It is cycle day 14; I have all the side effects that I get right before and I thought during ovulation.
Facial Flushing
Egg White Cervical Mucus
Headaches
Upset Stomach
Increased Sex Drive
My face flushes with the estrogen levels rising during ovulation.
Egg white cervical mucus is the mucus they tell you to watch for if you are tracking ovulation naturally.
Headaches, I am not sure why I get such bad headaches during ovulation, but my apps have always sighted it as a side effect that I log during my fertile window. I guess that it must be the hormonal surge that comes before an egg is released.
Upset stomach I am not really sure why I get those either but I often feel nauseous during my fertile window.
Increased sex drive is our body's way of telling us to get busy, to create that new life. This is the best thing our hormones do for us.
My energy level is has been higher this weekend despite the headaches and stomachaches in the afternoon to evening. It seems about 2 to 4 pm I get facial flushing, a headache and nauseous this stays with me through the evening and until I go to bed. This is the time of day that my hormones surge and that is my body telling me what is going on. Last month I had the same reactions during the two weeks before I ovulated, I think my body is creating even more hormones than it used to on my thyroid medication.
Yesterday I made a squash soup.
My husband and I meal prepped 46 breakfast burritos yesterday. Making crispy crowns and home fries, adding our choice of potato to a small flour tortilla with egg, cheese blend, sausage or bacon.
Then my husband and I made green salsa Verde with green tomatoes from our garden. We roasted all the smaller tomatoes, three onions and 8 jalapeno peppers on the smoker for a little over 2 hours and then ran all the veggies through our blender.
Today I made pork carnitas tacos with the green salsa on them. They were so delicious. I am thrilled with how they turned out.
We kept busy this weekend, both in and out of the bedroom, hoping I will ovulate soon. I have scheduled some intimate time for Tuesday in case I haven't had my luteinizing hormone surge still. I am not sure what it should look like yet, but here is my schedule.
Cycle day 9 - 1:42 pm - LH 0.19 (low)
Cycle day 10 - 11:50 am - LH 0.36 (low) this is when I started having slight facial flushing and cervical mucus. And thought I would enter my fertile window soon.
Cycle day 11 - 11:31 am - LH 0.12 (low)
Cycle day 12 - 1:01 pm - LH 0.3 (low) This is when I thought I entered my fertile window and started getting headaches and stomachaches in the afternoon to evening.
Cycle day 13 - 12:43 pm - LH 0.5 (low)
Cycle day 14 - 1:32 pm - LH 0.61 (low) Today, I am having facial flushing with heat on the left side of my face (all days before today were on the right side of my face), I have a headache that I got after 1pm but have just tried to relax.
I think this month is mostly to get an idea of what my cycle hormones look like before ovulation and making sure we are just keeping up at least every other day. After I get a high or peak result and then my LH lowers again, we won't have to keep up with intimacy so frequently.
I will follow my two apps suggestion of when my period should be due and when to test if my period is late. It sure would be nice if we conceived this month, as it would be nice any month. I am just so impatient, but there is a reason if we don't get blessed with that pregnancy this month.
The first time we tried to conceive before our pregnancy with the twins, it was week 17 and in my 4th cycle of trying. It felt like it happened quickly back then. We weren't trying so hard and yes, I wanted a baby soon, but I didn't feel the depression that my miscarriage has brought with it.
It has now been 20 weeks since our twins were removed and it is the middle of our 4th cycle since their removal so I have a lot of hope that this could be our cycle, or our next cycle. I am as scared as I was the last time about all the potentially negative things that can happen after a positive pregnancy test too.
I don't credit that to having experienced a miscarriage; I credit it to knowing just how frequently babies are born stillbirth or die shortly after birth because they cannot live outside the womb. Or the countless health concerns that I will face with a pregnancy. I have high blood pressure and I worry a little about my liver and kidneys thanks to all of my medications.
I know my concerns already and am considered a high-risk pregnancy so I will be watched closely and I have such a fantastic team of doctors behind me, supporting me.
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