April Fools by Clomid, Part 2

My April Fool's Day joke:

The nurse called me back late yesterday afternoon and told me to take a pregnancy test.

Spotting before ovulation is not a typical side effect of clomid. My ovaries have been feeling tender since the first couple days of taking the pills, which can be a symptom ("abdominal discomfort"), as can dizziness, and so as it happened yesterday, I felt faint in the shower.

The nurse told me to take a pregnancy test because these are also symptoms of pregnancy. Yes, they are.

I agreed even though I knew I was not pregnant. 1. my BBTs are low. 2. I always take a pregnancy test before starting clomid, however silly I feel, just as a precaution, and on Sunday cd3, it was negative. I even posted about it. Regardless, being told to take a pregnancy test by my RE, via the nurse, because my symptoms sound like pregnancy, made me think that maybe there was a chance I could be pregnant.

I had to go out on a Friday evening to buy a test and take that test on April Fool's Day. Cruel.

Of course it was negative, and of course I studied it for several minutes the same way I did five days ago. I've been had. By clomid and my own body. and encouraged by my RE to fall for it.

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I started testing with ovulation predictor kits today just in case I am ovulating early this time. Things are definitely happening in there, I can feel it with every use of my abdominal muscles. Other side effects of 100 mg are more pronounced as well--headaches, breakouts-- not only on my face, but on my chest and back as well (gross! unfair!).

Despite an unexplained episode of spotting that led me to take a pregnancy test on April Fool's Day, I am feeling more confident and relaxed about this IUI cycle than compared to cycles past. Insemination will most likely be mid-week if everything looks good on Tuesday.