Someone help me figure out when is CD1?

[BeachyFeelin]

My headache is gone!!!!!! YAY!! Thanks for suggesting Tylenol, I wasn't sure anything was safe to take. I found a small packet (must have gotten it as a sample while ago) and I feel like a functioning human being again. I'm stopping at the store on my way home to get a bottle, good to know I can take that while TTC. I still woke up a couple times last night, but the last time I woke up was a little after 2AM, so when my alarm went off at 5AM I felt like I had a good amount of sleep.....of course this morning I could have slept in till 6AM, but I forgot to reset my alarm!! :/

I'm still coughing a bit, and have a little runny nose. But other then that I have zero other symptoms. And I'm 11DPO today (or 9DPO depending on real O date). I keep wondering if I'm nauseous, but it's not intense enough to really notice. My boobs don't hurt, nothing. I have had a cold before in the TWW and not ended up pregnant, so I'm not taking my sniffles as a pregnancy sign this time around.

I had what I thought was watery cm yesterday (had it a few days ago too) and of course every other women I found through Google said they had that the cycle they got their BFP. I'm really frustrated with this whole CM thing, I just feel like mine isn't the textbook kind and it's REALLY hard to figure out what to record as.

Temp is still up, although lower than yesterday. I think yesterday was just a fluke temp from not sleeping at all and being so under the weather. I hate having such a long LP....I am NOT a patient person and this has been the longest TWW of my life!!

BabyCleo - if you had a positive on the 14th I would assume you O'd the 15th so the 16th would be 1DPO....not everyone is different, but that's the pattern I've seen. A couple cycles ago when I was using OPK's FF had be O'ing the same day I got my positive. So unless you temp as well, it's a guessing game :/

 

[BabyCleo]

Ah, well that makes sense, as i took the opk on the 14th in the afternoon, it was positive. I had pains the morning of the 15th, an the afternoon of the 15th (with like a 6 hour hold, i was at the mall) it was neg. So i must have o'd the morning of the 15th.

Well i hope you get your bfp, i hope we all do!! You never know. I keep thinking i have light cramps and belly button pains but i think im just driving myself crazy, dosent help everyone tells me preseed gets them pregnant right away. I need to distract myself!

 

[AnonymousCAT]

I agree with Beachy - the only way to confirm which day you o'd is to temp (and I'll tell you, even right now THAT's confusing lol). The cycle I got pregnant I had o pain the day before my temp says I ovulated. So I'm not sure if that is a pattern for me or not as the first cycle I temped was the cycle I got pregnant. Trying to learn more about myself with this temping thing, but really hoping I get BFP instead!

I'm pretty sure my cold is not a pregnancy sign. It's just a bad cold. In the TWW when I got pregnant before I had a running nose on/off and stuffy at night but it never amounted to anything... with no sore throat etc. My main cold symptom right now is my sore throat and mucus... so just a cold I think.

Beachy - yay for headache being gone!!

I'm still having ovary twinges. But that could be nothing. So confused. The underside of my left breast is definitely sore compared to the right, but not a lot and only if I push on it. Could just be o symptoms though due to increased progesterone. Unless it gets really strong, I'm skeptical and think it is just wishful thinking.

My cm has been doing weird things too! I have no idea how to chart today's - ewcm but thicker and on the light side this am, then more sticky like midmorning, then lunch it was more creamy/watery again... so confused!

If my temp is high again tomorrow around the 37.00 mark it will be the 3rd day of that high a temp. I am wondering what ff will do, it may shift my o date to CD19. Will have to wait and see. It will either be that, or I have a crazy triphasic chart going on.

 

[BeachyFeelin]

Don't you just hate the wait wondering when FF will add cross hairs?? It's the worst!!

I think you are supposed to take your most fertile CM and record that. So I'm guessing unless that thick white stuff was EWCM, you should record the watery CM.

I just got myself all bummed out because all morning I've read that tons of women have gotten a BFP the cycle they had a lot of watery CM after ovulation (have had more today). Then I went to check out charts on FF and pretty much none of them had watery CM after O, but creamy. GRR

I'm starting to feel stupid for thinking I might be pregnant I hate that feeling.....it makes seeing a BFN that much harder!

 

[BabyCleo]

I know, i too have hit the frustrated point. I hate being 4dpo, Im going to wait till 7dpo to test at the earliest, if i HAVE to pee on something.

Im watching 19 kids and counting and they visited the nicu and im like, bawling lol.

 

[BeachyFeelin]

I'm at work - but it's pretty slow for me at the moment so I'm getting into the Bates Motel on Netflix...it's actually good...I didn't expect to like it since I'm more into those stupid reality shows! Haha

I think I'm seeing things...I just went to the restroom and checked externally for CM, when I put it on the toilet paper I could have sworn it had some brown tinge to it. It was watery but a tad cloudy white. Am I crazy?? It was so light I could hardly notice. I think I'm searching for symptoms!! I'm starting to feel nauseous but I feel like that could be because since breakfast I've eaten a bag of jalapeno Cheetos from the vending machine and a handful of almonds! Haha

I have the best diet! I was hungry and didn't want a part of my boring healthy lunch!

 

[BabyCleo]

Ive been meaning to watch that... it looks really good and i looooved Psycho. I keep thinking i have cramps. Weirdest thing happened... i was cleaning (im on the first floor apartment, i cant wait to get my own place) and i get a woman banging on my side door, i open it up and shes begging me to take my empties!! The guys had a party as you know so there are quite a few, they were going to send them in for the refund when they got back. I told her they werent mine but my roomies, so im sorry i couldnt give them to her and she got angry cause she wanted to take them back so she could buy some smokes. She the told me she would give me a pack of smokes (i dont smoke) and i said that i didnt smoke and she actually got furious. like, WTF.

 

[BeachyFeelin]

WTH?!?! Is she one of your neighbors?? That is so crazy and would totally freak me out. Make sure you keep that door locked!

Now I have myself in a tissy and want to pick up some cheap HPT's at the store tonight. Oh lord....I'm in for a long next few days!

 

[BabyCleo]

I locked the door and ive been watching. If she comes back Im calling to cops. I have no idea who she is, but i noticed her walking RIGHT up to the door, its not like she just noticed and back tracked... she had been watching me!!

hey, at least your at a more decent spot to test, im 4dpo and biting my nails!!! Pick up a few cheap ones and test tomorrow (I know, im an enabler)

 

[BeachyFeelin]

That's just creepy!!! i'm sorry

I will test tomorrow with a cheapy....I'll be 12DPO, but AF not due till the 24th or 26th!

I need to just remind myself that even if it is negative, it could still be too early for me!

4DPO I was already symptom spotting like crazy!!

 

[AnonymousCAT]

BabyCleo - that's so weird about that woman. Sketch-y.

Beechy - when I was pregnant I had a lot of cm! I don't remember if it was watery, I think it was more creamy. But there was definitely a lot. I'd still wait to test if you can! I know it's hard. Likely still too early though.

 

[BabyCleo]

I hate living on the first floor. lol.

Im having light cramps and unpleasantness in my lower tummy. Could be my mind. I am beyond impatient. I think as long as you know its still early, and you dont mind possibly getting a false negative id go ahead and test. If I tested at 7dpo and I got a BFN, Im okay knowing that may not be it. Of course seeing a bfp at 7po is of course a much better option lol.

 

[AnonymousCAT]

Lol to each their own. I'm just cheap and hpts are expensive!! Who am I kidding, if they were free, I'd be POAS every day haha

 

[BabyCleo]

Did you check dollarama? They have them for $1.25.

 

[AnonymousCAT]

Haha! Ya! When I bought some opks I picked up a couple of hpts from the dollar store too. But I'm not sure how accurate they will be for early testing. It's unfortunate the ones you need to use to show an early positive are the expensive ones...

 

[BabyCleo]

With my MC 2 years ago I got my bfp from it. Ive seen other women get even the early bfps, but then again they do come with stronger evaps, so just dont look after 5 min

 

[AnonymousCAT]

Sorry for your loss. Does it get easier as time goes by? I am still a little raw from my mc. Do you know how many dpo you were when you got your bfp? Good to know about the evaps!

 

[BabyCleo]

Mine was actually a surprise, but i waited one week late before i tested. It was about 6 days after expected AF. Afterwards it was very very hard, of course being the initial freak out of "omg im pregnant what do i do i live in an apartment the size of a shoebox with my boyfriend and my mother will murder me" to the really being excited, to then the MC. I suffered severe anxiety attacks and PTSD for over a year after that.

I dont think it was just the MC that caused the anxiety disorders, ive had a hard life for only being 22. It was just the thing that made me snap i guess. But it does get easier. I wrote a letter to the baby in my diary, and that actually gave me closure. My letter just stated that I guess it was the wrong time, but i was ready for him/her again, etc etc. I couldnt write the letter right away, it came over time. It does get easier, One year after i lost the baby was a very hard day for me, as was the due date. I dont think about it now, i tell myself that I cant imagine what life would be like now, simply because for some unknown reason, it simply wasnt the right time.

You will move on, but it does take time. xox

 

[BeachyFeelin]

Babycleo...thanks for sharing that!

I stopped at Walmart on my way home and picked up a few of the 88 cent tests. They say you can test any time of day so I did one when I got home. Soooooooo negative

I know it's still early for me, but come on...so many other women get their bfp early! Why can't I get that lucky. Now I'm just thinking I'm out this cycle.

Sorry to be a downer...I just am getting so frustrated with all this!

 

[AnonymousCAT]

Thank you for your story. Sounds like you have had a rough time but that you are in a better place now. My brother actually just started having panic attacks on Fri and was in emerge on the weekend trying to get help to see a psychiatrist. They sound horrible and I'm not sure the best way to support him - he's still trying to figure everything out. He's had some physical health issues and has had to take a break from working. He has been off work for 1.5 years now and had to move back in with my parents. I think he's been dealing with anxiety and depression for a long time during that time, but he hasn't really acknowledged it until now. He thinks the anxiety comes from his physical problems, not the other way around. He's tried counselling and a lot of other things but he's still having health problems. I think his physical problems are coming from the anxiety though... I don't think he really gets that yet.

Anyways, It's always nice to hear that it's normal to feel the loss.