[guestmama9917]

My DH and I are currently charting to avoid. I have been on depo-provera for 5 years and I just had my last shot in March of this year. Anyway, my cycles are 27 days since I came off Depo.

Last cycle we DTD on CD26, figuring we would be safe. Now I am on CD15 of my new cycle, I have EWCM (hurray!) but I have intense bloating and gas and my breasts are so sore that I hate half of my shirts because they cause me pain.

I am just wondering, do you think I could be pregnant? I have never had this before. Should I test? Or am I being totally paranoid.

 

[texaspeach]

I haven't

are you charting temp? did you have a thermal shift before your period? if you did, I'd say it's unlikely you're pg.

sometimes I get really sore breasts around ovulation. sometimes I don't. I've been told I have fibrocystic breasts, and when my caffeine intake goes up, my breast pain around ovulation increases

 

[guestmama9917]

i do my charts by hand and there was no shift, my temps were a little all over the place, and no temp shift for O last cycle either.

 

[texaspeach]

with out a thermal shift, your chances do go up because the blood might mask fertile fluid. If you didn't have a shift, you should consider yourself potentially fertile because if you don't ovulate, you could potentially ovulate during the bleeding, since it isn't a "true period"..

all that said... I still think your chances are probably pretty low, esp if you're having signs of being fertile now (even though some can mimic that of pgcy)

I hope you get the result you're wanting

ETA: charting by hand is the best way, IMO, I did it by hand for a year before switching to a computer. you learn a lot when you aren't being influenced by the software

 

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

It took me 2years and clomid to o again after coming off depo for almost 5 years.

If you dont see a shift then odds are pretty high you are not actually oing depo surpresses that for a very long time and you can still have a pretty regular af without oing called break throuh bleeding.

If you want to chart online for free and get more help reading the charts you can use fertilityfriend.com or ovusoft.com you can go back and put all your temps in and get a result on when and if they think you are oing.

 

[guestmama9917]

thanks for all your help! also, charting by hand rocks, i love pencil crayons.

right now is SO not the right time to be pregnant, but of course, i want a baby so bad so either way i am happy with the outcome. i think i am more shocked by these symptoms because i have never had them before and can't think of anything else to attribute them to!

 

[kalamos23]

When I went off of BC, I had TONS of pregnancy symptoms when I ovulated - it was like my body was trying to make up for not ovulating for the last year and a half by throwing all the hormones into it. So you could be just gearing up to O and really doing a great job of it!

 

[guestmama9917]

just thought i would add to this that i am now 1 day late.

this weekend we had friends up to visit, and i didn't drink alcohol (they had wine and beer with their meals). i wasn't being purposeful, but i just realized now that i didn't touch a drop.

maybe i should test?

 

[wearbaby]

I would test. Stranger things have happened!

 

[guestmama9917]

i am going to test because now i am 2 days late!

 

[NewDirections]

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Originally Posted by courtrn i am going to test because now i am 2 days late!

Wow! Post your results when you can.
Do you have any symptoms?

 

[guestmama9917]

i tested. BFN.