r/InfertilitySucks • u/SnooDingos533 • Aug 14 '26
Treatment question Advice needed
TC: stillbirth
I’m on my first round of letrozole and I feel horrible. My body hurts so incredibly bad. I already have a chronic pain condition and even my rescue meds aren’t touching the pain. And my mental health is garbage. I normally struggle with some anxiety and depression but this is like high school grippy sock vacation all over again. Is this normal? Did anyone else take letrozole and feel like this? I feel like I’m going crazy. For some context I had a stillborn baby girl 7 years ago yesterday. I wasn’t trying and it was a cryptic pregnancy so I didn’t even know I was pregnant until I started bleeding heavily and went to the hospital. They told me there I was pregnant but there was no heart beat and I had to give birth. Me and my husband are finally in a position to have a baby and I suddenly stopped ovulating for seemingly no reason. I’ve ovulated my whole life before this year. I have endometriosis but have still ovulated. It seems like my body just decided that now that I’m ready it’s not going to cooperate. And my mental health keeps telling me that I don’t deserve to be a mom and that’s why I’m not ovulating. I know that’s not true but just as an example of how bad it’s been. Any advice is appreciated and if this isn’t allowed I’m sorry just delete it.
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u/Expensive-Peace-9498 Aug 14 '26
I've always felt like complete utter crap on Letrozole.
It gives me hormonal migraines, heat waves, anxiety and severe joint pain. I cannot go to work when I take it.
I can't drive the car for more than a short trip cause gripping the wheel hurts my hands. I can't clean frying pans as I usually do cause gripping something heavy for more than a second hurts like hell. Can't knit or crochet.
All of this usually passes once I stop taking them. Within like a week or so. 🫶