TWW Wednesday

adirat

Good morning everyone!


Month/Cycle:

CD/DPO:

Timing:

Testing:

R/R:

Q/CS:

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had?

adirat

Month/Cycle: 7/8

CD/DPO: CD24/5dpo

Timing: 0, -4, -5 

Testing: I have a dentist appointment today, and since there will be x-rays, DH convinced me to test this morning "just in case you actually ovulated early." BFN of course. Why did I listen instead of laughing in his face? 

R/R: Back to work today. Fortunately I think almost everyone in the office is on vacation, so it'll be nice and quiet. Getting a drink with a colleague after work, too, who I haven't seen in months. Look at me making the most of this awkward workweek between Christmas and New Year's!

CS/Q: 

GTKY: On Christmas Eve, my dad made carne asada with homemade guacamole, grilled asparagus, and grilled pineapple for dessert. So good!

TravelingCouple

@adirat I'm in the crazy testing land with you! 

Month/Cycle: 13/14

CD/DPO: 28/10

Timing: high

Testing:
Me last night: 

Me this morning: 

Andddd:

 

R/R: At least it was a nice day out here yesterday and I could distract myself from riding the crazy train SOME of the day....*eye roll*

Q/CS: I guess I'm not ktfu. UGH. Good news is the progesterone is doing its job... Bad news is IT'S DRIVING ME CRAZY. There's even a fucking implantation dip! I know I know, it could just be nothing and non pregnant charts have them too. I still have no clue how to do a spoiler box, despite trying.

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had? 
Hmmm I have a terrible memory with these.. DH makes an awesome eggs Benedict and we had that for Christmas Breakfast.

adirat

@TravelingCouple So sorry for BFN The implantation dip sure is a mindf---. I've been there before. Hugs. And I love eggs benedict! Yum!

TravelingCouple

Thanks @adirat, my hopes were so high yesterday and now they're not. The roller coaster is killing me.

flgirl20134

Month/Cycle: 3/3

CD/DPO: 16 /3

Timing: -3,-2,-1,0

Testing: not sure 

R/R:  I had crosshairs today. It was a slow rise which I never had, so glad DF confirmed O. My rave is that it's my birthday. I took off work, but DH wound up having to work, so my girlfriends are taking me for lunch and pedicures! I'm so excited. I also have a massage scheduled this morning. DH and DS are taking me to dinner tonight. I usually don't do much for my birthday, so I'm really happy today. 

Q/CS: nope 

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had? I would say this Lebanese restaurant that we found last week. So many amazing dishes.  My favorite was grilled cheese and this chicken marinated in spices and bakes in a pastry. 

@adirat I worked yesterday and am working Friday. I feel you in the awkward work week. I work from home, but no one is online. Pretty much can't get anything done. I should have taken off the whole week. 

@travelingcouple eggs Benedict is one of my favorite breakfast. 

Becky012016

Month/cycle: 6/3

CD/DPO: 21/3

Timing: high

Testing: maybe 12dpo?

R/R: I'm just really excited to have ovulated this month!

Q/CS: 

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had? Mmmm DH used to make bagel egg and cheeses and they were delicious!

JulesDP

Month/Cycle: 5/5

CD/DPO: 27/11

Timing: very good

Testing: Probably Friday

R/R: Glad to be back! Christmas basically took over my life and then H and I came down with a horrible stomach flu yesterday.  I have not been that sick in a very long time. Ooof. 

Q/CS: --

GTKY: We had brunch with my brother, SIL and my nephew -- there was a homemade brown sugar cinnamon "pop-tart" and I had an amazing omelet.  But I think what made it so memorable was spending time with my brother's little family!

@adirat sorry for the BFN... they sting even when you know it's early  
@TravelingCouple sorry for the BFN and the mind-f*ck that is the possible implantation dip. Glad that the progesterone is doing its job though!
@flgirl20134 Happy Birthday!! 

jillibean0871

@adirat I LOVE guacamole! Ohhh this makes me want some right now for breakfast! Sorry for you BFN. 

@TravelingCouple the urge to pee on things is with all of us.   I'm not even positive I O'd this month and I'm feeling the itch to poas! 

Month/Cycle: 1/1

CD/DPO: 18/3 based on OPK bc my chart is F'd due to Christmas time alcohol and sleeping in. 

Timing: According to Dr. Google Fabulous! -2, 0

Testing: Yes but not yet.   Same timing with DS so anything is possible. 


R/R: Not sure I have either.  Kind of happy that it's a short work week and no one really important is in the office. 

Q/CS: 

GTKY:
hmmmthis is a tough one because I love food. I had a great meal in Salem in Sept at Finz.  Lobster ravioli that was to die for! 

KariAnn323

Month/Cycle: 4/4

CD/DPO: 23/6

Timing: +1

Testing: ***TW*** probably 8 dpo with wondfos OB said that when I get KU again we need to know as early as possible so we can test my hormones. He's concerned that mc was caused by low progesterone. Let the POAS craziness begin! ***End TW***

R/R: I got to spend a few my sister in San Francisco, and I am definitely ready for my flight this afternoon. We had fun but I really miss DH and my own pillows.

Q/CS:

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had?
When DH and I were in Toronto over the summer we went out to a place for tapas and paella. It was easily the most expensive meal we've ever had but it was amazing. I wish I could have grown a second stomach so I could have eaten more.

@flgirl20134 Happy Birthday!!!

Sorry for the BFNs. Fingers and toes crossed for you. (Would tag everyone but on mobile)

spiderlover25

@adirat sorry for BFN even if it is early.  
@TravelingCouple yay for a longer LP at least!
@flgirl20134 Happy birthday!
@Becky012016 Yay for an O this cycle!
@JulesDP Welcome back and glad you're feeling better.  I heard there have been some nasty bugs going around and a lot of my family was taken out by it on Christmas this year too. 

Month/Cycle: 19/9

CD/DPO: 18/4-5

Timing: ED

Testing: Not until the new year

R/R: Can I rave the google search thread?  Instead of going down a ridiculous google search rabbit hole last night, I just read the thread for my daily dose of BSC. Because you know, at 3-4 DPO I'm totally getting symptoms.

Q/CS: none

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had?  DH is making brisket tonight and I'm pretty excited about it so I think I'm just going to dream about my meal to come. 

alysapuggles

@flgirl20134 Happy birthday!

Month/Cycle: 6/6

CD/DPO: 25/12

Timing: Decent

Testing: BFN again, surprise!

R/R: I'm not awake enough yet to rant or rave.

Q/CS: Temp is still up (anything 98 or over is "up" for me) and another BFN. I'm starting to think I really did O a day or two later than FF is saying. So basically that means an extra day or 2 of BFNs!  Sorry, feeling bitter today.

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had?  Hmm.. probably the Thai restaurant we went to for my birthday a couple weeks ago. Sooo amazingly good.  But Christmas morning breakfast was pretty good also--hashbrown casserole and cinnamon rolls.

Pinky917

@TravelingCouple @alysapuggles Sorry for the BFN! @flgirl20134 Happy Birthday! @JulesDP Glad you are feeling better!

Month/Cycle: 7/8

CD/DPO: 20/6

Timing: -5, -4, -3, -1

Testing: Ugh, don't even let me think about that.

R/R: The BSC Google shenanigans have already started. Come on self, it is way to early for this crap!!!

Q/CS: --

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had? Oh boy, this is a tough one. I love all food, so it is hard to puck just one!

BertieMeetsGertie

Onto cycle 8 for me, ladies.  GL to the rest of you!

lund

Month/Cycle: 5/6

CD/DPO: 24/10 or 11

Timing: decent

Testing: Not unless AF doesn't show by Friday or Saturday

R/R: Just trying desperately to squash any unrealistic hopes this cycle. I've had a textbook pre-AF LP, so I'm fully expecting to be out in a day or two. 

Q/CS: Not really a question, but I'm starting to think that I O'd later than I originally thought. Hard to be sure since I don't temp and only had two OPKs to use. Kicking myself for going rogue and not temping/doing OPKs in my pissed-about-DHs-SA fog. 

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had?
Well, since the food in ND is pretty much god awful by any standard..... maybe the last meal we had at my favorite sushi place in Colorado, or a birthday meal that I had at a fabulous restaurant in Denver called Fruition. I've been to a couple "higher end" restaurants here in ND, and no. Just no. 

alysapuggles

@BertieMeetsGertie I'm sorry. Creepy hugs!

lund

@adirat bad DH! Bad! And I Lol'd at "Look at me making the most of this awkward workweek between Christmas and New Year's!"

@TravelingCouple so sorry for the BFNs and the mind-f*ck chart. Progesterone doing its job is a poor consolation for BFNs.

@flgirl20134 Happy Birthday! Enjoy what sounds like will be an amazing day!

@JulesDP welcome back, but yikes to the stomach flu! Glad you're feeling better. 

@KariAnn323 YUM paella

@alysapuggles Sorry for the BFN I think we're the same person today - both on cycle 6, both pretty sure we O'd later than we initially thought. Good times, good times. 

spiderlover25

@pinky917 if it makes you feel any better, the google shenanigans started even earlier over here... 

alysapuggles

@LuND Yep, I noticed we were saying the same things today. Good times indeed.

linzrunz

Month/Cycle: 16/16

CD/DPO: 21/7

Timing: -2, +1

Testing: maybe Saturday

R/R: I had my 7dpo blood draw this morning.  In and out within 20 minutes!  I'm getting to be good friends with the guy in registration.  He doesn't even ask to see my paperwork anymore.  He just starts typing it up.  Not sure if this is a good thing or bad thing.... 

Q/CS:  nope

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had?  My coffee that I'm drinking right now.  My favorite cafe was closed Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday so this is the first time in four days that I've had their mocha and omg... it's so yummy.  The other places in town just don't compare.  

MrsM00re87

Cd 21 / 8dpo 

Timing: very good. 

Testing: New Year's Eve.

R/R: I'm with all of you on the google searching... and I have to snap out of it. I didn't go for my blood work yesterday, as the roads were not good. So today is the day. I'm thinking my progesterone level is pretty high - nausea and bloating... all too familiar from my past femara/clomid cycles. So that's good. Temps are still above the cover line, had a slight dip this morning. So looks promising, but not trying to read too much into it. 

GTKYQ: venison fajitas. Protein overload, but very good! 

jess0211

P&G ...on the road all day

Month/Cycle: 3/3

CD/DPO: 27/10 (or 11?)

Timing: good

Testing: BFN this morning.

R/R: seven hour drive today...blah. Just made an appt with gyn for tomorrow...I thought my YI was getting better but ugh the itch. 

Q/CS: nothing today.

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had? Hmmm, I don't know 

ChefRamsay

@jess0211 Coconut oil can help with the itching. Just apply the oil topically. Or you can soak a tampon in the oil and pop it in the freezer for a few minutes before applying.

dragonfly87-2

Posting and ghosting until tonight, about to head out ride bikes around San Francisco....

Month/Cycle: 3/3 1 TTCAL

CD/DPO: CD 24/13 DPO

Timing: -5, -3, -1 and 0

Testing: probably not

R/R: Well, I was going to try temping through the end of this cycle, but it seems futile given my sleep patterns. I didn't stay awake for more than 1 hour last night, but starting at 4:00am, I woke up every hour, on the hour. I foolishly took my temp at 7:00am (normal time) and it was 97.54, which would be a drop below coverline and potentially signal that AF is on her way tomorrow (expecting her Friday or Saturday). But that was after about 45-60 minutes of sleep. I was able to fall back asleep for about 2 hours and temped again, it was 98 (but obviously not my usual time). So, I am just going to pretend like I didn't temp today....and see what happens.

Q/CS: nothing

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had?

The buffet we ate in Las Vegas last Friday. It was amazing and way too much food, but 500 different options (I feel like I tried at least 100).

wabash15

Month/Cycle:7/8

CD/DPO: 24/9

Timing: decent

Testing: on Friday morning... so I have a tumor in the bone of one of my fingers, the docs think its benign but it has gotten big Enough to compromise the bone so I need to have surgery on Friday to have the tumor removed. Its going to be a blast being in a cast for a month. So I'll POAS before I go in but they already told me I would do a urine test at the hospital prior to anesthesia. 

R/R: after yesterdays shit storm at work I took today off and it has been great so far hanging out with my dad and the twins.

Q/CS: temps are still up but they don't usually start dropping until day 10 or 11 so who knows...

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had? mmm there are some restaurants here that do excellent food. though our new favorite is a hole in the wall enchilada joint, its not 5star dining but it is Amazing comfort food.

@adirat sorry DH convinced you to test and that it was a BFN
@travelingcouple yah the progesterone can be a MF. sorry its messing with you
@alysapuggles and @jess0211 sorry for the BFNs
@BertieMeetsGertie sorry your out. Hugs
@lund hugs sometimes taking a break from all the tracking is good and other times it drives you crazy not knowing

dinosaur

Month/Cycle: 8/8

CD/DPO: 26/11

Timing: -3, -1, 0, +1

Testing: BFN

R/R: I gave in and tested today. I'm glad I did. I was getting really hopeful and that needed to be stopped. If I waited I would have been even more excited and gotten an even bigger disappointment. 

Q/CS: N/A

GTKY: What was the last truly excellent meal you had? I'm eating banana bread right now, so that's pretty good. 

KariAnn323

@dragonfly87 have a wonderful bike ride! I'm actually in San Francisco right now! I fly back to Chicago this afternoon though

TravelingCouple

Thanks ladies, yeah I think I'm coming to terms with the fact that I'm not ktfu... No period yet but I do have cramping today which is a huge disappointment as it's only 10dpo. I'm hoping to get 11 days at least out of a Progesterone cycle...

@linzrunz let my pain be a lesson in case your Progesterone messes with you too!
@flgirl20134 happy birthday!

adirat

@julesdp Nice to see you! 

@lund That stinks, I'm sorry. Great gif though

@wabash15 Yikes, sorry to hear you'll need surgery! I hope it's a quivk recovery.

@BertieMeetsGertie Oh nooooo! So sorry my friend! Cd1 hugs and wine

So here's something I heard today that I thought you ladies may find relevant. Like an idiot I listened to my husband and tested super early because I had a dentist appt today. Obviously bfn. Anyway, at the dentist office, I mentioned to the hygienist that I was trying to get pregnant and asked whether I should get an xray. She said no! I figured it was safe during ttc but the dentist said that there have not been studies about xrays and egg health showing it's safe so they do not give xrays to ttc women just as they don't for pregnant women. Have others heard this before? 

dragonfly87-2

@flgirl20134 happy birthday! 

@KariAnn323 oh what a coincidence! We are driving into SFO now (from San Jose) so I have some time in the car. Were you visiting family? Also, why does your doc suspect low progesterone for your MC? Just curious, my doc (who I am switching soon) wouldn't explore any reasoning since it was my first loss.

@alysapuggles @dinosaur @jess0211 @adirat Also, sorry for the BFNs to all the ladies who tested! I so want to test, but don't see a point. Also, I didn't bring any tests...so that pretty much makes it impossible (unless I awkwardly ask my mother to drive me to the store). Damn LP of 15 days also sucks....if AF is going to show, I would rather she show up already. 

ETA poor grammar (posting from mobile)

jess0211

@adirat I haven't heard that but when I was at dentist for a filling last month and mentioned ttc they told me that they would use a different type of novocaine bc the novocaine normally used contains epinephrine which can cause issues!

dragonfly87-2

@BertieMeetsGertie: sorry for CD1! 

linzrunz

@TravelingCouple So far, my progesterone is just making me really, ridiculously tired.  Temps have been fairly normal including my oh so pretty, but oh so deceiving implantation dip look a like at 6dpo.  

@dragonfly87 @KariAnn323 Jealous of you two in SF!  I live a few hours from there, but I love the Bay Area.  Enjoy the city!

ChefRamsay

@adirat I have heard this before. My Dr told me if I go to the dentist to make sure I tell the. I'm TTC. BTW YGPM 

lund

@adirat @jess0211 @ChefRamsay ok now I'm annoyed at my dentist. My last appointment was when we were in our 1st month of TTC, and I let them know we were TTC and they still did x-rays and regular Novocain. Although, I shouldn't be surprised. ND is still in the stone ages with a lot of things - and unfortunately it seems to include medical knowledge. 


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adirat

@jess0211 Wow I hadn't heard that about novocaine -- thanks for sharing! 

@cheframsay Interesting. I'm glad I brought it up since it was news to me. Also I'm on mobile -- can I see PMs on mobile somehow?

adirat

@lund Fwiw I go to a kind of crunchy holistic dentist in Manhattan so this may not be mainstream. Example: the toothpaste sample I got today was Tom's of Maine fluoride-free and they are entirely mercury-free (the latter of which is the reason I selected this practice in the first place). 

lund

@adirat gotcha. Now I'm jealous of the fact that you have access to a crunchy holistic dentist lol. It's hard to find crunchy holistic anything in my area....

flinstone-2

@adirat I went to the dentist yesterday and they wanted to do a bite wing X-ray. I told her I'm TTC and I have no idea yet if I'm pregnant she said we better not do them if there is any chance at all that I might be pregnant just to play it safe. I told her that was just fine with me. Seemed weird but I am paranoid and wanted to get it out in the open 

midsomervillage

@adirat @ChefRamsay
Oh I had no idea really - I thought it was just a danger if you are pregnant.  I had bitewings done in October and another x-ray at the orthodontist this month (invisalign).  Great.

My doctor didn't even mention any of this to me.

KariAnn323

@dragonfly87 My sister has been in California for a few years and moved to San Francisco last year. I promised I would visit before she moves back to Chicago. 

OB thinks that it could have been low progesterone because my levels were low based on how many weeks I was. Basically the way he explained it was that the low progesterone could have been caused because my body was preparing to m/c a non viable pregnancy. On the other hand I may have m/c because my progesterone was too low to sustain the pregnancy. Since we didn't do any testing on the baby the only way to find out is to get KU again and test my levels right away and take progesterone supplements if needed. I'm inclined to think its a progesterone problem. Before I got on BC I was a week or two late twice. I never took a test because I was very young and scared. When AF finally did come those two time though it was very similar to this last AF.