The weather outside is frightful…
Well not really, but its starting to feel a lot like christmas and so I have christmas songs in my head. Well, it is less then 30 days to go. So when last I posted, I think I was preparing myself for ovulation testing. This time we were going to catch it. I’ve been reading so much stuff on it my eyes are starting to blur over. One website says early afternoon, around 2 is best. Another website says any time apart from morning. One website says no liquids for up 2 hours so as not to dilute the ould Lutenizing hormone. As if the fecker was ever present anyways. Another website states wait 4 hours. 4 hours with no liquids. I’ve since learned that going to the toilet before you commence the hours sans liquid isn’t one of my better ideas. Also neither is testing in work. Trying to navigate to the toliet with ovulation test under one arm, and peeing implement under the other is fun. Finding a toliet location
where your workmates don’t go presents all sorts of difficulties. They may think you have a problem if you stay longer then 5 minutes, how are they to know you’re staring at a stripe waiting for 2 stripes. That made total sense in my head. To summarise, testing went as follows
Day 12
Reduce liquid intake for 2 hours. Go to the toliet before commencing the lack of liquid. Head to loo. Have serious difficulty with the non appearing urine. Note to self, don’t go to the toilet directly before starting no-liquids. Eventually after thinking about rivers and seas and taps running water, we arrived to one stripe and a slightly faded second stripe. If you are to believe the scare tactics they use on the web, it isn’t a positive result. They, whoever ‘they’ are, say a slightly lighter one indicates that later on there may be a surge. Or not. As you can see the information is really easy to follow.
Day 13
Learned from day 12 and decided not to go to the toilet before starting. 2 hours later, I knock down my work colleagues as I leg it to the toilet. Not that the LH hormone was bothered by this show of bravery. One stripe and not even a sign of a second one. If I had thought to bring a marker it might have made me feel better.
Day 14
At this stage I was getting pissed off, if you’ll pardon the pun. The mate C had cancelled on me and all the peeing in the world was producing nothing. I was beginning to think that I had missed it. All other signs, which I won’t share with you, pointed to earlier in the week but ovulation testers are supposed to be 90% accurate. If I am having this much trouble with the fecking ovulation tests, can you see me with a pregnancy test? I’d probably get 3 stripes indicating I was pregnant with a martian child or something.
Day 15
I felt there was no point but did it anyways. Then told Mammy2 I wanted retail therapy and sure we didn’t need the money for the clinic for this month so why not some new clothes.
The plan for next month is testing as early as possible, Mammy 2 suggested every day but I assumed she was joking. She better have been. You never realise how much you miss liquid or going to the loo until you don’t have to do it and then its all you think about. Next month also I might leave testing until the evening. At least then I don’t have to worry about covering my tracks in work. Mammy also reckons I am holding out for a leo. At this stage I am holding out for 2 stripes! The funny thing is, when we were trying before I did use the opk and got a postive result so it makes no sense with the tests now. I feel like I don’t know my body at all.
