Phrumkidost, congratulations and H&H 9 months! It's so lucky to find an acu doc you can totally trust and who can make s difference. Can I ask what points you had needled and whether you generally felt better after a few weeks of acu? I am going for my last acu appointment this Sunday and then I think I am going to take a break. I will still be taking herbs. It's interesting that you never had any bleeding. I had quite a few, even now I still have my left zigong bruising quite bad. One of NHS' doctors who also trained in acu said it happens sometimes that a needle punctures a blood vessel and I understand it's not a big deal (although when I look at my bruising I am not happy at all)
Thank you!
The points he needled varied on where I was in my cycle, but I can't remember specifically what changed. In general, the points were: feet, outside of calves, inside of thigh near knee, area in hand between thumb and forefinger, tummy, top of head. Once or twice he did the side of my head, too. He left them in for a bout thirty minutes, and usually came back about half-way through to give them all another vibrate. I always felt better after a treatment, but I think that's because it relaxed me.
The first full cycle I was really slow to ovulate (CD 23) but I had a real ovulation, with lots of EWCM (new for me) and a strong desire to BD with every guy I saw -- LOL. Timing was off that month for us, though. The next cycle everything continued by my Oing was moved up to around CD 14. Again, I had the EWCM and strong desire to BD. Timing was good and that was the cycle that worked. Both months my temps were good in that the two phases were very clearly distinct.
hi phrumkidost
good to see you posting here! I remember you also had issues with spotting and were using a prog cream. I used it for a couple of months and had no spotting but this month spotting has returned with a vengeance
did you keep applying the cream right up to time AF expected or before?
congratulations to you...always lovely to see a BFP result. x
Thank you! I did stick with the prog cream. The first month I stopped when AF came and started up again only after O. The second month, after my BFP, I just continued to take it. I had been advised to keep with it as my body may need to rely on it to keep pregnancy healthy. The spotting got better with it, but didn't completely go away. The month I got pregnant I had three days of implantation bleeding which I thought was very early spotting.
Blythe, were you using the cream only Post O?
Thanks again to you all for your good wishes! I'm crossing my fingers you all get good news soon, too.
In case it helps, I'm posting a link to my charts. I'll probably continue to stalk this thread, too, if that's okay (I know not everyone likes to be reminded someone else has had luck in ttc).
https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/3faf62//thumb.png
My Ovulation Chart
"Diagnosis and
This is great.....going to print out and read through. Thanks so much for posting....briss it has a bit in there on being both yin and yang deficicent. 
