October Sticky Beans!

[cscbeth8421]

Beth, I though you were a week or two after me, I didn't we were so close! (I'm 7+1 today)

Im 7 weeks today!

Right, i mentioned that above....

 

[MsRipple]

Awesome Beth and black - so happy all is well!!!!

 

[Blackrain90]

Lol Beth I totally get the baby brain.

 

[lvksa]

@cscbeth8421
Shame on me for not mentioning you! Happy to see your posts here. Keep checking in with us. I'm looking forward to updates from both you and Blackrain90.

I have three temps from this cycle that are weird. I took them, saw the number and said huhhh, so I took it again to check. I'm not sure which temp to keep. My FF chart has all of the second temps (taken literally 1 min after the first) and my ovagraph has the first temps. Ovagraph is actually giving me crosshairs with an O day of CD15.
Any thoughts?
CD15 - 96.26--96.93
CD18 - 96.86--97.40
CD23 - 97.39--97.54

 

[cupcake.]

Ivksa, that is interesting.. i've had that before taking temp and thinking that can't be right. And then i took it again and if it's somerhing significantly different i usually take the second temp.
But, based on your CM i don't think you O'd CD15, i would think maybe CD20? Hard to say, sorry i'm not much help

Afm, my temp was back up this morning, so maybe there's hope left?
Don't know how, but i resisted the urge to test haha but if temps stay up tomorrow, i'll definitely test again, i'll be 14dpo then. If AF is making her way temps should totally start dropping then

 

[Angel5000]

lvksa In cases like that, I typically take the second temp. Based on your temps and CM, CD15 doesn't sound right to me. I'm thinking more like CD20 (like cupcake said). I'm wondering if you discard CD19s temp on FF, will that change your info? I ask because in the book Taking Charge of Your Fertility, she mentions that you can determine your coverline if your temp rises and stays higher than the previous 6 temps. FF tries to create a coverline over all the pre-O temps if possible, but looking at your temps if we disregarded that oen very high spike (which has an open circle which is why I consider the disregard) then the last 3 days are above the previous 6. Just a thought.

cupcake Keeping FX!!


AFM: So frustrated. Temp is up again this morning. Been hoping that since the last few days
the temps were getting low that I'd be getting close to O but temp shot up again today. :/ I typically drop into the 96s for O and I haven't even dropped below 97.1 this cycle yet. Actually.....I've only just dropped below last cycle's cover line the last few days (and now it's up again). I've had oddly high temps this cycle.

At least now that I'm off Vitex, and my body is acting crazy (again), maybe I'll be able to tell my doctor in a couple months to run some tests. I don't want there to be anything wrong, but I'm suspecting my hormones aren't exactly where they are supposed to be.

 

[todmommy4568]

Ivksa- no advice really, I always cheat lol if I think one seems wonky I take it again and then keep the one I like best

Cupcake- test!

Angel- that would frustrate me too! I think it is a good idea to stay off the vitex though so your doc can see if anything is going on.

AFM- I think I am kind of in a slump. I haven't peed on anything for 11 days lol that is an accomplishment for me for sure but it is weird, even weirder that I don't even want to like if I didn't use any opks this month I don't think it would bother me. I'm not sure if it is that I am a little fed up or just that the pressure is gone now that we eliminated the deadline just feeling off this month I am so stressed out right now between the professor from hell and my ex husband holding my future in his hands (I want to do my internship in my hometown which is only an hour away but happens to cross state lines so I need his permission to move ) *rant over* haha

 

[lvksa]

@cupcake
That’s why I temped again when I saw that it seemed a bit strange. Thanks for your input.

@angel5000
I discarded that higher temp, but nothing changed on FF.

@todmommy4568
hahaha! that's why I wrote down both of the temps. I thought I might have to play with the charts later. That's what I've been doing the past hour. I like your way .


On ovagraph if I put the higher second temp from CD15, it shifts and give me a possible O day of CD18.
If I put the higher second temp from CD18 it gives me a possible O day of CD17.
If I remove the temp spike from CD19 there are no crosshairs.

I know that no one can tell me when I O'd. Just looking for any opinions .
I guess the worst case scenario I can just hope that it happened sometime during the days where I had fertile cm. CD 16-20 (possibly 22).

 

[jalilma]

Looks so good cupcake!

 

[MsRipple]

Todsmommy maybe this will be a good mental break (no poas). Do what you need to relax!

Looking good cupcake fingers crossed!

IvskA I wonder why your temps are so different? Maybe you need a new thermometer ?

I was 3 dpo with solid crosshairs yesterday but my temp caused ff to move my o date forward by a day. So 3 dpo once again. It's like ttc groundhogs day !

 

[mrscletus]

Well ladies-- I am fairly certain that AF should be starting any minute. Temp went down again today and I'm feeling very crampy. Bummer that this wasn't my month. I am still hopeful that it will happen eventually. Just feeling a bit bummed today.

 

[Lawes1987]

I think I ovulated today, I've had a few days of EWCF and today I had watery CF and pain on my right side. We DTD on Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday and today (Wednesday). I'll give him tomorrow off and probably DTD again on Friday. So we are doing our bit!

Glad to see you Black and Beth! X

 

[BostonLover89]

Hi guys! Just wanted to let you know that I'm still thinking about you all and sending lots of baby dust your way!

 

[Angel5000]

Todmommy yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I'm going to stay off the Vitex for a few months so that if things don't work out the doctor can see what is actually happening and nothing is masked by the vitex.

11 days without POAS?! You?!

I feel somewhat similar, now that we don't have a deadline I sort of feel like "meh". I'm really not super stressed about everything, though I am a little annoyed with my body not Oing - but that's mostly because I was hopin things would regulate themselves.

As for your ex husband, that really sucks that an hour away crosses state lines and requires his permission for the move. My BIL and his ex wife has something similar, but theirs allows them to cross state lines as long as it stays within a certain number of hours drive.


lvksa That's so odd that each of those various temps changes your CH so much AND removing that spike removes CH! So odd! I don't know what to tell you!

 

[cupcake.]

Well i tested again this morning, 14dpo, and BFN so this, again, was not our cycle.

I'm feeling super defeated to be honest. I don't know why we can't seem to get pregnant. I'm expecting AF on saturday, last ovulatory cycle i had a 15 day luteal phase as well so probably tomorrows temp will shoot down and saturday the witch will arrive..

I know we're young and we have time but back in summer i fully expected to be pregnant already and it just irritates and depresses me so much that it hasn't happened yet. I'd love to at least see a BFP in 2015 but right now it feels like it'll never happen or at least not in the near future..

So sorry for being so down. It's just getting a BFN when we had such a great cycle with great timing and everything just sucks so much

 

[todmommy4568]

Angel- hours definitely seem like a better idea! I find it silly that I could move 8 hours away in this state but not one hour into another. I hope you O soon, that's crazy its taking so long! I am used to you O'ing early.

Cupcake- it'll happen...not as fast as we all want it but eventually it will happen

Afm it looks like O will be right on time. I noticed this morning that I am developing a little cough which seems to be my thing get sick a week before O and then get better during AF. I wonder if I wasn't ovulating with my paraguard because I wasn't getting sick monthly with it in. I decided to be proactive with this stress and anxiety too so I am hoping that will help. I deal with my anxiety by being a control freak and with the ex holding control of something it has sent my anxiety on a whirl wind so I have a doc appt next week...anti anxieties here I come! I will mention TTC while I am there too and see what she has to say about it. I'm kind of dreading this doc appt though because she has had her nurses calling me and bugging me about my bi-yearly mammogram which I still haven't gone for

 

[Angel5000]

Cupcake - I know what you mean. I fully expected to be pregnant in a few months after starting. It's incredibly frustrating. Even more so when my family keeps askin why I'm not pregnant yet and did I go to a doctor and my mom "what do you mean the doctor won't do anything until a year. You obviously can't get pregnant..." Very encouraging mom. Lol. hopefully soon!

Todmommy - bi yearly mammogram? I thought those didn't start until later/older?
anti anxieties sound like a good idea. Im going to see dr tomorrow about some either mild anti depressant or anxieties. Something to take the edge off.

 

[todmommy4568]

Your mom sounds like a blast with ttc

I got stuck with all the bad genes I have a BRCA gene which makes me very prone to breast cancer so they start bi-yearly mammos and MRI's at 25 but since I already had a lump they had to biopsy at 23 I got bumped up to doing mammos and MRI's twice a year and clinical breast exams every 3 months Right now I have an 80% chance of getting breast cancer by the time I am 50 but if I get a mastectomy there is a 90% chance I will never get breast cancer so my plan is to have two more babies and then when I am done breastfeeding I will get a mastectomy

 

[cscbeth8421]

Your mom sounds like a blast with ttc

I got stuck with all the bad genes I have a BRCA gene which makes me very prone to breast cancer so they start bi-yearly mammos and MRI's at 25 but since I already had a lump they had to biopsy at 23 I got bumped up to doing mammos and MRI's twice a year and clinical breast exams every 3 months Right now I have an 80% chance of getting breast cancer by the time I am 50 but if I get a mastectomy there is a 90% chance I will never get breast cancer so my plan is to have two more babies and then when I am done breastfeeding I will get a mastectomy

I admire your strength in this decision! I'm a nurse and i agree with your decision 100%. Not that it makes is an easy decision though....You're a brave woman.

 

[cscbeth8421]

Ohhh BTW, scan in exactly 24hrs! One moment im excited, next second nervous next second i dont wanna go.
Ugh....I feel hopeful, but then, as all you ladies know, you over analyze everything and play the devils advocate.