Clomid Take Two

In a previous post I mentioned the I am taking clomid. Clomid is the first line of fertility treatment that most women do but it's not as simple as just taking a pill. First off I am already taking 3 pills everyday. I take levintroxin for my thyroid (every woman on my moms side of the family has a thyroid condition) every morning and I have to take it at least 20 mins before I eat breakfast or I get sick. If I take it too late in the morning it makes me tired. It took a while to figure out the perfect timing. I also take 1000 mg of glumetza (two 500 mg pills). I take the glumetza at night sometime between dinner and bed because it gives me an upset stomach. Glumetza is the fourth insulin medicine I have been on. It makes me the least sick of all.

Let me explain how clomid works. It is a nuero-blocker (pretty sure I spelled that wrong and not really even sure if that is a word) tha blocks the signal to your brain that tells you how much estrogen is in your body. By doing this your body produces more estrogen and in turns makes your ovaries ovulate.

The whole clomid process take any where from a month to two months roughly depending on your body. My fertility issues stem from PCOS so I don't have regular periods. Because of this I have to take Prometrium for ten days. At some point in those ten days or within two weeks after I take pill number 10 my period will start. That day counts as cycle day number 1. On cycle days number 5-9 I take a Clomid bill. Clomid cause your body to ovulate. On days 10-19 Jason and I "bond" every other day (Janelle and I termed it bonding because talking about sex in public is unacceptable and Janelle is my sound board for this whole process). After 10 days of "bonding" I take a pregnancy on day 25 and day 30.

Today is day 31 and I am not pregnant. I'll call my doctor on Monday and we will start the process all over again.

Jason and I have been trying for just over two years now and then has been the worst month of this whole process. Before this it was a crap shoot and we knew. We knew that I might get pregnant but we weren't expecting anything. This time it was different. This time we had a strong reason to believe that it might work. Last night was the first time in a long time that I have cried about this. I think I have been numb to my infertility but this process just threw it all in my face.

From my research clomid works in about 30% of people that take it but my doctor says it works really well in PCOS cases. Clomid causes some nasty side effects or so I have been told. The side effects are a lot like menopause. Due to this you always start out with a low dosage and they increase it as you go. Jason and Inhave discovered another side effect and it's not so much from clomid but just from trying to have a baby. Being forced to "bond" on a schedule is really hard. Jason's schedule makes things really hard. It is emotionally trying on a relationship.

So on Monday I will ca my doctor, make an appointment and we will take another shot at this.