Update on Clomid

GOOD MORNING BLOG READERS!!

I am actually feeling a little positive today.

Today is cd23 and I am about 9 days past ovulation going by when my opks turned negative.

I went for my cd21 blood test 2 days ago to see what my progesterone level is to confirm whether the 5 days of 50mg of Clomid actualy worked and made me finally ovulate.

I was so nervous this morning, mad isn't it?

I spoke to hubby and we decided I would not try phoning the fertility nurses for the results until about 11am, well of course that did not work and by 10am I was on the phone, but there was no answer and I had to leave a message for them to phone me back.

Nightmare as I hate waiting for phone calls.

Anyway they DID phone me back and they DID have my results ready.

The nurse asked what Clomid dose I had been on and then said I needed to take the same dose again next month, she then said my level was 57.8 and I said "Well is that good? Did I definitely ovulate?" and she said.....

YES!!!

I am soooo relieved!!

The nurse said just take 50mg again next cycle on the same days (cd2 to cd6) and that I would not need a blood test next cycle.

I am so pleased to know it actually worked, although not hopeful as we only ..tried once this cycle as hubby had been so ill, but I guess you never know.

I just hope the Clomid works as well next cycle and that we are able to try a bit more.

But so far so good and I am pleased not to have to take a higher dose next month.







What a start to the new year this has been!!!

I hope anyone out there reading this had a better start to 2012 than we did.
My poor hubby only came out of hospital on Monday having spent nearly 11 days there.

He had not really been himself since the week before Christmas, he is usually famous for his appetite but he was not really eating as much as he usually did and kept mentioning feeling bloated, but none of us really thought much about it as who doesn't feel bloated around Christmas.

We went away for a few days between Christmas and the new year and he was the same.
Then the first week of the new year he got really bad, he went back to work on January 3rd and by that afternoon he was on the phone telling me he was on the way home and had made an emergency appointment with our gp.
So we went to the doctor who after testing a urine sample said he had a bladder infection and prescribed a strong antibiotic.
The next day was our eldest son's birthday, poor love, it was a bit ruined for him as aswell as having to school on his birthday (And we all remember how rubbish that was) his dad spent the entire day in bed struggling to get any sleep as the bloated feeling had turned to agony.

So despite trying to get him to go to hospital or at least go back to gp, 2 days later we wereback seeing a different gp who said the urine sample had been sent to the hospital showed there was not a bladder infection so told him to stop the antibiotics.
She tested another sample and was worried when it showed signs of liver trouble, so then we were sent off to the hospital for a blood test (as apparently our gp surgery could not fit him in for one, even in an emergency)
So after waiting in agony for nearly 2 HOURS hubby had his blood test.
We had to go straight back to the gp for the results the next morning.
The morning of the appointment hubby was worse than ever, neither of us had been getting any sleep and I had ended up on the sofa to let him have the whole bed to try to get comfortable and sleep.

So by the time we saw the gp hubby was really suffering.
Before examining him she said we had 2 options either they send him home with general antibiotics for me to look after (Like I had already been)
OR we could go to hospital to find out what was wrong!!! (Yes, seriously, she thought there was a choice)

Then she examined him and got worried he might have a blockage in his bowel so we were sent to hospital
I won't go into how much we were messed about in A & E despite hubby clearly being in agony.
Hubby was admitted and the first guess was kidney stones, he was finally given morphine and after a CT scan of the kidneys they ruled out kidney stones and changed their guess to possible ulcers and were talking about doing a proceedure called a colonoscopy.
This was untill another doctor said if there were ulcers they could rupture during the proceedure so instead they decided it would be a better idea to do a FULL CT scan (I know, might have been a better idea to have done in the first place but there you go)
While all this was going on hubby was not allowed to eat anything (Not that he even wanted to) he was on morphine,  paracetemol, 2 different antibiotics and iv fluids.

It was a bit of a shock when they told us the CT result, there was no mention of ulcers. they said they were diagnosing pancreatitis and the scary part was it was not caused by alcohol or gallstones as it usually is, hubby's was caused by widespread blood clots!

So now he is on Warfarin and we are waiting to find out the cause of these scary clots via all sorts of genetic and other blood tests.
He has been home for 4 days and fingers crossed his pain is easing.
We are still going back and forth to the hospital as they are trying to get his blood clotting levels right and his Warfarin dose right.
We are also waiting for appointments with haemotology and gastro (as he has an enlarged liver too)
But I am so glad hubby is finally home, it has been a nightmare for us all, my poor kids have had to out up with me having to spend about 6 hours a day at the hospital for 10 days and I have had to juggle 3 kids, (getting them fed to and from school etc) home and making sure hubby is properly looked after (as they kept him waiting far too long for pain relief)

As for the TTC, well the day hubby was admitted to hospital was cd2 in my cycle so was the day I started my very first cycle of Clomid, I ummed and ahhhed about whether to still take it, but in the end I decided to do it as I know it can take months to work.

It was horrible taking it at home alone without hubby,
Side effects wise it was not too bad, but I guess I was so distracted with all the worry with hubby I might not have noticed.
I did have weird feelings in my lower abdomen and my boobs were a bit painful for a couple of days.

Anyway I started testing with my usual cheapie ovulation tests and they went from totally negative to the strongest positive I have EVER had on cd14 which is also the earliest I have EVER had a positive.
And also very unusually I went back to negative the next day when normally I have my positive for 3 days running.
We were only able to try on the day of the positive which I know is a good thing, but I am not holding out much hope.
I am on cd16 today and will need to go for my first progesterone test on cd21, then I will have to wait 2 days and then phone for the results to find out what dose I need to take next cycle.

Wow what a long blog

Happy New Year to you all xxxxxxx

Guess I am starting Clomid then

I did take a First Response Early pregnancy test yesterday morning (January 4th) and no surprise as I had already started to suspect my af was coming, it was a great big fat negative !

Then this morning it came with a vengence and I have been in agony ever since.
So today is officially cycle day 1 and tomorrow night I will take my very first dose of Clomid fertility drug.
I am taking it at night time to try to avoid some of the nasty side effects.

Bit of a nightmare week so far, yesterday was my eldest son's 17th birthday and as well as finding out I have failed to conceive once again my poor hubby is very poorly so my poor son did not have the most exciting birthday, although luckily my parents came over which did actually help.

So that is the only update right now, I will try and blog about the Clomid itself, side effects, observations etc.

Feeling Old!!

Tomorrow my eldest son will be 17 years old and that makes me feel sooooo old, although it probably does not help that it feels like we have been trying for this baby for such a long time.

Today is the first day back to school for my kids and back to work for hubby after Christmas/New Year and typically the weather has been totally lousy.

Not much of an update for you right now, but today is about cycle day 32 and according to my Clearblue computer thingy I am due on today, so I have taken the plunge yet again and bought a First Response pregnancy test, but I am not going to take the test until tomorrow morning, maybe it being  my son's birthday might bring us some luck (with our 3rd son we got our BFP on a Christmas Day)

I am obviously hoping for my long awaited BFP, but if not I am waiting to start my next cycle so I can start my fertility treatment (Clomid)
Hubby bless him is so hoping this is OUR month as he is worried about me taking the medication due to some of the more scary side effects (they even worry him more than the possibility of twins.)

I think I am about 14 or 15 days past ovulation (going by the ovulation prediction kits) so I am hoping taking the test tomorrow will be pretty accurate.

So I guess I have to wait and see yet again .....