Charting Help

[cnf2013]

I posted this is WTO too, but I'm looking for thoughts I guess? I don't really know, I'm new to temping and charting so any insight will be greatly appreciated. 

This is my first month temping and my second charting and I'm confused already. First off, I screwed up temping this morning. I forgot last Saturday I woke up at 515 and temped, turned off my alarm and went back to sleep. I normally temp at 530 so I figured since I woke up close enough I didn't want my alarm to go off and the 15 minutes doesn't really make a difference. Well I never turned my Saturday alarm back on. This morning I woke at 7 and realized this. I hadn't moved yet so I grabbed my BBT and temped. It was a bit high, which I expected since it was over an hour and a half later than I usually temp.



Yesterday I also started my OPK's for this month. I got a freaking positive yesterday evening. I know you can have multiple surges in a cycle and I'm super hoping I get another surge in a couple of days. I got a very glaring negative on my morning OPK this morning a bit after 10am. Between that and the fact that I screwed up temping and recorded a high temperature I'm nervous I might O early and we'll end up with shit timing. Today will be our first romp since my period ended a few days ago. FF is predicted I'll O on CD13, which is what we were basing our ED time frame on, but if I O early, like today or yesterday, we'll pretty much miss it completely.



I also track my CM, which I know has no bearing on O, but I always get watery and a couple of days of definitive EWCM in my window and right now I'm only getting creamy. I've always been one to get a lot of CM and have always kept tabs on it, so I'm pretty confident in my CM identifying skills and knowing roughly where I am in my cycle based on it.



Ugh, I'm sorry. I don't even know what I'm looking for with this. I'm just frustrated. How the fuck do teenagers accidentally get pregnant!? Now I'm going to be all anxious about wanted to get as much data from OPK/BBT/CM over the next few days to see if I'm going to O early and fuck us over, or if it's a fluke that I had a surge and fucked up my temp on the same day and will still be on time around CD13-ish. My chart is in my siggy if anyone wants to take a look, but really there's not much to see.



This shit is too hard.

[TrickyJedi]

I'm saying this with niceness but I think you need to calm it a little bit. Things happen and I know I personally rarely temp at the same time but FF has always been able to determine when I O.

It seems like you are being a bit hard on yourself when you say things like you fucked yourselves over and that you fucked up your temp. Shit happens.

[Daikoku]

Don't worry too much about each individual detail. Just do your best to be consistent and give FF as much info as you have. You'll get the hang of it and see that overall data is more important than each specific data point. Also, breathe a little and give yourself a little grace.

[cnf2013]

Thanks ladies! I was just looking to be talked off the ledge. I am such a horribly impatient person, the idea of having to take so many days to see shifts and wait for CH and things just drives me batty. I'm usually a pretty chill person (aside from the glaring lack of impatience), but if I have something that takes my attention (like everything that goes into TTC) I tend to fixate.

I'll just go jump my husband and make sure we take advantage of the three day weekend before he goes back to working night on Tuesday and our schedules no longer mesh nicely.

So glad I still have all of you and your wonderful wealth of knowledge

[Sparkly]

Breathe. I too get very caught up in tracking everything perfectly, but as others have said, even with some off temps, you should see a pattern. Your CM is probably telling the story here, if you haven't had any fertile CM, you may have just had an early LH surge for some reason and haven't O'd yet. Start having sex, don't freak out. You're probably fine.

FWIW -- temping at the same time is very important for me. 15 minutes doesn't make a big difference, but half an hour or more does. I set my alarm for the same time every day and just go back to sleep after temping on days off.

[almachs0786]

What are you considering a positive OPK, just out of curiosity. I don't mean to be insulting and I'm not trying to be rude, I just wanted to make sure that you were aware that they aren't read the same as an HPT.
If I'm only stating the obvious, sorry! FWIW temping at the same time (for me) is really crucial or my temps are all over. If your period only ended a few days ago I would assume you're just having an LH surge.

[cnf2013]

Jan 17, 2015 12:37:28 GMT -5 almachs0786 said:

What are you considering a positive OPK, just out of curiosity. I don't mean to be insulting and I'm not trying to be rude, I just wanted to make sure that you were aware that they aren't read the same as an HPT.
If I'm only stating the obvious, sorry! FWIW temping at the same time (for me) is really crucial or my temps are all over. If your period only ended a few days ago I would assume you're just having an LH surge.

Control line and test line were equally as dark as each other. Or at least they that way to me. I do have a degenerative eye disorder, so I could be squinting at wrongness. Middle one was from yesterday around 530pm-ish. 

 

[Sparkly]

I'd probably call that positive.

ETA: the middle I mean.

[MrsC0617]

Jan 17, 2015 12:14:54 GMT -5 TrickyJedi said:

I'm saying this with niceness but I think you need to calm it a little bit. Things happen and I know I personally rarely temp at the same time but FF has always been able to determine when I O.

It seems like you are being a bit hard on yourself when you say things like you fucked yourselves over and that you fucked up your temp. Shit happens.

This. One messed up temp won't change much. I was waking up at different times throughout this month and FF still detected O. The more you do it, the better you'll become at it.

[almachs0786]

Jan 17, 2015 12:45:41 GMT -5 cnf2013 said:

Jan 17, 2015 12:37:28 GMT -5 almachs0786 said:

What are you considering a positive OPK, just out of curiosity. I don't mean to be insulting and I'm not trying to be rude, I just wanted to make sure that you were aware that they aren't read the same as an HPT.
If I'm only stating the obvious, sorry! FWIW temping at the same time (for me) is really crucial or my temps are all over. If your period only ended a few days ago I would assume you're just having an LH surge.

Control line and test line were equally as dark as each other. Or at least they that way to me. I do have a degenerative eye disorder, so I could be squinting at wrongness. Middle one was from yesterday around 530pm-ish. 

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I would call the bottom one negative (unless its faded since testing, but the top two positive).. I also think it's probably just an LH surge.
(Sorry it took me so long to respond, we have company today)

[Deleted]

And just remember, even if you catch your O, have perfect timing and everything else, there's no guarantee it will stick. So don't be so hard on yourself and remember it takes most women (even those without fertility issues) several months to get KO.

Go drink a glass of wine, seduce your husband, and relax....