#Ruderus: September 2013

Friday, September 27, 2013

08.30.13- Cycle Day 29

CD 29

13 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.11

Taking: 5MTHF

Multivitamin

L-Argenine

Cervix is low, but is closed and secreting creamy/tacky fluid. Normally at about this point it's releasing eggwhite fluid as a precursor to bleeding.

The cervix was tilted heavily so I had to twist the speculum to get a head on picture.

I didn't take an HPT this morning because honestly watching these faint faint lines get marginally darker but not really each day was kind of driving me nuts. That and I have had the worst hormone migrane EVER (which always means pregnancy at around this DPO, often means miscarriage >:0) and I think staring at light lines until my eyes cross is going to make me puke.

Today I'm due for some light orange bleeding or spotting or something. Tomorrow AF is supposed to start. If no spotting today and no bleeding tomorrow, I'll take a hpt at 15DPO, CD 31.

As for my temp drop: that's a toss up. As it is above 98.00, it could easily still be a pregnancy temp (my pg temps don't go below 98). But as it also is a pretty substantial drop it could also be the start of a period. Idk.

I do know though that in my jul. 26, 2012 cycle I had an implantation dip at 7 DPO and had a second drop at 12 DPO to about the same temp. The next day is when I got a decent and clearly visible positive (the 12 DPO test was positive but hardly, honestly).

This cycle, I had a dip at 8 DPO and another dip today, at 13 DPO. I've got my fingers crossed that it's following the same pattern and will have a different outcome.

(FX, not holding my breath.)

Edit: So. I cut myself. Well. Actually. I popped a blood blister that had been driving me nuts. And I thought to myself, "why would I waste all of this lovely A+ blood?" And so, like the pee stick obsessed nut I am, I used it on a stick.

2 minutes in:

More than 2 minutes in:

I'm trying to wait for the blood to finish crossing the test but it might not. GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME.

Edit edit: Also, just in case you were wondering where the bloody hell I got that brilliant idea from:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21875776/

Thursday, September 26, 2013

08.30.13- Cycle Day 28

CD 28

12 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.46

Taking: 5MTHF

L-Argenine

Multivitamin

Cervix is high and looks discolored.

Cervical fluid is creamy.

This is 4 days after suspected implantation dip. At this point I feel like its kinda not good that these tests aren't darker.

Tomorrow or the next day (13 and 14 DPO) AF is due. So, we shall see what happens.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

08.30.13- Cycle Day 27

cd 27

11 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.52

Taking: 5MTHF

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

Multivitamin

Cervix is idk. I haven't bothered to look. I'm sure I will at some point or other today, and then I'll update.

~edit~ okay here have a cervix. It's kind of open but I think that's because of prostaglandins... <implications~~~>

Still looks kinda bruised.

MORE IMPORTANTLY. I peed on another stick. I hate the morning after a positiveish stick.

Anyway, it was marginally darker than yesterday. Maybe like, 1/2 a margin. Or 1/3. BUT STILL.

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We'll see what happens. I am not going to test tomorrow because watching these agonizingly ooze to positive or negative is just not a good idea. So I'm going to wait until Friday probably, at 13 DPO.

08.30.13- Cycle Day 26

CD 26

10 Days Past Ovulation

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

l-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is low-medium and medium open. Fluid is minimal.

So I was in a good mood this morning and decided there was no better way to ruin it but to pee on a stick. I justified this action as "because the Glow app told me to."

Some of my friends see the line. Some see the line and say its grey. I've decided that I peed on it too hard or something but that's not really going to stop me from obsessively squinting at it until I decide its a good idea to test again.

Monday, September 23, 2013

08.30.13- Cycle Day 25

CD 25

9 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.61

Taking: multivitamin

5MTHF

l-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is medium. It was closed this morning but now it's more open, but firm. Scant amount of creamy/eggwhite fluid present at the os.

Given cervix and chart it is unlikely that Thai cycle will result in a positive. Similarly, while my chart does look like the pregnant cycle I had about this time last year:

It also almost exactly replicates my averages from the past 6 months:

So my guess is it is most likely that this cycle will result in another typical LP and AF. I'm not going to waste time on tests unless by some chance I end up at 15 DPO (AF has been showing at 14 DPO as of late, so 15DPO would make me one day late). ~~ sigh~~

Sunday, September 22, 2013

08.30.13- Cycle Day 24

CD 24

8 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.22

Taking: l-Argenine

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

Cervix is kind of high. Firm. Cervix is still kind of discolored.

Slight ewcf at the OS, but not a ton. You can see it on the picture.

There was a .4 degree drop in temperature from yesterday to today. Fx implantation yesterday? Maybe I will test tomorrow.

Or maybe not.

08.30.13- Cycle Day 20

CD 20

4 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.42

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is low, more cervical fluid present and firmly closed.

Just waiting now. We're getting to that point in time where I start debating on when I should test... If at all. I vacillate between 9 DPO and 13 DPO. *shrug* we'll see what my chart does; right?

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

08.30.13- Cycle Day 19

CD 19

3 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.21

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

l-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is low ish and firm, closed securely. Os looks smaller than usual and thick creamy fluid covers the OS.

My uterus hurts today. Not like, pain or anything but I have this burning cramping feeling. This is annoying because its too early to be implantation and too late to be ovulation... So my uterus is just messing with me.

On another note, I'm feeling the emotional burnout of TTC for 20.5 months (21 oct. 1). This sucksssssssss and I'm starting to get irrationally bitchy when someone announces a pregnancy. I need to stop.

Monday, September 16, 2013

08.30.13- Cycle Day 18

CD 18

2 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.04

Taking: multivitamin

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is higher than yesterday, firm and closed. Cervical fluid is creamy but seems to be drying up.

Cervix has that "bruised" kind of look that it does sometimes at 3DPO, so I'm wondering if I ovulated in the early early morning hours of CD 16 and am closer to 3 DPO than I am 2 DPO. Officially I am 2 DPO though so that's what I'm going by.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

08.30.13- Cycle Day 17

CD 17

1 Day Past Ovulation

Temperature: 97.82 (yay)

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is completely infertile and cervical fluid is creamy.

08.30.13- Cycle Day 16

CD 16

Temperature: 97.10 (Pterodactyl cry)

Taking: Multivitamin

EPO

Vitamin C

5MTHF

l-Argenine

Cervix is high but firm and mostly closed. Fluid is eggwhite but not nearly as copious or wet as yesterday.

As you can see from temps, I didn't ovulate yesterday like I expected, which is SUPER irritating. I'm really hoping that because of my HUGE temp drop I had a super fabulous ovulation and that will reflect in temperatures tomorrow.

OPK was negative both in the morning and in my afternoon double check. It's unusual for me to have a 1 day surge, and I hope it means more effective release of LH.