Some evidence for you

[Mdms]

Hi - it can be so hard to know what to do or not do. This article is based on the scientific literature and may help you helloclue.com/articles/cycl...

In short, repeatedly taking anti-inflammatories seems to interrupt ovulation, but occasional one off use doesn’t seem to have evidence.

With my first daughter, I regularly took Ibuprofen in high doses as prescribed by a doctor as I had no idea about the link and got pregnant right away (and then stopped taking it). I haven’t taken it regularly since and 5 years on had a miscarriage at 20 weeks and a missed miscarriage - and 6 failed embryo transfers (all unexplained). I have been been reflecting what was different in my first two pregnancies which happened easily and naturally - the third was natural but took 3 years. I used to exercise a lot more (hard with IVF and lots of ovary pain and fatigue) and used topical corticosteroids and anti-inflammatoires regularly. Hard to know really but I’m about to start adalimumab injections and corticosteroids. I wonder whether maybe I had inflammation that I was regularly controlling and therefore had no issues. We will never know!

Good luck!

[AuroraXen]

Thank you for sharing! Back in the day I never knew ibuprofen was a problem and used to take it pretty often. I do wonder if it's one reason I never got lucky... mind you, I never use it now and still no luck 😕 😂 x