Third hit of Clomid

Day 9 on Clomid. Just before the third 50 mg tablet.

The swim team numbers have continued an upward trend in the past 2 days. At the high end there are easily 20 good swimmers per microscope view (at 800x), though there are of course many views that have less and I'm certain many "layers" I can't see. I can't say this quantitatively, but the numbers appear to have plateaued.

It's hard to assess where the newly produced T is playing its part. Since it takes ~70 days and about 6 days per stage to grow a team, I'm positive the T is benefiting the tail growth stage at the end because I started seeing the big uptick 6 days after the first hit of Clomid. If the numbers continue to grow in the next 3 weeks than it shows that the other stages were also starved for T as well.

I'm still looking for that microscope view that is so full of swimmers, it looks like a bucket of maggots.

Tomorrow 1/6 is my third hit of Clomid (I'm hitting 50 mg every 5 days). We are due for ovulation any day now. It's uncertain if the work schedule will permit IUI this round or not. The birds eye view has me somewhat cocky (no pun intended) that we could get there naturally on this round, but I'd rather eliminate the risk if we can by doing IUI.

Supposedly this ovulation will be good due to the hormones from IVF in Dec still being in play. After years of trying, our expectations are set pretty low for success of any cycle (including those costing us thousands $$$).

Depending on whether we have a swing and a miss this round, I'll be getting an official SA done around the end of the month along with a T test. I really hate the costs of "testing"