Hi girls,
Just to give you some general background before I ask the question.....I'm off the Pill since Nov 05. I already have a DS who is nearly 3. My cycles after coming off the Pill have been really awful, ranging from 60 - 125 days, and my gynae thinks I probably didn't ovulate on very many of them. He has ruled out PCOS, my hormone levels are all quite normal, I've had an internal scan to rule out anything else. Basically everything else is clear, just that I'm not ovulating regularly.
So he put me on 50mg Clomid, to be taken days 4-8 of my cycle.
It has worked well, my cycles are now pretty regular and I am ovulating as confirmed by blood tests. (still not pregnant though! ) I am not being monitored on the Clomid, just going to my GP to get 7dpo blood tests done.
My question is this: on my last cycle, I got a progesterone level of 104 7dpo, which is obviously SUPER, my gynae had told me that anything over 15 confirms ovulation, and he would like me to be over 30 on a medicated cycle.
Yet, I started spotting at 10dpo with AF arriving 11dpo.
My GP is mystified, she cannot explain to me how or why I could have such a high progesterone level for starters, she says the only time she has seen levels that high is in people who are pregnant, and she also cannot explain the very sudden drop in progesterone, why I could start spotting 3 days after getting a level that high, as spotting normally indicates a lack of progesterone.
She has referred me back to my gynae, but I can't get an appointment with him until May.
So I decided to come on here and ask you all whether you can shed any light on the matter, as I've often found that people who are going through the same thing are much more knowledgeable than the medical professionals!
Any ideas????