October Sticky Beans!

[Angel5000]

Haha yeah suuuuuure you'll wait

But your longest normal LP looks like 11 days so I'm sure 12DPO would bring a BFP. My everything is crossed for you!

My longest LP was 11 days, that was using Vitamin B & Vitex. Without the VitB/Vitex my longest LP has been 10 days. I went back through my charts and checked, and on EVERY chart, I had blood when checking cervix at 8-9DPO, and spotting on 10DPO. Then AF the next day. On months I used VitB, those shifted a day or two later, and then during the two CPs it shifted a little later as well.

Sooooo based on my usual symptoms that should be happening at the day before AF, I'm "late".


EDIT: Yes, please keep everything crossed!!

 

[Angel5000]

Okay so just wanted to update. Today is 13DPO. Unless i start spotting today this will officially be the longest LP I've ever had. Today's test was a BFN on a FRER. No spotting, no sign of anything. Don't know how I'm going to keep myself from going crazy at work today! Hopefully I can keep my mind off of the TWW by throwing myself into today's lesson.

I'm just so nervous!

 

[cupcake.]

Omg, i'm having my fingers crossed that this long LP means you caught your egg!!

 

[MsRipple]

Just slowly catching up with everyone! @Angel -- good luck, keeping everything crossed for you as well!

I got a smiley face on CD 10 on the digital Clear Blue advanced test (but never got a positive on my cheapie opks). At first I thought - false positive as it was so early (CD 10) and my urine was super concentrated that am, but the Clear blue help line said false positives are rare, then I got O pain and ran home to squeeze in some what I thought was well-timed sex! Then no temp rise. I typically have a pretty clearly defined temp rise, so I'm assuming it was false positive or lh surge without ovulation. Not sure how to explain the O pain.

cheapie opks have been pretty light the last few days.

 

[Angel5000]

Well, there is ZERO sign of Like none. My cervix is back up to high and soft. I am no longer getting any color when I check my cervix, and I'm getting more CM again (I was really dry for a few days). I'm beginning to let myself think I might really be pregnant..... I told DH To stop on his way home from work at the dollar store and get me some dollar tests so that I can keep testing to my hearts content since I am out of Wondfo's. I'll test again tonight (if I can make it for a 4 hour hold) and then again tomorrow morning. I'm sure the amount of hcg in my system won't change that much between tonight and tomorrow morning but I'm starting to go crazy!


Ripple - hoping you get a temp rise soon. I had one random month where I got my +OPK but didn't get a temp rise for 3 days. So I O'd way late after the surge. Get in some extra bD if you can just in case.

 

[krissie328]

Well, there is ZERO sign of Like none. My cervix is back up to high and soft. I am no longer getting any color when I check my cervix, and I'm getting more CM again (I was really dry for a few days). I'm beginning to let myself think I might really be pregnant..... I told DH To stop on his way home from work at the dollar store and get me some dollar tests so that I can keep testing to my hearts content since I am out of Wondfo's. I'll test again tonight (if I can make it for a 4 hour hold) and then again tomorrow morning. I'm sure the amount of hcg in my system won't change that much between tonight and tomorrow morning but I'm starting to go crazy!


Ripple - hoping you get a temp rise soon. I had one random month where I got my +OPK but didn't get a temp rise for 3 days. So I O'd way late after the surge. Get in some extra bD if you can just in case.

So excited!!! Fx for your bfp!

 

[Angel5000]

Think I might be out.

Been having some low back pain, which is odd for me. Woke up about 1am cramping and went to bathroom and there was some blood. So far this morning it's not consistent, more like spotting. Today's temp was up, which I thought meant it can't be AF, but when I checked my past charts on about half of them the temp rose on CD1 and then started to drop after that. I never got a BFP so it wasn't a CP, I just don't understand how my LP goes from a consistent 10 days to suddenly 13/14? I didn't think that could happen. I mean, I think it's probably a good thing to lengthen LP, but just really frustrating. We were getting our hopes up.

 

[krissie328]

Think I might be out.

Been having some low back pain, which is odd for me. Woke up about 1am cramping and went to bathroom and there was some blood. So far this morning it's not consistent, more like spotting. Today's temp was up, which I thought meant it can't be AF, but when I checked my past charts on about half of them the temp rose on CD1 and then started to drop after that. I never got a BFP so it wasn't a CP, I just don't understand how my LP goes from a consistent 10 days to suddenly 13/14? I didn't think that could happen. I mean, I think it's probably a good thing to lengthen LP, but just really frustrating. We were getting our hopes up.

So sorry hun! That is so frustrating. I was also under the impression your LP remained stable.

 

[MsRipple]

I'm sorry Angel ***hugs**** Any update?

I'm a bit confused by my opks. Got an almost positive wondfo opk on tuesday and a close to positive First Reponse opk (yeah, I went a bit crazy with multiple brands a few cycles ago and now it's hard not to pee on stuff I have laying around). I figured I would get a positive yesterday. I did (or very close to) on the First Response, but wondfo got lighter.

Based on my temps I definitely did not O yesterday. So will I ovulate today or was not that really my surge?

 

[Angel5000]

I was hoping maybe the spotting would go away but this is day 3 of AF so I'm out. :/ My temps have stayed relatively high (still over last months CL, but my CL was really low last month) but I think part of that is because we've been letting our minpins sleep with us because it's been so cold and they make good heaters.

On to the next cycle.

Ripple You can O up to 2 days later than your +OPK so with today's drop I'd suspect you might O today. I've had a month where I didn't get my temp rise until 4 days after my +OPK, so it's not always the next day.

 

[krissie328]

Angel- I was really hoping that was your cycle. I'm sorry hun.

MsRipple- I agree with Angel that you can o quite a bit after your positive opk. Hopefully that's what's going on with your temps.

My temp is being weird. Just keeps climbing. Hopefully it levels out soon.

 

[cupcake.]

I'm sorry angel.. fingers crossed for this cycle

Krissie that really is weird, your temps have been rising constantly.

Mine are quite high for pre O as well, but since i haven't temped a lot this cycle yet there isn't any comparison.
My OPK from last night was quite a bit darker than the night before, i haven't tested yet today. I've been having creamy/wet CM, i'm hoping so much that i am headed to Ovulation. Would really appreciate it after not O'ing all november and december.

A friend of mine announced her pregnancy yesterday.. she is 14 weeks, and if i had not lost the pregnancy in october we'd be due within days of each other.. it's been really tough on me

 

[Angel5000]

Funny that you guys are talking about high Pre-O temps because mine are too. My body is so confusing right now. I basically had a 2 day period. My temperatures are still bouncing around a little but the last two days were rising and are all still clearly above the CL from last month (though the CL was really low). It makes me suspicious and, unfortunately, hopeful that it wasn't really AF, but I can't let myself get my hopes up. I've had a month like this before where I had a 2 day AF and the next cycle my pre-O temps were really high but it was just an odd cycle. I took a dollar tree test yesterday just to be sure and it was clearly BFN so I am pretty sure that it was AF, it's just so very odd when I get one that is only 2 days long and then a day of spotting. It makes me worry that something isn't right. Like my lining isn't getting thick enough or something? I'm being irrational I think.


cupcake - that's so hard, especially to know that you would be there too. I was just thinking the other day that if my first CP had stuck I would be in my second trimester and would be making announcements to friends/family about now. It's so hard. hopefully this month will be ours.

 

[krissie328]

I am sorry you guys are struggling right now. We are really close to each other in our cycles this month. Hopefully that will bring positive things!!

I should ovulate mid-late next week. So we are going to try to get in as much this week. Hopefully o doesn't delay past CD 19 or we will likely be out.

 

[cupcake.]

I had a really dark OPK tonight! I'm not sure if i can consider it positive, but it's definitely super close! So we squeezed in some BDing just in case.

I'm early in my cycle for O, but since i had 3 cycles without O maybe there really is an egg ready to pop. It would definitely be awesome!

And i'm thinking it's probably not a coincidence that my cycle seems so normal and like i'm about to ovulate right after i stopped taking agnus castus.. definitely feeling reassured in my decision to quit taking it!

 

[MsRipple]

Yeah for a dark opk cupcake!

I'm not 100% sure that my opk was positive on day 15 or 16, but I am hoping that my temp rise today is indicative of O. If it stays up tomorrow I will feel more certain that I o'd.

 

[MsRipple]

Cupcake - why were you taking agnus castes to begin with?

 

[cupcake.]

Would fit though, positive OPK, and Ovulation dip next day and today temp spike! Looking good!

And i took it in hopes of regulating my cycles. They used to vary in length and were on the longer side usually about 32-36 days, sometimes longer. I was ovulating then, which i know now because now i know what my cycles are like without Ovulation (21-25 days, so AF symptoms, light bleeding).
Sucks to think i caused my anovulatory cycles by taking it, but agnus castus (or vitex is pretty much the same thing) works for so many women so well that i hoped it would for me too.

Now i know i have quite a long LP ( 15 days), so i used to ovulate around CD17-21 which really isn't that bad.. oh well, always smarter afterwards i guess

 

[krissie328]

Well at least you know now cupcake and are more educated about your cycles. Vitex was actually good for me. It helped regulated me. However, I sucked at remembering to take it. I have no idea if it helped me ovulate though. I had no idea about opks and bbt back then. I was young and thought I wanted a baby when I was first married but DH was in the Navy. I was taking it while he was away and forgot once he got back.

Looking back I was 20 at the time and really glad it didn't happen. Having my first at 28 was really a good thing for both of us I think. We have got to do a lot of stuff as a couple and I went to school all those years. Something that would have been really hard raising kids.

Sorry for the ramble. Sometimes it happens.

 

[krissie328]

I have been so crampy today. Well for about 3 days. It feels like af is on her way. I don't remember this with clomid before. But I am also taking black cohosh so maybe that is what is doing it.