My VITEX Journey

[Butterfly Spirit]

Well my second OPK test from last night was lighter I think.. well I peed halfway in the cup incase DH heard me peeing in a cup.
I have had cervical pain tonight a few times..kind of annoying and not fun. Still crampy feeling. Anyone else experience this?

[auroara78]

RE: husbands...I totally understand.

Mine is a stay at home Dad but the minute and I do mean the *minute* I get home (I barely have time to take off my work clothes and get in comfy, lounge clothes) the kids are *my* responsiblity and he is "off-duty"

If I ask for help on the weekends, he'll roll his eyes back and say he's not my slave, lol.

I tune him out too, because it's not worth a fight, and he knows how I feel. I've told him so many times when the arrangement first began that if the roles were reversed he wouldn't want to be ambushed the second he came home from work and I'd still be watching the kids the entire evening. That usually gets a response of "don't you want to play with the kids?" (guilt) or "They want you, not me when you come home, I can't help that" (more guilt.)

So now if I really need soemthing from him, I don't ask or beg, I just say "here are the kids" and do what I got to do, and he deals with it, even if he grumbles.

[Butterfly Spirit]

Well I checked my cervix this morning... VERY dry and hard to check it but there was some milky white discharge up by my cervix! Cervix was firm and low and closed from what I could tell.
So I had a positive OPK right before I checked I just had to know WHAT was going on. Well... there can't be O if it's firm, low and closed, so it must be the Vitex that caused the other +s, and so I must have already Oed and the gas and cramping yesterday came after O.
I suspect that I Oed on Monday when I had that intense pain that stopped me in my tracks but who knows. I'm just happy I am now in the 2WW!!! I don't think I will do anymore OPKS.. maybe one a day until they fade.

[Babyy Love]

I feel so gross! I wiped and I feel like someone cracked an egg & separated the egg white in my vagina..it even splashed on my thigh! I tried to wipe it off with tissue but it wouldn't budge so when I grabbed it with my fingers it was just like sticking my hand in egg white..ewwww I've never had THAT much EWCM

[TTC5]

Wahooo for the TWW~!!!!!!

[Butterfly Spirit]

Took a test earlier and shot a positive, 4 hours later said what the hell took another one and the lines are finally fading even the control now!
I did wake up to horrible rectum pain though and I was having WEIRD vivid dreams lol When I tested, And I'm as dry as a desert down there, so it's happened. LOL I just found another lady, Lassie who said she had 5 opks so we are thinking the Vitex really does cause that fun during the 2WW!!! I can no longer blame my thyroid as it should be good by now.. 4 weeks on 100 mcg of levothyroxine YAY!

[Butterfly Spirit]

Nosebleed this am. That also happened on Monday night. Good sign I think!

[atomic sagebrush]

Well I crashed this afternoon and slept several hours. I couldn't help it. I'm REALLY gassy and I'm just feeling pressure. My OPK upon waking was positive but that urine was in there all afternoon. I was pretty dry when I went pee.. so here's hoping! It will happen SOON or it already happened! I'm SO terrified that this is pretty much my last chance.

I don't know if they checked my iron. What can it do?

Well, I never thought it could do too much but that was before I got anemia this time. I've had it 3 times before and never felt bad but my iron is pretty low this time. I've been really tired the last 2 weeks, plus I felt kind of physically weak/lightheaded, and I was also making some really odd mistakes here on the site (like writing "antibiotics" instead of "antihistamine") and then I started the iron pills and feel a million times better, I almost can't believe it how much better I feel. Iron helps with the amount of oxygen you're getting in your blood and since you were bleeding for so long, it's possible you could be on the low side.

[atomic sagebrush]

How horrible! Attachment 2769
I remember that you told me that your DH wouldn't help you sway much, and now I get it.
Here you are extremely far along and he's being a jerk and is in denial about all you do. Oh my heart goes out to you too! Oh your sweet daughter is so WELL deserved!!!

Well, in his defense, if he'd had his way we'd have been done 3 kids ago.

[atomic sagebrush]

Atomic I'm so sorry to be annoying about the supplement Qs but this is day 3 of taking just one raspberry leaf capsule, then what do I do tomorrow with it? That one I want to wean off entirely, I'm thinking I don't need it now?

Skip a day, then start alternating days so you're taking it every other day for a few days, then every 2 days, etc. Once you're taking it once a week, you can stop.