I might have missed ovulation and I’m very cranky. Been using OPKs, 2 per day the last few days, but never saw a line as dark as the control line. Definitely my usual post-O temp rise though. Fudge.
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It doesn’t necessarily have to get as dark as the control line (especially on premom brand tests) I’ve read you only need a spike in LH from your baseline, not necessarily a specific level. I am quite sure I’ve ovulated with levels of 12-18 (per Premom tests) where their control is like 50 and other brands control is 20-30ish.
Pretty sure I am a dud for December though 
No temp rise and no LH over 5 detected. I am now 2 for 2 on missing ovulation when traveling and messing up inositol dosage (I just noticed the capsule one I get had half the dosage of loose powder “per serving”. Got more powder and also splurged on pouches for travel…mad tho 
)
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Missing O is incredibly frustrating. And I’m kicking myself because I’ve been considering but not wanting sex for the last four days.
I’ve gotta arrange insemination from CD10 next month.
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I’m not sure if it’s better (for next ovu and for endo) to just let this go, or to take progestin for a week to get a fake period. It complicates things that after 2 weekends from now I will not want to miss work for a while 
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Shoot, I’m sorry! What a pain.
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In my personal experiences, the staff around the experience is as important if not more important than the doctor. As long as your doctor isn’t a total dimwit lol, having nurses you can get a hold of, finance people that know what’s going on, and just a good clinic environment in general is worth a ton in its own right. If you’re getting good vibes from them, I would definitely roll with that until proven otherwise. And that’s not such a low price that it would throw up red flags or anything, I think you’re just having the benefit of being in a large metro with a lot of competition.
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Thoughts on fresh vs. frozen and PGS given our ages (40 and almost 45) and history of loss? Clearly the cheaper option is tempting, but the consultant mentioned in passing that, for older folks, PGS is usually the best route. Wondering if anyone here has experience/opinions/a list of pros and cons.
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Unfortunately I don’t have any recent knowledge on it or recent evidence. The genetic testing technology that they use is really rapidly evolving. I know that when we went to do it, the evidence was a little in favor of genetic testing, and I want to do avoid the heartbreak of miscarriage so we went that route. But then I know for a while the evidence tilt of the other direction, and was saying especially for older couples that you actually could be missing out on embryos that may have survived otherwise. I don’t know where it all falls now, because it’s been a few years. That’s some thing I would definitely check the subReddit for.
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Some people have success with fresh transfer that had failed frozen ones, but in general frozen has better success rates. Both the clinics I worked with were really discouraging of fresh. I wanted to do one with my second retrieval, after the first one failed, but my hormone levels were not favorable.
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I did always read on fresh versus frozen, you should just do whichever the clinic has the best success rates with. Because that best captures what their lab excels at and so forth. 
So basically follow what they steer you to on that.
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Oh and I’d be very interested to know what you find on it, too.
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Thinking long and hard about this, I have realized that it’s super important to me to make sure the embryos are chromosomally normal because, with as many losses as I’ve had, I would be pretty devastated to be pregnant and then find out later on that I needed to terminate due to an abnormality. The woman on the phone definitely said that they only do PGS with a frozen transfer, so I guess that’s what it’ll be for me. (I mean, I know there could be other abnormalities that aren’t about chromosomes that could crop up later, but I’d rather rule out as many as I can.)
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Holy egg white cervical mucus, Batman! Maybe I haven’t ovulated yet.
Gotta bang tomorrow. Today? I guess it would be today.
OPKs still stubbornly negative though.
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Pregnancy test update
Richie rich over here (me) sprung for the early detection tests, and according to this morning’s test, I am not pregnant. 94% chance of accuracy at this point in my cycle.
My plan is to do another early test Saturday, since being pregnant would impact what I do on my trip this weekend, and I’ll do a regular test if I don’t get my period on time. But it sounds like this cycle likely wasn’t successful.
I’m not shocked, especially since my ovulation timing was so weird this month. And, I know it’s a numbers game! I’m not feeling sad, which I’m glad about: I’m telling myself I won’t worry about it unless I’m still not pregnant by March/April.
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Oh yay I get to have medical anxiety again.
My blood tests came back (was getting checked for thyroid stuff and a bunch of pre-ttc panels my doc thought “eh why not”).
My DHEA came back really high.
Numbers
Normal range goes up to 701 for ages 19 and up, and I was at 987.
A quick google search includes “Tumor! PCOS! Infertility!”
However, this could be the reason my hair has been thinner, and if I already had a reasonably DHEA and then started also taking it in a prenatal that could be related?
Ugggh I hates.
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Uh, just to make sure, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is not docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) which is recommended in prenatals. But DHEA is also used as a supplement for other issues… Are you taking what you mean to take?
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DHEA wouldn’t be in a prenatal. DHA would but it’s unrelated.
But yes, when you see things talk about high androgens in PCOS- DHEA is a a testosterone precursor (among other things) so you’ll see it higher in a lot of PCOS patients. It doesn’t automatically equal diagnosis of PCOS though- you need multiple check boxes and it’s just one.
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Oh yes, what galliver said.
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Ooooh maybe I’m just getting the two confused.
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That is to say I’m pretty sure what I’m taking is DHA.
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