Scheduling an IUI for Wednesday! This is try #3, but will be the first one where we’ll able to do it on the same day that I get a positive OPK, thanks to sperm arrival/tank life timing.
I was going to skip this month because I didn’t want to be TWW-ing in New Orleans, but since my last two cycles were on the shorter side of normal for me, I should know if it worked or not before the trip.
This month, I am waiting to test until the day I am supposed to get my period. I am treating anything weird that my body does beforehand as PMS symptoms. I will eat a vegetable every day.
I have given up on ovulation and took progestin to do a fake period to curb endo growth. Surgeon office appointment tomorrow. Not sure what to expect. Waiting on contact from endocrinologist about test results…
After a big crampy day 2 days ago, nothing. Part of me is getting my hopes up, the other part is like well… I am on progesterone. I was told to take the double-dose until my period, but would my period even come if I stay on it?
Also kind of putting off testing because FF thinks I’m 13 dpo but I honestly think 11 dpo is possible and/or likely. I’m already tired of stark white where I want a second line to be.
The stark white is the WORST. I used to look at it with the flashlight on my phone to make sure I wasn’t missing anything.
I don’t think you do get your period on progesterone? I mean, I never did until I stopped taking it. Maybe a question for your doc. Cause if you did get pregnant, you would keep taking it for a while longer, right?
This is the first cycle I think I could feasibly be pregnant and I will know in like what, 7 days? Wild. Both terrified and excited at the thought. After the wedding we try more earnestly.
Just sitting around waiting until it’s 14 dpo from my predicted O date (vs FF’s) so I can test, be disappointed, go off progesterone, and start over. Wheeeee.
I mean I know 12 dpo is usually good enough from a probably definitive standpoint, but if I’m gonna stop the progesterone I wanna be extra extra certain.
dietary changes
I really need to change my usual diet because while overall the metformin has stopped making me feel like hot garbage all the time, I get diarrhea basically every day because I haven’t stopped eating a ton of white carbs. Other than the daily diarrhea I feel fine, but that’s not ideal and it would be unsustainable if I had to like, go places and see people.
Got my shipping confirmations for my meds overnight. I had thought they were shipping them the previous “morning for them” but I guess it was today’s “morning for them.” We’re cutting it close here because I ostensibly need them between the 17th and the 19th.
I lost a couple of days because the nurse somehow misunderstood which pharmacy I wanted and sent the rx to the wrong one and then had a couple of days off (thinking she was done with that task), so I had to frantically call people Fri and Mon when she didn’t get back to me. And then the pharmacy somehow ate a day between when they said they would ship and when they actually did. Part of the meds are coming from Turkey instead of Israel due to supply chain issues. I am probably doing this at the worst possible time.
But now I guess I just cross my fingers and hope for the best? Getting important stuff in the mail always terrifies me because my delivery people are so lazy sometimes and leave things weird places, and also sometimes just . . . lie about stuff? The postman, especially, is a liar and will mark things delivered and then they show up hours or days later. I am trying not to be too nervous about this but the low-grade anxiety will probably not mellow out until I have the meds in my paws.
Feeling a vague cramping today that is probably PMS pre-cramps but would be really funny if it were implantation cramps. FF refuses to give me an O-date this month because my temps were wonky for some reason, but I know from OPK and ovulation pains that I am ~9 DPO.
Well, I could be wrong, but last night I felt what I think were some early warning type cramps. This morning my skin is atrocious. Pretty sure my period is eminent. Oh well! Probably for the best that I don’t get pregnant this close to the wedding? Still sad.
Ughhh, can you all send me good fertile thoughts, please? My OPK test results were wonky, so it looks like no IUI until tomorrow at the soonest. I would just like this process to feel easier and more straightforward.
I know I’m not there yet, but I’m really dreading having to go back to the fertility clinic. They were perfectly nice, but everything took sooooo long - it took them 3 of my cycles to figure out and communicate, what is the sperm analysis they’d need our potential donor to do. I’m dreading that I’ll lose another 3-6 more cycles to jumping through their hoops.
ETA: I went back to see if I had a picture of my cheapie tests, but it looks like I only took pictures of the FRERs. BUT the cheapies are not very sensitive so I wouldn’t fret.
Fingers crossed!! I didn’t want to get your hopes up, but starting a few days before my positive test I started having diarrhea and it finally just stopped, over 2 weeks later. I thought your diarrhea might be an early pregnancy symptom!
It looks fine to me for 14-16dpo! If you test again in a couple days you should see good darkening.
