how do people with PCOS get pregant after trying fertility pills?
Monday, July 5th, 2010 at
9:30 am
I have PCOS and have been trying for children for over 1 1/2 years. we have tried the fertility pills for over a year and the doctor told us to take a break. i want to become pregant. does anyone have a suggestion. we have decided that we would adopt in 2 years if we have none of our own.
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Have you been on birth control to regulate your cycles and encourage you to have a "normal" period? Also, have you been taking clomid? Clomid will induce ovulation, if you’re not bleeding at all and not having cycles than request Provera to induce a period and then take Clomid to induce ovulation. There are also injectables, and if those don’t work there’s invitro. Invitro while costly and some insurances won’t cover it, it may be the answer to your prayers.
Also, have you tried Metformin to help with your insulin resistance if you’re insulin resistant or help regulate your sugars? Sometimes the only issue with not getting pregnant with PCOS is because you’re overweight, Metformin will help you to lose weight and will help you to ovulate and get pregnant.
It’s not impossible to get pregnant with PCOS there’s still LOTS of hope left for you. While PCOS may not have a cure it can be treated.
We went to a fertility specialist & had an IUI done. Prior to this my dr did check my husband’s sperm count & that came back fine. I was on clomid & metformin (1700mg a day) & had the IUI done. We ended up pg that very first IUI. Talk to a fertility specialist. I am now pg with our second & it was unplanned. We got pg on our own without any meds what so ever. Good luck!!
I have PCOS and I’m getting ready to give birth to my first child on Thursday. My husband and I tried for over 2 years. I tried fertility meds through my regular OB, then moved on to a fertility clinic. From there we tried artificial insemination twice with no success, and I wasn’t happy with the care I was receiving there. I was referred by a friend to another Fertility Clinic that I absolutely loved!! My doctor was fantastic and got right to the root of the problem. She diagnosed me with PCOS, I was put on the medication Metformin and began medications for IVF. With PCOS it is too hard to control the amount of eggs that your ovaries will produce with just regular fertility drugs. Yes, IVF is expensive, but it worked best for my situation. I became pregnant on my first cycle.
I wish you the best of luck!!
honey don’t try so hard~i know that sounds weird but just quit trying, stop thinking about it and if it is possible it will happen, me and my ex husband tried and tried, i took fertility pills, had surgerys,everything we couldn’t get preg. then we gave up and decided just to wait and boom i was preg and now i have a beautiful 2 year old lil girl~so good luck
Have you simply tried metformin – that is first line treatment for managing PCOS? It was highly effective for my wife and brought her cycles back to more normal / ovulating – got pregnant after about a year of trying with metformin alone.
The fertility meds are the second line of treatments to help you ovulate (though PCOS can still interfere with this). Lots to choose from – injectables are better than clomid (and more expensive) – can also do IUIs and lastly IVFs if all else fails. So, there still quite a few options left on the fertility treatment side (but should start first with metformin alone). It is important to have a good fertility specialist here – regular OBGYN were a waste of time (in my opinion).
Good luck.
1) See an infertility specialist. A regular doctor will not know the latest treatment for managing PCOS. A reproductive endocrinologist will know how to manage you. Every case is a little bit different and different things will work for some and not others. You need someone who will know the route to take to get you pregnant.
2) Taking a break is a waste of time. If the fertility pills haven’t worked (clomid?), you need a doctor who will go to the next step. Although I hear the "relax and it will happen" theory a lot, this doesn’t really apply to PCOS. If you are not able to ovulate on your own, you simply won’t get pregnant, no matter how much you relax.
3) Metformin is definitely a drug you should be on if you have PCOS. Some women (like the other poster’s wife) are able to get pregnant while just on metformin. Even if you aren’t regulated, there is some evidence that shows that metformin in combination with other fertility treatments increases your chances.
4) The birth control pill does not cause a "natural" period. The bleeding after the bcp is just a hormone withdrawel bleed. If you’re on the pill you won’t get pregnant, so I do not recommend that! If you don’t menstruate on your own, you are probably not ovulating. If the clomid makes you ovulate and you don’t get pregnant, you might need to look into other factors (such as your husband — has he had a semen analysis?)
5) The steps that most reproductive endocrinologists take with PCOSers: metformin –> ovulation induction with clomid or letrozole –> ovulation induction with injectable gonadatropins –> invitro fertilization. So you have lots of steps to do if one of them isn’t working for you.
Good luck!