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October 31, 2012 at 3:08 pmWith a 48 day cycle average, it's still going to be a while until the monitor begins looking for your oral 'cue peak' trend. With an average cycle length of 48 days, ovulation would occur around CD 33-34 (in a perfect world that is). Does your cycle length ever vary much from that?

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November 1, 2012 at 8:23 amMdgirl - How much shorter/longer can your cycles run? We'll want to take your shortest cycle and use that to know when to begin looking for the trends in your oral/vaginal readings so we don't miss it!

cmiclat - Haha, thanks. I'm not currently TTC, and I bet the second I decide to, my cycle will all the sudden become irregular. . . that just seems to be how life goes, doesn't it?!

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November 1, 2012 at 11:30 am:)

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November 1, 2012 at 3:40 pmI can access your chart. . . and everything looks just fine. However, it looks like you input your cycle length in the OvaCue as 4 days? (or at least that's what OvaGraph shows). What is your average cycle length?

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November 2, 2012 at 9:41 amPurpleSpirit79 - The purple pox was populated because you had a vaginal dip on CD 12, followed by another vaginal rise. However, in this case, I would recommend you disregard the purple box because your vaginal dip on CD 12 didn't drop nearly as low as it was on CD 10. After ovulation, we expect to see relatively elevated vaginal readings, so at this point, things are definitely looking like ovulation was successful on CD 11.

Mdgirl - With your shortest cycle running about 35 days, it would be too early to start looking for trends in your vaginal readings. However, it could be that FertilAid has started shortening your cycle even more. So, let's play it on the safe side. You did have an oral 'cue peak' trend on CD 5, 6, and 7 (this is the absoulte earliest I would look in your case), and then we're seeing a downward trend in your vaginal readings. As ovulation is approaching, we expect to see declining vaginal readings as estrogen is surging. Then once ovulation occurs, we'll see a vaginal rise followed by continued elevatated vaginal readings. So, since your vaginal readings are on the decline, I'd go ahead and consider yourself in your most fertile iwindow now and keep an eye for that vaginal rise. Feel free to keep me posted and we can continue to interpret!

 

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November 5, 2012 at 10:20 amHello Mdgirl! Yes, a rise in your vaginal readings is a good indication that you have switched from estrogen dominance to progesterone dominance and that ovulation has occurred. I would recommend continuing to take vaginal readings after that, as we will want to see your vaginal readings remain elevated after the initial rise to confirm that ovulation occurred successfuly. Hope this helps and keep us posted!

 

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November 8, 2012 at 8:57 amHi Mdgirl - Thanks for your post. You had a very clear vaginal rise on CD 15 and so far your vaginal readings have remained elevated which is a great sign! Of course, we'll want to continue to monitor those vaginal readings and if they do dip low again, you'll want to go ahead and continue to consider yourself fertile.

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