Umm...that's a little funky...

As all of you know, I am an obsessive (oops...I mean) thorough researcher.

I have read all about the side effects of Clomid. Many of you were generous with your willingness to erase my ignorance on the subject.

I prepared myself for mood swings and dry eyes. Hot flashes and sore breasts. Muc.inex is sitting on my counter anxiously awaiting the first day that an OPK gives me two lines.

One would assume, under those conditions, that I was prepared for the side effect that warranted the use of mucus-thinning medications.

Before today (which is CD 7 and the last day of Clo.mid for this cycle), I was convinced that the drug was not effecting my mood. But I woke up this morning wanting to cry and it hasn't changed much. I am fine, a little depressed, but still far above that dark cloud that followed me until I started ADs. Really, it's no big deal.

As for sore breasts? Not an ache or a pain to be had. The only real sensations that I have ever had in that area was in November when I am confident that we were pregnant, even if only for a few days. That's actually how I knew that I wasn't imagining the fact that we had at least fertilized, and came to the conclusion that implantation failed, causing the BFN.

But the CM. Eeeew. It's not that it is a strange color or odor (I wouldn't leave the house if that was the case!) but just that there is more of it and it is, shall we say, thicker and stickier.

What's weird (ok, in addition to the ummm prevalent liquid expulsion) is that I occasionally experience aches in my va-va-jay*. They are pretty intense, though not enough to make me double over in pain or anything. But they are uncomfortable. And there is nothing that I can do about it. They seemed to have gone away for now, for which I am grateful. I have wracked my brain as to what else could have caused them but it's not what you may be thinking (though I doubt you are thinking that since you all know that I am not yet in that tiny little fertile window.) Though I did a few weight-training exercises at home yesterday, I didn't do any that involved my groin area. I didn't even do any lunges or squats.

What else is a girl to think? It's got to be Clo.mid.

I think I should point it out to my RE when we visit him after this cycle fails.

Oh, did I mention that my hope level is as low as 3% for this cycle? Even though we haven't even gotten close to ovulation. My instincts have told me that there's no need to get hopeful until our first IUI, assuming that the HSG reveals beautifully clear and healthy tubes.

I think I will announce the following - with pride and a BIG smile - "I think that the pharma company that makes Clo.mid should alert patients to the fact that they may experience disconcerting shooting pains through the va-va-jay as early as the third dose. And that there does not appear to be a direct correlation between those pains and the yucky sticky shit that continues to leak out."

What do you think?

* Ok, I am not sure that this is the correct term. Well, DUH, I know it is not the biologically-correct term, but I mean in reference to the term that the Oneliner and other IF blogger veterans have conjured up.