A question about LP...

[LilacPetal]

Good morning everyone! I have been snooping around here for little while and finally decided to join today

A little intro:
I just got married this past July, my husband has a 5yo who lives with us full time, I have been BBT and CM charting since April 2014, we have been TTC since about July, today I am CD 1 and this will be our 3rd cycle TTC. I am also finishing my last semester of nursing school and will be graduating in December.

I have been reading up and checking out my symptoms lately and am beginning to wonder if I am having a problem in the luteal phase area. My cycles have ranged from 21-26 days in the past year but usually are right at 24 days. Since I started charting I have calculated the following LP lengths starting with the first and ending with my last cycle: 8 days, 10 days, 8 days, 10 days, 9 days, 8 days, 11 days. They seem rather on the short side to me and my symptoms indicate high estrogen and low progesterone ("estrogen dominance"). This last cycle - 24 days with 11 day LP - I was able to remember to take my vitamins every day of the cycle and am wondering if that actually made an improvement. My temps were also 0.2-0.3 degrees higher during peak than the couple cycles before.

I suppose my question is: should my LP length really be varied 8-11 days over my last 7 cycles or is this abnormal?

Thanks much everyone!

 

[Oasis717]

I'm no expert but I have read that there may be problems conceiving with a lp less than 10 days as obviously the uterine wall starts to break down before the egg can implant, vitamin b6 is supposed to lengthen lp I keep meaning to get some, I take a prenatal but I think it has to be a higher dose than that, I worry as I start spotting some cycles 2/3 days before AF although my lp is usually 11/12 days, I wish you lots of luck xxxx

 

[LilacPetal]

I'm no expert but I have read that there may be problems conceiving with a lp less than 10 days as obviously the uterine wall starts to break down before the egg can implant, vitamin b6 is supposed to lengthen lp I keep meaning to get some, I take a prenatal but I think it has to be a higher dose than that, I worry as I start spotting some cycles 2/3 days before AF although my lp is usually 11/12 days, I wish you lots of luck xxxx

Hello Oasis717! I have also recently been reading the same info about LP <10 days. The prenatal I've been taking has some B6 in it but I just started on a new one that has a lot more so I am hoping this will help. Thank you so much!!

 

[Oasis717]

That's OK hunni you can get it separately too I wish you lots of luck, let me know if it works! Xx