So my chart is giving me all sorts of issues this cycle. Since I'm inconsistent with CM and CP checks, that doesn't help anyone, but I was hoping I could get some feedback from you all. I've asked in several other groups and sites I'm on and I either get no feedback, or people just saying "yeah, that looks weird. Sorry, no idea what could be going ( Read more... )

So I've never encountered this in my own chart before, and I'm just looking for possibilities of what might be going on (I have my own theories), but I have a spiky, gradually increasing chart this cycle for whatever reason. I don't have access to TCOYF at the moment, and Google tells me that it's possibly I'm having a slow temperature rise after ( Read more... )

everything I'm reading basically says you have to consider any bleeding (and looking up "spotting" just refers me to bleeding. grr...) that isn't menstruation as potentially fertile. is this true even if a) I've never had spotting with ovulation, and b) when I do have spotting, it's with an anovulatory cycle ( Read more... )

I tried supplementing with Vitex the month before last, and got a long cycle with a really weird chart. On paper it looked anovulatory-- the first anovulatory chart I'd had in over a year, I think. So I decided the vitex was a bad idea and stopped taking it. When I fed the data into fertility friend, it tentatively judged it as ovulatory with a 14- ( Read more... )

Hi, all.  So I've been charting for 2 years, using FAM primarily as birth control, and as a way to be in touch with my body/cycles.  My cycles are usually pretty regular, at least in the luteal phase, so that predicting my period is super easy and reliable.  My luteal phase is always exactly 12 days (sometimes 13) but right now I'm on day 15 ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! My copy of TCOYF is not with me right now and I've got a question about Anovulatory cycles.... I vaguely remember reading in TCOYF that if the cycle is anovulatory, hypothetically you wouldn't experience PMS symptoms before your "period" since you didn't ovulate. Can someone confirm/deny this for me? Thanks! :)

This is just going to be a feel-sorry for myself rant, I'm afraid, but it would be good to know if anyone else has been in the same boat ( Read more... )

Well, it seems as if I'm having an anovulatory cycle. But now I'm just wondering when I'll start bleeding. I know it won't be a real period, but I'll still most likely bleed right ( Read more... )

Do any of you who chart with an IUD (are there more than two of us?) have a strategy for dealing with all the eggwhite CM?  I've been really curious about it lately.  I've been charting for five cycles now, and started about the same time I got a paragard copper IUD.  I've had lots and lots of EW CM all over my cycles since I started paying ( Read more... )

I had an annovulatory cycle, I think. I missed my period. My cycles only last 31 or 35 days, normally, and this is now day 46. I've taken three pregnancy tests, and they all came back negative. I don't have any other signs of pregnancy, and since my husband and I used a condom and didn't have sex on fertile CM days, I'm quite sure I'm not pregnant ( Read more... )