HI Fish&Chips

I also think you are probably getting close to o. OPK's are notoriously crap and don't work for everyone. What time of day are you testing?
It's quite common for temps to dip the day before ov, and since your previous cycle was 27 days I would hazard a guess that you will ov any day now. xxx

Thanks Magic - that's re-assured me.

I'll be sleeping in a ski suit with the heating on max tonight to make sure my temp goes up tomorrow!!!

Thank you for the information Magic! I'm reading up now and doing some more research. Might have to let DH eat the rest of the pineapple after all, he was trying to steal some yesterday and I wouldn't let him eat very much!!

Hahaha, I LOVE IT!! This morning I felt like I should move around before I took my temp just to make it rise! I of course didn't do that, but man I really wanted to!

Thanks guys!

magicvw.. I'm testing at around 7pm each evening. I've invested in some clearblue opks which I'll hopefully have more luck with.

FX for a rise in my temps tomorrow!!!! x

Good luck with them! I find OPKs hard. If I do them, I do tonnes, and then count the darkest one as a positive even if it's not technically darker than the control. I do 2 or 3 a day and once caught the surge full on, but most of the time it's more miss than hit!

Re the pineapple - it just struck me as a bit strange reading that, as when I was in 3rd tri it was all the rage to eat pineapple because it causes contractions > gets the baby out quicker! I just read a load of posts by IVF ladies who swore by it for implantation, but I just think it's wise to exercise caution.

Hello!

I also found that FF was useful in that it gave me something to focus on, and keep me busy. Though when I showed my chart to my fertility specialist, he barely glanced at them, shrugged and said temping simply didn't work for some women so not to bother O.o I disagree though. Even though my charts were all over the place in terms of temp it still felt productive ha.

fish n chips, are you sure taking your temp in the evening is ok? I've always read it has to be JUST as you wake up in the morning, before you talk, drink liquids or (the worst) get up. Because (and I've noticed this) as soon as you do one of these things your temp changes by as much as 0.2, skewing the results.

I checked wiki and it says your basal body temp is at rest, typically when sleeping. Hence why it's important to take it after at least 4 hours of sleep; 7 or more is better.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_body_temperature

good luck ladies!!

Hi vermeil!

I agree, charting totally gives me something to focus (or is it obsess) over during my cycle!

So frustrating about the doctor, but I'm not surprised. If it's not something they learned about in medical school then they simply don't understand how it could possibly provide any useful information. When we met with the fertility specialist and he did the ultrasound he said my eggs looked small and my lining thin for being on day 12. I told him I don't ovulate on day 14, it's more like day 20 (found out it's really more like day 18 but still) and he just blew me off and didn't take that into account at all. My eggs and lining still had several more days to grow which probably would have put them in the normal size range. I swear I'm tempted to just fudge my cycles when I see doctors just so that tests and ultrasounds are using the correct dates (I won't do that, but I'm tempted!)

I believe the 7pm testing that Fish & Chips was referring to was when she does her ovulation tests, I'm pretty sure she bbt's when she first wakes up. But you are correct, it is supposed to be right when you wake up before you do anything.

Good luck to you as well!!! Sending lots of baby dust your way!

Yep that's right bernina, but thanks so much for your comment vermeil.. it's always nice to know you ladies are looking out for me!

magicvw.. I didn't know you could miss the surge just by testing at the wrong time of day.. that's crazy. Maybe they're just not for me then. Either way I'm now not worrying too much about constantly getting negative lines. x

Fish & Chips,

I never got a true positive using opk's either. I made a few mistakes when using them though. First I was always using first morning urine and have since learned late afternoon is the best. Second I was cheap and not testing long enough throughout my cycle. Now I'm using the Clear Blue Fertility Monitor and am getting positive results (or Peak in this case). I've even gotten to the point where I can read the sticks without using the monitor. I've been playing a game with myself this cycle, I look at the test stick before I read the monitor display and got them all right this cycle.

So yeah, don't put too much stock in the opk. I am much too lazy to check several times a day and if it wasn't for the monitor being on sale and covered by my health care account (made it tax free) then I probably wouldn't have purchased it. Now it's just another of my crazy rituals all in the hopes of ttc! My husband truly thinks I'm going crazy, but he does get excited when the meter gives us an olive (the Peak display is a little eyeball shaped thing, I guess supposed to be an egg, but looks much more like an olive to us both!)