FOR THE LADIES THAT SAID THEY DO NOT OVULATE

shamma Posted: Sep 03, 2003 05:32 PM

FOR THE LADIES THAT SAID THEY DO NOT OVULATE

Do you still get your period?? I do not understand this concept. Don't ovulation causes you to get your period??? Please clarify. There was someone on here who said that they thought they were ovulating and they actually wasn't. If you don't get your period how could you think you were ovulating. I was trying to explain to my GF about some of the issues that women were facing in causing them not to conceive/ovulate.

chmlengr Posted: Sep 03, 2003 06:00 PM

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* jumps up and down waving her hand, saying me, me!! *

I haven't had AF in over a year (I am not on BC or any other medications). There was no underlying cause that I could think of that would prevent me from getting AF (100 HPTs all came back negative), so I went to the doc who did hormone tests on my blood. All came back fine.

I am anovulatory - meaning I do not ovulate and I don't get AF. However, it is possible to bleed if you don't ovulate - essentially, anovulatory bleeding or simlar to breakthrough bleeding.

So yes Shamma, you only get a period if you ovulate. That's the body's way of expelling the egg that went unfertilized (sorry TMI).

I do not know if I ovulate without getting AF. That's why trying to get preggo is such a 'trying' thing for us. And hopefully Clomid, which jump starts ovulation, will be the answer to my questions.

jenny11.9 Posted: Sep 03, 2003 06:04 PM

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when are you starting clomid trish? (just curious)

chmlengr Posted: Sep 03, 2003 06:06 PM

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I am scheduled to go back to my doc this month to begin the 'process'.... First I take a 10-day Rx of Provera to induce AF, then I take the Clomid once I get AF.

JennRenee Posted: Sep 03, 2003 06:29 PM

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Best of luck and lots of hugs to you Trish!

shamma Posted: Sep 03, 2003 07:51 PM

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Thanks Trish, I was telling my GF about you. I am going to see my Gyn to do a test to make sure that all is well with me. All the best to you and lots of success

Claud2001 Posted: Sep 03, 2003 07:57 PM

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Since having Paul, I have been experiencing anovulatory bleeding (such as Trish describes - bleeding without ovulating), but for me, it is not as much of an unknown as to the reason why. I have been diagnosed with PCOS, which is what is throwing off my ovulatory cycle. I am taking a medication to help. This whole subject is very upsetting and very difficult to deal with for me right now, b/c we've had to put our plans for baby #2 on hold until I am more regular.

JustJodi Posted: Sep 03, 2003 08:12 PM

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I had ovulating problems which led me to go on clomid.
I would get my period but never the same time every month.. it was late days even as late as a week at a time, so it was hard to try to detect 'when' would of been a good time to try, which led me and DH to be very active all month long ( lol)
I would of gotten pregnant eventually, I only tried for a few months before I tured to a fertility specialist because I was impatient.. I got pregnant the first month on the clomid.

natasha Posted: Sep 03, 2003 08:36 PM

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I just wanted to say that I am learning so much from you guys.

shamma Posted: Sep 03, 2003 09:13 PM

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I like the idea of trying every day for the month, Roger likes that idea a lot too.

Claud lots of hugs, I cannot even imagine

JennRenee Posted: Sep 04, 2003 06:51 AM

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Claud ~ You KNOW I understand and am here for you!

jenny11.9 Posted: Sep 04, 2003 08:38 AM

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good luck to all of you!

I admire your intelligence, persistence and knowledge so much! You should all be blessed with as many babies as you can handle!

Cira Posted: Sep 04, 2003 09:26 AM

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Same here ... I wish everyone lots of luck and baby dust.

Crisco718 Posted: Sep 04, 2003 12:09 PM

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I also have ovulation problems. I was doing OK for about 9 months and now I have started missing periods again.

boosh78201 Posted: Sep 04, 2003 12:46 PM

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I dont get my period at all because of my thyroid. I have to take medication to bring it on, but the doctor said that since I do get my period when I take the medication, getting pregnant on medication will happen very quickly.

I hope he's right!!

chmlengr Posted: Sep 04, 2003 12:48 PM

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Same here Christine. I have no problems with AF once I take Provera, and the blood work has all come back with normal hormone levels. I hope things progress quickly here as well.

boosh78201 Posted: Sep 04, 2003 12:50 PM

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Good luck Trish!!

Stef28 Posted: Sep 04, 2003 01:17 PM

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I always thought I had normal periods too but it turns out I don't ovulate that strongly on my own -- that's why I'm on Clomid too. But the theory that if I get my period regularly that once on meds you'll get pregnant quickly doesn't ring true for me. I just finished my 4th dose of Clomid at the highest dosage and nothing so far.

chmlengr Posted: Sep 04, 2003 01:22 PM

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Stef I don't even get periods, so I have nothing to go by So I am so afraid that the Clomid will also do nothing for me, asI have been following your struggles as well.

Good Luck

I also wanted to clarify one thing. I always had normal periods, like clockwork, then went on the pill at the age of 24. Came off the pill last September after 6-7 years on it, and then discovered I haven't gotten my period since then! So who knows what the problem is. But it's very frustrating, despite all my friends with children saying that I should be happy I don't get an AF!!

Jenn P Posted: Sep 04, 2003 02:37 PM

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Hugs to Trish, Stef, and all others who are trying. I was talking to my mom the other day about what people go through while TTC. After my parents married and bought their house they tried for five YEARS before I, their only child, decided to show up. My mom just couldn't get pregnant. In our conversation, she marveled at the options available to women these days to 'help' their bodies do what they're meant to do. She didn't have most of those options and she still was able to have a child. I share this only to remind everyone that there is always hope and to never give up. We're all rooting for you.