To both lovely Bananas, thanks for the advice on bringing DH. I was able to bring my appointment forward again (!) to this morning and it meant he couldn’t come as it was far too late notice. As well as not enabling him DH to get as directly involved, I’ve already got that thing of ‘what exactly did the doc say about xyz’ so it would have been good to have him there. Couldn’t be helped though. (Writing an update via this post will serve as a record for me of what I do still remember!)
Oh and thanks Stealth re AMH. Mine was 117 i.e. pretty darn high – the doc today said ‘ah yes, typical PCOS’.
And Bananafish, do think of the glass as half full not half empty! That’s a world away from thinking the glass is overflowing – it’s just being quietly positive. Which can only be a good thing. I hope the injection lesson today goes/has gone well and that you don’t get any side effects from the stimming.
Pebbles, I'm sure noone saw the appointments. Good reminder to be careful though - everyone’s got access to my calendar. I always try to mark the hospital ones as private but it's easy to forget.
Ponty, I’m glad you managed to realise you were being ridiculous by the end of your post 
. Sometimes we just need to write something down to be able to snap out of it, I reckon. Anyway I hope DH is being suitably supportive to help stop you from thinking such thoughts! Sorry that you didn’t ovulate. How long til the progesterone test?
Mistletoe, fx for this round of clomid. Date night sounds like a great idea.
I had my fertility clinic appointment today. Doc said I need an HSG and then, if it’s clear, I can go on clomid (he’s given me the prescription already). If tubes are blocked or clomid doesn’t get me anywhere, then straight to IVF. He said there was no “IVF waiting list” and certainly no 18-month wait, and wants me to tell my GP she had the wrong info on that. The HSG waiting list, OTOH, was super-long, so I decided to pay for it at the hospital privately, which means I can have it done on Monday morning. (Oh how I wish the dye test had worked during the lap!). In addition, the hospital charges for follicle-tracking on clomid even as an NHS patient. (Though if 50g works and no issues in the first cycle, but no BFP, I won’t have further scans in subsequent cycles). So these next steps are going to be rather expensive, but obviously worth it if they get us closer to a BFP.
Oh and interestingly (weirdly?) the doctor has given me a prescription for the contraceptive pill to induce a bleed for clomid, rather than norehisterone/ provera. Has anyone else been given the same?
I am feeling semi-excited that I might be taking Clomid within a few weeks from now – s*’s finally getting real!
And for those interested in metformin- the doctor today has said that 2g was a high dose and as it obviously isn’t working for me, I should reduce it to 1g, and then (I prompted him on this) stay on it for first trimester if and when I finally get pregnant, though there is still a debate on this.
I also asked him about soy isoflavones, agnus castus and inositol and he basically said that as I pretty clearly have severe PCOS, they won't do anything for me. So I can save a few pennies there, I guess . But he didn't pass on any general wisdom about their use for those whose symptoms are less severe.