Thursday, May 7, 2009

I'm SO excited!!

I know I said I would post to the post I wrote this morning, but this deserves its very own post! I explained everything that has been going on to my doctor (that we have been trying for three months, but mainly the 47 day long cycles) and he didn't like that at all! He said that women ovulate around 14 days before their period starts and with me, by the time I actually ovulate, my uterine wall isn't able to support an embryo. So it's virtually impossible for me to get pregnant with such long cycles. That's the bad news. But there is suuuuuch great news, too! He is going to put me on Clomid!!! So I had to have some blood drawn for some tests to make sure nothing else is wrong AND Brad has to give a specimen for a semen analysis.

Is that thing scary or what?!?

There are allll kinds of instructions for that thing! But I'm going to leave all that for another post! Anyway, he also said that normally he likes to put women on the pill for a month so they can have one good cycle to get the body back in rhythm before putting them on Clomid, but he wants to just go ahead and try the Clomid for a month and see what happens! So if everything with my bloodwork and Brad's semen analysis comes back ok, we will start! I just hope we can hurry and get all the tests and everything done so that I can start it this next cycle. So far, AF hasn't shown up....let's keep it that way until we get the go ahead from my lovely, wonderful, oh-so-my-favorite doctor! I haven't done much research on Clomid yet. Any advice IF ladies?

1 comments:

IVF Again! said...

Yay! I hope Clomid works it's magic! I've heard so many success stories with it.

For me it wasn't the answer. My cycles are usually 32 - 36 days. On Clomid they were 36 - 38 days. Weird, huh? Also if they test your progesterone around cycle day 21 they can tell if you ovualated. My progesterone was always between 10 - 15 which means I could have ovulated. But I think they want your level to be above 15 for a strong, guaranteed ovulation.

Good luck! Let me know if you have any questions. I'll be thinking of you and praying that it works and your journey to baby will be a short one.