Anyone TTC #1 and 30 or older?

[star_e]

i am trying to add my chart, but for some reason it just shows my chart, but does not show the little picture.

does any one know how to make it show the picture?

anyways, my chart is very rocky and i am curious if you all agree that is all over the place. i temp at different times all the time b/c i never know when i will get up to go to the bathroom. ive been told that FF will figure out ovd anyway, just want to know if this chart seems very off?

 

[star_e]

i figured out the picture part.

even though my cycle was canceled, i am going to keep temping in case i ovd on my own. doc says she does not know if i will. i'll keep temping in case.

 

[mrs unicorn]

It is quite rocky star, but if you're temping at different times that could be why. I sometimes wake early so my temps last cycle were taken any time between 5.30-7am which isn't good but if you look at my chart I don't think it's done much harm.(although it's a bit off as I'm post mc) I always take it before getting out of bed or moving much. What kind of times are you taking them and are you doing it before getting out of bed etc?

 

[star_e]

It is quite rocky star, but if you're temping at different times that could be why. I sometimes wake early so my temps last cycle were taken any time between 5.30-7am which isn't good but if you look at my chart I don't think it's done much harm.(although it's a bit off as I'm post mc) I always take it before getting out of bed or moving much. What kind of times are you taking them and are you doing it before getting out of bed etc?

yea I can tell it's all over the place. I take my temps anywhere between 3-9am. the reason for this is bc on the weekdays i would ideally like to take it at like 7:30-7:45 but on one day out of the week I have to take it at 6:45. if I could manage to take it roughly around these times then I would set an alarm on the weekends and take it around these times. but because I often wake up to go to the bathroom at different hours- anytime between 2 to 5 am, I end up taking it on some of those days before I go to bathroom if I've at least been asleep for Three hours. sometimes if I know I'll also be asleep for another three hours after the bathroom then I'll take it before and after and compare them. and the temps in the middle of the night are always different then the temps in the morning. sometimes they are higher and sometimes lower. because of all this my temping is totally rocky.

any recommendations on what to do? do you all not wake at night to go to bathroom?

 

[star_e]

also now my chart says I may have ovd on Saturday. I guess the dotted cross hairs means FF is not sure right? cause I went into my appointment on Monday and they told me to abstain that day for next two weeks. they did a u/s and did not say I ovd. I would think if I had O they would have seen the collapsed follie and told me.

 

[mrs unicorn]

Yes I think dotted means temp wise it's looks like you o'd but other signs don't match up - I think anyway. Your doc and scans will be far more accurate though so I'd go with them.

I only need the loo if I'm woken by something, otherwise I sleep through. Do you drink a lot before bed? Maybe try not drinking for a hour or two before bed see if that changes anything?

 

[star_e]

Yes I think dotted means temp wise it's looks like you o'd but other signs don't match up - I think anyway. Your doc and scans will be far more accurate though so I'd go with them.

I only need the loo if I'm woken by something, otherwise I sleep through. Do you drink a lot before bed? Maybe try not drinking for a hour or two before bed see if that changes anything?

yea I'll try that. do you think the doc would have seen a collapsed follie on Monday of I ovd on Saturday? I hope I did ovd so the process is sped up otherwise my doc said it could take up to six weeks for me to ttc again since I had 12 mature follies and so the cycle got cancelled.

 

[mrs unicorn]

I honestly don't know much about it but I would have thought they'd be able to tell if you had o'd by then. Maybe some of the girls know more about this?

The other thing you could try is to temp vaginally. I've not done this but I've heard it's supposed to be more accurate. Not sure if the 3hrs sleep and temping at the same time of day still applies though.

 

[Angel5000]

I have my first appointment this morning, 9am. I've been fasting since last night and no food/drink until after appointment. I"m dying for my morning coffee.

My sister is going with me to this appointment. I feel kind of silly bringing her but in case they give me info I want a second person to hear it and I am worried about driving without anything in my system and them taking blood. It's not a real long drive, about 35minutes if traffic is good, but if I haven't eaten I can get woozy.

I hope they don't think I'm silly for bringing my sister. But DH can't take this day off. H'ell take off the day for my dye test though

any recommendations on what to do? do you all not wake at night to go to bathroom?

I wake up to go to the bathroom sometimes. When I do I always look at the time and if I will be asleep for at least two hours more then I don't temp, and if less than 2 hours then I temp before goign to the bathroom and then temp again at my wake up time and see what I get. During the week I get up at 5am so I still temp at 5am on the weekends too, just to keep things consistent.

I'm not sure what hte doctor would have seen if you had ovulated or not. I'm not quite sure how that works. The dotted lines mean FF thinks you might have Ovulated but isn't sure because not everything lines up.

Hopefully everything sorts itself out soon.

 

[star_e]

Angel what test are you having done today?

 

[KatO79]

Just thought I'd update:

So the scan went well. Saw the heart beat again and baby was really lively in there We even saw at one point the baby giving a "thumbs up" but unfortunately she didn't get a pic She measured the nuchal to be 1.60 mm but said she didn't get my blood results from our idiotic, incompetent GP so they had to send me for bloods which I have now done. She'll call or write me a letter with the ratio but said she's guessing I'll most likely be "low risk" based on that measurement

BTW she says I'm measuring 13w3d and has bumped my EDD to October 9th.

There are pics in the spoiler for those that want to see them.

Spoiler

 

[mrs unicorn]

Kat - that's wonderful news!! It must be a relief to see your lo wiggling about!

Angel - good luck today. Let us know how you get on. Not silly for taking your sister with you. I imagine it's a nerve wracking time so it's great you've got someone with you. Plus it's always good to have a second pair of ears. X

 

[star_e]

that's great news kat! saw the beautiful pics! I'm sure those blood results will confirm this good news. hope all continues to go well.

btw when you got your bfp, did you then start seeing another doc for the monitoring of the pregnancy. I thought about this recently bc at my RE office I've never seen a pg person. so I imagine they go back to thei obgyn?

 

[KatO79]

that's great news kat! saw the beautiful pics! I'm sure those blood results will confirm this good news. hope all continues to go well.

btw when you got your bfp, did you then start seeing another doc for the monitoring of the pregnancy. I thought about this recently bc at my RE office I've never seen a pg person. so I imagine they go back to thei obgyn?

I live in Denmark so don't know if the procedure is different but here goes: nope I continued at the fertility clinic at the hospital until my 8 week scan. When the heartbeat and measurments were confirmed, they released me to my incompetent GP. Although I believe the hospital I'm now going to (changing because we're moving) are going to take care of the scans and the new GP will be taking care of other things (not clear on what). I'll also soon be given a midwife as well.

 

[Angel5000]

They drew 4 vials of blood today and did a vaginal us. That was a little awkward since I'm in the middle of AF but they were perfectly used to that since they regularly have women come in mid-AF for their first set of tests. My uterus and ovaries look good. Right now it looks like I have 7 follicles on one ovary and 9 on the other. They have me coming in for another us on the 18th. And are going to do DH's blood work and SA on the 12th. Hoping for some answers soon!

The blood work is checking my hormones and other levels plus they are doing DNA screening on DH and I for any hereditary things so we can get an estimate of what chances our offspring will have for any heredity diseases.


Kat - Yay! Congrats! So exciting! The pictures are amazing!!!

 

[star_e]

Angel that's great that the ovaries look good. good luck with the other appointments. hopefully you'll get good information soon.

kat- thanks for sharing the process w me. I'm not sure what the set up is in US. all I know is I have never seen a pg person at the clinic but maybe they only stay there for the first two months and I just can't tell that they are pg.

 

[mrs unicorn]

Angel - that's all sounding good. Hope the results are too.

AFM - af has arrived!! (probably don't see this celebrated on here that often) but so happy that my lp has stayed the same after mc. Fx I go back to my 28 day cycles now. This has felt loooonnnngggg! Looking forward to this cycle! X

 

[KatO79]

Thanks Angel, I hope you get some answers very soon! Hopefully you're both in the clear though. I remember all that testing, ugh.

star yeah I unfortunately have no idea how it works in the US as I haven't lived there for the last 21 years or so I would also think the pregnant ladies would be at the clinic until a scan to see that the baby looks viable and all but have no actual idea. Maybe you could ask someone at the clinic?

FXed for you mrs unicorn

 

[Angel5000]

MrsU - I've seen a lot of celebrating the arrival of AF in the last few weeks. lol seems so odd here. But welcome back ot the world of properly TTC.

 

[star_e]

mrs. unicorn congrats on the AF arrival. and good luck with this cycle!

I will also be thrilled when AF arrives bc then I can begin my journey again. my doc said on Tuesday it could take six weeks bc of the over stim. I'm praying it doesn't. she said it could be shorter. depends on when AF shows and whether there are cysts. it's only been two days since i found that out and I'm already itching for AF to come.