Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Ugh, feeling really sick

As I mentioned in my update yesterday the RE doubled my femara, which is similiar to clomid. The clomid made me so depressed and sick I had to try something else. Last month I felt reasonably ok on the femara, a little headache, some hot flashes and a little moodiness but nothing I couldn't handle.

Well, I took the first dose last night and I woke up with a terrible headache. I rarely ever get headaches. As the day has progressed, I'm very dizzy, my vision is blurry, my headache is SO painful, I feel nauseated something terrible and my whole body aches, like I just ran a marathon and can hardly move. My bones ache. I just looked and these are ALL side effects. I guess my body does not like the higher dose. I've also noticed my hair falling out a lot over the last few weeks, just thought I was shedding or something but this morning I left enough hair in the tub drain to make a small cat!

Yep, hair loss, another side effect, wonderful!

I can't/won't stop taking it because I REALLY want to have a baby. I'm afraid if I call the RE she will tell me to go back to the lesser dose which only produced one egg last month. To top it off, WIll just called me and he tells me he took two weekend jobs at some local music festivals. He worked them last year and he was exhausted after each 12 hour day! I wouldn't really care too much but he is working the weekend of the 6th and that is when I am ovulating!!!! I told him I was upset and didn't think he should work that weekend as he told me he wasn't going to turn it down because its good money and he makes a lot of good connections for future business. He assured me the even after working 12 hour days in the sun and being stressed the whole time that he would be able to "perform his duties" but I'm worried he will be too tired to "deliver the goods" if you know what I mean!! I can't even express how upset I will be if I go through feeling like total dog poo for a whole month and not get pregnant because he wanted to work!!!!

So, on top of feeling sick I'm very angry. I have to be careful on just how angry I let him know I am because he is getting stressed over the whole baby thing and is about to throw in the towel on! Argh, my head hurts too much to even cry right now!

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Taking it one day at a time.....

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