Clear Blue OPK dual hormone and Clomid ... advice pls

[Lottystar]

Hi ladies, I'm on my first course of 50 mg of Clomid following a bleed induced by Provera. I am now on day 13 of my cycle. The thing is I have had high fertility readings on the Clear Blue digital dual hormone kit since Tuesday - the flashing smiley face. I have slightly obsessively been doing them in the morning and evening to try and catch a peak LH surge. As yet nothing ... Is this likely a misleading reading of the effects of Clomid or have any of you had such long high fertility readings before a peak? I am not having any scans yet (fertility nurse said I won't be scanned on 50mg of Clomid as unlikely to cause multiple pregnancy) and bloods starting next month. Really grateful of some advice x

Would not use such a kit at all in these circumstances and would stop using such a kit altogether. They really do not help and can serve to further fuel the desperate feelings.

The OPK measures LH; clomid can encourage more LH to be produced so the kit you're using is just reading this hence the multiple smiley faces.

You should be monitored whilst on clomid; no monitoring is unacceptable as you then do not know whether the clomid is doing the job (clomid's main job is to make the ovaries work harder).

BTW it is possible to have more than one LH surge a month anyway (this is another problem with such kits because they assume that there is only one LH rise per month and that such a rise is followed by ovulation, such an assertion is untrue.

Thanks for your reply Attila, i appreciate your advice - yes I've knocked the opks on the head as it was getting too demoralising and expensive! I think I was depending on them as I am not being monitored and I so I just don't know if I'm reacting to the clomid at all I'm not sure what to do or say to the fertility nurse -- when I mentioned bloods and scans, she just said my bloods would be taken from next month and was quite dismissive. Perhaps I am being over sensitive but I get the impression that because I already have had a child they are not treating me seriously. Or it could just be a not very good fertility clinic. I can't see how if I don't ovulate this month on 50mg of clomid (which I haven't so far and on day 17) that I will next month so it feels like a waste, unless the effect of clomid is culminative?

Sadly many NhS clinics do not monitor clomid at all. If private that is a different matter sadly.