Beginning of cycle 11/11

[tacom]

Another month another thread!

Anyone else waiting to O?

I’m heading to my brother’s apartment in Chicago with OPKs and my thermometer.

H and I️ scheduled a 1.5 hour window to see each other/BD on Monday before he leaves for Europe. And last week we only had 2-3 waking hours together as well due to his work trips.

TTC while traveling is a whole new ball game. 🙈
Hoping we can make this work!

[sarapocalypse]

Good luck!

Today is CD2 for me and I am curled up in pain. I assume it’s this cyst causing me so much pain.

[grover]

CD5 here.

[tacom]

sarapocalypse sorry about the pain. Hope it’s gone soon!

I️ forgot to add - CD 13 here. Expect to O between CD 15-18 but who knows. No positive OPK yet

[compassrose]

CD13 here. I think I ovulated yesterday, I actually had some EWCM, and our timing was good, so I'm actually hopeful. It feels dangerous.

[Jalapeñomel]

I have surgery on Tuesday. Birth control pills suck.

[onthemove]

Nov 11, 2017 15:04:48 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I have surgery on Tuesday. Birth control pills suck.

I hope everything goes well.

[compassrose]

((Jalapeñomel)) I hope it's quick and painless. Please update us. You know I'm rooting for you!

[sarapocalypse]

Hope all goes well Jalapeñomel!

[nellgirl]

CD2 for me!

[MrsE]

Have fun in Chicago and good luck! CD 12 here.

[MrsE]

Hope your surgery goes smoothly Jalapeñomel

[seeyalater52]

Good luck everyone!

Jalapeñomel I hope your surgery goes well!!

[tacom]

Uh oh.

There’s a good chance this is wrong, right? Dotted lines, travel, one night of drinking? I wasn’t hoping to O yet!!!

Going to keep peeing on OPKs and looking for a stronger temp shift (like last month) so we can hopefully hit at least O-1 🤞🏻

[compassrose]

Nov 13, 2017 7:10:09 GMT -5 tacom said:

Uh oh.

There’s a good chance this is wrong, right? Dotted lines, travel, one night of drinking? I wasn’t hoping to O yet!!!

Going to keep peeing on OPKs and looking for a stronger temp shift (like last month) so we can hopefully hit at least O-1 🤞🏻

If you adjust your temps to the same time with the calculator, what happens?
whenmybaby.com/basalbodytemperature.php

[seeyalater52]

Nov 13, 2017 7:10:09 GMT -5 tacom said:

Uh oh.

There’s a good chance this is wrong, right? Dotted lines, travel, one night of drinking? I wasn’t hoping to O yet!!!

Going to keep peeing on OPKs and looking for a stronger temp shift (like last month) so we can hopefully hit at least O-1 🤞🏻

With the negative OPKs I would say that is likely not correct, unless you know you typically have a very short surge.

[tacom]

Nov 13, 2017 8:13:26 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Nov 13, 2017 7:10:09 GMT -5 tacom said:

Uh oh.

There’s a good chance this is wrong, right? Dotted lines, travel, one night of drinking? I wasn’t hoping to O yet!!!

Going to keep peeing on OPKs and looking for a stronger temp shift (like last month) so we can hopefully hit at least O-1 🤞🏻

With the negative OPKs I would say that is likely not correct, unless you know you typically have a very short surge.

Last month I caught my surge for over 24 hrs. I want to say I got 3 positive OPKs testing 2x daily.

ETA: with that said, I went down to 1x/day this cycle to be cheap so it’s certainly possible i could miss a shorter surge

[tacom]

Nov 13, 2017 8:01:06 GMT -5 compassrose said:

Nov 13, 2017 7:10:09 GMT -5 tacom said:

Uh oh.

There’s a good chance this is wrong, right? Dotted lines, travel, one night of drinking? I wasn’t hoping to O yet!!!

Going to keep peeing on OPKs and looking for a stronger temp shift (like last month) so we can hopefully hit at least O-1 🤞🏻

If you adjust your temps to the same time with the calculator, what happens?
whenmybaby.com/basalbodytemperature.php

Interesting tool

Not much of a difference for me (97.58 on sat versus 97.50) but good to know it’s there if I can ever “sleep in” past 6am!

[tacom]

To update, my temp was waaay down today (closed circle) so FF took away my dotted crosshairs 😊

[compassrose]

Nov 14, 2017 7:52:24 GMT -5 tacom said:

To update, my temp was waaay down today (closed circle) so FF took away my dotted crosshairs 😊

Oh good!

[seeyalater52]

Anyone still in here?

Cd1 today. We just decided we have to take a break from trying until January. We just don’t have the money to purchase more sperm right now and the timing of my sister’s wedding in a few weeks makes it even more challenging and I think we need to wait to see if my wife gets the job she’s currently a finalist for before we make any other decisions. The boiler failing and our treatments thus far have really wiped out our savings more than I’m personally comfortable with.

I’m so sad.

[compassrose]

Nov 19, 2017 14:22:24 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Anyone still in here?

Cd1 today. We just decided we have to take a break from trying until January. We just don’t have the money to purchase more sperm right now and the timing of my sister’s wedding in a few weeks makes it even more challenging and I think we need to wait to see if my wife gets the job she’s currently a finalist for before we make any other decisions. The boiler failing and our treatments thus far have really wiped out our savings more than I’m personally comfortable with.

I’m so sad.

I’m so sorry. Did you max put your FSA for next year?

[seeyalater52]

Nov 19, 2017 14:53:58 GMT -5 compassrose said:

Nov 19, 2017 14:22:24 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Anyone still in here?

Cd1 today. We just decided we have to take a break from trying until January. We just don’t have the money to purchase more sperm right now and the timing of my sister’s wedding in a few weeks makes it even more challenging and I think we need to wait to see if my wife gets the job she’s currently a finalist for before we make any other decisions. The boiler failing and our treatments thus far have really wiped out our savings more than I’m personally comfortable with.

I’m so sad.

I’m so sorry. Did you max put your FSA for next year?

We have until mid Dec to finalize it, but that’s the plan. However, I’m seeing mixed results about whether fertility treatments are allowable for same sex couples. It seems like it varies based on who administers the benefit. I have a friend who was just denied for sperm and an IUI after submitting receipts and a letter of medical necessity from her doctor because her plan doesn’t consider it fertility related if she is married to a woman. After doing some research this is apparently common so I want to be sure we can use it before I put the max in, as we wouldn’t be able to use quite that much otherwise. Fertility treatments AND donor sperm are both on the list of allowable expenses so one would assume that would be sufficient but of course it’s not ever that simple.

[seeyalater52]

Also because I hate myself I took one of those little internet quizzes about when you’re going to get pregnant and it told me January. So at least I have that.

[katespade]

seeyalater52 - I'm sorry about CD1.

[tacom]

Nov 19, 2017 15:00:30 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Also because I hate myself I took one of those little internet quizzes about when you’re going to get pregnant and it told me January. So at least I have that.

Ha, mine had me for December... hoping they’re both true!

I’m so sorry you have to sit this out. It sucks to have to wait when you’re ready.

Sending good vibes for when you are back in it!

[seeyalater52]

Nov 19, 2017 18:08:01 GMT -5 tacom said:

Nov 19, 2017 15:00:30 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Also because I hate myself I took one of those little internet quizzes about when you’re going to get pregnant and it told me January. So at least I have that.

Ha, mine had me for December... hoping they’re both true!

I’m so sorry you have to sit this out. It sucks to have to wait when you’re ready.

Sending good vibes for when you are back in it!

I know you understand the frustration of being ready and benched! I hope the baby quiz is right in both our cases. <3

[sarapocalypse]

So sorry seeyalater52.

[compassrose]

I really, really hope it turns out you can use the FSA seeyalater52. I pretty much abhor anything related to health insurance now.

[seeyalater52]

Nov 19, 2017 19:28:36 GMT -5 compassrose said:

I really, really hope it turns out you can use the FSA seeyalater52. I pretty much abhor anything related to health insurance now.

YOU ARE TELLING ME. It haunts me at work, it haunts me at home, I cannot escape these evil fucks no matter where I go. I have an inquiry in and hopefully they’re able to give me a more straightforward answer to this than they have with my other questions. I am somewhat optimistic because I think I freaked them out a bit by calling them out. I’m scary because I’m good at my job and I know this shit inside and out.