Test Results and Night Sweats

On Monday I went in for my 7dpiui blood draw that will test my progesterone levels. That morning I woke up hot, sweating on my chest. I often experience mild night sweats a few days before my period starts. Acupuncture has seemed to help alleviate them a bit, but not every month, and not this month apparently. They have started early, like I said, I was only 7dpiui on the first hot morning. I'm sure it has something to do with clomid, right? Maybe you have experienced night sweats on or off clomid?

I have read that night sweats can possibly indicate Premature Ovarian Failure (probably not with my FSH and E2 levels) or be a symptom of low progesterone in a non-menopausal woman during the luteal phase. Can you have low progesterone and still have a consistent 13-15 day luteal phase? Are night sweats at my age a symptom of a hormonal imbalance or am I just over-analyzing every symptom of PMS as proof that I am not an unexplained infertile? These are questions I ask myself as I wait for my results. I could just wait the two days for my results, but I am already waiting two weeks to find out if the IUI worked (does anyone know of an infertile success story after 1 clomid IUI? probably not, huh?).

The last 7dpo blood draw showed borderline (of course) low progesterone levels at 10. Dr. A likes to see a number above 12. We did not supplement progesterone because Dr. A wanted to see how I responded to clomid. This was also before acupuncture treatments.

Part of me hopes that my progesterone is low, that Dr. A calls and says, "aha, we found out what may be wrong with your cycle and here is how we will fix it; it will be easy." Do you find yourself automatically interpreting test results as 'bad'? Partly out of a weird hope that maybe those 'bad' results must be a reason for your infertility and partly because you just want a test result to mean something?

Do you find yourself not believing your RE when s/he says that things look good and within normal ranges? Maybe they just want to keep you positive or don't want to speculate or really explain the myriad of possibilities and indications that one test result could imply.

A few weeks ago I repeated to myself that I cannot control conception and reproduction. I can't do this fertile and I really can't do it infertile. I have latched onto testing as a way to attempt to diagnose a hint of something, possibly. When I say diagnose I think I really mean control. Sadly, the idea of controlling unexplained infertility doesn't even make sense.