My New Year's Resolution: Get pregnant. Anyone else? SIX BFPs so far!!!

[Elphabaa77]

I agree it looks cool but I'm actually sick

Right after I took my temp I had to puke...I've got a stomach bug and now have a temp of 99.7

Awe! That stinks! Hope you feel better soon!

 

[Milty]

Thanks!

 

[SweetMel]

elpha, I think you should be happy about your number. you are making progress after all.

milty, i'm sorry you are sick. get better soon.

Sis, did you experience anything after you applied the castor oil packs? I have only done it for two days now, but so far I don't feel any thing.

 

[Elphabaa77]

elpha, I think you should be happy about your number. you are making progress after all.

milty, i'm sorry you are sick. get better soon.

Sis, did you experience anything after you applied the castor oil packs? I have only done it for two days now, but so far I don't feel any thing.

It is progress... except for with me going to the RE next Tuesday, there are no immediate plans for any more Clomid rounds. My progesterone was only this good because of Clomid. But maybe the RE will keep me on Clomid 150mg another month or two and monitor things... or MAYBE even do Clomid with a trigger. My 17mm corpus luteum probably means my follicle only ever got to 17mm, and most doctors define a good ovulation and a mature egg at 18mm or higher. So maybe a trigger would push me over the edge with the Clomid? I guess only time will tell.

I am just so darn impatient! I am NEVER good at waiting for anything that I want really, really bad! Instead, I just obsess on how I am going to get what I want. In this case, no amount obsession can ensure I get what I want.

So lots of waiting around in the next 5 days. Waiting to test... waiting for the RE appointment. I guess, at least I am not waiting for progesterone results anymore.

 

[Elphabaa77]

Man... I am realizing I am quite the downer in most of my posts today. Sorry about that ladies! Guess it's been a rough week.

 

[Milty]

Hey we all have them

 

[pbl_ge]

Elphaba, you're not nearly as much of a downer today as I am! I think all of my posts have contained one of more of these:

I'm whiny.

Anyway, I agree with the others that your progesterone number sounds perfectly respectable. It's not superduperamazing high, but high enough to confirm O, and that's perhaps as good as you can get without progesterone supplements. It's possible that it doesn't have a linear relationship with clomid or how "strong" the O is. But it's well into the "good" range, so that may be all you need to know.

But can I just say how excited I am for you to see the RE? I feel like your doctor has been holding you back some, and reading what you put in my journal about your unconfirmed PCOS was so frustrating. I bet that once you see the RE all this will get sorted out pretty quickly. However, I still haven't given up hope for this cycle yet!

And, Milty, I'm sorry you're sick. I hope it passes quickly. Are you doing the same thing again next month?

Sweet, Sis, everyone else- How are you all?

AFM, had a terrible saga of a day, which started with being told I would need to pay $11,000 out-of-pocket for the meds. That was wrong, but there's still bad news. Can't start the injectables, because I have a cyst....on the same side as my good tube. So, it's two weeks of birth control pills for me. Very frustrated, but there's nothing I can do but wait.

 

[Milty]

I know how you feel about out of pocket medical I've been forking it over for my surgery. I guess the good news is I will have met my plan deductible for the year

Yes since my surgery will be very early in my cycle most likely cd 5 I can go ahead and do Clomid days 3-7 estrogen 8-13 and then Progestrone in the 2 WW.

The cool thing will be I will have had a fresh dye done on my tubes and hopefully fixed anything else they find.

 

[Sis4Us]

Elphabaa.... Glad u are seeing the RE I agree u need someone who can figure all this out better for U and the P is way better than it was!!!!

Pbl.... So sorry about the Cyst I know how u feel I was putt off months due to mine!!!


Milty.... Sorry u are sick hope u feel better real soon!!!

AFM.... Having some real strong ovary twinges on both side but mainly my Left!!! Hoping it's a good sign but I'm not looking at symptoms this month as the Shot has given me Plenty!!!

Sweet I did feel like things where moving along better... If ya know what I mean plus it gave me brown spotting from my cyst!!
What are u doing them for just to increase blood flow or are u HAVIN some issues??

 

[Sis4Us]

Ladies please help .... Why r my CH dotted its Makin me Crazy!!! I don't get it!!

 

[Milty]

That means its not 100% that the 14th was your O...it could have been the 13...

When it's pretty sure but there are other possible dates it makes your cross hairs dotted

 

[Elphabaa77]

Sis - Exactly what Milty said. My guess is it has to do with the cervical mucus pattern you put in. I bet if you were to ditch the W on day 14 or change it to E... the crosshairs might go solid. That's really the only thing on your chart that 'could' be holding it back. You had 3 continuous raised temps and your positive OPKs came in within the right time frame. So it probably has to do with noting the eggwhite CM and then watery CM the following day. Fertility Friend gets a little nit-picky sometimes.

 

[Elphabaa77]

Actually, looking at your other charts prior... you had watery CM on ovulation day before as well... so who knows then. LOL Your April chart had dashed crossed hairs too. I think it's safe to say you ovulated on day 14.

 

[Milty]

Elpha look at your temps!!!

See that's a big improvement!

 

[Elphabaa77]

Elpha look at your temps!!!

See that's a big improvement!

My 5:30 am wake-up-to-temp alarm was in the middle of a MASSIVE Clomid hot flash. So... I am not completely trusting it. I WAS pleased to see it went up a bit today... but it has also done that before.

Where is the fast forward button to Monday when my OBGYN told me to test?!?! That will be day 11 and she said I should see a positive by then. That way, if it would by some miracle be a positive, I could cancel my RE appointment. I was tempted to take a test this morning when the temp went up a bit...... but I was good and refrained! I thought it might ruin the baby shower that I am throwing for my cousin tomorrow. (2nd baby shower I have thrown for a cousin since October... ) PLUS it's 8 dpo, so still quite early. I am just impatient!

 

[Milty]

It's good to restrain ...but so hard

I was looking at the 5 temps over 98...that is good!

 

[Elphabaa77]

It's good to restrain ...but so hard

I was looking at the 5 temps over 98...that is good!

For me, having ANY temps over 98 is pretty good. My temps to run low. I always wondered if the fact that I temp at 5:30 in the morning effects that? Or if I really am just prone to lower temps... or a combo of the both. They say your temps rises every half hour or so. I just chose 5:30 because I typically never have any reason to get up before then. That way I don't screw it up later.

BUT with me having to dispute all positive signs... if you look at my chart history when you click on my chart, I had quite a few temps above 98 the cycle before last. Last cycle I didn't chart for most of the luteal phase because I was on vacation. And are there really 5 above 98? I think some were just a tick below 98. I only remember 2 temps being above 98. Of course... after 15 months of charting it all does seem to blur together.

Sorry for being such a negative nancy. It's a defense mechanism. I don't want to get my hopes up, this week has been too emotional already.

 

[Milty]

Ok 4 if you want to be picky

Still I think it's good ...I'm not saying its a sign your pg but I do think its a sign of a good cycle!

Yup I know how it is to chart for so long...I think at the end of this I'm going to hang up charting for good...

 

[Elphabaa77]

Ok 4 if you want to be picky

Still I think it's good ...I'm not saying its a sign your pg but I do think its a sign of a good cycle!

Yup I know how it is to chart for so long...I think at the end of this I'm going to hang up charting for good...

Wow... I guess I did have 4 above 98 degrees. In April though, I had 8 temps above 98 in my luteal phase.

I secretly WISH I would be pregnant (well, don't we all?) so that I could just be done with temp charting. I am so over it... but it's like I have OCD or something. As long as I am trying to get pregnant, I feel like I am going to miss a sign or something if I don't chart. It was hard enough to let go last month when I was on vacation... and the only reason I 'allowed' it was because I was in the luteal phase.

I will say this much though... if I didn't have the convenient Fertility Friend charting app on my iPhone, I probably would have stopped LONG ago. Using a pen and a piece of paper would have seriously irritated me. Heck, I have an Ovacue Fertility Monitor I never use because it was just becoming a pain as well. I would have to download all of my readings into the computer after so long or I would lose them. Sometimes, it would just completely reset on me... and right after that, apparently my hormones were too much for it to handle! I used it my first Clomid cycle and it actually confirmed ovulation on day 11 for me! WTF? That cycle the Clomid didn't work... I didn't even ovulate until day 26.

 

[Butterfly67]

Elphaa I was just getting excited abut your temps as well when I saw them, and the wacky dreams