4DPO today (This is an old thread!!!!)

[Eltjuh]

Take it that CB test was negative then????
I had 2 drinks last night aswell, we went out for dinner (BIL's treat) and since AF had definitely started I figured I might aswell!
I'm glad the waiting is over, but now I have to wait till this AF is finished and then start all over again. But hopefully this is my month!!

If you've still got plenty of days left till AF then don't give up just yet!! Really hope you get your bfp!!

 

[Naaxi]

Lol yep it was negative. I tried very hard to see anything but no. Definitely nothing. So clearly all the symptoms are in my head and my body is playing tricks on me. I just want AF to hurry and come early if that's what is going to happen. 13dpo is long enough of a wait for something to happen. I went to my buddy's who said he'd have beer and pizza for us... no beer lol. Booo. But glad you had a good time. And I know what you mean, I hate waiting for AF to finish, it's usually a full 7 days for me and sometimes the light days drag on further. So annnoying. Can't we just pack all of that in to like one day?

 

[Eltjuh]

Oh wow!! 7 days of AF????!!!
Mine luckily usually only last a max of 5 days, and that's including the last spotting... Last cycle it was 3 days of actual bleeding and then most of it was gone! Don't know how you put up with it for 7 days!!!
I don't usually mind having AF, unless I'm ttc and it obviously tells me I'm not pregnant, but the actual thing doesn't bother me too much. Though I do get some bad cramps on and off sometimes...

Anyway, are you gonna be testing again or just gonna try and wait till AF shows??? Do you have a pic of your CB test?? Would love to have a squint!

 

[diamondlove33]

Oh wow!! 7 days of AF????!!!
Mine luckily usually only last a max of 5 days, and that's including the last spotting... Last cycle it was 3 days of actual bleeding and then most of it was gone! Don't know how you put up with it for 7 days!!!
I don't usually mind having AF, unless I'm ttc and it obviously tells me I'm not pregnant, but the actual thing doesn't bother me too much. Though I do get some bad cramps on and off sometimes...

Anyway, are you gonna be testing again or just gonna try and wait till AF shows??? Do you have a pic of your CB test?? Would love to have a squint!

Woooo. 7days of AF - mines about 3 .. 5 until she's Compeletely gone.. what does LP mean?? Still getting used to the abbreviations.. lol

 

[Eltjuh]

Oh haha sorry! LP is Luteal Phase. And that's the days from 1dpo (first day after Ovulation) till the last day before your period (AF).

Sorry if that's too basic, but I thought if you're still getting used to abbreviations then I'm not sure what you do and don't know so I thought I'd just explain all of the ones haha. There's a thread somewhere with all the abbreviations. Couldn't find the thread I was looking for, but here's a link to a different one with most of the abbreviations. https://babyandbump.momtastic.com/teen-pregnancy/1667133-abbreviations.html


Anyway, when it comes to LP, mine is 12 days. My Ovulation is usually on CD18 (Cycle Day) then I start counting CD19 (1dpo) as my first day of LP and I usually get AF on CD31, so my LP would be from CD19 till CD30.
Hope that helps!

 

[diamondlove33]

Oh haha sorry! LP is Luteal Phase. And that's the days from 1dpo (first day after Ovulation) till the last day before your period (AF).

Sorry if that's too basic, but I thought if you're still getting used to abbreviations then I'm not sure what you do and don't know so I thought I'd just explain all of the ones haha. There's a thread somewhere with all the abbreviations. Couldn't find the thread I was looking for, but here's a link to a different one with most of the abbreviations. https://babyandbump.momtastic.com/teen-pregnancy/1667133-abbreviations.html


Anyway, when it comes to LP, mine is 12 days. My Ovulation is usually on CD18 (Cycle Day) then I start counting CD19 (1dpo) as my first day of LP and I usually get AF on CD31, so my LP would be from CD19 till CD30.
Hope that helps!

Okay soo if I did the math right my LP is about 18 days ... holding out to test until AF is late - can't handle that neg and then adding salt to the wound when AF shows the next day! I'm about 6 or 7 dpo right now.. got an LH surge on the 22nd - So I should have O'd shortly after that right? I'm still getting used to ALL of this.. if this isn't our month i'm going to start temping didn't realize how helpful it is until I started seeing it so much on here.. but haven't been doing it so starting right in the middle of a cycle seems a little pointless..

**THANK YOU for explaining it to me! ***

****BABY DUST TO YOU!!!!*****

 

[diamondlove33]

Not sure if this is symptoms or coincidence as i'm not very many DPO... VERY slight cramping in lower abdomen and like a tightness feeling I guess is the best way to describe it.. and a constant 'wet' feeling .. I keep going to the bathroom to check but nothing there.. DH was irritating me with literally EVERYTHING he did. and lastly so gassy it's unbelievable! Too early?

 

[Eltjuh]

Some people say it's too early cause you might not have implanted yet, but personally I think you can have symptoms before you implant...
And you could've implanted early aswell.

They sound like good signs to me! Fingers crossed for you!!

Oh and to start temping after O is a bit pointless indeed.... Cause you don't know what your pre-O temperatures were so there technically is no way of telling if you did ovulate and cause you're already 6dpo you wouldn't be able to tell whether your temp is going up or down or whether it's 'high' for you or not...
I started temping in February and it's definitely helpful. All I can say is, if you start make sure you have a thermometer that goes to the tens (so has 2 numbers behind the dot. If you get what I mean) And also make sure you TRY to temp everyday even if your later or earlier than normal. I missed quite a lot of days at the start of my cycle in February and found it much harder to read my chart that month than I did this month in which I temped every day.

If you had an LH surge on the 22nd you can expect to have ovulated around the 24th I'd say. (at the latest, cause you ovulate within 12-48 hrs of getting a positive OPK) So you could've ovulated earlier aswell!

Oh and don't be afraid to ask questions We all started off not knowing anything or not a lot so we've all been there!

 

[diamondlove33]

Some people say it's too early cause you might not have implanted yet, but personally I think you can have symptoms before you implant...
And you could've implanted early aswell.

They sound like good signs to me! Fingers crossed for you!!

Oh and to start temping after O is a bit pointless indeed.... Cause you don't know what your pre-O temperatures were so there technically is no way of telling if you did ovulate and cause you're already 6dpo you wouldn't be able to tell whether your temp is going up or down or whether it's 'high' for you or not...
I started temping in February and it's definitely helpful. All I can say is, if you start make sure you have a thermometer that goes to the tens (so has 2 numbers behind the dot. If you get what I mean) And also make sure you TRY to temp everyday even if your later or earlier than normal. I missed quite a lot of days at the start of my cycle in February and found it much harder to read my chart that month than I did this month in which I temped every day.

If you had an LH surge on the 22nd you can expect to have ovulated around the 24th I'd say. (at the latest, cause you ovulate within 12-48 hrs of getting a positive OPK) So you could've ovulated earlier aswell!

Oh and don't be afraid to ask questions We all started off not knowing anything or not a lot so we've all been there!

I'm hoping they're symptoms but who knows - this IS our first cycle since HSG so I'm hoping that gave me a good cleaning !! So I got the LH surge on the 22 (DARK) and then the 23 was very faint.. So i'm guessing I o'd on the 22? I'm hoping b/c we didn't BD on the 23... but did on the 20,21,22,24.. and so on hahah . think we caught it??

 

[Naaxi]

Diamondlove, I would say you probably caught it haha You did better than I did this month at least.

Eltjuh, I will post the pics I took of the CB. I may take one tomorrow morning with fmu, I will be 14dpo so I would hope something would show by then. The other two tests I will save for when AF should be late.

 

[diamondlove33]

Diamondlove, I would say you probably caught it haha You did better than I did this month at least.

Eltjuh, I will post the pics I took of the CB. I may take one tomorrow morning with fmu, I will be 14dpo so I would hope something would show by then. The other two tests I will save for when AF should be late.

What does the CB tell you?

 

[Eltjuh]

I don't think they are positive unfortunately!!
Fingers crossed they will turn positive!!!

Diamond, with the CB we mean ClearBlue pregnancy test. So it would tell her if she's pregnant or not..... Maybe you can help ME though.... what does HSG stand for???

 

[Naaxi]

HSG is hysterosalpingogram, hopefully I spelled it properly. It is the first thing a fertility specialist will do with a woman usually, insert a dye in to the uterus that shows up on xray and you can see if there are any blockages or abnormalities. Incidentally, it also makes you very fertile for a few months afterwards.

 

[diamondlove33]

HSG is hysterosalpingogram, hopefully I spelled it properly. It is the first thing a fertility specialist will do with a woman usually, insert a dye in to the uterus that shows up on xray and you can see if there are any blockages or abnormalities. Incidentally, it also makes you very fertile for a few months afterwards.

Exactly - for some woman its super painful.. wasn't too bad for me but my gyno said that it 'clears' out any tissue or minor blockages you may have and some people even say that the dye provides lubrication for the sperm to more easily travel up to the egg... if i were you i would ask to get one just to be sure theres nothing wrong w/ the passageway so to speak.. my doc told me that most women tend to get pregnant within 3 months!

 

[diamondlove33]

I don't think they are positive unfortunately!!
Fingers crossed they will turn positive!!!

Diamond, with the CB we mean ClearBlue pregnancy test. So it would tell her if she's pregnant or not..... Maybe you can help ME though.... what does HSG stand for???

BTW if you search other threads and type in HSG BFP there's tons of woman who have gotten their BFP's within that 3 months! It gave me so much hope!

 

[Eltjuh]

I don't personally think I'd need one. I've not had any problems getting pregnant before! We conceived my son in the first month and the mc was conceived with only BDing once that month (don't worry we did other stuff our sexlife isn't THAT bad ) And that was an accident aswell!!
So I don't think I really have any problems. If anything it's probably hubby's meds (antidepressants) and/or stress, as we're going through quite a bit of stress at the moment with housing.... Long story!!
I was just about to research the effects of antidepressants on sperm btw... Cause I was wondering whether they might affect the quality of the sperm or the 'speed' or quantity.

 

[Eltjuh]

Oh great!! Just found this:
Another recently discovered, little-known side effect of SSRIs is their significant impact on men’s fertility. SSRIs have been found to cut a man's sperm count as well as the normal shape and motility of their sperm by 50 percent. This effect can become evident by the first month after treatment and begins to have a major impact after just three months on an SSRI.

SSRI is a type of antidepressant and one of the types my husband is on.....


So guess where we'll be going this week???

 

[diamondlove33]

Oh great!! Just found this:
Another recently discovered, little-known side effect of SSRIs is their significant impact on men’s fertility. SSRIs have been found to cut a man's sperm count as well as the normal shape and motility of their sperm by 50 percent. This effect can become evident by the first month after treatment and begins to have a major impact after just three months on an SSRI.

SSRI is a type of antidepressant and one of the types my husband is on.....


So guess where we'll be going this week???

I am SO HAPPY to hear that you don't have a problem with getting pregnant ... thats most of the battle anyways.. i'm sure it's your husbands meds that are the cause! If I were you I would head straight to the lab - have an SA done and then research some sperm boosters!! Good thing you found that though .. smart thinking!

 

[Eltjuh]

Well he's been on the antidepressants for a while and we knew it can cause erectile dysfunction, which it did for a while.... but it never said anything about the effects on sperm (and the doctor didn't tell us either, which is annoying, considering he knew we were trying to conceive!). So we're gonna try and see a different doctor now! And fingers crossed they can prescribe him something else.
Don't have much hope for this cycle though. But might look into getting something to boost sperm...

 

[Naaxi]

Glad that you figured that outand are looking in to finding alternatives, eltjuh! And diamondlove, my HSG was SO painful. One of the nurses held my hand and afterwards they let me lay on the table for a few minutes. It was NOT fun lol. And I did not conceive within the three months, all of my expensive ICIs were a waste lol.