What is wrong with me?

Ever since ovulation I have felt throbbing ovary pain. And no, I'm not symptom spotting. I know I'm not pregnant. This has me very worried. Is it normal, or is there something wrong. I guess I'll find out next month when I have ultrasounds and other tests done.

3dpo today!

I was worried yesterday when my temperature dropped, but today my temperature was 36.95 so I'm pretty sure I ovulated. I doubt that todays temperature is a fluke, but we will see tomorrow. Fertility Friend gave me crosshairs today.


I'm pretty certain that I'm not pregnant. My chart doesn't look like that of a pregnant persons would. I have an obsession with looking at them in the gallery lol and mine does not look like one. I also have a luteal phase defect, so I think it will be impossible for me to get pregnant without any kind of treatment. I really wanted to conceive naturally, but it doesn't look like that will ever be an option. I hope and pray that whatever happens I won't need to have any kind of a procedure like IVF. I'm terrified of all of the procedures that required to have it. My hope is that my doctor will prescribe me Clomid and Progesterone like he said he would for my luteal phase defect and hopefully it works.


I'm curious to see what my luteal phase will be this month. When I first started charting it was 8 days then 10, 10, 11, and 9. I really hope it's longer than 10 days this month, but I would be stupid happy if it were more than 12 days. I also hope that my temperatures warn me this time that my period is coming. My temperatures last month didn't drop as much as they usually did.

Fallback Rise?

Cycle day 20 and I think I'm 2dpo today. Yesterday I had a temperature rise after having positive OPK's for 2 days. I thought I ovulated, but today my temperature dropped. After researching online, it seems as if I may have a fallback rise. My temperature went from 36.35 to 36.61 and then back down to 36.44. Tomorrows temperature should tell me what's going on. I still haven't had a peak on my CBFM, so maybe I haven't ovulated. We will continue to BD.


I can't wait for my period to come so I can book all of the tests that have to be done so I can start some kind of treatment.


Here's what FF has to say about fallback rises:

Fallback Rise

Temperatures may show a "fallback rise" pattern. In a fallback rise pattern the temperature rises significantly and abruptly as you would expect, but then it drops again immediately before it rises again and is sustained throughout the luteal phase. You may not be able to tell whether you are seeing a fallback rise pattern or whether you are seeing one "fluke" high temperature. Your non-temperature signs, or, retrospectively, your luteal phase length, can help you to determine whether or not you have a fallback rise pattern.

Cycle day 18, and still no peak :(

I'm confused and frustrated. I was expecting my CBFM to peak today because I got a positive OPK yesterday and the day before, but it didn't. It's still high. I have no OPK's left. I want to get more, but the weather is horrible and of course I'm getting sick so I don't feel like going anywhere. I guess I'll just wait to see what my temperatures do. They are still low.


Yesterday DH and I went to the clinic to have our blood taken. He had 4 vials of blood taken and I had 30 lol. My arm still hurts like hell.

I got a smiley face!!!

I peed on my last clearblue digital today, and was totally shocked when I got a smiley face. My Clearblue fertility monitor read high this morning, so I wasn't expecting a smiley face.


It's time to have sex like crazy! I'm not sure when we should have lots of sex. I was thinking we would have it like 8 times in one day on my second peak, but now that I got a smiley face, I'm wondering if we should have sex multiple times during the next few days until I see a temperature shift.


I hope this is the last time I ovulate until after our baby is born.

Cycle Day 16

Usually by now my CBFM gives me a peak reading, but I'm still getting a high reading. This is high number 8 for me. The estrogen line is getting lighter so I know that my monitor will peak soon. The question is when. It's hard to tell this month. Usually I can tell when it's about to peak, but not this time. It could peak tomorrow, or it might not. I think if it doesn't peak tomorrow it will definitely peak on cycle day 18. The stick today doesn't look like it usually does the day before it peaks. If it peaks on cycle day 18 then that means I will probably ovulate on cycle day 19 :(. A few months ago when I started taking vitamin b I ovulated on cycle day 19 and I thought for sure it was because of the vitamin. I guess this means it wasn't the vitamin. I'm going to start taking it again today in hopes that it will increase my luteal phase.

CBFM sticks

I'm on cycle day 14 and usually by now my clearblue fertility monitor sticks change. The estrogen line gets lighter, but it's still really dark. This concerns me. I have a feeling I'm going to be ovulating late this month.