long cycles support thread :) the yelping vaginas club! (closed group)

[Diddums]

Aww congrats Lou. I'd love a girl!

Had a massive glob of ewcm so hoping I'm ovulating! Cervix was hso this morning. And now it's hard high and open? No idea what it means. Hoping I get a temp rise tomorrow morning or Monday morning! Then begins the TWW. My last two week wait was only 8 days long. But it was my first cycle off bcp. So we shall see

 

[Rachel789]

Aww congrats on the girl, how exciting!

 

[mrsc81]

^^Katya - You mean Bex? Even though im having a girl too

 

[Rachel789]

Katya I hope you get a nice temp rise tomorrow!!

 

[bnporter81]

YAY Dee!! I'm so happy for you!!

Bex, good to see you back, honCongrats on having a girl! You must be on

Well, girls, I'm hoping my cycle this time around will be better. So far it's going well...today I had a decent amount of EWCM and I also got a halfway dark OPK. Yesterday it was almost stark white so I think all of that is a good thing!I hope and pray for a normal cycle this time

Have a great weekend everyone!

 

[Diddums]

^^Katya - You mean Bex? Even though im having a girl too

Oops yes sorry!

 

[Diddums]

Morning ladies. I didn't have a temp shift this morning

Could be a couple things I guess
1. We went to the cinema last night and I didn't get to sleep until 2.30am. Woke up at 4.50am and again at 5.50 and 6.15am so my temp (36.28c)is no way accurate!
2. I have a massive amount of ewcm last night at 11.30pm so possible I ovulated really late last night and it didn't register with bbt yet? Checked cm today and I'm fairly dry with some sticky patches and no ewcm. Do you think this is possible. I know my temp tomorrow morning will tell but don't wanna stress in the mean time.

Think I will try to bd again tonight just to make sure we're covered. Hopefully tomorrow I will have a temp shift and we've caught the eggy!

 

[Rachel789]

Katya it sounds right what you are saying if you still had ewcm last night I bet you will get your temp shift tomorrow!

Bethany- I really hope your body gets back on track and o's! Those signs sound promising...what cd are you on?are you still temping?

 

[bnporter81]

Thanks Rach...today is CD14. I haven't been temping for the last few weeks, but this morning I did. It was 98.2 which is a bit high for my normal pre-O temp(usually around 97.5). Guess we'll see what the next few days bring

 

[Diddums]

Ah help! My bbt thermomter is driving me insane!

I got the following readings this morning after a rubbish nights sleep. Fell asleep at about 11.30pm

37.02 at 1.45am
36.36 at 4.35am
Then woke up at 6am and got the following temps:
36.18
36.28
36.37
36.40 in the space of a couple minutes. I checked after my first one 36.18 seemed low. But it was only after 1.5 hrs sleep. What temp should I record?

 

[mrsc81]

I would think 36.36 but im no expert! Im sure a fellow temper will help

 

[Rachel789]

Yea I would say the temp you took after sleeping the longest is most reliable...what time do you normally temp?

 

[Diddums]

Sorry forgot to say I usually temp at 6/6.15am. Just don't know why my thermometer had three different temps before finally stabilising at 36.4? Hopefully I will get a goo night sleep tonight and temp will rise further tomorrow

I'm started to doubt whether I ovulated so getting upset. Think I'm gonna try and chill and just relax. Haven't woken up this many times a night for ages

 

[seabean]

Thanks for all the dancing icon love ladies! Feels awesome being on the receiving end of it!

This weekend we had our huge party on Saturday night, and it was easier than I thought to hide the non-drinking...mostly because it was so crowded and I was busy hosting, that I could totally get away with saying my drink was over there, etc. I'm more worried about Thanksgiving, when it's just us and the inlaws and siblings around the table...we normally all get pretty boozy on Thanksgiving, and I KNOW it's going to be a lot more obvious than the other night. ANY TIPS?!?!

Hubby and I are still on cloud 9, but I am so nervous at the same time. The only symptoms right now are that I feel super bloated in a strange spot (like higher up than AF bloating or too full bloating), and also (TMI) that my lady parts are literally like a faucet right now - so much CM! It's terrifying, because every time I go to the bathroom I panic that it's going to be red. So I just need to relax a little about that.

 

[seabean]

Sorry forgot to say I usually temp at 6/6.15am. Just don't know why my thermometer had three different temps before finally stabilising at 36.4? Hopefully I will get a goo night sleep tonight and temp will rise further tomorrow

I'm started to doubt whether I ovulated so getting upset. Think I'm gonna try and chill and just relax. Haven't woken up this many times a night for ages

It's hard to say. I think the best advice that I have is to ONLY temp once. I know it's tempting to re-take it when it's not as high as you want it to be, but it's so much more stressful when you take it a bunch of time and try to get it higher and higher, but then don't know which one to believe. Plus, not everyone gets a huge temp spike with ovulation - my temps tend to slowly creep up and I won't even see the upward trend until 2-4DPO. So try to be patient and if you really ovulated, then you will be able to confirm in a few days. Also, I think your CM might be more promising than the temps at this point, since the EWCM is gone. Tough it out for a few more days and hopefully you'll see that nice upward trend and get a coverline!

 

[Diddums]

Thanks everyone.

I haven't ever taken my temp more than once except for this morning because the first time I took it the thermomter beeped after like 15s and I didn't think that was accurate enough? What thermomter do you ladies use?

 

[seabean]

I use kind of a crappy one too. It tends to give me the same temp a lot and doesn't have a light, which is really annoying So needless to say I don't recommend mine

 

[Rachel789]

Katya- My BBT wasn't the best either. I just used a drug store brand one and got a lot of the same temps. But from now on so you don't drive yourself crazy stick to one temp. I used to do that to myself sometimes and it drove me nuts!

Dee-I totally understand your worries because I felt and still sometimes feel the same way. But if it makes you feel any better I didn't really notice any symptoms aside from bloating either until I was closer to 6 weeks. I kept saying to DH I don't feel pregnant and just felt like it was not happening. When is your first appt?

 

[Diddums]

Yes think ill stick to just one temp from now on.

If it happens again would I take my temp after the longer period of sleep? In which case I should record 36.36 at 4.35am?

 

[Rachel789]

My normal temping time was 5:45 but I had a lot of nights where I would wake often so if I woke up before 4 I would try to go back to sleep and take it next time I woke up or at 5:45 which ever came first. If I woke up between 4 and 5:45 I would just take it and be done. Everyone is different but I found as long as I temped between those times it was accurate but if I took it earlier or later it wasn't. I also didn't find sleeping less than 3 hours straight affected my temps much as long as I wasn't actually getting out of bed and moving around a lot, if I just laid still and went back to sleep it didn't seem to be any higher than if I slept straight through for 3+ hours. But again some people's bodies are more sensitive so it is hard to say how yours reacts to those differences and I think that is why they recommend you get at least 3 hours and try to temp around the same time. I used to stress about it when I was first temping but eventually I relaxed about it because I found it was affecting my sleep, if you mess up a temp here and there it's not a huge deal, one individual temp doesn't tell the story its the whole graph.