I think many people (myself included) head off for more help after less than a year of trying. I had some other warning signs going on, but I have a friend who brought in her temp chart and said “we’ve hit the ovulation window spot on 4 out of 6 months…is it worth looking into this?” and got a referral without any issue.
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You all are so smart and knowledgable, thank you!
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I realized it’s mental/emotional exhaustion more than physical. But also not conducive to It.
I’m also not sure how much of that is coincidence with Life, hence the poll
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IDK about sex-based trying, but for IUI it’s pretty well studied that that odds drop off after 3 and even more after 6. So if it’s going to work it’s most likely going to happen in the first 3-6 tries.* Not that it’s not possible for success after IUI 6, but the figurative bang for your literal buck is lower and its more cost effective to look at the next step (medicated, IVF, etc).
Someone is going to be out there who got pregnant on IUI 12 (or IVF 12), but they are the exception.
*Your own personal odds were always the same, to be clear, but in the aggregate, the ones with better odds get pregnant sooner and the ones with less better odds are needing extra tries.
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I was pretty sure I ovulated, so I took my post-O dose of progesterone. Now temperatures have corrected, and I’m not so certain. Plus I have watery CM and a high, maybe mushy cervix. Fuck, hopefully I didn’t fuck things up taking the progesterone.
Also gonna take a shower so I can do sex today without feeling like some kind of greasy goblin during it.
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I have been having mid-cycle bleeding and it’s freaking me out. I wrote it off a couple of times as like, maybe ovulation bleeding? Implantation bleeding? But it’s been enough variety in when in my cycle that like it can’t all be ovulation bleeding, and I’m not pregnant so there was obviously not implantation bleeding.
Twice was after sex, once was not. It’s only been happening since January, and everything seemed fine at my yearly exam in December. Or maybe it’s always happened and I’ve just never paid SO MUCH ATTENTION to my bodily fluids?
Anyway, I emailed my Ob-gyn and hopefully she’ll get back to me so in the meantime I’m resisting letting Dr. Google yet again tell me that I have cancer.
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Is this since you started meds (and esp progesterone?)
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Last month’s, no. I started taking progesterone last month CD 25 I think, bleeding was CD 16. I may have started metformin before bleeding? Would have to go through my forum updates to be sure.
And it’s been a very tiny amount. I wouldn’t have noticed this month if I wasn’t looking at toilet paper closely and digging around trying to find CM.
Side note, bodies are gross and I don’t like them.
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Ummm. Digging around to find cervical mucus. Like digging? Any chance of a tiny scratch?
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Possibly once? But I highly doubt more than once. My fingernails are quite short and I think I would have felt that.
I would to be more precise call it “routing around”
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Summary
Much more bleeding after sex. Freaking out, but also definitely on progesterone and cervix open-ish due to fw, soooo…
???
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I feel like I’m monopolizing. Sorry.
I’m feeling very discouraged with my body. Was so pleased I got a positive OPK and could discern cervix position, but not getting enough of a temp rise to confirm ovulation 3 days post positive is pissing me off.
I’m concerned about my doctor prescribing progesterone throughout my cycle, when standard seemed to be after O. She responded to my message asking about it with “well yeah your progesterone is low that’s why you’re on it” and didn’t answer my question of “why am I on it for my FULL CYCLE when a typical regimen seems to be after O, won’t this potentially make me not ovulate?”
I’m worried the progesterone I took thinking I had ovulated made me not ovulate. I’m worried continuing to take my pre-CD 14 dose will make me not ovulate.
I don’t want to change doctors AGAIN and I like this one in terms of bedside manner but I’m a little untrusting of this prescription.
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My dream about starting my period was off by a few days but it started irl today. I was really attached to the idea of getting pregnant the same cycle that my husband had his radiation treatments for cancer but that didn’t work out.
It’s been a roller coaster of a cycle and I can’t believe it’s only been a month. I swear this cycle lasted a year.
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Just coming here to thank @BiblioFeroz for fixing my mental health (for this week at least lol): the framing that each IUI has as high a % chance of working as a free sex baby has been really helpful. Each month was feeling high stakes, so it’s helped me to be more low key about it. We’ll see what happens!
Pregnancy test update
Since I wanted to drink last night, I took another pregnancy test yesterday morning. It was 10 days post IUI and a negative. Oh well! I’ll test if/when my period is late too, I guess.
I guess I will be drinking and doing dumb bullshit in New Orleans in a month, hooray for me (edit this is a real hooray, doing dumb bullshit is my passion)
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Come on team, we have the potential to be pregnant at the SAME TIME AS RIHANNA. Let’s get these eggs!!! 
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I’m tryiiiiing
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I think I’ll wait it out a few more months. But I hope some of you fabulous people manage it 
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Alright, it’s officially not my month! I do have @Economista 's extra lucky pregnancy tests now, though, so it’s only a matter of time.
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I have one tiny scrap of good news, which is that my blood test results have appeared in my lab portal, and it seems I now have a higher AMH than I did three years ago. Which is . . . not really supposed to happen, I think? Did I wish it into a better state?? Anyway, it’s now showing to be about average for my age instead of low for my age. According to my clinic’s website, anything above 1.06 is associated with somewhat decent chances of IVF working. Mine used to be 0.88 and is now apparently 1.31.
Randomly, I have a high platelet count, though? Not sure what that means or if it could be related to recent covid or my weird antiphospholipid thing getting worse. It was normal in August when the hematologist tested it. High side of normal, but still normal.
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This happened to me, but it was just lab differences. When I was re tested at the first lab again, it was basically the same. That’s why clinics all like to re-run it, because it can vary between clinics depending on the generation of the test and some weird stuff like that. Mine was a big difference too. Off the top of my head, I think it was 0.86 and 1.41, and then 0.83
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