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Monday, March 21, 2011

Fertility Friend (or Not)

I'm guessing lots of you ladies use Fertility Friend, do you ever get frustrated with it?  Each month I chart the following:
1.   BBT
2.  Cervical mucus
3.  OPKs (sometimes I have luck with these and sometimes I don't)

Almost every month my crosshairs are dotted lines, like so:

Fertility friend usually gives me some message about how ovulation is only possible and not confirmed because some ovulation signs do not match up. 

However, this month where I wasn't able to use OPKs or take my temperatures during the time of the month where I believe I ovulated and had other fertile signs, I get this:
Somehow the site is positive that I ovulated right in the middle of the days where I didn't take my temperature and several days after I recorded fertile CM.  WTH?  So, according to fertility friend I'm 7 dpo and according to me I am 10 dpo, but I guess it doesn't really matter since there's basically zero chance for me this month since our timing was way off regardless of which of the two dates I ovulated on.  I'm just trying to look focus on our upcoming appointment with the RE and hope she'll suggest a good plan for us. 

Also, the RE's office confirmed that my insurance has zero coverage for infertility, so here's hoping that what she recommends isn't super expensive. 
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5 comments:

  1. TMarch 21, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    The first thing I notice from your charts are that you dont have a big rise in temp after O. I would show all your charts to the RE. Second my Re said that sometimes it can take your bbt a day or two to shift, that charting is not exact.
    Its a nice tool to just confirm O but it being on exact day will not always happen!

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  2. LMarch 21, 2011 at 6:04 PM

    Thanks Travica! I have all my charts printed out to take with me on Wednesday. My OB/GYN checked them out in November and thought they seemed okay, but I know she is not the expert in this area. I wondered about the post-O temps too - sometimes I don't notice a very big jump. We'll see, I guess!

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  3. kkasunMarch 21, 2011 at 6:12 PM

    Yuck, my insurance covered nothing!!!!!!
    Always make sure to ask about immediate payment and cash payment and if they give discounts on that.
    My RE didn't offer them, but when I got my HSG, I got a 30% discount based on insurance not covering it and a 10% discount for paying within 10 days, and a 5% for just giving them my routing number rather than a credit card.
    They didn't offer those discounts up, but definatly ask!!!

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  4. A m a n d aMarch 21, 2011 at 6:50 PM

    I like to call it Fertility Frenemy...it's pretty unreliable for me too. During the cycles where I was being monitored, it was ALWAYS wrong by about 2 days, so I always had to enter my O date myself.

    But I guess it helps confirm that you O, so maybe not a total bust in the end.

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  5. eeruppsMarch 22, 2011 at 12:25 AM

    I have a love hate relationship with it as well. Before I was doing HCG trigger shots, it would give me really screwy data. Not to mention the fact that I was traveling a lot, which always screws with temps. That said, I have not found a better way to comprehensively track all of my temps, symptoms, etc., and theg are super helpful to give to an RE. Good luck!

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