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Pregnant after a Loss
rosegoldgirl
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Long follicular phase?
rosegoldgirl
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Have any of you lovely ladies had a long follicular phase? I haven't properly tracked in about a year as it was adding a lot of stress, but I am going to start again next cycle. We have been TTC for 3 years and I've had 3 losses (very early losses), all last year. Since my last one in December, I haven't been successful at getting preggerz again.
I have had my progesterone levels checked for 3 months now, one week post ovulation each time (all numbers have been good so far). I determined I was ovulating by the cervical mucus, and only that. This month, I decided to do an OPK. I took it last Wed and it was positive (not super light, not super dark). I didn't have any mucus until a few days ago, and yesterday I had quite a bit. Today I (think) I had the "fertile" mucus; clear and stretchy. I'm 17 days into my cycle, and I have been getting a positive ovulation test for at least a week. That's a long time isn't it??? I mean from what I've read, the follicular phase can be pretty long, but I thought an LH surge should be less than a week? Why is the menstrual cycle so confusing?! Haha
Anyway, the question is: what can be done about that if that is the case? If my follicular phase is sometimes too long, is there something my RE might have me take? I left them a message and am waiting to hear back, but I always value your thoughts too!
I have had my progesterone levels checked for 3 months now, one week post ovulation each time (all numbers have been good so far). I determined I was ovulating by the cervical mucus, and only that. This month, I decided to do an OPK. I took it last Wed and it was positive (not super light, not super dark). I didn't have any mucus until a few days ago, and yesterday I had quite a bit. Today I (think) I had the "fertile" mucus; clear and stretchy. I'm 17 days into my cycle, and I have been getting a positive ovulation test for at least a week. That's a long time isn't it??? I mean from what I've read, the follicular phase can be pretty long, but I thought an LH surge should be less than a week? Why is the menstrual cycle so confusing?! Haha
Anyway, the question is: what can be done about that if that is the case? If my follicular phase is sometimes too long, is there something my RE might have me take? I left them a message and am waiting to hear back, but I always value your thoughts too!
Re: Long follicular phase?
The next month I had a short rise and one day peak on CD 16 and I got pregnant. I temped that month, too, though I'm not sure it made a difference.
From what I've read, follicular phases are highly variable and generally the variability isn't something you need to correct--though it's super frustrating because you're not sure about timing and why people usually suggest you temp to confirm actual ovulation.
This is a long way of saying, I think you're probably ok with a long follicular phase and maybe try temping?
It's been so long since I've really tracked my cycle (temping, etc), so the details are fuzzy to me. I remember that your temp is low for the first half of the cycle, then starts to increase. Then if you're pregnant, the temp continues to increase at the time when it would normally start to decrease. Is that correct? What part of temping tells you that you are ovulating? I can't remember that part.