Clomid...and Progesterone

hello..i just have a question regarding clomid..i took 50mg the first month and on cd14 u/s i had 2 good follicles so i got a trigger shot..but i dint get preg. the second month i went on 50mg again but my follciles never matured enough..just last month i took 100mg and on cd14 u/s i had a good size follicle 22mm and i got a trigger shot im on cd22 rite now and i went in this morning for a progesterone check..if the progesterone level is high like above 25 could it mean that i am preg.? could it be possible to know that im preg. tru that or no? also if im not preg. this cycle should i do clomid 100mg again next month..or should i do IUI to have a better chance? and what exactly is IUI? like what are my chances?

[USF-M.D.-JM]

First you make progesterone after you ovulate, if you get pregnant it keeps going up pretty much the whole pregnancy, it goes up because you are making pregnancy hormone, if you don't get pregnant it comes down and this is what gives you your period, progesterone coming down. We often check a progesterone to see if someone has ovulated. It then can come down or stay up if you are pregnant,making pregnacy hormone it stays up if it comes down you get a period. I wouldn't thing of it as a test for pregnancy.
The goal of clomid is to make one follicle, if it takes 50 use 50, if it take 100 use 100, if it takes 150 use 150, not to much efficacy in going higher than 150. What ever it takes to make one good follicle, if you make more great, but that is all we are going for.

IUI - Intrauterine Insemination, a semen sample is collected and given to the physician and they wash it ( think of the cervical mucous as washing the sperm as the swim thru it).  The sperm are placed in a catheter and the catheter is passed thru the cervix and the sperm are placed at the top of the uerus.
With intercours the sperm or in the vagina and about 90% can't get passed the cervical mucous, thus the IUI, gets pass the cervical mucous, just remember to wash it.
HOPE THIS HELPS

[shortie26]

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