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How long to try naturally before trying medications
stringbeann
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I'm just wondering how long to try naturally before asking for fertility medication. I've been trying for 9 months and am 21. Lost a pregnancy in June and cycles are getting longer and longer. My last cycle was 45 days,
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We tried for about 10 months before going on Clomid, and it was about 14 months before we saw a fertility specialist. Our second round at the Fertility Specialist did it for us. I am now 10 weeks pregnant. Make sure that whatever DR you see that they monitor your folicles. You don't want to keep taking a fertility drug if it's not doing anything.0
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I only tried for 5 months before going on metformin... but my hair was falling out in handfuls so that was fairly distressing to me. But I intend to keep trying that natural stuff + met for another 6 months or so before looking into more specific fertility drugs.
You are still very young, so you have time, but I would probably try to get a referral to a specialist after a year of trying.
Are you using natural progesterone cream as part of your regimen? If not you should look into it, because it can help maintain a pregnancy, and should also help shorten your cycles.
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Most doctors will require that you try for a year before they will do fertility treatments, however they can treat the PCOS before that. I went to the doctor after only three months because my hair was falling out and my cycles were becoming too long (and were eventually non-existent). They will do Metformin long before they'll do the fertility drugs and that did the trick for me. It still took a long time (a year and a half total) but it worked. I'm 29 weeks pregnant with my second.0
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