Well, I wrote a few weeks ago about my first period since my D & C finally coming. I was so excited to get back to normal. Now it is easier to track my cycle and ovulation.
My period was light and only lasted for 3 days, but it was a place to start.
Since then, my cycle has been textbook perfect! I am so happy with it. I have had more body aches and exhaustion than typical.
I had bought ovulation kits before my last period to see if I ovulated and I started using them on cycle day 6 just in case. I didn't have any signs of ovulation yet I just wanted to get a better idea of where my hormones were at. I ended up getting a light positive on cycle day 11, typical for a 28-day cycle. Cycle day 12 it was a dark positive, we had intercourse early in the morning on cycle day 12 hoping to conceive. By cycle day 13, the test was back to negative.
This is the dark positive ovulation test I had on cycle day 12.
My breasts have been engorged, tender and itchy, finally feeling the size my boobs were before my pregnancy, after my miscarriage my boobs deflated so much I didn't believe my boobs were actually that small. I don't think they were; I think wherever my hormones were they were causing them to shrink to smaller than average.
I have also been suffering from migraines cycle days 11-14; I kept getting sudden migraines that were so painful they made me feel like I would throw up. I would wake up with a headache and before going to bed it would escalate so harshly I would feel like complete hell.
The waiting is painful; I had tracked my cycles since last August, as my husband and I prepared to try for a baby. But I had never tracked them so closely before.
So I am working at trying to not think about it too much because I can get carried away with the thoughts of what I would feel if I was pregnant, and what the causes might be if we did not get pregnant yet this month.
My back hurts and I have body aches. I cannot sleep at night even with the addition of tylenol pm I lay awake for hours after my husband falls asleep and wake up often. I keep getting milder headaches in the evening and early in the morning when I first get up.
With the aches, I have been taking much slower walks than I typically do because my body is so sore. My legs burn on the hill near our house which is not typical for me so I walk slightly less far than I usually do.
I am still burping often and I saw my gastroenterologist a week ago today; she understood the pain that I am in right now. She suggested that we do an upper scope to see what is causing the near constant burping. X-rays would cause too much exposure to a potential embryo and a scope would only require anesthesia that would cause minimal risk to a potential embryo. The upper scope is scheduled for a month from now because by then I will know if I am pregnant yet. I am just concerned that if we check nothing out and then whatever is going on gets worse and I end up having cancer that we could have done something about back when the symptoms started. I am not sure what exactly the plan is, but I will call my Doctor after I get this period or don't and get a positive pregnancy test.
Last time implantation took place 8 days after we had intercourse when we likely conceived. If it takes about the same time this month, I may get to feel implantation this Saturday through Monday. Before the implantation, I doubt anything felt different in March. I had thought the implantation feeling I had in March was what ovulation pain felt like.
After implantation I felt cramps and had a lot of heavy cervical fluid, I kept waiting for a period and did not think pregnancy was an option back then but after getting a positive pregnancy test that made sense.
I know every pregnancy is different and twins changed a bit with my first pregnancy, so we will see if I ever get blessed enough to have another pregnancy if it is very different. I am hoping and praying that we could have a pregnancy this month.
I have heard the chances of getting pregnant are anywhere between 33% to 68% so I have no real idea of if we have a good chance at a pregnancy this cycle. Plus I had heard that it is easier to get pregnant immediately after a miscarriage but with my first ovulation taking place over 3 months since my D & C I don't know if that still applies to me.
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