I have had crazy, irregular cycles for years. I can't seem to figure out what causes the issues, and apparently neither can any doctor I talk to. I've been tracking my cycles on an app on my phone and recently downloaded a new one. This one has chat forums right in the app so you can talk with other women who are going through the same thing you are. I know I'm at the very beginning of "trying" but I feel like there's so much I haven't been paying close enough attention to.
Like, there's a completely different thermometer you should be using to check your basal body temps first thing every day. And if you log & track it, you should be able to figure out just by that, which day you are going to ovulate. Oh but most of them beep the whole time you're taking your temp to make sure you're using it correctly, which is pretty annoying, especially if you don't even get out of bed before you stick that thing in your mouth (so says most of the amazon reviews of every single one).
Or you can buy handy dandy ovulation kits and test - which, um.. why are there like a million different brands out there?
A friend of mine practices natural (non-birth control) family planning, where she tracks her cycle and when they were trying to conceive, she used the ovulation tests to know when they should try, and when they aren't trying, they avoid those days. It seems easy enough but I am not even sure that my body is doing what it's supposed to.
The more I thought about it, I realized that even though I could be using two different apps on my phone to track my erratic cycle, it is only going to assume that I am actually ovulating. So what if I'm not? I read a bajillion reviews and settled on one of the top rated brands that was also available through Amazon Prime.
I've been charting and knew that the big O should be any day now, so I started using the tests to see if I'd get any sort of results. I'm not going to lie, I seriously picked out one that was going to be the easiest to use. I insert a test into the kit (which looks like a larger pregnancy test), pee, and then wait for it to do it's magic trick. A big O shows up if I'm not ovulating, and a big smiley face shows up if I am. Simple. No wondering if one line is darker than another. No reason for a false reading.
After testing it out for a few days, I'm happy to report that I got a big smiley face the other day. So, I'm happy that it appears the test works like it should, but also really happy that it would also appear I am ovulating. Maybe the HSG kicked my body back into the right mode?
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