Evening ladies, and welcome to nonu.
Apologies in advance for the rant but I am annoyed this evening. So last cycle was cycle 3 of clomid. I was told to take 25mg on days 2-6 for 3 cycles and to get my day 21 (ish) blodd progesterone checked each cycle. As last cycle was my "last chance" and 25mg is a very small dose, I flirted with the idea of upping myself to 50mg to give us a better chance. Then decided I was wrong to go against medical advice and stuck with the original dose. Blood results indicated I ovulated but no baby for me. So today I get a letter from my consultant dated 8th August (and postmarked 28th Aug) saying that my blood progesterone from July 16th (cycle 2) indicates that I have probably ovulated and if I needed to take a 3rd cycle I should take 50mg, not 25mg. This information arrived 5 weeks too late for me to do anything about it. Now I am annoyed that they didn't tell me until it was too late and am thinking "if we'd had the higher dose would I be pregnant now". Am I overreacting here?
2nd annoying thing about the letter. It continues to say that if the third cycle on 50mg isn't successful I should phone to book my HSG. The information goes on to state that the HSG is available on a Monday morning only at either 9am or 9.30am, there will be a wait time of up to 3 months and it must be done in the first two weeks of the cycle. So my cycles before clomid were completely irregular, how can I book an appointment 3 months in advance for a specific time in my cycle when they could be all over the place again by then?
DP says I should phone up and complain about the time taken to receive the letter and ask them what I should do now but I hate complaining to people.
Was feeling fairly down today anyway as work is fairly awful just now and my stress levels are through the roof, which makes me feel ill, and just having one of those days when you are convinced you will never be pregnant. Then that letter just made everything even worse. Fairly certain I'm overreacting and I know things could be a lot worse but it just seems to be yet another example of the failures of the NHS and things that just don't help on this journey.
Apologies again for the rant. Hope you are all well and wishing you lots of babydust (hopefully it isn't tainted with grumpiness!)