PCOS Buddies (10 BFP)

[krissie328]

I did just call since they get out early today and I am glad I did. His nurse was gone today so another nurse was able to get my prescription sent over. He wants to start me on 2.5 mg. :/ I was really hoping for 5 so I am not sure how I feel about that.

 

[KylasBaby]

Glad you called! Hopefully even the low dose will work!

 

[StarGazerRose]

With such a hard time getting into the swing of things, i'm still going to try to temp. I set an alarm just before my normal one, set the thermometer on top of my phone and went to bed.
I woke up before my alarm this morning too ... looked at the clock and was kinda annoyed (more cause it's 2 hours before I get up, and the dog was whining waaaay too early, i think cause hubby needed something outside and he wanted to go with him) -- with all that i didn't temp *eyeroll*...
My sleeping habits are out of wack lately too. Sleeping on my arm wrong for the past few days, and it's killing me I've been meaning to get up a tad earlier too, cause I need to make it to work before 9:30...

I've been tracking my CM (although right now there is nothing because my Provera days are still in affect and I won't get anything til after AF shows up) but since I see that every day, it's much easier to look at and put it in the app.

I just wish we could put in the apps our test levels or something so it doesn't say that i ovulated when i didn't.
I tried fertility friend and I just wasn't into it. Too boring of an interface or something idk, just didn't feel like it was going to tell me anything my other apps weren't.

Krissie, good luck with the Letrozol I hope that you get results with that dosage! My hormones are all weird and stuff, most of them require a pill to even get on the board (it seems), so I needed to attempt the next dosage up.

 

[sarah2211]

Star, I'm sorry that happened when you were all set to temp. Try give it another go. I've got a whiny dog and a husband that likes to disturb my sleep too, but I can still get enough temperatures to track what's going on. Some days I have to take my temp an hour or so early. I just enter them in and put a note.

Although it's hard to do, you're not really looking at individual temperatures (not for most of the month anyway). You're just looking for a pattern. I'm getting to the point now where I'm thinking I'll just temp from CD 18 because before that nothing happens for me. Even then, the only temps that are actually important for me are just around when I O (usually CD20-28) and the later part of my LP (10-13DPO). The rest of those temps aren't important. If I didn't know my cycles well then I wouldn't take that risk though.

FF is boring to use but I like the software and how easy it is to read your charts. But up to you, you might find an app you prefer more.

Just do the best you can. It takes a few cycles to get in the full swing of it and for it to become a habit. A few missing temps here and there aren't going to be the end of the world.

 

[jessthemess]

Is it too late for me to join in? This thread seems pretty established but I have PCOS and *just* started trying for #2!

 

[krissie328]

Of course not Jess. Welcome!

Are you ttc on your own or using anything right away?

 

[Betty.Rubble]

Welcome Jess

 

[StarGazerRose]

Thanks Sarah.
I think that I might temp better when my period gets here (after my last few pills of Provera) That way I can start on cycle day 1(ish). Right now it's kind of not important since I'm kinda past due since I only have a cycle with a pill.

Normally my dog doesn't bother me unless it's something random. (Hubby was doing something out of the norm that day so the dog was worried)


I was talking to my manager this weekend about his family and how he went through the same thing that i'm going through. It's actually amazing to have some one to confide in, especially in person! (Although he's a guy, it's nice to know how they feel about what we girls have to go through). He told me that they wasted 6 years on pills that did nothing, they tried injections and they did nothing. He said the best thing was the IVF.
I discussed with hubby about it and well... a confusing convo ... i can't remember the outcome of it cause we changed subjects so much, i don't think that we even came up with anything -- but we are for it if we need to. I basically have to exhaust this doctors recommendations before going that far. But i'm hoping that I don't need to look into it much farther.

I keep telling hubby that if they could give me the BC pill without the BC part of it, it would get my other hormones in check (it helps relieve the puffiness of my neck and face) plus whatever else i might need, and I think it would work.... but I don't think they make anything like that ...

 

[Betty.Rubble]

Gynae appointment on Thursday so only 3 sleeps to go! Will be on CD4 - if they prescribe me clomid will I be able to start it that late?

 

[krissie328]

Betty- Yes, many women start it on day 5.

Star- fx temping goes better when af arrives.

Afm, I am so nauseous today!! I don't know if it is the femara or what but I just don't feel well.

 

[May55]

Hey ladies...hope everyone has been doing great! havent been around a lot since my mc... wondering, whats everyones CM like before AF? I generally have non at all... today its like...insane lol. I feel this hasnt been the norm for me but i stopped tracking and i just cant think straight today :/ My little boy went to his very first day of school and i cried all morning.lol Time for a baby more than ever!

 

[krissie328]

May- mine varies from dry to ewcm. It is really crazy. Most of the time I would say dry to creamy though.

Is your lo in preschool? I am planning to send DS next year and I am already sad.

 

[May55]

yes preschool.. I have never spent a day without him in over 2 years because he has always went to my daycare lol. Just a wreck :/ and its full days uugh.

I have more CM right now than I do around the time i think i will Ov lol

 

[krissie328]

That sounds like a good sign. How many dpo are you?

 

[May55]

I think 10 dpo..MAYBE.. i cant say for sure because I have honestly done 0 tracking, since June when I had the mc I kind of just dropped it all :/ Based on previous cycles thats what I think and based on how i was feeling but it this could also be one of my out of control wacky cycles.

 

[jessthemess]

I'm TTCing with Clomid! Worked the first time so I'm hopeful it will work the second time! I'm CD8, and I take my Clomid CD2-6, probably won't ovulate till about CD21 haha got awhile to wait!

 

[KylasBaby]

Before AF my cm is usually creamy/ewcm and a LOT of it!

So I think being lazy and not exercising this past cycle has given me a thin lining...this was my third cycle on inositol. First two both gave me a 5 day period. 2 heavy days, a medium and 2 light. Both cycles the same. This cycle I had one heavy day one medium and the next 3 can't even be considered light. I wasn't even filling a regular tampon all day! First 2 cycles I was exercising. Maybe not regularly, but I got off my ass lol. This past cycle I was lazy and didn't exercise. So took dd out on the heat today for a 40 minute walk! Going to force myself to exercise again.

It's hard now as school is back in session so we will have more kids in daycare now as all the teachers are back in school. So I really can't sneak away when the kids go down for naps and take dd for a walk as there will be more babies up. So it'll have to be after dd goes to bed at 8. And by that time I'm so tired and don't want to. At all. But I'll force myself to this cycle and see if it seems to help my lining at all.

 

[StarGazerRose]

I'm on my 9th day of Provera and normally I start 1 or 3 days after the last pill. And my CM has been dry, creamy, kinda wet (?) random one of the bunch.
(Minus that I've only been tracking since earlier this month so my knowledge is a little iffy)

I'm kinda getting excited (but trying not to get too high-hopes). I start my Letrozol in a few days!!! I'm eager to see if this works.

 

[krissie328]

I am on Letrozole this cycle so we should be close Star. I am finding it similar to clomid in that I'm having bad night sweats. But as far as I understand I shouldn't have the emotional side effects.

Kylas- I need to make an effort to be more active as well. I have an office job so sometimes it's hard to get up and go.

 

[StarGazerRose]

I don't recall any side affects, from the past few times I've taken it. But I am going to be starting 5mg, so I don't know if I'll have any reaction. I've never noticed an emotional change -- only the normal AF moodiness since I take it during 3-7 days.