I still did not get my period. i think it is just trying to torture me. so I went to my OB's office today to pick up a copy of my hsg and my husbands sperm analysis. He told me they were fine. I looked at the sperm analysis and his ph is 8.5. Normal is up to 7.9. He might have a prostate infection and that can affect fertility. We could have had him on antibiotics two months ago. I am a little mad. I left a message for him to call me back and explain. Maybe there is something I don't know?

Vicky, hang in there! Hopefully this month is still a possibility for you! And, maybe this sperm analysis will lead you to some more clues as to the problem. Maybe an IUI will be just what you guys need! Its GOT to feel better to be getting some of the big testing done.

Personally, my period isn't here but there are cramps to let me know it will be sometime soon. Plus, I peed on about 30 dollars worth of sticks to determine that Im not preggers. Silly me!

Hey guys! any news? I hate to ask but i am just wondering how you all are doing.
I had my CD 14 scan yesterday and found that my pelvic pain was from a ruptured ovarian cyst on the right but i have a huge follicle on the left all readyt to go in the next few days! i just wnat to say that i diagnosed my ovarian cyst myself. i get so excited when i do that! It is also a side effect on the clomid. anyway also my endometrium is a good thickness so we'll see what happens. next month with the holidays and all i may not be able to take the clomid and then we weill be done trying until april becaus ei dont' want to deliver in the middle of residency interviews.
anyway i hope that you all are doing well. please check in.

Berkley--thats all good news for you, right? Will you do a trigger shot or not? Good luck!

I am getting sort of annoyed waiting for my period. Despite numerous negative HPT's, a small part of me still remains pretty hopeful... I have NO clue how long my luteal phase is, so I have NO idea when to expect AF! On the bright side, I've been using my basal thermometer and fertility friend and have been getting in the habit of temping. I'm going to continue to do so until we decide to try again. Hopefully, I won't feel so woefully lost & confused once I have a few months of temping behind me.

I was really attached to having an August due date, so this cycle being a bust is disappointing. But, I also really really grasp that there is not a "perfect" time to have a baby during med school, and so perhaps waiting till clinicals will be better for us.

I'm sorry to hear that the Clomid didn't work out for some people. Still hopeful for y'all. I haven't posted in ages because I've been insanely busy. We're in the middle of a phase I drug trial at work (I'm doing clinical research for the year), so I've been pulling 16 hour days the past few days. Before that we were preparing for this study. Thankfully it's only 8 days long and I get to go home early today!

Anyway, I had posted earlier about how we had to take this month off the Clomid. I was so disappointed. I hadn't ovulated on my own since I started birth control 2 years ago (I went off it 1 year ago), even though my cycles were normal before starting bcp. Anyway, this month was going along fine. We weren't thinking about baby making. Then I started getting pelvic pain. It was confirmed -- I ovulated on my own! I was so excited.

Well, this past Friday I started getting sore breasts. Could be PMS, right? Well, I had a gut feeling it wasn't. Something just told me -- I'm pregnant. Then on Saturday I stood from sitting for a while and passed out. I've never done that before. My breasts remained sore. I started some lower back pain, and still having some pain in my abdomen. This morning I bit the bullet and tested. I'M PREGNANT!!!!! The line wasn't even faint, there was no doubt about that result. I was shaking so much when I saw that.

So of course we're overjoyed. I'm also extremely worried. I'm worried that my breasts don't feel quite as sore today. What if it doesn't stick? I mean it's still really early, so there's still a big chance of that happening. (The good sign is that I'm definitely peeing a lot more today, and my breasts are still sore, just maybe not as much...might be in my head, though.) Plus, I'm worried about the possibility of an ectopic, even though chances are it wouldn't be. So yeah, it's an exciting and frightening time. Not to mention the plain old fear of my life changing completely -- oh my gosh, I'm going to have a baby??

I really wish everybody here luck. I hope to stay active on this board, especially after this week and this crazy study. I can't believe that I ovulated on my own, much less got pregnant.

Hope everybody has a good and lucky and successful week.

(btw, I tested at 4:45 this morning when I woke up, since I've been at work since 5:30. It's so hard to have this huge secret and not be able to tell anybody! I was just waiting for 8 for the doctor's office to open so I could call the nurse :p )

Congratulations! Thats so awesome! its got to feel GREAT that your body started to pick up some of the slack and ovulate on your own.

Please, please don't dwell on the negative possibilities--I know they are real, and scary, and being in medicine makes us even more aware of what can happen. But, there is really not much YOU can do to prevent things from happening the way they will happen--so maybe try and enjoy this time? At the end of the day, you are pregnant and it didn't take IVF, IUI, or even that trigger shot! That in itself is amazingly reassuring, right?

Congratulations!

Well I am not pregnant. I didn't want to go to the RE if I was pregnant so I ordered a serum HCG-<1. Not this month. Cried a little. Now I just want the stupid preiod to start already. Congrats Tigress. wish you a healthy pregnancy:)

DrVicky--I'm sorry about your news... What are your next steps? Did you find out any more about the SA?

And a question for those of you that chart--what will I see temp-wise to indicate period coming? I just want it to get here so I can stop this little illogical voice of hope and move on!

Well i found out why the ob didn't return my call. He didn't know. I ran into my friend the urologist today and he said to treat my DH for a month with cipro. Then the urologist said my ob had called him yesterday with the same question.Then the Ob comes over and said everything is fine and not to worry about the ph. Anyway we are treating him and I see the RE tomorrow. I guess I will ask him too. I need a drink and I mean a big one!!

DrVicky--I am so glad you are starting to rule things out. I really,really, hope that in a few years (when we can better afford it) that I can find a great RE to head down this road with.

have a big drink and realize that someday, you will have your baby, somehow! It might not be in the way we want or on the timeframe that we want, butI do believe it will happen for all of us.

So, crack open the wine and realize that you WILL be a great mother too some little soul eventually!