My story

Here we go... this is my story so far.

I've always wanted children. I remember picking out names when I was only 14. I never assumed there would be anything wrong with me. I had no symptoms, my mother had no problems and conceived three children easily and quickly. Infertility wasn't discussed much either, I can't remember hearing hardly anything about it when I was growing up (up until recently included in that). I just assumed I would be fine. I was wrong.

I met my other half at university and we've now been together getting on for ten years. He's the best support I could have hoped for and for that I'm grateful.

I started TTC in March 2011. After a year I went to see my GP and was referred for tests and was found to have PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) I was gobsmacked and I cried like a child. I had a blood test first and that was fine so I thought I was ok but then got the ultrasound results and that confirmed I had it.

I quickly recovered my spirits again because of hearing lots of success stories from Clomid and I just bolstered myself up with that and determined to hold onto hope. I just tried to be as positive as I could. But unfortunately the ultrasound I had done to look for PCOS caused some mysterious dermatitis in the vulval area and that took months of seeing specialists to get rid of (I could write a whole seperate blog on that subject...) In the end I found out I have allergies, one of which is a blue dye which was present in the lubricant that was used in my internal ultrasound test! I had to deal with this from March 2012 until january 2013, frequent burning, not just after urination but all the time. I saw many doctors who "didn't know what was wrong" and I can't put into words how much that time BROKE me. I had nearly a year of waiting to start fertility treatment because of it. I was stuck, I was trapped and I was also scared because of doctors saying they didn't know what was wrong and suggesting it could be permanent. I managed to go in for my HSG test in August despite having the dermatitis because I was so desperate to move things along. My tubes were found to be fine and clear.

Anyway, in the end I "went private" (I'm in England) in January 2013 and all it took was a simple examination and steroid treatments and within a month my dermatitis was almost completely gone and I was ready to start Clomid AT LAST.

Just to be clear- for fertility i'm on the NHS.

So I began Clomid last month. I tried 50mg. It didn't work unfortunately. I'm now on my second cycle and this time I'm on 100mg. I'm also on 1500mg Metformin a day (one 500mg tablet after each of my main meals). That takes me up to now...