On schedule

Happy Veterans Day!  Well, this will be the fifth and final day for this cycle of Clomid.  Thankfully, no side effects (that I know of, anyway).  Been pretty good about taking temp each morning, though getting up as often as I do in the middle of the night does throw me off a little since there should be a solid block of 3 hours of sleep prior to taking temp.  Should also try to take it at the same time each morning with as little movement as possible.  Not always easy to do when fumbling around on the nightstand for the thermometer in the dark half asleep!

The lessons I’ve been reviewing on fertilityfriend.com have been very informative and helpful.  I’m up to 17 or 18 of 20…so almost done.  Need to do some research on prenatal vitamins.  I’m sure it would be helpful to begin taking them now so they are in my system at the time of conception.  The new one I bought made me so sick that one morning, I’m afraid to take it again.  But I need something. 

I also feel pretty blah since I haven’t been able to exercise much lately.  Watched Biggest Loser last night and it got me motivated…just been so busy logging in every night with the bottleneck at work.  But that is how I got to be overweight in the first place, right?  Not making exercise a priority.  There will always, ALWAYS be something else competing for my time and attention…

Catching up

I was remiss in journaling this summer.  Pap smear results were normal, blood work was good except for what they thought was elevated blood sugar.  I did take the meds prescribed, and to make a long story short, the Meformin HCL (glaucafage) made me sick-sick-sick.  I took it for about a month, got up to the recommended 3x per day dosage, and was miserable the entire time.  Then when I saw my lab work come back from Dr. Bussey (PCP) with blood sugar in the 80’s (which is very good/normal), I decided insulin resistance must not be a factor here.  So I stopped taking the meds.

I didn’t get my period at all this summer (May – September) and no, I wasn’t pregnant.  It did resume again in September so I went back for my follow-up/consultation with Dr. Knodel.  She gave me a prescription for Clomid (infertility medication to aid with ovulation).  If I didn't get my period in November, then I would take something to induce my period and then begin with Clomid the following month.  However, on November 5^th I did get my period!  So I started Clomid on day #3 of my cycle (Sunday/yesterday) and will take it for 5 days; then I am supposed to ovulate 5-10 days later.  I have been charting my temperature and all seems to be in line (my temperature spiked a bit when I started my period).

I admit to being really down this summer about all this.  I guess turning 36 hit me a lot harder than I thought it would.  Officially in the at-risk category, though I am working on not letting that fear rule this entire process.  And a process it is turning out to be.  I have been educating myself on all things fertility related.  Fertilityfriend.com has become a very good friend of mine; and I’ve been using the MyDays app on my Droid for daily night-stand record keeping.  I will go out and buy an ovulation predictor kit in the next few days to help me try to pin point ovulation (along with the temperature and cervical fluid readings), though based on the 5-10 days post medication period, I should hopefully have a pretty good idea.