WTO WED 2/7

josie12367

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Month/Cycle:

CD:

WAYDTGKU: 
 
R/R: 

CS/Q:

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry?

offtoneverland

Month/Cycle: 9/8 (1 benched AL)

CD: 13

WAYDTGKU: OPKs, PNVs, sex. I had a positive OPK on cd11, but a negative yesterday on cd12. I had a very slight temp rise today, but nothing huge, so we'll see if I get another positive today or a bigger temp rise tomorrow. 
 
R/R: Work had a delay this morning because we got some icy rain overnight and this morning. So I'm enjoying my slow, relaxing start to the day! 

GTKY: I would prefer to fold laundry or vacuum. I don't like doing the dishes or mowing the lawn, so those are MH's chores most of the time! MH hates doing the laundry (and he can't fold a shirt to save his life), so we've agreed that I do the laundry and he mows the lawn. 

kristah2

@josie12367 you have been SO on the ball lately!

Month/Cycle: 3/3

CD: 8

WAYDTGKU: PNV's, N&C starting tonight, giving this POM thing a try. 
 
R/R: DH had a coughing fit at 3 am last night. 330 the dog peed in the bed. 4 I went in the spare room due to snoring. I fell back to sleep at 5. Coffee IV today. 

CS/Q: boring chart over here and no questions yet!

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, more the lawn, or fold laundry? Laundry!! (thanks for the reminder I have a pile of laundry to do when I get home from work - thanks to the dog)

josie12367

Month/Cycle: 14/5

CD: 27

WAYDTGKU: Switching to EOD till O or AF
 
R/R: Temp is back up to my normal range. I'm either going to O very soon or not at all. I'm at peace with it. At least I have my referral process started. PCOS is the pits!

CS/Q: Nah...not much change from yesterday.

GTKY: Mowing the lawn for sure. I love working outside. Lawn work is my jam. 

josie12367

@kristah2 I'm in England, so it's in the afternoon. Usually if it's not posted by now I just do it. But of anyone wants to start the thread, feel free! Lol...

@offtoneverland Slow mornings are the best!

kristah2

@offtoneverland jealous of your relaxing start to your day!! is CD11 early for you to O?
@josie12367 ahhh England.. that makes more sense!! I'm east and your start threads early so I was starting to think you bumped like 4am!  yay for getting your referral process started! hope O is coming soon!

Stargazer1lily

Month/Cycle:15/15

CD:18

WAYDTGKU: bbt,cm,opk,hio
 
R/R: Going to visit the In-laws this weekend. They finally bought furniture for their new home so no more plastic chairs in the middle of the empty living room.

CS/Q:nope

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry? Fold laundry because I hate dishes.

offtoneverland

@kristah2 Hope you aren't too tired today. What a rough night! Will you be able to get yo bed early tonight? Yes, I've never had a positive OPK as early as cd11 so that was pretty unusual for me. Usually O is around cd16. 
@josie12367 Glad to hear you're feeling at peace right now. I can't remember if you said, how long will it take to get your referral? I'm so bummed your body faked you out with the positive OPKs though. 

galactickates

Month/Cycle: 2/2 AL

CD: 7

WAYDTGKU: HIO 
 
R/R: I had a dream last night I was taking an HPT and I was with my H and my sister.  My sister was like "you're not pregnant" we were all disappointed but then I was like "duh.... I haven't even ovulated yet, of course I'm not ku" and woke up. So apparently now I'm even dreaming of POS. 

CS/Q:

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry?
Fold laundry

josie12367

@offtoneverland First appointment is the 20th. Then we have another trip to the states, and my OB appt will be sometime after. So end of March? Then I'll have to wait to see about possibly going to an RE depending on what they say. Everything will be oop with the RE, so I want to do as much as possible with the OB. 

ETA: I'm giving my body another day to pop out an egg based off opks. I'll be super disappointed if I still haven't ovulated by tomorrow because then I'll be outside of the 48 hrs post positive opks  

tessiesmom26

@offtoneverland Yay for a slow start! We are getting some snow/ice today too, but it's just starting now.
@kristah2 What a rough night! Hope you're able to get to bed early tonight!
@josie12367 Fx you O soon!
@Stargazer1lily Have fun with the ILs!

Month/Cycle: 1/1

CD: 13

WAYDTGKU: All the things! I am 98% positive I O'd yesterday, and got a slight temp spike this morning, so hoping for another high temp tomorrow to confirm!
 
R/R: I don't really have any rants or raves. Just chugging along over here!

CS/Q: Not today, but maybe will add tomorrow if I don't get another high temp.

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry? MH mows the lawn and does the laundry, so I do the other two. I hate washing dishes, but we don't usually have many to do so it's not bad. Same with vacuuming. Our house isn't too big, so they doesn't take too long.

emmasemm

Month/Cycle: 35/33

CD: 14 (but it feels like one hundred and billionty nine)

WAYDTGKU: Making myself throw up because I’m taking so many pills and so many damn awful potions from my PCP (who is also a naturopath) and my TCM lady. Literally I open my pill case and I start gagging. It’s like Pavlov’s dog, but gagging not drooling.
 
R/R: Ladies, I tell you, getting everything organized to be an overseas travel patient for IVF is a full time job. I’m exhausted. I really hope it’s all worth it in the end. But it’s looking like we can’t have everything done to start with next cycle, so we’ll be looking at end of March start. And in the meantime all I want to do is get started. 
In other words my body is playing silly devils and I’m on day 6 of positive OPKs and my temp has finally gone down. Since my temps were so high up until today if I do O in the next few days I’m pretty sure FF won’t be able to recognize it, so I’ll be forever wondering if this cycle was an-O. Or when AF is supposed to come.

CS/Q: Not unless anyone has Ute goggles. Because enough drive bys seem to think we all have them.

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry?
I do NOT vacuum. For that we have a cleaner, or DH does it. 
I would mow the lawn but our lawnmower is a petrol one and it is very very strong and runs away with me. After going through the fence twice I am now banned,
I do fold the laundry, but I need to be in the right mood. Which does happen a few times a week. I don’t iron however.
I don’t like washing the dishes, but I hate to have dirty dishes piled up so I do this every day at least, as well as dishwasher loading and unloading (DHs special kitchen equipment is not allowed in the dishwasher...).

@josie12367 first appointment will soon be here! And if after the appointments you do need some uk RE research info just let me know. Happy to PM and exchange what I have.

@galactickates omg I’ve started having dreams too. I dreamt I went to my stick drawer and it was empty so I had nothing to pee on. I’ve also started dreaming about “seeing” ovulation and going down the Fallopian tube from the egg’s perspective. Maybe I need to add a psychiatrist to my list of doctors... Think “Look who’s talking”   

@offtoneverland what is it with all our bodies playing silly devils this month??. Hope the OPKs come around again.

@kristah2 oh wow. That sounds like one hell of a night. Good luck with the coffee.

kristah2

Heading to the bench for a little while. I'll keep updating in TFAS and benched threads. Hopefully I won't see any of you when I come back to dailies! 

josie12367

@emmasemm I'd need an RE in the Cambridge area (as that's the closest larger city that I could go to for frequent appointments). I have a couple of leads, but any personal recommendations are always welcomed! 

musicinmysoul17

So I'm back after almost 2 years and getting back in the grove of the board. I'm not totally sure where I fit so I figured this was a good place. I intro'd last week.

Month/Cycle: 2/2
I went off BCP fall last year and had 2 months of crazy cycles getting back to "normal" so I decided to start a fresh count for the new year. But we have been NTNP since I quit bcp in September.

CD: 12

WAYDTGKU: I'm taking PNVs and we're BD but I'm taking it easy right now since we haven't decided to really go for it yet.
 
R/R: It's raining and yucky today and 2 of the agents that work in my office of 4 are out today. So it's just me and the boss. I work in an insurance office btw.

CS/Q:

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry?
I don't mind washing dishes to much. Our house only has a couple rugs so vacuuming does't take very long but getting the vacuum out is a pain so it's annoying. My h mows the lawn because I don't like it but I like doing other yard work and gardening. I hate folding laundry which is probably why we're always digging through baskets of clean clothes lol.

oaklandava

Month/Cycle: 1/1

CD: 10

WAYDTGKU:  BD, CM...nothing really else
 
R/R:  This weather. The school systems are full of flu and I desperately need a snowbreak so the schools can be cleaned out.

CS/Q: Nope

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry?   Eh. I actually like mowing the grass...vacuuming the Roomba does. Washing dishes is my husband's job and folding laundry never happens 

rosebud332

Month/Cycle: 1/1

CD: 8

WAYDTGKU: opk's, pre seed, all the sex when time comes 
 
R/R: Not much today. It's rainy and I like it.

CS/Q:

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry?
Laundry. I hate the noise of vacuuming and we don't have a lawn. Washing dishes is meh but it makes my hands dry. 

@kristah2 I'm sorry you're benched!  Also, your night sounds awful. Hoping for a better night tonight for you. 

@emmasemm I hope all the work you're doing pays off for you. I'm sure ivf is hard enough without all the travel and related stress on top of it. Good luck to you!

suzycupcake

@emmasemm I cannot stop laughing picturing you (not that I know what you look like or anything) and the lawn mower going through the fence. My frappé almost went down the wrong pipe. Look into getting a push reel mower. They don't require anything but you pushing it. No electric, no fuel source, no anything source. Good old fashioned push mower. It's the only one I can use. It's actually fun.

@josie12367 *creepy internet voice* May I stalk your chart?





Month/Cycle: 3rd IF treatment cycle

CD: 11

WAYDTGKU: Femara, Ovidrel, prenatals, IUI, sex, calm
 
R/R: U/s this morning. Everything looked good. My lining on Femara is 6.8 She wants me to take Estrace again until I test. I wonder if that's even necessary. What do you ladies think? There are 3 growing follicles. One is 15.4 on the right ovary. The others on the left are 12 and 13.1 I hope those other two catch up because then we can get 3 good eggs. I trigger Saturday at 10pm and IUI is Monday morning around 11am. If they really do grow 2mm each day, then they will all be nice and big by Monday.

CS/Q: Do follicles definitely grow 2mm each day?

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry? Dishes because dishwashers.

josie12367

@suzycupcake Sure! In spoiler below. I don't think there's any guarantee on how much your follies will grow, but I hope they get nice and big for you! If it were me, I'd take the estrace just because that's what they wanted me to do. I've learned that sometimes doctors leave bits of key information out. I'm sure she has her reasons, you know?

How are the side effects of femara? I'm curious if it's easier side effects wise than Clomid....cause Clomid kind of sucked!

suzycupcake

@josie12367 Holy tits that's a beautiful temp dip. I think you should tie YH up and tell him to take it anyway hahaha Sorry. I have no idea what is with me and your sex life.

Point taken. I will start the Estrace. As far as the follicles, I wish they would do a u/s right before IUI. I don't understand why they don't because why would I spend the money on IUI with only 1 good follicle? That doesn't seem like it makes any sense to me but maybe I don't understand how follicles work. *goes to Google* OK I'm doing it again. I need to relax and let my doctor do her thing. Must find my happy place, must find it.

I thought it strange that they keep telling us not to have sex after the trigger shot, but they tell us to the night of IUI. We don't have a MFI so it doesn't make sense. Last time, they were able to put 28M of his sperm up there or something crazy like that.

Yea Clomid sucked big time. I was nutty, hot and cold, and it gave me huge cysts. So much pain. The only thing I experienced on Femara was some pretty bad ovary pain at night right before I took the 2nd pill. It hurt to get up and walk around. I had to sit on the couch with a heating pad. It happened a tiny bit the next day and then stopped. I had one day of feeling emotional, but it was like 1/2 of what Clomid did. It was a little more than period, but not irritability. It was more like



and then there were times when I'd get this wh0000000000 feeling and start breathing heavily. It was like

Whitmore1027

Month/Cycle: 2/2

CD: 9

WAYDTGKU: BBT, CM, CP, BD every other day, water, exercise
 
R/R:  Rant: Used my BBT for the first time this morning! Forgot it takes what seems like forever to get a reading, I almost fell back to sleep. Haha. my regular therm takes like 10 seconds. This one like 90 seconds. But I think it's so cool! We went to lunch today which was fun. Then went to by Odin (our puppy) more toys, chews and treats. Hard not spending money that we don't have. But I want him super entertained so he doesn't drive me crazy. Rant: Although today has been fun, I haven't felt well today. My stomach has been hurting and I feel a bit nauseous. Don't know if I ate something weird yesterday or not. I also feel SO anti-social. A friends birthday get together is Saturday and I just don't feel like going. I have no good reason, because I love them. But I just don't want to socialize right now. I don't know what's up with that.

CS/Q: Nothin here

GTKY: What would you rather do: wash dishes, vacuum the house, mow the lawn, or fold laundry? I would say vacuum because that's the fastest chore since only my bedrooms have carpet. Haha. But I actually like mowing because it's exercise.

josie12367

@suzycupcake Sorry for all your stress about the IUI. I agree about the ultrasound though. I'd ask before your IUI day. Can't hurt to ask right? 

Your description of Clomid was on point. I hated the stuff. If we go that route, I might ask for femara this time. 

Whitmore1027

@kristah2 Sorry you had a rough night!! Is your H okay from the coughing? Sorry your benched. 
@galactickates I laughed at your dream. It was such a matter-of-fact response!
@emmasemm Good luck with everything!! I hope it is as stress free as possible and everything goes smoothly for you!


Okay I thought I didn't have a question but I do... (This might be TMI due to CM talk. But I don't it's anymore graphic than medical fertile books). Isnt the EWCM supposed to only be like...when your REALLY fertile? I have had it the day after AF ended, and today so far in this cycle. It's weird. I just feel like it's really early. And O is predicted for the 14th. Is it possible to have the EWCM just randomly throughout the cycle? It is truly clear, and super stretchy without breaking. Today is the first day I used the BBT so I can't go based on that. And I did check my cervix for the first time but I don't have any other times to compare to either. I mean...I told H it doesn't hurt to BD just in case. But I do want to understand what's going on with my body. 

suzycupcake

@Whitmore1027 It's best to opk to check for lh surge. I myself have had ewcm at other times during my cycle when I didn't think that was supposed to happen *shrugs*

Whitmore1027

@suzycupcake Okay thanks! Glad I'm not the only one at least. But man! OPK is the only thing I'm not doing right now, but I guess I should get on board with those too! Lol. 

offtoneverland

@Whitmore1027 I usually get EWCM pretty early, around cd 8 or 9. I usually have it for 5 to 6 days before I finally O. But some people see lots of EWCM while others don't see as much, so I'm not sure what the "true" normal is. I'm not sure about EWCM after AF. I've never had that before.
@emmasemm I can't imagine how busy you must be getting everything prepared. That's disappointing that it might not work out for you to start treatment next cycle, but hopefully everything will be 100% prepared for you to start by the end of March. Hope your body cooperates and Os soon!
@kristah2 What did I miss? Is everything okay?
@suzycupcake Good luck with the trigger coming up! Grow follies grow! After seeing your description of Clomid I hope I never have to take it. Yikes! Also, you telling @josie12367 to tie up her H made me crack up. 

suzycupcake

Whitmore1027 said:

@suzycupcake Okay thanks! Glad I'm not the only one at least. But man! OPK is the only thing I'm not doing right now, but I guess I should get on board with those too! Lol. 

You can also ask your OB to do a simple day 21 Progesterone test to help confirm O. Pee on those sticks, hurry.

galactickates

February I've decided is "WAYDTGKU: wine and sex" stage. Every night glass of red followed by HIO. We'll see how it works out for us.  

offtoneverland

@galactickates You and I are like the same person. That's what I've been doing every night this week too! Red wine followed by sex. I definitely can't keep it up all month though because it's been 3 days and I'm already exhausted. 

kristah2

@offtoneverland Things are alright. H initially said if we were lucky enough to get a BFP he wouldn't leave me in a situation where I had a newborn and a toddler at home. BUT his mind changed. He is gone for a minimum of 4 weeks straight early next year and I just can't do it on my own. So we're going to bench it for a bit and hope i'll hope it doesn't get pushed any further.