Wednesday Morning Check-In

[Deleted]

I'm doing good. I cut half of my toenail out last night so it hurts a lot right now and I have to shower I'm going to a quilt store with my mom today. That's about it.

[rt2008]

Good morning ladies!! AF showed up yesterday, so boo to that. On to the next month I guess!

[HoneySpider]

Yo.

I POAS this morning and it was a BFN, which is not surprising because I believe I am 8 DPO. I say believe because I did not temp this cycle, only did OPKs. I'm used to the negatives so it doesn't bother me to start early. Will just keep testing every day until AF shows up, which should be this weekend.

[blindyswife]

I'm exhausted this morning. Had to pick H up from the airport at midnight and still get up for work this morning. Thankfully, I'm a daycare provider so I'm in sweats and it doesn't matter that I look like hell.

Good luck with your interview!

[discogranny]

I've been super-agitated this morning for no real reason. I'd love to blame it on PMS but it's like 1DPO or something. It's just plain ol' bitchiness.

DH is traveling all this week so the ridiculous hopes I had of a "freebie" the cycle before we go into IVF isn't happening. I am actually kind of relieved because now I don't have deal with the 2WW.

[discogranny]

Oct 10, 2012 6:30:37 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Today I have a HUGE interview (2.5 hours long!) with a university I would LOVE to get a job with!

Good luck!

[countthestars]

I'm good. I'm hanging out in the 2WW or another suuuuper long cycle (expecting it to be around 40 days GRR).

I scored two end tables for our bedroom at Goodwill yesterday for $20 total. Woot!

[littlemisschatty]

Oct 10, 2012 8:30:57 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

Yo.

I POAS this morning and it was a BFN, which is not surprising because I believe I am 8 DPO. I say believe because I did not temp this cycle, only did OPKs. I'm used to the negatives so it doesn't bother me to start early. Will just keep testing every day until AF shows up, which should be this weekend.

Haha! I did this too yesterday, and was bummed. And then I realized I was only about 9 dpo. I am anxious and this is only my first real cycle. O gosh!

[HoneySpider]

Oct 10, 2012 9:24:53 GMT -5 littlemisschatty said:

Oct 10, 2012 8:30:57 GMT -5 HoneySpider said:

Yo.

I POAS this morning and it was a BFN, which is not surprising because I believe I am 8 DPO. I say believe because I did not temp this cycle, only did OPKs. I'm used to the negatives so it doesn't bother me to start early. Will just keep testing every day until AF shows up, which should be this weekend.

Haha! I did this too yesterday, and was bummed. And then I realized I was only about 9 dpo. I am anxious and this is only my first real cycle. O gosh!

Welcome to the craziness of TTC

[winecheery]

CD2 here, cycle 3 (already?!) reporting.

I slept in a bit today (like by 15 mins but whatever) because I didn't temp today. It was lovely! haha You know, now that I temped once, and I saw ok I'm ovulating, there are kinks, but they'll work out...I might just *GASP* not temp this cycle, and just have a lot of sex. :Y:

I loved temping last month to see that my body was working right, but now I just feel like it would start to worry me as I'd overanalyze temps varying from month to month...

In other news my work week is absolutely impacted and it's totally stressing me out. This is rare. Gah. Not enough hours in the day and we have company coming this weekend so I need to do a really nice clean. :drink: :drink: :drink:

[FastHands]

CD2 cycle 3 also.
Day 4 of temping. I hadn't planned to temp, but my cycle was just ooooone day longer than usual last time, which means I may or may not have ovulated a day or two late, which means we may or may not have missed my most fertile days. There are too many "may or may not"s in the preceeding sentences for my control freak self, sooo I am temping and will track CM. My plan is still to cover a wider range of potential fertile days, like...CD10-19... but I'm looking forward to seeing what i can learn from temp/CM too.

Work sucks and I can't talk about it. I have plans to go out with the girls this weekend and drink and dance, and I need it SO BAD and can't wait! Small silver lining to the BFN.

[tarheels]

6DPO and I happen to have my annual exam tomorrow (been scheduled since before we TTC). I'm dying to ask for a blood test. I feel super different. My uterus feels really heavy and full; my nipples were so sore over the weekend I wanted to cry if something brushed against them; and on Monday I was so bloated I had unzipped my jeans all the way and they were still too tight - I had to go home and change pants in the middle of the day!! I've never felt like this before in my life, so... I don't think I'm crazy lol, but we'll see.

[Deleted]

Cycle 3, ovulating now. I've had two clearly positive OPKs in a row, temps agree, EWCM for the first time this month, and I've been checking CP too. Feeling good about this month:-)

[thoseareradishes]

Cycle 5, CD7. If my cycle is the same as previous months, I will ovulate this weekend. Sometimes it is nice to O early (e.g. CD11) and sometimes it feels rushed, and I don't feel like we get much sex in since I'm just coming off my period. Argh!

In other news, it is sunny here and I have the afternoon off to clean up a bit, do some work and relax, woot.

[berbles]

I went back to the RE yesterday because of the pain I'm having again. She seemed really concerned about this fluid collection on my left side. She noted it 2 weeks ago when I first met with her, but as of yesterday it has increased in size significantly and she seems pretty worried. Which worries the shit out of me. She wants me to see this endo surgeon ASAP. He is, of course, out of network and my insurance won't pay for anything out of network. An office visit with this guy (no u/s) is $1900. :-|

So I spent all day yesterday with my mom, writing an appeal to my insurance and getting my HR department involved on my behalf. I'm tired and scared and angry that I have to jump through a million hoops before I can get even meet with this doctor so that he can tell me (most likely) that I need another surgery soon.

It's 11am and I'm still in bed and I haven't called my boss today. I'm the worst.

[magpie]

I'm just waiting for AF. It's day 30 of my first cycle off BC so I really don't know when to expect it. I feel kind of bloated and crampy though, so hopefully soon. I've poas and it's negative, so I'm eager for the next cycle so I can start figuring out how long these things are. I even started temping.

Also, if I got a negative test, can I assume that I'm not pg this weekend? We're going out of town and I really want to go out on the town with some old friends! Hopefully AF will make her appearance soon to clarify, I guess.

[winecheery]

Oct 10, 2012 13:09:18 GMT -5 magpie said:

I'm just waiting for AF. It's day 30 of my first cycle off BC so I really don't know when to expect it. I feel kind of bloated and crampy though, so hopefully soon. I've poas and it's negative, so I'm eager for the next cycle so I can start figuring out how long these things are. I even started temping.

Also, if I got a negative test, can I assume that I'm not pg this weekend? We're going out of town and I really want to go out on the town with some old friends! Hopefully AF will make her appearance soon to clarify, I guess.

My first cycle off bcp was 30days too. I started on CD31. If you took a - HPT, then go get a drink this weekend, I say.

You don't know how long your cycles off bcp will be, but if you have a few drinks this weekend, and ARE somehow pg, I don't expect it would be that bad. People get hammered and smoke and do all kinds of stuff before they know they are pg sometimes. One drink or two won't be bad, IMO.

[winecheery]

Oct 10, 2012 13:05:47 GMT -5 berbles said:

I went back to the RE yesterday because of the pain I'm having again. She seemed really concerned about this fluid collection on my left side. She noted it 2 weeks ago when I first met with her, but as of yesterday it has increased in size significantly and she seems pretty worried. Which worries the shit out of me. She wants me to see this endo surgeon ASAP. He is, of course, out of network and my insurance won't pay for anything out of network. An office visit with this guy (no u/s) is $1900.

So I spent all day yesterday with my mom, writing an appeal to my insurance and getting my HR department involved on my behalf. I'm tired and scared and angry that I have to jump through a million hoops before I can get even meet with this doctor so that he can tell me (most likely) that I need another surgery soon.

It's 11am and I'm still in bed and I haven't called my boss today. I'm the worst.

({) Berbs (}) It's gonna be ok. Cali girl's got yo back!!! (No but for real, deep breaths, and in the end, your health is worth every penny.)

[HoneySpider]

Oh berbles that really sucks

::hugs::

[blindyswife]

Oct 10, 2012 13:09:18 GMT -5 magpie said:

I'm just waiting for AF. It's day 30 of my first cycle off BC so I really don't know when to expect it. I feel kind of bloated and crampy though, so hopefully soon. I've poas and it's negative, so I'm eager for the next cycle so I can start figuring out how long these things are. I even started temping.

Also, if I got a negative test, can I assume that I'm not pg this weekend? We're going out of town and I really want to go out on the town with some old friends! Hopefully AF will make her appearance soon to clarify, I guess.

Yup, I agree with Winecheery. I am in the "drink til it's pink" camp. POAS, if it's neg, then go ahead and enjoy yourself.

[HoneySpider]

Oct 10, 2012 13:32:59 GMT -5 blindyswife said:

Oct 10, 2012 13:09:18 GMT -5 magpie said:

I'm just waiting for AF. It's day 30 of my first cycle off BC so I really don't know when to expect it. I feel kind of bloated and crampy though, so hopefully soon. I've poas and it's negative, so I'm eager for the next cycle so I can start figuring out how long these things are. I even started temping.

Also, if I got a negative test, can I assume that I'm not pg this weekend? We're going out of town and I really want to go out on the town with some old friends! Hopefully AF will make her appearance soon to clarify, I guess.

Yup, I agree with Winecheery. I am in the "drink til it's pink" camp. POAS, if it's neg, then go ahead and enjoy yourself.

:Y:

[kat]

CD (12) and I don't know what is going on but I think I missed catching my O this time. EWCM for (5) days, varying faint lines on OPK's, temps not indicating ovulation. I have one day where I fell asleep on the couch around 1-2am and went in the bedroom around 6am. I test at 8am everyday and when I tested that morning my temp spiked to 97.9. I went back to bed until 10:30 (my 3 year old was still asleep!!) and took my temp again. It was 97.3 which is right on range with most days. I am not sure which temp I should use. I think I will put in the lower temp and see what it does to my chart. This stuff is so confusing!

[tarheels]

Oct 10, 2012 13:05:47 GMT -5 berbles said:

I went back to the RE yesterday because of the pain I'm having again. She seemed really concerned about this fluid collection on my left side. She noted it 2 weeks ago when I first met with her, but as of yesterday it has increased in size significantly and she seems pretty worried. Which worries the shit out of me. She wants me to see this endo surgeon ASAP. He is, of course, out of network and my insurance won't pay for anything out of network. An office visit with this guy (no u/s) is $1900.

So I spent all day yesterday with my mom, writing an appeal to my insurance and getting my HR department involved on my behalf. I'm tired and scared and angry that I have to jump through a million hoops before I can get even meet with this doctor so that he can tell me (most likely) that I need another surgery soon.

It's 11am and I'm still in bed and I haven't called my boss today. I'm the worst.

Oh no ((hugs))

[winecheery]

Oct 10, 2012 13:45:08 GMT -5 kat said:

CD (12) and I don't know what is going on but I think I missed catching my O this time. EWCM for (5) days, varying faint lines on OPK's, temps not indicating ovulation. I have one day where I fell asleep on the couch around 1-2am and went in the bedroom around 6am. I test at 8am everyday and when I tested that morning my temp spiked to 97.9. I went back to bed until 10:30 (my 3 year old was still asleep!!) and took my temp again. It was 97.3 which is right on range with most days. I am not sure which temp I should use. I think I will put in the lower temp and see what it does to my chart. This stuff is so confusing!

You could also just save yourself the stress and throw it out. Discarding a temp with that much uncertainty is prob best in the long run. Too many variables.

[ladygrey]

Berbles, that sucks. FX that you find a good solution soon.

Magpie, my first cycle after coming off of BCP was 43 days long(!). Don't freak out too much if this one is long for you as well. It just takes some time for your body to figure out that you're not on the pill anymore. Oh, and definitely drink till it's pink

[Deleted]

Berrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbles I hate your insurance and am throwing rocks at it, FU them. ::hugs::

[thoseareradishes]

Hope you get insurance figured out soon Berbles and you feel better soon! Are you going to the game tonight?

[berbles]

I am! I hope I'm not in pain. I don't want my grandpa's girlfriend all up in my business.

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Shankabitch

[FastHands]

Ugh, berbles, I am so sorry you are dealing with this. Health problems are scary enough fithout having to fight your insurance company to get the care you need. I hope you can figure something out soon and get relief!