POAS: Why use one when you can use twelve?! 🌈 💕

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@MrsJGrealish @usedtolovenaps @calimc83 @pangolin84 @theblueflowers @TheBirdintheCave @bringmearainbow @monsteramunch @bunnykins123 @curliegirlie @LuckyMoonstone @Indianna2006

Hoping that's most of you please add anyone I've forgotten 💕

Oh @TheBirdintheCave I'm so sorry and completely understand. Life can be so cruel and so bloody unfair. Sending you so much love and luck ❤️

@TheBirdintheCave sending you the biggest virtual hugs ❤️🤗 completely understandable to take a break.

@TheBirdintheCave completely understand, sometimes taking a break is exactly what's needed. We are all here for you and will be here for when/if you feel ready to return. Big hugs 💕💕

@TheBirdintheCave super big hugs lovely ❤️ we're here when you need us. A break can do you the world of good and put you in a better headspace xxxx

Ooh and @emhope a big congratulations on that scan 🥰

@TheBirdintheCave huge huge hugs. I'm pretty sure I'll be joining you in the AF pity party whenever she rears her ugly head! I'm gradually trying to accept that this won't happen and I need to concentrate on my two girls (and I know I'm incredibly lucky to have the two I have). Enjoy your time away from this thread but please come back if you wish when you're in a better headspace.

@OnNaturesCourse nope, not really. I was temping for a few days, but at random times of day, so not bbt and pretty pointless really.

As an aside I need a new Levothyroxine prescription, but that's only run out a few days ago, so I doubt that's thrown things out of whack, unless I needed a higher dose in the first place 🤷‍♀️ (Entirely possible, as my last THS bloods were a year ago...)

Only one more sleep 🫣 I'm actually dreading it. I can't decide either way atm what I think it's going to be. I also had a good look at my tests and dates last night because I had been drinking, travelling and then ds was sick so sleep was crappy my bbt has not been reliable over that time it hasn't really confirmed a date it's given me a vague could be between CD20&CD23 I think there's potential for me to be either 9/10 or 11dpo tomorrow.

CD19 evening I started my rise
CD20 AM I got peak by evening had dropped down to high
CD21 evening back to low

Today I'm CD30

So with that in mind I've read o happens 24-48 hours after the first rise and between 8-20 hours after peak so I think it's unlikely to be CD23 but could be. I usually get a slow rise

Argh I'm so confused 😂 I've attached my useless chart 🤦🏼‍♀️ I do normally have a slow temp rise

I wonder if my watch wrist temp might be a bit more accurate 😂 sorry gals can you tell I'm nervous rambling and analysing 🫣 that big drop would be CD21. I'm absolutely crapping myself and I know the only thing to do is wait but I'm so impatient

@TheBirdintheCave I’m sorry 😞 I wish those things for you as well. I wish them for all of us that have been through this. Sending you lots of love, thank you for everything you have done for us on these threads, you have been so lovely and supportive xxx

@TheBirdintheCave ❤️

I wonder if I can just wait until next week to test 🤔 I'm a bit of a head case today 🤦🏼‍♀️ been down a google hole and it really looks like it could be CD22/23 which would only make me 8dpo tomorrow at worst. I really don't know 😩 also that means when we dtd was not that great timing wise shame we couldn't of done a few extra when we got home but it just wasn't practical

@bringmearainbow did you use OPKs this month or just temping? I always think that the longer you leave it to test the better but I know not everyone agrees with this approach 😂 looking at your charts, I would say your second graph doesn't really give anything away. The first chart you could either have O'd when it says or around CD24 as that seems to be a proper temp shift? I never get proper temp shifts so it doesn't follow for everyone!!

@bunnykins123 I got a peak on CD20 in the AM but it had started to rise CD19 PM. Mine takes about 3 days to rise normally on my chart it's annoying I had to discount so many temps 🙄 tbh I'm feeling so deflated today and I might just not test at all 🙈 which is so unlike me I'm a serial tester 😂

@TheBirdintheCave ❤️

@bringmearainbow yeh your normal chart is a tad confusing. Like you say looks more like no clear rise until CD25 but as you know you have a slowly rise and takes quite a few days for your temps to adjust then likely it was before then just not showing very clearly.

Deff think your wrist watch pattern shows it better. Deff would say you prob ovulated in that dip on CD21. Which matches up with your OPK on CD20 really. So I would say today it’s likely you’re 9dpo tbh from interpreting all of the data you’ve got together … so in that case I’d deff try wait extra couple days to test. Making it 11dpo at least.

I always think 12dpo is the best day and majority of women get a clear definitive line by then. But that is another 3 days to wait 🙈🙈🙈

@Indianna2006 thank you ❤️ I got myself all in a tizz and makes sense 😂 ok a few more days maybe I'll test Sunday 12th as DH bday on Monday so would be nice present. Tbh I am finding it hard today I think the longer I leave it the better don't want to guess over a line or no line

@bringmearainbow the more you stare at your own data the harder it gets. But your wrist watch does show like lower pre ov and slightly higher post ov temps after they dip. Where FF would put lines through on my charts I can see it. And I’ve stared at plenty of charts. Seems your temp taking by mouth is dodgy af 😂😂 random how your wrist temps shows a big jump and your mouth temp taking takes days 😂 very random.
but combined the two. I think deff with your positive opk on CD20 in morning. CD21 is looking highly likely.

Yes deffo Saturday/Sunday would be like 12/13dpo. And would give you a clear ish line with out much need to guess.
It’s hard to wait as so easy to just piss on a stick and squint at it in hope. But only drives yourself mad cos then your like am I aren’t i. And then wanting to check it gets darker and that rabbit hole.

Just a few more days. think as well you prob putting a lot of pressure on yourself without realising as it’s first proper go again since the second mmc. 💐

@Indianna2006 it's honestly so weird isn't it 😂 but then I suppose my watch is taking a temp every 5 mins then averaging it whereas my mouth is relying on me having a good chunk of sleep 🙄 hard these days. Yes your probably right me trying to be chill has got unrealistic the closer I am to testing 🫣

@bringmearainbow yeh mouth one for some ppl can just always be iffy. Does need be consistent and small things can throw it off. Mine always used to be obvious but I’m just one them ppl that just get a very clear shift I think immediately the next day. And I feel ovulation so they always helped 😂 I forgot most of you lot don’t feel it. It would right annoy me not being able pinpoint.

it’s so hard though when you set so much on it. An disappointment is the worst. Ugh. It just sucks. Big time.

I can feel my ovulation too @Indianna2006. I can also feel the build up to it, I wonder if that's because I'm hyper aware or it just really is that obvious! @bringmearainbow I never found my oral temps overly reliable. I've got some shocking charts where my temps are really jumpy! Ironically the month I didn't temp, was when I got a bfp 🤷‍♀️

@TheBirdintheCave thinking of you lovely ✨❤️

@bunnykins123 @Indianna2006 I was hoping to move away from bbt and just use my watch but I needed to do both to see how well it compared. I have never felt ovulation 🙄

@bringmearainbow I'm pretty sure @calimc83 used her watch pretty accurately? I may be completely wrong here though!

@bringmearainbow aw chick don't be getting in a tizz. Test when you're ready xx

Still BFNs today and no AF still yet, and even with the Savers non sensitive ones they would show some kind of line if I had been due on today or yesterday so all a complete mystery and waiting game. I've just realised it's the first time in about 9 years (other than when bf) when I've had no clue when to expect AF 🤪🤯. I've spent most of January tired/I'll/stressed about our Ukrainian guest situation (they finally left on Monday) so that may have also had an impact....