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Temps and OPKs aren't matching up this cycle

Here is the story of what is going on this cycle and why it's just so frustrating! I was 6w4d pregnant and had a complete natural MC earlier this month. It's been about 2 weeks now and my HPTs are negative again. I started temping again pretty much right away because it gave me some small feeling of control and made me feel the tiniest bit better. So I was able to track my temperatures down and watch them resume their normal pattern.

So normally the 4 days before I ovulate make a nice little U on my chart. They dip especially low and then on the day I ovulate my temp returns to normal pre-ovulation temps. So for example if I'd been getting 97.20- 97.40 as my pre-O range the 4 days before I ovulate would be 96.98- 97.14 and then O would be 97.32 or so. However, I normally get 2 days of positive OPKs starting the day before I ovulate and then it stays positive the day of ovulate. I get a nice temp spike the next day and my temps stay up till AF.

This cycle however I've gotten my normal U with the 4 lower temps, the normal again temp on day 5 of the U so it looks like my normal ovulation pattern. Exactly like my normal ovulation pattern. The only catch is.... I still haven't gotten a positive OPK. I haven't even gotten the OPKs that are "maybe that's positive? I think it may be..." till you see the one later that day/the next day and realize it was close but not there yet. I'm still getting OPKs that are noticeably darker than the super faint lines I get at the start of my cycle but still very clearly not as dark as the control and therefor not positive.

DH was leaving on a business trip this morning and based off OPKs I thought I'd have another 2 days or so till O. He's only going to be gone 2 days/ 1 night so we were just going to BD when he got home. We ended up squeezing in a quicky BD this morning just to be on the safe side since once I'd seen my temp this morning I wasn't sure what to expect.

I've had fertile CM (EWCM and watery) the past 3 days and today (making day 4). All the other signs I normally get are present: increased sex drive, skin breakout, backache and headaches. I'm just so frustrated by these OPKs! I've never had a cycle where I didn't get 2 days of positive OPKs.

I guess I'm in the waiting game now to see if temps spike tomorrow or not. If the pattern continues they will but then I was told to expect some differences in my cycle this time around because of the MC.

TTC #1: January 2015- October 2015 BFP #1: October 16, 2015. MC: November 6, 2015 BFP #2: March 15, 2016. MC: March 21, 2016 TTC Rainbow: November 2015- Present

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