Follicle Scan #2 of Clomid 150mg

Somewhat good news, I think.  The nurse didn’t sound super excited about it but its the best I’ve heard yet!

Left:  12.18
Right:  9.68 and 9.49

Supposedly, they should start growing about 2mm per day now.  As long as my hormones don’t level off or anything.  My progesterone went down a tiny bit since Friday but I’m not sure if that matters a whole lot at this point.

Estrogen:  77.17
Progesterone:  .733 (went down about .2)

And my LH was 12.83, though I haven’t quite put the time and effort into figuring out what that exactly means yet?

Side note, they had the worst time doing my blood work today.  I know I have bad veins but seriously.  The finally got some on the 5th try!  My arms and both hands were not happy campers.

At least injections were not brought up again today!  Going in Wednesday and probably Friday for more scans.

Clomid Part Two, 150mg

And here we are again…

This morning I had my first follicle scan since finishing the 150mg of Clomid on Tuesday.  No good ones to speak of.  Still just a bunch of very small ones.

Left:  4.54 and 6.30
Right:  5.92

I was feeling pretty low when we left the appointment.  The nurse did the scan this time and she didn’t seem very optimistic.  She said to come back Monday for another scan and then moved on to briefly discuss injectables.  She said that would be our next step.

Joe and I were (obviously) really hoping not to get to this point already.  It’s just really bad timing with the holidays coming up.  We have to buy gifts for a lot of people and we really don’t have an extra $3K+ laying around.  We talked about taking the month of December off from trying.  I hate this idea.  Even if we aren’t “trying” I know I won’t be able to relax and not think about it.  It was also upsetting for me because I never pictured money being an obstacle for us.  I just figured we would do whatever we had to do to make it work.  Now, I’m realizing that maybe that isn’t possible just yet, no matter what we do.  And this might sound completely ridiculous but I was really hoping to go into the holidays pregnant.  Not that we would tell anyone yet, but I think it would just make me feel better.  I’m really not looking forward to Christmas specifically.  We’re spending it with Joe’s family this year which means our pregnant sister-in-law and Joe’s baby cousins running around, as well as a billion other people that I’m not sure if my mother-in-law spilled the beans to them or not about our infertility issues.  Sound fun?

I got an email from the nurse this afternoon saying that my labs “looked good!” and that we’re keeping the monitoring appointment for Monday.  That was definitely nice to hear.

My progesterone was 0.918.  It has ALWAYS been <.002.

My estrogen was 70.25.

I’m sorry my posts have been so blah and whiney lately!  I promise I’ll try to do better!

Clomid Round 2, Day #1

Kind of.  I haven’t actually taken the pills yet since I’m supposed to take them at night.

I had baseline blood work and an ultrasound this morning.  Everything seemed to look good.  My RE said that he didn’t see any large cysts that would keep us from starting and gave me the go ahead.

I headed to Target to pick up the Clomid (100mg) and was pleasantly surprised that I only had to pay $18 for it.  The excitement was short lived when I found out how much the other medications were.  We had to get them from a mail order pharmacy.  The total for Endometrin (progesterone) and Ovidrel injection (trigger shot) was $273.  Could have been worse, I know.  But after paying $800 to my RE this morning I was briefly struggling with the fact that most people get pregnant for you know, FREE!  I’m trying really hard to not worry about the money aspect right now because I would pay just about any amount to have a baby of our own.  It’s just never fun to drop that much money on something that’s not tangible or even a guarantee.  Joe handles our finances pretty much by himself and he’s been so sweet about trying to keep me from worrying about it.  I know he wants a baby just as much as I do and he’s been putting his finance-major attitude aside until we can get through this.  Which will hopefully be soon!

Next appointment is set for next Monday morning.  Hoping to hear that ovulation looks like its on its way.  Pretty sure the last time I ovulated was in March!