Hormone blood tests after m/c - questions & need advice!

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes I agree you definitely ovulated! Can't say for sure what day but it happened!

[ABC.2606]

Hi Atomic - well last cycle did not work I'm on cycle 2 of Clomid so really want to give it my best efforts this cycle. I'm on CD7 - last day of Clomid. I have an u/s on the 21st (CD13) to check effects of Clomid & doc requested it on this day as it's when I often get a +opk.

So my thought is we'll attempt:
CD10
CD13
CD16
CD19 (I'm sure I will have ovulated before this though)

Is this a good plan?

He's releasing some before CD10 too (he's been sick with a bad cold so I've been keeping him away from me lol).

I still don't know if it's worth having him release once 12+ hours before our attempt. That 99 million sperm count still makes me nervous. I don't know how much effect it's having to release 12 hours before - whether it's even doing anything or if it's reducing it too much!

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[atomic sagebrush]

regular release though, right?? No FR.

I'd keep going after the CD 19 just in case

If you want better odds of conception I'd not do the release. If you think it will help your sway and you think it's worth the potentail trade off, then skip it. Unfortunately it's something I don't have the data to say.

[ABC.2606]

Ok. Yes definitely keep picking up with the e4d after one attempt

I have seen both - people taking a day or two longer for temp to rise AND people having a surge and then taking 3-4 days to O. I just can't know which is which unfortunately! The detecting O tech is really not great.

2 days between so you'd end up (worst case) having attempt O-3 and O Day.

OK, so I really think I might be one of the people who just has a longer delay in temp rise. Here's what happened this week:

CD11, Sunday: EWCM started
CD12, Monday: I got the first +OPK at 2:30 pm and another at 8 pm; lots of EWCM
CD13, Tuesday: I had a follicle ultrasound (b/c of being on Clomid) in the morning that showed two large follicles of 25 mm and 27.5 mm. Doctor said I hadn't ovulated yet although there was a bit of fluid, so O may have been just starting. I got a positive CB dual hormone in the morning, a +OPK at 2 pm, and a negative OPK at 7 pm.
CD14, Wednesday: Still EWCM: no temp rise
CD15, Thursday: Very dry, scant CM from morning all day long but no temp rise in the morning.
CD16, Friday: Temp rise

My temp on Thursday (yesterday) also may have not been totally accurate as my son woke me up up over an hour before I normally take my temp. So it maybe should have been a bit higher, and even taken an hour early it was at the top of my normal "pre O range". So all that being said, even though my temp rose today (Friday), I think with my u/s, the OPKs, and my CM, I likely O'ed before yesterday, probably sometime Wednesday/Wednesday night, and my temp took awhile to rise. I felt like that same thing happened last cycle. Does that seem to you like that's what's happening? A delayed temp rise, rather than a delayed O after OPK?

As far as BD attempts, we BD-ed on Saturday, CD10 and Tuesday, CD13 (right after I got back from the u/s that had showed O was likely coming soon!!). So hopefully we were ok on the timing!!

I think I'm done with temping though. It's gotten very stressful waiting for the temp rise after our attempt when it takes 2, 3, 4 days! Thinking I'm just going to use the OPKs, and my doc will likely continue to do the follicle u/s because of the Clomid. He said the other day he may even add in a trigger shot next cycle given how large the follicles got this month.

Sigh. Hopefully we just got pregnant this cycle! I'm over the TTC-ing thing!

[atomic sagebrush]

Clomid makes some weird stuff happen as well.

From what your doc described yes I think it's much more likely the temp was slow to rise.

Nothing wrong with trigger shot either though!!

well timed attempts!

[ABC.2606]

Atomic - I had a progesterone test done yesterday on CD20 - one week after my follicle u/s that showed the two large follicles. Based on what we talked about above, I think I probably O'd on CD13 or 14, so I would have been 6/7 dpo. My progesterone level was 17. Doc said that was a "good" level but that's all he really said. What do you think? Would the level be affected by whether or not I released 2 eggs versus 1?

[atomic sagebrush]

No, that's good. Anything over 10 means ovulated, anything over 12 even better! 20 is the average high so you're right where you need to be.

We can't tell how many eggs you released on that basis, sorry.

[ABC.2606]

Forgot to respond - thanks Atomic!

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[ABC.2606]

Looks like I'm going to lose another pregnancy. 14dpo and had betas yesterday. Progesterone dropped from 17 last week to 8.4 and hcg is only 13.

Can I pm you again? I don't know where to go from here. I'm crushed.

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[atomic sagebrush]

Yes of course ABC.