come back in a month...

A new cycle has begun, and I went Monday morning for my Day 3 blood draw and ultrasound. For this attempt, it was decided to move ahead with medications and to try clomid to help the follicle growth. Signed all the paperwork and made appointment for tomorrow morning for more blood and was to begin the prescription tomorrow night. This afternoon I get a call saying they can't get the insurance authorization because apparently the new cards they mailed over the summer include a new group number!!! I need an entirely NEW referral from my primary doctor's office and since that will take at least a few days, I am out this cycle. Out. Nothing. Done. ARGH!!

I was angry at myself that I had not thought to give the office my new insurance card when I first got it. I was disappointed, frustrated, annoyed, etc. At the moment, however, I am telling myself that it is not a big deal... what is one more month? It is one more month to take the royal jelly and other crap that I'm taking that is supposed to make my eggs healthier. It's a month to not have monitoring appointments at 6:45am before work! And next month is just around the corner. :)

not this month

The blood draw showed that the "surge" happened for ovulation but the follicle development was not enough for an egg, so to sum it up, no go this cycle. At least no sperm was wasted in the process! Next step is to... wait... and start the monitoring up all over again.

nothing til Friday

Yesterday the nurse didn't reach me and just left a message (apparently school kept me too busy) so when I called back to make the appt. for Thursday morning I asked for 6:45am (once again, the school thing gets in the way). The earliest they had left was 7:30, so I asked if it was too risky to wait til Friday morning, as in, might we miss ovulation, etc. The nurse checked and said the follicle growth wasn't really progressing so no, we wont miss anything. Hmmm... ok.... but that didn't make it sound too promising. It DID remind me to be so thankful THEY can monitor like this, because if I was trying to simply with the ovulation predictor sticks, tracking temp, and/or using my fertility scope I would be frustrated.
So.... Friday.