TTC Baby 3

I actually don’t think your boobs should be allowed to be this sore if you aren’t pregnant.

My endocrinologist said not to be concerned til after another few cycles because it hasn’t really been 6 months of normalized(ish) cycles.

Meanwhile I’m being absolutely bombarded with ads for Mira and Inito. I feel like it’s predatory companies preying on desperate women, like do you really need to spend that kind of money? Will having that data really help you so substantially?

Yep, that was it. LH has been down again since and sore boobs commenced like clockwork shortly afterwards.

I’m not feeling hopeful even though in theory I guess I should be considering this is looking like a more normal length and therefore maybe healthier(?) cycle.

In keeping with trends thus far, absolutely no sign of ovulation yet. In fact my LH has been lower so far this cycle than it was over a similar period in the previous cycles.

Cycle 3 from when I started testing til CD 14 I was in the mid-to-high 0.2s, with 0.4 on CD 14.

Cycle 2 the range was 0.17-0.38 during that time, with 0.25 on day 14.

Cycle 1 it was 0.18-0.27, with 0.27 on day 14.

This cycle? We got up to 0.35 on day 10, but since then it’s been as low as 0.08. Today 0.16.

Very beginning of cycle 4, but already 5 months and 1 week off BC.

I’ve been on and off nauseous and bloated. But then my husband started having stomach stuff yesterday too and then I spiked a fever last night and I think I’m just sick in some way. 😩 Sore boobs. Negative pregnancy test as of yesterday. I didn’t feel well enough to bother with one this morning lollll.

LH went back down after that sort-of-spike, and sore boobs commenced 2 DP(maybe)O.

Plot twist: LH spike today.

The nausea is gone and the pregnancy test is still negative.

LH is at the highest it’s been all cycle today, a whopping 0.41.

Sigh.

Day 3 of mild nausea, and enough at this point that I’m definitely not imagining it into existence.

Negative pregnancy test. Super low LH test. But I did both in the evening rather than the morning so my urine as probably more dilute, plus it’s still early.

Yesterday and today I’ve been feeling the vague, minor nausea that I remember feeling when I get pregnant with my first, starting sometime too early to get a positive test. But considering that this is my LH chart so far this cycle, it feels highly unlikely it’s anything more than a cruel joke my body is playing.

Sigh. No sign of ovulation. And I don’t really know if I actually ovulated at all last cycle.

We found out that my sister is 6ish weeks pregnant with her first, so logistically, it’s probably for the best that we’re not there yet. Because if my parents were only able to come support one of us due to overlap, I assume they’d probably go for the first time mom over the 3rd time one.

But I’m still frustrated. I’ve been off birth control over 4 months already and we’re only mid-cycle 3 and I really don’t know if I’ve ovulated even once. It makes me wish I’d gone off sooner, except that I know that emotionally I was not ready to deal with the potential to get pregnant sooner, there was no way to know ahead of time when I would be ready, and there was no way to know how long my body will take to sort itself out after going off. So I really couldn’t have made any other decision.