Hahaha it’s been me all week. My temperature finally dipped this morning and I started getting cramps but I had to waste a test just to be quash any remaining hope.
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I have never heard of ultrasound results not being day-of. That’s weird and frustrating, I’m sorry!
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I’ve had one other ultrasound through my gynecologist (trying to figure out why my periods were lasting so long; everything looked good on the ultrasound) and I think it was a few days before I got the results.
@Bracken_Joy I don’t have a lot of confidence in my gynecologist for fertility related things. I’ll definitely work on getting in with an RE if this cycle doesn’t work out.
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Finally got my ultrasound results.
Results
My ultrasound was done CD14. My doctor said it showed one dominant follicle that was 2-3 days away from ovulation (I assume she means the 18mm one).
My doctor didn’t say anything about whether the 15, 13, or 12 mm follicles could go on to ovulate. Assuming the 18mm follicle went on to ovulate around CD17 when I got a positive ovulation test with a temp rise the following days, would the other follicles have stopped maturing?
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Yes, the stop maturing and all non dominant follicles (hundreds of tiny ones included) go through follicular atresia.
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Thanks! Sounds like the clomid did its job.
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Today is the start of my most fertile window, according to our friends at the Fertility Friend app, and I am still getting negative OPKs. I am handling it great and not spiraling at all!
My projected window is 12/27-12/29, and if I’m still getting negatives tomorrow, I guess I’ll text my doctor anyways? He said something a few months ago about the possibility of getting negative OPKS but still ovulating, but idk exactly what that would mean. The sperm is only good through 12/29, so I’ll email and ask if that would mean it lasts all day.
Come on, little eggies! Go go go.
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How is the mucus?
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I can’t tell! It remains a mystery, for whatever reason it’s inscrutable.
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So in a shocking twist… I was very worried about something for 24 hours, and now it’s totally fine? This has never happened to me in my life.*
I got my little positive OPK, so I’ll see what my doctor wants me to do. Hopefully us + our giant sperm rocket ship are headed in today!
*A lie
Oh, also! Yesterday I forgot to take my allergy meds, and my mucus was clearly encouraging for once. I’m going to tell myself it’s related so I can feel like I have a tiny bit of control. My eyes are itchy but I can live with that, and am happy so far they aren’t allergy symptoms that look like COVID.
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Fingers crossed big time!
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Update on me: I took a Christmas morning test (9-11 dpo, bad OPKs this cycle) in the hopes of getting a Christmas miracle. Negative, oh well, changed into non period panties (I wear them at night leading up to my period) and then promptly bled all over myself. Had to scramble while Latte screamed from her crib to clean up then pivot to holly jolly Christmas morning time. So THAT was fun. Not just no Christmas miracle but a Christmas fuck you, lol.
Weaning is progressing though. For like 10 days now I’ve only been nursing Latte every other evening, down from every evening. If we keep with the standing plan then, late January is when we’ll do our first IUI (lol since we skipped them the first round).
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Alright, after talking through timing with my doctor, IUI scheduled for tomorrow afternoon! YAY.
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Good luck!!
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Fertile thoughts!
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My clomid cycle didn’t result in pregnancy. On the plus side my husband’s radiation oncologist confirmed that it’s safe to keep trying while he’s going through treatment, and they’re only planning on three weeks of treatment.
My husband has an appointment coming up with a urologist but not for a few weeks still, so I’ll have another fertile window before that appointment. It’s been really demoralizing hitting the one year mark of trying at the same time he got diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. At least there’s a treatment plan and an end date for the radiation.
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I have my mammogram in 2 days and I am scared. I know it could be nothing, and based on statistics of age and family history, along with my doctor not feeling anything of concern, is likely nothing.
fears
I’m trying to be positive and envision good news, them coming in and being like “you’re all good!” or “it’s just a cyst.” But I can’t help worrying, and expecting, that it’s cancer, and best case scenario I’ll be benched on TTC for months, medium case scenario I’ll lose my fertility in treatment, and worse case scenario I literally die.
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I think I’m feeling similarly (if less extreme consequences) about upcoming Covid test and results. Rather than imagining results either way and playing out scenarios, I am trying to remind myself I’m in a state of not knowing and just sit with that. (I did this with job interviews, too.) Obviously, I am taking precautions as if infected, which doesn’t apply to you.
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Med Details - Endo
Talked to OBGYN today and she went pretty quickly to recommending excision if endo was bothering me. I’m 
to be taken seriously but also abdominal surgery is a scary concept. It will take months to schedule but she said it’s OK to keep trying in the meantime, since endo is basically suppressed by pregnancy, if it happens. So, good that I don’t have to “waste time”.
Slight uptick on OPK suggests I will lay an egg soon, if it’s not another false alarm!
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Question for you guys: any advice about what to do/not to do before and after my IUI today? I’ve heard no sex (of any kind) for a bit afterwards, right? I’m thinking I’ll do my regular low-impact Pilates workout this morning beforehand. My wife’s friend who had a hard time conceiving swears by mucinex, so I’ll take it a few hours before the appointment.
I tried cutting back on allergy meds and I was a sneezy mess, so I’m back on those. I’m limiting myself to 1.5 cups of coffee a day (minimum I need to not feel like garbage) and making sure I eat when I start to feel hungry. Not eating = laziness, not diet.
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