EWCM between O and AF

[zanacal]

Is it normal?! I read you can have an 'after ovulation oestrogen surge' 4 or 5 dpo but I've had EWCM literally every time I've checked over the past week or more! I'm now 9dpo and I still have it. I've taken OPKs and HPTs (even though we didn't even DTD unprotected this month!) but they're all completely negative. I have noticed that I have more of a smell 'down there'. Not a big or bad one but I've noticed no scent at all since I've been on the girl diet - could I have a bit of an infection?

This is the first month I've continued to take both Vitex and Saw P after O - could that be it?

[tweedledeedum]

hmm, i had that this month for the first time too, around 9dpo. I'm not on saw p but i did take vitex before o. I tested today an it was a bfn. Our bodies are so weird!

[zanacal]

Aren't they just! I was quite confident I was getting to know what it was up to too!

[atomic sagebrush]

I do think it's the vitex and SP and I wouldn't worry about it.

[zanacal]

Great, thanks! (Although shouldn't I have less and not more EWCM?!)

[atomic sagebrush]

Great, thanks! (Although shouldn't I have less and not more EWCM?!)

If you're suppressing T production, your body ~may~ make more E with the available resources. Blue swayers seemed to be experiencing the exact opposite phenom...they tried to up their T production with supps and found that their EWCM totally dried up!! It seems to me that the SP is suppressing T and then the vitex is trying to keep things fertile by upping the estrogen a bit.

It's actually kinda GOOD to have a little estrogen in the LP, believe it or not, because your body is trying to make a nice lining for a bean to implant in. And sometimes when you sway pink, you can reduce E to the point where your lining maybe isn't as nice. So it may be the best of all possible worlds...you're making less T (and really, less E as well) but your body is still trying to stay fertile.

[zanacal]

Cool - and of course I'll be doing other things to counteract the EWCM around O time.

[zanacal]

Ooh, one more thing, I've been getting very mild cramping on each side during this LP (both sides). I don't think I'd notice if I wasn't tuned into these things at this time. Could that be related?

[zanacal]

This has been such a weird LP for me. As well as the EWCM and cramping (which has continued), I've had raging PMT (which I do not usually suffer from) and now today, the day before AF is due, I've felt nauseous all day and this morning when I brushed my hair loads of it fell out. This is not unusual for me (and luckily I have lots of hair and don't miss it!) but it had stopped recently. Any thoughts from a hormonal perspective please?

[atomic sagebrush]

Ooh, one more thing, I've been getting very mild cramping on each side during this LP (both sides). I don't think I'd notice if I wasn't tuned into these things at this time. Could that be related?

It could be, although sometimes I think we pick up on things when swaying that have happened a bazillion other times and we just didn't notice them.