Disco Derail! - TTCAL/PAL Discussion and Support!

[Allie84]

Sugar, I'm exactly the same! I lie there and take my temp and then my mind goes right to my CBFM. I was so sure I was going to have a high today, I took a bath so I could set the monitor on the ledge and stare at it as it read my results!

Nato, had a look at your chart and it's looking FABULOUS!!!! I do the same as you and wake up thinking about my temps, it's annoying. I hope you get a normal night's sleep and have a wonderfully triphasic chart in the morning....

Hearty, sorry you had to say goodbye to your mom.

 

[sugarlove]

Allie, you may well get one tomorrow. Fingers crossed you get a high and I get a peak

When I need a wee early, I get up half asleep to wee on stick, then set the CBFM next to my bed and try and go back to sleep. I toss and turn for a few mins, then start staring anxiously at it to see if the red light has flashed, then turn the light back on to read it. Thus, waking myself up completely!

No wonder I'm stressed!
xx

 

[heart tree]

This is stressful business!

Sugar, do you prefer temping vaginally? I think I might give it a go next cycle. The only thing is that I practiced one time and I couldn't hear my thermometer beep when it was done. Do you have any practical advice for doing this method?

 

[Sparkly]

Sugar speaking of the CBFM....I really feel the display needs to be back lit, especially at this time of year, it is dark when we stick in our fmu sticks....i always end up putting the light on and waking myself up.....then of course i can check my bbt too lol!.....that too needs to be lit.....and an option to set to vibrate to avoid waking up my DH

 

[heart tree]

Exactly Sparkles! I've been googling "vibrating bbt" but can't find anything. I can't hear the beep between my legs, but a vibrating one would be perfect. It would also be easier to keep Tim asleep. We could make some serious money if we could figure out a way to make vibrating ones.

 

[msarkozi]

hmmmm, my mind is going very dirty here when you are talking about vibrating ones, lol!

 

[yogi77]

mine too

 

[heart tree]

I know...hee hee...

Hey, these things could be a HUGE money maker if they could kill 2 birds with one stone if you know what I mean LOL!

 

[Duffy]

Hahaha dirty minds

I forgot the effort it takes to remember to test on my cbm but so far I'm not missing a day now I'm waiting for it to go up a notch to ovulation I really hope we do it again this month we bedding every other day like we did in Aug when I got my positive in Sept 6.

When I'm done and have another baby to full term I'm done as this will be my last and I'll be happy to not have the stress of it and put a hundred percent into two babies And finacially two is all we can afford........................ and mentally LOL.

My day was good Karissa was a angel today, tonight when we put her to bed we are installing carpet on the other half of garage and the playroom will be 100 complete WOOT. My mom cooking dinner I'm so glad I don't cook or it would be roman noodles hahaha, ready to relax with my man tonight too. He has saturday off so we have the whole weekend to ourselves, we have to go to costco (fav store of mine) and buy the food for the party on sunday. I have NEVER hosted a party before so this is going to be inresting business! I'm not much of a social person in big groups so pray I unstick the stick up my behind to be a delight to the guest ROFL.

 

[CJSG1977]

Hahaha I have been laughing soooo much while I have been trying to catch up! Nato with the testing.... Yogi 'not' following suit LOL.

And as for vibrating whatevers... well well. A girl could blush... but I aint no lady

Cesca hun, everything will be fine, and I am sure your friend will be great and understanding. Just cause it is a doppler doesnt mean your not nervous... but NEVER be embarrassed.

Vicky these docs dont know what they are talking about sometimes. My dick of a specialist told me I should start trying till January...that would be 5 months after my miscarriage! She can kiss my ass! I've spent nearly 3 years trying, I'm not gonna waste 5 months doing naff all!! It certainly is personal preference though.

Nato.... 10 dpo tomorrow.... a good time to test.... nah.... that was like LAST month already! Get testing now girl!!!!! I am so excited for you, your chart does look great. And dont go giving Amanda a heart attack... we quite like having her, and you around. LOL. So no 3 blankets.... or 2 blankets hehehe

Jenny, that was a strong moment for you to share that with us all. You made the right decision for your beautiful baby. And sorry again that you had to go through this. x

Alli sorry you never passed, but soooo close! You will get there.

And with the whole waking up...bbt and blimmin opk's... thats why I am not worry so much with all that this month. Way too much stress. Just going to bonk my sexy husband....almost to death cause I might need him in working order next month And you use the cbfm first thing.... is that for leutenising hormone? Cause I have read, and been told that FMU is the worst time of day to test for that???

I have been lost in my new phone today! HTC Desire HD...when I unlock it, it 'rains' on my screen to let me know what the weather is like outside.... or if its cloudy etc.... its amazing! I can go online and get it to ring if I lose it, and look at a map and locate it if I leave it somewhere! I've been consumed! LOL! I love my gadgets.

As for the the boring cycle bit, I thought the cow bag was leaving as it nearly went, and then later today its like it just started all over again! So waiting waiting...

Oh and we spoke to another holding companies about pubs.... and there is a good chance we could end up in birmingham next week!!!! Have to go where the work is! God I am nervous! Just always thought we'd get a pub in wales to start.

Sorry for my rant, and I hope I havent forgotten anyone.... so big hugs!!!

 

[Jaymes]

OMG vibrating BBT's! Too funny...

AFM - I always kept the covers up just a bit so I could hear the beep. Temping in the fanjita never helped my rocky temps though.

I am now looking up what triphasic is...

 

[heart tree]

Jaymie, did you lie on your back when you temped that way or on your side? I'm just trying to figure out how to do this properly.

 

[Jaymes]

if I had to roll to grab my bbt, then I did it on my side, but if I only had to reach for it I just did it in the position I was in. I tried to move as little as possible before I took my temp.

 

[Allie84]

omg, yes, a vibrating BBT would be quite the device! I have temped vaginally twice to try it out and yeeah, I too had a hard time hearing the beep. I also wasn't sure how far to put it in....but I have thought of trying it out for a cycle since I keep my room pretty cold at night and worry about my oral temp. Oh, and I laid on my back for the vaginal temping.

Nato, I don't know how I missed this but you are getting tickets for the X Factor?!?! Ahh, I am SO excited for you! Please post every single detail of your visit...I am an X Factor nerd, if there is such a thing. I've rarely missed an episode since series 1. Sad, really. My friends at university would mock me as I wouldn't meet them each Saturday night until after it was over...now I torrent it each week as I'm in the US and then go on the message boards. Yes, I'm sad.

CJ, I'm mesmerized by the features of your phone..amazing! Also, sorry I must have missed where you explained, but are you and OH planning on opening a pub? That's exciting!

I'm going to sleep now but look forward to awaking to Nato's result.

 

[Sparkly]

Oh dear!! When I suggested vibrating thermometers I wasn't thinking about the fact that some of you ladies vaginally temp ......I don't!......interesting concept though now that's a wake up call!!!!!!

Cbfm's look for estrogen and LH, they work in a different way to opk's which only look for your LH surge, they insist you use fmu to test, this has been known to miss my surge on 2 occasions, so I use opk's too just to back it up.

nato - I see you've updated you temp.........what's the hpt result?....(she ask's hopefully)....temps are good hun x

 

[Razcox]

Morning all! How is everyone?

Cesca - As others have said there is nothing anyone can say to make you feel any different, if thats how you feel then thats how you feel. When i had the scan that showed the MMC i felt so humiliated by crying in front of all these strangers. I pulled myself together to get through the waiting room full of pregnant ladies and there happy scan pics and kept a little chant in my head of 'just make it to the car' which i did then i fell apart. So i can understand where you are comming from but the midwife appointment is going to be a happy time for you hun i can feel it xxx

Nato - Good luck with the temping today and i agree you should POAS as you are now 10DPO

Hearty - I just lay on my side and do it that way, you cant hear the beep so i just leave it in for as long as i think is needed and then pull it out. Once though i fell alseep with it in and woke up 1/2 later with a themometer up my lady bits!

Had to have a good giggle about the vibrating one though, i think thats a very good idea

Allie - Sorry you didnt pass hun but you're right maybe this is a sign someone has other things planned for you this year.

Well now i am going to have a wee rant so be warned. Went to the doctors last night and it exceeded my expectations of being a waste of time! We walked in and told her everything and she said she couldnt send me for a scan at 6 weeks unless something was wrong, ok thats what i expected. Next she said she didnt want to fill out the paper work and refer me to a midwife as it was too early just in case things go wrong. She then said she wasnt going to set up a scan at 8 weeks yet and to come back in two weeks if i havent MCed . . . . Nothing like a bit of PMA from your doctor huh! DH asked about the low dose asprin (dam i thought he had forgotten about that!) and she didnt even listen to what he was saying as soon as she heard asprin she was like 'no thats bad for, we dont give it to children under 12. If we dont want to put it in there mouth then you putting it in yours will hurt the fetus.' End of appointment and you could tell she wanted us out the door, didnt even bother to work out my EDD. What a waste of time they clearly didnt give a shit.

I was a bit upset and TBH her lack of faith in this pregnacy was enough to stress me out a bit then DH said he wanted me to stop taking the asprin - Cue huge argument over this as i refuse to stop taking it based on that lazy bitches word. We sorted it out and i am still taking it until i talk to the MW later but last night was just awful. *Sigh* why cant i have a nice understanding doctor???

 

[Sparkly]

Aww FFS Raz....what a mean bitch your doc is hun, is there no other doctor in your practice you can see instead, maybe a more sympathetic one? I can't believe what she has said to you....I would be livid, and changing my GP!

 

[Razcox]

I dont really have a GP just a practice and you see who ever is free. TBH i think i will just ring the EPU next week and have a chat with them, they always seemed so much nicer.

 

[Sparkly]

My local epu (actually is called a bep clinic) were fantastic with me, and said in any future pregnancy I was welcome to just pop in if I had any worries at all, I don't need to be referred as I have been before they said. You really don't need negativity from your doctor though right now eh? They don't seem to understand after a loss, we are already negative enough without that!!!!

 

[NatoPMT]

Razzer, thats appalling that she dismissed your pregnancy that way - defo go to the EPU. Dont worry about the aspirin, the NHS have a proper bee in their bonnet about it because its not fully tested, but most drs agree it doesn't do any harm. Another bumper had strips torn off her for taking it, and the dr implied she'd harmed her baby, then her next dr prescribed it for her.

My temps have stayed high, prompting a 'possible triphasic at CD20' message, but i had a bfn so Im not hopeful. Triphasic would mean i implanted at CD20, therefore i should have a positive test by now if the triphasic was to do with implantation and not just a random temp pattern.

Am 10dpo and its still a no.

Maybe a vibrating thermometer would cheer me up