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@yellow.clover: Welcome! Are you pregnant? Looking at your chart you're well past last month and still really high! Have you tested?

@ambular1025 I'm sure it's frustrating that the monitor and your temps don't line up. Maybe tomorrow will show peak. Are you covered with dtd if you o'd today?

@Ali: October has been really weird... hopefully thats a good sign!

@yellow.clover: Your last cycle was 31 days and you're at 37 right now. That seems way too long of a difference between the two to me, but you're right that it's possible you haven't O'd yet by your temps.
@Alison206: Yes luckily we've been DTD for the past few days, and I have EWCM today so I'm thinking we're still good. I haven't been telling him where I'm at in my cycle but I really want us to DTD today, so hopefully I can convince him without making it too obvious.
@Ali: Yes, I'm against wonky charts haha! But if it ends up meaning something good I guess I'm ok with it lol.

@ambular1025: It is very strange. I have PCOS, but have had regular cycles since we started ttc a year ago. This is also my 3rd cycle on Clomid, which makes it even more strange.

@Grace: Thanks! But no, we've been TTC for just a little over a year now.

@Ali: it really is a weird month! A lot of the bees over at WB were saying how they O'd at CD 10 or 11 which caused them to have AF extra early this month. Too consistent for it to not be strange.

@ambular1025: Well, I tested this morning, and as suspected, BFN. So I'm going to go tomorrow for a progesterone draw to confirm I haven't O'd (or maybe that I did), and then I guess start provera to bring on AF if it confirms I haven't. I'm so ready for this cycle to be over.

I too wish charting could be easier! Sigh.

How long have you been charting? 17 cycles
TTC Cycle: Cycle 1
Where are you from? US / Kentucky
Any kids already? No children, three furbabies (2 cats and a dog)
Burning charting question: N/A

I'm working hard to not freak out and examine every little thing that seems different. I usually don't chart after I ovulate and just count the days...should know something late next week!

@ambular1025: Peak! Peak! Look at all that BD!!!!

@ambular1025: Yeah you guys are on a marathon!!! Still scary, I have to say - constantly in fear of something going wrong. But that gets a little easier every day. We have an ultrasound tomorrow!! So that will help, if all goes well. Otherwise, still feels strange to not be constantly peeing on things and charting In a few more weeks we'll start to take this seriously, I guess... still feels too early! Thanks for asking!

@april_showers: could that little drop be a pre-o drop? Fingers crossed for a P today for yoU!

@JoJoGirl: Ooh, your first ultrasound while you're pregnant! Hope everything goes well! Still thinking of you, even though you're onto the next stage in this journey.

@jojogirl: I almost think that not worrying is the key. So excited to hear how your ultrasound goes! So happy about your sticky baby. And omg DH had to go at it 3 times yesterday. This girl is gonna need a long no BD break after Thursday.

@alison206: I did get a P this morning! I figured I would when I got an almost + OPK last night, but its still really exciting.

@JoJoGirl: So excited that you get to see your baby tomorrow!

@ambular1025: Holy Cow! haha I know I would definately need a break.

@evansjamie: Welcome and good luck!

@April_Showers: Thanks! And yay for P!

@ambular1025: I hope so! If so I will. I'm only 7.5 weeks so it'll just look like a kidney bean (or as DH said last night "a grain of rice with a beating heart") but if you can see anything interesting, I'll show you guys

@spaniellove: what are you guys doing right now? are you temping or just using OPKs? I notice a + and a blue line?

@alison206: @Rachel: Thank you!! It's at 1:15 EST so I'll report back.

@JoJoGirl: Good luck! That's so exciting!

@alison206: I'm wondering if the L/H/P situation is because you started using the monitor too early in your cycle. I think you're supposed to use it on day 6, when it starts asking for sticks? Which would be why it gave you L during AF when your hormones were low, and then when they started rising compared to that (but were still low and should have been the starting point) you started getting H. I had several days of H and thought I'd never get a P but finally did, when my estrogen and LH were at a certain proportion. You'll probably get a P but you might find it less frustrating to reset and have it relearn from day 6 next cycle (if you have a next cycle) so it has a new low to start from!

I'm using just OPKs but have a really messed up batch this time around - they've always worked perfectly!

@alison206: This batch has all kinds of dye issues - like the test line being super splotchy (vs half and half), taking forever to get dark, random dents in some of the tests. I've consistently had a fainter + on one day and then an immediate dark + the second day (always the day of O) and am not seeing that with this batch of tests which is really frustrating.

@spaniellove ugh how annoying!

Urgh, guys, what do I do? which temp do I record? I thought I'd O'd the day before yesterday - I had + OPK for three days prior and a temp rise.

Anyway, this morning, I woke up at 3.45am, 2 hrs before my alarm was due to go off. Knowing I wouldn't get the required 3 hrs sleep before my alarm went off, I took my temp - and it was way below the coverline again (35.8). However, at 6am, when I woke up again, it was back up above my coverline (36.3). Which temp do I use??

I was fairly sure I'd O'd, I have sticky CM just like last month - but now I'm worried I haven't.... I had all the signs of O a week ago, too, but then my temp dropped (and I got a + OPK days later).

Urgh, my chart is so wacko this month!