WTDS 9/28

[penguin129]

The Waiting to Do Something Thread is posted once a week (usually on Mondays) for those of us that experience long, extended cycles. Whether it's medicated cycles, long (45ish+ days) cycles, postpartum/breastfeeding, TTA, on the bench, or something else, this is the place we gather throughout the week to discuss and vent about our slightly unique situation.


Numbers:

Circumstances:

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question:

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid?

[penguin129]

Numbers: CD 22

Circumstances: TTA until switching doctors in the New Year

R/R/NFNSQ: I temped again this cycle and then couldn't find my BBT so I didn't temp after O was confirmed. Temping after my period ended until confirming O worked out nicely. I stopped taking PNV's for now to see what my TSH #'s will do without taking them. The plan is to take no iron PNV's eventually.

GTKY: I loved going to the pumpkin patch, seeing apple cider made, going to Peddler's Village where they had a ton of scarecrows on display, and going to the Halloween Parades.

[singingsea]

Numbers: Cycle 11/1AL CD13

Circumstances: Benched one cycle.

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: Can you O early after a miscarriage? My body was showing a lot of signs (cd10/11) but that could also be the hormones leaving my body as well.

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? Trick or treat and going to the pumpkin show.

[hurricanerek]

Numbers: CD9

Circumstances: Tfas in December

R/r/NFNSQ: I got nothing.

Gtky: penguin129, we must live near each other because I also have memories of Halloween in peddlers village. I also loved trick or treating and baking pumpkin seeds.

[Ray]

Numbers: nada

Circumstances:waiting for house to sell

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: still no movement. boring update. i have an appt. Friday to finally talk to my Dr. RE: b/w and u/s results + anxiety

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? I don't really have anything specific. I loved going to my hunt camp and bird hunting with my dad. I also had a Simba halloween costume when I was 4 that I was obsessed with.

[penguin129]

hurricanerek I'm in FL now, but we were about an hour to 1 1/2 hours away from Peddler's Village. The one park by us just started doing a Scarecrow display a few years ago. It is nothing in comparison to Peddler's Village.

[acorn99]

Numbers:cycle 4/month 6
Circumstances:CD42
Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question:I have nothing nice to say, so I will not say anything at all (I am talking to YOU, uterus).
GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid?  There was a farm market near where I grew up that we went to every year to pick our pumpkins. It had teepees made out of corn stalks that were filled with really intricately carved pumpkins. And of course, cider and donuts. I can smell it all in my memory just thinking about it.

[bl1210]

I've been a terrible WTDSer lately

Numbers: Month 13...hitting month 14 this week

Circumstances: PCOS

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: Month 14 is giving me all the sad feels. I have to have a biopsy Thursday. H is going with me so I tried to schedule his SA that afternoon and of course they only do them Mon Tues and Fri. ugh.

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? Going to college football games with my whole family

[hurricanerek]

Sept 28, 2015 9:20:12 GMT -5 penguin129 said:

hurricanerek I'm in FL now, but we were about an hour to 1 1/2 hours away from Peddler's Village. The one park by us just started doing a Scarecrow display a few years ago. It is nothing in comparison to Peddler's Village.

Yeah I always loved the gingerbread houses around Christmas too. Bringing back all the memories now.

[sammysam]

Numbers: N/A

Circumstances : TFAS in January

R/R/NFNSQ: I started using OPKs this cycle in preparation for January...yep. Aparently I'm that person.

GTKY: The smell and the leaves. I always LOVED picking up leaves off the ground in the fall. And fall has its own smell...like earthy and calming.

[nuggetrn]

penguin129, Good luck as you try to figure out how to stabilize your numbers! Hopefully stopping the vitamins helps some!


singingsea, I really don't know for sure... but anything is possible and bodies are weird. You are right that symptoms may be because of hormones still settling back into their norms. You won't really know though until you get your period. Fx it does come sooner rather than later though! How are you guys doing?


acorn99, Lol.... when you do decide to have it out with your uterus would you mind doing some yelling at mine as well?


bl1210, ((hugs)) ((hugs)) ((hugs)) I totally get needing to take a bit of a break from here. I am sorry you are feeling the sads, I also think that you are perfectly within your rights to feel sad for a moment though so please take the time to take care of yourself. We are all here whenever and for whatever 

[nuggetrn]

Numbers: CD35

Circumstances: NTNP, PCOS

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: Hey look! We are still NTNP! After my meltdown last week... Things are still not the most amazing but with everything else going on I just really did not want to take NTNP off of the table. Maybe it is just me being super pessimistic... but with my long cycles and anovulation, actually catching FW if my body decides to O is going to be hard. I don't want to look back 6 months from now and see that we missed a chance to get pregnant and then still be in the same spot with long cycles. I don't know if that even makes sense. It makes sense in my head. LOL. I am going to see what this cycle does and then push my OB to bump up my metformin to 1500 mg. Last cycle I messaged his office and was hoping that he would get the idea on his own, this time I am just going to come right out and ask him.

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? We went to a Fall Festival every year when we were younger which was always fun.

[jessafishy]

Numbers: N/A

Circumstances: Currently TTA. Baby fever has returned, DH not ready to TFAS yet. (And really I am not either.)

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: I'm trying to rationalize away my baby fever and it's not working. Hormones are jerks.

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? Going to high school football games. Not for the football, but to run around with all of my friends. It was the best.

[Ray]

sammysam, I don't think there is anything wrong with using OPKs, tracking cycles etc before you start TTC. knowing how your body is working is smart IMO.

glad to hear you guys had a talk and are still NTNP nuggetrn,

[penguin129]

Sept 28, 2015 11:53:21 GMT -5 Ray said:

sammysam, I don't think there is anything wrong with using OPKs, tracking cycles etc before you start TTC. knowing how your body is working is smart IMO.

glad to hear you guys had a talk and are still NTNP nuggetrn,

I have the same thought sammysam. I use opks, check cm, and temperature and we're tta until Jan too.

[amandamh2]

Numbers: n/a

Circumstances: TFAS February, currently TTA.

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: ILs are currently not super happy with us since we can't do Thanksgiving dinner with them. They forgot to tell us they have a wedding on Saturday and can only do Sunday but we already made plans with my family for Sunday since everyone initially said either day is fine and my family got organized first. Who forgets about a wedding?

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? When I was a little kid I always went to watch my dad coach high school soccer in the fall and couldn't wait until I got to play. I made the team in high school so September and October weekends were spent at the field and on the bus.

[hurricanerek]

Sept 28, 2015 11:53:21 GMT -5 Ray said:

sammysam, I don't think there is anything wrong with using OPKs, tracking cycles etc before you start TTC. knowing how your body is working is smart IMO.

glad to hear you guys had a talk and are still NTNP nuggetrn,

I totally agree! I decided to start charting 5 months before ttc because I wanted to know what my body was doing. I also feel like these months are the ones where I can make my charting and temping mistakes without any consequences.

[singingsea]

Sept 28, 2015 11:18:03 GMT -5 nuggetrn said:

singingsea, I really don't know for sure... but anything is possible and bodies are weird. You are right that symptoms may be because of hormones still settling back into their norms. You won't really know though until you get your period. Fx it does come sooner rather than later though! How are you guys doing?

Last week emotionally I was a hot mess (which I chalk up to hormone fluctuations). We're doing ok though. October is going to be a busy month for us. So that helps.

[bl1210]

Thanks nuggetrn! It's been a hard month after having a period on my own in August. I thought we might be on to something, but I feel like I'm back to square one again. Super worried about the biopsy this week, it's just one more thing to be upset/worry about. I'm glad you and YH are still NTNP. I would definitely ask your OB about the 1500mg. Anecdote: My OB said if you can handle it, 1500mg is the most ideal dose.

[sammysam]

Thank you penguin129, @ray and hurricanerek. I didn't know enough about my body the last time and so didn't do any "prep" work ahead of time. This time, especially since we won't be living in the same place for at least another year, I feel like I need to have a better handle on timing and what my body is doing.

jessafishy I am right there with you when it comes to hormones. My SO was the one who wanted to TFAS...but now it seems like my hormones have taken over and I want to get things going RIGHT NOW...even though my rational mind knows that there is no way we will be ready to start trying until January.

[teachermomtobe]

Numbers: CD 19

Circumstances: irregular anovulatory cycles

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: I just had my ultrasound of my ovaries that I had requested after my OB/GYN was ready to write my blood work off as normal and you wonderful ladies encouraged me to push back a bit. I got to meet the lovely dildo cam too! The radiologist said my ovaries have the look of PCOS ovaries but if I told him I had perfectly normal cycles he would then say that my ovaries looked fine but since I have irregular cycles then he guesses they do look like maybe PCOS. He said I need b/w to confirm. I didn't get into it with him that I already had b/w and yadda yadda yadda. I didn't like when I said I wasn't ovulating he said, "How do you KNOW you aren't ovulating?" I guess they deal with a lot of uniformed people but I immediately feel stupid and defensive when they talk to me like that! In a few weeks we have our appt with the RE and I have a feeling I will get a PCOS diagnosis. I am not trying to get ahead of myself but let's call a spade a spade and move on. At this point just looking forward to the RE who will hopefully want to hear about my charting and OPKs and b/w and ultrasound and not make me feel crazy.

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? We have a ton of trees in my yard so raking sucked but we would make massive leaf piles and jump in them. That was a lot of fun!

[teachermomtobe]

singingsea, I don't know about early O but wanted to say sorry for your loss
Ray, Hope everything goes well with your appt this week!
bl1210, *hugs*
nuggetrn, glad you're still NTNP and pushing your doctor a bit on your prescription

[dashook]

nuggetrn, glad you were able to come to a decision on the NTNP at least, and I hope it's a weight off of you. How are you doing with everything else? I've been thinking of you (not in a creepy way, I swear).
teachermomtobe, I get ragey when medical providers talk to me like I'm crazy or addicted to Dr. Google. Is it that hard to believe that someone could be informed and want to take charge of her own health? Hopefully the RE will be better. When do you go?

[dashook]

Numbers: 8.5 months PP

Circumstances: Still waiting for my first PPP. Still BFing; AF is staying far away, which gives me the sadz because I'm ready to TFAS.

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: I know this is a stupid one, but sammysam 's question got me thinking...there's no point to me trying to chart yet, right? I never did it before I had DS so I don't even have anything to compare to. Maybe for practice though (using BBT, etc.)?

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? I have so many! Pumpkin picking, Halloween parades, playing in leaf piles in the backyard with my dog, hayrides...and of course that delightful earthy, smokey smell

[PepperPottsJ]

Thank you for starting penguin129, and excited to be back in here

SPOILER: Click to show

penguin129 - Hopefully this does the trick for you!! If you need any help with png research let me know, I had to do a ton when I realized soy free was not an easy undertaking...
singingsea So many hugs!! However, pumpkin show? like as in a contest? This sounds AMAZING!
hurricanerek - such fun memories of baking pumpkin seeds after carving the pumpkins, i always thought it was disgusting but as an adult pepitas all the way!
Ray - fx for a great dr appt and for the house to sell!
acorn99 -
bl1210 - all the hugs and love to you
sammysam - better to be prepared
nuggetrn - love your positive outlook! Hugs and kick your OB into aggressive mode!
jessafishy - haha going to high school football games before being in high school always dictated the social calendar so fun!
amandamh2 - i am almost jealous, we haven't discussed Thanksgiving yet and I am dreading the convo with my MIL!!
teachermomtobe - ugh glad you pushed and were you tempted to just say "because I know"
dashook - I dont think temping now would hurt for habit??

Numbers: CD 7 Month 6 (3rd TTA)

Circumstances: Medically required to TTA until December

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: Question about anovulatory cycles, is it possible to get your period every month and be anovulatory? Not in any way trying to borrow trouble, and admittedly need to really focus on temping in the next 2 months to get my shit together, but trying to figure out if my CBFM is broken, my body is fucking with me or what on earth is going on. Now that travel should be done until 2016, I can stick thermometer in my mouth when I wake up
Rant - MH got amazing Yankees tickets for Wednesday night for my bday and it looks like its going to rain. DNW!!!

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? The first time school closed for weather that I can recall was 30 years ago yesterday when I got to learn all about the eye of a hurricane and had a fabulous day at home from school during Hurricane Gloria.

[mosdub]

Numbers: 23 weeks post D&C

Circumstances: Waiting for hCG to drop to 0 since a partial molar pregnancy

Rants/Raves/No Flame No Shame Question: Busy (but not bad) week of work! Listening to the audio book of the Martian and I'm addicted! Crossing my fingers hoping for 10 or below at my next draw... feeling more and more positive about hitting negative so I can actually begin a TTC countdown!

GKTY- What is you favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? Probably pumpkin carving and pressing leaves with my grandma. She would have us laminate leaves against a sheet of felt to act as a place mat. That was fun. OH! Reading penguin129's post reminded me of seeing how cider was made! I loved that!




Ray good luck with the doc on Friday, keep us updated!
nuggetrn I get it - it feels so difficult to conceive I wouldn't want to miss out on any possible window either. I'm sure you and your H would figure out a solution even if the timing wasn't "perfect" in the event of a bfp.
PepperPottsJ From what I understand you can have a "breakthrough bleed" which can seem like a period. The lining of the uterus builds up to such a degree that the body sheds it even though no ovulation happened -- someone correct me if I'm wrong about this.

[gabride2010]

penguin129 I hope switching PNVs help to even out your TSH!

singingsea What is a pumpkin show?

hurricanerek I hope December gets here soon for you!

Ray I'm sorry you haven't gotten any interest in your house yet. I hope your RE appt goes well.

acorn99 What an awesome Fall memory!

bl1210 Good luck with your biopsy. Big hugs for hitting month 14!

sammysam Good job prepping for January!

nuggetrn I'm glad y'all came to a decision to keep NTNP. I hope the higher dose of Metformin will help you!

@jessafish TTA is hard sometimes. I'm sorry your hormones are being jerks!

amandamh2 Sorry about your ILs. Hopefully y'all can still see them for Thanksgiving!

teachermomtobe I hope your appt with the RE goes well!

dashook I hope your PPP comes soon! Practice charting can't hurt, so I would do it!

PepperPottsJ It is possible to get your period and have anovulatory cycles. Good luck temping!

AFM...

Numbers: Cycle 1 CD 67 off BCP

Circumstances: TTA until February with condoms and pulling out

R/R/NFNSQ: I took my last Provera pill last night, so I should get my period soon. I haven't had a period in a year, so I'm expecting it to be awful. I need to find my Metformin to start when CD1 comes. I hope that will help me O.

GTKY - What is your favorite fall memory from when you were a kid? I loved singing Halloween and Thanksgiving songs in Music class in Elementary school. I also loved getting all the candy while Trick-or-Treating!

[teachermomtobe]

dashook, I hate how knowing my body and being informed about health concerns automatically means I Dr. Google everything to doctors. Ugh! Our RE appt is October 15th.
PepperPottsJ, Yes, I absolutely wanted to say "because I just know"! As for anovulation, generally if you consistently get your period regularly with in a reasonable time frame around the "ideal" 28 days you are most likely ovulating but it is not 100% guaranteed. Jealous of the Yankee tix, not that it will rain
mosdub, FX for you for your next draw. When is your next draw?

[nuggetrn]

Sept 28, 2015 12:34:30 GMT -5 singingsea said:

Sept 28, 2015 11:18:03 GMT -5 nuggetrn said:

singingsea, I really don't know for sure... but anything is possible and bodies are weird. You are right that symptoms may be because of hormones still settling back into their norms. You won't really know though until you get your period. Fx it does come sooner rather than later though! How are you guys doing?

Last week emotionally I was a hot mess (which I chalk up to hormone fluctuations). We're doing ok though. October is going to be a busy month for us. So that helps.

Hormone fluctuations are the worst... I am glad you are doing ok and hope that October's busy-ness helps you guys

[nuggetrn]

Sept 28, 2015 12:48:54 GMT -5 bl1210 said:

Thanks nuggetrn! It's been a hard month after having a period on my own in August. I thought we might be on to something, but I feel like I'm back to square one again. Super worried about the biopsy this week, it's just one more thing to be upset/worry about. I'm glad you and YH are still NTNP. I would definitely ask your OB about the 1500mg. Anecdote: My OB said if you can handle it, 1500mg is the most ideal dose.

I feel you on getting excited about something only to go right back to square one. I was so excited at the beginning of this year when I somehow ovulated on CD14, CD14!! What?? Lol. Hasn't happened again. Total fluke and I got so excited for nothing.

I am sorry if I should know this... but what is going on with the biopsy?

Hopefully your OB is right and I can get up to 1500 and hope it makes a difference!