[poppyfairy]

Originally Posted by butterfly_warrior

I've also been watching with interest, even though I'm only in the early days. I'm pretty sure I'm seeing my first cycle of clomid completely fail to make me ovulate.

What concerns me in reading this, is that 6 years ago I developed chronic fatigue syndrome, at which point my body chemistry was completely screwed up. Since then, the energy problems have resovled, but I've been diagnosed with a weird form of rheumatoid arthritis that nobody can yet identify. I've been tested for what feels like absolutely everything under the sun, and everything comes back clear... except my blood tests always show elevated ESR and C-reactive protein, which I'm told indicates some sort of inflammatory process going on in my body. Add to that what should be mild PCOS (I'm not overweight, my ovaries are polycystic in appearance, yet the only hormone that did not test within normal range was free androgens, and that was only slightly elevated) but seems to have a very severe impact on my cycle.

I guess my gut feeling is that natural conception isn't going to happen for us, and my peculiar health conditions are going to complicate things, even though my GP, my rheumatologist and my gyn (who I personally think is completely useless) say otherwise. My GP has indicated that when it comes to referring me to a fertility specialist, his preference is for me to use David Knight. Thoughts? comments?

BW

Hi I also have PCOS and mine is different from all the others as well. In fact I think my hormones were pretty much like yours. I am not saying that you won't ovulate on clomid but I know I was told that PCOS sufferers who don't ovulate on clomid usually have success on FSH injections. But anyway you still have this cycle to see what clomid can do for you! Don't give up yet!
Fi