My name is Kirstyne and my husband and i have been trying to conceive now for 17months. We have had test after test and the doctors cant seem to find anything wrong with either of us. I ovulate and his sperm are good but still no baby!
We were referred by our GP to Dr Svigos here in Adelaide Aust and he has gotten us to start taking clomid. This was the first month that we have tried with the drug and i am now on day 1 of my new cycle (it seems the clomid worked in extending my cycle- normally i ovualte on day 15 and get AF on day 26 but now i still ovualte on day 15 but AF come on day 30) My doctor who i saw this morning seems
very happy with whats happening and has now told me to keep taking my temp and take clomid again on days 5-9 but to also use an OPK from day 11 to be sure we are getting it all right.
i still really dont understand how this whole thing works and i have been feeling so very lonely and down about it all. My poor hubby -david - cops it almost every night as i just cry.
I guess you could say that i have had the emotional side effects of clomid,around ovulation time i cried for about 9 hours straight and had a lot of pain on both sides and i have also experienced a lot of bloating. Now at day one of my cycle i feel like crap. i have never really had period cramps before and the ones i am having are horrid.
My emotions are all over the place!
I am finding it all really hard to deal with. I have a sister in law who just had a baby and even though she went through IVF to get pregnant no one seems to understand (she was very "lucky" doctors found she had blocked tubes - were unable to be unblocked- and her hubby had low sperm count so they went straight to IVF and she got pregnant 1st treatment!!)so people in our family just think the
whole thing should be so easy. I keep hearing things like "oh you know it will happen and at least you didnt have to go through what X did!" If only they knew that in some ways it seems that this is so much harder. Not knowing why this is happening is terrible.
Sorry if i have rabbited on too much. I guess im just lonley.
Kirstyne
