Here we go ladies. We were hanging out in Summer when we need to move on to the next season in our lives. May this one be filled with the fullness of harvest.
It would be great if many of you could post your charts on your profiles. I would love to snoop to see how you are doing, and how I compare with other 40-something charts.
I'm having a case of the Sunday blues. Better get my butt outside for some exercise - a run or the gym. Anyone care to join me?
I would love to join you. Well, I made it through my first week of working nights. It wasn't too bad. Dh and I even DTD when I got home Saturday morning. This weekend has been crazy though and I am coming into my O time. I am not temping there is no way I can with my crazy schedule. I am trying to use my saliva scope though and will check cm. Still taking Vitex just have to fit in bding with our crazy schedules.
Goodluck MSGB. How do you find your live donors?
Hi Laurie. Glad you made it thru your first week of nights. Doesn't sound like fun, but when we need to work, we've gotta do what we can.
I got my live donors off some yahoo group - free sperm donors - something like that. Spider pointed me in that direction some time ago.
I think I'm F'd this cycle (pardon my French). I'm not getting a temp rise, so I think I'm having an annovulatory cycle. And after going to such lengths with the donors. It's a huge bummer. HUGE. I'm very disappointed, to say the least. I hate that my cycles are no longer predictable. So now I guess it's just a wait and see game. Hopefully AF will show soon, rather than drag this thing out for another few weeks. I could use a big hug right now. (And a big temp rise!).
Ah, MsGB, here's a big hug -- or a few -- coming your direction.
Today dh leaves for the West Coast and tomorrow I follow with dd. We managed to DTD last night even though each of us was stressed and annoyed. But boy, it felt like work. Ugh.
My temps are wonky and look suspiciously like I O'd unusually early, on CD12, before I even started doing OPKs or anything. But I don't feel like I O'd, in fact, I feel very much like I'm gearing up to O. So I'm going to chalk it up to the time change and sleeplessness due to packing etc. Of course, another three-hour time change with the flight tomorrow isn't going to help matters! I hope to O before Sunday (very likely) which is when dh leaves for Japan.
A brief explanation of my chart history: both the 5-15 and 7-03 cycles were pregnancy ones; the first a miscarriage and the second ectopic. The next cycle after my surgery was annovulatory, and then there was a textbook cycle that went by without any BD (I hate to say that I followed my doctor's advice but I really didn't feel ready to TTC that cycle).
Hi massagin -- maybe we will O together and help populate a DDC in a couple of weeks!
I confess that I have yet to figure out how to post my chart!! Anyone want to help me?
Juneau I hope you get your business in before DH leaves for Japan!
Msgoodbuns, I am sorry your cycle is playing such tricks on you lately! Big hugs from me too.
AFM, I am 4 DPO and have nice high temps this early, just like the cycle I conceived DD. However, I am attributing that to the time change so we will see. We DTD, with PreSeed which we haven't used since my chemical cycle 2 months ago (bcause it got held up at Canada Customs!), on the day before and day of O. So i hope this was a month where we got a decent egg.
My online friend that I "found" again last week got a + HPT, very faint at 10 DPO on Saturday, I am waiting to hear if she tested again and did the line get darker. That would be funny yes? That we "lost" each other for 2 years and then found each other the cycle (hopefully both of us) got pregnant?
WTF????? this really screws things up with regard to DH's travel schedule, too, so this coming cycle might be a missed opportunity again....we'll see. Going for a follow-up acupuncture appointment tomorrow, then one more before Thanksgiving, too.
Oh Speedknitter that does stink. I hope the acupuncture helps. Well Dh and I managed to bd On cd9 and yesterday at cd11 I usually O around CD12 or 13. But it could have been yesterday because I got ferns on my scope.
Laurie, how long do you usually fern for? I usually have good ferns for a good 2 days anyway.
I am so tired today. My parents arrived to meet my little nephew Noah late last night. They are staying with us. My sister says they are too high maintenance to stay with her.
My temp was still good this morning at 5 DPO. Hard to believe in another week I will know whether we were successful this month. ican always tell by my temps by 12 DPO.
yes about 2 days typically but I did the scope in the afternoon so I am not sure. My workign nights schedule is kind of throwing things off. I temped when I got up today and it was 98.3 which is high for me. So maybe I did O yesterday.
I am 6 DPO today but my temps are trending down which is not making me that hopeful for this cycle even though my timing was PERFECT, we used PreSeed and I have lots fo creamy CM post-O (unusual for me but could be from all the supplements I took earlier this cycle to increase CM???)
My follow/up appointment at the fertility clinic is Nov 19th.
Originally Posted by veganmama719
OK, a little more optimistic today, temp was back up a bit.
How is everyone today, you're all so quiet!
I'm hanging in there, trying to stay on an even keel. My first post-miscarriage period is here, and I'm planning on trying again this cycle. Ovulation is probably three weeks out, given my general cycle length. I've got a real busy upcoming six weeks at school (working on my BA) so that'll be a good distraction.
Okay, I'm going to delurk because this is the thread I stalk almost daily. I just wanted to let all of you know someone out there is pulling for you and admires your bravery in just going for it. I'm almost 38 and have two great kids. I had infertility due to PCOS and feel so blessed, yet my secret heart's desire is to have a third child. Timing it would be best if I waited another year before trying, yet I am so filled with doubt about testing the fates healthwise, will I have the energy, etc. DH is not really on board either, although we play with fire on a regualr basis BCwise, I'm not on my metformin or vitex which I needed to get pregnant in the past.
Anyway, hoping for lots of BFP's soon, you ladies are wonderful.
Pamela
Originally Posted by socialworkmamma
Okay, I'm going to delurk because this is the thread I stalk almost daily. I just wanted to let all of you know someone out there is pulling for you and admires your bravery in just going for it. I'm almost 38 and have two great kids. I had infertility due to PCOS and feel so blessed, yet my secret heart's desire is to have a third child. Timing it would be best if I waited another year before trying, yet I am so filled with doubt about testing the fates healthwise, will I have the energy, etc. DH is not really on board either, although we play with fire on a regualr basis BCwise, I'm not on my metformin or vitex which I needed to get pregnant in the past.
Anyway, hoping for lots of BFP's soon, you ladies are wonderful.
Pamela
Hi Pamela! What is Metformin?
Welcome to our group, glad you de-lurked
Metformin is a drug typically used to control diabetes. However, in women with PCOS there is almost always an insulin resistant issue and the metformin helps with that. When I got over the side effect of GI issues and took the theraputic dosage, I was able to have 34-day cycles. When I added vitex I o'd on day 14 and conceived DS. I was not on metformin when I conceived DD, just clomid. I was told the cycle was a bust and was referred for consult to check into injectibles. I figured what the hey and took vitex in the middle of the cycle. Low and behold to my dr's amazement as well, I turned up pregnant. I have to have progesterone suppositories 3x a day well past 12-weeks. My placenta just doesn't like to cooperate. With DS I was on the progesterone for almost 22 weeks, my OB's record. Lucky me, but hey it got me my gorgeous blessings, so I'm not complaining. I also miscarried twins before DD due to low progesterone and a quack dr.
Anyway, I would love to be here for real someday and until then, I read and say prayers for all of you ladies to get your BFP's soon and then to have a healthy 9 months.
Take care,
Pamela
AFM, I am 8 DPO. My temp was back up this morning. So, since I ahve bunch of internet cheapie tests, I POAS. It is totally a BFN excpet if you are insane like me and squint and look at it at different angles there MIGHT be a ghost of a shadow of colour where the 2nd line should be. Absolutely crazy, I am sure that 99.9999% of the populations would say that it was as white as white can be.
Thanks Laurie! I'm ferning like crazy. 8 DPO and perfect ferns. So that generally indicates 1 of 3 things right? Pregnancy, perimenopause or PCOS.
Is that your understanding too?
I did fern quite a bit post-O in the only other cycle I really used the saliva scope but I am quite sure I actually WAS pregnant that cycle, it just never implanted properly. My LP was 3 days longer than usual.
Last month I got sick of using it and stopped using it after O. I checked it once or twice, no really good ferning.
Vegan, your chart does look great.
I haven't been online for a while. Long story...roommates didn't pay cable/internet bill, and it got shut off! I opened my own account today with just basic cable and cheapie internet (but high speed) for $40/mo, which I hope they'll contribute to. If not, I"ll password protect them out of access to the web!!! So much for the honeymoon phase with the roommate situation!
I started using progesterone cream a few days ago, which raised my temps (and caused FF to give me dotted cross hairs), but this evening I started spotting, and while I'd like to believe that it's AF's dog Spot's cousin, Implantation Spot, I highly doubt it.
Wouldn't it be nice to become pregnant? I know we'd all love to add that as one of our 2007 successes.
Hi everyone. My cycle is driving me nuts. I have been SURE I O'd each of the past three days, each day for a different reason. But this morning my temp is down again and I'm at a loss. Perhaps I am on my way to an anovulatory cycle???
First my OPKs started getting lighter, rather than darker. Then my pre-O achy ovaries went away. Then my temp went way up yesterday after a really steep drop the day before. But now I'm back to the usual pre-O temps.
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Dh leaves tomorrow for Japan, so we have one more chance tonight. I'm bummed; my last cycle (with no BD) was textbook and so easy for me to predict O. Oy. Why is it so hard when I am actually trying?
Veganmama, your chart looks good. Welcome socialworkmamma. And hi MsGB (glad you got your cable back) and speedknitter.
Hey, happy birthday all you November-birthday mamas!
Juneau, I am sorry, I just don't know about that chart of yours. Maybe it's going to be a fallback rise? I get those sometimes.
I woke up 1.5 hours early this morning and had no choice, I had to pee. So I temped and it was WAY down. So I didn't bother POAS. Then I took it again at my regular time, just to see. And it was back up at 37C.
Today I am sick: sore throat and slight headache. Feel a little off. Also BBs, well one BB (LOL) is sore.
But I am not feeling good about that temp. 9 DPO is pretty late for an implantation dip.
Msgoodbuns, I almost got my internet cut off this month too. But it was totally my fault, I fogot to pay the bill online. I told DH I just have too many responsibilities, sometimes I'm going to drop the ball! All he haas to do is go to work and clean up some of the dinner dishes. Nice life, LOL!
I'm glad to be back in the network! Juneau, I know exactly how you feel. Wonky cycles when you're trying to conceive; normal cycles on the months when you don't try. Veganmama, you're still in it until the fat lady sings!
I'm going to start adding even MORE herbs to my diet (I'm already taking Vitex and Maca, plus lots of vitamins, incl. B6)...Has anyone tried false unicorn root, ginseng or astralagas? Anyone taking chinese herbal concoctions? I took them for a while, but hated the taste and couldn't get myself to take them 3x / day. However, I'm feeling a bit desperate now!
Originally Posted by msgoodbuns
I'm glad to be back in the network! Juneau, I know exactly how you feel. Wonky cycles when you're trying to conceive; normal cycles on the months when you don't try. Veganmama, you're still in it until the fat lady sings!
I'm going to start adding even MORE herbs to my diet (I'm already taking Vitex and Maca, plus lots of vitamins, incl. B6)...Has anyone tried false unicorn root, ginseng or astralagas? Anyone taking chinese herbal concoctions? I took them for a while, but hated the taste and couldn't get myself to take them 3x / day. However, I'm feeling a bit desperate now!
No, I haven't taken those 3 yet msgoodbuns. "Just" EPO, Vitex and Red Raspberry Leaf. And Robitussin and Maca and my prenatals. I plan on going back to the natural pharmacy if I am not PG this cycle, the pharmacist said he could recommend a few more things. And I might go see an acupuncturist as well.
DH is taking maca, zinc, vitamin e and c.
Ah, the things we do!
AFM, 10 DPO today, temp back up again. BFN on the internet cheapie I sacrificed. Hopefully it's just still too early.
Have a fertile day everyone!
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