Charters Anonymous Volume 6. Charting and shagging our way to victory!

Feck me. About half way through my 2ww and it seems soooo long!.

Am managing not to be tooo obsessive though.

Studiously ignoring any 'symptoms' which might occur and HPTs firmly stashed in the cupboard.

Chart with only one temperature taken at right time since Ov. Actually DH instead of DS keeping me up at least one night - DS acquired a nice cough and cold from his friends and shared it with us. Croak.

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Hello, im back! Everything was fine dh's sperm is fine tho a little slow but she thought that was down to the delay between it being produced and being checked. DH got it there within the hour but the time written on their sheet didn't tally up so dont know what happened to it once it was in the hospital I need to have day 21 taken again and I am being sent for a HSG apparently that involves pinching the cervix which hurts for 5 minutes

It was a different gyn to last time and this one said not to temp any more as its stressful and not that accurate, my charts indicated I didnt ovulate not even the first chart that was quite neat (as temp rise should be much more than it was)but the blood tests indicate I did ovulate.

Mine dropped yesterday too auntied but is back up today. As my DH keeps telling me when I obsess over my temp every morning, it's not individual temps that mean anything but the overall pattern.

Well if FF is right I ovulated really early last cycle on day 11. I am on day 9 at the moment so I would be surprised if it was an ovulation dip.

oh auntie how frustrating!!!!

I have temp drops just like that too, are you due to ov?

Oh bloody hell my blood tests are still not back. I had then done two weeks ago today... ridiculous!!

In other news, I had the most ridiculously large temp drop this morning. What's that about?

Here's my chart

whats a half moon?

af still not here but temps dropped this morning so I would guess at tomorrow.

Not sure about those charts as mine always look so different

On the job front, my hours will be reduced but I'm ok for a year

scrummy the pack send big licks (not the pup tho she hs just eaten her own poo).

fx bossy

Newgold based on the info you have given I would say day 14 too, providing that the EWCM stopped on that day.

CD11 here, so it's action stations in our household. Trying everyother day from CD8, and then a bit extra of CD14 & 15 for luck It worked the last time!

thank you scrummy, will hopefully get on with an update if not tomorrow night then friday morning.

Newgold I would say maybe cd14 if that was the last day of ewcm. Hope you are feeling better now.

I should be 10dpo now but chart looks anovulatory so no cross hairs and several episodes of ewcm means traffic light is still green. But I definitely have the end of cycle tiredness and had the metallic taste I get after ovulation. I don't think I am well suited to temping when I sleep so badly. Also end of cycle tingly boobs so im my mind I am going with the 10dpo and expect pre af spotting over the weekend. Doubt I will sleep any better tonight with results day looming tomorrow.

Anyone due to test soon?

Hi everyone - will take me a bit to catch up, Ive not been here in a week as my tonsilitis got really bad, felt like death lol, plus I never slept a wink for 3 nights - gave up temping obviously. Thats what I get for feeling fed up DH was ill and there would be no swi - and then I fell ill.

So I will catch up when home on everyones news, as for me there was only 1 swi - last Monday and no tempign for a bit so it goes without saying FF hasnt predicted ov though I know I have as I had a positive opk before I stopped temping plus my temps now are raised. Can I ask your opinions then as Im confused, normally is easy to see from FF when Ive ov.

Can you look

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Whens the best guess for ov?? Feel all quite down about it this month as I had great EWCM and obviously nowhere near the amoutn of swi I was planning.

Hello all, having a bit of a rough time here....just utterly fed up with the whole TTC thing from Sunday - queue tears, tantrums, sulking, the lot. Have tried to keep up with SWI, seen as it was THAT week, but just nt very enthusiastic about it. No EWCM this month and think I must have ov yesterday, but not feeling positive. Let's hope this passes soon.

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Hope you're all doing better over there!
Good luck with the gyn tomorrow bossy. Did you send your app in weimy?

I think I've worked out how to share my chart now here

This morning FF has given me crosshairs but I'm not sure I agree! (Why do I never agree?!) It has half of my temps pre-ovulation above the coverline! Surely my cover line should be higher? I guess there's not been a clear temp shift yet despite the other signs. I would have guessed that I'd ovulated either CD17 or CD18. What do you think?

Hope everyone's well today - looks like another sunny one here!

Hello all!

Harder - sorry for the situation with your friend. Really tough that she hadn't reciprocated your sharing of plans. I think I would have found that particularly tough.

twizzle - I agree that in RL, it seems that everyone gets pg at the drop of a hat but these threads help me to realise that it doesn't always happen that way and that some people may announce a pg ut don't necessarily tell you the heartache of how long it took to become pg.

bossy - hope the sleeping improves for you. That must be really tough.

weimy - are you still waiting for AF? Our bodies can be so cruel dragging this out but if you go past AF due date, it may be worth POAS

Hello jaggy, mrsden, Molly, MrsSatsuma, IfAt, karbea and anyone else I've missed.

I was going to link to my chart but I can't see how to do it since FF changed. Can anyone help? I think I ovulated either yesterday or today so just entering 2ww.

Sorry harder :( weimy pack hugs !

here is me,

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no spotting as such but a bit of brown when I wiped after sff. :(

bossy and harder I had a crazy chart last month and I'm not sure if I ovulated or not, I totally confused FF. In my manic googling, I found that it is totally normal to have the odd strange cycle. It's just that if we weren't charting we wouldn't know about it. I know it's hard but maybe if you wait and have a few more temps to put it in will all work itself out and become clear.

I know how rubbish you feel about your friend harder. I am in sort of the same situation, I have a friend who told me last month that she is ttc. She doesn't know we are because DH and I agreed not to tell anyone (and I'm pleased we didn't because it hasn't happened for us yet and I don't think I could bear all the questions). But I am now just waiting for her to tell me she's pregnant and I know it's silly but I think I'll feel so crushed to find out.

Harder look at my ridiculous chart and know you are not alone. Have you been sleeping well? I have been waking every 1-2 hours until last night when I got a good 5 hours sleep before I took my temp but it was 2 hours early.

Thanks Molly. Your chart looks great actually! I know I need to wait a few more days - but in all the other months I have been charting I have got a good and noticeable temp shift (if not EWCM). I had just kind of built up in my mind that this month I would have a perfect month, actually that became the goal rather than a BFP!

I am being totally stupid though, I do know that.

Sorry, here's my chart

Harder I'm so sorry about the situation with your friend: that's really hard. I'm not at all experienced with this charting business, but perhaps you need to chart a few more temperatures over the coming days to see if there's a sustainable temperature shift? It may be that you ov'd on CD 20, but that your temps are just taking a little while to rise. My [http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/33debd chart] is confusing too this month, as - like yours - my temps went back down again after what I think was ov day on CD16, but now they've started to go consistently up again. Really good luck.

Hi everyone. I have posted yet on this incarnation of Charters Anon but have been reading and saw MrsARch and Truffkins news with great joy. I'm sorry to jump in and be all mememe, but I am so so upset about my chart this month and would love any thoughts.

linky

I am in seventh month of TTC now. My close friend who I adore and had told I was TTCing and all the various worries I had that it wasn't happening, just announced she was 12 weeks. I am really happy for her but also devastated that it's not me, AGAIN, and also that I opened up to her and it wasn't reciprocated (her choice, totally, although she would always instigate the TTC conversations!)

I haven't always had good amounts of EWCM, and we haven't always managed good shagging, either. Yes this month I really thought we had both, I had ov pains on CD22, positive OPKS, and now...nothing. No temp rise, EWCM gone, OPK negative. I know I'm being fucking ridiculous but I am so upset. I just wanted it to be textbook and actually work well this month.

Do you think I've ovulated?

Do you

Wish I could sleep better Im so tired now. I could be having anovulatory or could just be lack of proper sleep affecting my chart, 3 separate lots of ewcm and def a lot more than usual, will be glad to get af and start again. Would have been 9dpo if the temps had gone up - but then again maybe the temps before were inaccurate and were therefore too high so the post ewcm temps were right and did go up - oh the possibilities are endless. Bore the gyn with it all on thursday!

I'd thought of that and am trying not to hope...

Weimy I've figured our bodies always like to do things when we least want them to. They are cruel!! Still have fingers crossed just in case...

I thought I was quite regular, since charting have varied 27-29 with luteal phase of 14-16 ish I think.

High temps made me hopeful.

I'm 4dpo too twizzle

Ok, I'm at work again, so a bit bored.