08.30.13- Cycle Day 1

CD 1

Temperature: 97.66

Taking: Multivitamin

5mthf 

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

Dexamethasone

Clomid

Woke up to bleeding.

Light, light flow.

This cycle I'm going to be skipping the black cohosh and see what the combo of dex and clomid do by themselves. I didn't like the LP temps from last cycle. Though they were much more stable, they were very very low.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 28

CD 28

13 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 97.83

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

l-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix started out high and soft.

By nightfall it had opened up. Cervical fluid was tinged slight orange, signaling the beginning of AF (will consider tomorrow CD1)

 

Given this; its obvious that the hpt I took just in case was negative.

Oh well.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 27

CD 27

12 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.27

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is rather high and kind of soft. The external os is mediumish open and the. Internal is closed.

Cervical fluid is kind of eggwhite, kind of creamy.

I didn't take any HPT today. If my temp is still up tomorrow and there is no bleeding I may take one. Maybe. *shrug*

08.02.13- Cycle Day 26

CD 26

11 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 97.86

Taking: L-Argenine

Multivitamin 

5MTHF

Vitamin C

Cervix is high and medium-open. 

 

I did take an HPT today.

I expected it to be negative because of the temp drop. I'm kind of sad that I am not going to have a may baby but I'm not really really sad. Prepping meds for next cycle and waiting for AF.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 25

CD 25

10 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.38

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

Cervix is high-ish and soft. Feels slightly open.

I did take HPT's even though I didn't expect anything from them really. Not terribly distraught about the negatives.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 24

CD 24

9 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.28

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

l-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is low-medium and semi firm. 

Might not test tomorrow. Idk, I'm just not really feelin' it this cycle. I just kind of expect AF in a few days.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 23

CD 23

8 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.38

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Vitamin C

I see the typo's on my previous post but I find the fact that I drunk blogged to be funny enough to leave them. Oh, how dedicated I am. :lol:

Cervix is high, firm and closed, with sticky/creamy cervical fluid.

About this time I start getting patches of EWCM but I'm not really seeing that.

I have no strong urge to test. I wonder if I will at 10 DPO. ._.

08.02.13- CycleDay 22

CD 22

7 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.25

Taking: a bunch of stuff idk it is the same

Stuff I took yesterday.

For the record I've totally been drinking which makes blogging rather difficult. And if you are wondering it won't hurt a pregnancy. Lol.

mil is being nice but I'm still not gonna pee on sticks in front of her. >.>

Cervix Is medium and kind of open ish.

FYI: why i often have more than one pic each day: some are slightly different angles? Some are different darkness that show different things. Some are closer and farther. Sometimes I just can't pick. Deal with it. >:0

08.02.13- Cycle Day 21

CD 21

6 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.25

Taking: Multivitamin 

Vitamin C

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Cervix is medium low and slightly bruised looking.

No tests until 10 DPO, hopefully MIL all be gone by then.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 20

CD 20

5 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.13

Taking: Multivitamin

5 MTHF

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

Cervix is kind of low and tilted today.

I can't believe it's already 5 DPO. I feel like this 2ww is going by much more quickly than normal.

If you notice, I'm not taking progesterone. I've decided to start taking it when I get a + hpt so I don't mess with implantation. 

Also, my mother out law is coming for this weekend and next. She doesn't like me and makes that plainly obvious AND called us yelling about a pregnancy I had last August (while I was miscarrying!) even though it really isn't any of her damned concern or her place.

I don't want to arouse her suspicion because I have to make nice while she's here and if she says anything to me about it I'm guaranteed to flip my shit because I'm sick of her. As satisfying as that might be in the long run it isn't a great idea. :/

Not looking forward to it.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 19

CD 19

4 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.77

Taking: Multivitamin

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Vitamin C

Cervix is unremarkable.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 18

CD 18

3 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.33

Taking: Multivitamin

L-Argenine

5MTHF

Vitamin C

Did not take any pictures today because I simply forgot to. >.< I did get crosshairs today, though, at CD 15.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 17

CD 17

2 Days Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.11

Taking: Multivitamin

Vitamin C

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Cervix was back to completely infertile.

It was another one of those days where it was very hard to get a clear picture.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 16

CD 16

1 Day Past Ovulation

Temperature: 98.31

Taking: Multivitamin

L-Argenine

5MTHF

Vitamin C

Based on temperatures and cervix I have definitely ovulated.

Cervix is medium position and has closed up.

OPK is back to negative.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 15

CD 15

Temperature: 97.46

Taking: Multivitamin

EPO

Vit. C

5MTHF

L-Argenine

Dexamethasone 

Cervix is still high, soft and open.

OPK is still pretty positive.

I expect ovulation happened today; probably this morning when I was extremely super crampy.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 14

CD 14

Temperature: 98.07

Taking: l-Argenine

EPO

Multivitamin

5MTHF

Dexamethasone 

Vitamin C

Cervix is so high I had trouble getting a picture of it. Very soft and very eggwhite. Vagina is extremely swollen, making my task more difficult.

OPK is positive, though I have decided that I strongly dislike these tests.

AM

PM

Both are positive, but in one the dye ran stupid. -_- 

I also used a ferning microscope because I found it and I can. Girl, look at those fern patterns.

Look more fern patterns:

I expect ovulation early-mid morning tomorrow.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 13

CD 13

Temperature: 97.45

Taking: Multivitamin

EPO

L-Argenine

Vitamin C

Dexamethasone 

5MTHF

Cervix is high, soft, open.

Fluid very eggwhite.

OPK this evening was not positive. I think honestly that these particular OPK's have  a higher threshold than the wondfo does. This doesn't bother me much; I'll probably have a + tomorrow and ov CD 15 or + the same day I ov. Either way things look good!

Edit: severely undersaturated test taken around midnight after a 2 hour hold: think it will be + tomorrow.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 12

CD 12

Temperature: 98.07

Taking: L-Argenine

EPO

Vitamin C

5MTHF

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin 

Dexamethasone 

Cervix is beginning to open up and feels very tender.

First thing this AM:

 

Around 1 PM

OPK at 1 PM, on a 2 hour hold:

That's a pretty dark line compared to yesterday, especially since I seem not to get lines on these. The Clomid, Dexamethasone and Cohosh combo seems to be working nicely. My uterus is extremely tender, too.

I took another test later and it was a little bit lighter, so I'm not surging just yet but I do feel it gearing up.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 11

CD 11

Temperature: 98.05

Taking: Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

Black Cohosh

EPO

Dexamethasone 

Cervix is medium all around. It's beginning to feel a little sore, which should get worse over the next few days and then let up around ovulation.

OPK is, of course, negative.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 10

CD 10

Temperature: 97.77

Taking: L-Argenine

5MTHF

Vitamin C

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Dexamethasone 

Evening Primrose Oil

Cervix is medium and firm. I like how it looks today, i think it is very neat.

OPK was unshockingly negative.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 9

CD 9

Temperature: Not Taken

Taking: Dexamethasone

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

Taking a new multi. Love alive, take it if you take multi's.

No bleeding today. Tomorrow I will resume temping, picture taking, and OPK's like normal and will begin using the instead.

Thanks for being patient, anyone who follows. When I was trying to figure out how to continue to update my blog without the use of my lovely phone app I saw the amount of hits on this blog. There are a LOT. A lot a lot. So I guess someone is paying attention? Lol. Sorry for the mess that has been the past two cycles, hopefully nothing like this will happen again (at least until I can finish my project!) *coughrightApple/Googlecough***?

08.02.13- Cycle Day 8

CD 8

Temperature: Not Taken

Taking: Dexamethasone

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

I thought the bleeding was over but it started AGAIN. Dark bleeding.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 7

 CD 7

Temperature: Not Taken

Taking: Dexamethasone

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

Spotting today, cervix seems to have mostly closed up.

I have decided to use Instead cups this cycle. Can't hurt, right? 

It will also help me because a lot of times Man is not in the mood and I am NOT wasting a cycle of uncomfortable symptoms and cramping and meds for his whims. So, shoot it into an instead and keep going and avoid the angry steroid-y rage.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 6

CD 6

Temperature: Not Taken

Taking: Dexamethasone

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

This Dex, just so you know, is making me the angriest person on the planet. I can't wait to get off of it.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 5

CD 5

Temperature: Not Taken

Taking: Clomid

Dexamethasone

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

Bleeding began again today, large clots and tissue passed. :/

08.02.13- Cycle Day 4

CD 4

Temperature: Not Taken

Taking: Clomid

Dexamethasone

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

Bleeding completely stopped for today. I questioned whether or not this was actually a m/c.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 3

CD 3

Temperature: Not Taken

Taking: Clomid

Dexamethasone

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

Bleeding slowed considerably. No pictures taken until CD 10.

08.02.13- Cycle Day 2

CD 2

Temperature: Not Taken

Taking: Clomid

Dexamethasone

Black Cohosh

Multivitamin

Vitamin C

L-Argenine

5MTHF

I didn't take any pictures of my cervix. For one thing, I can't post them anyway (stupid 403) and for another this is a pretty heavy bleed and I didn't feel like it. <lol>

I did, however, take a picture of some of the globular mess that came with the bleeding. There were lots of heavy clots and bleeding but there was also this gelatinous stuff that I think is dissolved calcium, which makes me feel extremely optimistic.

Another thing is that I am feeling no physical pain even though this is obviously a miscarriage (and it lasted 8 days!!!) I think that was the result of the Cohosh and honestly if that is an effect I'm all for it every month. 

 

I guess it's kind of hard to see (and I feel like its grosser than what you are used to seeing on this blog) but those clear gel-y chunks of snotty looking stuff are, I think, calcium. So yay. Well, boo, but yay for something that might mean the end to this nightmare.