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Okay, I’ve really had quite enough of this waking up drenched in sweat thing. And I can’t even blame it on the clomid – it’s been happening for months now. *sigh* Maybe it’s because of our heavy winter blanket. But yet, I go from cold and snuggled in to hot and sweating and throwing the covers off, then ten minutes later I’m cold again. I just hate the feeling of waking up all hot and sweaty. Yick.<\/p>\n

Searching through about a dozen medical journal articles and a number of web sites resulted in a rather wide range of statistics. Basically the odds of success are reported to be just under 6% and as high as 26% per cycle. The low statistics are with one follicle, while multiple follicles resulted in as high 26% success. Another influencing factor is sperm count. Higher sperm counts increase the odds of success; however, there was little difference between success with good-average counts and those with high counts. The overall success rate seems to be between 15-20% per cycle, judging from the articles which will be abstracted below. The rate of multiple gestation pregnancies is 23-30%.
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I’ve found this same little blurb on about 5 different websites – and more still with the same statistics and slightly different wording.<\/p>\n

Well we have multiple follicles alright. But still only 26%? Blah. What I really want to see is a study done taking into account different situations: woman’s age, sperm count, number of follicles, diagnosis, etc. I want to know what my<\/i> predicted success rate is – or at least the success rates for people like me.<\/p>\n

I’ve been telling Den the last few days that now his sperm have no excuse for not reaching the egg. I told him that if they don’t it’s all his fault -they’re his<\/i> little men. I sighed and said, “They’re probably all swimming in circles because there’s no directions posted in my uterus.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I’ve really had quite enough of this waking up drenched in sweat thing. And I can’t even blame it on the clomid – it’s been happening for months now. *sigh* Maybe it’s because of our heavy winter blanket. But yet, I go from cold and snuggled in to hot and sweating and throwing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,23],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fertility","tag-other-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}