Jade, thanks for the new thread. I hope your m/s gets better. I used chocolate to help my m/s. It worked great, but I gained weight in my first tri, oops.
Carol, ((HUGS)) I will include you and your baby in my prayers. I hope you get a good beta today. Will they check your progesterone level, too?
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Originally Posted by Silver09  Hey this is my first post. I'm a LDS cyster from Fort Worth, Texas. I was diagnosed with PCOS in Feb. 08. I don't really have any symptoms except for irregular periods. My husband and I are ttc and I am currently on met and clomid. This is my first round of clomid and I don't even know if I ovulated. Those OPK test are so hard to read. So before I was diagnosed, I always charted my temperature and it always went up when I ovulated and dropped when AF came. But my doctor then tells me that I don't ovulate. He said my LH levels were higher than my FSH levels...but I had just ovulated so aren't my LH levels suppose to be higher? That was the same day my temperature increased. I don't understand how that can be. I do know that my luteal phase is always shorter and they tested me last month and said my progesterone levels were low and so that is why they put me on clomid. And now that I am on clomid and met...my temperature doesn't rise. I just don't get it!
I think I'm the only one in my ward that isn't pregnant or that doesn't have any children. It is so hard and I feel like no one understands what I'm going through.
Sorry this is so long but I just feel really lost. Anyone has any advice...I would appreciate it.
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Laura,
to soulcysters, and to our LDS thread. I know it is hard to see ladies popping up PG at church, when you have been TTC for a while. I've been there, too. I didn't seek help right away, but in retrospect, I wish I would have.
It is good that you are getting help. Is your doc an RE? Reading what you wrote has got me thinking....hum.
I before I was Dx'ed with PCOS, I had 40 day cycles. I suspect that I wasn't Oing since we BD'd 14 days after AF, and 14 days before AF was expected (and several in betwen), and never got the BFP. I never took my BBT, so I am not sure if I even had a temp rise or not.
After reading what you have wrote, now I am wondering if it is possible for the CL to start producing progesterone, and cause a temp rise, even if the egg never actually released.....It must be possible for the CL to produce Prog, even without Oing, otherwise AF would not arrive after an anovulatory cycle. I guess that must be how cysts are formed. Either that, or I really was Oing, and just never caught the egg.
What your doc said about your said about your LH levels being higher than your FSH levels has me confused, too. I just looked up the hormone levels on the net and I am still confused, I guess it really depends on which CD the tests were taken on, since hormone levels change through the cycle. It does seem like LH should be higher than FSH on the day you O, since the LH surge would have just happened.
I have never been on clomid, but I have read on the boards that clomid can actually cause a late O, so maybe you just didn't O yet and that is why you haven't gotten a temp rise yet? Do you use FF or some type or online BBT chart? I wish you the best of luck and hope you O soon.