Hi all!
My husband and I have been ttc for over 2 years now and I’m 22.
After a year we went to the gp for a fertility referral (which took absolute ages!). We went through all the tests, scans, sperm, hycosy the lot. everything was fine except for borderline pcos, and all they have told us is unexplained infertility.
Our BMI is in a great range, we stay fit, we try our best to lead a healthy diet, we don’t smoke, vape or take any kind of drugs, and we both don’t deal with a lot of stress. I’ve never been on any kind of birth control so haven’t had anything mess up my hormones.
My cycles are regular, however they are on the longer side of 35-38 days. I used to not ovulate at all until I started taking inositol. I take ovulation tests, take my temp, look at cm, everything and from all that I do ovulate some months but not all, and haven’t ovulated for the past 2 months.
NHS have been no help at all, they recently rejected me from an IVF referral as in our area you have to be a minimum of 23 years old.
It’s really frustrating as we’ve already been trying for 2 years and they’re making us wait another one with no other suggestions. We really do not have the funds to go private.
I had a disappointing phone call with the fertility clinic today, who just suggested taking clear blue ovulations tests which are much more expensive than others, for the next two months, and they’ll contact me in 7-8 weeks to confirm if im ovulating. And if im not ovulating then they’ll give me letrozole.
I’ve already told them I do ovulate sometimes and sometimes I do not, I know the LH rise is a small window, but I work from home so I do test religiously it’s impossible for me to miss it. I take Premom easy at home tests and scan them with Premom app to know the exact LH number.
It feels so frustrating that they don’t listen at all!
Why can’t they just give me the letrozole now instead of making me wait for everything so long!
We were considering on getting a private appointment just to get letrozole prescribed, not get any further tests or anything but they require all our nhs scan results and everything. We’ve requested these from the nhs in March and from what they’re saying we’ll probably get these back in June or July. It’s a ridiculous time frame for an email with an attachment of our results of the tests that we had done over the past year.
Sorry for the rant, long story short, does anyone know where one would be able to get some letrozole?