It Made Me Laugh

My last cycle ended up being a 24 day cycle. That's a worse cycle ON Clomid than I've ever had when I wasn't taking it! Clearly something went wrong. Likely, the Clomid didn't give me a strong enough ovulation and my progesterone plummetted very shortly after ovulation. I called my doc, who of course would be on vacation for 3 weeks. My doctor's nurse is awesome though and asked another doctor what I should do about the Clomid. The other doctor prescribed me 100mg of Clomid instead of the 50mg I had taken the last 3 cycles. I am to have a follow-up with my doctor once I take this round if it is not successful, and obviously if it is!

So, I was in Wal Mart waiting in this horrendous line for my Rx. The kids were with me so they have to touch everything in site and were screwing around. I finally make it up to the counter, and the pharmacist brings me the meds. He asked the usual questions if I know how to use it, and I said yes. He said "Ah, been there, done that, huh?" I said yep! He then said "Well good luck! And don't forget how to spell RANDY" and he pointed to his nametag. LOL. It made me laugh when all I wanted to do was go take these pills that I'm not happy about having to take to begin with, and after waiting in that line---I needed a pick me up!

Has anyone taken Robitussin to increase CM while on Clomid? If 50mg dried it up, I can imagine that 100mg will be worse. Any other tips or tricks?

Round 4 of Clomid begins tonight!

CD24 today and I'm still spotting. My temp dropped this morning so AF is definitely on her way. I'm going to end up with a shorter than normal cycle, so now I'm wondering if the Clomid is even working? I think that I'll do one more cycle with the Clomid and see what happens. If that does not work and my cycle is still the same in length and spotting- I'd like to see if there is another med I can use. Femara is an option I think, but it's going to be pretty expensive I think. Still trying to stay away from progesterone supplements because I'm petrified to have to remember it every day in order to not take a risk of miscarriage if I ever do get pregnant.

SA Results

SA results are back. I waited a long 10 days to get them on eggshells. They came back as normal, which is a great thing in the reproductive aspect. Mentally, it just reminds me that my body is the only issue preventing us from having a baby. I know I can't place the blame on myself because it's not something I can prevent- but it's still there in the back of my head.

Chop was great about it when I told him. He said that he has me and the kids, and that's all that matters. I know he'd love to have a child of his own though.

We are going to start saving money to have the HSG done. It's about $400 so it's going to take a while to save it up, since I refuse to use money that can go towards other things. Our "extra" money will just be used for that purpose.

I didn't chart temps this month, and barely checked CM, so I have no idea when I actually ovulated. We BD'ed for a good stretch though so I'm sure that it was at the right time. Therefore, I have no idea how many dpo I am, just that I'm on cd20 and had some very light pink/yellow stretchy sticky CM so I'm sure that AF is on her way again.

If you TTC a child and struggled--how long did you try? If you gave up, how long after starting to TTC did you decide to call it quits?