positive opk @ 8dpo...HELP!!!

[mzswizz]

hey ladies

AFM, today I am cd33 and AF is still a no show. The general surgery office called me this morning and I am scheduled to get a consultation tomorrow at 10:30am. They will explain the procedure etc and schedule a surgery date. I have talked to my manager at my job about it and she said that I will be out for 6-8 weeks with that kind of surgery. Good..I need a break from that job Also, my dad was saying that I will get pregnant right after the surgery because that's what happened to my mom. My mom had surgery for a hernia and ended up conceiving my sister. Im hoping he is right. Maybe this surgery will give my body enough time to adjust and relax before we can start trying. And dh does want to try and doesn't care about his deployment anymore. As a matter of fact, the deployment will be perfect because he will be able to provide enough for me to manage with a baby while he is away Im pretty sure everything will be fine. This will be my first ever surgery so atleast if I ever do get pregnant, I don't have to freak out about a C-section because I will have had this surgery prior So all in all everything works out.

 

[L.E.]

MzSwizz... Either I missed it or you didn't really say. Is your bulge a hernia? Glad you and DH are going full swing with ttc and that you conceive after surgery. I hope the surgery is a success and you aren't in too much pain after and recover quickly... and that you have good nurses. When I had my gallbladder out the nurses weren't so great. That makes a big difference... you know, like giving you pain meds, etc. ha...my nurses didn't give me any pain meds overnight the night after surgery and I was basically begging for them for 1.5 hrs before I got meds. Anyway. Rant over. I think most nurses are wonderful and I hope you get some like that.

 

[mzswizz]

Yes the bulge ended up being a hernia. And it is a same day surgery so after the surgery they just watch me for a hour to make sure everything is fine and if everything is okay then I go home the same day. He said a week after the surgery I can start running if I wanted I just cant do any lifting for 6 weeks.

AFM, im on cd34 today and still no AF yet. Well today I went to the speak with the surgeon and my surgery is scheduled for the 16th so in 4 days Im happy that it's soon but then again..I am a little nervous seeing this is my first surgery ever. But im sure everything will be fine. Well that's all I have for now.

 

[L.E.]

If it's an outpatient surgery then it's probably not going to be too bad. Everyone's different so it's hard to say. Strangely, my gallbladder surgery was way more painful than the c-section. Now I have a friend who said the c-section was more painful than the gallbladder removal, so it all depends. Hopefully yours isn't very painful afterwards... but be sure to take pain meds, even if it's ibuprofen for at least the first few days afterwards- and keep it in your system. It's so much easier that way. Once you're hurting, it doesn't kick in so quickly. . I try not to take pain meds so I think I took 800 mg of ibuprofen after my c-section and the gallbladder, though I may have had vicodin a couple of times after the gallbladder... well of course I had those stones stuck after surgery and had attacks again, so otherwise I think it was just ibuprofen.

Well I went to the Dollar Store tonight. I went there for foil and a couple opks and ended up spending $26! I'm talented lol. So I bought 3 opks and I just took one and it is very light and negative. Boo!! Things were seeming fertile today, but I'm only CD16 and 25 is the earliest I've O'd so I shouldn't be expecting anything this early (or at all). I probably shouldn't have bought the opks at all, but I only bought 3 and I thought that was pretty good.

 

[mzswizz]

I cant wait for your bfp L.E. And trust me im going to make sure I take the pain meds because I can only tolerate a certain amount of pain.

AFM, im cd36 today and still no sign of AF. I know im not pregnant though because I took a test and it came back negative so im pretty sure its just my body finally being back to normal. They said it only takes a few days for the pill to exit my body so it should be gone by now. I have my pre-op appt. tomorrow morning and then its the surgery on Tuesday. Im ready for this to be done because I've read good reviews of being able to get pregnant after getting the hernia surgery so im hoping this is what has exactly been stopping me so that when its fixed...I can finally conceive but only time will tell.

 

[L.E.]

Hope your surgery went well, MzSwizz!

 

[L.E.]

Took my last of the 3 opks... negative of course. Trying to keep my mind off of it, but also temping and sort of keeping an eye on cm and cp... I don't think I'm very good at deciding what those are still lol. Like the last time I O'd I thought my cp was medium and firm and closed and creamy, so either I don't know anything, or it was high and soft for only a little and I missed it. So this time I'm being a little more lenient and if it's not thick and/or dry feeling, I'm considering it fertile. Better safe than sorry, and it's been 8 months since I O'd (wow I shouldn't have figured that up... it's depressing)... and I don't want to miss it if I do happen to O again. I took my temp late the past two days...first one was 1 hour past normal, and the second one was 2 hours past normal and they were all the same... so I don't know if they were all taken at normal time if my temp would be trending downward or not. I'm going to set 2 alarms for tomorrow so I can't turn the first off and go to sleep. The issue is that my cell phone that I set doesn't have a snooze. If you hit the side button, it just turns it off. The phone DH takes has the snooze. I like that so much better, but the one I use is just an old one with no service that I use just for the time and alarm, so it has to be this way for now... Or I suppose I could move my "real" alarm by the bed and use that one, but that would make too much sense lol.

 

[mzswizz]

Im going to start temping soon. Seems like that's the easiest to me

AFM, im on cd2 today. AF decided to come the day of the surgery. But the surgery went well. I been home since yesterday and DH has been taking care of me. Im feeling a little better but still sore. I will be on here from time to time but not as often because im trying to recover.

 

[L.E.]

How are you feeling now, MzSwizz? Our group has gotten so quiet. Haven't heard from Stacey in forever and Fngrs too!!

Fertility-wise, nothing new to note. I thought maybe I was going to O the other day, but I guess that didn't happen.

My aunt passed away somewhat unexpectedly Thursday, so I've just been feeling tired and deflated. She didn't want a funeral, but we got to say our goodbyes before the funeral home came and took her. She was only 59, and my mom's best friend. Now my mom has lost all 3 of her siblings and both parents. I can't imagine. Anyway, the family seems to be doing well, that's just what's going on with me right now. I hope everyone is doing well.

 

[mzswizz]

sorry to hear that L.E. And im feeling much better. Been walking and all. I can barely feel the pain now

 

[mzswizz]

It's been quiet here. Where are all you ladies?

AFM, im cd12 and as you can tell by my chart...my temp dropped significantly. Since last night, I was having pain in my left ovary which is a first because every time I talked about ovary pain...it was always the right ovary. So I guess its a good sign. Hoping that means that the left ovary is finally working But yes, last night I started having sharp pains in my left ovary and now this morning, I took my temp and it was a big difference. DH and I dtd yesterday and pretty sure we are going to dtd today So if this is ovulation..we have our bases covered. Well that's it for now.

 

[L.E.]

Looks good, MzSwizz!! Mine dropped back down yesterday, but back to "normal" today. I was hoping for it to skyrocket. I'm sure tomorrow's temp will look like today's, but a girl can dream lol. I hope you O. I just found out that 2 Facebook friends are pregnant... blah. Actually 1 of them I'm pretty happy for. She had her first 2 pretty close together and I think they're 10 and 8, and she's finally pregnant with the 3rd. The other person took like 8 years to get pregnant with the 1st, but now she's pregnant with the 3rd (plus 1 adopted) and the first one is maybe 3, so now she'll have 4 kids that are 4 and under I think. So I'm just waiting for my turn. In the meantime, I'm just enjoying life with a 6 yr old, thinking about what we're going to do for homeschool this year, and planning something for our 11-yr anniversary that's 2 weeks away.

 

[mzswizz]

Congrats on your 11 year anniversary. Cant wait til I get there. And im hoping this means im o'ing today. If it is....im o'ing rather early and also this means that we have a chance at a bfp. And by looking at my other charts in which I o'd this is the lowest my temp has ever dropped. Usually it stays around 97 degrees but it went to 96 and this morning I was like huh But we will see how tomorrow's temp and the other 2 days temps are. Im hoping the skyrocket because if it does then I definitely o'd and dh and I would know if we have a bfp before he goes on detachment So hoping for the best. And wow he is 6 already?! Time flies don't it.

 

[L.E.]

Well it looks like we're both still waiting to O. . I'm starting to get a bit impatient, as our BD timing has been good this past week. With my long "cycles", it's not easy to keep the BDing up, so I really hope it happens soooon!

Yep time flies. DS isn't far from 7 already and that is crazy to me. 7 sounds old. He's a wonderful kid, though, and I love this age... but then again, I've loved all his ages. They've all been fun to me.

 

[mzswizz]

You're not the only one getting impatient. Im just hoping SOMETHING happens for us soon. And yes once my niece turned 7 I was like wow you're old But time really flies. One minute they are born and the next they are in school. Its like where did the time go.

AFM, im cd14 today and im almost half way through my cycle already. My temp is rising but it is still lower than the 3 or 4 temps I had after AF ended. I don't know if im gearing up for ovulation and its slowly going to happen or if im just going through the pre ov temps and this is just my normal temps before the actual ov. Hoping something happens before my doc appt. next week though. So atleast I can tell her if im o'ing or not. And we work from there. Im hoping to atleast ov and dh and I get a bfp from it but time will tell. DH and I had a long talk about children which was well needed I must say. DH told me that he really wants children and that there is nothing that's standing in our way from trying to get pregnant now. He is not making any excuses, he is not going to tell me to wait, he wants kids with me just as bad as I want children with him so he is definitely ready mentally. And that made me happy because I always felt like it was just me trying by myself but now he asks about how my temps look, do it looks like im ovulating, he lets me know if "inside" feels "different" or not....its like we are both communicating and are finally working together and Im happy about that now. So hoping a bfp comes. Whether its this cycle or me having to go through the medical team to get one...a bfp will come our way because we are ready for our little Navy Brats

 

[L.E.]

Not holding my breath, but I had a big drop yesterday then back up today. I'm sure it's a fluke. Of course DH didn't feel like BDing last night. Booo. So if O happened to take place yesterday, my BD times would be O-2, O-4, O-6, and hopefully O+1 (today)... all at night after midnight I think, so you could technically bump them forward 1 day. I just had a feeling like it happened but I've had that feeling many times to only be disappointed.

 

[mzswizz]

FXed for you L.E. Hoping that you do ov soon. Im in the same boat as you though

AFM, im on cd16 today and I haven't o'd still. And I just received a phone call from the doctor telling mye my ug. 7th apt is cancelled and is now rescheduled to Aug. 12th. Well atleast it gives me time to see if I ov this cycle or not. Im really hoping to ov before DH goes on detachment but we shall see what happens. Nothing else to report here.

 

[L.E.]

Can't tell anything yet from either of our charts. I will say this about mine... the last "set" of "W" cf was more milky, but it was thin, so I went ahead and marked it as W just to be safe. The past few days of "W" or EWCM have been legitimate, so I'm hoping O happened yesterday or will happen any day now. Another fail at Oing would be a bit depressing. I don't think I'll prolong this cycle too far. But then DS was conceived around CD70, so I always wait so long hoping for another miracle baby. :/

 

[mzswizz]

As far as my cycle goes, when I put the "E" its mostly stretchy but it has the milky look to it but since it was stretchy I just put the "E" Now it has just been creamy or sticky. I don't know whats going on with my body. Im hoping that I ov before DH goes on detachment..if not then I know for sure I will be awaiting AF arrival because he is going to be gone from the 7th-23rd so he'll most likely miss it.

 

[L.E.]

Maybe you're still gearing up. When I O'd in December, I had a fertile patch, then a couple days of definitely infertile, then to what I didn't even consider fertile (milky), then ovulation and back to infertile.

For me, today was my highest temp this cycle. It was taken late, but so have a lot of my other temps. Starting yesterday (early afternoon I think) I've been feeling a bit hot in my face. Last night my evening temps were higher than usual... and actually the night before they were a little bit higher than usual too. I was surprised yesterday morning's temp was lower than the day before. I actually thought if I O'd it would've been CD34, but if my temp keeps going up, FF will say CD36 and I couldn't exactly argue with that either. If I O'd I'll be a little irritated, since we haven't BD since CD32 (technically CD33 since it was 2:30 a.m.) and I tried to BD on CD34 and 35 without reciprocation. Boooo. So we'll see. It's probably just a fluke temp.