Ovulation.

[Babyy Love]

Oh and please can you tell me again if you already haven’t..

How do I know when I ovulate without opk or anything else?

[atomic sagebrush]

Well, some of us can tell with symptoms, like I have high libido and then nothing after ovulation, and I often have a dramatic mood shift after ovulation. But this doesn't tell us the DAY of O. I often have a couple days where I'm really not sure if it happened or not. Same with other symptoms like O pains and CM - you notice when there's a lot, you notice when it's totally gone, but there are invariably a couple days in the middle when maybe it's there and maybe it's not, and one of those days is likely O Day.

There is no reliable way to tell the day of ovulation without ultrasound and blood tests. You can use OPK and symptoms and temping, but studies have shown that even highly trained experts using the best OPK and thermometers, can only get ovulation day 1 out of 3 days. They can get close, but not the actual day. And even with pretty regular cycles, it's completely normal to have variations a day or two either direction (so one month you have a 26 day cycle, the next month it's 29, etc) and so while some people would say you can just expect ovulation to happen on CD 14, that's really not true and it can vary.

So the unfortunate answer is that you really can't know, but the good news is, even if you used OPK you couldn't know either.

[Babyy Love]

Wow so it’s almost like a waste of money buying those test. I mean I’d still like to give it a try though. I wish there was a magic button of like guarantee pregnancy. Bless those fertile Myrtle women!!

[atomic sagebrush]

It's not a waste of money, it can get you in the ballpark (but yes that's why I recommend getting the cheapo ones online!)

If i had the resources and wanted to be a zillionaire, I'd launch into a cheap and infallible way to track the cycle. I suspect it will happen in our lifetimes, they're able to track things like blood sugar and stuff nowadays via smartphones with finger sticks, it won't be long.

[Babyy Love]

Still hanging in there !! Crossing my fingers so so hard !!

[Babyy Love]

I wish I could connect with more women who have or have had cancer but are still TTC.
In my healing process I’ve decided to blend fruit and vegetables for breakfast and of course I limited meat which I’ve been seeing sways girl. I wasn’t before but I am now able to exercise by walking everywhere I go. I’m almost certain I will be losing weight doing this which I’m hoping helps as well. I have a lack of appetite due to my sickness so breakfast is usually 2-3 hours after I wake up. I don’t snack but chicken and ground turkey are the only 2 meats I do consume if I eat it.

[atomic sagebrush]

First and foremost you need to eat the diet that's appropriate for you with your health so only limit meat if you can get away with doing that. If you need the meat to help keep yourself fed then please eat it!

Just remember once you get to BMI 21 hold steady at that weight, no need to lose any more than that.

[Babyy Love]

It’s best to eliminate meat as a cancer patient. Most doctors recommend that being that I also hate the taste of it, which is also common for pre and post chemo patients. Dairy is also a NO NO for us because of the mucus build up dairy may cause.

The diet I chose is to blend all
My vegetables and fruit together because some things I just can not eat raw. Raw vegetables aren’t always the best tasting lol so why not blend it into a juice or something to still have it nourish my body.

[atomic sagebrush]

That makes sense but how are you meant to be getting protein and fat?? Fruit and veg are pretty low in protein and fat.

[Babyy Love]

According to Oncologist protein is consumed when I eat chicken, turkey, eggs & beans