Is this ewcm?

Hi everyone,

Sorry to bother you with yet another ewcm question. For the last 3 days now I've had what I think may be ewcm but I'm not sure. The general consistency of the cm is thin/watery (there's not a whole lot of it though) and then once or twice a day I'll have a jelly-like glob or jelly-like stringy bits (sorry if TMI). The glob is stretchy as are the stringy bits. Its mostly clear with perhaps some white streaks. I only ever notice this stuff when I do an internal check. Do I chart this as ewcm or sticky cm? :dunno:

Thanks

I am realllly sorry i can't answer your question, but I do want to thank you for asking it as I have had similar so I'm curious to see what people say. :)

Record it as egg white cm. Stretchy clear jelly is ewcm. Fertility Friend says to record the most fertile cm you have and treat this time as fertile! Hope this helps. :D

Thanks heaps Kerry. I've read so many descriptions of what ewcm is and none seemed to fit my "jelly/stringy" description. I hope this means I'm going to O soon :pray:

If it is stretchy it is more likely to be ewcm not sticky cm.
Could the stringy bits be anything other than ewcm IYKWIM?
I find that semen is stringier than ewcm, it is stretchy but not as stretchy as ewcm and breaks more easily.
The thin wet stuff can be semi fertile mucus or lubrication.
Sounds like you are probably coming up to O! I can get the globby bits a couple of days before I get the copious amounts of stretchy clear ewcm a day before O.
HTH
GIDGET

Yep, I agree with Gidget.
Can you stretch the stretchy stuff more than an inch over and over and over again? If so, then it is EWCM.

Gidget - I was wondering if this could all be leftovers from DH... We haven't BD in 48 hours now so I'm pretty sure its not leftovers this today. No stringy bit today. Thanks!

ticklish - Yep I can stretch it over and over again well over an inch. Yay! I hope I'm coming up to O. You've answered a post of mine before re. looooong cycles. This one is a real beauty - now CD56 :wall: I've got a FS appointment at the end of this month so hopefully I'll get some answers (and some treatment) soon. Thanks

CD56 - geez you must be getting frustrated.

The stretch test is the best thing I have found for checking EWCM. Remember it is still possible to concieve on a long cycle!!! I did.

Me - so far I am trying acupuncture and it is worked a treat last month!! Hoping for the same this month - only hope to catch the eggy soon!

Hope you get some answers soon. Good luck with the FS appointment!

ticklish,

Yep. This cycle is driving me crazy. Its so hard not to stress out but now that I have the FS appointment booked I'm trying not to think about it. I've unfortunately had a couple of patches of fertile cm throughout the cycle so its been very tiring (IYKWIM). So far this cycle we've BD'd 27 times! Cos I have no idea when I'll O we've been BD every 2nd day and if I've had fertile cm thrown in an extra time for good measure! I just don't want to miss the eggy if she decides to pop out.

Great news about the acupuncture. I hope it continues to work well for you and you get that :bfp: really soon!

Thanks principessa. I hope the BFP comes soon too!! and for you too!

Try not to think about it and enjoy the BD!!!

27 times, geez I have never counted. DH must be tired too!

I had long cycles with a couple of patches of semi-fertile cm, but never the ewcm twice!!

I am counting down to O ATM, still a week to go if the acupuncture is going to work. DH is counting too because he really wants it and I haven't given it to him for a while IYKWIM!! Trying to keep him keen and not thinking about the TTC!:lol: (Though I caught him asking DS last night if he wanted a sister. Needless to say as DS can't talk, there wasn't much of a response!)

I had that stuff you're describing for the last 3 days. I have just come off the pill and haven't had that yet so I treated it as ewcm. And I'm pretty sure it was coz it lasted 3 days, had a bit of o pain, then was gone after 3 days so sounds like o to me. And it was exactly what you described which confused me too. Hope it was O for both of us and we caught the eggy!!!!

ticklish - We've been enjoying the BD but its certainly been a hectic schedule. I just want to O so we can have a break! :lol: I've only counted cos I've been charting BD on fertility friend. I've got the stretchy "jelly" again today (that's 5 days I've noticed it for now) so I hope the OPK comes up +ve tomorrow.:pray: I hope you O next week. It would be great if the acupuncture kept your cycles regular permanently!

SaraJane - I agree the descriptions of ewcm can be confusing. Glad to hear that what I've observed does seem to be ewcm. Sounds like you may have O'd (yay!). Are you temping or doing OPK's? I'm doing both. OPK hasn't been +ve yet but I'm hoping for tomorrow. :crossfingers: Wishing you a :bfp:!

No I haven't been temping or anything else. It's our first month trying so I think if it hasn't happened by 3 months I'll get more serious about it!!! I am already too obsessive though so maybe I shouldn't, hahaha.

SaraJane - Its hard not to obsess isn't it! I am certainly obsessed to a certain extent - especially since it seems my body isn't doing what its supposed to. I don't think temping is obsessive. It just gives you info about what your body's up to and if its doing the right thing. For me, the more info the better. You're young and still in your peak ferility years so I'm sure you'll be pg before you know it!

Yeah it's really hard. And I am addicted to this site!! lol, lots of info on here.

Thanks principessa - I will be on the look out for O signs from about CD12 - fingers crossed (sorry, just realised that is a bit of a bad pun! TMI)

I get the ewcm for 5 days too!!!!! Hard to know when exactly to get the timing right, isn't it!

Did you get the +ve OPK? Unfortunately, I found that they don't work for me. I think I have a short-lived LH surge!

Good luck!

Ticklish - Nope. No O. I'm so depressed. It seems the ewcm has disappeared today too. I've been off BCP now since beginning of Jan. I've only had 2 O's in all that time. Both times the OPKs worked a treat. My surge showed up over 2 consecutive days both times. Over the weekend I tested a couple of times a day so I'm sure I didn't miss anything. There's been no temp rise either. Its just so depressing - today is CD59. I was quite excited that this cycle I may have been able to anticipate O with the cm observations but that just doesn't seem to have worked. Oh well - just something else about my body that's not normal I guess. I can't wait for my FS appointment on the 30th.

I bet your DH is looking forward to CD12! :lol:

Dam, dam, dam, again, how frustrating - just think that the OPK might not have worked this time and you could have still O'd!!!!! Agree, twice a day should catch it but it could have been earlier. I read somewhere, can't remember where so don't quote me, that for most women ewcm appears 1 to 2 days before O but can still be around after O, so maybe you O'd earlier than you think and the OPK didn't catch it. EWCM also disappears after O! I am a bit dry after O - sorry TMI again! Has this happened? I find that I O around 1 to 2 days after EWCM first appears because this is when I get the most symptoms and AF has so far, this year anyway, arrived 14 days after that!!!

Temp rises can be sluggish too! Reason why I chucked the thermometer - driving me batty. When DS was concieved, even though I had had the EWCM, I never had the temp rise after O and there was no way I thought I was pregnant!!! So I got really depressed about it. We had lost a baby and I was desperate to concieve again and I had I had only O'd three times in the past year!!!!!!!

Yep, DH looking forward to the good stuff appearing - well, it has been almost a month and well, he has a new TV - so it looks like it might be some late night TV watching this weekend IYKWIM ;) all going to plan!

Good luck with the FS. I will be thinking of you! I know how frustrating this journey can be! Sending you a big :D.

ticklish,

Thanks for the kind words and the encouragement. You're very sweet. The ewcm was back again yesterday. Got an "almost" positive on the OPK last night and but its gone again today. Last 2 cycles the OPK showed a very strong positive for 2 days straight so I'm hoping there was enough of a surge to O this time. I guess I'll find out in a day or so with the temping. The last 2 cycles AF has arrived 13 days after O - hopefully she won't make it this time.

Temping has been going quite well for me so I'll let you know if I can confirm O - or if I'm still waiting. My gut feeling is that there may not have been enough of an LH surge.....:wall: Amazing you didn't have the temp rise when pg! Everyone is different I guess.

Thanks again for the support. DH and I have not told anyone we're TTC so its been great to have someone else to vent to. :)

An update: Still had the ewcm yesterday - just once in the evening. But this morning my temp was up. (YAY!) So I'm very hopeful that I O'd on Wednesday. My temp seems to take a couple of days to go up after O. DH and I BD'd 4, 2 and 1 days before O so I'm hoping it could do the trick. We were going to BD on O day but I was feeling a little raw :lol: (sorry TMI). So this means for this cycle O day was CD61! I guess now all I have to do is wait. I'll get some answers I hope at the end of the month - a BFP :crossfingers: or from the FS. Either way not much longer now!

Yeah that's great principessa. Sounds like it finally happened!

:goodluck: for the :bfp:! Hopefully, you won't need any answers from the FS.

We don't tell anyone either when we are TTC - just don't need that kind of pressure!

As predicted, I have had the stretchy stuff since CD12 but it hasn't quite peaked! O is still getting there. Still haven't DTD this cycle yet - well maybe tonight! ;) Acupuncture seems to be working a treat!

Keep :)