Clomid and false OPK

[Dreamama]

Hello, I had my first cycle of Clomid 50mg and had two scans that showed that my follicles weren’t as big as they were supposed to be.

I am now away and can’t do another scan and the nurse said is very unlikely that I would ovulate. However I took an OPK this morning and it showed positive. Could this be false? Or is there a chance that my body just took longer to develop the egg? The lad scan I took was 3 days ago. Any thought? Thanks!

[Hols969]

We usually ovulate later than the norm but OPK's are unreliable anyway for us and the clomid could well affect the readings too. What day in your cycle were you scanned 3 days ago ?

[Dreamama in reply to Hols969]

It was day 11! I had one on day 9 and the nurse said straight away that the follicle was too small and unlikely to developer. Then I had a secoubd scan two days later but as I’m now out of the country I can’t do another one, that’s why I bought the OPK. I thought it was a long shot but didn’t want to lose hope Next month I’ll try 100mg of Clomid so hopefully it will work!

[Hols969 in reply to Dreamama]

Day 11 is way too early for us. You dont remember the size do you? do you know how many follicles you had ?

What was your cycle like before? For a non pcos ladies who has regular cycles then at day 11 you would see the follicle at a certain size but because our periods are irregular often then there is no set day for us to ovulate (and we dont always - my fertility nurse said with pcos we have lots of cysts which are follicles and basically they are a lazy lot, waiting for one of the others to take that leap to ovulate and none do which is why we are hit and miss).

Clomid can be a bit of trial and error too with dosage and ovulation, it wouldnt show at day 11 for us though unless you have the perfect cycle.