2DPO - Anyone with me....!

@unCliche hmm don't know if 9 day LP is too short. Is it like that every month? Maybe best to ask GP if so and they can do blood tests in your luteal phase I think? Not sure though.

I reckon 12dpo you've got a good chance of a positive with a decent early test. If you test before 14dpo though, you can pick up a chemical pregnancy which you otherwise would never know about. Depends if you think you'd like to know, or not. Also depends if you would feel less depressed seeing a negative test, or seeing AF!

@HerringGull with a 9 day LP, at 5DPO I'm already over halfway through it 😂
Do you know if you've ovulated yet? You did a good job of DTD every other day though! This month we got down to business on CD8, 11, 12, 13 and then called it a day 😂😂

@Emz1995 12 DPO is a good day to wait until because you'll probably get a reasonable accurate result, although not always as some people implant on 12 DPO itself.

Thank you @HerringGull! So would you not recommend testing until around 12dpo at the earliest?

@Emz1995 can of worms there! Technically, since implantation doesn't occur until 6 dpo at the absolutely earliest (and 9 dpo is the most common day) then there is no way you could feel anything before maybe 7 dpo I guess? You need time for the HCG to rise and start making you feel rubbish.
However, there seems to be loads of women who did experience symptoms earlier than that, and I mean symptoms that were not normal for them on a non-pregnancy cycle.
So I guess the jury's out! hahaha

When do symptoms usually start? I’m now 3DPO but wondering when I should be starting to notice if anything happens?

@unCliche yay for no sore boobs! You're only 5 dpo though, plenty of time for them to strike
I've no idea about progesterone deficiency, but since you can get it supplemented, at least it should hopefully be relatively easy to fix if you do have that problem?

@HerringGull Yours looks absolutely normal and would probably look even more normal when you have higher but zig-zaggy temps after O. I reckon in a few more days your temps will jump (or it could increase gradually like mine).

A lot of charts on the FF website are so random but they end up pregnant so as long is O is confirmed by a temp shift, you should be fine, because that's all you're pretty much looking for.

I say that... yet and I'm still very concerned about mine, ha! (Mostly because short LP and low temps could mean progesterone deficiency) But I'm feeling hopeful this month either way! No sore boobs yet wooo!

Tried to post image straight from phone but the post hasn't appeared at all - anyone know why?
Anyway, hopefully it works from laptop.

@unCliche you have opened my eyes!! Some of those charts are totally mental!

@HerringGull let's see your chart. You are right though, it is all about the pattern, at first glance, you'd think I ovulated on CD9.
But zig-zagging is just as normal as long as there's a clear temp shift. These are my favourite things to look at

Thanks @HerringGull

Alison, yep basically. It won't tell you if you're pregnant sooner than a pregnancy test will, so not much good for that as far as I know. I think there are some things that may indicate pregnancy (for eg Google triphasic BBT chart) but they can happen in non-pregnancy cycles too so maybe a red herring!

@unCliche your chart is so smooooth in the follicular phase. Mine is zigging all over the place, hmmm. I'm finding it kinda frustrating that one temp doesn't tell you much but it's the whole pattern really, so you have to wait days and then look back at it!

I just read that basal temp stays up until period or if pregnant. So is it just for ovulation tracking we look at it? Xxx

@GreenApplesYo @HerringGull here's my chart which never seems to make sense. Completely different to last months and it looks like temps rose more before ovulation than after 🤷‍♀️ not too pleased that my temps aren't much higher than pre-O temps either.

GreenApples your chart really is the model chart 😁

Hey @HerringGull here's mine.

@unCliche ahh I forgot you had a short LP last time. Hope the vitamins help. What's happening with your BBT chart?

Does anyone fancy posting their BBT chart? I'd be interested to see what other people's are like since this is my first full cycle doing temps.

Wouldn't worry about not getting pregnant using the timing method, it's hard enough to get pregnant when you're really trying to! Reckon it's pretty unlikely to happy if you know what you're doing with the timing and you're trying to avoid it xx

@HerringGull I did think it was definitely excessive in covid times! Haha I know me too, squeeze as many as you could into a car lol, yeah we got an SUV type thing and I had a dream that we bought it and then we had twins and still didn’t have a big enough car lol!

Elly, no I didn’t, I had planned to but we moved house last minute so it all became too stressful so hoping it all falls into place this time.

@GreenApplesYo no not yet, she said she would book me in yesterday when she went back to her office and I would get a letter with a date. Oh yes my friend used them with all three of her pregnancies, swore by them!

Welcome @Aila1994 and @Emz1995

Ahh ok! I did manage to do one yesterday and it was definitely Lighter, then lighter again this morning. So maybe I’ll go for another day or two to check it doesn’t shoot up again!

@Emz1995 🤞🏻 Your temp stays up!!

@GreenApplesYo I don't even know when AF is due! I ovulated on CD 15 this cycle and I'm really really hoping that I don't have another 23 day cycle because I'm already taking vitamins and I have no idea how else I'd fix a very short luteal phase without seeing a doctor. Once I'm past CD 24, then CD 25, then CD 26 I'll probably start to feel a little better. Plus my bbt chart doesn't fill me with much hope

Welcome @Aila1994, I thought the exact same thing! Never been on any form of birth control, only pullout method with all my sexual partners and not a single accident - always had me wondering if it was skill or luck or something worse...
But fingers crossed to you! I'm sure we'll be fine

@EllyNC I haven’t been able to use my temp so far as it is very up and down but it was36.98 which is prob highest it has gone. It was back down the next day. I have up to 36.89 previously in the month though so not much different x

@EllyNC291 I usually carry on for a couple of days just to make sure the LH stays down and doesn’t jump back up again, the OPK I did yesterday was pretty much zero and my temps have stayed high at around 37.1 this morning, just hoping they remain high during the TWW

@AlisonWhite that definitely sounds like the peak! How were your temps and mucus?

@EllyNC I had what a I though my was a peak a couple of weeks back when the line looked darker than I had seen... then no period. This weekend the line was crazy dark compared to any other time And then it dropped the next day right down so I think that was a proper peak? X

Is it just temp that can peak again if ovulation didn’t actually happen first time? Or can LH peak again too?

Welcome @Aila1994 and @Emz1995! Lots of luck to you both!! aila I’m sure you’re just very good at timing, don’t worry about it ☺️ Emz 🤞🏻- I’ve only ever had one peak opk (I don’t think I did them enough!) and that was yesterday, so yep thinking I ovulated today (cd17). So now for the Tww!! 😩 do people carry on opk testing in case they get another peak? I’m a bit of a novice with them to be honest lol!!

Thanks @GreenApplesYo ! No, we’ve just been using Flo to determine when I would be most likely to get pregnant and avoiding dtd around that time. (And using the pull out method).

I’m hoping that isn’t a bad thing (that we haven’t fallen pregnant) and we’ve just been really good at our timings!

Hi girls!
Would love to join, I’m currently TTC baby number 1, first cycle. I had a lovely peak OPK on Sunday so we managed to DTD on Saturday and Sunday (about 10 mins after the OPK) hopefully it has worked! So you usually count ovulation day as the day after your peak test? I also had EWCM on Saturday/Sunday but by Monday it had totally dried up and OPK back to low levels. The 2WW makes me so impatient!
Sending lots of baby dust to everyone!!