Apparently I ovulate

So metformin is working its wonders on me and being kind so far. Thank you, God. I do realize that I am on a very low dose. Very low. I take one 500 mg pill once a day. I'm not sure why I'm on such a low dose and, of course, I didn't ask. Add that to the list of questions that didn't occur to me until I left my doctor's office. 

Now that a few days have passed and I've had sufficient time to ponder the incredible amount of information that was thrown my way at my doctor's appointment, I've realized something important - I ovulated in May. Somehow I managed to overlook that until now. It's weird how that happens. Almost seconds after my doctor announced it, I brushed it off like it was old news. "Ya, I'm an ovulator. Big deal." Seriously. I entered the club of ovulating women like I had always been a member. Not until tonight did it hit me - it is a HUGE deal. In the days leading up to my appointment I remember telling my husband, "wouldn't it be amazing if the saliva test shows I ovulated?" which I always followed up with, "but that would be too good to be true. It will never happen." But it did! And I barely noticed! 

I have a new theory. My new theory is that I wasn't ovulating before May. I personally believe that I ovulated in May because it was the same month as the start of my diet. I began my diet on cycle day four. There is some proof to back up this theory: Last July, my ultrasound series clearly showed my follicle did not rupture. I grew to a size that a follicle should be at when it ruptures, but then it stopped growing and just stayed there, unruptured. We don't know what happened each cycle between July and May, but I doubt I was ovulating. My charts looked just as screwy as ever... until May. 

It might not have been my diet alone. I started taking bromocriptine for my high prolactin in March and I've read it takes two months to work. My April 28th blood work shows my prolactin was normal, as was my testosterone (how did that go down, by the way?), so a lot was beginning to work in my favor.

I should have asked my doctor if he thought I've been ovulating all along. Actually, I think I did ask him, but what I should have done was remind him about my ultrasound series last summer. And, at the time that I asked him about ovulating, I hadn't yet told him I started the diet. Ugh! Doctor's appointments go so fast!

The good thing about not ovulating until May is that it means I haven't had a real shot at conceiving until now. It means something is moving in the right direction, rather than just being screwed up all along. It means things are improving. I think I will go with that, rather than thinking I've always ovulated. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.