January 19, 2013 CD6

We are starting our first IUI cycle this month, and I have been prescribed 50mg of Clomid CD 3 through CD 7. The word Clomid terrifies me after all I've seen and heard on the Internet. When I first started to realize that it really was taking us a long time to get pregnant I called my OB and spoke to his nurse and she threw the word Clomid around like it was candy. She told me over the phone that she would talk to my OB, but she thought he would just get me some Clomid and BAM I'd be pregnant. Thank goodness I have a good OB! He made me come in and we poured over my charts and he said your ovulating just fine and there is no need for Clomid in that aspect, but he referred me to an RE then and there.

Fast forward to now, I'm on day 3 of Clomid. I haven't noticed any of the side effects yet that I read all over thebump and google. I think I'm getting a low dose though compared to most. I had an HSG, CD3 blood work, diagnostic ultrasound and Trace had a semen analysis and all our results came back fine. We will be monitored on CD 12 to check our follicles growth and to make sure I haven't overstimulated my egg production. No sextuplets for us! Hopefully everything will look good and they will tell me when to trigger and schedule our IUI.

I want to be excited, but I think I've already decided this is going to be a bust. I want to be positive and I bet my hopes will go up once I've had the procedure. The success rate is not that much better then trying naturally and everyday it seems I see 2 or more failed IUI on forums I frequent. I know this sounds crazy and is probably flammable, but when we were going over percentages with our RE I kind of wanted to move straight to IVF. 60% sure sounds way better then three cycles of 20%. When I voiced this my RE and Trace just didn't see it the same way as I did.