PREGNANCY-BIRTH Messages for September, 2002: Re: Dr.

Re: Dr. - tired of waiting

From: samir (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:12:29 -0500 (CDT)

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At Mon, 30 Sep 2002, patty wrote: >
>I've been trying to cocieve for about 9 years. I finally went to a
>fertility specialist (instead of relying on my OB who had me on Clomid
>for a year)and this new doctor took me off of progesterone that i've
>been on for 7 years because it was so low when checked (.03). The
>doctor's reason was that the progesterone may have made it look like I
>was ovulating when I was not. I've had a few vaginal ultrisounds and
>it's always appeared that I've ovulated to the doctor (although I
>realize they cannot tell for sure). I'm going to have my first IUI as
>soon as the ovulation predictor kit tells me I have the surge. Well,
>it's day 13 and it's not even past a faint line on the stick - help!
>could the progesterone really "fool" you body into thinking it's
>ovulated? what can be done about not ovulating? I took Clomid (100mg)
>this month. I've always seen the surge on day 11 or 12 - I guess I'm a
>little anxious.

when progesterone is low ,0.3 this means no ovulation and stimulation of ovaries by fertility drugs like clomid should cause ovulation in 80% of cases and progesterone will increase due to ovulation and prescribed when pregnancy is diagnosed and insufficient progesterone is detected while pregnant.

-- SAmir Fouad Aziz Assist Professor OB.Gyn Director Gyn.oncology Al-AZhar University-Egypt Editorial advisor OBgyn.net(P&B,Gyn.Oncology)

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