Clomid

When I was taking the hormone Clomid, I struggled with migraines. Not every woman experiences this side effect, but it is quite a challenge for those of us who do.

I would experience a migraine the first day on the pills and then the first day off. I believe this was due to my body adjusting to the presence and then absence of the hormones. I would feel irritable and aggressive. During that stage of my life, I was a very passive person, so some people were taken aback by my sudden aggressiveness.

Fluorescent lighting "hurt" my head, so going to work on migraine days was a real challenge. Whenever my migraine days fell on a weekend, it… [more]

When I told my sister that I had been hired to blog about fertility, the very first thing she said was that I had to share my French restaurant story on my blog. My husband and I are Chick-Fil-A kind of people, and we were invited to dine at a very expensive French restaurant with his company. For anyone who knows us, this is amusing enough. I happened to be taking Clomid at the time, and the side effects made for quite an amusing story.

The entire story is 1400 words long, which is much too long for this blog. So, I have excerpted just the parts that pertain to the Clomid side effects. I trust you will be amused… [more]

By this time, we were moving into the Fall, and I was ready to have an intrauterine insemination (IUI), get pregnant, and move on with my life. I wanted to announce our pregnancy over Christmas. This was going to be just perfect.

Unfortunately, Dr. M was not ready to try an IUI just yet. Instead, he wanted to try one month on Clomid and see how my body responded. He instructed us to try to conceive "the natural way" and see what happened.

Dr. M told me that some women might experience a headache or a few other side effects but that the side effects would not be that bad. To quote my six-year-old son: "Liar, liar, pants on fire."

Before I… [more]

I have been trying to expose myself to fertility problems that I myself did not experience. One of those avenues involved drug therapy. Well, maybe I shouldn't say "drug therapy" as I know that antidepressants really were helpful to me during recovery times. But as far as the drugs classified as fertility drugs, I don't have much experience with them or with the resulting lifestyle from taking them. Of course, I could turn to the random article or study to learn more. And at times, I do. But I would first like to turn to a blog. Imagine that! The first blog to come up on my google search was Jenn's Journal. The journal begins in 2004 and according to her bio on Momblogs… [more]

I must ask, what was Barry Bonds thinking? According to a new book, San Francisco Giants player Barry Bonds was not only taking steroids, human growth hormone (which can have the scary side effect of also making your organs grow), PLUS some drug veterinarians use to beef up, well, beef...but even more astonishingly, Bonds was also taking the fertility drug Clomid. Hm, maybe I should have filed this under "Celebrity Fertility." Actually "Insanity" would probably be a better category. I already have issues with taking a drug that forces your ovaries (those cyst producing factories) to go into Lucy-in-the-bon-bon-factory overdrive and ripen dozens of eggs at once (Clomid is also the drug they give to the Ivy League egg donors in order to harvest their pricey… [more]