Still Waiting or The Pitfalls of Charting

So yesterday my temperature took a big nose dive. And to be honest, so did my heart. I cried. My chart was looking so good, and of course my "symptoms" made the little pregnancy points indicator give me a 99/100 at FF. Not that I put a ton of stock in that, I mean it's just a computer generated analysis of user-determined "symptoms." That said, I do trust my body and much of what I have been feeling lately is outside the "normal" range for me. It’s so amazing to me that for years the thought of POAS and getting a BFP terrified me and now, it’s the one thing I want the most!

That said, after getting myself together emotionally I combed the Internet for fallback rise charts and implantation after 10DPO, pregnancy charts with a dip below the coverline, you name it. Chalk it up to my lack of patience and hyper-educated, type-A tendencies. Then it dawned on me. What if I wasn’t actually 14DPO? So I looked at my chart and remembered an OPK I had taken on CD16. I had a left over Answer strip from my last cycle and even though I was using the CBEFM I figured what the heck. Those two line tests are always in the eye of the beholder and now I am wondering if I saw a positive because I wanted to see one. Well, I think that little decision has thrown my chart off this month by two days.

Take a peek and see what I mean...

With the OPK factored in, my CH are at CD17


Without the OPK factored in, my CH move to CD19


If I change the FF analyzer to Monitor Mode only, my CHs are at CD18


So, what does this mean? It means I O'd sometime between CD17 and CD19. The timing is good no matter, although I have learned from this experience that it's best to FWP a couple of times during the days just following your suspected O date. If I actually O’d on CD19 and not CD17 or CD18, then yesterday, I was only DPO12. This still doesn’t quite explain the temp drop, but since my LP is 14 days, it gives me a glimmer of hope that I am not totally out this cycle. Those pregnancy points are still at 99. Only time will tell and the wait continues. I won’t test until AF is officially late.

Mr. Divasaur and I head out of state tomorrow for a getaway. I am not packing any FRERs. I will however, bring my CBEFM, sticks and a stock of tampons, just in case I need them. If I don’t, then I will POAS when I get back next week. At this point, all I can do is hope and wait and see.