Is it possible to get pregnant if you have pcos but don’t take a fertility drug?
Friday, November 13th, 2009 at
4:50 pm
My wife has pcos (polycistic ovarian syndrome). We both want to get pregnant but because she doesnt have a regular cycle we dont know when to try. We have been told about the medications that are available but cannot afford them. Is it possible for us to get pregnant without her being on a fertility drug?
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It is possible if she does ovulate on her own. When my husband and I began trying to get pregnant, I was overweight. I have lost 23 lbs, and we know I did ovulate at least once on my own, as we realized after I had some abnormal bleeding (while on progesterone – should NOT have been bleeding) that we had a miscarriage. So….my advice would be that if your wife is overweight, try to lose some! It really will make a difference. Some people with pcos will ovulate on their own, just not every single month. You’ll need to track and see if she does ovulate, and you’ll need to catch one of those times. I get my progesterone for $10 per month, and it just helps to regulate periods. I’ve heard metformin is also cheap (as the first poster mentioned). I’m hoping to go on clomid, and a lot of insurance companies will cover at least part of the cost of fertility meds (mine covers 50%). Good luck and baby dust to you guys!
Did you know that metformin is very, very cheap, and often helps in ovulation? I got a 30 day supply for $10 back when we were trying to conceive our first child.
Getting off of that topic, yes it is possible to conceive without taking medications, though it might take a while. Charting your wife’s basal body temperature is free, and so is checking her CM for fertile fluid. We used fertilityfriend.com to chart my temperatures in the morning (it teaches you how to do it), and we were eventually able to tell when ovulation was about to happen.
Good luck, and I hope things work out!
i have pcos too. my doctor told me that most women with pcos do not ovulate but some do ovulate, just not regularly. so if your wife is ovulating, even if it’s not regular, then she could still get pregnant if you have sex around the time of ovulation. you say you don’t know when to try since she’s not regular – she could keep track of her basal temperature to see when she ovulates. or she could use ovulation predictor kits so you’ll know when. or if you don’t want to do anything, then just be sure to have sex 3 times a week every week, since sperm lives inside a woman for an average of 3 days, that way sperm will always be inside of her in case she does ovulate.
do you have health insurance? did you look in to it to see if your insurance will cover the medication? i am taking a fertility drug and my insurance pays part of it and then i have to pay part of it.
It is possible, because I was on birth control when I conceived my son. And that was 4 years after being told I had PCOS. I would definately go with both posters and chart, BD as much as possible, lose weight, etc. Insurance should cover most of the cost of the medications to help the PCOS, and at least half of the fertility drugs. If you don’t have insurance then maybe it would be best to wait til you do to get a doctor to help.