Congratulations on ovulating. I am not actively ttc any more but I would like to know that I can ovulate. I am still taking the metformin I want to get my periods on my own first. I'm thinking in about 6months I may start the femara 5mg then 7.5mg and ovulation kits.
Good Luck to you!!!
I found out that I had PCOS when I was 19yrs old. I am now 28 and my husband and I have been trying to conceive for a while. My doctor finally put my on Femara 7.5mg (which is $35 for 15 pills. WOW!). I had been taking Metformin 1500mg for years. Almost 2 weeks aga I got 3 positive results on my 3 ovulation kits and I just had some blood work done on Friday. I am waiting on the results between today and tomorrow. I have a lot of the symptoms but I don't want to put the cart before the horse. I have seen too many negative results to try and rush it. Although I am happy enough just to know that I was ovulating and the ovulation test came back positive. So if it turns out that we're not pregnant now, we know what to do next month. I wish you the best of luck!
I'm also on Metformin1500 mg. a night.
I don't really know anything about femara so I can't comment on that. I don't really ovulate on mine own either or at least I'm pretty sure that I don't since I only have about one period a year if left to my own devices. I have PCOS and I am 30 and have never been pregnant either. The doctor put me on 50 mg. of clomid for 5 days. When they brought me in to check and see if the follicles were big enough they were almost there but not quite. So they went ahead and had my husband give me a shot two nights before I was to come in for my IUI (I know our situations are different and you aren't having an IUI or IVF) and the Ovidrel shot seemed to do the trick. I don't have a lot of money either for all of this and was very, very nervous about the cost of this shot. We checked around to every pharmacy on the list that our fertility doctor gave us. I wasn't sure if the insurance was going to pay for any of it or not. One pharmacy quoted us at $200 (no insurance paying) and one at $100, then one said they had it for about $85. We really came out OK though because the insurance did pay some and we came out having to only pay $36 out of pocket for what was to be the $85 shot. So I guess my point in typing all of that was just to say, call around a lot of different pharmacies. So after the shot my follicles were big enough and I had the IUI and had to go through the two week wait to see if I was pregnant or not. That was on May 18th and it, unfortunately, came back negative. I start back on the fertility meds. again tonight to start this all over again. They are going to treat me with something else besides clomid this time (I can't remember what they called it) because I had horrific hot flashes while on the clomid). I know that all of this is very painful to go through all of this and very frustrating. It's a lot worse than what I though it would be or what I expected it would be when we started out doing all of the tests, etc.. about 3 years ago. No one told me it was going to be this hard. No one else in my family has PCOS or endometriosis (my sister-in-law does but she has two kids so...) as I do and it is very difficult because you really do feel like you're all alone. You are not alone though. There are a lot of wonderful people on this site who are going through exactly what you are going through. You hang in there. Hopefull someone else who maybe has a little bit more experience who has a situation closer to yours will be able to chime in and be of more help than I am. I just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone and that this can happen for you. Good Luck!