Adventures in Baby-Making || A Trying to Conceive Blog

Nothing to update really. Still no AF. I took my last Prometrium yesterday, so hopefully she will be arriving before too much longer. I've felt like she's on her way for several weeks now. My face is totally broken out and my boobs are so sore. That always happens a few days before she arrives, but it has gone on forever this time it seems like. CD 52...we'll see how long this goes on.

Just got back from my follow-up appointment with Dr. Dabinett. She took a look at my chart for this cycle and determined that I did not ovulate. Soooo...she gave me 200mg of Prometrium, which is a progesterone medicine that is supposed to bring on AF. I have to take that for twelve days. Then when AF shows her ugly face, it's back to the Clomid on days 5-9 - but double the dosage - 100mg of Clomid this time, instead of 50mg. I told her about having persistent UTIs, so she also gave me a prescription for Macrodantin to take after each time we have sex. That's one less worry to cross off the list. After my period starts, I have to call to make my next follow-up appointment for about 4 weeks after that, so she can take a look at my chart and determine if I ovulated or not. Hopefully the next time I see her, I'll already be pregnant :).

Still no aunt flo and three BFNs. I'm getting extremely frustrated with my body! I thought the Clomid was supposed to regulate me somewhat, ugh! I have my follow-up with Dr. Dabinett on Thursday, so we'll see what she says. She told me earlier that she may have to tweak the dosage of the Clomid (I'm at 50mg now) for a bit to see what works for me, so I won't be surprised if she gives me something to start my period and then increases the Clomid to 100mg. I can't imagine how bad the hot flashes with double the Clomid will be! I felt like I was drowning in my own sweat with the 50mg. One of Adam's co-workers and his wife just found out that they are expecting. We can't help but be envious of them. It seems like everyone around us is popping out baby after baby. I try not to be too jealous of anyone, because any baby, whether it is ours or not, is a blessing. Anyways, I'll update after my appointment on Thursday. Wish me luck!

Well, I tested again yesterday and got another BFN. I really wasn't expecting it to turn positive. In all honesty, I don't think I even ovulated this cycle. I have no idea what we're going to do if the Clomid doesn't make me ovulate like it's supposed to. I go back to the doctor next week, so we'll see what she says. I guess for now I'll just hang around and wait for AF to show her ugly little face. Since my temps are so erratic, I went out and bought an actual basal body thermometer. I've just been using a regular old digital thermometer every morning and that could have been throwing my temps off. Of course, I'm not going to start using the new one until my next cycle starts because then the temps will be really inaccurate. I tested both of them out the there's a .3 degree difference between the basal and the regular thermometer. I also bought two boxes of pregnancy tests to stash away in hopes that at least one of them will eventually turn out positive.

Impatience got the best of me. It's probably still too early to test, but I did this morning anyway. Negative. I looked at that thing under every kind of light trying to see even the faintest line (which I saw under this bright flashlight thingy, but I don't think that means anything). I'll wait till the weekend and test again. I pretty much have to - I'm out of tests!

I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning, la la la. Yeah, I've been having these incredible dizzy spells for the last few days. An early pregnancy sign maybe? I hope so, but I'm still doubtful...but, I have never experienced this sort of dizziness for this long, so who knows. I've been walking into walls and everything. Actually, it's pretty humorous. I can test this weekend, so I'm counting down the days.