@Wishilivedinflorida my husband doesn't even blink with most of my antics anymore.
I drive him BSC with the "do you see a line" business when I test.
Anyway, I just stick the thermometer in. Not the whole thing. Just the tip while still holding the other end. I actually try to keep it still. You don't need to clench or hold it in with kegels. Or at least I dont.
I can't recall why I started temping vaginally. I think it's because most of the girls on TTGP swear it is more accurate. Anyway, orally is just fine. It threw me off the first month vaginally because your temps are a bit higher that way and I think that is the reason you shouldn't temp both vaginal and oral in the same cycle. Plus. Ew.
@iceandsnowflakes29 If my mouth-breathing seems to be an issue, I might try vaginal temping. I promise though to not randomly post that sort of update on here!
CD 19 and still nothing! I actually think I Oed over the weekend but I didn't track at all, but then again I didn't have any usual symptoms. I'm going to use opk's for 2 more days and if nothing then I'm assuming Sunday was the day. Oh well we're TTA until end of July anyway but I still want data for when go time rolls around so we're not wasting time.
@iceandsnowflakes29 I will do a lot of crazy things to TTC, but not that. Besides, if DH ever figured/found out I would never hear the end of it. He already thinks I'm a whackjob with this whole business.
Also, legit question: Obviously the vag is bigger than the thermometer. Do you just sway it to one side or the other? Do you clamp down as best you can with a kegel? How do you actually get a temp?
Well I thought I was 4dpo. But that's up for debate. FF still says 4dpo. But now I wonder if it is 1dpo. But I really need to be 4dpo but if I'm 1dpo then my pineapple core schedule just went to the shitter. Crap.
Took OPKS, got a positive, I had all the bells and whistles of O then not. Then had all the bells and whistles again with another darker opk. This one looks like the test line is leeching dye from the control line. WTF.
I need to just slowly back away from the chart. WHY am I still taking OPKS?! I have almost burned through a PACK of TWENTY OPKS PLUS in a moment of weakness/ insanity I took the free HPT that came with them. I have TWO OPKS left.
/end vent.
OH ETA not to mention I spent 15 mins at 6:30 a.m. this morning making DH compare and decipher all my charts and comparing them to the current. He kindly told me he was clueless and I went into a big long spill on charting 101 only to confuse him MOAR. He works at an engineering firm. This should be a cake walk.
Okay, joking aside, I think I might be a victim of false surges. Does anybody else have this? Does anyone more versed on OPKS know if this signals a problem?
I TEMPED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THIS MORNING! Orally. The dot on my Kindara chart is big deals!!!
Only 29 more mornings & dots to go!
Congrats!!! If you're anything like me you'll continuously go look at this dot and subsequent dots more than once per day, as if something is going to magically change/appear on your chart
I TEMPED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THIS MORNING! Orally. The dot on my Kindara chart is big deals!!!
Only 29 more mornings & dots to go!
Congrats!!! If you're anything like me you'll continuously go look at this dot and subsequent dots more than once per day, as if something is going to magically change/appear on your chart
YES.....I am always comparing dots to previous cycles. Chart overlay is so bad for my BSC
@dubcompanion- I hate charting CM, I can never figure out what exactly is watery. I don't really have much EWCM so I just figure anything that isn't creamy/sticky to be watery? Sticky or creamy is a little bit more to figure out.
Wth is the difference between creamy and sticky anyway?? I am terrible at figuring out CM - half the time I swear it's watery in my luteal phase anyway.
@dubcompanion Welcome to the wonderful world of charting. Sit and stare and compare and then do it all over again thirty minutes later!
Renee, 34 + Devon, 29 married 08/13 TTC 09/15 *TW Loss mentioned* BFP 12/15/15 EDD: 08/26/16 MMC discovered 1/25/16 at 9 +3 TTCAL 3/2016 Acupuncture 11/16 Dx December 2016: unexplained January 2017: 50 mg Clomid + TI = BFP #2 01/30/17 Please be a sticky baby! EDD: 10/15/17 Measuring ahead! 10/12/17 Ambrose born on his due date!
@reneeannemm Also add in the constant switching of positions to see if you're abdomen is crampy in *this* position, or the endless boob-grabbing and nipple-tweaking to see if they're sorer than 5 minutes ago. Dear god, SOS...
@iceandsnowflakes29 Put the OPKs down. Slowly back away. Find something fun to watch on TV or a website to get lost reading in for hours.
@iceandsnowflakes29 Totally unrelated, what's your home address? I'm honestly not about to send out a SWAT team that'll burst through your windows, confiscate your OPKs and computer, and drag you to a rec center to run your anxiety off.
@iceandsnowflakes29Poor you, no wonder why you can't find any distractions. I'm not one to talk. My address is very similar, except it's 623 bum fuck IA
@iceandsnowflakes29 and @dubcompanion I'm from Bum fuck NY originally- we exploded when we got a Walmart when I was in high school if that gives you the idea of our bumfuckery.
@iceandsnowflakes29@JDMRS We recently got an automated carwash. That was like, a really big deal. It made the front page of the local newsletter. We don't even get a newspaper. It's a newsletter, front and back.
Thankfully, we have a city to seek refuge in 20 miles away. It's actually the largest city in Iowa! But, it's Iowa so, I can't really talk that up either, lol.
Okay, joking aside, I think I might be a victim of false surges. Does anybody else have this? Does anyone more versed on OPKS know if this signals a problem?
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I wish I could use the hand raising emoji, but me me, I do with the false surges. Definitely turned an OPK twice last month CD17 & CD19, went to the OB for a blood draw and nope no O, just a false surge. Womp, womp
DH - 34, Me - 32 Married 7/13 TTC #1 since 10/13 BFP 2/4/15, MC twin boys at 18w3d 5/15 IUI #1 2/25/16
@dubcompanion Totally cracked up over your man juice comment and I've been trying to figure out what HIO stands for (looks like it might be the same as BD) but this was the only explanation I could find was in Urban Dictionary...Having Intercourse Outside....is that what you meant!!?! Lol
@SoonToBeMommaHowe It's hump it out! I used to think it was "hit it up" which I realize doesn't make a lick of sense. You could do it outside, that would work, too.
Renee, 34 + Devon, 29 married 08/13 TTC 09/15 *TW Loss mentioned* BFP 12/15/15 EDD: 08/26/16 MMC discovered 1/25/16 at 9 +3 TTCAL 3/2016 Acupuncture 11/16 Dx December 2016: unexplained January 2017: 50 mg Clomid + TI = BFP #2 01/30/17 Please be a sticky baby! EDD: 10/15/17 Measuring ahead! 10/12/17 Ambrose born on his due date!
@iceandsnowflakes29 I went to undergrad in BFE Kentucky too. Where a Buffalo Wild Wings was the biggest thing for a decade
Me: 30 DH: 31 Married: 11.12.11 TTC: Nov 2015 BFP #1: 1.22.16 MMC: 2.29.16 ( tetrasomy 11, partial deletion 1, XXX) D&C: 3.2.16 BFP #2: 4.14.16 CP: 4.17.16 BFP #3: 6.10.2016 CP: 6.17.2016 RE appt: 6.27.2016- saline sono all clear Chromosome karyotype- Normal both me and DH Progenity: + carrier Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's, hemachromatosis. DH: carrier Alpha 1 anti-trypsin Clomid + TI Cycle #1: pending 8.15.16 Fur mom to 2 sled masters: an Alaskan malamute and a malamute wolf hybrid half marathon running, surgery loving trauma hand and reconstructive plastic surgery PA-C PCOS, hypothyroid, MTHFR, hx of LEEP in 2006
Re: ^^^June Waiting to O^^^
I drive him BSC with the "do you see a line" business when I test.
Anyway, I just stick the thermometer in. Not the whole thing. Just the tip while still holding the other end. I actually try to keep it still. You don't need to clench or hold it in with kegels. Or at least I dont.
I can't recall why I started temping vaginally. I think it's because most of the girls on TTGP swear it is more accurate. Anyway, orally is just fine. It threw me off the first month vaginally because your temps are a bit higher that way and I think that is the reason you shouldn't temp both vaginal and oral in the same cycle. Plus. Ew.
@iceandsnowflakes29 If my mouth-breathing seems to be an issue, I might try vaginal temping. I promise though to not randomly post that sort of update on here!
"CD 10 here. Time to start temping the vag."
"......."
"Guys? Is this thing still on?"
Married 10/12
DS 11/14
Ectopic 2/16
PCOS/Ovulation Dysfunction 11/16
IUI x 3- BFN
Laparoscopy 3/17 Endo and tubal damage
IVF- 4/17- 40 eggs retrieved, 10 blasts, 7 pgs tested embryos
FET- 6/17- BFP!
Due Feb 15, 2017
same. same.
Took OPKS, got a positive, I had all the bells and whistles of O then not. Then had all the bells and whistles again with another darker opk. This one looks like the test line is leeching dye from the control line. WTF.
I need to just slowly back away from the chart. WHY am I still taking OPKS?! I have almost burned through a PACK of TWENTY OPKS PLUS in a moment of weakness/ insanity I took the free HPT that came with them. I have TWO OPKS left.
/end vent.
OH ETA not to mention I spent 15 mins at 6:30 a.m. this morning making DH compare and decipher all my charts and comparing them to the current. He kindly told me he was clueless and I went into a big long spill on charting 101 only to confuse him MOAR. He works at an engineering firm. This should be a cake walk.
Time to go clean all the things
@crazypt2285 I'm glad I'm not the only one TTA and temping/charting
Edited: because TB mobile is a PITA and hates when I try to use emojis
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Only 29 more mornings & dots to go!
@Wishilivedinflorida Another über exciting checkmark is "Would I consider this CM texture to be sticky or creamy?"
YES.....I am always comparing dots to previous cycles. Chart overlay is so bad for my BSC
@dubcompanion- I hate charting CM, I can never figure out what exactly is watery. I don't really have much EWCM so I just figure anything that isn't creamy/sticky to be watery? Sticky or creamy is a little bit more to figure out.
I totally believe that temping is gonna make me go full-on BSC; on the plus side, I'll go BSC with data that should be pretty objective.
@dubcompanion Welcome to the wonderful world of charting. Sit and stare and compare and then do it all over again thirty minutes later!
TTC 09/15
*TW Loss mentioned*
BFP 12/15/15 EDD: 08/26/16
MMC discovered 1/25/16 at 9 +3
TTCAL 3/2016
Acupuncture 11/16
Dx December 2016: unexplained
January 2017: 50 mg Clomid + TI =
BFP #2 01/30/17 Please be a sticky baby!
EDD: 10/15/17 Measuring ahead! 10/12/17
Ambrose born on his due date!
@iceandsnowflakes29 Put the OPKs down. Slowly back away. Find something fun to watch on TV or a website to get lost reading in for hours.
You're right. I need distraction. I've been Googling and I almost called my OB. Which is just insane.
I'm actually working for the US census.
I'm from Bum fuck NY originally- we exploded when we got a Walmart when I was in high school if that gives you the idea of our bumfuckery.
Thankfully, we have a city to seek refuge in 20 miles away. It's actually the largest city in Iowa! But, it's Iowa so, I can't really talk that up either, lol.
Married 7/13
TTC #1 since 10/13
BFP 2/4/15, MC twin boys at 18w3d 5/15
IUI #1 2/25/16
Married 7/13
TTC #1 since 10/13
BFP 2/4/15, MC twin boys at 18w3d 5/15
IUI #1 2/25/16
TTC 09/15
*TW Loss mentioned*
BFP 12/15/15 EDD: 08/26/16
MMC discovered 1/25/16 at 9 +3
TTCAL 3/2016
Acupuncture 11/16
Dx December 2016: unexplained
January 2017: 50 mg Clomid + TI =
BFP #2 01/30/17 Please be a sticky baby!
EDD: 10/15/17 Measuring ahead! 10/12/17
Ambrose born on his due date!
Married: 11.12.11
TTC: Nov 2015
BFP #1: 1.22.16 MMC: 2.29.16 ( tetrasomy 11, partial deletion 1, XXX)
D&C: 3.2.16
BFP #2: 4.14.16 CP: 4.17.16
BFP #3: 6.10.2016 CP: 6.17.2016
RE appt: 6.27.2016- saline sono all clear
Chromosome karyotype- Normal both me and DH
Progenity: + carrier Tay-Sachs, Gaucher's, hemachromatosis. DH: carrier Alpha 1 anti-trypsin
Clomid + TI Cycle #1: pending 8.15.16
Fur mom to 2 sled masters: an Alaskan malamute and a malamute wolf hybrid
half marathon running, surgery loving trauma hand and reconstructive plastic surgery PA-C
PCOS, hypothyroid, MTHFR, hx of LEEP in 2006