To IUI or Not To IUI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Clomid, unlike injectables, raises your cancer risk if used too often. Also, many women experience a thinning of their lining while on Clomid. There is good reason to use it with caution.

Interesting b/c SG basically crammed clomid down my throat. I wanted to do injectibles and my RE at SG insisted on clomid.

There are indicators for using it for a few cycles, particularly in younger patients or patients who are anovulatory.

If you are feeling like you can't trust your RE (which your post does, to me), I would definitely shop around to find one who's approach you are more comfortable with. I think a baseline of trust is important to keeping your stress lower in what can be a trying process. If I felt like an RE were cramming something down my throat, I would definitley move on.

[Anonymous]

"Says I am ovulating on my own and he doesn't want to run the risk of too many follicles? something like that. My ob/gyn already put me on clomid so I am not sure why SG is so against it. I think maybe he's holding out hope that we'll either get pregnant on our own or that the IUI will just help things along? I am 35, DH is 40 and our tests all came back normal. So unexplained IF. Whatever the F that means. But I mean I outright asked him to let us do a medicated cycle and he said not yet."

That sounds like a crazy plan to me. If you are unexplained, go to someone who is willing to do more testing. Have you been worked up for immune issues? Tested for translocations and other genetic problems? Has your DH had a DNA analysis on his sperm? I really don't see what unmedicated IUIs will do for you, and there are ways to take clomid and/or injectibles to control for multiples - low does and close monitoring.

[Anonymous]

16:33 - your post makes me want to cry. I get very overwhelmed when people list the tests that we should/could have. how do you know about these tests? how do I learn about them? how do I know if we need them? why is my dr not telling me about them? one concern i have is that my DH is diabetic and often there are issues with fragmented dna -- but SG dr knows this and said DH's analysis came back fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Clomid, unlike injectables, raises your cancer risk if used too often. Also, many women experience a thinning of their lining while on Clomid. There is good reason to use it with caution.


Interesting b/c SG basically crammed clomid down my throat. I wanted to do injectibles and my RE at SG insisted on clomid.


There are indicators for using it for a few cycles, particularly in younger patients or patients who are anovulatory.

If you are feeling like you can't trust your RE (which your post does, to me), I would definitely shop around to find one who's approach you are more comfortable with. I think a baseline of trust is important to keeping your stress lower in what can be a trying process. If I felt like an RE were cramming something down my throat, I would definitley move on.

Nope, not anovulatory OR young! Approaching 40 with normal ovulatory cycles. Fortunately, I am pregnant now - no thanks to SG. I was getting ready to switch to Dominion when I got pregnant on my own.