Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Ovulation Testing = Suckage

I'm almost a month out from my last post.  I have a lot to say, but not a lot of time to do it.

Some things I need to write:
Girls Weekend
A Letter to Baby

But for right now, I'd like to say that I've been doing the ovulation kit.  My periods are so incredibly irregular in length (both monthly and the actual length of my period) that I didn't really know when to start doing it.  I range from 27 days to 34 days (and 2 to 9 day periods).  One of the inserts said to average out your periods, and then count from there.

Do most women know when they ovulate?  Because I don't.  So I test.

Well, I think I'm broken.  I started the tests 9 days after my period started (my period was 7 days long this time), and I've taken one every day.  Unless I ovulated the day after my period, I don't think I ovulate at all!  These tests turn up negative every day!

I pee all day long, so it says that for women with pee issues like mine, I need to probably test first thing in the morning.  Which I do.  But honestly, I haven't seen even a hint of the 2nd blue line that is "supposed" to appear when I'm ovulating.

I did miss one day when I ran out of my first test and I didn't get a chance to buy another one.  So I made sure Nick and I got busy that day for sure.  But the next day back on the tests, I didn't show any hormone change.

I'm almost out of my 2nd box of ovulation tests.  Yes, almost 2 weeks of tests I've peed on for nothing.  That's 60 bucks, people.  I can't afford to do this all the time!