Could I be ovulating 3 days after my period? Is a specialist needed?

I just completed a perfect period week! You may be saying, "How in the world can anyone have a perfect period?" Well for starters, my period came on his own and I did not need assistance. I had a period for seven days with no cramps, heavy bleeding or clots! And then I took chlomid days 3-7. Now on CD9, I have a smiley face ovulation! But is it false?

It must be because you are supposed to have a body temperature shift and I haven't. After this cycle, I have to be referred to a Reproduction Specialist. The procedure I would get costs around $10k-$25k depending on the procedure. Now, we do have a little savings, but not quite $10k-$25k to blow on fertility treatments! So, we pray and believe.

Christmas Wish

This year, I don't feel the festivities of Christmas simply because we are celebrating next month when we go on our vacation. Nevertheless, I thank God you all are having a great time today. I only asked God for 1 thing this Christmas and its a little delayed but not denied! I think it may come next month! That gift is a BFP (Big Fat Positive) and a healthy 40 weeks! I just want to say MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Down 8.6lbs in 10 days! And Embarrassing Confession

So, I haven't been as transparent with you as you may think. I have a confession to make. I have gained so much weight over the past 10 years and now I have reached the embarrassing highest weight 317.8 pounds. When I married my husband, I was 80lbs lighter, but when we first met 3 years earlier, I was 100lbs lighter. This is embarrassing how I let myself go. But I will not stay in the past, I must move forward like the great psalmist Israel Houghton says. 

But that's not all. I have been hiding the fact that my blood pressure have reached an all-time high of 150/100. If you read the charts this is stage 2 hypertension and puts me at serious risk of having a heart attack, stroke, or even death. Well, I'M NOT going out like this! I refuse to deny my future children the ability to spend ACTIVE time with their mother being demobilized!

So, I have put my money where my mouth is. I've been saying for months that I was going to join the Quick Weight Loss Centers and on Monday, December 14th, I DID! I wanted to keep it a secret because every time I started something in the past I failed and I didn't want to disappoint myself again or my husband. But I looked fear in the face and I said you will not cripple me! And then I started thinking about love because perfect love casts out fear. And I am braced and put it towards my health and wellness. This is not about losing weight anymore or fitting into some jeans. This is now about loving and living to see this whole journey to fertility come to past.

Aunty Flow is here! Find out WHY I'm happy about that. Round 2 begins

So it is official. AF is here! Wait...AF IS HERE! That brownish spotting was indeed a sign of things to come. But why am I excited about having a period right now? Shouldn't I be upset that I am not pregnant? Well, I am a little bit, but you do not understand, so sit down and let me tell you a little story.

I have to take two medications in order for me to go through a fertility cycle. The first medication is called Provera. That medication is a hormone that I take for 10 days and then five days later my period comes. Previously, I have not been able to have a regular period without it being induced by this medication. Once my period starts, I take the second medication on day three of my cycle. That medication is call Chlomid. Chlomid is a medication that causes me to ovulate 5-10 days after taking it. And then I wait 10-12 days to test for pregnancy. If negative, I start Provera again. The whole cycle is supposed to be about 30-33 days.

So why am I so excited about having my period. It's because I have not taking Provera this month! In fact, I was just about to take the first pill for Round 2, when I found out that I was spotting. I didn't want to take the pill because I knew that if I did and I was having implantation bleeding then it was going to make me bleed more and that's not good! 

So I'm excited about the fact that I am having a regular hormonal experience! It is certain that I ovulated 13 days before my period. This means that my cycle was 40 days long. I am wondering, should I just go ahead and skip Chlomid to see if I will also ovulate on my own?

I keep hearing the scripture with man things are impossible but with God all things are possible. It's possible to get pregnant with Chlomid and without. The question is what method am I supposed to use?

We never got a spike in BBT which means that it was an anovulation cycle (a cycle where the egg did not release). This means Chlomid is necessary in my case. 

It could not have been the week we were away in Michigan because if I would have ovulated my basal body temperature would have been elevated for the direction of the luteal phase. When I got back home my temperature was the same 97.70! It stayed that temperature plus or minus one or two degrees.

 So the lesson that we learned this cycle is that we will have to do the bed dance (bd) EVERYDAY once we get the positive ovulation or solid smiley face, AND confirm with BBT, AND lose weight/make natural food choices to increase my chances of naturally healing PCOS. 

As always ladies, don't give up, don't give in, and always do the dance!

Round 1...RESULTS ARE IN!

Round 1 failed...maybe. The spotting was indeed the first sign of my period coming. I'm now on my period, I think which means I have to go and pick up my 2nd round of Chlomid from the pharmacy so that I can start Round 2 on Day 3 of my cycle. Its too much brownish blood though. Could it be bleeding from anything else? I'm so sorry guys. I'm confused. I thought we were going to have a PPT on Christmas Day. Pray for me and my hubby who cannot understand what went wrong...

BUT, my husband just sent me this information from Google: "The irregular bleeding or spotting that can occur during pregnancy is often a dark brown or a light pinkish color. It should not be enough bleeding to fill pads or tampons over a few days. If you are bleeding enough to fill pads and tampons, then this would be a good indication that you are probably not pregnant."

He just told me to keep hope alive and observe over the next few days! 

Such a wonderful partner!!!

Spotting! Either Implantation or a Period!

TMI Alert: So i'm using the restroom and I look to see what the cervical mucus look like and this time it was brown. It looks like old blood. And so I wiped again and it was a piece of blood, like a small clot. But not a big piece is a tiny small piece. So the question is…could this be the beginning of my period Or could this be Implantation bleeding? 

My BBT spiked FINALLY

So last Wednesday, I showed you a positive OPK. The first thing I thought about is confirming the ovulation through the BBT test. So what is that you say? 

Well, everytime you ovulate, your body temperature at rest rises. So every morning faithfully at 7 am, like a job, I took my temperature. It's ALWAYS 97.7...EVERY Time! But today I saw 97.9 but I woke up an hour earlier. You supposed to take your temp at the same, so I'm assuming it probably would have been 98.0. This spike confirms that I ovulated at least 3-5 days ago! Now back to the waiting period!

The longest 2 weeks of my life

Well I got a solid positive ovulation test on both Dec 8 & 9 so I'm assuming I ovulated either Dec 10, 11 or 12. I told my husband to just make the deposit, we didn't need all the theatrics of music, candlelight and all that stuff! This week was business transactions only! I asked him if he was ok with being a "piece of meat" this week and he was more than happy to be a participant on this show! Now on Dec 13,14,15 I need to see a rise in my BBT to confirm I actually ovulated. And then, the wait!

Now, its the waiting period. Maybe the longest 2 weeks ever but I believe this is the only round of fertility meds we will need. I can start testing with First Response on Dec 25th...what an AWESOME GIFT that would be...And bitter sweet. WHEN I do get pregnant this cycle, this would mean another third trimester summer pregnancy. But remember how the last pregnancy ended? I will have almost the same exact due date as the previous pregnancy (plus or minus 7 days)! How's that for coincidence? Or serendipity? 

Anyway, if so, I know exactly when my cervix started to open, at week 19, which means, I will intentionally seek out a cerclage (stitch my cervix close until week 38) at week 14. I will also need to do bed rest from week 20. I got this now!

This post started off sad until....READ WHAT HAPPENED!

I'm so confused as to how this thing works. This is the seventh day in which I have seen high fertility on the clear blue digital OPK monitor but when I took a pregnancy test the test was negative. I wanted to get things off my mind so I rejoined LA fitness and just want to focus on getting my health together, so that I can be prepared to have a healthy pregnancy. So instead of focusing on the negative, I will focus on obtaining and maintaining optimal health and fitness and sound of mind. As I watch the news tonight, I see a story of a woman in Compton, California who threw her newborn baby in the sewer! These types of stories make me question God and ask Him why does He allow people like that to have a baby. But then I know better than to start questioning!

OH SNAP!!! This just in!!! Literally, as I was typing this blog I had just Peed on the stick to see if the ovulation test was still going to show high fertility (flashing smiley face). And to my surprise the FLASHING HAS STOPPED!!! I have officially reached peak fertility, which means let me get off here and um YOU KNOW!

5 days of Smiley faces!!!

I am growing more and more frustrated with this body of mine! Today, I took another Clearblue digital OPK and the smiley face was blinking for the 5th day in a row! The blinking smiley face mean high fertility or high estrogen and SUPPOSED to mean you are about to have a LH surge for ovulation to occur. Well, I have had no signs of ovulation either from cervical mucous or basal temperature. But I have to keep focusing on the fact that I HAVE been pregnant before and that thought of "maybe you can't get pregnant " no longer works! Now, the thought is, how many cycles is this gonna take? If I am not either ovulating or positive pregnancy test (remember Thanksgiving week when I was out of town and couldn't test or temp?), well its very possible I ovulated that week and if I did, I should have a positive pregnancy test (PPT) by Dec 14th. If its not, I will restart the chlomid cycle and here we go again!

After 10 months, I back!

So I took a break from ttc (trying to conceive) to focus on my foundation and get my head right. So I am going through a pretty tough time right now. I restarted Chlomid on Nov 13th which was CD5 for me and took 💊50mg for 5 days. I use Clearblue Digital OPK to get a more accurate reading. The 1st after my last pill I had a solid smiley face which means peak fertility. Well, thats too soon so I disregarded and BD every other day until the week of Thanksgiving happened!

So we went home for the holidays and which was the most critical week of all! I was supposed to ovulate any day between Nov 22nd - Nov 29th. Thanksgiving was Nov 24th, so we had to find creative ways to "make the deposit." And guess what, I left both my Digital OPK AND my thermometer do I could confirm ovulation. We arrived back home and I immediately tested. My digital OPK was blank face. My BBT was normal. I am left only wondering...