WTO MONDAY 5/24

daisy0322

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awello

Month/Cycle: 2

CD: 4

WAYDTGKU: BBT/Charting/OPK

R/R: Not having a good morning. Dropped my entire container of coffee grounds and it broke all over the floor, then I dropped my dog's water dish (which, thankfully, didn't break). Ugh.

CS/Q: None

[Deleted User]

Oof, sorry for the rough morning @awello

bows22

Month/Cycle: 31/34

CD: 1

WAYDTGKU: Nada

R/R: I had spotting all day yesterday but woke up to AF in all its glory ha. I’m going to spoiler this for talk of 2nd lines but they most likely weren’t real lines 

On Friday I had a BFN but then when I looked at the test later it had an evap line. I took another test as soon as I had a long enough hold just to crush any hopes and it was negative. Then tested again that night for good measure, negative. Then Saturday morning I had bad indent lines (within the time limit but no color) with FMU and SMU. I took a million more tests and none of them had anything. I can’t imagine they were real but like, thanks body for one more mind f*** for the road. I never really had my hopes up but I’m annoyed at how many tests I took/had to buy. 

Anyway starting on BCPs now until my surgery so I don’t think I’ll really do the dailies but I’ll be around in other threads and stalking you guys 

CS/Q:

bows22

@awello ugh sounds like you are having a very Mondayish Monday. I hope things turn around from here

inthewoods23

@awello why does that kind of crap have to always happen on a Monday? Hope your day improves

@bows22 sorry for the mindf*ck. Hopefully you will get to have your surgery sooner than planned so you can get the show on the road!

Month/Cycle: 7 AL

CD: 2

WAYDTGKU: BBT and OPKs without constantly staring at it, various supplements, GF and DF diet, reading "Is you body baby friendly"

R/R: AF decided to arrive a day early. I get 12 day LPs on occasion though so 🤷‍♀️. I didn't get a chance to talk with DH about this cycle's game plan. I'm going to track and record all the things but not look at it and I'm also considering wanting to go for EOD timing starting on CD10 or 12 through CD22 or 24 depending on how the OPKs look to be really sure we're covering the full window of opportunity.

CS/Q: nope

daisy0322

Month/Cycle: 3/2

CD: 38

WAYDTGKU: Lots of stuff

R/R: We got so much done to the house Saturday despite me getting sick. I’ll post some before/after pictures either later today or tomorrow. I’m really excited about it. 

CS/Q: Im struggling to decide which temps to use. I slept awful and barely slept then got really sick Saturday afternoon and ended up getting a fever and I took some phenagrin (sp?) too because I had it left over and I wanted to just go to sleep and not get sick. Sunday I had what felt like a fever breaking all night and I was sick until afternoonish so I do think I should discard that temp at the least. I’m inclined to throw both out but I really don’t trust the crosshairs. Today I’m totally fine I just woke up a bit early.

So this chart is if I throw out the day I woke up sick. 

This chart is if I throw out the morning of the evening I git sick and the day I woke up still sick.

This chart is if I keep it all

@awello I’m sorry I hope your day gets better!

@bows22

I’m sorry that is so frustrating and disappointing. Were they FRER? I have had terrible had terrible ones. Seriously a colored evap within time limits and I didn’t even ovulate. Im sorry you went through that 😔

ReadyForaB

@awello Ugh!  I hate those kinds of mornings!

@inthewoods23 I never heard of that book.  I might check it out!

@daisy0322 Ugh I hate when I get crappy sleep and I am not sure if my temps are reliable.  Or if I wake up like an hour too early.  So frustrating.  

Month/Cycle: 3/3

CD: 3

WAYDTGKU: BBT, PVN

R/R: We had a wedding this past weekend and it was so nice to feel a bit normal. 

CS/Q:  AF finally came and I feel like my cycles are finally stabilizing.  We have a big trip planned next month so, although I would have loved to be pregnant, it is okay bc its Disney and I want to ride all of the rides and eat all of the food and not be exhausted I suppose.  Silver lining!  But if my cycle goes the way I think its going to, I would be getting AF while on vaca if I am not KU.  So that's annoying. 

awello

thanks, everyone! Mondays are definitely the worst sometimes. So far, nothing else has gone wrong lol (*fingers crossed*)

@ReadyForaB I love Disney. I haven't been in such a long time! Either way, I hope you have a wonderful time. Where I really want to go is Wizarding World.

daisy0322

So we’ve only had our house for 2 1/2 years. Before that we never had a yard... the last two summers everything we planted died in about a month. We found out we had “dead dirt” so we have high hopes this year that we might be more successful. We really don’t know what we’re doing lol but we kind of enjoy it. Top is before bottom is after and dont mind the fact I started painting shutters and just randomly quit for the day haha 

b_1029

@awello noooo not the coffee! I hope your day turns around after the rough morning.

@bows22 I’m mad at your tests for you. Sorry for the added mind f on top of the mind f ttc already is. I’ll miss you in the dailies!

@inthewoods23 hey we’re back to being cycle twins. I hope not looking at everything this cycle helps!

@daisy0322 sorry you weren’t feeling well, but I love the landscaping you all did! Looks nice!

@ReadyForaB ugh same on getting AF on vacation next month! Hopefully neither of us will have to worry about it! I’m also going to Disney but just for a day, we’re staying elsewhere in Florida. That’s exciting your cycles seem to be evening out. 

Month/Cycle: 3

CD: 2

WAYDTGKU: OPKs, BBT, CM

R/R: well I thought AF was arriving Saturday but just spotting, so yesterday was day 1. Woo. I knew I wasn’t KU so it was annoying it took its sweet time! I’m not sure I’ve ever had a 30 day cycle in my (tracking) life and now the last 2 have been 🤷🏼‍♀️

Today I’m feeling all ranty and no one wants to hear that so I’ll just keep it short and sweet and say it’s Monday and I haven’t slept well the last 3 nights- no apparent reason why, so I’m blaming it on the hormones. And my pillow issues. A new one should be arriving today so I hope it helps. 

CS/Q: nothing to see yet. BBT also supposed to be coming today

Edit to fix tag

inthewoods23

@daisy0322 if you weren't sick until Saturday afternoon, I'm inclined to believe the temp from Saturday morning is fine. Throwing out the temp from Sunday is definitely the right idea. I think under the Specifics section there's an option to select "illness" and when you do it automatically discards the temps from those days.

@ReadyForaB AF during vacation sucks! Somehow I've gotten lucky every year during our week long summer vacation to not have AF on any of the days. A couple years ago it was actually my FW so we had to break the rules and be ultra quiet with our HIO. Hopefully you won't have to worry about AF during your vacation

@b_1029 ahhh just like the good ol' days! Except I'm not doing IUIs this time haha. I finally found an amazing pillow that's similar to the hotel ones that can be molded a bit but still provide the right support. I think it was Serta brand... got it at Kohls. Kinda pricey being over $100 regular price but I'm loving it!

b_1029

@inthewoods23 well if this one doesn’t work out, I’ll have to check that one out. I got one off Amazon that says you can remove or add stuffing as needing, so I really hope it satisfies my princess a*s 😂 I would pay so much for a pillow I liked right now. Feel like this has been an ongoing saga and I’m driving Mh insane. He sleeps with a pillow over his head so he doesn’t understand the struggle

anniemarie887

Month/Cycle: 6/6

CD: 12

WAYDTGKU: ntnp

R/R: well hello monday! the temps dropped like crazy here and it's rainy and honestly a well appreciated reprieve from 90* temps. i will say humidity has been low, so the heat hasn't been unbearable. but the cicadas are coming in full force - i saw on the news they're supposed to double in the next week and they they just live for a month to ya know do their cicada thing before going back underground for 17 years. i don't mind their noise, but i do mind crunching on them. 

CS/Q: nada

@awello oh no! that's the kind of morning you treat yourself to coffee from somewhere after that mess

@bows22 i'm really sorry, that's a solid mind eff. ugh. 

@daisy0322 house looks so good!! hope you're on the mend

@readyforab i know that feeling, i am doing a girls weekend in 2 weeks and had that same mixed like i really want to be pg, but also have fun with my friends and be a little care free. 

@b_1029 @inthewoods23 pillows are so hard! i'm def clinging to one that's prob time to go, but i can't find a dupe for it!

inthewoods23

@b_1029 princess ass I'm dying! I'm pretty sure this is the one I have.

https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-4305926/serta-2-pack-white-down-backstomach-sleeper-pillows.jsp?prdPV=13

daisy0322

@ReadyForaB oh Disney will be so fun! We keep talking about planning a trip then we put it off I don’t think my husband has ever been.

@b_1029 I’m a pillow princess too. I hope this new one works out for you. 

@inthewoods23 thank I think I’m going to go with that line if thought for the time being. 

@anniemarie887 the cicadas are crazy here too! I have to knock them all off the mail box and the doors every day. 

fantasyflyte

Month/Cycle: 7/7

CD: 11

WAYDTGKU: bbt, opks, cm, cinnamon supplements

R/R: sorry for disappearing for a week, I've spent basically all my free time at my sewing machine this past week. My back still hurts and it's getting real old. But at least I found out my summer class will be mostly online, so a lot less driving to campus for me.

CS/Q: nothing exciting yet, planning to start OPKs tonight after work.

acleverusername

Busy busy thread! Sucks to see everyone back in TWO though. I hope I didn't miss any tags. 

@awello I hope the rest of Monday is incident-free; I'm with @b_1029 "NOT THE COFFEE!"
@bows22 I'm sorry your body decided to mind-füçk one more time. Argh! I just created the weekly Benched/TTA thread if you want to post there. 
@inthewoods23 I've been meaning to ask... when will you consider giving your RE a call again? Did you decide to try a full 12 months? If I remember correctly, did you want to first see if the DF & GF diet would do the trick?
@daisy322 Wow! Great work on the front yard! I'm also in the "everything I plant dies" camp. Although I have managed to keep a houseplant alive for 3 years now (watch me jinx it)
@ReadyForaB Woohoo only 1 month until Disney! I love your plan of enjoying it fully. You can KUed right after, right? 
@b_1029 girl, this place is for all your rants! Oh wait... I see that you've already posted in the BF thread; will head over there next. 
@anniemarie887 as long as the crunch is under feet, and not between your teeth? Lol. I'm trying to see the positives here.

Month/Cycle: 17/17

CD: 12

WAYDTGKU: TTA until after O; then mid-luteal phase IVF cycle #1. Lots of vits and supps for MH and I to support a successful cycle.

R/R: My FF premium membership has expired, and I'm not sure I really want to pay for another year of it. Although I got used to seeing the "fully featured" version; the free one looks so simplistic by comparison! I dunno; I'll see how I like the free version for a few weeks, and then make the call. 

I also thoroughly cracked my iPhone screen this morning; it already had a couple cracks, but today's accidental drop just shattered the top part of the screen. Argh. Good thing I ordered a new phone this weekend (I've been thinking about it for a month now), and it arrives tomorrow evening. I'm hoping to be able to get a bit back with a trade-in. 

And of course, my LH surge is nowhere in sight, so... whatever. I expect it'll happen on Wed at this point, which pushes back my IVF baseline to Monday. 

On the bright side, I had my follow-up meeting with the orthopedic doctor about my knee MRI. The fatty pad underneath my kneecap is swollen / irritated, which is apparently very common but also very painful. She said PT will help. But, we made a plan that if it doesn't get better with PT in 2 months, we can discuss a cortisone or a hyaluronic acid injection. 

CS/Q:

ETA: chart 

fantasyflyte

@awello ugh, those kinds of mornings are the worst, I hope your day's gotten better

@bows22 I'm sorry. I hope the time til surgery flies by and you can get back on the wagon quickly.

@inthewoods23 sorry about AF. Your game plan with the EOD sounds reasonable to me!

@daisy0322 I'd be inclined to toss both temps, and keep an eye on the CH over the next couple days to see if they stick.

@ReadyForaB ugh, AF on vacation sucks, I hope you can avoid that.

@b_1029 boo to bad sleep. Hope tonight's better for you.

@anniemarie887 I've always heard cicadas in the summer, but never had to deal with them littering the ground or anything. Maybe we don't get the crazy big swarms here.

inthewoods23

@fantasyflyte sounds like a good use of your free time!

@acleverusername DH and I still haven't talked about it ha. I'm lightly going down the path of the possible immune issues that might need to be fixed. With DH's morphology being 1% I figured we wouldn't get KU fast anyway so being on cycle 7 isn't a total shocker and I'm alright with spending some time doing some exploring in parallel. I'm also just hoping that the tracking but not tracking method helps so I'm not focused on it all the time. I'm pretty regular so it's not like I need to really monitor myself constantly or I'll miss O. The CM and positioning is there and my OPKs follow a similar pattern month after month, it's just a matter of what day so I'm going to be a little more hands off. Collect but not analyze lol.

ReadyForaB

I love the Disney energy in this group haha.

@acleverusername well, if I got KU this cycle, I would basically find out while we were in Disney.  Which I am okay with, obviously.  I will bring a few tests haha. Otherwise, I will have AF.  4 weeks prego while there sounds better than 8 in my head. 

anniemarie887

@acleverusername just say no to bugs! lol i have zero desire to eat them, and i'm pretty adventurous, but no. also, you didn't ask for thoughts so feel free to tell me to go pound sand... but as someone who has had some hip/si joint issues and done injections i would suggest visiting a chiro if you're open to. something else could be "off" that's giving you weight bearing issues and irritating your knee. i did not have long term success with injections in my hips or si joint, a routine chiro every 6 weeks has made all the difference for me. 
@fantasyflyte the bulk of the east coast is being pummeled by 17 year cicadas. this is like biblical level.

LJMoon6

Just doing a quick check in since I'm mobile bumping today. 

Month/Cycle: 6

CD: 15

WAYDTGKU: OPKs, BD EOD

R/R: We went camping this past weekend. It was a little stressful and things didn't go as planned... but it was so nice to get out on the water. We did a little fishing and caught enough for a fish fry!

I forgot to bring my OPKs with me over the weekend so I have no idea if I Oed or not... I'm hoping not since we had basically no timing. I usually O around the same time every month but I have no idea what will happen this month. Ugh. Kicking myself for that.

CS/Q: 

fantasyflyte

@anniemarie887 huh, maybe they're not all the way up in New England then? I may also just be completely oblivious, that ia ALWAYS a possibility lol.

acleverusername

Gah - I did forget to tag you @fantasyflyte; what have you been sewing ?

@LJMoon6 Oh dear; I'm sorry the trip didn't go as planned, although the fish fry sounds nice. I honestly can't imagine using OPKs while camping. LOL. I guess I'm not that committed. 

@anniemarie887 LOL; I have never heard of the expression "go pound sand"; It's helpful to get your perspective. I'll be honestly though, in the past chiropractic hasn't really helped me. I've been doing osteopathy for almost a year now, and THAT's been really helpful. In fact, I had a session just before my MRI, and my osteopath did a lot of work on my kneecap such that by the time my MRI appointment rolled around, it was feeling little to no pain. So, I'm hoping that with PT, the problem will go away. It would be great to get back to running. (Ironically, the issue I have is called "Runner's knee")

bows22

@inthewoods23 I think your plan for next cycle sounds good! Hopefully YH is on board

@daisy0322 if it were my chart I would discard that crazy high one and keep the rest for the next couple of days at least and see what my temps do. And yep they were FRERs! Just too sensitive and pick up who knows what I guess 

@ReadyForaB yay disney! I tested at Disney in October and kept saying I was going to get a magical BFP haha. I didn’t, but I hope you do!

@b_1029 ohh I hope the pillow works out! We struggled with that too and then randomly bought some at Sam’s club that we ended up loving. So I think there is a certain amount of luck and hopefully yours comes up soon. 

@anniemarie887 was your humidity not awful today? I agree the lower temps were nice but it was so so gross. I think I’m like 4ish hours from you to the northwest so maybe you’re getting the bad humidity tomorrow. If so enjoy haha!

@fantasyflyte an online class sounds nice for the summer! Probably more laid back 

@LJMoon6 I don’t think got a chance to comment on your intro but I’m sorry for your loss ❤️

@acleverusername I know you used to be able to follow FF on Twitter and they would do discount codes and such. Thanks for starting the benched thread, definitely plan to check it out!

fameonmain2

Just lurking today but hold on @anniemarie887 really? I must be oblivious too haha I’m on the east coast and have not heard this at all

keikilove

*lurky-loo*

@b_1029 Sorry you haven’t slept well in 3 nights, that’s brutal. I hope the pillow that’s arriving today will solve all your problems.☺️ Major sleep issues over here too if I don’t have the right pillow. I discovered these from Pacific Coast Feather Co. a few years ago and it’s like sleeping on a dream. Perfect for your princess a**😂 I have these larger ones in the link that are way on sale for Memorial Day, as well as a nice small “hotel” one that is my favorite. https://www.pacificcoast.com/feather-best-pillow-king/25725.html?CAWELAID=120048210000000363&utm_source=google&utm_medium=Shopping&utm_campaign=Smart_Shopping_Pillows&catargetid=120048210000009557&cadevice=m&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9J3xucDj8AIVDyCtBh2u6Qi9EAQYASABEgKcEvD_BwE

daisy0322

@bows22 I think your natural HCG has something to do with it. I tend to not trust anything but a pretty obvious positive because my Indents/ Evaps are ALWAYS rockin 

inthewoods23

@anniemarie887 aren't cicadas pretty large too so that crunch would be extra loud? 😖

@LJMoon6 mmm fish fry!

This is super TMI but nothing is off limits on TB so I have to tell 😂. I've had my menstrual cup for 10 cycles now and today is the first time I dropped it in the toilet. Yuuuuck 🤢 but thank God all I had to do was pee.

bows22

@fameonmain2 I don’t think they go as far north as you! We’re supposed to be getting them here but i haven’t seen any yet. I think there are a couple of different species that do the every 17 year rotation because we definitely had them/something similar maybe 5ish years ago. 

fantasyflyte

@acleverusername I've been trying my hand at different types of clothes. I made myself a pajama set, and made a button down shirt for my dad's bday. I'm almost done with a button down for my husband (planned to finish tonight but migraine had other plans) and going to make a shirt for my brother for HIS bday, and have the fabric to try a couple kinds of dresses for myself.

fameonmain2

@bows22 ah that makes a lot more sense! Not sure I've ever really seen one haha