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My name is Tisha and my husband is Steve. We have been married for 5 years. We started trying to conceive 14 months ago in June 2008. I immediately knew that we would need some type of help. I went to my OB/GYN and explained my concerns to her. I have very irregular periods. Because of this we did not know when I would ovulate. My doctor ran some tests and the results came back. I had PCOS. My doctor prescribed me a fertility drug, Clomid. From the research I did on the drug everything sounded really promising. We tried 8 cycles of Clomid, with the last 2 cycles including the drug Glucophage. Each cycle my dosage of Clomid increased. I was having some major symptoms from the drug. I would get bad headaches, major hotflashes, I was extremely irritable and moody. Steve was a trooper through all of it. I finally showed ovulation on the last 3 doses of Clomid I took, however, it did not result in what Steve and I had been praying and wishing for, a baby. My doctor referred me on to ART, The Alabama Reproductive Technology department. We scheduled our first appointment with ART for October 24, 2009. We were heartbroken. We had been trying to conceive for over a year. It felt like someone had punched us in the gut. Would we ever have a baby of our own? How much was infertility treatments going to cost? Could we afford it? We decided that all of the stress we had been through during the last 14 months had taken it's toll on both of us. I was beginning my first cycle off of Clomid. We decided to "take a break" from trying to conceive. I had heard for 14 months, "if you'll just stop trying it will happen". I so didn't believe that. How would we have a baby if we stopped trying? It sounded completely ridiculous to me. Well, there has got to be some truth somewhere in that theory because it worked for us!