Doing better...

THANK YOU all so much for your wonderful comments on my last posts.  I sincerely appreciate them.  When I am feeling down, I re-read them and I feel like a weight has been lifted off of me.  I can feel the prayers and they mean the world to me.

I am holding onto some hope.  My FCP emailed me yesterday, again stating that I very well could have ovulated.  I'm going with that for now!  I'd like to think my chart had a zillion white baby stickers because I'm just not an experienced charter and I need to practice.  Maybe I was mistaking 'lubricative for smooth'??!!  That would make the chart look totally different.  Maybe.  Can't expect to have a perfect chart the first month, right???

She also gave me some resources for the GI Diet to help with PCOS.  Anyone have any good tips on resources for that??  I want to get on the PCOS diet bandwagon asap.  I'll do anything that will help.

To answer some questions raised in the comments:

* I was on Femara this month, CD's 3 -7.  I had my follicle scan on Day 12.  The three follicles were mature, so I was given a HCG trigger shot.  Less than 48 hours later, my temperature went up (I chart it on my fertility friend iPhone app - haven't broken that habit yet) and stayed up and I had some fertile mucus.  Hence, I assumed that I was part of the 95% of women that the trigger shot works at inducing ovulation.  I know I'm special, but I'm really not hoping to be part of the other 5%.  But if I am... I will deal with that later.

*Mucus was ok right after the trigger and into the next week.  I think I just expected more.  I was taking B-6, Fertile CM, Mucinex and trying to chug water like it was going out of style.  I'm now wondering if because I was paying SO MUCH attention to my mucus that maybe I had the same as previous months, it just seemed less.  My FCP did a mucus score on me and it was in the 'normal' range.  That's good at least.

*I need to remember Krissy's comment.... "Just remember that God is not limited by cervical mucus, poor sperm counts, infertile diagnoses, etc."  I keep saying that over and over to myself.  Isn't that the best?? It give me incredible amounts of hope!!!

*I will be able to do all the hormone testing, ultrasound series, blood work, etc. once meeting with the Napro doctor.  But we need a few more months of charting before I will have my initial appointment.  Probably mid to late March.  I heard this doctor speak at an infertility conference I attended last year.  I really liked him there, so if we haven't conceived in a few months, I'm hoping he will be great as a doctor in person as well.  We will see.  Dr. G has done some of this testing, but we didn't do a lot of blood work this month.

*I might ask Dr. G to do some of the extra blood work and such this month.  But I'm thinking the real work will begin once we head Napro in March.

*I am current not on Metformin.  I was when we first started this journey over two years ago.  For months.  I had to stop taking it when I had my weight loss surgery.  I need to call my bariatric surgeon to see if I can get back on it asap.

So there it stands for now.  I'm 12 days past my *possible* peak day.  This is as far as I usually get, so I'm expecting to start any day now.  No cramps yet, which is unusual for me.  I'm 14 days past that trigger shot... so I'm getting there.  I should start any day now.  Come on AF or don't come at all!  I'd prefer the not coming at all - but only if there is a baby involved.  :)

Thanks again for all the support ladies.  You are all the best!!