PCOS Stories 14 Megan’s PCOS story

Names have been changed for confidentiality

I saw Megan today for review in my fertility clinic. Megan and her partner John have been trying to conceive with PCOS for the past 3 years.

She has very infrequent menstrual cycles and only has a period about once a year… So to help her get pregnant with PCOS she required fertility treatment to induce ovulation.

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PCOS Stories 12 Min Yi’s PCOS Story

Names have been changed for confidentiality

I met Min in 2010 after her and husband Jonathon had been trying to conceive on and off for 5 years. Her menstrual cycles were occurring between 8 and 10 weeks apart.

Fertility tests confirmed her PCOS diagnosis and all other fertility investigations on them both came back normal.

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Trying To Get Pregnant With PCOS For 7 Months

Q/ Greetings of the day doctor!!

I am 31 Years old, 3 years of marriage and now planning to get pregnant,
but having problem since last 6-7 months.

I have been having PCOS, and trying to get pregnant for last 6 months. My periods are irregular and last time i had my periods was 10th Feb 2011.

I went to my gynae, and she has given me medicine to get periods, and has suggested me to come on the second day of my period, as she suggested me to get pregnant by injecting ovulation. Kindly suggest is it safe??

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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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