Nausea and diminished signs of ovulation.

[onlygoodbook.livejournal.com]

I've had nausea some months (but not others) around the time I ovulate AND I've been fighting off a cold and have frequent drainage running down the back of my throat into my stomach, which also (big surprise) makes me nauseous.



But I'm a little worried because though I should be experiencing abundant clear/ropey discharge right now, there's just much LESS of it than usual. It's still there. Still clear. Still ropey. But there's markedly less discharge. Is this something suspicious? If I have the right kind of discharge at the right time of the month but less of it, am I still ovulating or is my body trying to tell me something else?


I guess I just want to set my (hopefully completely irrational) pregnancy fears aside.

I haven't had sex (or genital-genital contact) since my last period. My last period was on time and while it was lighter than some of my periods, it was heavy enough and long enough that I don't doubt it was a true period. Some months, my periods are just a little lighter and less painful and some months they're extremely crippling and heavy. This was lighter but still substantial. I had cramps, just not disabling ones. I don't want to be tricked by decidual bleeding, though. If it was right on time and I bled a fair amount every day for just over four days and had cramps, that sounds like a period, doesn't it?


It's just the nausea (which is mostly explainable by the drainage) and the fainter-than-usual signs of ovulation that have me worried.


I could go buy a pregnancy test, but I hope it's just abundantly obvious to everyone else that it's not necessary... :-(




I know the sure way to know whether ovulation is occurring is to track waking body temperature, but I haven't been doing that, so any readings I take now wouldn't mean a thing. :-(

implanon

[clareee.livejournal.com]

So, I have a few questions about the birth control I just got put on. I got implanon inserted in my arm in August. I'm supposed to not get my period whatsoever while on this birth control but my gyno warned me about random spotting. I got implanon put in on the last day of my period in august, then in september I started spotting around the same time I would have gotten my period. But I havent stopped. Its already been about a month of constant spotting and I'm wondering if that is normal. Is anyone else on implanon? Have you had problems as well?

Uhh, is my cervix supposed to feel this way?

[ieatbacon.livejournal.com]

So, um, apologies for what's probably a really obvious question, but:

I was feeling my cervix today, and at this point in my cycle it's high and as open as it gets - not very, but enough that I can actually feel an opening; I usually can't. I know that it's meant to feel smooth and kind of rubbery, and that is what I felt on the outside of it! But, I was feeling near the opening (I have an IUD, was checking the strings and all that good stuff) and it seems like there's a different kind of texture there. Almost... grainy-like? That's not quite the word I want; it feels less smooth than the rest. I've felt this texture once before, but again only when my cervix was high and open.

Am I feeling the inside of it or something? Is this normal? Do I have some kind of a mutant cervix? (I'd be cool with that, if only it had superpowers... :P)

Insight would be appreciated. :)