PCOS and taking Clomid

[cmmurph]

Hi. I am new here, and I have a question. I am 25 years old, when I was 15 I got my first period and only got it for 3 months and then it was gone forever...so I have been on BC since then. My husband and I decided to have a baby and I found out that I had PCOS. I have been off BC since May with no period. The doctor starting me on Clomid last month 50 mg and nothing happened, I thought it was crazy he gave me Clomid when I was not ovulating...anyway this month he gave me Provera and told me to take it for 5 days and then 5 days later to start my Clomid. Well 5 days later there was not a period..but he told me to take the Clomid anyway....so I took it and on the 4 day of it I has such intense cramps that I was terrified...and then they went away...well yesterday (which was 4 days after my last Clomid (150mgs) I started my period.  The weird thing is that the day before yesterday I took a ovulation test and it showed I was ovulating. I am really confused and I am hoping that someone else can give me a little help with all of this. I would love to hear anyones feed back. Thank you so much!!!!

[Siciliana1411]

hey mlb1234 did femara work for you? did you get preg.?

[mlb1234]

right you can take metformin instead of bc pills if you are trying to conceive.  it helps regulate your insulin by decreasing glucose uptake in the intestine and glucose synthesis by the liver.  they think pcos is caused by insulin resistance and metformin "should" help with that.  cmmurph is right - if you are insulin resistant you will have higher levels of insulin and glucose - this affects your estrogen and other hormones and can make it hard to ovulate.  metformin does take awhile before it will regulate your cycles - even 6 months or so.  I got pregnant after 1.5 months on it but then had a m/c (in this short amount of time though it did not make my cycles shorter).  Because I am older and didn't want to waste a lot of time I took femara to help with ovulation (others take clomid but they are similar).  many girls with pcos still use the clomid in addition to metformin.  try to get in with a repro. endocrinologist though - many ob's don't really treat pcos appropriately as the RE's do.

[Baby Vol]

metformin is also called glucophage.....i just got diagnosed with pcos too and they put me on it to regulate my blood sugar level. sure enough, for the past two months, my ovulation pains came back and i actually ovulated for the first time in over a year!

i dont know much about it either, but my doc said that if your insulin is out of whack, then it screws up your progesterone, estrogen, and all those other hormones you have causing you not to get preggers.

good luck to you!

[cmmurph]

what is metformin?? Is that a drug you can take instead of taking BC to help treat PCOS?? I have read alot about PCOS but I dont really understand it to much.

[mlb1234]

clomid is supposed to help you ovulate.  there is another drug (femara) which you can try if clomid does not make you ovulate but you will probably need to see a reproductive endocrinologist.  They will help treat your pcos - most women take metformin for that.  Because of your young age you may have to try a little longer before your ob will refer you to an RE but you can always ask.