Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

Hi Ladies.
Please excuse my ignorance, this is my first cycle with any of this stuff and I'm just learning the ropes.

I am on Metformin, took the clomid for 5 days and had my blood/sono check today. They said I have "one good follicle" on my left ovary - Is that good? Should there be more with the clomid?
Since this is our first cycle w/ my PCOS diagnosis and DH's SA was good, we're going to try just BDing for a few cycles before going to IUI if necessary -

But everything I'm reading says people get multiple follicles w/ the clomid - Is this another indicator that I'm going to have a problem?

The want me back tomorrow for bloods, and then Thurs for bloods and another sono to monitor for a surge and see if the OPKs will work for me (I can't remember which hormone it is that causes the OPK to show the surge, but they said I may have a problem using the OPKs)

What do you think? Thanks !!

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

One is fine. That is actually the goal, they want to have the smallest chance for multiples as possible. Some women get one follie, some get more. Some get too many. Some get none. So it looks like you are on the right track.

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

LH is the hormone the OPK is detecting. With PCOS sometimes the OPKs can be inaccurate.

As far as follicles go, I never produced more than one dominant follicle on Clomid. The only time I did was my last Clomid/IUI cycle and they had me do an extra 5 days of Clomid because I had stopped responding to it. That cycle I had 3, or I think 4 follicles at trigger time.

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

Whew ........Thanks !!
Ok, on to ordering my DH to BD
It's kind of nice to have total control of the situation !!!

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

One is great. I never had any response to Clomid so consider yourself lucky LOL.
Have fun BDing!

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

I went to my RE yesterday to check and I also have only 1 good follie on clomid.....it's not a bad thing....all you need is 1

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

I had one my first cycle and 3 the second.

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Ok thanks again !! I feel better now.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Dr. Stelling, but I feel like some of the other Dr.(s) and the nurses are not as willing to answer my seemingly stupid questions. I understand it's early in the AM and they're crazy busy trying to get everyone in and out, but hello !! This the FIRST time I'm doing ANY of this, I don't know the procedure !! I don't know what to expect next, and I don't know what most of these terms mean yet - Google will tell you just so much if you don't really know what you're looking for !!!

Thanks for your help !!

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

I only had one Follicle on 50mg of Clomid. I'm currently 13dpiui, I go to the doctor tomorrow for B/W so we will see how successful it was. But I've heard of a lot of girls only have one follice and getting pregnant. You only need one!!! I wish you the best!!! Good Luck!

Message edited 6/24/2008 3:05:59 PM.

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

I only had one follicle my first month on the Clomid...and one was all I needed!
<-------- Best of luck to you!!!!!!!

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

Posted by MrsRivera

I only had one follicle my first month on the Clomid...and one was all I needed!
<-------- Best of luck to you!!!!!!!

Re: Clomid and "One Good Follicle"

I have never had more than 2 good follies and this was one of them
<--------------------------------------- Good Luck !