So I went to the clinic this morning to see what the end result of my seven days of Clomid had been. Other than feeling like a space cadet for most of the week, I hadn’t noticed any side effects. Then I had this conversation with my ultrasound tech:
Tech (looking at ultrasound with pursed lips): You, my dear, have textbook PCOS ovaries.
Me: Really?
Tech (now looking at other ovary): Oh yeah. Honey, we could print pictures of these and show them to students.
Which in some sick way I took as a compliment. Because, you know, if you’re going to have PCOS ovaries you might as well go all the way and REALLY have PCOS ovaries- none of these half-assed, maybe, borderline cases.
Of course the results of having such textbook ovaries is that I have oodles of little follicles, all exactly the same size they were before the seven days of Clomid. (Ok, that’s not quite true. Some of them grew 1mm. Fantastic.)
So my fs signed me up for 100mg of Clomid for the next three days, handed me the pills and sent me back on my way. I’ll be poked and prodded again on Monday to see if anything’s happening yet. I’m really starting to wonder just how many days in a row they think it’s ok to keep giving me Clomid.
Afterwards I bought capris. Because I am sick and tired of only having one pair of shorts that actually fit properly, and I was done with my stupid attitude towards buying pants that ‘might not fit’ (which I wrote about in an earlier post).
(But a part of me (a stupid stupid part) is hoping that my $30 capris, which have no room for a pregnant belly, might, like a burnt offering, induce the reproductive gods to smile on my ovaries…much like you hang out clean laundry in a drought to bring rain.)
Grrr, sorry for your textbookiness. Hopefully the 100mg will work and you will have to pack away those capris for next year!
I know about that clothing-offering-to-the-gods! That is my best excuse for spending too much on clothes these days… but it hasn’t actually worked yet. And I am so sorry the Clomid isn’t giving you good results. Sounds like you’re in good hands though– they’ll figure it out.
That sucks, dear!! I am with you, my textbook PCOS ovaries once scared a sonographer trainee who had no idea what they were. Lucky me.
I hope the added clomid helps. It always took me a lot of it to ovulate, too. The injectibles work so much better for some reason.
*hugs*