PCOS Stories 5 – Getting Pregnant With Ovulation Induction

Josie’s Story: Getting Pregnant With Ovulation Induction

I want to talk to you about Josie who by the way is pregnant and well now after her fertility treatment, but she did develop two known problems as a consequence of her fertility treatment.

Josie is a 29 year old university student with PCOS who had been trying to conceive for 18 months before I saw her in my clinic. We tried to help her to conceive through the fertility treatment of ovulation induction with the hormone tablet Clomiphene Citrate (Clomid),  but no ovulation occurred despite increasing the tablet dose up to 150 mg of Clomid.

In fertility  talk we call this having “Clomid resistance”.

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