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Tomorrow I take my last clomid pill and go in for my mid cycle on Thursday. (-: Anyone else close in days? Today is CD 6 for me.

~K

I'm day 9 :)

Cd#26 and no positive OPK... I give up... No more testing this month... Screw this !!!

Basia, you might need to wait to have another period before you ovulate again. The month after I had my D&C I just had to wait for my next cycle to begin. That took about 45 days.

Don't give up yet.

:) I am just done with testing red :) AF will show up eventually. I just wanted to know when I ovulated so I knew if AF will show up in the middle of my trip. Oh well...

How are you lovely ladies doing? Anything excited going on with your lives except TTC???

Hey Basia! Well, let's see.... our non profit for pregnancy loss got 501(c)(3) status so that's exciting for us! (-:

Mother's Day is this weekend - how are you ladies feeling about that?

Took my last clomid today. Just waiting for mid cycle on Thursday.

Question: Do your REs test your progesterone or estrogen and when? My sister is doing IUIs too, but goes to a doctor in a different city. Her doctor doesn't do a baseline ultrasound, instead they check her progesterone. Then, at her mid cycle, they check her progesterone and not her estrogen. She said they said that they can tell if she has any cysts based on her progesterone. Have you heard of that? They don't draw her progesterone after her IUI.

My doctor tests my estrogen at baseline and mid cycle. Then draws progesterone around CD 21.

~Kathryn

K - My clinic tests my estrogen at the beginning of my cycle (day 3), then estrogen from then on, mid-cycle and every day until I ovulate. They also test my LH from mid-cycle on so they know when I'm going to surge. They use the LH, combined with estrogen, plus the follicle size to trigger (or not) ovulation. I've never been told they test my progesterone--they've never told me my results if they do. But I get U/S's every time I go. Usually day 3, 7,9,10,11 until I ovulate I get blood work and U/S.

Basia--I know...we all have lives outside of this..don't we? :)

I'm a photographer as well as a nurse, gearing up for an exciting wedding season! (www.catemathewsonphotography.com)

Hope you ladies had a good weekend!

Catemat, I am so happy you said that you are a photographer! Your photos are so romantic! Very good!!!! I really like Susan & Nick 's wedding photos!
I am very interested in photography and I have it as a hobby. I try to follow my favorite photographers, like Bruce Davidson, Winogrand, George Hoyningen-Huene etc... I wish you great success in your next projects!!!

Catemat, I am so happy you said that you are a photographer! Your photos are so romantic! Very good!!!! I really like Susan & Nick 's wedding photos!
I am very interested in photography and I have it as a hobby. I try to follow my favorite photographers, like Bruce Davidson, Winogrand, George Hoyningen-Huene etc... I wish you great success in your next projects!!!

sorry for the double posting, I have no idea why it happened!