TTC Girl - January 2012

[pinkin2011]

I was meant to O today but i am not going to be, I hope its tomorrow !

[zanacal]

hey zan didnt realise you only did one attempt on O day, thats what were planning but with abstinance, of about 10-14 days, do you roughly know when you ovulated to when your attempt was, was it a 0+12 ?

I don't know in all honesty! I usually ovulated the evening after the day I got my first +OPK (with 2 days of +OPKs) and I had planned to have my attempt a few hours before O (my timing was for pregnancy and not for swaying as I don't believe timing around O matters at all but I was doing a lot of other stuff which would make it harder to conceive). Obviously my body would decide to do something different the month of our attempt! We DTD at 6am and at 1pm my OPK was negative so I either ovulated during the night just before our attempt, right on top of our attempt, or some time during the day after our attempt!

[prayforprincess]

ARe you taking vitex? Vitex makes my periods like that.

I SERIOUSLY doubt that after 1.5 weeks on diet, you have done ANYTHING to your uterine lining. Even losing 7 pounds (which is not an extreme weight loss for the first two weeks on a diet. And if your period WAS getting lighter because of weight loss, you would also probably NOT be ovulating.

When I lost AF due to extreme weight loss, I had been strictly dieting (much worse diet than the LE Diet BTW) for several months, had gone from 155 lbs to 120, and wanted to get to 115. My ovulation was not affected until I pushed for that last 5 lbs and started exercising 90 min-2 hours a day. I did stop ovulating then and my period was very very light for three months but even though I didn't gain any weight back, my O and period came back perfectly normal after that three months and everything resumed. I have conceived 3 times since then (inc. one set of twins) and I just want to reassure you that even if it is diet, you do not need to worry that it will in any way affect your long term fertility in any way.

Q about your diet - are you getting the 1500-1800 cals, 40-50 g fat, 25-60 g of fat that is recommended? Low everything does not mean NO everything (esp nutrients! you can have some other foods, there are no magic foods!). You cannot be getting enough potassium (you NEED 2500-3500 mg potassium every day) eating only those things. Check out the "quick fixes for diet disasters" thread in the DM section for some ideas. Just by adding a banana a day, you'll up your cals and give yourself some potassium that you desperately need right now.

I am not taking vitex. Maybe its the potassium, I will put a tomato on my dinner tonight. I am eating 1100-1300 calories, roughly 25 grams fat and 40 protein. How do you know when you stopped ovulating? Its just really odd that on cd4 my period is gone. Its not like me at all.

[purple sky]

I agree with Zanacal , 1x a day should be fine. Even though I didn't have my dh start until after af was over I think we may have started a little early too because I O so late. Oh well hopefully the vitex will work and i O a little earlier this month. You should be O pretty soon though right Pinkin? Hopefully you won't have to go at this for much longer!

[purple sky]

I was meant to O today but i am not going to be, I hope its tomorrow !

So did you already have your attempt?

[purple sky]

PrayFP - I have had cycles like this, in my case it was (TMI) brownish type blood and didn't seem like a "real" af. Unfortunately in my case I would have a long cycle that month. I wasn't taking any herbs, pills or anything just have weird cycles sometimes. Maybe your not getting enough cals? Are you under more stress than usual? This things can affect my cycles that's why i ask. The only real way to know if your not O is by charting your temps. Could be your uterine lining is too thin so there wasn't much to slough off?

[xokatietatie]

Hey ladies -- just dropping in to say hi. AF is gone - started using RepHresh again today - going to start using OPKs tomorrow afternoon. I can't believe I'm so close to the big attempt. I sure hope these next couple days (or weeks really) go by quickly!

[atomic sagebrush]

I am not taking vitex. Maybe its the potassium, I will put a tomato on my dinner tonight. I am eating 1100-1300 calories, roughly 25 grams fat and 40 protein. How do you know when you stopped ovulating? Its just really odd that on cd4 my period is gone. Its not like me at all.

It's not potassium, it's hormonal.

It actually can be a good sign (I know it feels weird and scary) because if your hormones are different that can mean you are hormonally in a different place, which is what you WANT for TTC pink.

The reason I mention the potassium has nothing to do with your periods, it's because I don't want you to keel over dead of a heart attack from too little potassium. 2500-3500 mg a day and if that means a banana, eat a banana.

[xokatietatie]

I was meant to O today but i am not going to be, I hope its tomorrow !

I get so excited every single time I see a BFP on here, but I think I am most hopeful and excited for you! I just know this is your month, pink!!

[amari]

Just wanting to ask a Q on F/R.. My d/h has been F/R since the 21st of dec. It was going to be once a day but i think there has been 5 times he released twice in a day and once was 3 times in a day. There is NO WAY i can get him to release more then once a day now he just has nothing left to give ( usually he does not ever help himself and we would usually dtd every 3 days) Anyway I can get him to release still once a day but its so hard for him to do and does not happen on the first try of releasing, what does this mean are his T levels pretty low now??? I am worried to have my attempt because i had big plans of having him release once or twice on attempt day then use the next batch for dtd. What should I do???

My dh had the same problem last month. We ended up not attempting (not b/c of that). If it is that low I would just dtd and not worry about dumping any before hand. Good luck!!