What The What The?

Some very interesting events happened last month.

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I'VE OVULATED!

At least I'm pretty certain I did. Here's the scoop.

I returned home from a night shift and was using the toilet before bed when I noticed I had produced a great big stretchy glob of *clear* mucous.

So.

So??! This is something very different for me. I only have milky white mucous. I didn't know what it meant, but I knew it was different for me...and I knew it was normal, not some nasty infection of some kind. Ew. Excited, I yelled for Ryan to come and look. Nothing is private in our house. He gave me a smug look and said, "Told you Chinese Medicine would work." I told him that we don't know what this means yet, and it might not mean anything. I finished my business and Googled "clear vaginal discharge" and learned that it was fertility mucous! Women produce this when they are ovulating.

We didn't waste any time (wink, wink).

Of course the skeptic in me said, "Maybe the herbs I'm taking caused my mucous to change and I didn't really ovulate. I'll really know if I actually bleed."

Over the next 2 weeks I felt occasional cyst-like sensations. The best way to describe it would be that it feels like someone is pinching my ovaries. Hard.

2 weeks after noticing the clear mucous I bled. Holy, holy. I just had a cycle! I couldn't believe it. I texted all of my girl friends. This hasn't happened in over a decade! This is huge! Of course I would rather have that wink, wink pay off, but this is a huge step in the right direction.

During this time Dr. L had me measure my basal body temp to see if it fluctuated even though I don't bleed. My temperature chart correlated pretty closely with my cycle. Incredible!

I'm trying not to get too hopeful that it will happen again this month or regularly for that matter. Before my periods stopped all-together they were always irregular, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed anyway.