33yr ttc#2 - buddies needed!!!

[ladders]

Funny because it's mine and dh anniversary Friday too! We always just get a small gift along the traditional line so as he's got a new job that requires a suit iv gotten him a posh linen tie. Hopefully he likes it lol for me if just like to ovulate!

Alligator I half heartedly charted after my mc and think I ovulated on cd 20 which is only 2-3 dats different to when I normally would. I had a mc before conceiving my dd without af in between so it's definitely possible. This is my first proper cycke after mc so just hoping it'll be back on track

 

[curiousowl]

Totally understand cupcake! Makes perfect sense to me.

And honestly, early testing is fun! If I didn't have this history of CPs I'd be taking alll the tests

Yeah I don't like the fact that I seem to have had quite a few of those, it's heartbreaking even if you don't get your hopes up. I'm sorry you have experienced these

Same back at you friend.

 

[Sander]

Yeah no worries cupcake, I did take another test today and it was a BFN. I didn't realize if you brush the opk against the hpt it could turn it positive. So yesterday I did that unknowingly, and someone pointed it out to me in the gallery. I waited until this morning and did an expirement. I tried a new hpt, then another hpt, then dipped an opk and touched the hpt with it the same way I did yesterday and that one had a faint line, but the control was blank. I'll post pictures. Basically what a way to crush my hopes and dreams ha. Extremely disappointing. Now I'm definitely thinking this is not my month.

(This photo is opk vs. non-touched hpt, looks BFN)

This photo is all 3 tests, top is yesterday's, middle is non-touched, bottom was touched to opk

Ugh. Just feel like calling it quits

 

[Alligator]

Oh Sander I'm so sorry. You're not out until AF shows... FX

 

[SadakoS]

Sander that's really disappointing. But you're still early and there's plenty of time for a bfp!

 

[Alligator]

FX for you ladders! I've started tracking my BBT (not sure how accurate it will be these few weeks as my body returns to normal but it helps me to do something) and my spotting has stopped (it was brown spotting for a week or more, ick). I only started tracking temps a couple days ago (Monday, literally) and it went up .3 degrees (97.26 to 97.6 this am). I have no idea what that means if anything, but combined with the cramps I am guessing ovulation? Hoping? I don't know! I've never temped before. I've never used OPKs before but I have some easy@home ones..although I assume if I take them now they will be rubbish if I've already ovulated. My HPT still show a faint positive. This whole thing is so confusing! I hope you're back on track this cycle

 

[curiousowl]

Oh no Sander. If that's what happened I'm really sorry.

 

[curiousowl]

Is anyone else having problems with FF?

 

[Sander]

Thanks guys. Will hope for the best obviously

Yes Curious FF is down for me also.

Can anyone explain to me why you aren't recommended to look at tests after 10 minutes? Is it because of evaps or will a line with actual colour come up? I couldn't help myself and pulled that test back out of the package about 20 minutes later and there's a second line with colour (faint) but it's not gray. Seriously, I don't know what's up with these tests because they're the same batch but only this month do I seem to be getting all these weird mixed messages

 

[curiousowl]

Glad it's not just me!

Honestly Sander, this was exactly me last cycle. I was so frustrated with my tests. Turned out I was pregnant. I did have a loss but I think I could just have easily have seen clearer lines a few days later. I don't want to give you false hope because yeah, don't read them after the time and all but don't count yourself out yet!

 

[Sander]

Ugh it's tough. Maybe you guys can look and let me know. It has colour for sure, a little harder to pick up on the phone but I need a second opinion (or several haha)

 

[SadakoS]

That is a very obvious second line to me. Does look like it has colour too!

 

[happycupcake]

Sander I'm sorry. I have tried this out myself and sometimes it doesn't happen. I have had a hpt come up positive after touching an OPK and also one that still stayed negative.
But the photo you posted that line has colour there, above. Evaps generally don't really have colour in my experience, they tend to be more grey and usually skinny. So it could be that there was a faint line you didn't notice before and it darkened over time as this does happen. Was that the middle test? Because I actually thought there was something extremely faint on that.

Ladders that's a coincidence! My husband gave me my present early today, he bought me a telescope which bizarrely I was thinking about buying him.

Sander I tweaked it and it does seem to have colour

 

[Sander]

Hi cupcake, yes it was the middle test - that's the one I made sure not to go anywhere near an opk. DH agrees that neither of us have seen a second line like that before. I read somewhere if hcg is really low it can take longer than the time limit to show up. Is that true? Because I don't really think it looks like an evap either

 

[happycupcake]

Speaking from experience I have found that the earlier on or the less hCG there, it tends to take longer for a positive line to show up. I have seen it with all my tests both successful pregnancies and losses. With our youngest son the first test I did at around 10dpo took a good few minutes to show a faint line but after a week the line was showing up as the urine was passing over the strip so I would be inclined to agree with what you read

 

[ashley2pink]

Thanks for the welcomes.
PG5k. I get the same way! I wanted to just be relaxed this time around with TTC.I was kind of obsessed about it with my first 3 kids. But I find myself thinking about it a lot now and worrying it will take a long time. I didnt want to worry about OPK's etc. But here I am doing it all over again

 

[ladders]

Sander I can clearly see that line and if that's one that's not touched the opk then I reckon your very close to a bfp!

Alligator my temps were all over the place after miscarriage and didn't show a clear ovulation pattern and conflicted with cm and boobs etc so I'm glad for that one to go. I like to be in control and definitely didn't feel I was with that cycle.

Ah cupcake how much in sync are you and dh that's so lovely!

So I got a positive opk this morning yeah!!!!! First proper positive on a cheapy and got a solid smiley. Still have ewcm and open cervix but I had a temp jump this morning. Surely I can't have ovulated the day before a positive opk??? I tested 7pm last night so wouldn't have missed one yesterday.

 

[happycupcake]

Ladders, yeah we are lol it's bizarre, we can usually finish each other's sentences or know what the other is thinking and frequently we will say out loud what the other is about to say.
I'm so happy you have a positive OPK! It is possible you missed it last night, I usually see a positive a little later in the evening. It's also possible to have ovulated and then see a positive OPK after but this is more likely the older we become. I think you are probably ovulating today or possibly ovulated early hours, and it isn't unusual to see an increase in temperature before you ovulate as well so I wouldn't worry about that. Mine did that, it went up then down then up, will post a photo of my chart so you can see.
I got it wrong before. I think I said I thought I had watery cm CD14 but I didn't, that was before and I had sticky cm CD13 and CD14 and cp wasn't in the most favourable position so mine was all weird as well

 

[ricschick]

Sander that looks like a bfp to me!!

Ladders yay for positive opk!!

Cupcake lovely how you thought of the same present 🎁

I'm so confused at the moment. I felt like I was ovulating in cd24 had a surge on the opk I was using ( these ins don't have to be the same colour as control line) so put that as ovulation. But yesterday I had ewcm again and strong cramps last night! So I may have ovulated last night instead! I've run out of opks so I'm not quite sure. 😱

 

[happycupcake]

Rics, I sometimes see ewcm after ovulation. You have quite a short lp don't you? Could you be low on progesterone? This can sometimes mean you have fertile cm after ovulation but obviously it happens to many women wothout any hormonal issue as well. I also always get cramps after ovulation, and the fairly distinct ovulation cramps themselves can actually last a good few days after ovulation itself