August 2017, Eclipse testers - 17 BFPs and counting

[CheshireDucky]

Hi, everyone! Finally back and feeling a lot better.

Please put me down for August 15!

 

[AmandaGAC]

Welcome back Ducky!

My light pink spotting has turned brown & the cramping has picked up. I think I am out for this month.

 

[curiousowl]

Welcome back Ducky.

 

[Dream143r]

Welcome back Ducky! Nice to have you here.

 

[Tove]

Welcome back Ducky!

My light pink spotting has turned brown & the cramping has picked up. I think I am out for this month.

Sorry to hear about the spotting, that sucks. And you never know if it could be implantation or if it's the beginning of AF so there's a lot to obsess about over that (at least for me usually).

 

[Sorsha]

Sorry to hear that, Amanda. Thinking hopeful thoughts for you!

You all have convinced me to try temping again after all, so I took my first last night. (Well, this morning.) It's CD10 for me but since I probably won't O until CD16 or 17 I'm hoping that'll give Fertility Friend enough of a baseline to detect the shift. Still doing OPKs at the same time.

 

[AmandaGAC]

Thanks Tove. I'm just going to ride out the rest of this cycle and see what happens. I'm amazed that I'm 10DPO and haven't tried to test yet.

Sorsha - Thank you! I could use all the positive and hopeful thoughts I can get! Yay! Peer pressure! Re: temping.

 

[Dream143r]

Awesome Sorsha - good luck with the temping. That should be enough data to see the shift I think.

 

[Sorsha]

Do you all use any special kind of thermometer (other than it being a basal type)? I've got the cheapie from Early Pregnancy Tests that I bought last time, which by all appearances still works fine: https://www.early-pregnancy-tests.com/bbt-thermometers But I don't know if it's better to use a more high tech model or something!

 

[AmandaGAC]

I just use a cheap $8USD one I found at Target.

 

[Dream143r]

Mine's a cheapie too, $10 bucks or something off amazon

 

[tbfromlv]

I also use a cheapie from Target. As long as it can test to the 100th of a degree, it's fine.

 

[Cppeace]

Yeah I got both of mine from Amazon both less than $15. I think the one is finally going out which is why I bought a new one but it was well over 1.5 years of daily use.

 

[Tove]

Sorsha: yay for temping, you probably will have enough data to detect O. Good luck!

 

[curiousowl]

My temps are stupidly high, thanks for getting me sick DD. Luckily it's early in my cycle.

 

[AmandaGAC]

I caved and tested yesterday (10DPO), stark white BFN. Same thing when I tested this morning. I see my new OBGYN at 2CST this afternoon. I'm going to ask her about my thyroid, I take medicine, but I just want to be super sure that it's not preventing me from TTC.

 

[Sorsha]

Sorry to hear about the BFN, Amanda! I hope your doctor is helpful. When we were having trouble conceiving after my miscarriage, my doctor noticed that my thyroid was just slightly underfunctioning--still within the theoretical normal range but near the edge--and the first cycle after I started taking meds to even that out, we got our BFP. So it's a good thing to check, to make sure you're getting the right dose and all!

 

[AmandaGAC]

Good! I saw another post yesterday that said that changed her dosage and she got a BFP too.

 

[Bloblo]

When I got bfp in March I was not on meds, but tested tsh above 5 so started taking 50mg of euthyrox - unfortunately it ended in mc... But I went to test again in May and tsh was around 3.5. Increased dosage to 75mg... Still waiting for my next bfp...

 

[pinklemon]

I noticed my tsh was at 1.0 when I had recent blood work done. Wondering if I need to address this as it is on the low side?