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[2016]

Titi...it is like I said yesterday...I think CD13 was your day with the CM shift and the temp pattern similar to previous months...perhaps you are just gonna have to wait it out!

 

[kstancook]

2016- didnt mean to piss you off. But Pretty Sakaru was taking pills and stopped this last cycle and got preggo!!!! wishing you the best of luck!!!

 

[Pretty Sakura]

Yep very true. Sometimes our bodies don't need our help. Sometimes we make things harder instead of easier. Hope it works for you!!

 

[2016]

kstancook...you didn't piss me off! Funny you are like the 4th person who has thought they have pissed me off today! I am so so sorry hun it must be the demon PMS in my tone!
In fact I have been kicking myself all day about messing around with mother nature. This is why, for this cycle if no other I am just going to see what my body wants to do. I am even thinking of ditching the opks and just getting busy when nature tells me to do so. Focussing less on trying to trick my body or alter my cycle and more on destressing and generally loving myself and trying to find the girl I lost back in August last year when I joined the TTC mad race.

Thanks to all you girls for your kind words, support and advice. It really makes a huge difference

 

[Pretty Sakura]

kstancook...you didn't piss me off! Funny you are like the 4th person who has thought they have pissed me off today! I am so so sorry hun it must be the demon PMS in my tone!
In fact I have been kicking myself all day about messing around with mother nature. This is why, for this cycle if no other I am just going to see what my body wants to do. I am even thinking of ditching the opks and just getting busy when nature tells me to do so. Focussing less on trying to trick my body or alter my cycle and more on destressing and generally loving myself and trying to find the girl I lost back in August last year when I joined the TTC mad race.

Thanks to all you girls for your kind words, support and advice. It really makes a huge difference

I hope you find that girl you lost before ttc!! Just remember to love yourself no matter what !! Hope doing nothing helps you make something special!!!

 

[Titi]

Titi...it is like I said yesterday...I think CD13 was your day with the CM shift and the temp pattern similar to previous months...perhaps you are just gonna have to wait it out!

Yeah, I guess. I just am confused as to why I had the three temp rises and no yet no crosshairs-and scared I didn't really OV. It's hard after a year of TTC #1, at my age, to worry that more things right be wrong.

 

[2016]

Hmmm your chart sure is confusing this month! I know what you mean tho I am getting worried it won't happen (without a fight anyway) and I am only on cycle 5!

I would say that if you have been going for a year without success and your cycles look pretty regular (excluding this odd one) and you have had well timed most cycles then go see your doc and get some initial tests done. It will put your mind at rest if nothing else.


I am going for CD3 bloods tomorrow...which will also technically be almost CD21 tests as well because I should have been 6dpo! Wish me luck girls!

 

[ThatGirl]

hi ladies pretty sure i o'd sometimes yesterday been having lots of ewcm and ov pain plus pos ov test but actually think we have decreases our chances of bfp this month...

 

[kstancook]

2016- Good Luck with bloods!!!!

 

[Titi]

yes 2016-good luck! What will it tell you?

 

[2016]

Thanks girls!

Titi...the tests are for
FSH, LH, prolactin, progesterone and estr:adiol.
Normally they are done on CD3 and CD21 to show hormone levels at the start of your cycle and mid luteal phase.
I was told to go on CD21 (actually CD29 in my case which is 7dpo but they are assuming all women ovulate on CD14 )...but of course I didn't make it that far! So I am going on CD3...which interestingly enough would also have been 6dpo if my cycle hadn't crapped out like that! Like a double whammy! Am I making sense hard to explain!

What they can tell (I have been Googling here so anyone feel free to correct me)

FSH and estradiol (oestrogen) levels show how hard your ovaries are having to work to produce eggs. The FSH gets higher as your egg reserve lowers as you approach menopause.
LH levels - high levels on CD3 can be a warning sign of PCOS?
Prolactin levels - if these are high that can also affect fertility (which is why breastfeeding is pretty good birth control!)
Progesterone - Shows if my progesterone level is in the normal range for 6/7 dpo...which I expect it won't be as I have already had my period but this will prove just how short my luteal phase was!!!

 

[ThatGirl]

posted in wrong thread oopps

 

[Titi]

Thanks 2016=that is REALLY helpful! I had some pre-ttc bloodwork done in 05/08 where they said everything was ok but you know I have no idea what this entailed-and since I don't think anyone asked where I was in my cycle sure it wasn't the same.

I think I should make an apt. to have this done. Can my GYN or midwife do it?

Also-really good luck 2016-I hope everything is okay and this is all just a fluke!

 

[2016]

Thanks 2016=that is REALLY helpful! I had some pre-ttc bloodwork done in 05/08 where they said everything was ok but you know I have no idea what this entailed-and since I don't think anyone asked where I was in my cycle sure it wasn't the same.

I think I should make an apt. to have this done. Can my GYN or midwife do it?

Also-really good luck 2016-I hope everything is okay and this is all just a fluke!

Not sure how it works in the states...I would guess any GYN or midwife could do them. x

 

[Titi]

Hello girls.

I finally got my crosshairs! Whohoo! Everyone that said CD13 was right. FF was waiting for a temp rise about coverline. Now it makes sense to me that it just needs the thermal shift to confirm the day before the 3 rises. What was confusing me is I thought if it was waiting for a temp higher than coverline than OV day would be three days before the HIGHEST temp and I know I wasn't fertile on day 15.
Sorry I was freaking out. It is just that my chart has been pretty regular and that has never happened. It seems after 13 whole cycles my body finds SOMETHING every single month to screw with me......I don't get it.

2016 Thanks for all the help. I will probably go ahead and call my midwife this week and set some stuff up. I have my FX'd for you that it is only good news!

 

[ThatGirl]

what do you think ladies pretty sure i o'd on cd17
and only two days after ov i have really sore breasts, eyes stinging like they did last time i was pregnant...
hope eveyone is ok x

 

[ablacketer]

how much of a temp drop is needed to be considered ID?

 

[ThatGirl]

not sure just a small dip i think, not all pregnant woment get it i think mine was about .2 last time i was pregnant

 

[ablacketer]

could my dip yesterday be ID?

 

[Titi]

Hi ablacketer-

I always get a dip around this time after my high post OV temps-I think it is called a fallback dip. Although yours does look nice going all the way down to coverline.

Fertility Friend did an analysis of all pregnancy charts with ID and the average was .3 degrees or more and occurred mostly between 6-12 dpo-if that helps.