Our room looks so good. Um, anyway.

SInce I’ve been chained to a paintbrush and/or dustmop for the last several days, today was laundry day.  I did a few loads this morning, talked to some internet people (as per usual) had a bowl of cereal, and then headed to the pool.  I spent three hours at the pool, walked home and made a grilled cheese sandwich and had a beer, and then before I took a cool shower to wash my hair, I took an OPK.

Positive. Whoa!  That’s a full four days earlier than i expected, at least, more like 6 when I look at my average cycle lengths in my charts.  This is also the first time I’ve measured ovulation post-synthroid (I didn’t do anything between miscarrying and my first post-m/c period except be pissed off and sad, basically) which I now wonder was the cause for my long — and lengthening — cycle lengths.  I had another TSH done recently, beginning of the month, and my OB said the numbers were great, and it was my choice to stay on it or go off.  I chose to stay on, and then she said "and when you get pregnant again, call us and we’ll keep checking on it."  That WHEN made a world of difference.

SO, yeah, hypothyroidism can cause long cycles, so it’s something to maybe ask your doc about.  I really, really feel like it might have had something to do with my pregnancy loss, and sure, all us miscarriers look for SOME reason, somewhere, but I had a bad feeling from the first phone call I got that said "We want you on Synthroid starting ASAP, where can we call in the script?"  I feel much better taking the little 25 mg pill (a tiny dose, really) each day.

After my shower, I dried off and laid on the bed until Dave came home, which had the desired effect, so now I’m technically sorta in the 2WW.  There will be a GOF session or two in the next few days, for good measure, but yeah. Weird.

Especially post-miscarriage (OF JUSTICE!).  It’s a tired cliche, but this is the point of no return on the ol’ rollercoaster of TTC. the OPK testing is the click-click-click of being hauled to the top, that bright blue test line, making the reference line cower in fear, that’s the release.  Acting on it, you have to throw your hands in the air and scream "AAAARRGGGHHH!" (What, you don’t do that? Pilgrims!)  So, here I go.  Prepare yourself.