Trying to Get Pregnant
crookshanks10
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WTO Mon 3/26
crookshanks10
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Month/Cycle:
CD:
WAYDTGKU:
R/R:
CS/Q:
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert?
Month/Cycle:
CD:
WAYDTGKU:
R/R:
CS/Q:
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert?
Re: WTO Mon 3/26
CD: 4
WAYDTGKU: Nothing while AF is in town.
R/R: Made a bit of a social blunder at work this morning and I am torturing myself for it. We are a very friendly and informal lot, but I may have pushed the boundaries with one of our lab techs by playfully tapping him on the back of the head for not complimenting a co-worker on her hair cut. He was already in a bad mood and I made it worse. So I have been internally chastising myself and feeling ashamed as usual.
CS/Q: -
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert? 30 days without my phone. Not a problem. I usually only use it for texting my fiance and GPS. We are old school and still have a house phone so communication wouldn't be an issue.
Month/Cycle: 5/6
CD: 18... and still waiting on a positive OPK. Any other late Oers out there?! UGH!
WAYDTGKU: Charting, PNVs, OPKs, Temping, HIO of course
R/R: Rant: Hoping to get my postive OPK soon. It's frustrating! Rave: Only 2 days of work this week then heading to the beach for a friend's wedding. Super excited!
CS/Q: Not too much to see.
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert? Definitely 30 days without my phone. I can't imagine a life without sweets!
@meri-mac I’m with @meladams10 . You’ll probably be upset about it way longer than he will. I’m a hot mess when it comes to socializing and I have to constantly stop myself from completely over analyzing every social situation. But I have found people are more forgiving of my awkward than I am of myself. You never know, he may be embarrassed he reacted poorly because of his bad mood.
Month/Cycle: 2/2
CD: 26
WAYDTGKU: Opk, pnv, preseed
R/R: It’s mh ‘s birthday! I love birthdays. I’m making pasta and cupcakes and we’ll probably have some wine so it’ll be a nice evening. He’s upset that he’s “old” now though.
CS/Q: Hanging here for one more negative Opk then I’ll head to tww.
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert?
30 days without my phone for sure. It would probably be hard for a few days but honestly it might be a relief to go back to simpler times (aka the 90s lol).
@rosebud332 That is what I am repeating to myself. He reminds me of my older brother so that contributed to my "inappropriate" gesture. I hope YH has a great birthday despite the fact that he is "old"
@meri-mac FF was definitely off for me for a couple months and I didn't know until I started using OPKs. Super glad that OPKs exist! Hopefully with your new strategy, you'll get a BFP!
Question: What is everyone's thoughts on alcohol intake during the FW/Ovulation period?
CD: 1
WAYDTGKU: pnv, opks, bd, charting
R/R: rant - see CD1. But, at least I know 1) I did ovulate and 2) my cycle wasn't a weird length, which are both good considering I was irregular before the pill.
rave - it's gorgeous out today and supposed to get to spring temperatures this week! And I feel better about work and life in general after going back on my one med this weekend. And DH and I are having a date night tonight and making prime rib (or at least trying to for the first time!).
CS/Q: nothing to see yet
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert?
This is a hard one. On the one hand, I'm fairly addicted to my phone and going without dessert forever would definitely make it easier to lose weight. On the other hand, my family is big on the desserts and I've started developing my niche/role as the one who makes over the top decorated desserts for family parties/holidays. For example, I went from "I'll bring a lemon cake to Easter" to being in the store yesterday going "ooooh, I can bake two circle cakes, and cut the middle out of one and stack them, and add fondant and candies and make it an Easter basket cake!" Which of course means I need to make a practice cake this week, a face my husband is not at all sad about.
edited because I apparently can't grammar today, and the bump ate my tags:
@meri-mac I hate when I feel embarrassed about anything, but especially at work. It can be really hard to just let it go and convince myself that no one else is annoyed. I hope it blows over and he was just in a bad mood.
@meladams10 I didn't ovulate until CD21 last cycle, and didn't even really have lines on opks until CD20, so I'm there with you! Fx for a positive in the next few days!
@rosebud332 Happy birthday to YH! Enjoy celebrating tonight!
@fantasyflyte sorry for CD1 but at least you got confirmation that you O'd! That's the best. To me, positive OPKs and 3 sustained temps is almost as exciting as a BFP haha. Our bodies are weird so it's nice when they do what they're supposed to and aren't wonky! I hope you and your DH enjoy your date night! Fx your Easter basket cake turns out beautiful! Share pics! (:
CD:17
WAYDTGKU:bbt,cm,opk,hio
R/R: Opk`s were getting darker between cd10 and cd14 after that they have been getting lighter.
I would say cd 14 I o`d but it wasn`t as dark as it should be to be a positive.
CS/Q:nope
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert? I could go without a phone no problem.
@meladams10 waiting for the O is so frustrating. At least you’ll be distracted by what sounds like a wonderful break to celebrate and enjoy the beach! I’m of the “drink til it’s pink” mindset, though I haven’t ever gone on a binge drinking bender during this time so I suppose I drink moderately. TW***
@rosebud332 Can I come to the party? That sounds amazing!! Enjoy celebrating mh!
@fantasyflyte Sorry about CD1. At least there’s a silver lining in the timing of things. Hoping to join you soon with knowing where things stand post IUD.
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Month/Cycle: 1/1
CD: ?? Waiting to regulate and for my first AF post-Mirena to figure out my natural cycle off birth control.
WAYDTGKU: temping, OPKs, CM, BDing
R/R: rant - It’s monday. Where did the weekend go?? I’m in denial.
CS/Q: no chart to speak of yet
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert? Hands down no phone for 30 days. It may be tough at first but I think I could totally do it, especially with spring finally peeking out past winter!
Eta- typing on my phone is hard. Maybe I should just give it up per above...
@meladams10 Solidarity sister! Every bride needs that one friend who can actually see straight, hold purses/hair, etc. Have tons of fun!
@Stargazer1lily Fx for you this month!
@LemonofBluebell Maybe I will just try to avoid many drinks, lol. It stinks because it's just not very good timing for a trip away, but I'm going to enjoy it darn it! We're sharing a room with another couple.. HOW in the world am I supposed to temp without them knowing? This is stressful lol.
CD: 18
WAYDTGKU: BBT, CM, BD, OPK
R/R: Rant: Still waiting to O, have no idea when I might.
CS/Q: I don't know if this is even going to work.. EWCM went away and is now back. And sorry I don't know how to hide the chart to people can click to make it show.. my work computer is a piece of crap and the options in the text box don't show up for me.
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert? 30 days without my phone, for sure!
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!@meri-mac I'd be doing the same thing. I overanalyze EVERYTHING.
@meladams10 Hi! Me too, still waiting to O. How frustrating, am I right?
@rosebud332 Happy birthday to your hubby. I just made cupcakes last night! Snickerdoodle ones, they are so good.
@LemonofBluebell I hope your cycle starts for you soon, or regulates I should say.
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!CD:7
WAYDTGKU: BBT, OPK, CM, PNV....
R/R:The smear is happening tonight, I was supposed to stay late at work but I will have to leave at 5:45 because I have cancelled this too many times. I can always come back after (the med centre is literally next door). Cannot wait for this week to be over.
CS/Q:nope
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert? It would be difficult but much rather 30 days without phone. There is no way I would give up dessert.
@meri-mac I still think about social blunders from years ago and want to crawl in a hole and hide there to this day. In general I think its a much bigger deal to you than to them.
@meladams10 hope you get a positive OPK soon, I O around 17 and that makes me impatient enough. Also around FW and in the TWW I just go down to max 1 glass of wine and night and 1 coffee a day. Keeps me sane
@rosebud332 hope he has a nice birthday! Wine and cupcakes sounds great.
@fantasyflyte It is the only bright side of AF, at least it has turned up on time. Regular gives a much better chance of a BFP and the cake sounds amazing.
@LemonofBluebell hope your cycle regulates soon.
@AdorkablePixie you have no idea how long it took me to get FF figures out. I do the screen shot thing as well.
@meladams10 I tried to problem solve your temping quandary in secret under the covers and made myself laugh out loud. But you know what, you got this!! It’s all for the greater cause! Blame hubby’s phone or something on the little beep if you need to.
@meladams10 I can't find an update about the SA results. How did everything go?
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
Month/Cycle: 36/35
CD: 1
WAYDTGKU: Right now just bleeding. But otherwise a huge shopping list of vitamins, supplements, juices, CoQ10, baby aspirin, DHEA, Vit D3, Tumeric in FP and Progesterone in LP.
R/R: Officially on vacation for the next two weeks (rave) but actually need to write my thesis (rant) and have visitors coming for 5/6 days in the middle for Easter. But overall a good day as DH and I did go out for a little dinner and now came home and are watching some old british gardening shows with Alan Titchmarsh to get inspiration for our garden. DH has also done a great job of booking early morning appointments for me each day - 7.30am today was the guy to maintain our walk in wardrobe doors (so I not only had to get up to let him in, but had to have the bedroom tidy by 7.15am in case he was early!) and tomorrow we have a gardening firm coming to measure and discuss options. Again 7.30am. And I need to be ready to walk around outside with him. Awesome... It's still very wintery here. Temperatures barely above freezing. He did make me breakfast in bed Sunday though, so on balance I guess he's still in my good books ;-)
CS/Q: Nope
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert?
Would no dessert also mean no chocolate/sweets for snacks? If so, then I would go without my phone for 30 days. Though it would be tough as I use my phone for work hours every day. But I could pick a month where we take vacation to make it easier. And so long as I could use my ipad for searching hotels, restaurants etc...
@meri-mac I'm also the same as you. Sometimes I act before my brain registers and then kick myself after. Hope it works out ok at work.
@meladams10 ooooh beach wedding sounds like a great way to end the week
@fantasyflyte I too would not be unhappy about having to support by eating practice cake ;-)
@adorkablepixie ok I only just realized you have a k in your name! I also sometimes get a small amount of EWCM when my lead follie starts to take off growing on its own (we know this because of monitoring) but then I get my "full on" EWCM again with ovulation. It's taken 3 years and countless monitored cycles to figure out my "normal" though.
@lemonofbluebell I reckon all the worlds leaders have done something to weekends to make them shorter. Like they've made the world spin faster for those two days and slower for the rest.
Married 12/2016
TTC #1 since 04/2015
AMA, DOR (AMH 0.65, AFC 2-4) and autoimmune issues (RA, APS), low TSH, adenomyosis
7 retrievals, 3 transfers
Nov17 IVF2 - 1ER, 0F
Jan18 IVF3 - 3ER, 1F, 1ET, BFN
Feb18 - second opinion and additional testing
Apr18 IVF4 - cancelled (E2 too high)
May/Jun18 IVF4 - 4ER, 0M, 1F, 1 frozen day 3 (not best quality)
Jun/Jul18 IVF5 - 5 ER, 3M, 2F, 2 frozen day 3 (not best quality)
Jul/Aug18 IVF6 - 4ER, 3M, 2F, 2 frozen day 3 (good quality)
Aug/Sep18 IVF7 - cancelled (cyst)
Sep/Oct18 IVF7 - 3ER, 3M, 2F, 2 frozen Day 3 (excellent quality)
Oct18 IVF8 - Cancelled (cyst and too low TSH)
Oct18-Jan19 bringing TSH under control
Feb19 ERA and hysteroscopy
Mar19 Investigation for fibroid and adenomyosis
Apr19 adenomyosis confirmed, polyps removed
Jun19 FET after 2 months Lupron, autoimmune protocol, transferred two day 3 frozen embryos
Nov17 IVF2 - Pergoveris 2-14 Nov, Orgalutran 5-14 Nov, Ovitrelle 15 Nov, ER 17 Nov for 3 follies, 1 mature egg, did not fertilize
Jan18 IVF3 - Pergoveris 30 Dec - 8 Jan, Orgalutran 5-8 Jan, Ovitrelle 9 Jan, ER 11 Jan 3 eggs, 2 mature, 1 fertilized, ET 1x 4d 12-cell embryo 15/01, 24/01 BFN
May/Jun18 IVF4 - Rekovelle 25-29 May, Menogon 30May - 2Jun, Zomacton 25 27 29 31 May and 2Jun, Cetrotide 30May - 3Jun, Gonasi 3Jun, ER 5Jun 4 eggs, none mature, two matured overnight, 1 fertilized with ICSI, Frozen day 3 but not good quality
Jun/Jul18 IVF5 - Rekovelle 21-24 June, Menogon 25Jun-3Jul, Puregon 4-5Jul, Zomacton 21 23 25 27 29 Jun, Cetrotide 25Jun-5Jul, Gonasi 6Jul, ER 8Jul 5 eggs, 3 mature, 2 fertilized with ICSI, 2 frozen day 3 but not good quality
Jul/Aug18 IVF6 - Rekovelle 26-29 Jul, Menogon 30Jul-7Aug, Buserelin 26Jul-7Aug, Zomacton 26 28 30 Jul 1 3 Aug, Gonasi 7Aug, ER 9Aug 4 eggs, 3 mature, 2 fertilized (normal IVF), 2 frozen day 3 good quality
Sep/Oct18 IVF7 - Menogon 19-30Sep, Buserelin 19-30Sep, Zomacton 19 21 23 25 27 Sep, Ovitrelle 1 Oct, ER 3 eggs, 3 mature, 2 fertilized with ICSI, 2 frozen day 3 excellent quality
Fav Quote: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return
CD: 21... Starting to think I'm not ovulating this month... Usually i ovulate CD 17/18. Ughhhh.
WAYDTGKU: all the things.
R/R: rant: see above. rave: my dh teaches so he's home on string break this week! Yay!
CS/Q:
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert? My phone.
@meri-mac try not to beat yourself up to much. We all have those moments though!
@meladams10 still here waiting as well!
@fantasyflyte sorry about AF. She's a jerk.
@meladams10 fx for a positive OPK soon. Hope you have a great time at the wedding!
@rosebud332 happy bday to YH!
Month/Cycle: 9/9
CD: 12
WAYDTGKU: opk, bbt, pnv
R/R: no rant today... rave: my last electricity bill was through the roof, like $1200. I live in a apartment and nobody is home most of the time as I work long hours. I was freaking out and got it rechecked. Thankfully found out it was an error so can finally relax. Whew . I mean I know I used the heat a lot more than I usually do but still that bill....
CS/Q: nothing to see
GTKY: Would you rather go 30 days without your phone or your entire life without dessert? definitely the phone. What is life without dessert?!
@LemonofBluebell I guess that is what I'll be doing.. pulling the covers over my head and making myself a BBT fort! HAHA!
@suzycupcake The first one had low motility but his second SA was normal! YAY! Since I had the HSG we're going to work hard these next couple months and hopefully have some luck. Thank you for thinking of me!
@emmasemm Enjoy your vacation!
@Kath525 That's so frustrating! Do you typically have months where you don't ovulate?
@nasah15 Thank you!! I'm hoping today I'll get my positive OPK. Last night it was getting darker! I was about to say, $1,200 electricity bill?!?! I would be freaking out too if I received that! I'm glad it was just an error
@emmasemm haha Yes, with a k.
@nasah15 Oh my gosh! I would have had a heart attack if I saw a bill that high. I’m glad you got it figured out and it was just an error.
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!