Hi again!
long post alert - sorry!
Well, I'm back from the doctor's surgery.
All seems to be well, in that nothing is 'wrong'!
I took in the charts and also an (unused!) i/c HPT so he knew what I'd been testing on. He said that he might have been concerned but that last month's chart clearly shows ovulation from the temps, even though the CBEFM and OPK didn't show it. If I ovulated that cycle, it rules out lots of nasty things
He said that the 26-day cycle after 6 33-day cycles showed that the early mc had totally thrown my hormones out of whack though (and pretty much proved that we had conceived, even if I hadn't ever tested) and he's not surprised that this cycle is a longer one - my body's overcorrecting.
FYI - even a chem pg can cause your hormones to be wonky for 1-3 months. My doc said to wait one full cycle after this one (i.e. 3rd after chem) and if we haven't conceived, to go back then. That'll be 6 months of TTC, and he said that with all the data I've collected, the fact that we've been optimally timing intercourse, and we're over 30 (well over, in DH's case!!!
) he'd be happy to start investigating then. Woohoo!
So ladies - it shows that temping IS worth it. Chrissie - don't give up now, I know exactly how you feel, but my doctor is now saying that all this data is fantastic and really helpful and will speed up things for us if we don't conceive.
He was amazed when I told him about FF and the chart galleries - said he was going to have a look himself! He thought that the most fascinating thing about my data was not the ov stuff - that was easily explained - but the fact that my temps are so low. He couldn't believe it, and said he'd never seen temps that low in a healthy, walking person!
I told him there were loads of charts with temps as low as mine, incl pg ones, and he said the best thing about all this technology and information was that it was constantly revising medical opinion.
So there we are - by sticking a thermometer in our mouths each morning, we are leading a scientific breakthrough!
Oh - one more thing. He looked at the HPT and said that the clinic had used the same ones a couple of years ago, because they were cheap, but that they found them to be very unreliable - far too many false positives and false negatives, even when it was the GP testing and checking well within the time limit. They use Clearview (which I think is the American name for Clear Blue, or the old name, at least - same company, anyway), which he said are more expensive but much more reliable. He said he wouldn't trust the internet strips at all any more unless the line was as dark as the control line.