Progesterone questions (long, like a Tolkien trilogy)

[pickles4prez]

Hai ladies,
I'm trying this on my phone with a sleepy kitten on my chest, so please excuse spelling and grammical errors.

I love my doc so hard, she actually listens when I talk and completely answers all my questions but there's one instruction that goes against my research and body signals.

We triggered with Novarel per her instruction two days ago, sexed it up yesterday and today (huzzah!). Her next instructions are to start my P suppositories tonight, but everything I read online says 3 days after confirmed O. I'm not temping for sanity reasons, plus I remember reading Novarel artificially raises temps so I'd get skewed results anyway. I also get pretty noticeable ovulation cramps, I often feel which side is ovulating (I think). I had pains 2 days ago, yesterday and today.

I know progesterone suppositories can disrupt the ovulation process so I'm worried about taking the P too early, but she's a brilliant doctor that knows her shit.

I've pretty much convinced myself to take the suppositories as instructed, but am curious if anyone else is taking it and what your instructions are.

[rslh10]

I always start 3 days past. I am not saying go against your dr by any means, but myself and anyone I know that's been on P Have started on 3dpo.

((Hugs))

[rmpar29]

I was always told 3 DPO as well. Maybe a call to your doctor is warranted? I've read, as well, that taking Progesterone before O can disrupt or prevent O.

[therealbug]

Can you talk with your doctor about it and let her know your concerns? When I used a trigger my RE told me that I would ovulate within 36 hours of that trigger - I imagine your doc has the same level of confidence for when you will ovulate post-trigger.

As far as relying on body signals, I have always been able to feel when I ovulate. When I take fert meds, I get angry ovary and have "O" pains from way before O to past O (that's the beauty of an u/s). If I relied on just my reliable body signal when on fert meds, I would be wrong.

And since this was Tolkien - where are the elves! I want elves!

[pickles4prez]

First things first - my elves


therealbug I am pretty sure that my doc has the same mentality about O timing. I've brought this concern up to her before and she told me 2 days = 48 hours, and trigger shots make me O within 36 hours so I should be fine. The *should be* is what worries me, my body ain't no machine (yet).
I've read there are 3 types of O pain; before, during and after. The after is the Fallopian tube contracting to push the egg down the chute. Of course, this was found on the Internet, so I don't know how much I should believe, but I was feeling generalized crampy pain around my ute even last night. So even though I was leaning towards taking the P last night, I ultimately skipped it and will be starting it tonight. From what I understand (autocorrect changed that to um'dear stand), one day shouldn't make a terrible difference. I hope.
And now for some hot dwarf action...

[ldubhawksfan]

I have nothing to add, but your post does concern me since my RE had me start progesterone on 1dpo this cycle. I hope I didn't F things up. Since you were triggering, I hope your dr was confident in your O timing.

[pickles4prez]

Jan 15, 2015 14:25:17 GMT -5 ldubhawksfan said:

I have nothing to add, but your post does concern me since my RE had me start progesterone on 1dpo this cycle. I hope I didn't F things up. Since you were triggering, I hope your dr was confident in your O timing.

I would talk to your RE about this, from what I read online and what mine told me P can disrupt ovulation but I don't quite understand how.  How many mgs?
I'm on 100mgs nightly via suppository.