Anyone TTC #1 and 30 or older?

[MrsRose168]

This mornings OPK on fmu is just as dark as last nights. So I'm gonna test again this afternoon. Didn't get to BD yesterday dh was absolutely too tired and said that since we had just had sex the night before he figures we are ok to miss a day. He's probably right. And he did work late, plus we had a consult yesterday to give an estimate on a roof replacement. By the time that was done it was 8pm and we hadn't even had dinner yet. So he promised we'd BD today and tomorrow to be safe. He worked an 11 hour day before that roof thing so I get it.

FYI putting on a new roof is insanely expensive ..... We're looking at $15,000. :crazy: but it's a much better roof than we have - they warranty it for 50 years. Our current roof is the original.... It was a "20 year" roof and the house is 24 years old. Def time to replace.

I think that's totally fine that you missed yesterday, especially since your OPK is still dark. Plus, it'll give him time to replenish some quality swimmers

 

[Angel5000]

You're probably right. I'm being a little overzealous this cycle.

 

[MrsRose168]

How is everyone doing? It's gotten quiet in here!

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

I'm so confused on my chart.. I really thought I od yesterday.. I guess not

 

[MrsRose168]

I'm so confused on my chart.. I really thought I od yesterday.. I guess not

Hmm, maybe today will be it. Are you doing opk's?

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

I'm so confused on my chart.. I really thought I od yesterday.. I guess not

Hmm, maybe today will be it. Are you doing opk's?

No.. Since this is my first cycle TTC post mirena, I had planed on temping this cycle and next and then if I don't get a bfp, start opks

 

[Angel5000]

Yesterday I disregarded my temp spike Bc I woke up at 4am from a nightmare and was freaked out and then fell asleep again and temped at the alarm at 5am. But this morning my temp is the Same as yesterday's so I think I'm gonna undo the disregard and just mark it open circle (sleep deprived) and go from there.

I'm officially in TWW ladies!

Gagrl - looking at the temps on your chart it looks like you are still gearing up. Might happen today. It's not uncommon for temps to keep dropping for several days in a row leads up to O. When temping you'll never know for sure you O'd until after you get your temp rise. As long as you have fertile cm just keep BDing.

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Yesterday I disregarded my temp spike Bc I woke up at 4am from a nightmare and was freaked out and then fell asleep again and temped at the alarm at 5am. But this morning my temp is the Same as yesterday's so I think I'm gonna undo the disregard and just mark it open circle (sleep deprived) and go from there.

I'm officially in TWW ladies!

Gagrl - looking at the temps on your chart it looks like you are still gearing up. Might happen today. It's not uncommon for temps to keep dropping for several days in a row leads up to O. When temping you'll never know for sure you O'd until after you get your temp rise. As long as you have fertile cm just keep BDing.

That's the plan Angel.. I need to not be so stressed about this to be honest.. Just enjoy the process.. Ugh being a type A, anxious person, with slight ocd tendencies isn't always easy lol.

 

[star_e]

Hope you get you BFP Angel!!!

Mrs. Rose any updates?

Afm, tomorrow is my second us. it will be cd13. i did an us on cd9 (i told you all this on monday) and the follies were all <10mm. i am very much hoping that they have grown. ive been very nervous about this. i dont want to hear that they are still small tomorrow. though i have read posts where people say that even on cd13 their follies were <10mm but by cd 17 or even a bit later, they were big enough. we shall see. tomorrow could not come sooner for me!

also, i have been temping and i just dont think temping is going to work for me. i take my temp at different times every day. sometimes at 3am when i wake up to use bathroom. sometimes at 4 or 5 or 7 or 9. its usually sometimes between 3 and 9. i think that is probably too wide of a range. my chart looks really weird.

 

[Angel5000]

Gagrl - totally get it. It's really hard to be relaxed about any of this. I'm only just starting to relax, and it's been 13 months for me!

star - good luck with your us. As for temping, temps often look weird and are up and down prior to O. In order to start to really see the true shift and get a feel for what your chart should look like, you have to temp for several cycles, and until you actually do O you won't really be able to see anything except the temps bouncing.

What is the most common time you wake up during the week? I get up at 5am for work Mon-FRi so I set my alarm for 5am, every day, and then on weekends I temp and go back to sleep (I use a silent vibrating alarm on weekends so I Don't wake DH). If i wake up around 3am to go to the bathroom sometimes I Temp, but often I don't because in my case I've found that if I Temp at 3am and then go back to sleep my 5am temp is really close to my 3am temp so in my case it isn't a big deal. For some women it varies a lot so you'd have to see what your body does. If you're using the thermometer I Think you have then you have a good memory function and you can temp at 3am and then again when you wake up and compare (I often will take the average of the two and use that) and start to see if it makes a huge difference for you. Lots of women take their temps at odd times and still see a clear shift, it's really a matter of getting used to what your chart looks like. And if you aren't currently ovulating then you won't have a "normal" looking chart anyway because you'll never get that "O dip" and then the post-O rise.

If you want to post your chart we'd be happy to look at it for you. If you are using FF you can easily put a link in your sig, but if you're using Kindara or something else I am not sure how to do it.

 

[MrsRose168]

Yesterday I disregarded my temp spike Bc I woke up at 4am from a nightmare and was freaked out and then fell asleep again and temped at the alarm at 5am. But this morning my temp is the Same as yesterday's so I think I'm gonna undo the disregard and just mark it open circle (sleep deprived) and go from there.

I'm officially in TWW ladies!

Gagrl - looking at the temps on your chart it looks like you are still gearing up. Might happen today. It's not uncommon for temps to keep dropping for several days in a row leads up to O. When temping you'll never know for sure you O'd until after you get your temp rise. As long as you have fertile cm just keep BDing.

Woohoo!! Hope those temps stay up there!

 

[star_e]

Gagrl - totally get it. It's really hard to be relaxed about any of this. I'm only just starting to relax, and it's been 13 months for me!

star - good luck with your us. As for temping, temps often look weird and are up and down prior to O. In order to start to really see the true shift and get a feel for what your chart should look like, you have to temp for several cycles, and until you actually do O you won't really be able to see anything except the temps bouncing.

What is the most common time you wake up during the week? I get up at 5am for work Mon-FRi so I set my alarm for 5am, every day, and then on weekends I temp and go back to sleep (I use a silent vibrating alarm on weekends so I Don't wake DH). If i wake up around 3am to go to the bathroom sometimes I Temp, but often I don't because in my case I've found that if I Temp at 3am and then go back to sleep my 5am temp is really close to my 3am temp so in my case it isn't a big deal. For some women it varies a lot so you'd have to see what your body does. If you're using the thermometer I Think you have then you have a good memory function and you can temp at 3am and then again when you wake up and compare (I often will take the average of the two and use that) and start to see if it makes a huge difference for you. Lots of women take their temps at odd times and still see a clear shift, it's really a matter of getting used to what your chart looks like. And if you aren't currently ovulating then you won't have a "normal" looking chart anyway because you'll never get that "O dip" and then the post-O rise.

If you want to post your chart we'd be happy to look at it for you. If you are using FF you can easily put a link in your sig, but if you're using Kindara or something else I am not sure how to do it.

how do i post the link to my chart?

maybe my chart is not weird and i just think it is b/c i dont know what it is supposed to look like.

i am really hoping these follies are growing. i am trying to get my mind off it but i cant. i know stress is not good so i am trying to keep it to a minimum. do any of you do acupuncture? might that help me make my follies grow? i did not ovd with 50mg of clomid so they bumped me to 150, but there are many people that do not even respond to that and then have to start new meds. i just want clomid to work for me!

 

[star_e]

angel, do you feel your follies growing? im not feeling anything.

 

[MrsRose168]

Hope you get you BFP Angel!!!

Mrs. Rose any updates?

Afm, tomorrow is my second us. it will be cd13. i did an us on cd9 (i told you all this on monday) and the follies were all <10mm. i am very much hoping that they have grown. ive been very nervous about this. i dont want to hear that they are still small tomorrow. though i have read posts where people say that even on cd13 their follies were <10mm but by cd 17 or even a bit later, they were big enough. we shall see. tomorrow could not come sooner for me!

also, i have been temping and i just dont think temping is going to work for me. i take my temp at different times every day. sometimes at 3am when i wake up to use bathroom. sometimes at 4 or 5 or 7 or 9. its usually sometimes between 3 and 9. i think that is probably too wide of a range. my chart looks really weird.

Got my fx that those follies are bigger!

Had bloodwork done yesterday to do my first check of hcg and progesterone. The lines are getting darker, which is a first for me! I just hope that keeps up!

 

[Gagrlinpitt]

Star- good luck with your us!!

 

[star_e]

oh and when i temp at 3am i also temp the next time i wake up. here is the problem. i wake up a lot at night. sometimes every hour and then i think i need to temp when i have at least three solid hours not when i woke up at 6 and shifted around and then woke up again at 7am. i have to wake up at different times during the week. but usually they are within one hour of each other: like 6:30 to 7:45. the problem is that i wake up to go to the bathroom and then wake up after the bathroom just for 10 minutes or so.

for example, today i woke up at 3 am and my temp was 97.44 and then i woke up again at 6 am and it was 97.17.

i ended up recording my 3am temp on FF b/c before my 6 am temp, i woke up for a while at 5:30. i don't really sleep well. i have not taken ambien in a week, which is very good. but i have poor sleep as i am always waking up.

 

[star_e]

Hope you get you BFP Angel!!!

Mrs. Rose any updates?

Afm, tomorrow is my second us. it will be cd13. i did an us on cd9 (i told you all this on monday) and the follies were all <10mm. i am very much hoping that they have grown. ive been very nervous about this. i dont want to hear that they are still small tomorrow. though i have read posts where people say that even on cd13 their follies were <10mm but by cd 17 or even a bit later, they were big enough. we shall see. tomorrow could not come sooner for me!

also, i have been temping and i just dont think temping is going to work for me. i take my temp at different times every day. sometimes at 3am when i wake up to use bathroom. sometimes at 4 or 5 or 7 or 9. its usually sometimes between 3 and 9. i think that is probably too wide of a range. my chart looks really weird.

Got my fx that those follies are bigger!

Had bloodwork done yesterday to do my first check of hcg and progesterone. The lines are getting darker, which is a first for me! I just hope that keeps up!

exciting! fx for you! when do you get the results?

 

[star_e]

Star- good luck with your us!!

thank you gagrl! i appreciate all the support! hope you O soon. do you have trouble oing? or are you able to do it naturally? before you O, do you experience any symptoms? but i mean, days before O not hours before. opk tests dont work with me bc my PCOS causes me to have naturally high LH, so they aren't accurate predictors for me. at least not the clear blue ones. and b/c i am on clomid, i dont have cm. in fact i am going to start taking mucinx b/c i am so dry even my nose is totally dry. so i really have no signs at all. i just hope that i am able to O. i have this fear that keeps racing through my thoughts that maybe i am just unable to O. this is my second cycle trying. i know that is not a long time, believe me i know that. the fear comes from the fact that my entire life AF has only shown 1-4 times a year. but usually like 2. prior to the last cycle where AF was induced by provera, i had not had AF for 6 months. my long history with lack of ovd really scares me. im 34 and ideally want more than one child. i'll feel much better if i find out on friday that they are growing and i am likely able to ovd.

 

[star_e]

oh and has anyone here tried acupuncture?

someone on this thread recommended cinnamon to me and i will start doing that to help with my cm.

 

[MrsRose168]

oh and has anyone here tried acupuncture?

someone on this thread recommended cinnamon to me and i will start doing that to help with my cm.

I've been doing acupuncture for a couple months! It certainly couldn't hurt anything, plus it's really relaxing. They can also do some points to help with sleep. I'm not a good sleeper either so I feel your pain. I'm now finally able to sleep without any meds but I do still wake up a lot. I've found that reading before bed helps and once I get my sleepy feeling, I'll put an audiobook on so my mind doesn't wander. If I wake up I'll just put the book back on.

Grapefruit juice is supposed to give ewcm too