Worried first timer

[kmrk336]

Hello Everyone! My name is Kathleen and I am new to this board and new to TTC. My husband and I have been together for 10 years (hs sweethearts) and married for 2. We have just recently decided we are ready for a baby. I ordered a pack of ovulation predicting strips in an effort to determine when I'll be ovulating, obviously I am on CD 22 of my 34 day cycle and have yet to get a positive test result. It's making me really nervous! I am a healthy 24 year old with regular periods, but in the past few months I have noticed changes in my cycle. As a teenager/early 20s I would get debilitating cramping during my period which has now all but disappeared. My breasts are extremely sore before and during my period which never was the case. My last period was only 2 days long and extremely light. I didn't really think too much about it until I've been getting the negative ovulation strips and now I'm worried. Also paired with the fact that my husband and I have never really been the best with birth control (we've only ever used the pull out method, which really is not a method at all) and I've never gotten pregnant before. Does anyone have some advice? Words to calm me down? I called the nurse at my GYN and she said to keep testing til I get my period, and if I do not get a positive result to make an appointment. Oh, also, I made sure to take a pregnancy test to make sure that is not why I'm not ovulation, and it was negative.

Thanks for reading! I appreciate it!

Kathleen

[midgetlb6]

Usually the longer the cycle the later in the month you O usually but not always. With that said it is possible to a have a cycle where you don't O, also if your stressing it to much you can also delay O'ing maybe even not O but it takes a good 2/3 months of using opk's strips to really get to know your cycle, and get a general idea as to when your body O's. You can also chart at Fertility friend. Com I'll try to post a link it will take you to my chart and to the right it will say join and create a free account. http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/221144.


GL and I'm sure more woman will respond

[Leah26]

Welcome! I find that OPKs can be very frustrating sometimes. I ovulated last cycle according to progesterone tests but I never got a positive OPK. So confusing. I asked the nurse in my doc office about this and she said that they aren't foolproof for sure and not getting a positive doesn't necessarily mean that you didn't ovulate. Are you taking them once a day or twice a day? I've also heard that most woman take them twice a day (which I did last cycle) because your surge can be really short sometimes and you can get a negative in the morning and positive at night and a negative the next morning. So if you only test once a day you may miss it. So if you're just testing once a day that can be possible too. I hope things make sense for you soon and that your stay here in this room is short and sweet.

[kmrk336]

Thanks for responding ladies! I had no idea it was possible to not O one cycle, but O the next. That makes me feel better. I thought if I didn't O this month, I was never going too.

Also I did the OPK twice a day for the past week and a half, but it wasn't at the same time everyday and we were on vacation so it is possible I might of missed it.

It is the negative OPKs coupled with the changes in period that got me worried, especially added with my good friends pregnancy announcement where she just got off the pill and got pregnant first try.

I appreciate your responses. It was nice to 'meet you'

[coelh102]

Hi Kathleen! I know your frustration! I got of BCP and was fine the first 2 months but in June my period lasted 63days when it's usually 28days and it was no where is sight of ending even at 63days because I went to a GYN and he said I hadn't been Oing. So I was put on Provera which induces your period by building up the lining of the uterus and once you stop taking it then you start your period (4days later usually) So I started just as I was told and then I have taken OPK's from CD 7 till CD 20 with not one positive OPK! I go to the doctors today at 2pm for blood tests to find out if I O'd or not. If I still don't O then it's back on Provera, start my period, then CD 5-9 I'm on Clomid, which is a drug that helps build up for an O and makes you O.

Good Luck in your journey!!! Hope your stay is short and sweet!!

[Lunarmoon]

Were you on a bcp? I know that does mess with what is normal for you. I've also noticed that it might seem different because we are now more in tuned with our bodies and searching for symptoms. I would use FF too, if you haven't already started to. It can help you track symptoms and get you familiar with what is normal. Good luck!

[kmrk336]

Thank you for all the advice and support new friends 😃. My OPK was negative again today. I signed up for FF and they sent me an email which pretty much said those OPK tests are a secondary way of determining ovulation and the temp taking is a more accurate way. So starting on CD 1 I'm going to do the temp taking. Such a strange feeling to be so aware of how your body works when you never really gave it a thought before.

[midgetlb6]

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[Lunarmoon]

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[CeCe1975]

and welcome!

You've gotten some good advice from the other girls and its great that you're going to use fertility friend and also try temping.

I just wanted to mention though that if you're only testing once a day with opk's, it is possible to miss a surge. A lot of the girls on here test 2 (or more ) times a day in order to not miss the surge. I like to test around 11 a.m. and again around 8 p.m. both after a 4 hour pee hold. I've had cycles where I'll have a neg in the am, pos in the evening, and then a neg the next am again. If I hadn't been testing twice, I would have missed the positive in the evening.

GL and hope your stay here in TTC is short.

[ootus973]

Welcome!! The girls here have said everything I would have. You have a wealth of knowledge with them. I came here TTC and having no clue what was going on, only that it hadn't worked for us. After 4 or 5 months here, we got our BFP and are expecting our little one in January. Before I came here, I thought I O'd later (turns out I O a couple of days earlier), and I didn't realize that you could have a cycle where you don't O at all--even without ever having been on birth control pills.

Welcome again, and

[kmrk336]

Thanks for the warm welcome and congratulations on your upcoming arrival!!

[seymour33]

Hello Everyone! My name is Kathleen and I am new to this board and new to TTC. My husband and I have been together for 10 years (hs sweethearts) and married for 2. We have just recently decided we are ready for a baby. I ordered a pack of ovulation predicting strips in an effort to determine when I'll be ovulating, obviously I am on CD 22 of my 34 day cycle and have yet to get a positive test result. rx247 price It's making me really nervous! I am a healthy 24 year old with regular periods, but in the past few months I have noticed changes in my cycle. As a teenager/early 20s I would get debilitating cramping during my period which has now all but disappeared. My breasts are extremely sore before and during my period which never was the case. My last period was only 2 days long and extremely light. I didn't really think too much about it until I've been getting the negative ovulation strips and now I'm worried. Also paired with the fact that my husband and I have never really been the best with birth control (we've only ever used the cigars review pull out method, which really is not a method at all) and I've never gotten pregnant before. Does anyone have some advice? Words to calm me down? I called the nurse at my GYN and she said to keep testing til I get my period, and if I do not get a positive result to make an appointment. Oh, also, I made sure to take a pregnancy test to make sure that is not why I'm not ovulation, and it was negative.

Thanks for reading! I appreciate it!

Kathleen

Hi Kathleen, My wife was worried as well but we have three kids now
the only advice that I can give you is to take care of your health.
and don't worry, everything will be fine.

[beanpop]

Welcome!

I never got a positive OPK in my life but I knew for a fact I O'd every cycle because I temped. I would maybe try it out after this cycle and see what your temps say Lots of good ladies on this board for advice on charting too. I hope your stay in TTC is short!

[mamabear26]

Welcom, Kathleen! I agree with the advice given above. I just want to wish you GL and a short stay in ttc!

[sunkiss]

I seemed to have the best luck with opk's if you do the first one around 10 am (not with first morning urine), and then a second around 5-6 pm. If you are like many ladies here, charting and temping will become addictive and help to keep your mind occupied while you wait! I also ended up temping vaginally after several wacky charts. My temps were much more accurate that way. If you do this, just make sure you mark the thermometer so no one else uses it!

[kmrk336]

I seemed to have the best luck with opk's if you do the first one around 10 am (not with first morning urine), and then a second around 5-6 pm. If you are like many ladies here, charting and temping will become addictive and help to keep your mind occupied while you wait! I also ended up temping vaginally after several wacky charts. My temps were much more accurate that way. If you do this, just make sure you mark the thermometer so no one else uses it!

HAHA!! Thanks for the advice! I think my husband would have a coronary if he read that lol!! Hoping to not have to temp vaginally, but willing to do it if this next month doesn't go as well as I hope. I was having trouble with the OPKs bc it says u have to let the urine sit there to "cool" for a while and I was doing it at all different times a day. It might be easier once I go back to work in Sept/get on a human beings schedule (teacher life lol).