**DING** DING** Clomid round 2…
Comments (1)So how where your holidays? I’m happy to be back n the swing on things. Back in my work rut. I took vacation days between Christmas and New Years so I had 11 days in a row off. It was nice. Spent time with family and friends and didn’t think too much about the B word. I have to admit that Christmas Eve Was the roughest. We went to church came home and had a beautiful candlelight dinner by the tree. All I kept thinking was next year we will be holding our baby next to the tree. Holidays are bad for us TTC. Its when I feel the emptiest.
I am currently on CD 4 and on my second day of clomid of my second cycle of clomid. I’m taking it days 5 to 9 this time around. Hopefully I will at least ovulate this time. We shall see.
I’m alive and still not ovulating
So I have been a terrible blogger lately. What can I say its that time of year. Sad news Clomid cycle number 1 failed. I’m not pregnant … I didn’t even ovulate. So we’re bouncing up to 100 mg. **SIGH**
I have been waiting forever to get the blood results from my Dr – 10 days to be exact. I knew what she would say I was using OPK’s and they never seemed positive to me. So I guess on the bright side of things I was reading my OPK’s right! That’s all I have for now. We are going away this weekend and I will off from work a lot next week so I have to finish a bunch of stuff … I’m still on the clock 
CD 12
Well CD 12 is here … no big O yet. I am using OPK’s to test daily… they are Internet cheapies and I hope they dont fail me. I go for testing next Wednesday CD 21. I’m thinking its not going to happen. I didn’t have ANY clomid side effects. I’m still holding out and hopping I will ovulate and hopefully soon. My husband leaves for a business trip Saturday mourning … CD 17. Over the last 2 days I have felt a little bloated. Not sure why. Maybe that’s a clomid side effect? This whole TTC things is exhausting that’s for sure. Luckily I’ll have the Holidays to help keep me distracted as I wait and wait and wait and Wait some more. That’s about all I have to say just wanted to check in
GULP…..
That’s the sound of me swallowing my very first clomid pill. More than likely, if you have been in my shoes, you’ve probably spent a Saturday afternoon similar to how I spent mine today. Rummaging the Internets for the 3 S’s of clomid. Statistics, Side effects and Success Stories. I guess really that’s 4 s’s but you get the idea. I’m glad I am starting on CD 3 from the data I have found. It seems like the day 3 starters had a higher sauces rate.
Unfortunately my first clomid cycle is not drama free. Today when I picked the RX up from my Target Pharmacy, there were only 3 pills …. when I got home a tried researching a 3 pill dosage and found it non existent in the Internet world, I pulled the prescription from my purse and found 2 slips in the bag. 1 said 1 refill the other said 0 refills … same RX number and name and all that jazz. So I looked closely at the plastic bag that the pills came in and saw that 3 RX stickers were placed one on top of the other. So I peeled them all off and was able to see that the rx was changed 3 times. WHAT THE HECK!? I called the pharmacy and they pulled the paper from when the RX was called in. Looks like there was much confusion and several calls to the Dr’s office. The pharmacist said she never saw clomid prescribed in less than 5 pills and the pill count said 5 but the instructions were recorded as 1 pill orally CD 5 to 7. So she called but the receptionist said she confirmed with the Dr. that what she told her was correct. So the pharmacist said start the pills today (CD3) and call the Dr Monday. We (the pharmacists and I) think whoever called this in misread a 3 for 5 and the instructions should say1 pill orally CD 3 to 7. She said the original paper work even said dispense a quantity of 5 pills but they only gave me 3 because of the directions. The slip that said 1 refill was referring to the 2 left over pills. JEEZ! Hopefully that wasn’t too confusing. So here we go …. first clomid cycle … wish us luck
CD 1 of my 1st Clomid cycle
So this is it…. my very first clomid cycle. In a perfect world, I will ovulate on CD 14, CD 21 I will receive confirmation of ovulation via blood work, CD 28 will bring a beautiful + home pregnancy test. Sadly, I’m not perfect and its not a perfect world. My husband will jet off on CD 17 to Chicago and will remain there until CD 25. I’m pretty worried that we are going to miss our fertility window but on a positive note we will at least see if 500 mg of clomid works. Its exciting and frightening at the same time. In 1 month we could be pregnant, we could be filling a RX for 1,000 mg of clomid or we could be just trying this all over. My fingers are crossed….
Spotting .. woo hoo!
It’s not every day that you’ll hear me celebrating the onset of AF, but here I am CD 64, spotting and celebrating. I was so worried that something odd would happen and the provera wouldn’t work or it would take forever to work. Just like last time, it looks like 3 days after my last pill CD 1 will start. PHEWW! This will definitely help figure out if hubby’s business trip will cause us to miss the ovulation window. I haven’t done that yet its been a busy weekend plus I’ll need something to post about tomorrow!
Waiting for AF and an Award!
1. You Can Only Use One Word!
2. Pass this along to 6 of your favorite bloggers
3. Alert them that you have given them this award!
4. Have Fun!
The Survey~
1. Where is your cell phone? purse
2. Your hair? Brown
3. Your mother? Annoying
4. Your father? loud
5. Your favorite food? Italian
6. Your dream last night? looong
7. Your favorite drink? Tea
8. Your dream/goal? Family
9. What room are you in? Living
10. Your hobby? scrapping
11. Your fear? Childless
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Mother
13. Where were you last night? home
14. Something that you aren’t? fertile
15. Muffins? blueberry
16. Wish list item? carpet
17. Where did you grow up? Pennsylvania
18. Last thing you did? Dinner
19. What are you wearing? Tunic
20. Your TV? Panasonic
21. Your pets? rowdy
22. Friends? irreplaceable
23. Your life? eventful
24. Your mood? good
25. Missing someone? Niece
26. Vehicle? Suzuki
27. Something you’re not wearing? socks
28. Your favorite store? Target
29. Your favorite color? yellow
30. When was the last time you laughed? yesterday
31. Last time you cried? Monday
32. Your best friend? Husband
33. One place that I go to over and over? work
34. One person who emails me regularly? Courtney
35. Favorite place to eat? Chili’s
I am awarding this blog award to (in no particular order):
1. Waiting for our miracle
2. Planting & Nurturing of Sweetpea
3. Making Me mom
4. Is it My Turn Yet
5. My Infertility Journey
6. Praying for our little one to come…
Clomid Next Cycle
I had my yearly Gynecologist appointment today. I got a new Dr. The TTC maniac that I was a year ago would have freaked out about this but I really didn’t mind. I actually ended up really liking her. She agreed to give me Clomid – BUT not until NEXT cycle. I will have blood work done CD 21 to determine weather or not I ovulated. She also wants to put me back on Metformin. My endocrinologist said no when I asked him to re up my RX. He said he didn’t think I need it. I dont mind taking it- it definitely helps me loose weight faster. I am on CD 54! YUCK! I haven’t had AF since my terrible post surgery / estrogen AF. So she also put me on Provera. Hopefully all goes as expected and we get a clomid cycle in in November.
We have been having so many shitty things happen – outside of TTC. We are ready for good news.
I’m an aunt!
On 9-21-09, after 21 hours of labor, my husbands little sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. We are the only aunt and uncle. The father to the baby is an only child and it’s just my husband and his sister. At time of birth it had been 34 hours since I slept. When they finally told us that she was here - I sobbed. We ran to the hospital when we got the call and stayed until we got to see our niece. My husband has a small family and we really wanted to be there. This was the first baby born into his fathers side of family since the baby’s mothers birth. Every time I saw my husband stare in amazement at that baby I felt like I was stabbed in the heart. I’m not kidding. It hurt like hell to watch him hold her because I know what was going on in his mind. He wants this as much as I do – sometimes I think more. We have spent alot of time with the baby and hopefully are getting a lot of practice. It’s wonderful to be an aunt and uncle but we are really ready to be parents.
In other news another friend announced her pregnancy. She once told me that she didn’t want kids so her announcement is bitter sweet in a way. Her wedding anniversary is the same as ours – which is coming up by the way. 4 years on the 8th.
Alternative route…
After much thought and consideration, I decided that on October 1st during my yearly, I am going to ask my regular OB/Gyn for clomid … provide that she doesn’t do the extensive testing that my RE does. I like the idea of the extensive monitoring but at the same time we have a few much need home repairs that are the result of heavy rains and flooding that happened back in June and if we are going to have to spend money much more expensive IF treatment, I dont want to waste money on clomid cycles. So October 1st is the day … hope she says yes
