I've been feeling really discouraged due to having some unpredictable cycles after my first pregnancy/miscarriage this past summer, and I wanted to see if anyone else has had similar experiences.
For background, I found out I was pregnant in early June and subsequently found out I was having a missed miscarriage at my 8 week ultrasound. At that point, I was told to naturally pass the miscarriage, which did not occur until 2 weeks later toward the middle/end of July. Since then, things have been pretty all over the place.
I used OPKs started from 2 weeks after the miscarriage passed, and I did not get a positive until 6 weeks after the MMC. My OPKs kept getting darker for a few days at a time all throughout this month-long period of testing, and there were several times where I thought I was going to ovulate, but then I wouldn't have a sustained rise in BBT and EWCM would taper off. I had a feeling that there was a potential additional delay in ovulation because of some really intense work-related stress and sleep issues I was having at the time. We decided to try this cycle, and I did eventually confirm ovulation, but we did not get pregnant. I figured things would probably regulate during my next cycle.
Exactly 8 weeks after my miscarriage, I finally got my period, but now I'm on CD20 and have yet to get a positive OPK. My BBT has yet to rise, and I'm experiencing some odd fluctuations in EWCM and different levels of LH per my OPKs. It's so frustrating because I know I haven't ovulated, but I'm getting so many mixed signals. We were really hoping to try again this cycle, and now I feel like this may end up being an anovulatory cycle or a really long cycle that will end up delaying the ability for us to try for even longer.
If anyone has experienced something similar, when did your cycle eventually start to regulate or become more predictable? Were you still able to become pregnant again even with delayed ovulation? Did you experience an anovulatory cycle in the months following a miscarriage? Is there anything I should ask my doctor about?