Winter blues

I cannot get over this overwhelming feeling of wanting to break down and cry at a moment’s notice.  Between a horribly busy month at work, dieting to lose some of these pounds that might be adding to my fertility issues, infertility treatment, hormone side effects, etc…I’m a whole big ball of crazy.   One of those alone [...]

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Still waiting…

CD 16 and still nothing happening on the OPK’s.  I even tested 2x today, simply because I don’t want to miss the surge, and both times completely negative results.   This is soooooo frustrating.   We’re still doing the every-other-day baby dance, just hoping that maybe this cycle I will ovulate even though the tests are coming [...]

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Nothing new

CD 11 and all is well–started the OPK’s yesterday and of course nothing…but I really don’t expect to get a positive result until this coming weekend. Side effects to note–major hot flashes, during the day and at night.   They’re seriously disrupting my sleep and I’m so exhausted.   I thought the Premarin would help, but so [...]

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It’s getting hot in here…

I’m on day 3 of the Clomid and the hot flashes are driving me insane.   I live in the sub-arctic of Michigan, so I can go from completely freezing one minute to sweating and red faced the next.   No warning at all–just instant summer.   Thankfully only 2 more days of Clomid, though the hot flashes [...]

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Some good news…and not so good..

I did actually have my appointment today–hurrah!   Here’s the good news for Clomid Cycle 2 (100 mg/day) Estradiol was over 500 and normal is anything over 450 Progesterone was at 20 and anything over 15 is “good” and indicative of ovulation.   Bad news:  fasting blood glucose, free insulin, and A1C are all too high.   I’m [...]

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Big appointment.

Well…maybe.  I didn’t get a phone call today confirming my appointment with my OB/GYN tomorrow–so I’m really hoping they didn’t mess up my appointment because that would just mess up so much as I’m already on CD 4 and don’t know where we’re going from here.   I am actually looking forward to the quarterly “What’s [...]

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It’s official

AF came today…with a vengeance.   Part of me wants to cry, but then the positive part of me thinks that AF coming all on her own is a good thing!    It means that the 100 mg of Clomid worked to kinda restart my cycle again–I supposedly “ovulated”  on schedule and then AF came about 14-15 days [...]

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A whole lotta nothin’

So, today is hubby’s birthday and I had it in my head that it would be such a wonderful surprise if I woke him up this morning with a positive pregnancy test.   However, God had other plans and I wound up with another BFN.   It’s only 12DPO right now, but I’m still just not getting [...]

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Head pounding…

I have had a migraine strength headache for two days now.  It won’t go away, no matter what I try….tylenol, ibuprofen, Norco (left over from shoulder surgery.)   I used to get migraines the day before my period started, but when my cycles went way out of whack those kind of ended.  I was grateful for [...]

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Out of control

I officially HATE Provera.   I have had the worst day mood-wise.  It feels like I have a raging case of PMS, but about 10x worse than normal.   I am cranky, angry, frustrated, impatient. just want to scream at everyone and then just make them leave me alone to stew in my misery…then I’ll just start [...]

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