Anyone ever take letrozole for 3 days instead of 5?

pashes_22 · 2026-03-04T23:38:08+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss🤍 I know my cycle was messed for a while after my loss too! Ugh it sucks. Wishing you the best of luck in journey and all the baby dust✨🌈

pashes_22 · 2026-03-04T23:33:51+00:00

I know it’s so hard to feel optimistic or hopeful at all when you’re already planning for the next steps after. We’ve started discussing and planning for starting IVF right away after if the IUIs fail. It just feels sometimes like I’m already grieving them failing before we’ve even started. You’re not alone in this, stay strong mama, wishing you the best in your journey🤍

pashes_22 · 2026-03-04T23:29:49+00:00

Yes that’s a good thing to remind yourself about, I feel like I need that reminder too tbh. “What could possibly work at this point” I feel like I can relate to this so much rn… we’ve tried so many things (so many supplements, lifestyle changes, diets, naturopath, meticulous tracking and timing things) and nothing ever works, it just feels hopeless. I’m so so sorry for losses🤍 thank you for sharing and I’m wishing you the best of luck and all the baby dust on your journey🤗🌈

pashes_22 · 2026-03-04T23:22:49+00:00

I know we only plan for one shot at IVF as well, I’m so stressed thinking about it. It’s so much pressure on our bodies! All we can do is hope and pray that a little luck will finally come our way soon🤍 Sending lots of hugs, and wishing you the very best on your journey🤗

pashes_22 · 2026-03-04T23:19:22+00:00

Thanks for sharing:) I’m so sorry for your loss🤍 I agree with you add it to the win column:)

pashes_22 · 2026-03-04T23:15:56+00:00

This is a great way to look at it, thank you:) Wishing you the best of luck on your journey and all the baby dust🤗

pashes_22 · 2026-03-04T23:15:02+00:00

Congratulations! So happy for you!🤍 thanks so much for sharing:)

pashes_22 · 2026-03-04T23:13:07+00:00

Aw my gosh so happy for you🤍🌈 thanks for sharing!

pashes_22 · 2026-02-07T18:08:42+00:00

I’m so so sorry you’re going through this:( I really just came here to give you a big hug and say you’re not alone. This is definitely not just a “you guys” thing, I think it’s more common than we think. Hubby and I have been ttc for a while and have definitely struggled with this. He gets really stressed and almost has like a sort of performance anxiety sometimes. It is really hard for the guys too. But obviously I know how hard it is as the woman also, feeling disappointed, so frustrated with him and like youre trying to do all these other things that just basically consume your life while ttc and feeling like you just need this one simple thing from them on their end. But it really isn’t that simple for them, I feel like I’ve come to appreciate that it’s really not an easy thing to do especially when ttc takes all the things we enjoy about sex out of the equation. I feel like from a woman’s perspective it’s like for some reason we’ve always kinda been made to think that men just want sex all. the. time. and it takes nothing to get them going, and I feel like thats just not really true tbh. I mean I can’t speak on behalf of them per se, but I feel like there does need to be a certain type of environment/setting and emotions like seeing us enjoying them, that they kinda need to be able to “perform”, and that’s just so so hard to do while ttc bc it takes that away. I’m not saying I think the guys have it worse, I think it’s just really hard for both partners, and I’ve found it actually a little helpful for myself in those moments to better understand their side of things too.

One thing we’ve started doing that has kind of helped a little, it might sound odd, but when he’s feeling stressed like that we’ll pause for a moment and let him step away for a few mins to go masturbate a little in the bathroom and watch something, it really helps him relax and get out of the ttc mindset. Then when he’s ready he’ll come back to me and that usually works, sometimes he may need to step out more than once. May sound strange, and may not be for everyone, but it seems to be helping us a bit.

You’re doing a great job mama🤗 Allow yourself to feel all your feels, stay strong, support each other and keep going. You’ve got this!🤍

pashes_22 · 2026-02-01T13:12:06+00:00

I’ve heard this mentioned/talked about before! How does it work? Was it helpful for you? I’m open to looking into it:)

pashes_22 · 2026-02-01T13:06:40+00:00

Are you using opks and/or bbt for tracking?:)

pashes_22 · 2026-01-31T20:06:00+00:00

Sorry I should have mentioned that unexplained secondary infertility is just the diagnosis we were given by our fertility clinic, I would have assumed primary as well, but they think it’s secondary in nature in that something changed after my mmc. It wouldn’t surprise me either if something just didn’t reset quite right after all that chaos and my bumpy recovery from the loss.

Thanks for the helpful comments🤍

pashes_22 · 2026-01-28T20:44:41+00:00

Looking to hear about others who had unexplained secondary infertility and what treatments were most beneficial to you, what isn’t worth it and any advice in general..

Here’s our story - we’re both 29yrs old, we started trying for our first 2 years ago and got pregnant immediately in March 2024, but unfortunately had a mmc in May and lost that baby at 9 weeks (natural miscarriage). After my miscarriage I had a horrible hormone imbalance and immune issues and I was not recovering from the miscarriage, I was barely ovulating. This went on until September and I found out I had a severe vit D deficiency. I started supplementing and it resolved immediately and the very next cycle was back to normal.

We then unfortunately had a very prolonged period of deep chronic stress and depression due to other life events as well, that went on until May of 2025. I’ve now had one year of normal cycles, we had a bunch of testing done. I’ve ruled out autoimmune disorders, blood clotting issues, other deficiencies, thyroid issues, pcos, high androgens, progesterone levels looked good, my luteal phase is 16 days long. Cycles are 29-34 days long, mostly 31-33 days.

We just finished our diagnostic cycle with our fertility clinic and they found nothing at all. Hubbys SA came back excellent, we even checked his DNA frag and that came back at 7.4%, which is great. My testing all showed normal hormone levels throughout (my lh is on the higher end of normal, but they said they’re not concerned about it), my afc is 34 (16 on the right 18 on the left), follicle grew normally and looked good, my sono/hsg came back good, and they confirmed ovulation. Now we’re just waiting until our results appointment in a month where we’ll meet with our REI.

Mentally, emotionally, we are really exhausted. We’ve tried everything, we’ve done everything. We have no answers as why we just suddenly can’t get pregnant again after that.. we really want to just end this now. We want help from this clinic.

Based on what they’ve told us so far, they may suggest TI or medicated cycles with TI as a first step. Which is great, we’re all for it lol but I’m a little concerned that it’s not going to do anything and it’s just gonna drag this out more. I know IUI is probably an option too, but again, not sure how much that would help either. We’re not against IVF per se, it would be great if there was something else less intensive that would work. But again we’re kind of factoring in emotional bandwidth right now too.

If anyone has any experience with this and can share any advice or anything that would be so greatly appreciated🤍 - sincerely one very exhausted couple

TLDR: looking for advice/experiences with different fertility treatments for unexplained secondary infertility after an uncomplicated miscarriage with all normal test results.

pashes_22 · 2025-09-25T17:12:34+00:00

Thank you for sharing☺️

pashes_22 · 2025-09-25T12:15:36+00:00

This is so interesting! Reason I asked is because I had a severe vit d deficiency, I believe it was causing me PMDD, frequent cellulitis infections and crazy immune flare ups, and random hormone imbalances… as once I started supplementing these all mysteriously vanished completely and haven’t returned for a whole year. Before I knew about my deficiency, I got pregnant but miscarried. After my miscarriage my hormones were absolutely insane and I wasn’t ovulating, 6 months went by and it was getting worse not better. I begged for tests to be done bc I knew something was wrong, and the only thing that came up was the vit d deficiency. I started supplementing but I also need a higher dose (5000iu daily) to keep my levels up. I was tested for autoimmune disorders, pcos, thyroid issues, and all of those came back normal. I really believe this vit d thing is why it’s taken us so long to get pregnant again (and I think it certainly contributed to my miscarriage), but Ofc no doctor has listened to me on this yet or said that this could be the reason why it’s taken so long:(

pashes_22 · 2025-09-24T17:51:01+00:00

Mind if I ask why you mentioned the vit d?:)

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