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Understanding Your Cycle & Fertility: BBT Chart Analysis


Question
Hello, I'm 29, I weigh 110 (5'5").
My husband and I have been TTC for a year however I just started taking me BBT and really paying attention to the signs my body is giving. I've been using fertilityfriend.com (please check out my chart: http://www.fertilityfriend.com/ttc/index.php?interface=0) and after entering my temp this morning it changed my O date from day 19 (25th) to not having one yet. I'm super confused as to why that is? Originally my coverline was 96.97 also.
I've always been irregular, so when I was 17 the doctor put me on bc and I stayed on them, with a few missed months here and there, until the month before I got married (June 3, 2007). Without the bc's my period has been all over the place once I had it for almost 3 months, and sometimes I'll even skip it all together. My most recent period (the one charted) was extremely heavy with clotting and I had the most unbearable cramps ever!
I've used OPK this time around and finally got a positive, so we bd at what we thought was the right times. I've recently think I may be pregnant, I've had these weird twinges and heaviness in my lower ab and my cm has been creamy/watery with lil' globs here and there (all clear/white, no smell). My temps have been pretty boring though. I was supposed to take a HPT today but I don't wanna see another negative.
After looking at my chart, do you have any info or advice?

Answer
Hi Chic,

I hope that you are pregnant and you should that the home pregnancy test.  If you are pregnant, then my answer won't mean anything.

If you are not pregnant, then I would adivse that you see a fertility specialist.  With the history of irergular cycles, you have an ovarian dysfunction that is causing you to not ovulate and for your hormones to be out of sync.  You will need fertility medication to remedy that.  The temperative chart is a waste of time for you, and an arduous task for most.  I don't usually recommend it becuase so many things can influence and change your temperature.

The best thing you can do is get the advise and devise a treatment plan from an expert.  You wil find that you will be wasting less time and pregnant in a shorter period of time.

Sincerely,

Edward J. Ramirez, M.D.
Executive Medical Director
The Fertility and Gynecology Center
Monterey Bay IVF Program
www.montereybayivf.com

Monterey, California, U.S.A.