CD11: Femara Cycle #3

“Wow, you really are sensitive to Femara aren’t you?” That’s what the RE that saw me today said. According to her, Femara is only supposed to help the growth of one follicle (which I guess is why it’s often used for women who don’t ovulate at all). This time I had a 17mm, 18mm, 14.4mm [...]

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Chest pains

No, we’re not talking about emotional heartbreak here, although I get that too sometimes. I’ve got literal, physical chest pains. It all started when I began to take Femara. The first month, I felt it, and I felt it often. The second month I felt it again and was told by my RE to go [...]

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Newlyweds

A good friend of mine just got married and she’s already non-stop talking about having babies. Our conversation today went something like this: Her: You know, we’ve started having sex without protection and hopefully we’ll get pregnant really soon. We decided to start trying sooner than later because god forbid, we have problems. Me: Oh [...]

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Acupuncture anyone?

(image as seen on baby blues) It’s CD4 of my third femara/IUI cycle. AF is almost gone now and I have to say that this was by far the easiest AF I have EVER had and I completely credit Acupuncture and Chinese herbs for that. It was beautiful if I may say so myself. No [...]

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The Elimination Plan

I am going to think out aloud here because I want to have this conversation with my RE at our consultation. I’m going to ask him about laparoscopy and he’s going to tell me it’s “elective” and that it’s up to me if I want to have the procedure done. So I want to think [...]

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CD7: Femara Cycle #2

So I’ve made it through the drug consumption stage and I’m off the Femara now. Maybe it’s because I’m unemployed and I sit around and hang out with my laptop all day long…but it didn’t really affect me this time at all. No symptoms (except for a migrain that I got at a party after [...]

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Femara – so far….

So far, Femara seems to be better than Clomid. I haven’t gotten the headaches that Clomid gave me and I don’t feel as agitated when I’m going about my normal business, but when I start talking about something that annoys me – the anger! It burst out of me! Also, yesterday, I wanted to go [...]

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Switching to Femara

It’s CD2 and my doctor has made a decision to switch me to Femara or Letrozole as it’s also called. The first pill is sitting in front of me as I’m typing. I need to get a glass of water to down it with. Femara is weird. It’s primary use is for breast cancer treatment. [...]

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