Well I think my period is finally done. It was long, emotional, crampy, clotty, and overall the worst period (not including my miscarriage) that I’ve ever had. I mean I was taking tramadol for 3 days...awful! I’m still curious if i should have counted day 4 as my day 1, but ultimately it doesn’t really matter. I don’t know why but I just don’t feel too optimistic about this cycle. It’s just feels like we tried for so long on our own with nothing, had one cycle of help and bam, but this cycle is on our own again, so feels like nothing. Idk, just kind of defeated and it’s still the beginning.

I’m leaving for my Vegas trip on Monday and I think I’ll start OPKs when I get back on Wednesday which will be CD 16 (or 13 if I counted those first 3 days as spotting). I trust my Ava to get good temps while I’m gone but figure there’s no point in seeing an LH surge when I can’t do anything about it. Speaking of temps though, I’m still so high compared to pre pregnancy so hopefully I can still see my spike. Nothing I can do now but wait and BD when we feel like it.

Overlay is this cycle and the cycle (with Ava) before my pregnancy.