Small wins… I ovulated!!

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tcwoods91

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After not having a period for 6 months after stopping birth control and thus not ovulating, my gynecologist referred me to a fertility specialist last month and I was diagnosed with PCOS. I’m on my first cycle of letrozole + hCG trigger, and my progesterone blood test yesterday revealed that I ovulated!! I’m so happy I could cry. Letrozole 5mg/day for 5 days, midcycle ultrasound to monitor follicle + hCG trigger same day, and timed intercourse. Now we wait to see what happens at the end of my cycle (BFP or period). I’m not letting myself get overly excited because it’s our first cycle and this means we now have a “normal” chance of conceiving, which is only ~20%, but this small win gives me so much encouragement because it means my body responded to the meds the way it should have. I’m feeling much more optimistic than I was before, and my mental state has improved significantly in the last 2 weeks since starting all of this stuff.

Celebrate all your wins, big or small!!!
 
@tcwoods91 Yay!! Love to hear these “small” wins (which are big!!) because being anovulatory SUCKS. I’ve ovulated 2x this year and just started Provera again last night. Hoping to talk to my doc about letrozole in a couple weeks. I need to channel some of your positivity and excitement because it sure is in short supply over here.
 
@hal16 I can totally relate to these feelings. I have not been in a good headspace for the majority of the past 6 months and it was really starting to wear me down… My gyn had me try Provera twice and it failed to induce a bleed both times, so hopefully you have better luck than I did! Sending you good vibes!
 
@tcwoods91 I’ve had luck 1/2 times on it this year. Hopefully I will have luck this time because I cannot handle the thought of having to do it a fourth time with estrogen. That was a whole month of time lost
 
@hal16 I felt exactly this way when after two rounds of Provera my gyn had me take a pack of birth control I had leftover for the addition of the estrogen. I was like of course this is going to make me bleed because I always bled regularly in withdrawal from birth control we don't need to test that out again lol. After I did that pack of pills, that's when my gyn referred me to the specialist but still felt like a month of wasted time.
 
@tcwoods91 Congrats! Feeling this too. This is my third letrozole + trigger shot cycle (first IUI) and on my past two, I only ovulated on one and not the other, which was pretty deflating. I got my progesterone back this week and ovulated this cycle, which I am so happy about after learning that medicated cycles don’t always mean ovulation for me. It feels good to have the hope of that 20% lol.
Best of luck!!!
 
@tcwoods91 Awesome!! It took me quite a few months to get a regular cycle and to ovulate following hormonal birth control, it can be so exhausting waiting and hoping for it to happen. So glad you were able to confirm it! What a relief 😊
 
@tcwoods91 Woohoo! Congrats on your win! So happy for you!
Our stories are strikingly similar... I'm also on my first Letrozole cycle and ovulated for the first time. I keep reminding myself that regardless of how this cycle ends, at least we had a chance this month and that's more that we had before.
Let's hope for the best, good luck! 🤞
 
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