Well first thing yesterday morning I called my doctors office to let the doctor know that I am now on cycle day 31, and I still hadn’t gotten my period. If you remember, my doctor wanted to do a blood test by 11/28, cycle day 30, if I hadn’t seen my period. I gave it an extra day…just in case. They had me come down to the office to have blood drawn and ordered the results STAT.

I called the office again last night around 7pm to see if the results happened to be in yet, and they told me to call back around 1pm today (28 hours later- not too STAT to me). Now just a little something I need to get off of my chest:

The last thousand times I have had blood work done I’ve gone directly to the lab in the hospital which is about a 90 second drive, actually the same distance as the doctors office but the opposite direction. When I called the office yesterday morning, they insisted I come down to the office instead and they would take care of it. Fine. The only thing is that when I called last night for the STAT results, they said the lab hadn’t even picked the specimen up yet. What??!! So me feeling like I had to be difficult I said “Usually I go right to the hospital for my blood work and the results are back the same day.” So the nurse goes on to say “Oh, you should have gone there and they would have just sent us the results.” Hello! I know this! This was the point I was trying to make this morning when I was told to come down in the first place. I knew that going to the office to get blood drawn meant that they would have to send it out. Whatever, I’m not going to argue the point, I just want to know…Positive? Or not?

So being as impatient as I am, I called the office at 12noon for the results. You know the extra hour would have just killed me! So I called, and she happened to have the results right in front of her. Drumroooooll please……The results came back negative. Instantly my heart hurt really badly. I had been thinking up creative ways to break the wonderful news to my husband for weeks now. I was speaking to the doctors wife, whom I love! She has been through a lot herself to get pregnant and did finally become a mommy, so she is very inspiring and has a comforting way about her.

On the call she apologized that I didn’t get the news I had hoped for, and went on to talk with me for a bit. I explained my symptoms to her. I told her that today my boobs are so sore, but they have not grown at all, which is not typical. I also let her know I have terrible cramps, cramps that started yesterday mid morning and haven’t let up. Normally I don’t get these types of cramps until after I get my period. She said it is likely I will get my period any day with those types of symptoms. And here I was convincing myself they were the early symptoms of pregnancy. Ho Hum.

She then said that the other possibility is that I may not have ovulated until later than I thought, and I may have just interpreted the ovulation predictor kit incorrectly. She also referred to the sonogram I had on 11/14, cycle day 16, which showed a dominant follicle. Basically, she recommended that I wait it out until Monday to see if I get my period on my own. If I still do not get it by then, she told me to take another test and to only use First Response Early Result Pregnancy Test. If I get a negative result, a prescription for Provera will be called into my pharmacy. This will induce my period and will then be able to start my second Clomid cycle.

So to recap, if I get my period on my own by Monday, great! That would mean that I did ovulate but we did not hit it right…literally. If I do not get my period by Monday and have a negative pregnancy test, I will start Provera immediately to induce my next cycle.

I am off to go make some coffee…caffeinated coffee. Cheers!