Doc Appt. Update

Okay. So. I saw the Dr. today. Well, sorta. I saw the CNMW today, too. She did most of the counseling and the actual Dr. just kinda stuck his head in last minute to clarify a few things and answer a question I had forgotten to ask Libby, the midwife.

After going over my cycles and everything, she said that she thinks that I do ovulate... just late and kinda sporadic. She said it's hard to tell if an egg is actually released or not... because sometimes the OPK and such will be positive but no egg was actually released. The only way to know for sure is to do blood tests... and in order to draw blood when they need to, I need to ovulate regularly and have regular cycles.

So... you guessed it. Clomid.

I begin my first round with CD 3 of my nexy cycle... which, if I'm not pregnant right now, will be sometime mid-next week. (I took a HPT this morning and got a negative... which, I know it's still very possible to be pregnant since 11 DPO is still early in the game. So I'm still holding out hope that I'll get a positive HPT in the next couple of days and not need the Clomid. Admittedly, the side effects scare me if I think about them or analyze them too much.)

So my Clomid schedule looks like this:

CD 3 - 7: Clomid

CD's 10, 12, 14, 16 & 18: Sexin' it up!

CD 21: Blood Test (to see if I did actually ovulate)

Then at the bottom of my schedule it says:

If a period occurs at the end of the cycle then call the office for a refill to begin the next cycle (assuming the blood test reveals ovulation did occur). If period does not occur then call the office to arrange a blood pregnancy test.

Both Libby and Dr. F said that if I do ovulate with the 50mg they'll keep me at that for a couple/few months. However, if I don't ovulate on the 50mg that they'll up the dose to 100mg. If I ovulate with the 100mg, they'll keep me at that... if not, she said they typically refer the patient onto a fertility specialist to figure out why ovulation is not occuring with the 100mg dose. Neither Libby nor Dr. F like to go above the 100mg dose, apparently... and that's A-Ok with me as I've read some bad things about going above that dosage.

So.

That's that. I'll know more about where I'm headed in a few days. Stay tuned.