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Q: PCOS and fertile days
asked by: catalina. on April 15th, 2008
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I have PCOS and have known about it for 7 months now,and in the last 9 months i have only had 2 periods,and i only had thoes as i am taking 1000mg of metformin per day!

I just want to work out the days that i am fertile. Every site that i go on to look at conception days dont have the option for longer cycles! as it seems that i have one good ovary and one that isnt releasing an egg as i had a cycle then missed then another one!

The first day of my first P since taking metformin was 25th Jan 08 my P after that came 26th March 08!

Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction?

Please give me your thoughts and ideas!

mant thanks Cat.
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catalina.
replied on April 15th, 2008
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also... would that make my cycle 61 days???? i really think i am in amess! please help!!!!!
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mc4ever02
replied on April 20th, 2008
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The only way to know if/ when you are ovulating would be to track your basal body temperature.

However, it would be extremely difficult to conceive if you are having 61 day cycles, and egg quality that late in a cycle would be very poor.

I suggest you talk to your doctor about medications. They may need to up your Met dosage for it to be more effective. You also might want to talk about Femera or Clomid to make you ovulate.
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catalina.
replied on April 21st, 2008
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Thank you! i have heard of clomid
its just that for 6 months i have had nothing then at the end of jan i had a p then again in march,so unless i am just getting sorted!!!

But thank you!
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StacyHoll
replied on April 23rd, 2008
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After 3 years of no protection weird periods etc. I went on a health kick. All natural foods. No hot dogs, bread, junk food...fastfood etc. I just ate fruit veggies lean meats and fish. I started getting my periods almost regularly and then within 7 months I became pregnant. I am 19 weeks now. The baby is healthy and I am too.. Just becareful with some of the drugs out there.

I hope you're not using METFORMIN to concieve! I went to my OB after reading an artical about the drug. I thought it would help me carry my baby, because I became pregnant with PCOS. He had just went to a confrence and he said its one of the worst things to take to concieve because it can cause HUGE problems during pregnancy inclding infant death. ONCE you start taking it if you become pregnant you have to stay on it and it will probably cause death to the fetus early on. So, be careful.. My OB is the head of the hospital where I live he's great.
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pregwith2
replied on June 25th, 2009
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StacyHoll wrote:

I hope you're not using METFORMIN to concieve! I went to my OB after reading an artical about the drug. I thought it would help me carry my baby, because I became pregnant with PCOS. He had just went to a confrence and he said its one of the worst things to take to concieve because it can cause HUGE problems during pregnancy inclding infant death. ONCE you start taking it if you become pregnant you have to stay on it and it will probably cause death to the fetus early on. So, be careful.. My OB is the head of the hospital where I live he's great.


My reproductive endocrinologist is Dr Warren Kidson. Google him. He has done groundbreaking studies in the use of Metformin.

Please be careful before telling women Metformin will kill their fetus.

I lost 3 pregnancies because I wasn't on Metformin and the insulin resistance caused me to miscarry.

I delivered a beautiful healthy boy last year thanks to Metformin and just conceived again on it.

More and more studies are being done, and it is proving very safe to use in pregnancy.

Further to this, is has been proven to reduce the PCOS miscarriage rate from 60% to 11% (in line with the non-PCOS population)
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