FINALLY!!

I have been waiting so patiently..LOL.. for this day to come. I'm finally on CD3 and I'll be taking my 1st 50mg dose of Clomid. I'm so excited to take it, I'm almost thinking about leaving work right now and running home real quick to take it. Oooooo so tempting. I guess I've waited this long, I can wait for...4 more hours! Holy Moly, calm down self :)

An interesting tid bit I just read the other day. I for some reason thought that Kate (Jon & Kate + 8) had done IVF. Well I just read that she took Clomid + IUI for the twins and Clomid for the sextuplets. OMG!! I know it's on the rare side to be hyperstimulated on Clomid like she was but still!! I don't think they did the IUI for the 6 and were told to avoid that cycle. Obviously someone was impatient HA.

So here I go on this new adventure. I'll be updating more often as hopefully this will be interesting and exciting.

Plan Set In Motion

Alrighty! I got a positive OPK the last two days, so I probably ovulated yesterday or possibly today. Again it's a late ovulation, day 31 or 32, but I guess the good news is that my body is making the effort. I'm so close to starting Clomid and I just don't want to risk another loss so we're not going for this eggie. FINALLY I can expect the timing of things. Since I ovulated I'll have a period in 2 weeks and on day 3 of my AF I start my first cycle of Clomid, WOOT WOOT!! I'm soooooo excited!!!!

Hopefully I'll have great sucess with it since I'm already ovulating now on my own. My eggs just need a swift kick in the ass to mature quicker and bust out of their bubble.

Now the questions is...will we have Clomid twins??? Hmmmm....

Herbal Remedies

So I've been doing research on herbs to hopefully get my period on time this cycle or to induce it. I've been taking Dong Quai for some time now so I upped the dosage on that. I added in Black Cohosh just yesterday. I've read that it stimulates the uterus and helps prepare the cervix to open up.

I've also started taking Wild Yam and Maca Root for added hormone balance. I was taking Vitex this whole cycle but just read that it increases your LH levels and lowers your FSH. Wow, I didn't realize that. That is not something a lot of woman with PCOS should be doing as our LH levels are higher than our FSH, which they should be about 1:1 ratio to be normal. I don't know what my ratio currently is but when I was first tested I was around 1.5:1, so not bad. However I have noticed that my OPKs on this cycle have constantly had a test line. Not positive, but there's always a noticable line there, which means my LH levels are up constantly. So I stopped Vitex a few days ago and I'm hoping that I will see a difference.

Hopefully all of this will help, I just can't wait to start my first cycle of Clomid. Hurry up AF!!!