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@mrssquirreld: me too. its been completely emotionally draining for me and taking a big toll on my relationship with DH to boot. that's funny because i've been worried i suddenly developed PCOS lately because of this seemingly long and annovulatory cycle!

@mrssquirreld, @chibee: While I wouldn't want you to have PCOS, ladybee's cycles had moments where they were totally regular and moments where she failed to ovulate in a cycle, which is similar to what you're going through. Once this was diagnosed by her doctor, they put her on clomid and hopefully that will be her baby solution. I say this because it's definitely worth talking to your doctor and if he/she says it's PCOS at least you can move forward with a solution instead of worrying/wondering/trying forever with no positive result and if it's not PCOS at least you can start to figure out with your doc why you had such a long cycle. My heart goes out to both of you. I know what it's like to wonder why you can't get pregnant. I too drank a bit today (2 company parties) figuring I'm not pregnant but I will feel so much better when I visit the RE on Thursday.

@Mrs squirreld: Yes you would still get positive OPK's as it just monitors your body's hormone that pushes the egg to release, not the release itself. You guys are my rock too! Babymaking is a very hard process when you're not one of the lucky ones who gets it easily and that's hard to explain to those around you who aren't in the same boat. I thank God for you guys!
@runnerd: Babymaking does put a huge toll on you and DH's personal relationship. My advice, communicate a lot, be patient, be understanding, and just remember that your life needs to be about him and you as much as it becomes about TTC.

seriously, i don't know how i would get by without you guys, and this is 100% honesty. I don't have a lot of people in my life I can talk about this stuff with, mostly because i don't want people to know that we are trying and more importantly, because no one understands. It's nice to come here and vent and know that you guys know exactly what I'm talking about! it's really my only sanctuary through this process.

@ladybee: of course, please join us! have you felt any side effects of Clomid?
@runnerd: DH and I have never fought so much before starting TTC - which is totally counterproductive because it makes me stress out and stress totally delays O for me. I honestly can't wait till this process is over, for the sake of my sanity. I know that sounds bad but I haven't been handling the stress very well so I know how you feel!

@chibee: yay!!!! hope that brings a major stress reduction for you too!

Ladies, thanks for the support. Yesterday was a bad day for me. I'm so glad I have HB to come and vent too. @chibee: yay!!! I know how stressful it can be waiting to O. Woo hoo!!

I had a temp spike this morning, but it was my third and nothing panned out so far so lets wait and see. I had a - OPK yesterday morning but at the same time, it's said that OPKs and PCOS don't go well together so I'm going to just watch and trust my temps. I had intense lower left side cramping at about 10pm last night. Was it O? Was it gas? Was it something cramping after DTD around 8? Who knows! Hopefully it was O and I can start the TWW.

You guys - esp @runnerd @mrssquirreld with the OPK issues this month - i just did some internet research (of course) and came to find something out that was major. So I was doing some in-depth reading about the clearblue digital OPKs - and I came to understand why they are so, so much more expensive than regular pee-on sticks where you compare the two lines, and it's not that they simply "interpret" the lines for you. Directly from the instructions:
"As many women have low levels of LH present in their urine throughout their cycles, the Clearblue Digital Ovulation Test does not measure the LH surge to a constant uniform threshold. Instead, the Clearblue Digital Ovulation Test sets a personalised threshold level for each woman, by measuring their change in LH level from their personal baseline. This is an obvious advantage over visual tests which ignore the fact that different women have different baseline LH levels and that levels can even vary between cycles."
Meaning, the digitals understand our "baseline" LH level which is unique to everyone and different for each cycle and can detect when there's an actual surge going on from actually detecting an increase from our normal amount of LH, not when we simply have more LH in our system that pushes the test line over the control line threshold (which is uniform and standard on all the pee sticks, like Wondfo and Target brands). Am I making any sense? That's why the digitals do urge you to keep testing every day starting from a certain day on - it "remembers" our normal level of LH and goes on to detect the surge from there!

This is why they don't make you keep the white stick and buy "refills" of the test sticks, because it needs to reset every cycle since every cycle has different cover lines of LH levels. I think this is why I kept getting "almost" positives on my Wondfos with continuous negatives on the digital - and when my LH finally increased yesterday, correctly accompanied by EWCM, it finally gave me a smiley.

Does that make sense? it was like an epiphany for me this morning!!

@strawberrybee: me too, i stretched them out to at least 2 cycles! and i only had been using them to "confirm" a suspected positives - but this cycle i have been using them correctly inadvertently because i was so impatient that i twas taking me so long to O - i would take a wondfo in the afternoon, digital at night.

@marionberry: I really really hope it was O because our timing is perfect! Plus I'm ready to move into the tww. Tomorrow's temp will tell. I want to go to bed so I can find out. That's a nice temp jump. Implantation maybe?

@chibee: congrats on the positive opk! I could never get a clear + on the Wondfos. I finally gave up and splurged on the CBE smiley face ones.

@chibee: Woohoo!!!!!!! Get to it girl!!!

@ladybee: You think? That was my thought and then I tested and BFN so I wasn't sure what to think. I guess the next few days will tell. This may just be a random surge before it falls. I'm crossing my fingers for another high temp for you tomorrow too!
@chibee: Super congrats lady! You've been waiting for this for so long. Get BD'n!

@chibee: It's the highest temp I've ever had, and I've certainly never had a jump that high before, which is why I ran to test this morning. Kinda hoping not enough hCG in my system yet...but I know it's a long shot.

@ladybee: I know! I totally hate that about the ap. I always want to check out friends and see my pregnancy percentage and I have to go find my computer to do so. I will definitely see yours at 6 when I wake up and mine's always updated about 9:15 your time. Wishing us both good news!

how are you ladies doing?