3DPO - Last cycle of the year update!!!

Hey yall!
I know it's been a while, but I put most of my day to day updates on FB now, having the new TTC profile.

Here's what's been going on. On the last U/S I took, which was on CD 13 it was filled with great news. Had a pretty big follicle, measuring 17.4mm and a great size endometrium, 10.9mm thick. The doc told me I should probably O in a couple of days and to start OPKs the next day.

The next day, I obviously forgot my OPK at home and couldn't test during the day, but it turned out for the best, as I tested that night at about 8pm and it was the strongest positive I've ever seen on a OPK, so I'm guessing I caught the spike. This means that I probably O on CD16, which on the BBT chart has a tremendous drop in temps, followed by rising temps the next couple of days. The rise is temps is no surprise as my doc put me on progesterone supplements starting CD15.

My hubby and I haven't been BDing as much as I would've wanted to, just because it was a crazy week, but I hope it was enough to catch the egg.

The new dilemma of the day is that I've come down with a cold in my weekend at the mountains and I've been running a fever ever since last night. This morning my temp was 37.7 C, which is about 99.8 F I think. This is pretty high for me as I have a fairly low core body temp. What I am curious to know is that if this fever can harm the development of a blastocyst in case of successful conception and if it can prevent implantation in any way. I've been really good about not taking any harmful medicine, just relying on teas, and a little bit of tylenol, which is pregnancy safe.... just to not jinx it.

I would appreciate any input or if you have similar experiences, no matter what the results were.
Thanks and have a great week!!!

Cycle 3 after loss UPDATE

I am so sorry for not updating in a while, but I've been posting a lot of my updates on FB.

We are now on CD10 of the 3rd cycle after the loss. I already had 2 U/S done with one saying I will be ovulating from the left ovary and the other saying that i won't O at all this cycle. Who knows what to believe anymore. Temps are much more stable this cycle with an average temp of 36.20 celcius.

I have one more U/S on Tuesday and I guess I will just see how that goes and then maybe take some OPK's starting on CD14.

TTC Update

I've had my gyno appointment today and it went pretty well even it was a little bitter-sweet.

My Progesterone was a little low as expected already, but it was smack in the middle of the Luteal Phase interval, so not too bad, and just for the heck of it we compared it to the one before starting Metformin (back in February), and it was a shock to us both... went from 0.464 to 9.5... so I went from 2 ovaries that weren't ovulating at all, but instead producing cysts, to one if not even both that are ovulating and have been ovulating since August, and that I find amazing. She put me again on a Progesterone supplement starting next cycle because for this one it's already too late. And she said that we'll start the Clomid only if we see that the follicles aren't getting big enough.

For the next cycle I have 3 transvaginal Ultrasounds planned for CD 8, 10 and 14, in order to monitor follicle growth and another Progesterone test on CD21. In addition to that I decided to switch to another endocrinologist, not because I don't like the one I was seeing, but because I've called and messaged ever since the miscarriage and I never got an answer or a call back to set an appointment and I find that a little rude. In addition my gyno recommended this new RE and I made an appointment with her for December 12th.

I have to say that even though this cycle is probably a bust, I am very excited for the progress I've made and looking in retrospect to where I started from... these are very exciting times!!! So... off to the future with new found hope and faith!!!

Blessings to everyone!!!

5DPO Progesterone test

Went in for the Progesterone test today... initially I wasn't supposed to get the results until the 17th, but after calling I found out I can get it online, so I did....

But unfortunately the result was disappointing... only a 9.5 ng/ml... I was hoping for at least a 10.... :-(

crosshairs...yey

Finally some crosshairs on my chart and O marked on the exact day it's supposed to happen according to the OPK. I was losing hope there for a sec, but now I got a little bit of faith back... who knows...

Next steps:

5DPO - Progesterone test
7DPO - Doc appointment

And then just playing the waiting game...

2WW has begun...

So.... I need to stop starting my post with SO.... it's so weird...

Officially the 2WW has started...according to my calculations I should be on 2DPO today, but my chart seems to think otherwise... I started charting on FertilityFriend.com and it still says no ovulation detected and my temperature seems to have risen but not significantly at all... I've had higher highs before ovulation. I did have a positive OPK on CD16, but who knows....

Has this happened to any of you... can it be that ovulation was stopped in evolution somehow after the OPK? I'm wondering cause also I had very little EW CM, and that was the day before the positive OPK... I just don't get it... and since this is the first cycle (even if we've been at it for about 18 cycles now) I monitored accurately, I don't know what to think!

Any feedback is welcome!!!

OPK on CD 16

 First of all I have to apologize if this blog is TMI all the time, but it's a TTC blog and they tend to be that way.

So.... I just took another OPK, it's CD 16 and it looks like it's a positive... even though the line is thinner it's much darker than the control line. I am putting the CD 15 photo below as well for comparison. Please let me know what you think, I appreciate any input as I am new to the whole OPK use.... it's my first cycle using them.

                                           CD16

                                          CD15