The nurse is correct you may need more than 50mg to ovulate on day 14. I took 50mg and had unregular cycles of 28, 30, 35 etc, and I tended to ovulate around day 20 on clomid. Thats not true re false positives for OPKs on clomid. My FS said so, I got a OPK positive and it was correct and we were lucky and conceived Julia. We too started DTD from day 8 to day 22 to cover all bases (every 2nd day).
It also depends when you take the Clomid too, I took it on day 2 to day 6 and still ovulated late.
I took clomid to help regulate my cycles and it did bring my O date forward from around cd21 to a more reasonable cd14-16. I had poor folicular recruitment and the clomid was prescribes to encourage more folicles. So I took clomid cd2-6 and was recommended to DTD every second day from cd10-cd20 to try and cover it. I always got a BT on CD21 to check for progesterone, and was always good, indicating o had occurred. I also used OPK's and found them to be reliable, testing daily from CD10 till I got a positive.
Was your BT to check for an LH surge or for p4 levels?
Good luck with it.
Its terribly annoying to get conflicting info isn't it.
My clinic gave me clomid and opk kits to test with to ensure we did IUI when the surge occurred - along with a CD10 scan. So you can definitely use OPK's with clomid use.
Sooooooo annoying! I wish he suggested an u/s mid cycle to see what was going on in there. I will ask him to monitor me more closely next month if I don't get my BFP this month
yes.. sorry p4 is the progesterone level, and if this is high enough it would indicate ovulation had occurred. You should have a number somewhere over 20nmol/L to indicate Ovulation had occurred.
I just need to say it DOES happen that clomid can give a false positive opk result. That is absolutely correct. HOWEVER if you leave 3-4 days between last dose and using opk's you should avoid this.
Clomid does not always give you a cd14 ovulation. On 150mgs of clomid I ovulated on cd20. I conceived Imogen on this cycle. Our bodies are individual and will respond differently so what response my body has may not be your experience. There is a very wide variation of normal. For me it didn't matter what days I took the clomid my cycle length was still long. I had a trigger shot with Immy and my follie (the largest) was 28mm.
Fertility clinics usually give you opk's when you have your follie scan.
Thanks Rufalina, will make sure to ask the nurse what the level is when she calls with the result.
Flowerchild, thanks for the advice, you certainly sound like an expert in this field!! I'll give the OPKs a go next month IF I need to and follow your advice on when to test. You are so right, everyone reacts differently to treatment - I wish my FS gave me these possible scenarios rather than saying I would definitely ovulate on day 14 - I am just so glad I kept DTD past the time he told me to!!
The results are in! Nurse called to say I have already ovulated and my progesterone level is 43. I asked whether this number could give an indication of when I may have ovulated but she said they can't tell - only that I ovulated. Anyone know what this number means?
I guess the Clomid did help shorten my cycle a little which is great. Now praying for the BFP!!
my doc said he would expect prog to be 80-90 for pregnancy and mine was only 20. and yet i did get a bfp and the little one is hanging in there just FINE. I have read of some ladies having prog as low as 8 and still being pg.
so this test is not an accurate indication of pregnancy... BUT you definately did ovulate WELL DONE and GL.
Thanks for the information ladies. It's so great to hear that you both had luck on Clomid, congratulations. I wonder why my FS was so adamant that I would ovulate on day 14 if it just doesn't seem to be the case. I will try OPKs next month but am obviously praying that I won't need to I can't believe how much conflicting information is out there - as if things aren't hard enough. I will get my blood results tomorrow so will know if I ovulated or not. Think I will have to lure DH back to the boudoir this evening for one last shot, if it's not already too late (last time we DTD was on Friday CD19) so it's quite possible I may have missed ovulation day
Rufalina, my BT today was for progesterone levels to check whether I ovulated - is that what p4 level means? Good to see Clomid helped you ovulate earlier. Prior to my loss I also ovulated around CD21 so was hoping it would help bring it on a little earlier.
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yes Flowerchild, I totally forgot about the 3-4 day wait after taking the last tablet to start OPKs... Thanks for the reminder...
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