Betsy - From what I have read, your FSH levels go up in response to your ovaries telling your system that they require more FSH to produce a follicle/egg. When you take follicle stimulating meds like Clomid, Follistim etc. they raise your FSH level to "trick" your body into producing more follicles - thus increasing your chances of becoming pg. When your levels are already high, the meds can't trick your system into producing more b/c the levels are already high just to produce 1 follicle/egg. Basically the meds may not have an effect.

There is nothing they can do to make the ovaries require less hormone to produce a mature follicle/egg. Usually this happens in older women and not someone my age (34) so this is really not good news at all.

My RE recommended a cyle of injectibles with an IUI this month. He has just upped my Follistim shots from 225 to 450mg/day due to the high FSH levels. Basically they have to pump me full of meds to see if they can get my ovaries to produce more follicles.

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