HI missf1981 and welcome to
Clomid helps you by increasing the number of eggs you make every month, so there is more chance of your partner's sperm to fertilise an egg simply cos there is more eggs about on both ovaries, rather than just one egg from one ovary, like it happens in natural cycles! Also they check that you are ovulating and monitor you so that you have intercourse at the right time, again to increase chances. Clomid, like all fertility drugs has side effects but as you are monitored it should be ok. This is normally the first step for fertility treatments, followed by IUI and then IVF/ICSI.
Info:
INFO: CLOMID - MONITORING/TRACKING
INFO: A ROUGH GUIDE TO CLOMID
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