as well. I started at 50 mg, moved to 100 then finally to 150mg which is what finally worked for me. Oddly enough, I had more side effects at the lower doses than I did at 150mg! Regardless, they were such a small price to pay for the amazing little boy I got in return. If you need to see a specialist in St. Louis, I went to Dr. Peter Ahlering and SHER Institute for Reproductive Medicine. The people there are absolutely wonderful! So much so that I was disappointed at having to leave and go back to my OB once I got pregnant. They just get you pregnant - they don't deliver. Anyway, if you need more info, their website is www.haveababy.com. Good luck!

I was on clomid for a few months, got pregnant and had a miscarriage. The doctor told me to wait 3 months before trying again. We waited the 3 months, started clomid again and 3 or 4 months later got pregnant again. I had a HUGE cyst on my ovary (I think from the Clomid)and went in to have that checked. While they were looking at that, they found TWO heartbeats. I now have beautiful 7 year old twin boys!!
I do remember having horrible hot flashes with the Clomid but that's really the only side effect I remember and it was definitely worth it.
Good luck!!

E....my husband and I were trying for 2 years after already having one child and we did the clomid thing. I was not successful with it but I can tell you that I had extreme mood swings and could cry at the blink of a hat. We tried almost everything we could so now it was time to take a break and just let nature take it course.

Good luck and hope everything turns out for you!

E.,

Clomid can be an emotional roller for some and for others, it seems to have no major side effects.

My only concern is that if you have been trying for 3 years without success that you are seeing an RE (Reproductive Endocrinologist, aka fertility specialist) and not just an OB. I have been in the infertility community for a long time (my son was a result of IVF) and I have heard numerous stories of OBs who put their patients on Clomid as a shot-in-the-dark before exploring the real reasons for the infertility. If you are not seeing an RE, I would not go more than two or three cycles on Clomid before consulting a specialist. And call early, since the really good REs are booked for months in advance. (I highly recommend my RE, Dr Anthony Pearlstone at MoBap but also like the REs at Wash U.)

My cousin had a similar situation as the poster above... Her OB had her on Clomid for six months before she finally consulted an RE and found out she had blocked fallopian tubes. All of the money and time spent on the Clomid was a waste because she couldn't get pregnant anyway. Her RE cleared her tubes and she got pregnant the next month.

Good luck to you, and please keep us posted on your progress.

J.
www.MindBodyBabyStL.com

My husband and I went through the same thing! Clomid did not work for us but I know two women that it worked for the first time around. I ended up having to take Letrozole (a drug I had never heard of) and we know have a 7 1/2 month old daughter. Good Luck!!!!

E.:

I did the clomid thing for a while and then needed to go a differnt route. In the end run, we found out that I was thyroid deficient. Once my thyroid was taken care of and I was on the correct doseage, I became pregnant within 6 weeks. I tell all od my friends to get their thyroid checked before starting any fertility medication!!!

Good luck.

My 10 yr old is a clomid baby! The hot flashes were the worst...so be prepared for that! And my vision got a little "weird" for a while too. AND I was also emotional. But of all it she was worth it most days....Truelly the hot flashes were the worst!
I hope your Dr. has done extensive labs on you too. My first pregnancy the Dr missed the fact that I contain mo progesterone in my blood and miscarried...The fertility Dr. that I used, caught that fact within 10 minutes of meeting with him!

hi E.! my doc put me on clomid because of its low multiples. she told me with my history it would take 9-12 months to get pregnant and i was pregnant after 3!!! i wish you much luck, there is no joy in this world than what my little boy brings me!!!(he is now 4) i would absolutely trust clomid again!

Good luck! Our middle child is a result of clomid. She took four months of trying, once on the medication, and 3 hour drives to and from our doctor in Oklahoma City, we were in Altus, Oklahoma at the time, and a dream come true. My only concern with the drug was after the birth I had a pretty bad case of post-partum. I didn't have it with our first child, nor our third, which were both natural pregnancies. I hope you have your wish come true soon.

I used Clomid in the late 90's and shortly after beginning my 2nd round found that we were pregnant. Unfortunately, I am prone to tubal pregnancies so I wasn't able to keep my baby so I can't speak to much else. The only side-effects I noticed were my balance being a little off and a little dizziness. However, I really only noticed these symptons while doing Tae Kwon Do, which requires good balance and the ability to turn & jump. When going through my normal life I remember being fine. Good luck to you!!

I hated it! It made me feel sort of crazy and moody. We tried for 2 years and then I went on clomid. I was in my first cycle of it and I had a severe allergic reaction to something I ate on the day I was supposed to start the 3rd month of pills. I called my fertility doctor and he told me not to take the clomid since I was on prednisone (sp). I figured we had waited 2 years to get pregnant, what is one more month? Wouldn't you know I got pregnant that month!!!!!!!!! I guess since we weren't 'trying' it happened. Since then I have been pregnant 2 more times (one was a miscarriage) and they were all when we weren't trying! The last baby I had (12 weeks old!) was conceived on day 49 of my cycle....not sure how that happened!! I have PCOS and so I don't have normal cycles. Good luck with getting pregnant!! Maybe not 'try' for a month or two and see what happens!!!

Hopefully this is inspiration-I am a Clomid baby! My mom took Clomid about 31 1/2 years ago and it didn't take long before I was on the way! Best wishes!

E.,

I used Clomid 19 years ago with great results of 1 son. Nothing to worry about, just relax!

L.

My 2 year old daughter was a clomid baby. I had been trying to almsot a year and wanted to get preggo before my husband deployed, I wasn't ovulating at all, so on the second round @ 100mg I got pregant. I didn't really have any side effects from it that I remember either.

Good Luck!

I had great luck with clomid. We got pregnant on the first month, but there were several things we did first. We got my husband checked out, what is the point if there were no swimmers??? I also went on a low carb, higher protein with lots of fresh veggies and fruit, diet. No fast food, or at least moderation, and I exercised 4 times a week. Nothing crazy, just a 20 minute walk or a little yoga. I did 50 mg of clomid on days 3-7. I know doctors will tell you 5-9, but 3-7 worked well for us. We tried every other night on days 9-21. Now we have a beautiful 18 month old little boy. So good luck!!!

Hi E.,
I'm 31 yrs old, married for 13yrs now, we have 3 wonderful children. My boys are 10 yrs old (adopted) and my daughter is 9 months. She was conceived with CLOMID! I heard so many horror stories about clomid I was scared to try it when it was first introduced to me at age 22. Finally, I got up there courage, and now I have a beautiful baby girl! Clomid worked for me on my first round!

Good luck!
Jenn D

Hi E.. I have taken clomid and it did work, but I had a miscarriage....I think I had too much stress. After 4 years, we did IVF and now have a beautiful 2 year-old. Are you just going to your OB or have you gone to a fertility specialist?

Hi E.-
I too am working on getting pregnant. I just did my first cycle with clomid and really the only side effect was me being cranky. I was very irritable for the first couple days and then it got better. it was like PMSing more intense. My feelings were hurt very easily. I can't tell you how well it works because so far nothing has happend. I wish you good luck and baby dust!
D

I haven't, but a friend of mine did with both of her kids. I think she was on it about 4-6 months both times before getting pregnant. I don't know about side effects or anything you may experience though. I went through IVF for my girls, so I was on Lupron and Follistim, but I was never on Clomid.

Good luck!!

Hi E.,
I took Clomid too and got twins! I was 39 then so twins were more likely to happen to older moms. Luckily it took only 1 cycle. I was running out of time fast. Hang in there - you are still young! Good luck! J.

We did two cycles after a miscarriage with no success. I went to a fertility specialists and they determined that I had polycystic ovaries and was having trouble w/ ovulation and producing mature eggs. They started me on metformin and baby aspirin. I got pregnant with my son on just those meds after about three months. With my daughter we did the same meds plus Clomid and got pregnant on the first cycle. I'm telling you both stories so you don't get discouraged if it doesn't happen right away. There may be some other reason. Also, don't do more than six cycles of Clomid. I know a woman that had breast cancer in her thirties due to too much Clomid. There are definately some risks involved, but the result may be well worth it.

Hi!
My name is L. and abot 5 1/2 years ago I had to go to an infertility doctor. I took 100mg Clomid for 3 months. When you get that high it dries up your vaginal fluid and you have to have artificial insemination. I ended up taking Clomid for 5 cycles with no luck because I ended having endometriosis and did not get pregnant until after surgery. If you have any more questions you can e-mail me ar ____@____.com.

L.

Hi! I have three great kids, two which are a direct result of clomid! My oldest is 9 and my second will be 5 in a few weeks. Don't get discouraged (I know easier said then done) but it'll work. Get an aggressive doctor, who really treats your infertility as a medical problem. I highly recommend Dr. Rhonda Wright on KC Women's Clinic.
Good Luck!