Currently, my Egg Retrieval is estimated to be sometime the week of March 15th. Embryo Transfer will be 5 days later. I am scheduled for a Saline Infused Sonogram and trial transfer on Feb 9th, and our nurses consultation will be Feb 16th. Finally, things are starting to fall into place and I have a plan! I'm such a planner. I've already updated our calendars in our home office and on my Palm. I've also started an "IVF Log". It's just something that I am using to keep track of dates of visits, conversations with nurses, notes, future appointments, next steps, etc. Help keep me organized and something to refer to when I need to remember what was said and done, by who, and when. It can be overwhelming.
On another note, tonight I peed on a OPK, being that it is CD12 and this will be my absolute last chance of having a baby the normal way!
What the heck! There was no line at all! At least last night there was a faint line. So I fished out yesterday's stick from the trash can to make sure I am not losing my mind.
Here's a picture of the two sticks. The top is from yesterday, it has a very faint line but it was darker last night (you are supposed to read it 3 minutes after you pee on it). The bottom one is from tonight and it has no line at all. Why is that? I'm only on CD12 so I don't think I ovulated yet. The same thing happened to me a couple of cycles ago too. I thought it was because I bought the cheaper generic Targ.et brand. This month I used the good stuff, Clearb.lue. I wonder if drinking a lot of water might affect it. I did pee on the OPK after I got back from working out at a Zumb.a class the the Y. So maybe drinking too much water can dilute your urine and no line appears?
I guess I will just have to pee on an OPK again tomorrow and see if the line magically appears again.
The only time I have EVER gotten a positive on an OPK is between 12 and 4 pm. And I only use the digital ones, they're SO much easier! Hope this helps!
ReplyDeletei hate OPKs. they always make me feel like i don't know what i'm doing!
ReplyDeleteyay for having a calendar for your upcoming IVF cycle! doesn't it feel good once things start falling into place?!
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ReplyDeleteJust thought I would chime in and say that I have given up on OPKs that aren't digital. I had the worst time depicting every little line, how dark it was versus the day before and the day after. Having a friendly little smiley face is so much less stressful, despite the fact that they are more expensive. However, if you buy them once, you can usually get coupons inside and I almost always buy mine at CVS and use one of the $3 coupons that you get with every transaction (it seems) if you have a CVS card.
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