33yr ttc#2 - buddies needed!!!

[Daisies11]

Kim - I think blunt is the way to go with things like that, I just wish I could do it more myself, I always end up wishing I'd said what I felt/meant and having loads of ideas of what I should have said after an event.

I've been at work today Jessy, the pot painting sounds good, I did that with my little boy last year but he was a bit too young, I might try it again sometime soon as he might be into it and there's a place near us that does pot painting and has good coffee! Don't feel down about this month yet, you don't know until af shows up, it may have all happened at the perfect time!

Still no af here, day 34 and last month was a 32 day cycle. Not tested yet, not got any and won't get chance to pick one up this evening. If still nothing in the morning will pick one up on my way to work and see what it says but I fully expect bfn.

 

[dustergrl]

Hi ladies,

Yes, I'm still around- just have been busy around the home front. MIL took DS on Saturday so we got some things done around the house, and Sunday was my sister's birthday so we did an all-in-one breakfast for Mother's Day and her birthday. I also have a sick rabbit that I have been trying to get back to health- which is proving to be difficult. He is 10, so not young by any means.

Still waiting out the tail end of AF here. I am torn on ttc this month, as if we conceive, EDD will be almost exactly the same as DS. I kinda want them both to have their own special day.

Cupcake, how frustrating with your tests. I do see the lines though! If you truly are pregnant this will be a story to tell your kid someday! lol!

Citrus, sorry about the bfn.

Jessy and daisies, hope things are better with OH.

Daisies, keeping my fx for you for a bfp or bfn, whatever you prefer with your vacation coming up!

Kim, UGH with the opk's! You have to be getting frustrated! I'm glad you had a good time at the cookout, though.

Hi Bassit, and welcome Michelle!

I hope I got everyone since I was last on. If not, I'm sorry. :/

 

[ladders]

Oh cupcake I'm so sorry to see your tests aren't doing what they should do! Must be absolutely doing your head in! Really hoping af stays away for you and just taking longer to progress that we would like.

Daisies i can't believe you managed to resist testing still! I feel like running out and getting a test for you I'm desperate to know lol!

Jessy don't worry about your cycle I'm sure your lp will be absolutely fine, I have no idea why mine went stupid this cycle but be way too much of a coincidence if your did the same. If done a whole heap of research on it though so if it does I'm your woman for info!

Cycle day 6 here and af pretty much gone, temps back down to the 36.5 marks and have all the opks ready to start testing again weds! None of my supplements are here yet so won't make a difference to this cycle but will take them as soon as they arrive so hopefully ready for the following one if this no good

 

[citrusfruit]

I'm so sorry if you already said this Daisies but why do you not think you are pregnant this month? I would also be running to the shop haha ladders!

Cupcake been following your other thread too and I'm so sorry your tests aren't progressing. I almost hope you see AF tomorrow so you can just move on with your cycle. Limbo is just the worst, I would do much rather just see a blank test.

No AF for me today but that's not that unusual. Am 14 dpo today but I did actually test on 12 dpo and bfn so expecting AF tomorrow. Kinda feeling bummed about being CD1 again, flipping hate AF. Looking forward to the new cycle otherwise.

Sorry no positive opk yet Kim but you are doing sooo well on the BD! Good work!

Hi to everyone else, sorry I'm rubbish at remembering everything.

 

[JessyG]

Citrus, if af doesnt arrive tomorrow will you test again?

 

[dustergrl]

ladders, it sounds like you and I are pretty much on the same cycle- cd7 here. How long are your cycles? Do you know when you typically o?

 

[citrusfruit]

I will probably test on Wednesday Jessy, but still wouldn't be hopeful! So sure I am out this month, can feel the doom of AF brewing and really hate seeing a bfn then having to joy of AF just hours later!

 

[ladders]

Duster yes looks like I'm joining you on this one. I usually have 25-27 day cycles and o day 11-13 but last cycke threw me a curve ball and I didn't o until cd18 and then af arrived 9 days later! Really hoping that doesn't happen again!

Citrus that's really promising you haven't come on yet! I'm equally impressed you haven't tested today I definitely think you still have a shout at a bfp!

 

[happycupcake]

I will probably test on Wednesday Jessy, but still wouldn't be hopeful! So sure I am out this month, can feel the doom of AF brewing and really hate seeing a bfn then having to joy of AF just hours later!

The amount of times I have done this despite promising myself I wouldn't test on the day af is due.
The fact is though that for some, they won't see their positive until then or after, even when they may have had earlier positives before. Doesn't matter because every pregnancy is so different. For many, anyway.
I definitely don't apply this to my situation because I have seen positives since Friday, and today it's like they didn't exist. But for you, you haven't seen a positive test yet, so there is still a chance you will see it happen. I hope it does for you, but if it doesn't then there are a few of us about the same with our cycles I think, so you will be in good company if it doesn't happen

Ladders thank you but I know af will arrive, and if it didn't this would worry me because of those tests, I don't believe they were all evaps especially given I had two of the same brand completely blank and even after hours didn't show any line.
I will use an IC with fmu tomorrow so I can see it's still blank, then I won't have to worry, hopefully anyway!

 

[Hopfl4bbynbr4]

Haha! Happycupcake! Thankfully my body is giving my nipples a break because man does it HURT every time! Lol the weird thing is though, my boob's are getting sore which ALWAYS happens the day after the super sore nipple day which has always been O day. So with this happening, I'm counting today as 1dpo which kinda sucks on timing because dh turned me down the day before yesterday (O day? Maybe) so we dtd 3 days before and the day of. The reason this sucks is because I didn't have much ewcm. Mostly watery cm the 4 days leading up to possible O day (yesterday) so I'm sure the sperm didn't survive for the 3days. So I'm hoping the day of o will have been enough but the chance is slim. And no, I haven't taken anything other than the CoQ10 and my iron tablets I've been taking forever. I kept forgetting the CoQ10 most days though. Do you think that could have been what caused the delayed O?

Citrus, I agree with Happycupcake and ladders! How have you not tested today! I know you said you didn't want to see the bfn then af arrives a few hours later, but I would have driven myself crazy with testing lol

Daisies, same for you! I can't believe you haven't tested not once yet! Not to repeat myself but I would have driven myself crazy with testing lol also, I used to be that way. Where I would often wonder why I didn't say what I was thinking or should have said. Then literally everyone started taking advantage of my kindness and mistook it for weakness. So I started standing up for myself and started saying exactly what I think or feel at the time. The problem now though, is I often find myself wondering whyyyyy I said what I said and didn't think about it first lol so it can be a good thing that you don't say what you think or feel sometimes but other times it's good to say what you mean.

Ladders, Yay for af finally leaving! Good luck with the opk's this time. Will you start testing on your usual day or wait a day or two later so you won't be questioning the opk's again?

Duster, you're birthday/mothers day dinner was a good idea! That's so sweet you did that. Good that you and dh got a chance to spend some alone time together even if you were working around the house and yard that day. I hope your bunny gets to feeling better soon!

 

[happycupcake]

Kim, watery cm is also fertile cm so I wouldn't worry too much. Sperm can survive a max of 7 days, in optimum conditions, so I reckon you have a good chance they survived three days.
I don't know if taking coQ10 and missing days could delay things, will Google it though. I'm thinking of starting this myself if it's safe to take with my meds, does it have any adverse side effects?

Another blank IC today with fmu, which is kind of a relief as it would worry me more seeing positives followed by blanks and then positives

 

[Hopfl4bbynbr4]

Oh Happycupcake I'm so sorry. I genuinely believed this was your month. I'm so heartbroken for you 😞😞

For me no there weren't any other side effects. I took it at night (if I could remember) so if there were any side effects I didn't notice it. I usually have loads of ewcm around O but I stopped getting it the closer to o I got. IDK if the CoQ10 had anything to do with that or not? I'll try again this next cycle and see. If it is because of the CoQ10 then I won't be taking it for the cycle after next (if I don't get pregnant before then of course)

 

[happycupcake]

Thanks Kim, but it's ok. I had some hope of course, after seeing those tests, but something told me it wasn't going to happen. It isn't a surprise to me. I felt incredibly sad and deflated yesterday. I have had what I'm sure have been a couple of chemicals before, but these tests were so obvious with the little progression they had as well, that it was more real for me whereas before I was able to detach myself from that reality. I couldn't this time. But I'm ok now, it's rubbish but this has happened for a reason. Everything happens for a reason.

It's quite common for ewcm or any fertile cm to start disappearing immediately before or on ov day. I don't know why this is, I guess it isn't long once you ov that the corpus luteum starts producing progesterone which starts to dry up fertile cm.
you got a lot of dtd in though, so I'm keeping everything crossed for you

 

[Daisies11]

Citrus- I'm not hopeful because I just have that feeling that it didn't happen this month. I had no ewcm around when I would have ovulated (if I did) and I've been having af symptoms, cramping, constipation (tmi?) I'm sure it's coming. Fingers crossed for a bfp for you tomorrow if you're testing!

Cupcake - sorry to hear about your tests, I hope you're ok. At least as you say you know where you are now. It must be really hard though.

I went to the supermarket on my way to work to get a test and they only had clear blue ones for £8. Not paying that out, especially when I'm expecting bfn. If no af this afternoon will pop out this evening to get one.

 

[happycupcake]

Daisies, constipation can be a sign progesterone is in your system still, which would have to be to support a pregnancy, so hopefully this is actually a good sign for you. I hope so, and I hope you find a test later on. I'm assuming you aren't a fan of blue dye tests? I think they are harder to decipher if you had a faint line or a shadow line there. Much harder to see blue on a white background than pink.

I'm ok, thanks. Waiting for af to start... usually see it before lunchtime, isn't here so far, but before when I thought I had had a chemical it was a day or so later than expected

 

[ladders]

Oh cupcake I'm so sorry I really thought this was your month. Can't imagine how upsetting that is. Hope you'll be treating yourself to a large glass of something tonight!

Daisies and citrus I'm so eager for your updates!

 

[dustergrl]

Oh, cupcake, I hope things happen for you soon- either one way or the other.

Citrus and Daisies, good luck!

Kim, I think you have a good chance of the sperm surviving that long. The body is an amazing thing!

Ladders, glad AF is gone for you. AF gone this morning for me too, so it will be time to start all over! DH is chomping at the bit to bd lmao!

 

[ladders]

Ha ha duster af went for me yesterday but I faked another day to get one in closer to o lol, that is if I o at normal time this month and not stupidly late!!! Opks start tomorrow which is ridiculous because really I should be 14dpo!

 

[Daisies11]

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Tell me if this doesn't work, but bfp! I'm in shock!!!

 

[JessyG]

The link doesnt work for me but OMG CONGRATS!! how amazing what a surprise for you!