Posted By: Aya EDD 02/13/01
Monday, 29 May 2000, at 4:39 p.m.
Tested positive today!!! (m&l)

Thank you God for this most wonderful b-day gift!
DH and I tested positive this morning! Truly amazing!

I had been diagnosed with polycystic ovaries and
endometriosis in my early 20's. I am now 29 years old.
Still, DH and I have been ttc for over a year.
For the last two cycles, my OB had me on a 100mg Clomid
(50mg 2x/day), dexamethasone, follicle monitoring and
HCG (Profasi) injections. Nothing happened
even on the 2nd cycle of therapy when everything
was pointing to a pregnancy. So my OB told us to take
a break this cycle, to just relax and that he wanted
to have some of the tests repeated. DH's 2nd SA even
showed borderline motility so we were considering 3
more cycles with Clomid before moving on to IUI.

That's one reason why I haven't been so visible on
the boards. We haven't been ttc conciously. No
medications from the doc. I didn't even think I
was going to ovulate this month. It was DH who kept
bugging me to take my temps every morning. In fact,
he was doing the charting. We also didn't BD as
much as the previous months. Just 4x and once was even
during my infertile period. I was also very bad
this cycle. Smoking and drinking during my b-day party.

The only things that were different this month other
than my bad behavior were healing masses and
progesterone cream. My Mom kept bugging me to go to
healing masses but since she couldn't convince
me to go, she proxied for me for 9 straight days.
In retrospect, we noted that I O'd the day after the last
healing mass which was cd15. My previous cycles were
generally anovulatory and even with the cycles
when I was on Clomid, I would O only after the HCG shots
and this was at about cd17-18.

Also, I tried Progesterone Lite cream just to see if it
would help my LPD (10-11 days in my case). I didn't
even start applying it immediately after ovulation just at 8dpo.

Oh, I also joined the ttc-ttlw group this month so I have
been watching my diet by decreasing my
carbohydrate and fat intake. I've also been doing
aerobic exercises and light weights 4-5x a week.

No symptoms or anything that would indicate I was
definitely pregnant. All symptoms I experienced were
similar to my premenstrual symptoms. Mild cramping, sore BBs.
The only other symptom I experienced
was heartburn but since that happened when I was on
vacation and gorging on seafood, I attributed it to
excessive food intake. :-) In fact I was dreading
coming back from vacation to tell the ttc-ttlw group that I
had gained 2 lbs.

Anyway, I am now 17dpo and it was DH who kept bugging me
to test and so we did. (+) on the first try with
Advisor HPT. In a few hours, we'll be going to our OB
for confirmation. I will let you guys know what he
says. Sorry if this is so long, I just wanted to share
the details with you guys.

HeatherWR ++ at 10-12dpo....
I still can't believe it....here's some details!
I have really irregular cycles, 29 days one month,
35 the next. I don't O regularly,
and I have never had actual EWCM.
As a matter of fact I'm so dry
I was beginning to wonder if
I was allergic to DF's spermies!
I have endo and a prolapsed uterus,
and lots of scar tissue from my first
two children. I didn't feel
any symptoms really, I wouldn't have tested
if it weren't for FF saying
I had triphasic temps. I have no sore bbs,
no blue veins, not really
nauseated, no implantation spotting.
Another thing is, I didn't get
a +OPK until the day AFTER my temp rise...
so I'm not really sure which
day I O'd.
Here are the particulars. This was the only month I haven't
had a fallback temp after O.

• cd11 - 97.4 - dry, low
• cd12 - 97.4 - creamy, mid
• cd13 - 97.3 - watery creamy stuff but not enough to even show on the tissue, high and very open -OPK
• cd14 - 97.5 - watery, still not much, high and open (BD early am)
• cd15 - 97.5 - watery, but hardly any, high and open, not quite + OPK (BD late pm)
• cd16 - 98.0 - dry, but still high and open 2 ++++OPK, O pains (BD pm)
• cd17 - 98.1 - dry, little creamy, but still high and open, O pains (BD pm early)
• cd18 - 98.0 - little creamy, still high and open, O pains (BD late pm)
• cd19 - cd22 - 98.0 creamy slightly yellow, I thought it was funny, I got more CM after O than before! Low and closed.
• cd23 - 97.9, dry, starting to get slippery stuff like I always get before AF.
• cd24 - 98.0 - more slippery stuff, had a pain like a stitch in my side, almost like a gas bubble, felt a little crampy and tired, but not enough to really notice
• cd25 - 98.1 - slippery, still have that crampy pain on my left side, but that's it, no other symptoms
• cd26 - 98.4 - slippery, low and closed, felt hot!
• cd27 - 98.3 - FF said possibly triphasic, which it was so subtle I wouldn't have even noticed. So I tested.
• cd28 - 98.3 - medium, and dry still crampy.

From: Cathy
Subject: Success Story
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:08:06 -0700

I conceived #3 in my fourth cycle, after 3-months of
waiting after going off BCP. My two other sons are
ages 7 and 9.

I have always had a problem with short LP (7-9
days). They gradually get longer with each cycle
off BCP. This month I took vitamin B6 (100 mg)
starting on cd25 (would have started sooner, but had
just read about it on TTC bulletin board). So who
knows, maybe it helped lengthen LP!!! (With first
pregnancy, it took me 7 cycles to conceive and for
LP to lengthen enough.)

Also different this cycle was that I took
Robittussun starting about cd 6 through my temp
rise. I usually don't have much CM, and I did get
EWCM on cd15. We BD'd 6 times in 8 days (we assumed
sperm count was fine, but didn't know this for sure.
We didn't want to miss ovulation). Temps were
98.0-98.4 after ovulation, and went triphasic on day
27 to 98.6. Positive HPT on cd29, and queasiness on
cd27. My cycles are normally no longer than 26
days, so I suspected I was pg on cd27 when temp went
up rather than down.

Good luck to everyone else!! I found this site only
2 months ago, but found it very helpful! Here are
my temps if you are interested (other interesting
thing different about this cycle was how high my
temps were to start which they usually aren't--makes
me wonder if I had an early miscarriage the cycle
before (which was only 23 days) and progestorone
levels stayed high the first week.

• cd 1 - 97.9
• cd 2 - 98.1
• cd 3 - 7: 98.0
• cd8 - 97.2
• cd 9-11: 97.7
• cd12 - 97.9
• cd13 - 14: 97.3
• cd15 - 97.4
• cd16 - 97.5
• cd17 - 18: 98.0
• cd 19-20: 98.1
• cd21-22: 98.3
• cd 23 - 98.2
• cd24 - 98.4
• cd25 - 98.2
• cd26 - 98.1 (implantation?)
• cd 27 - 98.6
• cd 28 - 98.4
• cd 29 - +++ HPT