TTC Girl - February 2012

[prayforprincess]

Ok so I have no idea. My gut tells me there is no way I am o-ing this early(cd11), but who know's.
My dh came home last night and we just dtd at 11pm w/ no sylk (I had used a full app. of rephresh at 3pm yesterday) and I jumped and dumped 1 minutes after. I took my temp. this morning and it went down nearly .4 degrees! Since cd1 I have been 97.75-97.82 everyday. Yesterday I was 97.88 and this morning I was 97.51. So there was a dip down and we dtd again this morning with Sylk (my dh hates the lube and said no more, so I am just using rephresh from now on). I did not j&d, just laid there for 20 minutes before getting up.
And get this: I took the opk yesterday at 5:30 and -. Then I took another at 10pm and it was negative but when I took the stick out (its digital smiley) the blue dye was all smeared on the test screen. Then when I woke I took another before we dtd because my temp went low and I thought maybe I would get a + cause my cm is still really watery with a little stretch, and the f*#^ing thing showed the "book" symbol on the screen. Meaning the base is broken and do not use anymore test stripes with this tester. Are you kidding me??? Now I can't take any of those negative reading for real b/c the thing is broken. I have been using these for months, no problem. The one time it counts - the crap thing breaks on me. You can't make this up.
So now I can't rely on opk's. WTF! Who knows now when I am o-ing. I will stay ontop of my cm and buy another digital today to keep testing just in case I have not o'ed yet. I don't wanna stress about it -- what can I do? My dh is not sleeping in NYC tonight, he is driving home. So we are just going to dtd again tonight and every night until my temps and cm confirm ovulation is over. I don't want to assume this is o and stop bd-ing in a day or two and then potentially miss o-ing early next week if this was not o. And I don't want to not dtd now when this very well could be o.
So, I am just going to dtd straight thru every night. I don't see how I have any other option because I do not want to miss out on trying this month. My only concern -- he has only been fr-ing for 6 days straight (from cd4-10) before we began to dtd last night. Is that terrible? Already this am tho he is saying its getting hard. I'm thinking good, that means low testosterone.
Do you all think all this bd-ing is ruining my sway? I am soooo strict on the diet and have been for 8 weeks. I am using rephresh, taking saw palmetto and zyrtec. Dh has been having no meat for 8 weeks and taking cranberry daily and LR 1-2xday. Though I have to say that the cranberry and diet is not bringing his ph down one bit.
Anyway, do you think I am still doing a strong sway even though we are bd-ing 1-2xdaily for a full week??
This is not how I envisioned it -- what can I do but go with it.

[littlemissnaughty7]

we are only doing a one attempt though hun and we have already done it with that awful stressed attempt this morning, could i really have already O on cd 8/9 ????? i dont know what to think, can a sore thraot raise your temp ??

[prayforprincess]

Illness can raise your temp.
I am asking myself the same thing....can I really o on cd11 or 12? I am always always 16 or 17. Certainly never earlier than 14.
I don't know what to say, anything is possible. And on this diet and taking the supplements it could definitely mess up your cycle. Which is a good thing I suppose, but makes it hard to time bding.

[auroara78]

LMN7, I think a sore throat can raise temp some. I don't personally believe you O'ed, as you had super neg OPK? I mean it could have happened but I believe with clomid it would have been more obvious than that?

Pray for Princess, I don't believe you are O'ing this early yet either, though I did O on CD12 on my BFP cycle. I would do what you're planing to do: keep up the Rephresh, DTD every night until you've confirmed you've O'ed.

KD, that progesterone level is great! Hopefully it's because of a pregnancy! I have never been told any progesterone levels, so I don't know what to compare that too, but it sounds a lot better than the 8 you had last month!

Peony, YAY! So glad to see you around again! Your attempt is coming up real soon, huh?

I really do hope Surgena is OK. I'm hoping she just had to had to take some time off the forums because of frustration....

Lemon, I hope you get a BFP this cycle! Barely neg OPK is when there are two lines but the test line is still lighter than the reference line, meaning there is probably some LH going, but it's not the 'full surge'. I took the OPK though when I had really diluated urine, so if I had held it, it prob. would have certainly been a pos.

And to everyone else that I missed, sorry....preggy brain is hitting me again...good luck everyone else with attempts and what not....

[littlemissnaughty7]

prayforprincess hun im hoping neither of us have ovulated yet and that its just a scare, il get my DH to FR every day now 2 x a day god i hope he can do it lol,

[littlemissnaughty7]

im hoping your right auroara just the thought of messing it all up on my first attempt is killing me,

[prayforprincess]

Littlemiss- as long as dh is releasing 1-2xday you'll be fine -- you did not mess anything up.

[HopeandDreamG]

Hi everyone. I haven't been on in two days and its been busy. Will read through when I have time. Its hard right now I had a small procedure on my eye lid and it got so swollen its completely bothering me, I can hardly see. I thought it would be so simple, I would never have done this right before my attempt if I knew my eye would totally blow up. Stress I just don't need right now.

I started a thread some of you may have seen- I am going to go through with the attempt. Started the clomid on CD 3. Everything about the sway so far is so strong I think its probably better to proceed!
Catch up more later.

[suregena]

good luck pinkin!

stilll can't believe no AF surgena...I'd still head down to DR ASAP

Hi, just an update! Still NO AF!!!

Went to the doctor today and going to get a blood test tomorrow.

Edited to add, am on CD43...

[prayforprincess]

anyone ever check their ph after dtd while using rephresh?
I used a whole app. yesterday at 3pm. We dtd last night and again this morning. I checked my ph (which is always 4-5, 5 highest when not dtd) before I hopped in the shower at 11:30 --over 4 hours after dtd this morning; and my ph was 6.
Shouldn't the rephresh be doing its job and bringing my ph back down after dtd?