**TTC with LLLOOOOOOOOOOOONG Cycles November**

[lilmom]

**TTC with LLLOOOOOOOOOOOONG Cycles November**


Our Lovely & Strong Ladies:


AGreenMum10 (29) TTC after 2 losses

Ayame87 (23) TTC #2
Bel718 TTC #1
cookie monster TTC #4
ItsUnfertility (27) TTC #1
karebear217 (Karey, 28) TTC #2 after a loss
kriket TTC #2
Ky Wildwood (33) TTC #2
lilmom (35) TTC #2
lonegirl (37) TTC #2
Mal85 (Mallory) TTC #2

Meeshi (35) TTC #1
OllieMama (Brittany, 27) TTC #2
rachelroo (27) TTC after a loss
sammypants (29) TTC #1
Sweet.Bee TTC #2
ZoeJane'sMommy (28) TTC #2

NOVEMBER BFPs:

Lauren2010
Ursusarctos


Our Group

This thread was set up for those of us who have really long cycles. No matter what the reason of your long cycles you are welcome here. It is hard to find other ladies that love to have the 2WW because it took them 3 months to get there. We are here to offer support and to listen to all your ranting. Please join our group and together we can get through the TTC without Oing together. If you would like to join just post Join Please in your title and add any information you would like next to your name like your chart or how many little ones you have. I hope we become a close family here.

Edited by lilmom - 11/30/10 at 7:11pm

[lilmom]

Ladies,
We are starting Nov. in a serious slump, since we had no BFP's in October. I am hoping that means Nov. is going to be an awesome month.

I know SweetBee's chart is looking awesome right now. Lauren? Anybody else 2ww?

Anybody want to update any info, be removed, announce anything? Let me know. At the beg. of Dec. I will remove those who haven't posted in 2 months. So give us an update if you want to be on the list girls. ZJM, I will not remove you though, I know you are taking a break and will be back eventually if you don't get your bfp first!

Let's see how many of us are going to be giving thanks for a bfp before Thanksgiving! COME ON NOVEMBER BFPs!!!!

[AGreenMum10]

I need some help...

I'm still in for Nov! But I need some Chart Help first...

This is my first entire month charting Temps, before I just looked at CM signs etc... now I'm trying it all temps, cm, etc.... But I have not have a steady rise in temps post O..... I'm feeling crampy, had a bright red spot this morning and according to the chart 6 DPO... but the temp is going down... But I have to admitt I was getting up on the mornings before I O and going pee then taking my temp... oups.... so the temps there might be under 97.0 instead of above.... Help! I think I'm pretty "cold" temped too... Here's my Chart, let me know if this works... Not sure how to share these!
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/ttc/c...dule.php?cd=22
I am still hopping that on 11/17/10 I can test and find out that I'm just pregnant and I don't know how to chart!

but let me know what you think... I need some insight from people that chart too....
Thank you ladies... XO

[Lauren2010]

My temps are still up: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2b5a16

AGreenMum- I can't open your link. Try going to her fertility friend page, click sharing (on the left hand side), home page set up, then it'll show your weblink. Getting up before taking your temp will have an effect, it'll raise your temp. Try taking your temp before moving much. Are you taking it about the same time too? I set an alarm on weekends for the same time I wake up on weekdays, take my temp then go back to sleep if I want to. But we'll keep our fingers crossed for you that this is the month!

[AGreenMum10]

http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/31e541

I think I figured it out, thanks Lilmom!!

Also too just went to the bathroom and I had a little bright red spot..... Could I have implation bleeding?

[ursusarctos]

Lauren, your chart looks good! Yay!

AGreenMum, hmm, I'm not a chart expert but if you were getting up before temping that could account for the high temps you had and why they now seem to be falling. That would be my bet if your luteal phase is normally average length. Ooor maybe you are just having an implantation dip! Or perhaps you are having an ovulation dip with o spotting?

[Bel718]

Wish I could help with chart explanations ladies, but I am only 2 days into temping. I am keeping my fingers crossed for you!

AFM - CD9 and started OPK today in addition to temping. Hoping this cycle is under 80 days.

Lets have some BFPs this month!

[Sweet.Bee]

Lauren2010, nice chart! We're around the same DPO.

AGreenMum10, getting up before taking your temp is supposed to affect the reading. It doesn't really so much for me; I'm more affected by the time I take my temp. I would do it before getting out of bed, though, just to be safe. Assuming you don't have a toddler often calling for your attention early in the morning, as I do.


As for me, my temp wasn't as high this morning as the previous 2, but it's still well above my first week of post-O temps. I've never had a triphasic chart, assuming that's what this cycle's turns out to be. So maybe it's a sign?

[Lauren2010]

AGreenMum- it definitely looks like you had a temp jump with your positive opk, so that looks good. Maybe it is an implantation dip? You'll have to see if it comes back up or not. It'll take you a few cycles charting to see what's normal for you...although maybe you won't have to keep it up if this is your month!

Yay Sweetbee! Hope it is a sign that your chart's triphasic! Any other symptoms? My boobs are crazy sore...actually they have been sore since ovulation. But I haven't ovulated on my own since Jan so I kinda forgot if that's normal or not!

[Sweet.Bee]

Originally Posted by Lauren2010

Yay Sweetbee! Hope it is a sign that your chart's triphasic! Any other symptoms? My boobs are crazy sore...actually they have been sore since ovulation. But I haven't ovulated on my own since Jan so I kinda forgot if that's normal or not!

Hmm, symptoms. Well, the new one this cycle (besides my nice chart) is the lack of "implantation pain". Well, that's what I've called it every cycle, this sharp twinge in my uterus ~7DPO. Obviously, it wasn't implantation all those times. Instead, I've had this heavy feeling.

As for boobs, mine are always sensitive around and after O. I seem to remember they were even more sensitive during pregnancy, but I don't remember when that started. Early though. That and constant peeing.

[lilmom]

AGreenMum I don't know, hard to say if you haven't been temping at the same time, and have been getting up and then temping. For me, getting up makes a huge difference in my temp. But I'll keep hoping for you!

Lauren Your chart looks awesome!!! Also, I always have sore boobs for ovulation and afterward until AF shows, but I also had that when pg with DS.

SweetBee FWIW, my old acupuncturist said that heavy feeling is good. When I was pg with DS she would say, "do you feel heavy in there?" And actually, I didn't, but supposedly that is a pregnancy symptom! And I hope your chart is triphasic and that this is your cycle!

Bel I hope your cycle is under 80 days too! At this rate, mine might be. Still no O in sight, no AF, and temps are super low. Maybe the OPKs will help you out!

[ursusarctos]

Go Bel, you are on that great hopeful part of your cycle now!

Oooh Lauren and SweetBee, symptoms! I have also heard that the "heavy" feeling is a sign. To add one more boob pain anecdote to our scientific study here, I get it post o too, though it's always really subtle until a few days after. Maybe more boob pain earlier = more hormones?!

Lilmom, we are almost cycle buddies - I am now on day 40, with crazy low temps and no o. Woohoo!

[lilmom]

Ok girls, I am having my wisdom teeth out tomorrow, so I will probably not be on for a couple of days at least. I guess it's possible, but I doubt it. So, if anyone requests to be added, please don't be disheartened if it takes me a little while.

Now, if it's a week from now and still nothing, I guess that means that ttc did not kill me but wisdom tooth surgery did! J/K! (Ok, I hope I am kidding anyway)

Best wishes everybody!

And ursusarctos, I hope we both O soon..although for me I hope it is post recovery! : )

[Lauren2010]

Good luck lilmom! Hope the surgery is easy for you & you don't have too much swelling afterwards!

I'm heading out of town, so I'll be off this weekend too as I wait and see if my temps drop & AF comes, or if maybe I can test by the end of the weekend or Monday...hope everyone has a great weekend!

[Sweet.Bee]

lilmom, good luck with the surgery (and with ovulating once you've recovered )! I'm so glad they gave you an appointment so soon. I had to wait 2 months for an open slot, and I was hurting most of that time.

Lauren2010, have a fun weekend, and bring back some good news, ok?


As for me, 12DPO (give or take a day). I'm still waiting it out. My temp was a bit higher this morning and so far no spotting. I want to test Monday. Well, actually, I want to test now, but I have no tests.

Oh, and speaking of symptoms, I forgot one. I've been breaking out like a 13-year-old for the past week. Maybe it's a symptom, or maybe it's just the changing weather.

I also have cold symptoms, but that's, um, due to the cold I picked up from our son. So, I guess that doesn't count as a pregnancy sign. It's not so bad, and I'm just happy it's not around O time yet again. Seriously, it takes me forever to ovulate, and then we had like 3 cycles in a row where one of us was sick right then.

Hoping, hoping, hoping. 'til the bloody end, which had better not ever show!

[ursusarctos]

lilmom, I hope it goes well! Great that you got to get it out of the way so soon.

Lauren2010 and SweetBee, for relaxing during the end of your 2ww and getting BFPs!!!

I am thinking of trying maca. It seems to be everywhere over here and it sounds like it might be a good herb for me anyway, as it's supposed to be good for adrenal issues, which I think I have (and I think they are related to my long cycles). Anyway, it can't hurt, right? At least it sounds pretty harmless. Anybody else tried it?

[Sweet.Bee]

Back to CD1. Back to waiting to O.

For cycle #7, I'm hoping to try soy isoflavones, assuming my order gets delivered in time. Then continuing with the cranberry juice and fertility yoga, plus moderate exercise. Oh, and my B-complex vitamin, though I bought it mostly for the folic acid.

Good luck to Lauren2010 and anyone else waiting to know. Ovulation vibes for all of the rest of us!

[Bel718]

Sweet.Bee

Sending O vibes to everyone as well!

[Lauren2010]

Sweetbee, I'm so sorry. Your chart was looking so good!

Hope you are feeling ok after the surgery lilmom!

I tested yesterday- first response rapid result (cause I meant to buy a FRER but picked up the wrong box...) and there was the faintest line during the 10 min time window. Now it's clear as day, but it was so faint when it first appeared. So I'm going to buy another test then take it tomorrow morning. Here's my chart:
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2b5a16

I thought I'd be more excited, but instead I'm nervous! I guess I read too many people's stories about chemical pregnancies and miscarriages. Oh, and I got my test results back from the progesterone levels taken on day 21 (3DPO)- 7.7. The doctor thought that was too low, they like to see at least 15 on a medicated cycle. Then I brought up that I had tried to get them to do the blood work later, since they did it at 3dpo. She said it might have been done too early. So frustrating! So I'll be calling a new doctor if I do get a positive tomorrow.

[ursusarctos]

Awww, SweetBee, I'm so sorry!

Lauren, woohoo! Your chart looks great, for a nice clear bfp tomorrow! How annoying about the bloodwork. I don't know anything about progesterone levels but it would seem to make sense if they were low so soon after you ovulated.

I'm STILL waiting to O Sigh. I'm starting to think that watching for it is preventing it from happening. At this point I just want to O so I can start a new cycle and get some herbs from my acupuncturist. Come on universe! I'm not even asking to be pregnant this time around!

How are you doing lilmom?