Sunday, November 23, 2014

It Has Begun

Today is CD 5, which means it's Clomid time.

I decided that I didn't want to pop a new drug with unknown side effects right before teaching Sunday School, so I didn't take it this morning.  Also I forgot to bring it with me when I left for church.  So there was that.

Actually, I was a little disappointed that I didn't bring it.  I wanted to carry it on me all day, nice and close, like a pirate always keeps poison on their person in case they are captured.  I thought that I would carry it around and then somehow spontaneously know the exact right moment to take it.  Instead I just took when I got home from church / hanging out with California Cousin ("CC").

It was weird taking it.  Because I anticipated the whole thing being a lot more dramatic than it actually turned out to be.  In my mind, I guess I thought there would be an instantaneous Jekyll/Hyde transformation.  I'd put the pill in my mouth and the second it touched my tongue I would double over in pain as it coursed through my veins, rapidly turning me into a monster.  Suddenly, I'd be a crazed banshee, shrieking and clawing the faces off of any pregnant women I saw.  Instead, when I put it on my tongue, all that happened was that the pill was really bitter and I had to choke it down and then eat a bunch of grapes to get the taste out of my mouth.  And since then I've just been chilling on my bed.  I haven't clawed anyone's face off at all.

Although, to be fair, I haven't seen any pregnant women yet.  So we'll see how I handle it in the next week's worth of baby announcements and family gatherings.  Potentially not as well as I am handling it while laying on my bed doing nothing.

14 comments:

  1. Good luck! You will have plenty of tales to mentor a woman in your current situation some day. Hugs.

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    1. Here's hoping. I'd like to get SOMETHING meaningful out of all this.

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  2. Oooh, good luck with the Clomid! Thinking about you! XO

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  3. I found you again!
    I read your blog last month but, forgot to book mark it. Here I am again and it's definitely book marked now.

    Good luck on the Clomid!

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    1. Aw, yay, welcome back! I'm happy to have you. ;)

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  4. Stopping by from ICLW. I used Clomid for my four IUIs. I don't remember being overly emotional, but oh my, the hot flashes! Good luck - I hope this is your month. :)

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    1. I have never experienced a hot flash in my life. Kinda interested to see if I will. To be honest, with the weather so cold these days, I'm not sure I would mind too much.

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    2. Totally forgot about the hot flashes! Yes. I had those for the first time. At first I thought it was an anxiety attack, but then I realized that I wasn't anxious... Just really hot.

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    3. Like slipping in the hot tub without having to get wet!

      ...right?

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  5. First time visitor from ICLW and loling about your face clawing. It may not be an instant transformation, but you still surely may want to hurt some people once you get more of this drug in your body! I never used clomid since we did DE IVF, but I learned from the ladies in my support group that many people feel aweful on it. Wishing you the best of luck on your cycle and on avoiding the nasty side effects!

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    1. I've heard nightmarish tales, too! They're making me very paranoid. It is yet to be determined whether my own personal horror story is like The Shining or more akin to Troll 2. I'm hoping for the latter. Mostly because Troll 2 is an awesome (/terrible) movie.

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  6. LOL! This is awesome :) I'm so glad that there wasn't any face clawing involved, but sometimes the Clomid needs to build up in your system before that happens ;)

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