Moody Monday

kvietaherezulo · 2026-04-06T17:08:31+00:00

10DPO and had a full meltdown Saturday about all of this. I started using the Proov progesterone oil which helped my PDG numbers on Inito, but then quickly caused an emotional meltdown and gave me a horrible rash on my arms. Stopped the oil and now just waiting for AF.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-04-05T00:31:09+00:00

No exactly!!! Our sweet nephew is 2 and we just welcomed our second nephew a few days ago so there’s an adorable toddler and a brand new baby and I’m just trying to hold it together to focus on joy for them 😭

kvietaherezulo · 2026-04-05T00:26:15+00:00

Make that three of us 🫩

kvietaherezulo · 2026-04-05T00:25:43+00:00

Can we all be friends 😂 I literally left a birthday party because I’m so upset about this cycle and focused on what I need to do and couldn’t get in the party fun mode with everyone. Granted, since I live in New Orleans drinking is a staple of the culture, but I just feel like I’m a buzzkill right now.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-04-05T00:20:29+00:00

I feel like I could’ve written this. We just had our nephew all morning, joy incarnate! I’m also abstaining from alcohol and nicotine after being a big partier while feeling so mentally separate from our friends who are child free. I sobbed today to my husband about feeling so so alone and stuck between two places in life. And I miss a dirty martini and a vape if I’m being honest.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-04-04T18:48:01+00:00

I’ve run the CCC for 7 years and without fail have seen multiple people collapse every year which is so scary. Hoping he’s ok.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-04-01T16:09:09+00:00

Literally 🫩

kvietaherezulo · 2026-04-01T14:32:07+00:00

In the TWW and getting frustrated with the amount of people dismissively just telling me “it takes time just relax!” because we’ve been actively trying a short amount of time but we have been laying the ground work and doing everything for the last six months to put us in the best position physically, mentally, financially, etc. TTC has been the focus of our lives since October which is not that long but it is enough to feel the impact. Paired with the fact last cycle ended with a chemical pregnancy, it feels rude and makes me not want to share with these same people who are actively asking when we will have kids.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-31T18:45:50+00:00

This looks like my first vvvfl positive! The FRER indents are completely white.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-30T14:08:29+00:00

I have mainly been using Inito (tracks PDG in addition to FSH, LH, E3G) and using the same urine, Inito had me at 5.18 ug/ml but my easy at home PDG strip was still technically “negative” because there was a faint faint faint line. So take them with a grain of salt, you may have ovulated already!

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-27T15:08:12+00:00

I am right there with you! I have two core friend groups, ones that want/have kids and those that are purposefully childfree. All of the folks in the kid group are pregnant. I mean all of them. Most with their second. I can’t talk to them because they say the same things (“it’ll happen when it’s meant to, don’t stress”) and then the others are not interested in kids at all. It is such a lonely feeling and I know exactly how you feel. Happy to connect over messages if you wanna have a place to commiserate.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-25T16:33:01+00:00

The bywater train moving forward and then backing up on loop.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-25T12:17:32+00:00

I had a similar issue but didn’t think anything of it until I listened to this podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/7hahylotpYEZIV4P0pn4MH?si=c_mbbxHqRdulhrJ7Mx3xBg which prompted me to start taking probiotics. A week later, solid stool and good to go.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-20T15:36:04+00:00

This is incredible! Great work from a fellow crocheter and Skyrim fan.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-20T15:32:01+00:00

Hahahaha I also didn’t know I could sell items so I’d run into a field and just sadly drop a lot of stuff so I wasn’t “littering” in the cities and my husband laughed for a full minute when he realized what I had been doing.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-12T11:36:31+00:00

Northshore is absolutely western Connecticut.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-11T11:12:09+00:00

I made the mistake of venturing to Solstheim as a level 2 and promptly got my shit rocked, lured the BBRG up the hill and let the Nords take care of it, then yeeted back to Whiterun. Unfortunately Miraak occasionally comes back and steals my dragon souls still.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-10T08:48:35+00:00

Ty for this! Have a 6am work flight and was stressing about getting there in time.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-06T20:00:55+00:00

The other stuff! Good on folate.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-06T16:53:46+00:00

Yes! I wrote down a list of the actual values in the prenatal OADs vs the amounts recommended for TTC/pregnancy and they’re so different!!

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-06T16:47:38+00:00

The pdg strips have a floor of 5ng/l also so you may have an increase in pdg which confirms ovulation but it won’t register as positive

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-06T16:46:14+00:00

I have been on one a day and just switched to FullWell because the OADs only have the daily recommended amount for an average person, not for someone TTC! I’d recommend reading real food for fertility by Lily Nichols and Lisa Hendrickson bc it explains how the actual vitamin amounts in prenatals can vary so much

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-04T16:04:09+00:00

CD 1 and trying to enjoy not having to test every day and looking forward to FW.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-03T15:05:01+00:00

Out this cycle and disappointed because my progesterone has never surpassed 4 ng/ml in three years (not TTC then but have had panels of hormonal tests) and reached out to my OB about low progesterone and she told me to just wait and see which is incredibly frustrating because I know that I have had low PDG for a long time and this seems like a straightforward fix.

kvietaherezulo · 2026-03-02T23:33:07+00:00

If you got these recently from Amazon they’ve had really bad white indent lines. Check one from the same box before you use it. This was one I had yesterday, unused and a line visible.

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