CD1 August 11th - wanna keep one another sane?

[celine]

Oh no coffee i hope you didnt miss it!

 

[JJF]

Coffee I am SO sorry, I don't understand those sticks either, sounds like a lot of people are having trouble with them, eek. I think you said you DON"T do the temps, is that right. This is my first month doing them and I am LOVING it, I feel like I understand and have some part in this game rather than just spending my time in the bed, hahaha. I guess just keep doing the POAS OPK's maybe that faint wasn't right but your still due to get some lines later this week?

 

[kittiekat]

Hi Coffee,

I don't get these sticks either yet. I started my over four weeks ago as I never seem to know when I will ovulate! Anyway to cut a long story short about two weeks I got a very thin but very dark line and thought that must have been my positive but it didn't quite add up with my CM or CP so I kept going with the OPK and the !! Yesterday I got the darkest line I have ever got so thought yet again that was it but low and behold today (day 35 for petes sake!) I got a darker line than the test line Woo Hooo!

What I am trying to say (in a very long winded way lol) is don't stop using them yet as you may not have got your true positive yet......... I have just bought a saliva testy thing and used it today and it has clearly showed a ferning effect which the book says is great! I haven't had any difficulty in seeing the ferning so may be u may want to have a try at using one of these. They are only around £20 and they are re-usable so you don't have to keep buying more sticks. Just a thought for next cycle if that BFP doesn't come your way this month, but fingers crossed you won't even need it!!

 

[Coffee]

Awww, thanks guys, you're lovely!
Yeah, I shall keep at it with the sticks this week as i just don't believe it really!! This is why i haven't tried OV sticks or temps or anything before though cos i know what i am like and i knew i would just think "Pah! stupid stick is broken" and not take any notice!!! Hopefully it might be a bit darker when i test later on when i get home. I've not been too well these last few days (just a nasty cold) so wondering if that might have affected it all anyway as i've not really been eating and drinking as normal.
In over a year being off the pill my cycles have never been less than 33 days, so it would be pretty ironic if the one month i decided to start trying to track things it suddenly went mega short after two mega long cycles!! You've got to laugh huh??!! (well laugh or cry, i'm never quite sure so i think i'll just stick to laughing for now - if i start crying i might never stop!! ha ha!!)

 

[JJF]

Okay girls, I can't believe I'm about to go out on this limb and say this...unlike me...but here goes.....so according to Fertility Friend (and I agree, hehe) I ov on CD16/Sunday the 24th so today I'm 3 dpo and my (TMI) nipples have been so tender today. I NEVER NEVER NEVER have sore nipples, not even during AF, before AF, etc. I know it is SO early for me to be saying things like that and talking about symptoms but the reason I'm excited about this is not only the obvious, I could be prego, but with my 3 MC babies I had minimal/next to nothing symptoms up until the MC's, so for me to have this prego sign, not only means I might be prego, it would mean that in my mind its a sticky one, a good pregnancy finally. (BTW, with my two children, during pregnancy I was sick as a dog and have nearly all the signs but none really with the 'bad' pregnancies).

Sorry that was so long, sorry to seem like a freak already talking about symptoms but just wanted to share Okay...back to reality!

 

[JJF]

I was just laughing so hard at my stupidity and wanted to share...I decided I check out the bb's to just get a base line of what they looked like in case the old blue veins start showing (never paid attention to any of that before) and I actually saw some to my suprise. For about 4 seconds I actually thought to myself, wow, I wonder if I ovulated earlier than I thought now that I seem to have 2 symptoms...then it occured to me that hubby was out of town for 8 days, right up until the 24 hours before I ovulated...hahahaha...so if I got prego sooner than Sunday, I guess it was impaculate conception, ha!!!

 

[CHILLbilly]

I get excited when I see the blue veins............but then realize I have them even during AF.
I am now all stuffed up and bitchy.
Sense of smell is so strong...and I have been nausous all day until supper. I ate breakfast and lunch today so not hunger nausea.

So thank you body for getting me all worked up on what may only be 2dpo.
F-you



probably all just ovulation signs........so will still be getting busy all week long. We're going camping again this weekend..Sat-Mon..so planning on thursday maybe friday and a quickie Sat morning.

 

[shmoo75]

Well I am CD18 today and FF has not showed me OV or that it is even detected!!!! Looks like this is going to be a longer than 28 day cycle for me!!!!

 

[celine]

FF told me I O-ed so now 3dpo joining you ladies in 2ww

 

[kittiekat]

Hi all,

As I mentioned earlier this is my first time charting with OPK's and BBT and I just have a quick question for you lovely ladies

Can your temps dip on the actual day of ovulation? I have been only temping for the last couple of days (around 4 due to late arrival of therm) but I have generally been under the 36.4 area and this morning I dropped to 36.18 so me being me I re-temped about three hours later and it had raisen again to 36.4. Just wondered what anyone thought, FF has me on O day today................

 

[Lyns]

Kittiekat, I don't temp at the mo, but from what I understand your temp has to be taken at the same time each day within 10 minutes of first waking, so your second reading wouldn't be worth anything.

If you look at a few people chart on FF you'll see that several peoples temps do dip down just prior to ovulation and then a sustained rise for 3 days from that point, so it's possible that this is when you are due to ovulate, but you'd need that rise to confirm it afterwards.

In this instance I'd tend to be guided by your other bodily signs, CM, CP, Ovulation Pain, and the OPK's as I wouldn't have thought that 4 days would be long enough to get a totally accurate indication through temps, but use it as a good start for nect cycle - although hopefully you won't need it!

 

[Coffee]

Morning cycle buddies!
Well i did another OPK yesterday and got a mega faint line! So faint it was barely there. Had a panicked BD session last night (even tho i'm ill!!) just in case! OV sticks tell you when you are about to ovulate i think? then you should OV anywhere between 12 and 48 hours after that???? So if eggy lasts for 24 hours, you never know- might just have caught it?? (I'm living in dreamworld i know!!!). That said, i still don't believe i have OV'd yet. Think it might have been a random hormone fluctuation as it's just too early for me. Still thinking i am more likely to OV next week.

Kittiekat - sorry - clearly i'm not one for advising on charting but good luck!
JJF - Oooohhh that's exciting - i always think the biggest symptom you could ever have is intuition and just knowing that something feels different to normal.
Good luck everyone else!!

Am i the only one left thats possibly (or not!) waiting for OV then??!! Nooooooo don't leave me behind on my own!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kittiekat]

Hi Lyns

Thanks for the reply. I know fours days isn't really worth anything but just thought I would ask incase it happens again next month. I took the first temp at 5.00 am as I was disturbed my DH who was off to work and since it says 'on waking' I took it. I then went back to sleep for around 3-3 1/2 hours so it was around 8 - 8:30 ish. When I looked up BBT it says temps should be fine after three hours of sleep so was wondering which one to go off. Hope that makes a little more sense lol.

I will be glad to get back to work next week (I work in a school so still on school hols) as I will be up at set times then and won't feel silly having to wake myself up just to temp lol. I will also be too busy to keep obsessing over everything during the 2ww....

 

[JJF]

KittieKat and Lyns, you both bring up a good point, and I thought i had it all down pat now but Lyns said something I'm wondering about...I was thinking you had to take the temp BEFORE you got up and out of bed, not with in the first 10 min, meaning if you start moving about, your temp goes up quickly. Just curious, not trying to argue. This morning I realized my therm was in the other room and I was just laying there like, UGH, I can't get up to get it but I Really want to temp. Tried to wake up hubby to get it (I'm sure he would have LOVED that) and he didnt' wake up but funny that about 2 min later he hoped right out of bed, think he was faking, hahahaha. I got up and got the therm very quick and hoped back in bed and laid still, haha, and it seemed fine but I would love to know if someone can clarify the 10 min versus taking it while still lying still in bed before standing....

 

[JJF]

Coffee-surely your not alone We havn't heard from some of early joiners so perhaps they are going to return and be around the same cycle as you!

Celine-interesting it finally said you OV'd but it said it was 3 days ago? Seems odd that the monitor tells you so late but who am I to argue, hehe..what does your FF say?

 

[JJF]

BTW-ChillBIll, LOVE the F-you to your body, that had me laughing out loud at 6am this morning!!! and as for Coffee saying it could be total intution, Thats what I was feeling last night but of course today, I'm feeling foolish, haha

 

[CHILLbilly]

JJF- hope i made you smile..hahahaha

Up til last year I could lay down and feel myself ovulate.
Now....symptoms are all over the place, ealry cycles, late cycles...i hope I am not headed towards longer cycles.
NOT happy with my body right now. But I will treat it with respect during this 2ww.


My 3dpo ??? symptoms are nausea ( usually get it towards AF)
feel very very moody and cranky... feel like I am getting a cold or sick.
Just a real shitty feeling.
Its a Pajama day today......I'm gonna look out my window and watch my humming birds, snuggle with my dogs and cats, watch girlie movies all day and night OH is out for the day/night. Wish I had a big bath tub to soak in tho'
Oh well...........

 

[JJF]

Okay girls in the 2ww-trying not to symptom watch but after my last night post about nips sensitive and veins....tonight i have MAJOR cramps in very low abdomen, tad bit nausea, and (TMI) a tight/tingle feeling in the hoohoo area. To be honest I felt the egg implant 9d post ov with my recent MC and these pains feel just like that did, but I'm only 4d po so I'm really thinking its WAY too early. Hope I'm not driving yall mad with these symptom posts, hubby's tired of listening to me.

 

[CHILLbilly]

No problem ....obsess away!!!!
haha
we do it every cycle.........
my symptoms are usually the same.....i keep track so I don't jump to conclusions....
of course its been different this month...

have you seen twoweekwait DOT com ( website with tonnes of symptoms)
I am curious to find out how long it takes fertilized egg to get to uterus and actually start implant.

Do you have pimples yet???
My chin is covered and i usually don't get any until AF.

I will wait til 7 or 8 dpo before I list all my symptoms. hehe

 

[shmoo75]

Coffee don't worry hun I am still waiting for OV. FF hasn't indicated that OV has been detected yet but, my temp rose again today for 2nd day on the trot all I need is for it to rise agin tomorrow and sun then FF should tell me that I OV'd around CD18 which was yesterday. I have changed my ticker to 35 days as, if I OV around CD18 it means I wont have a 28 day cycle as I hoped more 30ish day one.