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@Maiden - LOL on Craigslist Casual Encounters!! I used to love going on there with friends and looking at posts - you're right, there are so many funny ones on there! I also used to get on Missed Connections just to see if anyone was trying to find me! [emoji23] Good luck! I hope you feel better and are able to get some attempts in!
Stalking this thread all the time - wishing the best for ALL of you and BFPs with sticky beans!
Team green baby due May 21! [emoji170][emoji166]
Temps are lower this cycle, last cycle but I had chemical temps spiked. But I looked back at when I conceived DS and they were kinda low too. I'm just worryin myself
When I had an early m/c before DS, my temps were flat and almost the same pre o and after o, it's strange how it is almost the same.
I was hoping for bigger spike. Thinking about testing at 7 for rest of cycle now. Sick of waking up at 5:30 am and thinking Attachment 30515
Thanks taytum
How is team green? I think I will go team green next
Jenny, do you have PCOS or PCOS tendencies?
Had post +OPK bloodwork done this morning (RE isn't open on Sundays) and I think it is safe to say I already ovulated. My LH hormone is down and my progesterone has already started to rise (2.81). I will try for another attempt tonight to make it 4 attempts in the fertile window. Fingers crossed for good progesterone levels during my LP so I don't have to supplement. Should be testing starting on 4/6, guess we need an April 2WW thread. :)
Anyone ever taken clomid without prescription? Not attempting to try just wanted to see if anyone ever done so.
Hiya,Quote:
Originally Posted by maidentomother
I think I have some pcos tendencies. When I first started the le diet and was eating so many white carbs, I was losing about 1lb a month! Even with exercise!! When I started bringing some brown carbs back in, the weight definitely started to come off again.
Am having more protein than before, but still vegetarian and skipping breakfast. It's a bit of a mixed up version of the diet, but is allowing weight loss!
Quick question for clomid users, does clomid affect your temps? Mine seem quite high still compared to usual?
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Princess, many of us have (I can think of at least a dozen cases) used Clomid without a script, including myself. It is a very safe drug when used at lower doses especially.
Jenny, sounds like it's good you switched away from standard LE/refined carbs. I've begun to wonder if PCOS/tendencies ladies who say properly have a better chance at pink than other multi boy moms, as a big factor that was swaying blue for them is cancelled by the diet/exercise. It's the obsessive/anxious, always been thin, high metabolism, very fertile boy moms that seem to be the most 'set' for blue in ways that swaying can't change as much. Sucks for us, but I'm glad for you. ;)
Yes, temps while taking Clomid will be significantly elevated, and can remain so for several days after. It's why I didn't temp for so long this cycle - my temps were crazy high, well into post O range. My temps never got as low as they usually did last time, and it looks like this Clomid cycle will be the same. Even the cycle after Clomid, my pre O temps were higher than usual. You will still see a shift but it may be subtle and you may not have enough low pre O temps to suit traditional FAM rules.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pbn3
Thanks maiden! If need be I'll remove some temps once I see a shift that coincides with my cm/cp (which was right for o day last cycle regardless of no temp shift for 2 days). I was really hoping for a decent maintained spike for once lol but I guess I'll wait and see 😊
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Where would I be able to purchased from? Doc says there no reason for me to be on it
No but I took a little bit more then prescribed one cycle. Still was a BFNQuote:
Originally Posted by Princess Mom
Well AF is here!!! Cd1 today.
Discussion has come back up again at home about HT. I have no idea what to do, I have embryos here I don't want to waste but I really really want a girl. It's a lot of money but it's doable but the whole thought of doing IVF again and overseas sounds so stressful! Part of me just wants to be pregnant now!!
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I have never tempted so I'm no help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pbn3
Woohoo for af finally here Magical!!! As for your decision whether to go ht, boy oh boy I don't envy you having to decide. All I can say is if this is definately your last child and you really want a girl and can make ht happen then I'd probably lean towards that. If for some reason ht wasn't successful (god forbid) then you still have a frosty as back up. How long time wise would you be looking at if you went ht?
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June/July so not far but I just don't know if I want to, I'm so over IVF, drugs, dr appts the stress. I just want to be pregnant I think I just want to give these 2 embryos a chance and then if they don't work I'll be done. It is definitely our last I don't want anymore. I think if this was a possibility last year I might have done it now I'm a bit worn down. Plus HT prices have gone up a few thousand this year which is like $5k more Aussie so around $25k totalQuote:
Originally Posted by Pbn3
I really hope your embie is a girl, Magical. Glad AF came.
Princess, I'll pm you, you can order Clomid from overseas in the US.
I had a HUGE temp dip this morning (almost exact same temp when I got a big dip the day before O my last time on Clomid the cycle before last) and I've got TONS of EWCM. I inseminated this morning too. Im on CD14. If this cycle is like my other one, I should get my positive OPK today and O tomorrow. I was super careful to get it deep inside me.
I do have 2 concerns - 1. I've been having bad O pain since 6am, hope I'm not Oing now and 2.Even though my donor claims he last ejaculated 3 days ago, the volume was really low, just 1ml. I'm afraid I lost tons of sperm to the inside of the syringe. It kind of coated the entire 10ml syringe bc in order to suck up all the semen I had to suck in a lot of air. Do you think I should try rinsing the syringe out with a little distilled water and squirting that up me? He already has low count so I really want every sperm!
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Thank youQuote:
Originally Posted by maidentomother
I'd be afraid it would just wash the sperm out, I would just leave it, can you insert some more in two days time?
I would highly recommend it! I had a lot of anxiety during NT and anatomy scans looking for clues, but now with about 50 days to go, I've just been enjoying it! Allows me to look at both opportunities throughout the pregnancy and I know when Doctor pulls baby out and says, "It's a...!" I won't have to worry about GD. Just glad I got to enjoy every bit of this pregnancy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Princess Mom
Magical, I was thinking of doing it now, 2.5 hours after insemination. I've been lying down that whole time. My plan is to go pee, then rinse out the syringe with a little distilled wayer (and maybe add a little sperm friendly lube?) And squirt. Or are any sperm already dead bc of the fluid drying up for the most part?
I'm pretty sure I will O tomorrow, possibly sooner, so time is of the essence - in 2 days will be too late. I will try for another attempt tonight or tomorrow am but I'm worried his sperm count and volume will be badly affected. I'll still try though.
Thanks maiden
OPKs are still negative (getting lighter in fact!) and am now on my sixth day of a high reading. Pretty sure I'm not going to O anytime soon. :/ Oh well.
Maiden I would think the water would wash away the sperm but I guess it wouldn't hurt to try? Hopefully you inseminated with enough swimmers to conceive. I'll keep my fingers crossed you'll be able to get in at least one more attempt!
I didn't end up rinsing. I think you ladies are probably right about it washing sperm away. I really appreciate the input.
ksmom, I bet you'll see a positive and O in the next few days. But I know how frustrating it is when OPKs suggest O isn't yet imminent. I've had them fade out for a day or two before suddenly turning positive out of the blue, and I suspect that's what will happen this cycle to you.
My OPKs have been looking like they typically do 1-2 days before I get my positive...for 5 days in a row, with absolutely no progression. Every day exactly the same darkness. Very strange and stressful.
Thanks Maiden, I hope so! It *feels* like O is near because my left ovary is going crazy with all these painful twinges and my cervix went from MF to HSO. The night of our attempt on cd14 I had no fertile cm at all...it was more like how it is post-O so I don't know how sperm friendly it would have been. It went back to egg white yesterday. I'm trying to stick with E4D so if I don't get a pos. OPK or O by Thursday then we'll BD again. I just want to O already so I can get through the TWW sooner! lol It sounds like O is very close for you so FX it will happen soon. I hate when OPKs stay the same darkness! I've had that happen in many of my cycles and it drives me nuts. Would Clomid be causing that for you?
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My temps are so strange this cycle
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Sorry I haven't been in to post, we have had a couple of busy days catching up with family over Easter & celebrating dd3's 3rd birthday as well. I have posted a link to my chart below for those on tapatalk. Chart looks better if I leave it on advanced settings but if I change it to FAM & it changes my o day to cd20 my chart doesn't look as good. Either way my temp hasn't stayed high anyway. Think I'm out this month, no real symptoms except some uncomfortable cramping, but (sorry tmi) I have had some extra wind to get rid of too so maybe related to that. Did an ic hpt & a prognosis early mid ****** test & bfn.
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This is my chart if I change to fam setting
Princess - I think your chart is looking good. FX for you.
Ksmom - Fx that you o soon.
Maiden - sounds like you are close to o as well. Hope you can get more swimmers in there & it leads to a bfp.
Magical - so glad AF finally came. HT certainly is expensive, I didn't realise just how much it may cost.
Pbn - So happy you didn't get any bad side effects from the clomid, keeping my fx it helps you get a bfp this cycle.
Maiden hope you get the extra insemination in and something is always better than nothing. Even if its so soon after his last release there may very well still be some viable swimmers and the more the better. Really hoping he makes this happen for you!
Ksmom really hope you get a strong pos over the next few days and get into the 2ww!
Princessmom even though its far to early to scrutinize your temps I say anything different or strange is great! Looking forward to watching your chart over the next week!
Farmgirl thank you! And its still early for a bfp and I found pregnisos hpts useless in my case! I was getting a nice line on my frer during my bfp cycle yet my pregnisos test done with same urine was so faint I would've been on the fence if I seen something or not! That was my experience with them although it may be different for others :) still think you oed either cd18 or 19 :) fx for testing over the next few days!
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Thanks!
And farm girl I wouldn't worry about symptoms so early! Best of luck
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My chart is very different
Ksmom, nice temp dip today! I do think my weird not progressing OPKs are likely due to the Clomid. I've never had OPKs do this before. Still no positive today. :( I guess I won't be Oing any earlier.
Farmgirl, I think your chart looks good either way. Fx you get a BFP soon. It may be too early if you Oed later.
Princess your chart looks great!
My plan is to inseminate again tonight and sometime tomorrow. My temp was very low again today.
Good Luck Maiden, hopefully you O soon.
Chart looks good so far PrincessMom.
AFM, my bloodwork came back from testing after +OPK. The Estradiol was low, 112.0, which RE says it should be closer to 200 but I think it's lower because I had already started to ovulate. (First positive OPK was late evening Saturday, Sunday was also positive, and then bloodwork was taken Monday). The RE said even if I had started to ovulate already that the number wouldn't drop that quick. Get a 7 days past +OPK Progesterone test on Monday.
Oddly enough these numbers match almost exactly to my numbers in December (again I got the +OPK over the weekend and had to wait til Monday to draw bloodwork that month also.) Just worries me since December is the month I got pregnant and miscarried. So maybe my numbers being low is what caused the miscarriage in the first place or maybe the numbers are low because I had to wait to get the bloodwork taken both months. Hate the unknown! :)
Tfhan hope everything works out
tfahn, I hate to say it, but maybe you haven't Oed yet? I would keep BDing given your temps.
I just got a slightly darker OPK. Maybe I'll get my positive tomorrow? Been having crazy O pains for days now! Tons of EWCM today.
Feel like crap today really down was really hoping that I would get pregnant this time even though I was kinda hoping I wouldn't because I didn't think I was swaying pink. To not makes me really panic! I'm 36 just now and have an Amh of 6.5 even though my fsh levels and everything else is normal. I feel like I have no chance of getting pregnant again and even less chance of it being a girl. I'm so crap at avoiding or measuring anything food related especially in the job I have. Has anyone got any ideas of what to try and definitely avoid food wise that's boy food and I can at least try that. Did a pregnancy test on Friday and it was negative due to start tomorrow and normally I would have cramps by now but I haven't got any. Even though I know I'm not pregnant I still can't help but hope ... Looking at all these babies and pregnant people is driving me mad as is being surrounded by baby clothes!! I have some gonal f left over from pervious ivf should I try taking some on my next cycle only got 200 iu left so would only be a low dose. Think that would jig my ovaries up?
Pinklady I'm sorry :( in relation to the food all I can suggest is staying away from high protein foods and high fat foods. Example meat, soy vegetarian ready to eat things, pastries, eggs. I gave all my baby clothes to charity. I had been holding onto them waiting for dc3 but couldn't take having them piled up in the cupboard anymore. Now if I get a bfp I get to buy some new outfits :) maybe even pink ones!! Also the same day I sorted them out I picked my son up from kindy and no word of a lie, the first three women (mums) I passed by were all at different stages of pregnancy!! I'm not sure about the gonal - I know nothing about it but I'm also one of those people who wont take medication of any kind unless its docs orders lol but hopefully someone else experienced with it can say if its a good idea to use or not :)
Tfahn how frustrating!! *sigh why cant things just run to plan :( be interesting to see what Mondays results are.
Maiden will you wait and inseminate at pos opk now?
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It's really strange you should say that actually because I did the exact same thing. Pulled out all my boys old baby clothes mostly cream and White id been saving and a few pink things I had bought when I still believed that having a girl was going to happen and gave them to charity . Dragged the cot out dismembered it and now it sits looking at me on the landing every day. I will try with the diet although I've eaten my own body weight in chocolate the last few days I get so down and then the chocolate monster comes out. Thanks for the reply feel like I'm getting nothing fromy other half at the minute. He knows why I'm down but just avoids talking to me as usual about it and I'm sick of being the only one that ever brings it up xQuote:
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Maiden - hope you o soon.
Tfahn - fx for you.
Pinklady - so sorry you're feeling so down. AF is due for me tomorrow or Saturday so I'm feeling kind of the same. Still hopeful that I'm pregnant. I haven't been game to test with a frer, just been using ic's each morning. Can't face a bfn on a frer. If my temp goes way up tomorrow I may otherwise will just wait & see what Saturday's temp is. Should drop the day before AF but I have had a past cycle or two where it hasn't dropped until day of AF. Have had some cramping the last couple of days but from the last cycle or two that could just be getting ready for AF. I feel a bit 'wet' down there but have hayfever today so no doubt is just excess mucus down there too. Not feeling anything else, no queasiness or anything.