Thoughts and prayers needed, please

[homemakermama]

Oh no! I hope it is just a fluke. Your in my thoughts!

[rnchloe]

Fx everything is ok! Sending t&p your way!

[snakefisherbub]

I hope it's nothing but I agree you should put the thermometer away.

[allycat]

Put the thermometer away.

For starters, hormones surge up and down through pregnancy. Just because progesterone normally keeps your temp up, if you have a surge of estrogen, that can make it dip. And I'm sure there more science to it than that, but you get the idea.

[Deleted]

I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Try not to worry about that temp. Like PP have suggest, maybe you should stay away from temping to avoid unneeded stress. I'm hoping for the best for you.

[cabgirl]

Thank you so much for the support and advice, everyone. I honestly don't know what I would do without all of you guys (the best of TB). I took my temperature again after a nap this afternoon, and it had shot way up (98.92). I'd only slept an hour and a half, but it did make me feel better, and H came home with a FRER for me to pee on. The test line was way darker than the control line. Both of those things are helping me to calm down. I'm going to take my temperature again in the morning, and if it's still up, I'm throwing the damn thermometer in the garbage.

[SubtleGrandeur]

Jan 18, 2015 16:43:18 GMT -5 cabgirl said:

Thank you so much for the support and advice, everyone. I honestly don't know what I would do without all of you guys (the best of TB). I took my temperature again after a nap this afternoon, and it had shot way up (98.92). I'd only slept an hour and a half, but it did make me feel better, and H came home with a FRER for me to pee on. The test line was way darker than the control line. Both of those things are helping me to calm down. I'm going to take my temperature again in the morning, and if it's still up, I'm throwing the damn thermometer in the garbage.

That's great news!! FX for a high temp in the morning. 

[MrsEmuTavi]

Sending lots and lots of thoughts and prayers. One temp means nothing. Big creepy internet hugs. If your temp goes back up tomorrow aI would say put the thermometer away. I put mine away simply because every morning I would worry about any temp change.

[jms627]

Glad to hear it was back up - put the thermometer down

[missdaisy925]

Great news! *hugs* anyways!

[southernpeach89]

Sending you lots of thoughts and prayers. I'm so glad to hear that your temp came back up!

[bazingaa]

Keeping you in good thoughts! I'm sure it's hard, but try to stay calm. Call you doc if you feel like it, that's what he or she is there for.

[cabgirl]

Thanks again, everyone! My temperature was back up to 98.44 this morning, which is maybe .2 less than my average lately, but still almost half a degree higher than yesterday. I think I'm fine. I'm almost embarrassed by how I behaved yesterday - I spent the day in bed, and cried for much of it. Lesson learned - quit temping once you're pregnant, guise!! One temperature might not mean anything, but it could be enough to worry you sick.

Having said that, am I the only one who wishes she could just sleep through the rest of the first trimester?

[hovenb]

Well you learned the lesson for me then! Because I was going to start temping again but now I won't! I hate first tri!! I just want to at least get to hearing a heartbeat!!

[cabgirl]

Jan 19, 2015 8:01:21 GMT -5 hovenb said:

Well you learned the lesson for me then! Because I was going to start temping again but now I won't! I hate first tri!! I just want to at least get to hearing a heartbeat!!

Yeah, definitely don't start temping again! A temp dip *could* mean an impending loss, but it could mean a lot of other stuff, too, just like when you're not pregnant and temping and have a wonky temp one day. It's the pattern that matters, but it's hard to tell yourself that when you have these nice, high temperatures, and then it plummets inexplicably one morning. I can't even tell you how upset I was yesterday, and likely for nothing. I definitely won't put myself through that ever again.

I know what you mean about wanting to get to the point where you hear that heartbeat. It's just hard to deal with everything being so delicate and tenuous right now. It's hard to love something that fragile. We all love our babies already and just want them to be okay! 

[tsmith312]

I'm glad your temp is back up ! Don't feel embarrassed about how you acted , I would of too ! Now throw that thing away !!

[kbeazly]

So glad your temp is back up! How terrifying. I'm so sorry you had to experience that.

(Hope that thermometer has hit the trash by now).

[sandj918]

I'm do glad your temp went back up!! And yes, I desperately wish I could sleep for the next 5 weeks.

[kcrkcs]

Yay, glad it went back up!

[emejay]

I request a picture of your trash with your thermometer in it! Kidding aside, I thnik we're all overanalyzing every single thing. Glad everything is ok!

[BookishMomma]

Jan 19, 2015 7:48:41 GMT -5 cabgirl said:

Thanks again, everyone! My temperature was back up to 98.44 this morning, which is maybe .2 less than my average lately, but still almost half a degree higher than yesterday. I think I'm fine. I'm almost embarrassed by how I behaved yesterday - I spent the day in bed, and cried for much of it. Lesson learned - quit temping once you're pregnant, guise!! One temperature might not mean anything, but it could be enough to worry you sick.

Having said that, am I the only one who wishes she could just sleep through the rest of the first trimester?

Yep. I have often told my H that I wish I could be sent to the hospital to lie in an induced coma and be woken up in 2nd tri. He thinks I'm joking, but I'm not. 

Also, as someone who has been through several first tri miscarriages, please know that there's really nothing you can do if one is imminent. Temping and POASing and worrying will not stop one from happening. I learned this the hard way and, this time around, I'm trying to go back to blissful ignorance. Because, good betas or bad, dark lines or light lines, high temps or low temps, what is going to happen in these early weeks is going to happen. I really don't mean to depress anyone by saying that. But just enjoy your pregnancy and try to relax as much as you can. The odds truly are in your favor unless there's something in your health history that puts you at higher risk of loss. Yes, many of us have been on the bad side of the odds before, so stats are cold comfort sometimes. But I've been down the temping/POASing/obsessive Googling rabbit hole and will try to pull out any ladies I see going there!

[TrickyJedi]

After reading your story I'm hiding my thermometer once I get home!!!

[cabgirl]

Jan 19, 2015 13:20:34 GMT -5 BookishMomma said:

Jan 19, 2015 7:48:41 GMT -5 cabgirl said:

Thanks again, everyone! My temperature was back up to 98.44 this morning, which is maybe .2 less than my average lately, but still almost half a degree higher than yesterday. I think I'm fine. I'm almost embarrassed by how I behaved yesterday - I spent the day in bed, and cried for much of it. Lesson learned - quit temping once you're pregnant, guise!! One temperature might not mean anything, but it could be enough to worry you sick.

Having said that, am I the only one who wishes she could just sleep through the rest of the first trimester?

Yep. I have often told my H that I wish I could be sent to the hospital to lie in an induced coma and be woken up in 2nd tri. He thinks I'm joking, but I'm not. 

Also, as someone who has been through several first tri miscarriages, please know that there's really nothing you can do if one is imminent. Temping and POASing and worrying will not stop one from happening. I learned this the hard way and, this time around, I'm trying to go back to blissful ignorance. Because, good betas or bad, dark lines or light lines, high temps or low temps, what is going to happen in these early weeks is going to happen. I really don't mean to depress anyone by saying that. But just enjoy your pregnancy and try to relax as much as you can. The odds truly are in your favor unless there's something in your health history that puts you at higher risk of loss. Yes, many of us have been on the bad side of the odds before, so stats are cold comfort sometimes. But I've been down the temping/POASing/obsessive Googling rabbit hole and will try to pull out any ladies I see going there!


I'm so sorry about your losses. I know many women here have suffered losses, and now that I'm pregnant, I feel like I can begin to imagine how devastating they must be. I know I would be heartbroken if I lost this pregnancy. I do know that there's nothing that can be done to prevent a loss, and that my prolonged temping and POAS behavior wasn't rational. Part of what made yesterday so awful was knowing that if the worst was coming, there would be absolutely nothing I could do to stop it. I'm a bit of a control freak, to be honest, and it's hard for me to accept my total lack of control over the outcome of something that means so much to me. But I'm working on it. Thank you for the words of wisdom! 

[cabgirl]

Jan 19, 2015 13:18:22 GMT -5 emejay said:

I request a picture of your trash with your thermometer in it! Kidding aside, I thnik we're all overanalyzing every single thing. Glad everything is ok!

Overanalyzing is definitely a talent of mine! The bbt thermometer didn't actually go in the garbage - H hid it, along with the regular thermometers. I know I won't be tempted to go looking for them!

[London]

FX this is nothing serious at all. I know it's tempting to temp, but try not to. Loads of T&P your way!

[MrsEmuTavi]

I'm an over analyzer as well (my betas went from 620 to 1220, didn't double, I freaked even though the rational side of my brain says I'm being stupid). Glad to hear your temp is back up and the thermometer is away.

[sdfonz619]

I am glad everything turned out okay with your temps and hope you are able to let go of that worry here on out.

[midnightsun]

Hope everything works out positively. Sending you good thoughts and keeping my fingers crossed for you. Is there an on-call doc you could call? Maybe just talking to someone would help sort it out.