can you help decipher?

Ally&Tommysmom · #1 (**permalink**) 06-28-2006, 12:21 PM

Ok, so it turns out that after looking at my FM this AM, i was a day off in what day I should be. So, i erased the writing from my sticks and re-wrote them according to the correct date... today is CD 16 and I got a high day.

yay!

Anyway, I've got a picture for you to look at. Let me know what you think.
***NOTE *** CD 15.25, 15.50, 15.75, and 16.25 were NOT read by the fertility monitor. I took/interpreted them myself later in the day on CD 15 and CD 16 just to see if I can figure out what's going on w/ my body since i should have [o] by now.

The FM shows CD 10-15 as LOW
The FM shows CD 16 as High

Doesn't CD 15.50 look like the highEST reading to you? The closest to what a peak would look like (w/o being a peak quite yet)? I'm concerned that my body tried to [o], but never did.
My point is that CD 15.50 looks the highest, but CD 15.75, 16, and 16.25 all look like high days, but not quite as high of a reading as CD 15.50 (only CD 16 is confirmed as high by the monitor, so i'm just judging based on what i see.

What do you think about CD 15.50 vs all the other high days (both confirmed by monitor as well as my interpretations)??

I looked at the pictures of everyone's FM sticks on the faqs, but i'm still not sure about that one stick.

Thanks!

Star622 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-28-2006, 01:21 PM

Do you chart? If so, may I have the link.

I need to see ewcm and temps.

I see 15.25 and maybe 16.25 being the darker ones. The 16 is a little hard to see, but since the 16.25 seems dark it's possible that's why you got the reading.

Maybe you are just Oing later this cycle. Pictures are difficult to interpret sometimes on the internet. The sticks can change pretty fast and although I don't think your darkest one looking close to a peak, it very well could be. I only had 1 high this cycle and the peak came pretty fast.

And the peak wasn't the typical lh line being extremely dark with a lighter estrogen line. The lines were very similar. Almost too difficult to tell apart.

It's also normal for your body to have crazy or anovulatory cycles once in awhile. Do you have any opks around? How many cycles have you used the fm?

Ally&Tommysmom · #3 (**permalink**) 06-28-2006, 02:58 PM

Sorry, I don't chart anymore. I started charting b/f having my daughter and I never had a thermal shift, so i thought I wasn't ovulating. But i went to an RE and then found out I WAS ovulating, so I gave up charting. It gave me too much of a headache. lol I do use CP and CM to help go along w/ the FM. I had what I thought was EWCM a few days ago and now nothing. It's been a crazy month.
I have used the FM for years. I used it to get pg w/ my daughter and my son. This is the first time I will O on CD 18 or later. I've always O'd on CD 14 or cd 15. The months I got pg with my kids, I got a peak on CD 13.
I know it's hard to see the picture. I don't know what's going on w/ that one stick. But I just took one and it's even lighter than todays 2nd stick that I took w/o the FMs help. So maybe I am getting closer to O still.
Thanks!