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Anyone get pregnant taking Femara
Ok ladies so this is cycle day one i go to the RE in the morning for blood work and U/S i asked today when i called what med he was going to give me to try and it is call Femara any info on it would be great
I start Femara tomorrow and my RE highly recommends it (he was the 1st Doc in MI to do IVF - very highly respected around here). He says it works better than Clomid and it doesn't have the horrible side effects.
That being said - My sister didn't know she was pg and took a cycle of Clomid when she was 5 wks and my nephew is fine (actually, he is 1 IQ point away from genius!!). Not that I would ever recommend taking it whiel pg, but that makes me feel better about it. :)
That being said - My sister didn't know she was pg and took a cycle of Clomid when she was 5 wks and my nephew is fine (actually, he is 1 IQ point away from genius!!). Not that I would ever recommend taking it whiel pg, but that makes me feel better about it. :)
I think the nurse needs more information even though she is the specialist. CLOMIT AND FEMARA you only take them to get pregnant not during pregnancy.They are medications to help you ovulate. And every medication has side effects even advil or aspirin, and the fertility treatments even more. But if don't take your chances you never know. There are many babies concieved without medications and still be born with defects. If you have problems with ovulation you have no choice but to take any of this two. Good luck
Okay,
I feel like a TOTAL hypocrit right now!!! I just told you I would never take Femera because EVERYONE at work scared me out of it, but I went online, then in our drug books here at the Hospital and found that Clomid would actually be worse for you than Femera!!! I had taken up to 150mg of Clomid because I was not ovulating, I have PCOS. Well, from my research I would be better off with the Femera, it is not such a monster as I was told! As long as you are ABSOLUTELY NOT PG while on it, which....with MOST drugs out there, not just infertility drugs you don't want to take while PG. Femera is only a catagory risk D (which is not good), but Clomid is a catagory risk X (the WORST!!!) I was never informed of these side effects to the baby when I was on Clomid...just the side effects to ME MOMMY! The more I research the better the Femera sounds. I do not want to do the EXPENSIVE hormone shots again, and everyone says the Femera works wonders. Yeah, it is for breast cancer women, postmenopausal...but the side effect was these women getting PG! SO still be careful, but I changed my position on the drug....I am for it. Pluse I here it runs out of your system faster than CLomid and makes your uterus more thick and cushy for the baby, where as the Clomid thins the lining of the uterus! GOOD LUCK!!!! I like to babble when I've been up all night at the hospital as you can tell, SORRY!!!
I feel like a TOTAL hypocrit right now!!! I just told you I would never take Femera because EVERYONE at work scared me out of it, but I went online, then in our drug books here at the Hospital and found that Clomid would actually be worse for you than Femera!!! I had taken up to 150mg of Clomid because I was not ovulating, I have PCOS. Well, from my research I would be better off with the Femera, it is not such a monster as I was told! As long as you are ABSOLUTELY NOT PG while on it, which....with MOST drugs out there, not just infertility drugs you don't want to take while PG. Femera is only a catagory risk D (which is not good), but Clomid is a catagory risk X (the WORST!!!) I was never informed of these side effects to the baby when I was on Clomid...just the side effects to ME MOMMY! The more I research the better the Femera sounds. I do not want to do the EXPENSIVE hormone shots again, and everyone says the Femera works wonders. Yeah, it is for breast cancer women, postmenopausal...but the side effect was these women getting PG! SO still be careful, but I changed my position on the drug....I am for it. Pluse I here it runs out of your system faster than CLomid and makes your uterus more thick and cushy for the baby, where as the Clomid thins the lining of the uterus! GOOD LUCK!!!! I like to babble when I've been up all night at the hospital as you can tell, SORRY!!!
Hey,
I am a nurse in Texas and I work with several nurses who have been around forever and they don't want me to take the Femera drug, due to the "POSSIBLE" side effects. Now I know many women on this web site have had VERY wonderful results so I don't doubt the drug at all, but I am a hypocondriac type of personality so this is where I come from. I see SOOOO many horrible things in my line of work and Femera has the risk of giving your baby birth defects. Yeah, they say your baby will not have birth defects as long as you are not taking it while you are PG....but to me ANY risk like that is toooooo MUCH! I've heard some terrible stories from some of these nurses about the babies they've delivered with these birth defects from this drug, and some other fertility drugs so I just caution you to MAKE SURE your RE does an ultra sound to verify your PG status prior to you taking ANY Femera and I would ask him/her several questions first, like how long it takes your body to filter completely out of your system, to make sure you don't concieve while you have any of the drug on board. This is just what I would personally do, and I want the best for you and your future family. Best of luck and I know you will be blessed with a beautiful healthy child......like I said, I don't want to freak you out, and I know how hard it is to see everyone get PG but you....just be careful and make sure your doctor does it right!
I am a nurse in Texas and I work with several nurses who have been around forever and they don't want me to take the Femera drug, due to the "POSSIBLE" side effects. Now I know many women on this web site have had VERY wonderful results so I don't doubt the drug at all, but I am a hypocondriac type of personality so this is where I come from. I see SOOOO many horrible things in my line of work and Femera has the risk of giving your baby birth defects. Yeah, they say your baby will not have birth defects as long as you are not taking it while you are PG....but to me ANY risk like that is toooooo MUCH! I've heard some terrible stories from some of these nurses about the babies they've delivered with these birth defects from this drug, and some other fertility drugs so I just caution you to MAKE SURE your RE does an ultra sound to verify your PG status prior to you taking ANY Femera and I would ask him/her several questions first, like how long it takes your body to filter completely out of your system, to make sure you don't concieve while you have any of the drug on board. This is just what I would personally do, and I want the best for you and your future family. Best of luck and I know you will be blessed with a beautiful healthy child......like I said, I don't want to freak you out, and I know how hard it is to see everyone get PG but you....just be careful and make sure your doctor does it right!
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