State of the Ute 3.10.2015

[daisy]

Mar 10, 2015 7:35:45 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

1. Where are you in your journey?

2. Testing this week?

3. Thoughts? Vents? 

4. Favorite drink (alcoholic or non)?

1. Cycle 9, CD14, maybe 1-2 DPO, waiting on FF to confirm
2. OPKS the past couple days
3. I just... ugh
4. I drink a ton of water but otherwise I love a good margarita and a glass of good sweet
tea

hi, mpc! 

[cinderbella]

Mar 10, 2015 7:35:45 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

1. Where are you in your journey?

2. Testing this week?

3. Thoughts? Vents? 

4. Favorite drink (alcoholic or non)?

Can I join?! I'm new to this group.

1. TTC #3, cycle 3, 4dpo
2. My goal will be to hold out until Monday - 10 dpo
3. No - just really hoping for a bfp because my edd for the next cycle would be Christmas day and that's not ideal.
4. I love limon/tonics for alcoholic drinks..... And sparkking water for non-alcoholic

[july]

Mar 10, 2015 16:40:37 GMT -5 Susie said:

Mar 10, 2015 10:54:45 GMT -5 Waffles said:

3. Thoughts? Vents? I know I'm very new to this but I don't know how many no BCP periods I can take: I'm on the verge of tears most of the day and snap at the first opportunity

I hear you.  I spent so many years on BCPs that when I went off them to TTC it was a rude awakening.  Oh!  This is what ovulation (that I used BCP's to prevent for the last decade) feels like!  It really freaking hurts!  Well that sucks!

For as many times as I hear women say "my body can't handle hormonal BC" or similar, I sort of feel the opposite.  

I was moody off bcp. I didn't realize it was the cause at the time. It has improved. I wanted to apologize to the people I was short with, but what do you say?

[kellikans]

1. Cycle 18, cd14, gearing up for IVF #1
2. No testing. Have my first monitoring appointment next Tuesday.
3. Hoping that this works. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle going through IVF and it not being successful. But I also know that the first try oftentimes is not. I'm scared.
4. Alcoholic: mint juleps. Non alcoholic: earl grey tea lattes or sweet tea

[Waffles]

Susie mskitkat - Right?! I was on it for the last 18 years! My body has no bloody clue how to deal with itself. H is genuinely a little scared of me right now - he has no idea if I'm going to snap at him or start crying for pretty much no reason.

And wtf is up with my boobs? H is pretty pleased on that one but they're really sore.

[tiptoetulips]

Fx @kelicans
1. Ttc since June '13 ttcal cycle 6 cd 4
2. No
3. Hsg next wed fun stuff! We are also out of the not ideal timing. I'm a teacher and would prefer a dec-July baby obviously not preventing during other months but I'll look for silver lining any where
4. Alcollic margaritas non I drink water I'll splurge on a coke every so often

[raangoli]

Sending you lots of good thoughts kellikans

Susie - I hear you about hearing the frustrations of those that are younger than me. But then again, at this point, I think you are all younger than me. Woo! AMA! (I take full responsibility for this - I got married in my early 30s, and we waited a few years to enjoy our married life together and now here we are.)

[vanillahip]

1. Where are you in your journey?
Ttc since fall '13, CD3 after failed IUI #1, FML

2. Testing this week?
Pfffffft.

3. Thoughts? Vents?
I have an appt with a different RE 3/23. We're out this cycle so I can start dealing with a doctor that gives a shit. I called my last doc Monday morning to say the IUI didn't work and I need to talk about our plan and I still haven't gotten a call back so ummm.... fuck you doc, bye.

Also my SIL just announced that she's 5 minutes pregnant and due in November. I think I maybe didn't realize how much I was banking on that IUI to work until last night when I lost my shit after seeing her FB announcement. I would've been due mid November on my baby sister's 18th birthday and I was just WILLING it to work and it didn't and I'm feeling so much more awful this week than I had anticipated.

4. Favorite drink (alcoholic or non)?
I don't drink alcohol, I love ginger ale though! So so much. And being a Detroiter duh Vernors is the best. I think I might get the Vernors guy tattooed on me on love it so much.

[vanillahip]

FX FX FX oneslybookworm and shauni27 and EllenGriswold!!!

[MrsMB]

((hugs)) vanillahip

[EllenGriswold]

I'm an idiot. I tested this morning, 9 dpo/dpiui and got a super faint positive so I got all excited and took another test and told DH and everything. And then -- LIGHTBULB! -- realized that it could still be residual hcg from my trigger shot 10 days ago. I hate this.

[MrsMB]

Mar 11, 2015 11:07:52 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

I'm an idiot. I tested this morning, 9 dpo/dpiui and got a super faint positive so I got all excited and took another test and told DH and everything. And then -- LIGHTBULB! -- realized that it could still be residual hcg from my trigger shot 10 days ago. I hate this.

GL!!!!!!! I hope you get some good news soon!!!

Sent from so-called "smart" phone. Please forgive any errors!

[EllenGriswold]

Thanks MrsMB! I hope it's good news but at this point I'm thinking maybe I'm just dumb and should not have tested this early. I thought waiting sucked this last week . . . I think it might kill me now!

[kellikans]

Mar 11, 2015 11:07:52 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

I'm an idiot. I tested this morning, 9 dpo/dpiui and got a super faint positive so I got all excited and took another test and told DH and everything. And then -- LIGHTBULB! -- realized that it could still be residual hcg from my trigger shot 10 days ago. I hate this.

FX for you. My trigger usually tests out by day 7.

[ouokie]

Mar 11, 2015 11:07:52 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

I'm an idiot. I tested this morning, 9 dpo/dpiui and got a super faint positive so I got all excited and took another test and told DH and everything. And then -- LIGHTBULB! -- realized that it could still be residual hcg from my trigger shot 10 days ago. I hate this.

I'm keeping my FX for you!

[EllenGriswold]

Mar 11, 2015 11:36:37 GMT -5 kellikans said:

Mar 11, 2015 11:07:52 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

I'm an idiot. I tested this morning, 9 dpo/dpiui and got a super faint positive so I got all excited and took another test and told DH and everything. And then -- LIGHTBULB! -- realized that it could still be residual hcg from my trigger shot 10 days ago. I hate this.

FX for you. My trigger usually tests out by day 7.

Thanks!  Do you mind if I ask how much hcg was in your trigger?  At this point I think it could go either way, I'm just mad at myself that I didn't even think of this and tested because I'm just getting my hopes up.  

[oneslybookworm]

Mar 11, 2015 11:07:52 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

I'm an idiot. I tested this morning, 9 dpo/dpiui and got a super faint positive so I got all excited and took another test and told DH and everything. And then -- LIGHTBULB! -- realized that it could still be residual hcg from my trigger shot 10 days ago. I hate this.

Ugh, that sucks!! How long do they tell you to keep testing out the trigger shot?

[EllenGriswold]

Mar 11, 2015 12:28:45 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

Mar 11, 2015 11:07:52 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

I'm an idiot. I tested this morning, 9 dpo/dpiui and got a super faint positive so I got all excited and took another test and told DH and everything. And then -- LIGHTBULB! -- realized that it could still be residual hcg from my trigger shot 10 days ago. I hate this.

Ugh, that sucks!! How long do they tell you to keep testing out the trigger shot?

My doctor didn't tell me anything specific, just to test in "a couple weeks."  So I haven't been testing every day to follow the progression.  From everywhere I've looked it looks to be about 7-12 days or so to get out of your system.  Which puts me smack dab in the middle.  

[kellikans]

Mar 11, 2015 12:00:47 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

Mar 11, 2015 11:36:37 GMT -5 kellikans said:

FX for you. My trigger usually tests out by day 7.

Thanks!  Do you mind if I ask how much hcg was in your trigger?  At this point I think it could go either way, I'm just mad at myself that I didn't even think of this and tested because I'm just getting my hopes up.  

I did 10,000 units Novarel IM at my OB office and 250mcg Ovidrel subq.

[kellikans]

Mar 11, 2015 12:39:48 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

Mar 11, 2015 12:28:45 GMT -5 oneslybookworm said:

Ugh, that sucks!! How long do they tell you to keep testing out the trigger shot?

My doctor didn't tell me anything specific, just to test in "a couple weeks."  So I haven't been testing every day to follow the progression.  From everywhere I've looked it looks to be about 7-12 days or so to get out of your system.  Which puts me smack dab in the middle.  

mine never told me about testing out the trigger. they just said to take a hpt at 14dpiui.

[EllenGriswold]

Mar 11, 2015 12:58:49 GMT -5 kellikans said:

Mar 11, 2015 12:00:47 GMT -5 EllenGriswold said:

Thanks!  Do you mind if I ask how much hcg was in your trigger?  At this point I think it could go either way, I'm just mad at myself that I didn't even think of this and tested because I'm just getting my hopes up.  

I did 10,000 units Novarel IM at my OB office and 250mcg Ovidrel subq.

Thanks, that helps!  I also did 10,000 miu but completely forgot about the trigger when I tested first thing this morning.  I will wait for tomorrow and see if it gets darker or lighter, ugh.  

[mac08]

1. Cycle 20? I think. CD 15

2. No

3.  I am not putting a lot of effort in this cycle.  I skipped temping from days 2-9, and some of the days I actually did temp I got up to pee first, so not a lot of accuracy.  I also can't be bothered with OPK's.  Maybe it's because I made an RE appt for the end of the month, and I don't have a ton of confidence that it will happen without intervention since it hasn't for the last 20 cycles.  I don't know, I just can't be bothered with anything this cycle!

4. Diet coke 4lyfe! Lol

[ginkgoleaf]

EllenGriswold, I did that once, too, tested forgetting about the trigger shot. It's hard to wait, but that's all you can do to be sure. Although if you call your Dr., they might have you come for an early beta.

[EllenGriswold]

Thanks ginkgoleaf, I just feel more dumb about forgetting and getting my hopes up than anything else. Gonna wait it out at least for a couple more days.

[Blackout81]

1. Cycle 8 TTC#2 cd14

2. No

3. I'm almost certain I'm ovulating. Copious amounts of EWCM and I can feel that my cervix is open (I know it sounds crazy), and I have mild cramping.

4. Tequila and Gingerale wirh lime

[EllieT]

1. Where are you in your journey?
TTC since Nov 2013, cycle 3 AL, CD 38, 11-12 dpo (I disagree with FF), this was supposed to be a break cycle waiting for the RE appointment but I actually seem to have O'd without Clomid
2. Testing this week?
If my temp stays high and no spotting I'll probably test after tomorrow's RE appointment
3. Thoughts? Vents? 
Really surprised I O'd on my own, first time in over a year. My chart looks awesome but I won't test until after meeting with the RE again. I want a plan in case it's negative
4. Favorite drink (alcoholic or non)?
Wine, coffee and water

[mskitkat]

1. Where are you in your journey? C9, CD 11.


2. Testing this week? No


3. Thoughts? Vents? I got a new mattress today! Good timing with FW to break it in.


4. Favorite drink (alcoholic or non)? Moscow Mule. Mmmm... ginger.

[cats]

1. Where are you in your journey?


Cycle IDK. D&C in November and this the first month after that where we we purposeful.

(Last month wasn't really active, but wasn't really a avoid either.)

2. Testing this week?

I tested yesterday (not FMU) and it was super faint/negative.  I've tested twice today (a cheapie and a Wondfo) and both were faint.  I'm not sure what to think.  Before my miscarriage and subsequent D&C, my cycles were clockwork at 26 days.  In the three cycles I have since, it was 24, 27, 30.  I used ovulation strips this month and saw positives on days 14-15.   Today is day 28, which by my past cycles would be late.  I feel my normal precycle symptoms (crampy, tired, hormonal headaches).  I don't know what to think and will just test again tomorrow.  I'm very pessimistic because I don't want to get my hopes up.

3. Thoughts? Vents?


I am feeling sad that I don't know how to attain the excitement of my first pregnancy and TTC.  I don' t know if it will come in time or if this is just the new normal surrounding TTC.  Fear sucks. 

4. Favorite drink (alcoholic or non)?

Bloody Marys, FTW.  Though lately, I've been all about Pina Coladas.  I'm pretty sure this is because of this eternal winter hell and my desire to be firmly planted on a beach.

[july]

Well, crap. I had a one degree temp spike this morning, and the timing sucked this month. It looks like I ovulated a whole week early after the loss. I will see how it goes in the next few days. Never a positive opk. I feel bummed.

[mskitkat]

Mar 12, 2015 13:37:01 GMT -5 cats said:

4. Favorite drink (alcoholic or non)?

Bloody Marys, FTW.  Though lately, I've been all about Pina Coladas.  I'm pretty sure this is because of this eternal winter hell and my desire to be firmly planted on a beach.

My sister calls this the Landshark theory. If you drink summer drinks, summer will come.