s/o Taking Clomid After an Ectopic Pregnancy

[Anonymous]

Has anyone done this? (Especially if you have lost a tube)?

[Anonymous]

I lost a tube 10 months ago. After starting with an RE, I did 3 months of clomid, 1 month of femara, and 1 femara+iui. I'm now 6 weeks pregnant from that iui, and we've just confirmed that the sac is correctly positioned in the uterus. Honestly, the RE assumed that I had tubal issues since I had one ectopic and gave my iui a very low chance of success. We were prepared to move to ivf immediately, but wanted to do one month of the cheaper option first. Let's hope this sticks for 9 months!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lost a tube 10 months ago. After starting with an RE, I did 3 months of clomid, 1 month of femara, and 1 femara+iui. I'm now 6 weeks pregnant from that iui, and we've just confirmed that the sac is correctly positioned in the uterus. Honestly, the RE assumed that I had tubal issues since I had one ectopic and gave my iui a very low chance of success. We were prepared to move to ivf immediately, but wanted to do one month of the cheaper option first. Let's hope this sticks for 9 months!

i hate how they undersell IUI. it's always move move move.

[Anonymous]

Hi- OP of the other thread here- I really wonder if my RE not only undersold IUI, he undersold Clomid as well. I mean, if I have one functioning tube/ovary set, why wouldn't I try to use that one!? He rec'd this after 6 months of trynig to get pregnant naturally didn't work... so how many people are told to go straight to IVF at age 33 if theyve spent 3 months (in "their time," since I only "productively" ovulate 1/2 the time) trying?

[Anonymous]

I'm the PP who just got pregnant from iui. We tried for 11 cycles (4 of which were using clomid or femara) after our ectopic before moving on to iui. To be fair to my RE, he was not pushing ivf. His advice was to turn to ivf if medicated cycles and timed intercourse didn't work for a year after the ectopic surgery. We were impatient since it took us 7 cycles to conceive the ectopic. Another major consideration was that our insurance does not cover fertility treatments. The RE advised that the most bang for your buck, so to speak, is to avoid multiple iui rounds and instead focus on ivf. We planned to do a single iui round and then do ivf. FWIW, I'm 32 and we conceived our first child naturally and easily when we were 29. Annecdotally, it seems that iui works wonders for some couples and never works at all for others and it seems unclear which category you will fall into before you try it. I think everyone should try it at least once - it's minimally invasive, it's far more affordable, and you may get lucky.

[Anonymous]

PP again - I forgot to mention that my RE assured me that you still have a chance of pregnancy each month, regardless of which side you ovulate from. Apparently there is a fairly high cross-fertilization rate, meaning the opposite tube could pick up the egg from the ovary on your missing-tube side.

[Anonymous]

OP here, I;ve been told my many that is extremely rare.