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Quick Cycle check

Did Santa bring you everything you asked for?

Me neither. The witch showed up Christmas morning right on schedule. Merry Christmas to me!

So now I'm on Cycle day 4 and will be starting 150mg Clomid tomorrow. I've also been taking my temp each morning as per my doctors request. And I will start using the OPK's on cycle day 12. Then blood work on day 21 and if I get a positive OPK we will do it 7 days after that as well. Hopefully by doing pretty much every way possible of predicting ovulation we will for sure see if the 150mg of Clomid works.

And did you know that for 15 pills (1 pill 3x a day for 5 days, but I take them all at once...you think that's ok?) it is $41.99? Glad my insurance covers 50% cause that could get expensive, lol.

Stay tuned.....

Merry Christmas from our Family to Yours.

 

 

Could it be?

I just returned from my doctors appointment and I do have a small little smile on my face.....

We went over my cycle charts and discussed my blood levels. He said that I was right in telling the nurse to have my blood drawn on day 21 AND day 25 instead of just day 25. He also stated that she didn't ask him about this and just decided to only have me do it on 25. So he's convinced that even though my progesterone was only 12.89 that it may have been above 15 the day or two before. Since he believes that since I got the positive OPK I probably DID ovulate, but missed it by a day or two on the blood work.

I also questioned him about the spotting and clots I had on Sunday and he said that it is possible that it was implantation bleeding (yippy!!!) or the sad possibility that I did get pregnant this cycle and lost it very early. But although it is sad it would mean that we got pregnant!!

So now I'm still in the 2 week wait! If AF shows I will take150mg Clomid days 5-9 again. I will also be taking my temps and using the OPK's. I will have my blood drawn on cycle day 21 and if I get a positive OPK I will have another draw 7 days after that if it's not on day 14. Then I have another appointment in 4 weeks to go over all of that information unless AF doesn't show, which then I would schedule an appointment for next week to either prove pregnancy or see why I haven't started.

If after going over all of my charts and blood work he doesn't believe I am ovulating then he will refer me to an RE. But if it shows I am then he said I can do 3 months on the 150mg. If no success there then I'm on to the RE.

So either I'm pregnant in 3 months or I'm going to a higher up, lol. Everyone pray for pregnancy, RE's are expensive!

This is what true disappointment feels like.

I called my doctors office today for my lab results....they weren't in.

A few hours later the nurse called back and said that she does have my lab results and she gave them to the doctor who said he wants to see me tomorrow. Which I knew immediately wasn't good.

And I was right.......progesterone level equals 12.89. At least we went up, just not high enough for being on 150mg of Clomid. But I have to say that since I began spotting on Sunday I knew I was pretty much out for this month anyways, so I'm not completely crushed. but I was hoping to have at least ovulated.

I do wonder why I got a positive on the OPK though. So maybe my body did gear up to ovulate but then didn't. Like I said I had some spotting on Sunday which also contained some clots, so i wonder if I had a cyst rupture. So maybe I geared up and it turned into a cyst??? Ugh, so many questions.

So I made a few phone calls and got someone to come in for me tomorrow so I can make the appointment. Which is good since I do have so many questions. I just hope we can come up with a plan, although I think he's going to just refer me to an RE. Which I guess is good, since I obviously need some more help. But things are probably going to get very expensive from here on out. That alone is enough to make me cry.

I hate the 2ww!

I spoke with my doctors office and they agreed that I should have my progesterone level done 7 days past when I think I ovulated per the OPK. So looks like I will have my blood drawn on Monday, I really hope it comes back with 20 or higher!

In the mean time I have been having a lot of pain in my pelvic area, more specifically towards my ovaries. Like sharp twinges every so often. This morning I woke up to sharp right sided pain that made me immedietly think it was my tube. I literally thought "ouch, my tubes hurt." Not sure why I had that thought, my only guess it I was reading an one of my forums of someone who had just had an etopic pregnancy and my thoughts were with her during such a difficult time. Sometimes your mind has a way of transpiring your thoughts into dreams, so having that pain immedietly upon waking must have triggered that thought.

I only hope that these pains are because I DID in fact ovulate. I mean I also hope it means I'm pregnant, but if I can atleast get confirmation of ovulation I will take it! That's a big first step I think. Meanwhile I'm in the 2ww, man I hate the 2ww.

Cousin Love

After my aunts funeral the family headed back to my grandmas house. A few took naps while others chit chatted. Later that evening out came the alcohol, cause what family get together is complete with out a drink, lol. I did not drink though, as I had to drive home, and you know, being a few days post ovulation I played it safe. But later I busted out the camera and took a few snap shots, as it has been a few years since we’d all seen each other.

My sis Katie with Launce, Steve and Gretchen  My mom says you should cover your double chin for pictures, so here we are doing “The Mary”And here are all the cousins that were there: L to R: Back row: Tara, Me, Launce, Scotty, Steve, Gretchen, Front Row: Angie, Tara and Katie. Were missing Amanda, Vicki, Alex and Jared. I always thought I had more cousins, but when I see us in a group it’s really not that many.

So there you have it, a crazy get together in my family. I have a bunch of other pictures of them being goof balls that are on my facebook if you’re a friend. I will also be uploading them to our Picture site if you want to check the rest out.

I have Hope once again.

Remember this post?

Well for the last few days I have been taking those OPK tests each afternoon, only to be disappointed in a negative result every time. I was beginning to lose hope that the Clomid worked.

But then Sunday afternoon I took another test. And as usual I had two lines, except this time the lines were the same color! I couldn't believe my eyes so I called Mr. B in the bathroom and was like "Are these the same color"

He said "yes".

I was like "that means it's positive!!"

He said "YAY"

I was like "apparently you don't understand what that means....it means the Clomid may have worked!!"

He said "I understand, and let me say it again, YAY!!" Apparently he wasn't as excited as me. But you'd have thought it was a positive pregnancy test with as much excitement as I had so I can't blame him on that one.

But that was on cycle day 17, which means I should ovulate sometime between days 17-19. So when I have my blood draw on cycle day 21 it will still probably show low, meaning no ovulation. Which may be the case or since the day 21 level is supposed to be 7 days after ovulation, I should be drawn on Day 25 or so. So I'm wondering if maybe I have been ovulating, just late, so that's why it's always negative. Which also means that gives me a whole new problem to deal with. As that could mean my Luteal Phase is short and it wouldn't give my little eggy enough time to implant before AF shows.

But I have new found hope! When I call the doc for my lab draw I am going to ask them about this and see if maybe I should have a draw on a different cycle day as well. In the mean time lots of Baby dust and prayers are appreciated!

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Gone but Never Forgotten.

Today my Aunt Rexanne lost her battle with Cancer. Although we knew this day was coming it sure doesn’t help any to be prepared for it.

Rexanne Frost March 29, 1955 – December 10, 2009 At our wedding (09.08.07) with her husband Scott and daughter Gretchen Thanksgiving ‘08 with her son Mike

We will always love and miss you.

My own little test.

This month I decided to use OPK's to help pin point ovulation. I'm hoping that it will actually show me if I ovulate while I'm waiting on Day 21 to have my blood work done.

When I was temping it showed I had a normal cycle and ovulated on days 14 or 16 depending on the month. Also I had other ovulation symptoms so we always thought I was ovulating. But then my Day 21 level showed my progesterone was low meaning I wasn't ovulating. So I now know that those ways of prediciting ovulation aren't completely accurate, as your body can do an ovulation cycle but not produce an egg. So I'm wondering if the same is true for OPK's. I'm hoping that since OPK's use the LH hormones that mine won't "surge" if I don't ovulate, just as my progesterone doesn't.

So this month I'm acting as a test subject and trying my theory out. Yesterday was cycle day 12 and the 1st day of OPK testing...it was negative {-}.