Second cycle after CP- CD16: Failed to ovulate and spotting? Help! (sensitive images!)

[LucyCL]

Everything was on track until today. My BBT stays elevated and today is CD16. I expected to have LH surge but instead LH level has decreased a bit. I am not surprised about it because my body failed to attempt to ovulate for 3 times before I got LH surge last cycle after CP.
However I didn't expect to see a bit of fresh blood in the tissue when I wiped down there. So I inserted the tampon just to make sure it was real. It is indeed blood. I believe I am spotting.
I have never experienced it during mid cycle and I have checked everything about my body and my hormone levels which are all normal.
I don't know what is going on, please help!

My temperature has risen this morning so it’s a sign that I ovulated, I’m 1-2dpo now.

That is good news! 😀Currently I am 2/3 dpo. When do you plan to test?

@LucyCL I think I will just wait until AF arrives or 14/15dpo whichever comes first. When will you test?

I have started to test from 1/2 dpo. I know it will be stark white for a while however I'd like to see the line progression. I also test LH twice a day just to see if it gets darker or lighter.
How long does your luteal phase last usually? Mine lasts for 11 - 12 days.

@LucyCL I think about 13 days but I’m not certain.

For my both BFPs, I got faint lines on 10 dpo. What about you?

@LucyCL I avoid testing early, I just get disappointed. I did test one cycle at around 12dpo and it was negative that cycle. I think that was the cycle after my mc.

The first time I got a positive I tested the day my period was due. I wasn’t expecting it at all.

The second time I tested at 5.5 weeks, I was on holiday and the one chemist we passed didn’t have it on the shelf so I thought why bother. I was ready for AF and I was enjoying my holiday. As each day went by I had a feeling I might be pregnant.

@Blue2020 i am in the same boat as you!

my CB digital turned peak on CD17 and I had my darkest OPKs (not quite peak).

my temp then spiked but I am also ill so I am wondering if it’s to do with that.

please keep us updated!

i am going to carry on testing anyway to see what happens as last month my OPKs were getting high and I finally ovulated on CD30 (normally my cycles are 32 days but I had an MC the cycle before so it messed me up!).

@GreenPickle I have had illness twice and it delayed my ovulation both times by about 6-7 days. I don’t know what happens if it’s so close to ovulation though, if your body realised it was ill before it’s true peak or if it still ovulated. That would be interesting to know. For me it was a few days before I should have ovulated when I got a bad sickness bug and quite bad dehydration. The other time it was at the start of the cycle but still pushed it back by that number of days.

It’s a good idea to keep tracking, to be sure one way or the other due to the illness.

Good luck, in theory I’m one day behind you (assuming we both ovulated).

Interesting! My temp is still fairly high and FF has put crosshairs now with my baseline being 36.53

will just carry on testing and look at this chart tentatively as i could be running a fever

@GreenPickle FF does that once you have three consecutive high temps. I don’t know if it also uses extra info too eg peak/opk. I think it sometimes stays dashed if it doesn’t like something- like a contradicting info. Maybe because you added illness data I have no idea.