I’m freaking terrified after reading everyone’s experience. Is this a must do? Has anyone gotten pregnant without doing this?

Going to be a long post but the main takeaway is that within days of stopping my 18 month old labrador from sleeping in my room at night I got a positive ovulation test at CD45!

28F TTC for 4 months. I have a fertility appointment coming up (going private and hoping to get letrozole) so I was gathering my period history and matching it up to life events.

I've always known that I get stressed easily and it messes with my cycle; each time I've moved away from a toxic job my period suddenly appears. But seeing 2 years of data matched up to life events was crazy.

I had a 120 day cycle when I was planning my wedding, looking after 2 dogs, doing evening classes to change career, and getting a melanoma removed.

After I moved jobs my cycles went stable for a long time until I got a puppy. Then I had back to back cycles of 116, 86 and 65. It showed me how much uninterrupted sleep was important for my stress even though I didn't feel it.

Since TTC I had an 51 day anovulatory cycle in which I moved house so not unsurprising. My next cycle was only 41 days long and I had a beautiful ovulation on CD27. It gave me so much confidence that I could do it again. But in my current cycle I got to around CD38 with no sign of ovulation after testing twice a day for over 2 weeks. Within those 38 days we'd decided our lab was old enough to sleep outside his crate overnight so he slept in our room, moving from our bed onto the floor multiple of times during the night. As soon as we let him roam the house but shut off our bedroom my cycle just went into back into gear.

Make sure you're getting good quality sleep girls 🌈✨

TW: Loss

Tomorrow I have my first IUI scheduled. Only one mature follicle. Last cycle I had 4 follicle but we did our 6th TI cycle instead and I’m a bit peeved I only have 1 now.

No male factor infertility and I of course have PCOS. History of irregular cycles because I don’t ovulate… I maybe 3 times a year without medication.

Has anyone struggled with timed intercourse not working and had luck with IUI? Mostly focusing on if you don’t have male factor infertility because I know IUI can help a lot when that is a factor but that isn’t our issue.

I did get pregnant in December but it was determined to be a non viable pregnancy in Feb, resulting in a D&C. That baby was conceived via timed intercourse but we’ve done 5 cycles since then and have had zero luck. Even with multiple follicles (usually).

I know there are worse meds in this process but I cannot express how much I despise Metformin!!

They've been trying to pin diabetes on me since I was 10 and it's completely fuck me up mentally. I've literally been starving myself in one way or another since then to lose weight. So I've been on and off metformin for years but this is the first time specifically for ovulation.

I'm now at the point where my body is so broken from all the abuse it simply will not ovulate.

All my hormone bloods have come back fine, I'm not peri menopause. My sugars are perfect.

But everything else is wrong my GGT levels are ridiculously high (279) my antiinflammatory markers are high, I have absolutely no metabolism, my body cannot absorb vitamin D. I've also got IBS and eosinophilic esophagitis. I can barely get food in and when I do it wants to get back out as fast as possible and still can't lose weight.

Because of all this I'm back on metformin and have been for 5 weeks which is nothing as it can take up to 6 months work but my nipples are screaming and I have a near constant ache in that area between the lower abdomen and pelvis. I'm also irrationally angry some days which just upsets me.

I'm utterly miserable and it just feels so damn unfair that I'm struggling so much when I'm doing everything right and either no one's listening or they have no idea. No one is willing to look at me as a whole it's all this one specialist or this specialist, and technically I haven't been trying long enough to require a specialist pregnancy team yet BUT HOW is a cycle that has lasted 183 days not a cause for concern. It just feels like everything medical is moving so slow while everything else is moving too fast.

I know anxiety and stress are also absolute killers for this process but each passing day feels like it's snowballing and I hate that.

Thank you for letting me have a place to vent.

For those with an AMH level of around 5 ng/ml and regular periods: what treatment did you undergo to get pregnant? I’m looking for success stories 🍀

(I don't want to write a post that's too long, but I've been diagnosed with PCOS.)

Looking for some advice about Letrozole and bleed before ovulation.

So I’m a PCOS girlie and this cycle was my first cycle on 7.5mg Letrozole unmonitored. According the Mira and my knowledge I hadn’t ovulated yet so was waiting for my peaks to show. However today when I went to the bathroom there was blood on wiping.I don’t know if it’s my period or if it could be something else? I don’t know if I missed ovulation with Mira? Also I don’t know whether to take Letrozole as if it were my period/next cycle. Any and all advice and experiences shared are so welcomed.

TIA x

Has anyone ever had their timing messed up with their partner? We’re on our first cycle of letrozole/trigger shot/IUI and he has a semi last min work trip scheduled on CD18/19/20. I’m doing letrozole days 5-9 and go in for my first monitoring check CD13. I’m super worried the timing is gonna fall right into that timeline when he’s gone for a few days. We could prob make it work for TI but it’s gonna be pretty much impossible to get him in for an IUI if it were to fall on those days. Of course I’ll ask when I go in for monitoring, but anyone else have a similar issue?? Will it end up just having to be a TI cycle vs IUI??

Hi!
I have been making lifestyle changes for the last four months as well as myoinositol.
I have been testing ovulation for the last month and a half (I get three or four periods a year) and I got a positive LH test today!!! I had a period mid June.
However, I have zero other symptoms. No cervical mucus, no sore boobs, nada.
Could this be a false positive?

hey yall! I have been thinking about buying an Inito and was wondering if it would be worth the purchase? It seems that a lot of people find it helpful for the hormone tracking but I’m reading that it only comes with 15 strips, did you find that you immediately purchased extra strips due to the irregularity from PCOS? I’ve been using LH strips but feel like if I am going to keep spending money on those I should just go ahead and try Inito lol

My cycles range from 30–46 days, and I usually ovulate anywhere from cycle day 17–24. This month, I believe I ovulated around cycle day 19–20.

Whenever I track and get a positive OPK, my period comes exactly 14 days later. I’m currently two days late but I’m terrified to test because I had an unsuccessful IUI last month that affected me a lot more than I expected. I want to wait until I’m 7 days late to test since I’m not 100 sure if a longer luteal phase is normal for me since I have irregular cycles.

How long is your luteal phase with PCOS?

Looking for anyone with a similar slow-response cycle. I have PCOS, but I was able to ovulate on my own last month. This cycle is a TI cycle, and I took letrozole CD4-8. My dominant follicle has been growing very slowly: 10 mm on CD11, 11 mm on CD14, 12 mm on CD17, and still 12 mm on CD19. My lining was 4.66 mm on CD19. RE is having me start Gonal-F on CD19 to try to stimulate further growth, and I'll be going back for another ultrasound on CD22. I'm worried it's late in the cycle and that the follicle may have stalled, but my clinic still seems hopeful. Has anyone had a follicle stall around 12 mm and then respond to Gonal-F? Did you eventually ovulate, and how did your lining progress? I'd love to hear about similar experiences and outcomes