Follicle mystery

SmileyMcGee

Hi ladies,
So, I'm currently on 100mg of clomid with follicle tracking. Previous blood test showed ovulation on 100mg, but was never tracked.
This cycle, scan on day 8 showed one 10mm follicle in right ovary, scan on day 12 showed 2 follicles in right ovary, one at 9mm, one at 10mm. And the scan today, on day 15, shows no proper follicles, just one in right ovary at about 8mm.

What happened to the 10mm one? Any ideas, I'm a bit baffled and had a nurse who wasn't so friendly this morning!

I've a scan on Thursday which will be day 18, but I'm really not sure what to expect now!

LauraNick2010

Is it the same person doing the US each time? If not it's possible not everyone knows how to properly check. I always watch the screen so I myself can see what's going on. Also maybe ask your doctor because that all sounds very bizarre to me.

GoldenKeys

Follicles can "hide" which is why they should be doing bloodwork every time they do an ultrasound.   If the follies were there before, they are still there now.   I have only had nurses do my ultrasounds a few times, but I noticed that they never had the full count that the RE's did on the same cycle.

bsckgb7

Is it possible you O'd between CD12-15?  What did you bloodwork show?

iloverocksalot

Sometimes if you have a 'full bowel' they can't image the ovaries properly. I've had some shrink a bit, but only if there was a clearly dominant follicle taking over. It sounds like you weren't able to see a dominant on at your CD 15 scan... Were you usung OPKs too? Maybe you ovulated earlier?? Seems odd to me, though given the sizes of your follies on day 12.

SmileyMcGee

Thanks ladies, it's been a different nurse each time. They only offer bloodwork a week after ovulation (thankfully otherwise my veins would've packed in by now!)

Come to think of it, she could see two potential ones but couldn't measure them as they were overlapping.

Got another scan booked for Thursday (day 22). My bloodwork has previously shown ovulation by day 28, but not 21 so maybe in the next week. (These bloods were done through GP, now been moved to hospital care). Which is late for clomid.

They'll apparently continue to scan me until day 35, then will use provera I believe.

We're not using OPKs as clomid can give false results and I'm trying not to get overly "clinical" with it!

KidShrink

*bfp mentionned*
Oy...you really should be getting bloodwork done through the cycle. I would get bloodwork and US on day 3, 9 and every day after that until ovulation (because I ovulated around day 12). The bloodwork is super important as they can tell how your egss are maturing (from estrogen levels) and whether you're about to ovulate (from LH surge). This bloodwork made all the difference for me in order to properly time my succesful IUI (the RE called me in a panic a Monday at 4:30 telling me to trigger that night and come the next morning for IUI). Had he not checked that, we would have missed ovulation as I had one mature follie, but another 2-3 that looked on their way, so they were going to wait til Wednesday or Thursday for the IUI otherwise. I'd highly recommend getting an RE who will do full US and BW monitoring. As much as you don't want to get too clinical with it, conception is (in our case anyway, where we don't get pregnant just by accident) pretty complex and needs to be properly timed.

bsckgb7

^^^ This

Are you seeing an RE or an OB?  Clomid only gives false positives within so many days after taking it.  Please get to an RE if this is an OB (which I suspect it is)

SmileyMcGee

I'm in the UK, so it's all NHS (which is great as I don't have to pay, but not so great as you don't have much of a say). There's no way we can afford private healthcare, so we're stuck with what we've got.

SmileyMcGee

So the scan today showed no change in follicle size. Had the worlds loveliest nurse who explained that if the clomid hadn't worked then we wouldn't see any change in follicle size. Talking about inducing bleed at day 35 & starting injections instead....