Temps during cycle?

[atomic sagebrush]

Tell me more about what you're doing to sway. ARe you taking supps? IF so, what?

[belleboi]

I am on the HE diet. Drinking V8, lemon water, pineapple juice, coconut water and gelatin drink when I can stomach it. Oh and ASG once daily. Supps are multi, folic acid, fish oil, l arginine, and lycopene. I'm working out 3x weekly. Mostly heavy weights but my heart rate goes up as a result of it so I'm getting some cardio as well.

[belleboi]

And I just got another positive OPK this morning.

[The Anchor]

Well a + is a +. Was the test line darker than the control line? THAT is a positive. And yes it is very possible that you geared up to O but it didn't. OPKs measure LH. Ov follows the LH surge, usually anywhere from 8 - 48 hours, with 24 being about the average. You may continue to get +OPKs 1, 2 and even 3 days after the LH surge (3 is rare). But you will ovulate within the window after the FIRST +OPK.

I've got to say, looking at your chart, it still doesn't look to me like you've O'd yet. Do you have a history of irregular or anovulatory cycles? I know l-arginine messed up my cycles...

[belleboi]

Before DD#2 I was using a lady comp to track for TTA (talk about a waste of money, lol). my cycles were generally pretty long then too, though. After DD#2 was born, I was on the mini pill and then regular BCP after a year and just stopped taking it early August. My first cycle off of the pill was 35 days long with an O day at CD 20 or 21.

I did use FMU (although I know that's not generally recommended) for my OPK this morning and it was definitely darker than the test line. I just took another OPK at 1pm and it was negative (test line was slightly lighter than control). I'll take another this evening and see what happens. I wish I would have taken one yesterday but I didn't think I'd get a 3rd LH surge! So weird. We will BD tonight just to be safe but I'm getting pretty discouraged here.

[belleboi]

Oh and my CF is really starting to bug me too. I had one day of a bit of EWCM, a few days watery, and now we are back to stickyish-creamyish. I have preseed (honestly I'm considering using a few pinches of BS in it), but I just don't know if this is the optimal time to BD for blue.

[belleboi]

On a sidenote: I didn't take green tea capsules or drink it JUST because I read that it can delay O...since I've seemed to delay O myself, should I get some green tea capsules to help increase EWCM in the meantime? If I do end up Oing soon, will a couple days of green tea make any difference?

[The Anchor]

Preseed should do the trick. You could also take Robitussin in a pinch. I don't think one or two days of green tea will do anything.

[belleboi]

I mentioned this in the other thread as well, but my temp went up a bit this morning, so if it continues to increase it'll mean that I ovulated yesterday(that'll give me just one attempt in the fertile window at O-2 ) We'll see in the next few days, anyway.

[belleboi]

So I've also been stalking the results spreadsheet to try to make myself feel a little better about timing (I KNOW, deep down inside, that it's the least important factor). Anyway, I see that the most successful frequency is 3 times, followed by once, then 2 times is at 50%. Is this correct? I will have a better idea tomorrow, but it's looking like yesterday was indeed my O day (having gobs of creamy CM and cervix is low). I'm feeling fantastically bad about my trouble with + OPKs and not knowing what was going on...resulting in only one attempt. ughhh