Hi I, like you other ladies feel like I'm reading about myself. I have just turned 42. I have had the blood tests to test my FSH levels and they are low side of normal,but no-where near menopause yet.My GP says that I am not ovulating. The next step is to visit a ferility clinic. My husband has not had his sperm count done yet so I think we'll look there first. I have two girls 10 & 12 from my first marriage. My husband is only 30 with no children. I have been off the pill for 10 months. I had ovulation pain for the first 6 months off the pill and now nothing. I hope that the clomid is all we will need, good luck to everyone.

I am 42 years old and after 2 years of not getting pregnant - being told I had one tube blocked and was not ovulating I managed to get pregnant in January 2007 but sadly miscarried in February 2007 at 5 weeks. I was devastated but at least I had proved I could get pregnant.
I finally decided to go private and saw a consultant today who has prescribed Clomid. She doesn't think the tube is definitely blocked and as I've already managed to get pregnant once thinks my chances are better on Clomid than on IVF.
Has anyone else tried Clomid and had success - especially at my age?

Hi, just letting you know that I had two complete blocked tubes(polycystic ovary disease) and had major surgery and told i only had a 30% chance of ever becoming pregnant! I was prescribed clomid and pregnant 3mths later! I was told ivf probably would not help me and this was my best chance! I had a most agressive form of p.s.o.d and i was only 23 when told i would probably never conceive. At 25 i gave birth to a big bouncing baby girl! I then tried 12wks(am i mad!) after the birth of my daughter but it took about 9-10mths to conceive my second child "a bouncing boy", how lucky am i? now i am soon hitting 39, children 13 and 11 and life is good! my moto for you is don't give up as i know plenty of women your age having children and probably due to maturity and settlement being wonderful, loving great parent's. beat of luck to you and if you want to ask anything in specific or chat let me know. cheers amanda. perth wa

I will be 41 next month and have started clomid, does it give any nasty side effects? Most importantly did it work???

Hi I, like you other ladies feel like I'm reading about myself. I have just turned 42. I have had the blood tests to test my FSH levels and they are low side of normal,but no-where near menopause yet.My GP says that I am not ovulating. The next step is to visit a ferility clinic. My husband has not had his sperm count done yet so I think we'll look there first. I have two girls 10 & 12 from my first marriage. My husband is only 30 with no children. I have been off the pill for 10 months. I had ovulation pain for the first 6 months off the pill and now nothing. I hope that the clomid is all we will need, good luck to everyone.

had to write after reading your post and the ones below as they struck a chord

had fibroid removed a few years back - major op.
got pregnant in november aged 41 after just 2 months of trying but a scan in january showed no heartbeat so had to have a d and c at 10 weeks

like you i saw a private consultant as since then things hadn't been feeling quite right. scans showed i wasn't ovulating so now i have a prescription for clomid to start in a couple of weeks. i am also 42 and although many of my friends have used it (all successfully) they were a bit younger so I am not sure quite how i feel about it yet

would love to know how you are getting on and hear others' experiences. i know it's a small step when it comes to fertility treatment but it still feels quite a big one for starters

I am 41 and I have never had children. From 35 on I started feeling the urge that I wanted children in my life but the time (or the guy) was never right. Today I have someone in my life I really care for but our main problems are my obsession with becoming a mother before it is too late (if it is not too late now ) So, I started going to a fertility clinic and was put on Clomid. I just took my last two pills last night, and now the wait is on. I am so neurotic and have moode swings and I am not sure if it's the stress of it all or the drug itself that's causing these symptoms. Do these side effects stay with you the entire cycle or do they go away after you take the last pills? Since taking the pill I have not been able to sleep well, waking up every 30 minutes and having the worse dreams. I am hoping for twins since this is it for me due to my age (but one would be the biggest blessing too). Please say a prayer for me so that I get pregnant.

I am curious to know how you are doing. Keep me posted. My prayers are with you

Hi there
I wanted to reply to you not because I have any answers but because this is the same question I have been wondering about. I am 40.10 and I am on my second cycle of clomid. I have been ovulating OK but have other problems huge fibriod that I have had removed after my doctor though it was the cause of my miscarriage last year - so not sure how welcoming my womb is ! Clomid will help you ovulate. Its great you got pregnant . I am convinced because of my 'physical' problem - I can't.

Best wishes and if you find out any more about chnaces after 40 with clomid I would like to hear

Thanks

After a few months of confirmed ovulation, my dr. decided to do surgery to see if my tubes were blocked, and diagnosed endrometriosis etc..

He found and removed a small benign lump (is this a fibroid? I must admit I didn't ask too many questions but he did say it was small) from my uterus which he said could have prevented implantation / interfered with a normal pregnancy. About 5 months after this operation I was pregnant.

So good luck to you hope you have similar success!

Clomid encourages your ovaries to release eggs. So if you are not ovulating, it could very well help.

It helped me, I was not ovualating, I started on a small dose (25mg) and I did a 21 day blood test every month to see if it was working yet, kept upping the dose until finally got results with 100mg per day.

Baby Mila was born 2 March so it definately works, if the problem is that you ovaries are not releasing eggs. If you have blocked tubes, well, clomid won't be of any help.

But our eggs do get more decrepit the older we get... but it might just mean a higher risk of miscarriage due to genetic problems etc. If you go through IVF they may want to use donor eggs.

GOOD LUCK!

I,m 41 asian already had IVF and had to pay for it becouse i was to old to go on the NHS i could have one egg put back in but it did not work. could someone please tell me how sucessful does a doner egg work becouse i'm think off going to spain to have it done,I have only got one more chance co'nt aforded again. we both had a check up we are both ok becouse off my age my chances are low. SAM