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First, your problem is one better addressed on a different forum. Second, your problem is that you are selfish and ungrateful. Sorry about your husband's problem, but you taking clomid or any other unprescribed medication JUST TO HAVE TWINS is selfish, silly and dangerous.

I can understand a person dreaming or wanting twins but this would be going too far. First, taking clomid when you have fertility issues actually can make it more difficult for you to become pregnant. If you do become pregnant with twins, triplets...etc, with a drug that stimulates the ovaries, you have a 50-50 chance of losing at least one of the twins to VTS. The miscarriage rate is a lot higher and doesn't decrease until 20 weeks and there is a 5% chance of one or both twins to be stillborn. Not to mention the health issues for you. You have more chance of high blood pressure or PIH, gestational diabetes and are 13 times, yes, 13 times more likely to experience heart failure and 4 times more likely to suffer from a heart attack. Fun, huh? Then, if you and your babies make it through the pregnancy, and survive the birth which has more of a chance ending up in c-section and high chance for the babies to be in NICU, then you get to deal with two newborns that never want to eat or sleep at the same time and the real fun begins. Also, there are dangers for taking clomid under a doctors care, let alone doing it without being monitored with u/s.

I meant to say "when you have NO fertility issues"

First of all I would like to thank you for your advice. I really need it. The truth is that I wanted my child to have a sibling right away. I wanted them to have little age difference so that they could be close in life. I bought ovulation microscope ("MaybeMom") nearly 2 years ago and I have been using it ever since (I was on my period right away after pregnancy). I make sure I have intercourse on the very day of ovulation (according to the microscope, but however I do not get pregnant. Probably because we are simply doing it so seldom or because I may actually have fertility problem. That is why I am so interested in Clomid. TripletMom, I will be happy to have one child and I will be extremely happy to have more than one. After so many attempts and failures, waiting every month and getting disappointed, my intimate life became so not exciting and I am losing hope. My husband is 50 and I am afraid that in another couple of years the situation will get even worse.

Aleksandra, the only positive advice I can think of is - being that your husband suffers from erection dysfunction you should talk to your doctor about possibly performing an IUI with or without a sperm retrieval procedure to help better target your mature follicles during ovulation being that you have no fertility issues. I would like to talk to you further, maybe we can email each other? BABYDUST TO ALL TTC...

I must agree with andrea2. Taking Clomid is not addressing the real issue that you're having and is not likely to help you as quickly as you'd like (or at all). You and your husband should visit a reproductive endocrinologist. Youll get more appropriate treatment for your particular set of issues and will have much better results as the RE can work with your husband's urologist to work out a good type of treatment for you.