End of july, Hope it flys by fast & you get your well deserved BFP for August.

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July isn't very far!! I bet your dh is excited!

I'm currently on cd 55. Yup...this sucks. I'm on my 8th day of progesterone to get my cycle started. Hopefully it will be in the next few days. But, other than feeling broken, I'm doing ok. Thank you for asking. Yeah, ff has had a feild day with me. My chart doesn't look bad. Just...I guess sad really. I broke down and bought the vip the other day.

Question: Has anyone else used progesterone?

Wow Christy, cd 55???? I can only imagine how you must feel right now. I think I would be clawing at the walls or something. I have never had to take progesterone so I have no clue what you feel like, but I do hope you feel better. Hopefully af will start anyday now, and you can start a new cycle fresh.

I bought the VIP for 3 months which will get me to the end of my waiting cycle, so I think I will have to re-up it then.

DH is very excited. He is such a guy, but he is so cute about this whole thing. We both smoke (I know horrible habit) and I have really tried to quit during these past months. My work has been so stressful so I haven't been to good about it lately, but come next Monday I am going gung ho. Anyways, he said to me the other day, we really need to get on it about quitting smoking. He said he wants to stop so that come August we are ready to go right away. He is starting to really try to make himself healthier. I think its because he sees me doing it. He said yesterday...Did you remember to take your vitamins??? Um yeah I do it every day. Did you??? He never remembers to take his and I always have to remind him

Yeah, Progesterone sucks. It is the hormone that your body produced the second half of your cycle. And help sustain pregnancy. It also has a ton of pms/pregnancy symptoms side effects. So, I have pretty much all of those but really strong. I'm on 400 (mg?) daily. So that is alot. So, not fun. And it is really throwing off my temps.

Thats sweet that your dh tries to look after that stuff! I try to make my dh take vitamins. But, it doesn't work. LOL. Maybe I can sneak it into his ice cream.

I've taken this time (I knew this was going to happen) to try to get into better shape. I have started eating breakfast. I have gotten into a great habit of taking my vitamins.(somethings else I've never done before) I almost quit drinking. (I've had less to drink since my 21st b-day then at any other time in the last 7ish years) Now I only drink maybe once a week/2 weeks. And I'm trying to lose some wheight. I figure, If I'm not happy with my body before I get pregnant, I definitely won't be after.

I had a real hard time trying to get him to take them. I would keep them out by his sink, but that really didn't work. Then I even would take one out of the bottle and leave it on the edge of the counter so he would see it and that kinda helped. It probably was all the nagging I did to get him to do it. now he remembers to take one when he takes his shower after work.

I think they have some liquid or powder vitamins that you could slip into his dinner Haha!!


I have really started to cut back on the drinking. I wasn't drinking alot, but I love to have a glass of wine after work. Sometimes it would be 2 if it was a bad day. So I have stopped buying wine and if I have any then I save it for the weekends. I rarely have any during the week.
That's what I say about my body...if I am not happy now, what the heck am I going to do after I have a baby???

I was actually getting into a very bad habit.(not an addiction, I didn't need them, I just love the way they taste) I love these green apple smirnoff twists. (it's classified beer) So I would drink one a night. (most of the time I never finished one, but sometimes I would drink two). So I just stopped buying them. Now all I want to drink in the evenings is coke with grenadine(sp). Basically, cherry coke. My next hurdle is caffeine. That is going to be very hard!

hi ladies... I agree... it has been really quiet in here lately. just reading your posts... I can't get my dh to take his vitamins either... and it gets frustrating. I am currently on cd 21... but I don't expect to get a bfp this month as I have been sick most of the month. I have been looking into the effects blood types can have on fertility... and how our bodies fight off different types. My husband and I have agreed to start eating according to our blood types... to help increase our chances of conceiving. We have been reffered to a fertility clinic... our appointment is on October 15th. I am nervous.... hopefully we get pregnant before that... baby dust to us all...

Hi girls
I haven't been around much because I'm trying not to obsess about ttc, but I think that's next to impossible.
I'm having a terrible day.
I'm thankful to have booked a last minute appointment with my Fertility Specialist tomorrow, hopefully she can tell me what is going on.
My cycle is hooped right now. I'm on cd16 and last month this was my o day. I've been getting -opks since sunday...and my temps are going higher and higher...look at this:
http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/8afa7
FF tells me I o'd on cd10 which is highly unlikely, because it is only 3 days after taking my last clomid pill. I'm driving myself nuts. I know it's soooooooo important to keep a level head and not get stressed or worry about it too much...but I've invested so much time and $ into the cycle, I've gone to accupuncture twice ($160) and using those digital opk's ($50) and I'm supposed to have an iui. I just don't want it all to go to waste.
Ugh...you know when you are on the verge of tears 24-7 that it's time to make a change. What? I don't know...but somethings gotta change or I'm going to lose it.

It is so hard not to get obsessed. I try to remember that I am not the only one going through this.. and it is amazing how talking to all you beautiful girls makes me feel so much better. Some days are harder than others... for me the worst part is waiting for af. Then when she shows her ugly face.... I feel like I should just stop trying. But maybe when we all finally get our bfps we will be thankful for them so much more...

Hi everyone, been a few days since I have been on. Hope everyone is doing good. MC, I have taken progesterone. I didnt get any side effects like you, but it did start my period. Did they give you 10 days worth? Thats what they did for me, and you wont start until you stop taking the pills.

I just had my sonohysterogram at the RE today. It was kind of painful, more cramping than anything, but it went well. The dr said everything looked great, but I am on cd 8 and I had no prominent follicles on my ovaries, which indicated to her that I am not ovulating. So, they told me to treat today as cd 3 and gave me a script for clomid. So, I started that this evening, and hopefully a bfp will follow in the next couple months. We will see.

Do you take your bbt? I was wondering because I still am scared that I am not ovulating but I definitly get the after "O" temp increase. I was just wondering if you or anyone else knew if that alone can indicate ovulation or if it doesn't. I don't always get a really really dark positive on the opk but I always thought that was because I was never really consistant with them.

Any thoughts?

I was taking opks everyday and was getting faint positives everyday. That was the first indicator to them that something was up. I need to get progesterone levels this month after I ovulate, and the dr said the only way to know if I did ovulate was if I get a negative opk before and after a positive. If you get that than you should be ovulating. Hope that makes sense. I have only done temping one month and it didnt show any increase. It sounds like you are probably ovulating, but I would be consistent with the opks to see if you get definate /- results.

Yup, I'm taking 400mg for 10 days. Just in the last day have I started getting really bad cramping, did you ever have that? About how many days after you stopped taking it did you start?

I want to say it started within the first day after I stopped the meds. I always have very bad cramps, so I couldnt say if it was from the that or not. It sounds like you are in the same boat as me. Last month I went to cd 54. Hope the cramping gets better soon.

I've been pretty scarse the last few weeks and will be for a few more. My dh and I are taking a three week vacation starting this Saturday, and I'm knee deep in last minute stuff and the vacation and at work. We planned the vacation for after a busy period. So far, the busy period hasn't been filled with stress, which is good.

I just started my 2ww. My test day will be around the 21st. If I get af, then I will probably o while on vacation, too. I'm not sure I will take my bbt during that cycle. In fact, it might be too much of a pain to do it at all on vacation, but at least it would be informative during the end of my 2ww. We'll just have to try to bd when I have ewcm.

Christy - I hope you get af soon. You definitely have more patience than I do.

Star - When I get back from vacation, you'll be very close to ttc time again!

Mrs. Ltd and Dprssd - I didn't get any postitives using the digital opk test for two months straight, but I did get a temp increase. I think that there must be something about me that makes the opk difficult. Since changing brands, I get positives again, though not in the middle of the day. My doctor doesn't know why the opk's don't like me. Hopefully, when I finally go to a specialist I can learn why. (BTW, I'm going to work on my dh this week to convince him that we should schedule an appt for the specialist for mid-July. I just don't understand why he wants to wait longer.)

I noticed that I hadn't seen you around very much. I hope you come back with a vacation baby!! How wonderful would that be?!?!Wow three weeks, what a great vacation. Were are you going if you don't mind me asking?

Yeah, may patients is running pretty thin at the moment. I'm currently on cd 59 and I finished my meds on saturday and still no af. It's getting old pretty quick. But, I can't do a whole lot about it...lol...

Well, I hope af comes very soon.

My husband and I are traveling all over the U.S. We don't have any reservations anywhere. We have a general idea of where we want to go, but are staying flexible enough to change our minds. It's actually a lot of work to stay flexible because we have to at least know that we can get hotel rooms everywhere we go and that the attractions will be open when we get there. We have about 2 1/2 worth of stuff on our list, but we know we'll spend more time in some places.

Do you have any vacations planned?

THat sounds great!! I could never be that spontaneous. My head would explode. I have to have a plan or else I have panic attacks. But, my dh is like 'whatever'....I really have tried. I just doesn't work

No vacations over here. I'm hoping to get my wisdom teeth pulled next month. I'll have to use vacation days. Does that count?

Shorty- How exciting to go on vacation for three weeks. You are very fortunate to be able to do that. I am kinda like Christy, I can't do the whole spontinaity thing. I can do it to a point, but I have to have some game plan or I will go nuts. DH is the same way so that's good.

I hope you have a wonderful time on your vacation and enjoy all the sites. I have driven across country 3 times in my life and there are some beautiful parts of the states!!! Hopefully you do come back prego!!! How wonderful would that be?? I say to heck with taking temps while on vacation and don't even think about it. As long as you and dh stay busy bd'ing, then that might be your ticket!!!

I can kinda understand why your dh would want to wait longer. Perhaps he is just a little bit nervous about the sperm analsis. My dh has said that he is totally ok with it, but we are not even close to that point so who knows what he will be like when that comes around. I can see him getting cold feet when it comes down to it! ha ha!

Christy - my goodness girly I can't believe you are still sane having that long of a cycle. I bet you are just dying for af to come just so you feel a bit more regular. Have you finished your 10 days of the progesterone (sp?)?

Take care girlies and shorty have a fabulous vacation.