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mrsmommya
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Am I Crazy?
mrsmommya
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Hello ladies, My name is Ashley I have commented on a handful of posts but now I need some assistance!! Ok so me and DH are using the clearblue easy fertility monitor and it gave us peak days on Sep. 1st and 2nd. We did the BD on the 1st and 3rd (DH is hoping for a boy, no early BDing 
) Anyways FF says my O date is the 3rd, going with the monitor O date of the 1st I am 12 dpo. I was happy cause my temps are higher post O then last month and the past 2 days I have had stomach cramps..which I have never had menstrual cramps...but because I have been on BC maybe that has kept them away (stopped 4 months ago) The cramps are only in the late afternoon and evening...wierd!!! I have had no implantation spotting??? So just your all's opinion based off my chart and the info..I am trying to wait till Friday to test...given my temps stay up and no AF. But I have been soo crazy because of these stomach pains I can't stop thinking about the next mornings temp and wondering all day if this is the day I will start AF....to test or not this early? I don't want to waste tests and become even more crazy!!
<a href="https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/368d09/">My Ovulation Chart</a>
Thanks soo much for your advice!!
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Re: Am I Crazy?
Just wanted to point out that you won't know it's implantation spotting until AFTER you receive a BFP.
yeah I just meant there has been no spotting at all...if the pains are due to implantation???? Yeah my coverline last month was 97.3 and this month it is 97.7 so yeah todays temp. was lower than the past couple days but I guess I am hoping that is due to hopefully implantation. Is this possible..anyone else have this?
Unfortunately, you're going to have to test to know whether you're pregnant. Any other signs can also be PMS. The pill can absolutely minimize PMS symptoms (including cramping), so you may experience things you never did before once you came off.
Lots of women also have psychosomatic symptoms, where they desire to be pregnant so strongly that they start feeling "phantom" pregnancy symptoms, or misinterpreting normal things as signs they're pregnant -- even though they're not. Don't rely on anything other than a positive pregnancy test to make you think you're pregnant.
If you're 12 DPO, you can test (pick up one of the early/sensitive tests). It could come back a BFN though, so test again in a few days.
Mama's Clone - 07/18/12
Implantation spotting is rare. Most women don't experience this (or it's so minuscule that they don't notice it). The absence (or even presence) of spotting after ovulation isn't a reliable indicator of pregnancy.
Mama's Clone - 07/18/12
Implantation spotting isn't a requirement to get pregnant. Given that you are 12 DPO, my guess, again, is that you'll start your period.
This. I mean, there are always exceptions, but I would certainly not be basing a suspicion of pregnancy on stomach cramps that could mean any number of things. If you are this anxious, go ahead and test. It may be too early and you have to keep testing for a few days, but I suspect you'll have your answer sooner rather than later. Also, if you have only been off BC for 4 months, you can't really look at things like coverline and post-O temps as predictors of anything because you can't really have enough charts to detect a reliable, repeated pattern.
I agree. I had a lot of cramps this past cycle...and now I am on CD 5.
This.
That dip doesn't look very promising.
I'm sorry!!
Make a pregnancy ticker
this. sorry
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I would test. If you are 12 dpo you should be far enough along to get a bfp if you're positive. FWIW, nobody thought I had even o'd based on my chart, let alone thought I was pregnant. Even though I had what I was sure was implantation spotting (and it was). Were any of your temps off from sleep deprivation, mouth breathing etc?
You won't know for sure until either you take a test and get a BFP or your period shows up.
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EDD 07/29/2017
AF showed up today which I knew would since my temp dropped again this morning. But the real doozy is my BFF just told me she is pregnant.
Def. a sticky situation...I want to be happy for her but it is hard when we are in this perdicament...not sure how this is going to work out if we don't get pregnant soon.