And year number 4 of trying begins...

[Moondance]

Odd thing is, my boobs are still sore (but only if I touch them), and I've been on and off nauseous all day.
AF is due tomorrow.... so we shall see what happens.

 

[Dini]

Yep let's hope she doesn't show!

 

[Moondance]

How are you doing in your cycle Dini?
Feeling positive at all? I'm keeping fingers crossed for you!

 

[Moondance]

Sooooo.... my periods were due today and as yet.... no trace of them. Thats AFTER having sex too. Nothing happening.
La da da.
I'm giving it a week. If I don't have AF by this time next week, I'll get the doctor to blood test me.

 

[haleiwamama]

Sooooo.... my periods were due today and as yet.... no trace of them. Thats AFTER having sex too. Nothing happening.
La da da.
I'm giving it a week. If I don't have AF by this time next week, I'll get the doctor to blood test me.

Moondance, OMG you're brave!! I'm counting the days until Sunday, which is when Im supposed to test, and had to stay away from babyandbump in order to keep anxiety away....

Good luck to you! I hope this is your turn!

 

[Dini]

Agreed, Moondance you are quite brave! Good for you!

I'm not feeling positive, AF is due Saturday and all my normal symptoms are showing, upset tummy, mild AF like cramps, moodiness at times.

I did get my results for my progesterone, it was 15.7, so better than the 9 last cycle, they wanted it above 15 for a clomid cycle so it is but with as much clomid as I took plus a booster hcg shot a week ago I'd have thought it would be higher 7dpo. Oh well should take it as good news.

Still a super faint line on the hpt today from the trigger, I've been testing it out. It's more like a squinter line so by tomorrow should be gone. Would like it to still be there but darker of course.

I had to go to the ER last night as I've been in pain for 4 days and unable to eat and yesterday couldn't even drink from the abdominal pain and nausea, I was pretty sure it was my gallbladder and wanted to make sure it wasn't affecting my liver or pancreas. I was right, a stone is stuck in the outlet of my gallbladder, so I need to have it removed but until we know if I'm pregnant or not I can't do much. They did do a beta for me so if I need it out in a few days they can do another beta and determine if it was the trigger or real, and it was only 13 so not even high enough to say I am for sure pregnant, but I was only 10dpo. I just have to wait until Saturday I guess.

 

[Moondance]

oooh, fingers crossed for you Dini honey, hope it's positive.

But oh my god, that sounds so painful!!! Good luck with getting it dealt with.


I am now officially late.
No AF yesterday, no AF as yet today.
My nipples are itchy like crazy and when I go to the toilet there is white stuff, thick... reminiscent of the icky white stuff you get when you have thrush, but without the smell. It's so thick it doesn't absorb into my knickers, just sits there.
Very odd.
La di da di da.
Lol

 

[Moondance]

As part of my first cycle of clomid I was blood tested on days 23 and 28 of my cycle... tests were for Progesterone, Estrogen and LH.
The 28 day test was done Tuesday. Today is Thursday and my doctors office was trying to ring me.
Curiouser and curioser

 

[haleiwamama]

I am curious too!! Hope is a BFP for you!! Keep us posted!

 

[Moondance]

Today I got my CD 23 and 28 bloods back.
They checked estrogen, progesterone and luteinizing hormone...

On cycle day 23:

Progesterone:: 40.1 nmol/L (In luteal phase should be between 5.3 and 86)
LH :: 7.0 IU/L (luteal phase should be between 1 and 11.4)
Oestradiol :: 573 pmol/L (luteal phase should be between 161 and 774)


Cycle day 28 results::

Progesterone:: 19.7 nmol/L
LH :: 3.6 IU/L
Oestradiol::
(I don't know because she gave me the wrong printed pages and I appear to be missing the estrogen information for this... Grrrr).

But whilst at doctors office, she pee stocked me when I said I was late... It was negative, so she sent me for bloods..... But several hours layer when going to the bathroom I've had blood in my mucus when I wipe after going to the bathroom.
So, I expect to start full flow tomorrow. :'(
Had so been hoping this was it...

This means however, that I didn't ovulate when I thought I did. Despite ovulation pain AND my boobs immediately hurting after the pains.... I somehow didn't ovulate then.
So looks like I need to buy a new thermometer and start temping again for this next cycle.

 

[Dini]

Aww moondance I'm sorry. I was hoping for you!

Sounded like your cycle day 24 labs were great like a 7 dpo set. Hmm.

Afm I had to leave work early because my gallbladder is really making me sick and hurting so badly. Rescheduled my appt with the surgeon to Monday so hopefully they can remove it next week. My family doctor gave me a cocktail of drugs today and thank god for him! I was able to drink some powerade finally. I'm so dehydrated and everything causes pain and nausea. Looks like I'll make it till Monday!

Decided to poas tonight and walked away from it. Came back 30ish min later and it had a line but I know it was an evap because I saw nothing at first. Took another 2 hrs later and thought I saw a faint line that DH doesn't see but I know AF is on her way. Probably tomorrow. And the tests. Probably a bad batch of wondfo's again.

 

[Moondance]

Oh no
But maybe with your pains, this cycle isn't the better one to be pregnant. Safer to be able to remove the stone without having to worry about baby too.
AF is here in full swing today. Not impressed.
Cramping really bad and have already bloodied up one pair of underpants.
Last cycle I had really bad period pain in the middle of our Christmas party. I spent half of it on painkillers trying to dull the period pain.
Tomorrow is our Australia day party. And it looks like I'm going to be having bad pains again. FFS. :'(

 

[Dini]

Yes you are right about that. I would rather not be pregnant when I have surgery.

I'm so sorry you're in pain and I hope it doesn't ruin your party. Why must we go through this monthly? Lol

 

[Moondance]

La la laaaaa..... Just finished round 2 of clomid.
Turns out last cycle, I actually somehow accidentally missed taking one, as I know I took them all from this cycle, and there's one left, and I started out with 6 this cycle....so I know it was deffo from last cycle I didn't take it.
Whoops. Could have sworn I did though. Grrrrrr

 

[Dini]

Good luck this cycle Moondance! I had surgery Wednesday and am doing pretty well, just sore and bloated. We are taking a few cycles off though since we are out of money and this surgery is going to cost a pretty penny as well, so we probably won't start again until May or so. I think I'll use some OPK's and if I get a positive I'll fill my trigger prescription that I still have at the pharmacy and give it a go on our own but since I don't O on my own, I am not expecting anything.

Guess I'll focus on getting healthy and healing from surgery and getting some things taken care of that have been neglected thanks to TTC. I'm sad I can't do another cycle, we just want a baby so badly, but I'm also thinking of looking into adoption while we continue to try, and will start by getting our home up to par for the home study so if we do go down that road that will be a hurdle we don't have to stress about.

I'll check back on you soon. That's weird you had an extra pill, but once I did and I took all of them, the pharmacy just counted wrong and gave me an extra.

 

[Moondance]

The pack only has 10 tablets in it.. I'm meant to take 5 per cycle, but i obviously just missed one last cycle. Thought I took it but didn't.
Happens.

Sucks that you can't keep trying for the time being, but maybe a break will be good for the spirit. It's always good to take a break when things become too stressful and disheartening.
In Australia, thus far, the clomid and stuff isn't expensive for me, it's just the cost of the prescriptions everything else gets bulk billed onto Medicare... Thankfully we have that here.
Hoping this cycle does it.

 

[Moondance]

Ugh. For the past 4 days its been nothing but headaches headaches headaches. (

 

[Hoping4aBoy]

I used to frequent these forums heavily when I first started trying... I was even part of a group all trying to conceive together.
It got awkward when there were only 2 of us left as the others all inevitably got pregnant and left the TTC forums for the world of being pregnant and new mums.

But now, I'm back.
I've been trying all this time. Still with very little success. But... Now I've been started on Clomid. I hope it works, the whole TTC ride has been fairly discouraging.


Anyway, how's everyone else?

I'm approaching the 4 year mark. So I understand how you may be feeling.

 

[Moondance]

Hoping4aboy.... You should join us on this thread.
I'm in the 2WW. Where are you up to?

 

[Hoping4aBoy]

Hoping4aboy.... You should join us on this thread.
I'm in the 2WW. Where are you up to?

I am CD8 and currently taking injectables. We are doing our second IUI this month. I would love to join this thread!