Getting Pregnant with PCOS

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I have been trying to get pregnant with my second child for over a year now. I was diagnosed with PCOS with my first child and did fertility treatments for a year that didn't work. I ended up getting pregnant on my own by some miracle. Now with #2 I am back on the clomid, but haven't been able to ovulate. I recently read a lot about people on glugophage having success, and I was wondering if anyone has any personal experience with that. My blood sugar is normal except when I was pregnant. I had slight gestational diabetes then and was wondering if going on glugophage would be an option. Any other advice with PCOS would be great too.

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Thank you for all the advise! I just found out I am pregnant after only one month on clomid (although my cycle was 60 days long)! I feel very lucky. I had tried for over a year by myself and was amazed that 1 dose of clomid did the trick. I think the biggest problem I had was not trying long enough during the month. Let's face it sex gets old after having to schedule it for 6-8 weeks at a time. This month I kept "at it" haha and it worked. Good Luck to everyone trying!

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C.J. answers from Waterloo on January 24, 2008

I also have PCOS and had two successful pregnancies. The first with the use of Glucaphage and clomid and the 2nd pregnancy with just the use of Glucaphage. Talk to your doctor about getting started on it. They usually will put you on with a diagnosis of PCOS because there has been so much success with it, in combo with clomid and without.
I used this website www.ovusoft.com when I was trying to get pregnant. There's a specific message board under communities just for gals with PCOS.
Best of Luck dear
C.

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K.D. answers from Salt Lake City on January 24, 2008

I had a friend who has PCOS get pregnant after 10-years by going on the Atkins diet. Her doctor said that the low-carb diet is what helped, but I don't know much more than that.

Good luck getting pregnant again!

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M.W. answers from Pocatello on January 24, 2008

Have you heard of IVillage? I know you may think this is weird advice but they have a million different message boards. I've had 4 miscarriages and after my last i went on there for support and there are boards just for misscarriage and loss, and yes one for TTC with PCOS.
The board will have tons of women on there who are trying to conceive with PCOS and you can talk about options and what they are doing etc etc. It might be a huge help.
Those boards have been to me on several occasions.
Good luck. I know some of us just have such a hard time getting our babies here. huggs** to you.

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