Late July Testers! Let's wait together!

[Weebles]

I feel exactly the same! It's just the way I am with everything, not just ttc, so it's really my personality. It gives me piece of mind too in a take charge kind of way.

 

[krissie328]

No, I am doing unmonitored cycles because I've always responded well to clomid.

 

[Weebles]

Maybe something is just just throwing off your temps. The weather where I am is soooo so hot and depending on how high the ac is or isn't cranked it can cause some real issues with my temps. I had some trouble last month with it. Maybe it's something like that? I dunno. I'd try as best as we could to BD every 2 or 3 days, just to make sure there was still coverage since your chart is so confusing this month. I know that's not always easy though, at least not for me.

 

[krissie328]

Well I did o. Based on my normal lp it would have been cd 7. I just started spotting. This is the second month this has happened. I o'd cd 8 in April. And I did get a spike cd 8 this cycle but kinda dismissed it since I was on clomid.

 

[BelleNuit]

That's a super early O Krissie! Is there something the docs can do to help you O a little later in your cycle? I often O on CD 12 and worry that's too early somrtimes

 

[krissie328]

I brought it up to my doctor last month and he was hoping the clomid would help. Guess this cycle it did not.

 

[Weebles]

Bummer Krissie. I have the opposite issue, I think I o a little late in my cycle. Symotom spotting is in full force for me though. I keep getting mild afternoon nausea and heartburn. The heartburn is not normal for me at all. My little dog won't leave me alone either and she's a total daddy's girl! I've heard that animals pick up on it but Ive never witnessed it before. If it's not a BFP symotom I hope it's a continuing trend..

 

[sarah2211]

Sarah and Ask - your chances of getting pregnant again are excellent! The fact that you've conceived once means that
1) your dh has sperm that is capable of fertilizing
2) you are ovulating
3) your eggs are good enough to be fertilized
4) at least one of your Fallopian tubes is clear

Most of the fertility tests are indirectly trying to determine if those basic factors are working as they should be. You have real life evidence that It worked once and no reason to believe it won't happen again. Keep the faith!

Thanks and that's what I'm trying to tell myself too. However after 9 months of trying this is the closest we have gotten. So I just wonder if we are still going to be in the same place this time in 9 months. I know that often MC are caused by genetic abnormalities or whatever but in the back of my mind, I'm just hoping that this isn't the first of many. Lupus and PCOS can cause increased chance of MC. But you're right, it's reassuring to know those things. I'm trying to keep my hopes up that next time will be the real thing.

 

[Ask4joy]

Temp dropped today (still above coverline) and pinkish-red spotting this morning. I'm assuming AF is on the way. I have no idea when I O'd this cycle. If I discard my low temp on cd19, advanced puts me as Oing on cd18, FAM on cd16, research on cd15 (before my +OPK?), and OPK on cd17. If I leave the low temp in on cd19 FAM and advanced put O on cd19 (3 days after +OPK?). If this is the start of AF then that means I ovulated before my +OPK (it was darker that day but not positive until the afternoon of the next day). I guess I'll know in the next day or two. Blah.

 

[BelleNuit]

It could be IB and not necessarily the start of AF!

 

[Ask4joy]

Maybe! If it's not, that means I actually ovulated the day my OPK got darker but before it turned positive. Temps would correspond with that.

 

[WishnandHopn]

Ask, based on your temps the previous month I think you O'd on cd17 or 18. Rather than AF coming, the temp dip with spotting at 8 or 9 dpo could be implantation! Or that darn second estrogen spike. I hope it's the former!

 

[Ask4joy]

Thanks for the thread of hope, Wish & Belle! It does seem early for me to be spotting. Last 2 months I got a +OPK on cd16 and didn't spot until cd29 & cd30. Today is only cd26. Gonna try to hang on to some hope today!

 

[Weebles]

Just catching up, I think it could be IB as well, Ask.

My temps are so flat and boring. I thought maybe my thermometer needed a new battery but my temp goes up during the day so it's just a weird fluke I guess.

 

[BelleNuit]

Weebles your temps are SO stable! That has to be a good sign of balanced hormones!!

 

[Weebles]

Oh! I hope that's a good sign then!

 

[Ask4joy]

It looks good, Weebles! So I only had that spot of light blood this morning when I checked cm with tp and nothing else all day. Tomorrow's temp should be telling.

 

[Weebles]

At this point in my cycle I tend to get excited about temping. It's so suspenseful, I hope we both get spikes!

 

[Ask4joy]

Haha I know! A day can feel like a week! FX for us both!

 

[Ask4joy]

Guess I spoke too soon. Lots of bright red "spotting" just started. I don't understand...I've had 1 25 day cycle in the last 3 years. I didn't get a +OPK until cd16. My luteal phase the last 3 cycles since TTC has been 12 days.