We had a consultation with Dr Rappleye in March or April of 2011. He was very nice, and we made a plan to start on clomid, and see if that would help. It works by stimulating an increase in the amount of hormones that support the growth and release of a mature egg. I started out with one tablet a day, on days 3 through 7 of my cycle. He then had me go in and have a blood test on day 21 to test my progesterone levels. The test was to see if I ovulated.
With this blood test we discovered one of my problems. I produce little to no progesterone.
Our next step was to double clomid. No such luck. We then switched to letrozole. This drug is actually made for women that are breast cancer survivors and menopausal. It decreases the amount of estrogen you produce. It's technically not made to treat infertility, and has just been known to help.
You take it the same as clomid, on days 3 through 7 of your cycle. I started with 1 pill. It actually worked a little better than chlomid. But, I still did not have a normal level of progesterone. We then doubled it. I actually think there were two cycles like this where I produced enough progesterone but it still did not work. They told me they don't triple the dose, so we could either keep trying what we were doing, or I could go see another specialist. We decided to go see a different doctor.
Overall I really liked Dr Rappleye, but I was not a fan on how his practice was run. I was not to sad to find another doctor, and I probably will not go back if I do get pregnant and need to find an OBGYN.
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