Attack of the Clusterfucks!
Today I received both a note from my Dr that my HCG is undetectable aaaand … a note from Enfamil congratulating me on my little one reaching it’s first birthday. Thanks assholes. I hadn’t even remembered that my former due date was coming up.
Next month is, if my body co-oporates, going to be our final transfer. I know I’ve said this before, but really and truly, this time is it. Next month I will also turn 43 and there is no way we can afford donor eggs. We will be happy with our Monkey and I will find something new to obsess over.
Like making the marketing people at Enfamil miserable.
Because this last cycle was so weird, I went ahead and bought some cheapie OPK and have been using them the last couple mornings to see if my body has started ovulating again. I should have started on Christmas Eve, but forgot, then Christmas was an exhausting clusterfuck of crazy, so I didn’t use one until the 26th. That should have been the day before I actually expected to ovulate and the line was super dark, but not as dark as the control line. The next day was also dark, but not as dark as the control line. Today the line was really light.
What does this mean? I’m the only infertile I know who is not familiar with OPKs. I used them for the first time last cycle and splurged on the pricey kind with the smily face. Did I ovulate? Did I almost ovulate? Did I ovulate the day before I started testing? Obviously next month I will once again splurge on the smiley face sticks.I will also steer away from the clusterfuck of crazy and pee on sticks on time.
Probably you ovulated in between the two dark tests, so your surge was midday.
Hoping January is it for both of us.
Brave IVF Girl recently posted..More on 6.1
THank you – yes, I think I’ll take that as an answer and run with it. Hope next month brings us both good things.
I’m quite lost with OPKs too. I’ve only once bought a ton (ok, 50?) of the online cheapies and then one cycle my clinic told me to check for the natural FET, I tried to understand them, but I don’t think I’ll be buying them again.
Good luck!
JustHeather recently posted..Taking stock of 2011
My clinic told me to skip the cheapies and get the smilie face ones. Now I know why.
My clinic always insists on a blood test. I guess they don’t trust us to use an OPK properly
I’ve got one more cycle covered by insurance, and I’m going to take it! I don’t think it will be until Feb at the earliest, though, because I’m pretty sure I have to skip a cycle or two after having a miscarriage. I hope that both of us are able to pull it off. Best of luck!!!!
Chickenpig recently posted..Thank You, again
Covered… by insurance?? LUCKY! Mine has me use the smilie face tests – then has me come in that day for a blood test and ultrasound – then gives me a trigger just to make sure. Worked well last time… so hopefully it will work again with a little more success.
I hope you are doing ok.
I never got a true positive with the cheap tests. I would get a dark line but not as dark as the control. I got freaked out by this and compared it to a digital test with the same pee and got a smiley face. The digital tests are the only ones I have ever gotten a positive result with.
Jill recently posted..simple math
Yeah – me too. I just wasted the money on the cheap ones.
I hate OPKs. I found I spent more time trying to determine whether that line was dark enough. Too much stress. The only ones that didn’t make me want to pull my hair out were the digital ones with the smiley face. But I also didn’t follow directions and tested when I felt like it.
Wishing to the best of luck for this next cycle!
Cristy recently posted..Game changer
Thank you! Yes – I’ll stick with the digitals.
Sorry no advice on OPK… just a lot of ruffled feathers towards those bloody marketing people. It took me months of several phone-calls to stop them from sending me food-samples and toys for my stillborn son. The last call I had to unleash the fury and lost it on them… that made the trick, they got it. (Probably made me end up on a list labeled “crazy dead baby mom”… oh well).
Sorry they are bothering you. If you ever need a substitute beast to unleash on them: feel free to ask.
Good luck for 2012.
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I liked the cheap ones, but I tested at least twice a day and usually more often. Sometimes I swear it was like, “I have to pee. Is it because I’m ovulating? Better check!”
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