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Re: 200 Mg. Clomid - Did anyone have abdominal pain?
From: Kim (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 25 Jul 2000 21:11:01 -0500 (CDT)
At Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Michele wrote:
>Michele,
Have you had any side effects with the Met?
Kim
>Good to hear the pain went away. From your response I see that your
>testosterone was high. But you don't mention what your fasting insulin
>was or if you have had a igtt done yet.
>It is important that you have at least the fasting insulin done and if
>that comes back normal then maybe the igtt. I gather your aware that
>the underlying cause of pco and our infertility problems is having
>elevated insulin. While clomid is used only for fertility. The
>met/glucophage is used to treat the elevated insulin which caused the
>infertility. Glucophage/met should be the first form of treatment
>because it will improve your health overall whether or not you are
>trying to get pregnant. If you do get pregnant once you have stopped
>breast feeding you will want to go back on met or another insulin
>sensitizing medication, because if you don't you may develope diabetes,
>heart disease or endometrial cancer.
>This month's fertility treatment wasn't succesful, started on day 34 of
>my cycle negative preggo test. Disappointed but it was only our first
>official go at it with the assistance of fertilty meds, so I'm hopeful.
>I think my insulin which has dropped with the met but is still very high
>at 42, is effecting the implantation.
>Just started 1500 mg of met, hope that will bring it down a little
>faster. Maybe we'll get lucky this month, if not in september, I think
>we will add insemination into the mix. Good luck to you.
>
>At Mon, 24 Jul 2000, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>>>Hi Michele,
>>Thank you so much for the feedback. Today I am on day 19 of my cycle
>>and the pain is gone. I called the doctor on Friday and she said to
>>watch it over the weekend. It did not hurt when I urinated, and I even
>>had a positive ovulation test for the first time. The doctor said that
>>I was probably ovulating. I can only hope. I am on Clomid only. We
>>have an appt. with an RE on 8/25. They told me the next step would
>>probably be Metformin. I was just hoping that it would happen before
>>that. Oh well.
>>I had my testosterone levels checked and they were double what they are
>>supposed to be. That is how they diagnosed me. Thanks again for
>>responding. Have you had any success?
>>
>>>--
>>>michele
>>>
>--
>michele
>
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