33yr ttc#2 - buddies needed!!!

[citrusfruit]

See a line on those cupcake. Hope it develops this time! Will be following your thread in the pregnancy test section. I soooo agree about anxiety and poor sleep. I really struggled when my son was born and I realise with hindsight that sleep deprivation was to blame. Worried about it this time round but do really believe that awareness helps me a lot and keeps me in control.

I had to leave this mid way as my son was shouting at me and now I can't remember what else I was going to say. Oh yes, glad you are feeling positive curious...

How is everyone else doing? Sickness has hit me like a bus, pretty much bang on 6 weeks. Not actually being sick but I never was with my son either. Just feel rubbish and tired.

 

[happycupcake]

Thanks, Citrus! You are so right, sleep deprivation is absolutely horrendous! I remember I started hallucinating after our youngest son arrived. It was terrifying. They put it down to a psychotic episode but I'm certain sleep deprivation was to blame, because once I started letting my husband take some of the feeds over (I started expressing as well), I started to be more me.
I still don't sleep properly now, it's like it's triggered something off that I can't seem to get out of. But I'm more accustomed to it these days. I know now though, if this turns out ok, to let hubby take some of the feeds. Sleep is sooo important!

I'm sorry about your morning sickness! Have you tried ginger?

Has anyone heard from Jessy, Duster? Are they ok? I do hope so

 

[SadakoS]

Morning sickness is awful. I had it nearly every single day of my whole pregnancy last time.

Have you tested this morning yet Cupcake?!

 

[ricschick]

Citrus sorry about the ms! I tend to have it to but without the actual being sick!! I've heard good things about those travel sickness bands you put on your wrist.

Anymore tests cupcake I have a really good feeling for you ! The line is nice and thick too!!!

Still no sign of ov! And cm seems to have dried up too. 😤 I'm a little crampy today but I think my opk are lighter now?? I don't no what's going on.

 

[SadakoS]

Could you have missed your surge? Do you temp?

 

[ricschick]

Possibly I was looking at ff and I had brown spotting on the 18th & 19th then pink spotting on the 22nd & 23rd so possibly ov spotting idk it's all very confusing. Il keep testing to see as normally before my mmc I'd ov on or around the cb21 so I still could be waiting to ov. X

 

[happycupcake]

Rics my cm varies around ovulation. I know it drying up is usually associated with having ovulated already, or ovulating that day, but it isn't always. Have you been BDing? If so, I wouldn't be concerned about it. I would say if from here on in you don't see any further fertile signs and you don't see a positive OPK then start counting as dpo. Of course your body may have tried to ovulate, and didn't quite get there, which means it may try later on. So keep an eye on things and see how you do, you can always stop counting as dpo if at a later date you know you ovulated, and start counting from the new date.

Citrus Rics is right about those travel bands! They are genius

I did test today but I had my pee left out for a while beforehand because I had a huge panic attack so my lines are super faint and I don't know if that's because I left my pee sitting there or if it's going like before. Time will tell. Temp increased today again though.
I posted them in my thread. I feel a little wary of posting them in here as I don't want to hurt anyone who has just been got by af or who hasn't seen a positive yet. It isn't that anything has been said, nothing like that, I'm just aware it can be a sensitive subject and I don't want anyone to feel like I'm being an arse if that makes sense. This could all go horribly wrong for me as it has the previous two cycles and a couple before that too, so I do know how you feel, those of you who have experienced the same or when you are seeing negative after negative. It's horrible!

 

[Sander]

Cupcake it's ok you can post them here, we all like lines to obsess over

Sorry Rics - I know it's so super confusing but I had no signs of O until today and I was freaking out, but just give a little more time!

So I have a question for you guys. Yesterday I tested w an OPK and it was almost exactly the same color as the control line but my pee was really diluted. I waited a few hours and tried with darker pee, got the same result. Only ever so slightly lighter than control. Then much later that night it was back to negative, and again negative this afternoon. However I got EWCM for the first time this month today. Do you think yesterday's OPK's were positive and urine was too dilute and now they're negative? I can't post a photo because photobucket is being frustrating.

Any thoughts are appreciated!

 

[JessyG]

Hi! I am still around just mostly lurking about these days. I can totally see lines on your tests cupcake so i am praying it your month.

Good luck to everyone else!

Afm i am ok just been plodding along really. Dont feel too bad now, which always worries me. 2.5 weeks to wait until my scan aswell ugh!

Hope everyone is well. X

 

[ricschick]

If it was the same colour as the control line I'd count that as positive! Xx

Yes cupcake we've managed every other day so far this week so hopefully all stocked up. Lol.

 

[melewen]

Sounds positive to me Sander. That's why they recommend testing multiple times a day!

AF got me yesterday ugh. A day early! Weirdly though it's SUPER heavy. Like way heavier than normal. I feel so strongly like I was prego this month so maybe it's like loosely possible I had a chemical without catching it on an HPT?! I don't know if I've ever had one before. I might just be nuts, haha. Have any of you had them before? What were your periods like?

 

[curiousowl]

Sander, sounds like my positive OPKs! I would mark it.

Mel, so sorry about AF. I had a chemical. I tested positive at 13dpo, and got lines that didn't progresss for the next 6 days but got a positive digital. I didn't have a ton of symptoms like I did with DD and my AF afterwards was actually fairly light. It was horrible and heartbreaking.

 

[melewen]

Curious I can't imagine the devastation after getting those two lines. Ugh! I'm so sorry

 

[SadakoS]

I'm sorry melewen, af is the worst. Hoping she'll leave me in peace tomorrow!
Taken my second lot of soy isoflavones tonight, hoping they actually do something!

 

[dustergrl]

Hi ladies, I'm here- DH was away for work last week so I had the farmstead to myself. Busy!!!

AF showed yesterday for me. Boo. This was a short cycle- 26 days. Normal is 28 for me.

Cupcake, I hooe that line develops!

How are all the sticky beans doing?

 

[curiousowl]

Thanks Mel. It was 3 years ago this week so it's been on my mind a bit.

Ugh, so sorry duster! That sucks.

 

[ricschick]

Sorry mele & duster that af came!! Sending lots of baby dust for this cycle!!!

Anymore tests cupcake??

My opk still arnt getting darker they seem to be stuck at a certain darkness and have remained the same for days now! Ugh so frustrating!! I'm apparently in my fertile window so hopefully il catch it once it happens!! Cm has picked up again too now.
I'm a bit concerned about something I've had like a ridge in my right boob for years which I got checked out a few years back and it was nothing but this ridge has now gotten quite a lot bigger?? I'm wondering if it's because my bodies gone through a lot of hormone changes maybe. But I've made an appointment for Wednesday so hopefully get a bit of reassurance then.

 

[happycupcake]

Rics, keep BDing and don't worry about the OPKs too much

Jessy, good to hear from you! Don't worry that you feel ok, that's a good thing, and probably means hormones are starting to settle a little more. I'm sure all is fine

Mel, I'm so sorry it could have been, chemicals won't always be detected. I have had a few and my periods seemed to vary each time. There wasn't anything uniform to them, but they were different from my regular period.

I updated my thread over in the test part of the forum. Will post a few here, my temps have increased since 5dpo steadily which is different for me. Usually up and down but this may be due to me temping vaginally this time instead

 

[happycupcake]

Chart. I'm 9dpo today

 

[ladders]

Mel and duster I'm so sorry af got you, nothing worse than cd1 make sure you both get a big glass of wine tonight!

Rics it's a good idea to get anything like that checked out even if just to give you some peace of mind and know not to worry. Keep us informed hope all goes well. And fingers crossed your opk turns positive dpo!

Cupcake I see lines on them all!!!