Moms Who Have Used Fertility Drugs to Conceive

From my experience, there were two distinct parts to the IUI process: (1) Taking a drug to stimulate more than one follicle, to help increase the chances that there is an egg to fertilize. (2) Taking a drug to start the ovulation process on a specific day, so that when your Physician performs the IUI, there is a 99.99% chance that you are ovulating. (This drug is often an injection.)

I'm not familiar with the drug you mentioned. However, I think you should give your Physician's office a call about the details of your procedure. If you are on the drug, I would think that you should probably have the IUI appt. scheduled too. By the way...I did not experience any side effects from any of the drugs I took. And we were manipulating my ovulation date, so my actual cycle didn't matter. I conceived on my 3rd IUI. Best wishes.

I don't remember what I took to conceive my twins, but it was an injectible medication that I took for a number of days and then took one injection that made me ovulate at exactly the time the follicles were mature. 2 days after the medication that made me ovulate we did the IUI. It took a few rounds. On the 3rd cycle it worked and I carried my twins to 37 weeks. As the previous person said, you take the meds to help mature the follicles and then the medication (a one time injection of this med) to ovulate. I did take this one time injection sooner than I usually would when doing a treatment, but that all depends on your body and how well it responds to the meds. Good luck!

First of all, good luck to you and your husband going through this process. Going through any kind of infertility treatment is difficult and anxiety ridden so I hope the best for you. I know some posts have suggested you should speak with doctors, etc.. Obviously you have and are under the care of a reproductive endricronolist of some kind or you would likely not be prescribed Menopur. I think those who have not gone through infertility treatments generally do not understand such things, so query why they would respond to your post, but that's enough from my soap box.

Obviously from my response my husband and I went through treatments and I am proud to say welcomed our beautiful daughter last December. During one of our IVF treatments I was diagnosed with Menopur to supplement the fertility injections I was receiving. So unfortunately because I received it as part of IVF I can't answer most of your questions. But Menopur is a common medication used to help increase the amount of eggs your body produces. I did not suffer any side effects while on it.

Hope this helps!

I think your question should be directed to a professional (medical and psycholical). My thought might just make you want to rethink having a child as a newly wed, with a person who has had a vasectomy. A vasectomy tell me that the person never expected another child, if so, a vasectomy can be undone. Where are the other 2 children in this? Being a step mother and having a new baby might be a bit much. Get adjusted to your new life first.