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... )

Ever since I began menstruating 13 years ago, I have had the plague of sore boobs. I started tracking my BBT last month and noticed that my breasts became tender the day I ovulated, which I thought actually made a lot of sense. This month, according to my chart, I ovulated on the 16, and should see my period in the next two days or so, but my ( Read more... )

Hi!  I'm wondering if anyone has experience with eating kelp to lengthen their luteal phase?  I've been munching on a little dried kelp every day for the iodine.  It helps with fibrocystic breasts.  I haven't been taking my temperature so I don't have exact science here, but my cycles are usually about 23 days and I usually feel that I have my peak ( Read more... )

This is cycle 6 for me of TTC using FAM. When in your opinion should I seek medical assistance, and would it be a better idea to speak to a midwife (also a naturopathic doctor) or my regular PCP? The midwife is not going to be covered by my insurance. I know "they" recommend waiting a year while TTC before becoming alarmed, but I was led to ( Read more... )

So... I looked it up on FF, and they say it's basically not useful to test before 14 DPO. This is a bit worrisome. My usual LP is only 9 days. This is my second cycle on Prometrium, and that only lenghtens my luteal phase to 11 days. Obviously I will be frantically trying to get in touch with my doc to ask about this, but for those of you who've ( Read more... )

So... my new doc has me trying out Prometrium (an oral progesterone supplement) for the next couple of cycles to see if it helps with my migraine/menstrual pain/short luteal phase issues. 100mg for days 5-15, and 200mg for days 16-27 (I normally ovulate on day 16 or 17). She says this should not interfere with my ovulating at such a low dose, but I ( Read more... )

This cycle has been a rollercoaster ride for my husband and me. I was hoping to have an extra set of critical eyes to help me figure it out. Originally I thought I ovulated on CD 13. I had the cramping I usually get as well as a temp dip. Fertility friends did not like this date though because I continued to have fertile CF for a few days after. If ( Read more... )

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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... )

I've been charting my body temps since September. I just got off of hormonal birth control (three years on Depo-provera, one year on Yaz and one on Yasmin) in August and wanted to start getting to know my cycle better since that was going to be the only birth control my husband and I use ( Read more... )