Smiley Face

Clear Blue Easy test 7/30/2012

It's always really exciting when I see this smiley face.  

I totally kick myself for using different kits in the past - this ovulation test is truly the best.  The other tests are seriously hard to determine when a surge has occurred.  

So, I always get butterfly's in my stomach when I see this lil guy smile.  

Hopefully this is the month!!  

Surge

Clear Blue Easy  - Surge

So this morning after 18 days of faithfully testing for ovulation, I got a surge.  


Bad news, hubby is out of town..... we were able to baby dance 36 hours ago before he left.  So there is still a slight chance, right?


I was getting discouraged, since I had started taking double the MetforminER dosage earlier in the month.   I had no idea how that was going to affect me.  I was concerned that it was going to throw everything off.  I also started taking Vitamin D after I saw a study that found I (PCOS women) am most likely deficient and it can greatly affect my ability to conceive... stay tuned I am going to post it on my page soon.  

Test stick showing a surge

Seems like things are on going on the right direction, a surge is a good                  sign.  I am as usual, feel re-energized about things. I only had 2 sticks left and was a little worried I wouldn't get a surge at all.  I'll take any of the positive signs I can get.  


I think I am starting to learn to read my body better as well.  Which is really hard emotionally first off.  It's not like I can put baby making out of my mind when every morning I am peeing on a stick to see what my chances are.  Even with my husband traveling I am hoping that I am better able to read things, and if need be I can fly to meet him when I think ovualtion will happen if he happens to be on the road.  So a good day - a step in a positive direction.  Feeling slightly better.  


In regards to ovualtion kits I have used a lot and by far Clear Blue easy is the most easy to use.  It takes the guess work out of reading the test lines, and you can feel confident in a surge or not.  It's about $40.00  - but well worth the price.  I have used about 4 other brands and if I had to endorse a kit this would be the one.  

Ovulation Craziness

So, next month I think that I will take the advice of my cyber blog pals and get the ovualtion kit with the  :) smiley face (I think they said it's clear blue) rather then try and decipher these stupid lines.  By nature I am a double-checker, re-checker... so I question everything.  These kits with the lines are maddening so difficult to read.  I struggle with interpretation - I like definitive answers.  

I have looked on other blogs for pics of other test, and I'm not sure how other kits work - but I have noticed that ppl. are saving the strips and writing the date on them, according the test I am using -  you are to dis-guard the test after 5 mins - I'm using the Answer Ovulation 20 strip test kit and those are the instructions.  I guess the other gals have different test.

I know something is going on b/c when I first started the test the line was very faint - hardly appeared in the "test" section. This is what the test looked like this week.

Looking at the test - taken at the same time every morning,  the "surge" was Tuesday/Wednesday.

Ovulation Tracker

Why are these kits so hard to read..... is this a "surge" or not?!?!?!

It's def the darkest the line has been but I feel MAY be just a tad faint on one side.  I know it's upside down but my computer is not cooperating today.

What do you guys think?  I have never used a test like this before.

This is the Answers Kit - ovulation 20 test strips kit.

THANKS!

Friday....

I am really glad the weekend is here, very thankful!

I had a really hard time sleeping last night.  I was tossing and turning with TN face pain - I think I went down soundly at around 3ish.  The Affrin really seemed to help - I must have some sort of sinus thing going on that is triggering the nerve.  

I just don't know what causes it and neither do the doctors.  It's not worth going to the neurologist and paying a copay, so her med student can suggest drugs I can not take since I am  TTC.   I'm a tiny nervous that the pain could come back, but taking it one day at a time.  (Since we are currently TTC the epilepsy drugs are not an option)  There is a "blocker" shot I can go in for but that would have to be if things get REALLY bad - I'm totally not interested in and it sounds horrid.  The worst it trying not to think about it - it's truly impossible.

    

I feel like a new person this morning though...  No. More. Pain. !   

          

It's really refreshing to wake up with out it, or rather not being woken up from it.  I really do feel like a new person.  The pain this time lasted for about 48 hours.  That may be why I have not really had much of an appetite this week - I wish the scale would reflect that.     But, like I said I am feeling better and that is all that matters.  

Still monitoring my ovulation and so far no surge in the kit - I'm getting a bit anxious about it - seriously, I hate waiting so annoying!  I also plan to start working out again this week, now that I am feeling better. Yesterday, I also started my second bottle of the DCI for PCOS dietary supplement.  Hmm, that was a lot of little updates :)

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  Thanks for all the encouraging notes this week!

Answer

So this morning I started the Answer ovulation predictor kit.  I bought it a couple months back... but wasn't able to start using right away - because up until this month I wasn't getting a period.  

I wish that these tests were a little bit easier to follow in the morning when I am half asleep.  There seems to be a lot of reading that results in "pee in cup, insert stick, wait".  Maybe I should write the instructions for these kits, a new job calling... maybe?!? ( I just noticed that the box says, testing made simple.... hmmmm)  Or how about "Ikea" picture instructions?  Maybe it's just me but I am truly am a zombie in the morning - I really don't remember anything until after a shower.  Reading the test without glasses this morning was interesting - but I think I managed to figure it out.

So what I am hoping for is to the a "Surge" which means ovulation will most likely happen.  I am going to be testing now everyday at the same time.  I started the test 3 days after my period since me cycles are longer.

I am hoping for the best.  Wish me Luck.