Queer TTC January 2009 - Page 5

[JennM1021]

W&H...I'm so very very sorry for your loss. Please take care of yourself.

[katharinerose]

Oh, wishin'&hopin' . I'm so terribly sorry. Take care and may healing come quickly.

[starling&diesel]

wishin'&hopin'...
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no .... I am just so sorry for your loss.
This is just so, so sad. Please be gentle with yourselves ...
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[AngelaM]

wishin'&hopin'- i am so very sorry. take good care of each other, and know that we are all here for you.

[carmen358]

Originally Posted by pookafaye

I have so much sympathy for everyone who has been struggling for so long. It's actually making me overwhelmed before I've even had my first try.


To answer Indigo's question, there's some rheumatoid arthritis in the family but my other symptoms don't seem to line up with that. I'm really glad I don't have to put off TTC while we get more results.

We met our RA on Thurs and we -really- like here She insisted that I shouldn't have anything to worry about and we've scheduled various preliminary tests so that we can try next cycle..

So I'm starting to get impatient with my ovulation tracking. At first it was complicated by loosing my thermometer and having to buy a new one. Then I discovered that the new one doesn't store your temp for the next time you turn it on and constantly displays 97.7 which gave me a few days of bad data. Now though I should be done ovulating Fri but my temp hasn't risen much, there was still ferning in my saliva, and I had a relatively positive OPK yesterday. I'll check my saliva again today and poas stick too. Hopefully the signs will be more clear but I worry that my O will be hard to pin down and we'll time things poorly. Any thoughts on my :?

I hope everyone is feeling more positive today

Based on your chart, I'd say you did indeed O on CD22. Some people's temps rise really abruptly after O but sometimes it's more gradual. That's how it often is for me. I get one slightly higher and then it goes up again and again. You will likely start to see a trend after a few cycles and that may just be normal for you. Then again, I hope you don't have to chart for very long and can catch it asap.

[Scalpel]

wishin&hopin you are in thoughts and prayers....
i also hope everyone else feeling blue can find some happiness and peace. I am financial drained after the past 2 weeks. My insurance sucks....4 ultrasounds at 380 a pop not to mention the menopur and ganirelix and labs .....on a happy note I will be inseminated on thursday with the lone vial as I call it : I hope my follicles can get up to at least 19mm by then, they are 16mm today and I have to get 2 more vials of menopur and the trigger after work and its a blizzard outside:

[astropeep]

Oh, W&H, my wife and I are so sorry for your loss!

[DM630]

Wishin' & Hopin' I am so sorry for your loss. Take good care of yourself. You are in my thoughts.

[indigoscot]

scalpel, best of luck with your lone vial, i really hope it works for you!!!! and i hope the weather co-operated so you got your meds.

dp reported pre-ewcm last night and we are only on cd7/8! i wonder if the metformin is working already? surely it's too early for that! we won't be poas for the cbem until probably thursday so there's no way of knowing what status her fertility is until then. ever the optimist, i hope it's a good sign. my af started last night - my first 26 day cycle in forever!

g

[katharinerose]

Scalpel,much luck! May you not have to pay for TTC ultrasounds again!

I'm hanging around twiddling thumbs, etc. waiting for my period to start. Should be in the next day or two. I'm debating whether to start taking Vitex again. I took it for a couple months last Spring, and while it did give me nice 28 day cycles, I still ovulated on CD19-22! So the whole point of hopefully lengthening my LP was negated. My "average" LP, according to FertilityFriend, is 10 days, which concerns me. But while I hadn't been temping well (at all) the past few months, my cycles have been longer of late, and I'm pretty sure I've still be o'ing around CD20. I got my fertility lens in the mail yesterday (along with the bulk pack of OPK's) so I'm looking forward to playing with that too.

[pleasantlyfurious]

W&H - I'm so so so sorry.

[FtMPapa]

Katharinerose - I had two ten day LPs in a row, and I freaked out a bit, and got started on a B vitamin complex supplement I picked up at Trader Joe's and evening primrose oil (EPO) - also at TJ's, easy to find.

It's done wonders, and I've had nice, strong, 14 day LPs since. The change was immediate, the cycle I started it, it worked. I think I was already taking Vitex, which I still take.

(Actually, right now, I can't remember if the EPO was to help my LP or only my CM. My CM is better too, so something is working!)

I take 1 B complex vitamin once a day, and I take the EPO 3X/day.


AFM - I'm finally almost done bleeding. I might not be around a whole lot for the next week or so, not only is it the boring follicular phase, but I'm going on a little roadtrip home to Canada for a few days.

I'm slightly worried about missing the egg this cycle, I'm planning to come home next Monday, which is CD 14, but I usually end up coming home a day late, so that's CD 15, but I don't know that I've ever Oed before CD 15, so I'm not that worried.

Donor boy is likely moving in July, when his contract ends, which would mark twelve cycles of our TTC efforts. I'm definitely going to end up with an RE if I'm not pregnant before that. I think this is my last "let's see" cycle, because the next couple of cycles would be really, really good for timing around my academic calendar, so I can maximize my time off. A mid-December baby would be WONDERFUL. I have all of January off every year, so I could take the next semester off, with partial pay, thanks to my fellowship, and not go back until September.

Indigo - I think EWCMish on CD 8 is actually pretty common. Someone, somewhere told me that CD 8 "oops" babies are really common among people using FAM to try to avoid.

Hopefully this is a very good sign for y'all!

Will you still have to sit this cycle out even if things look good?

[indigoscot]

papa, yay for a road trip! i actually have relatives in canada - my mum's cousins and their extended family - who i have never met! they emigrated back in the 50s before i was even a twinkle in my daddy's eye. i think they live in and around nobleton, ontario. fx that you are back in the states for egg day.

and yes, we still have to sit out january due to the tsh level, plus we need to check on the polyp position and size. so all said, i'm ok with the bench time. if dp's ovulation improves in the meantime, all the better for our next try! our re said that she wished metformin was in the tap water because she sees pcos so much. friday is shg day and i'm going along in case we get bad news (most likely that the polyp requires surgery) and so i can hear all the details in person (dp has a habit of misinterpreting what the doctor tells her).

g

[wazzmum]

Hi Everyone!

I am sending sticky baby vibes to everyone trying this month! I think about all of you who are trying and hope you get the BFP soon!

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W&H - I am sorry to hear about your loss.

[carmen358]

Scalpel, F/X for you on Thursday! Good luck!!

I finally heard from KD and everything is fine He was "on deck" for 3 days he said and when he didn't hear from me he took off on vacation until yesterday. It's funny because DP called me at work earlier today and asked if I'd heard from him because she had a feeling I would. An hour later I did. She's good! lol Anyway, I'm extremely relieved and we are all set up to try again the first week of February!

I can't wait for more people on here to get back into the TWW!!

[katharinerose]

Papa: I may try the B complex (although the TJ's prenatal's I'm on seem to have quite a bit already?). And funny, we'll be in Canada this weekend, too, on a pre-TTC mini-vacay to Niagara (I've never been). Yea Canada! Although I'm wondering about the sanity for trying to visit a huge waterfall in sub-zero temperatures:... If nothing else, our room has a jacuzzi tub and a fireplace.

Indigoscot: I hope everything turns out fine at the appointment, and no surgery is required.

Carmen: So glad to hear your KD is back and not lying in a ditch somewhere!

[carmen358]

Originally Posted by katharinerose

Carmen: So glad to hear your KD is back and not lying in a ditch somewhere!

lol, thanks

I'm heading out of Canada this weekend - going south for some sun in Vegas for the weekend.

[katharinerose]

Originally Posted by carmen358

lol, thanks

I'm heading out of Canada this weekend - going south for some sun in Vegas for the weekend.

See, that's a much saner idea. I toyed with hoping a flight to Cancun, but it was just too expensive for this weekend. So we're spending Thursday and Friday night in Northampton, MA and Sat and Sun at Niagara. I'm packing all my wool socks!

[indigoscot]

carmen, glad your kd is ok! everyone enjoy their trips! i'm trying to save all of my 3 weeks for potential "non-bio mum" maternity leave - assuming of course that we actually do have a 2009 baby.

g

[Hulahoop]

TTC frustration--just have to vent

We TTC'd for four months last fall with no luck. Then we stopped while we moved out of state. Just started this fall again. I'm about to start my fifth cycle (ninth cycle total) and I'm about to lose my mind.

What's making me crazy is that every doctor has said I have great eggs for my age (37). I always have mature follicles and a good lining at the ultrasound. ALL my tests come back normal. I've never missed a period, and they're reliably 28 days long. They all tell me it'll happen, there's no reason it wont', but here I am, still not pregnant. I have no idea what is going on or what to do. I tell myself that I should be grateful for all the positive things I just mentioned, but sometimes it feels worse to not have a REASON for not getting pregnant.

I know it doesn't help to compare yourself to others, but a friend of mine is three years older than me AND had surgery for fibroids and got pregnant the fourth time. And I'm still here trying....

I've been staying off the boards for my sanity, trying not to obsess as much as I did last year, when we first started TTCing, but I'm about to go in for the next IUI and I just had to reach out. Thanks for listening, and good luck everyone.