Cheers to BFPs in 2-0-1-7!

[abennion]

Sounds like you may need to boost your lining as well. Women with a weak flow, especially after having long cycles, can indicate that your lining isn't getting thick enough to support a healthy pregnancy. Have you been referred to a fertility clinic and done all of their testing, or is it a family doctor prescribing the clomid?

 

[steph1607]

We've been seeing a fertility specialist. He did a transvaginal ultrasound in January and said the lining looked good, and when I asked at my last appointment a couple of weeks ago whether I should be worried, he said that it can happen after being on the pill for so long, and the only way to guarantee a proper flow would be to go back on the pill - which obviously isn't happening!

 

[HopefulB]

Sweden this is amazing news! So excited for you I needed some good news today
Welcome Steph & Kerensa I hope you both get your BFP soon!
Sasha I hope this is the tww that results in BFP!
Abennion I also have 11 ponds to go to healthy BMI! I have been way too lax the last few weeks but back on it from yesterday.
I was really low yesterday, the witch arrived Friday and even though I knew she was on the way it really upset me. I did have a lovely weekend away with friends and felt really good then DH had his test on Monday so we had the morning off, here you have to produce the sample at home and get it to the hospital within an hour. We live 40 mins from the hospital so I said I would drive it there then go to work from Hospital and I was really quiet fine until I got to the hospital and the lady took one look at the form and said I can tell you now you will need to do this again. I don't know what came over me but the flodgates opened. I think it was just the thought of not moving forward? Her offhand attitude (it was a big deal to get this far for us) anyway she obviously saw I was upset and backtracked a little to say see what the doc says as they will still process the sample I think she just forgot this is our life she is talking about not just her job. I was then in a dark place all afternoon thinking we are good people why do we have to jump through so many hoops and have to deal with all these issues etc when other people have no problems at all. I am aware I sound like a whinny child and am sorry about that and I feel loads better today, I just know how difficult it was for OH to get to this stage and now for me to say oh sorry we have to do this again...just grates me!
Anyway! Sorry to moan I hope everyone else is having a really good positive week

 

[steph1607]

Thanks Hopeful!

Don't apologise for needing a moan, I expect we all know that feeling very well. Was the problem that you didn't get the sample to the hospital within the hour? I don't know where you're based but my husband and I had that option but decided it would be less stressful (if not a little embarrassing) for him to book a room at the hospital to do it so there was no time pressure - is that an option for the two of you?

 

[swedengirl]

Just wanted to say thank you all for your well wishes!

To all of you I hope your journey isn't too much longer. I will check in every now and again to see how you are all doing and hope to see some more BFPs. Sending so much baby dust your way!!

Thanks for being here during my crazy moments!

 

[Sheece]

Ahh congrats Swedengirl!! So happy for you

AFM - CD16 today. Still doing OPKS darkest one was yesterday (still not a positive though) and todays was lightest. No notable ewcm yet though :/ I always forget that I never get positive OPK's because of the PCOS until I'm in the middle of doing them So annoying but oh well.

Hoping for a temp rise in the morning!

How are your opks going abe?

 

[HopefulB]

Thanks Steph, no sadly there is no option to produce the sample at the hospital. TBH now I have calmed down and look back it is possible to do in the timeline so I just need to remember that. TBH I don't know what the lady thought was wrong with the sample? She looked at the form and then said we would have to redo it and I just fell to pieces, she then said they would still process it and go from there so I am hopping the Doc will not ask for it to be redone. Its so frustrating as have to take a whole morning off work.
Anyway I am just trying to pationtly wait now for the results and we will keep on trying naturaly this month at least. Thanks for listening to my melt down ladies. It helped me hugely havign somewere to 'talk' about it.

 

[abennion]

It's what we're here for, Hopeful! I don't think I would be as sane as I am about TTC if I didn't have bnb to share my heartaches, meltdowns, wishes and fears. The ladies on this forum are amazing when it comes to support! Hopefully the sample will be okay and your DH won't have to reproduce another one. FX!

Sheece- had dark OPKs on Saturday and Sunday (nowhere near positive though) and then they've been nearly white Monday and Tuesday. I'm just hoping for a positive either today or Friday. I've got an all day seminar on Friday, so it'll be difficult to make it to my IUI appointment if it is then. With my luck though, that's exactly what will happen.

 

[MeepMeepHP]

Congrats Sweden!

This is my first month trying to track my cycle. I've been using the First Response OPK kits and started at day 10--got a very faint line through day 14, then a darker line CDs 15 and 16, which corresponded with EWCM, but it never got as dark as the test line. I was testing when I get home from work around 5-6pm was not holding it for 4 hours beforehand, not sure if that made a difference. This morning, CD 17, my temp rose from 96.8 to 97.6. I assume that means O was CD 15 or 16?

This has been an interesting experience, I never realized how complex it all is. Makes me wonder how anyone gets pregnant by accident!

 

[abennion]

A four hour hold will make all of the difference! It could be that you were getting positive OPKs on CD15 and 16, but without the four hour hold you didn't have enough LH concentrated in your urine. That temp rise definitely sounds like O, but FF will confirm after 3 days of high temps.

 

[steph1607]

Meep - I wonder that too! At least this past year has actually made me learn so much more about female biology - every cloud...!

Ah Hopeful that's a shame but if she didn't give you an actual reason why it couldn't be processed, perhaps she was just being a bit dramatic/having a bad day, and the doctor will be fine with it.

Yesterday was CD8 and 2 days post my fifth clomid tablet so DH and I decided that that seemed like a good time to start BD every other day for a couple of weeks and hope that the clomid tablets actually do something. He was on a late shift so I said I would wait up for him and then we would both just go to bed at the same time. I was on the sofa and kept falling asleep then waking back up - finally looked at my phone at midnight and had a message saying he had arrested someone so would be about 5 hours late home so I should just go to bed and try and get some decent sleep... but obviously by then I was pretty awake! He finally got in at 4:30am and then I only had less than an hour until my alarm so we figured we may as well make the most of being awake!! Now I'm at work and feeling horrendously tired, but at least we managed to stay on schedule!

And there was me thinking this was supposed to be the fun bit with less thought needed!

 

[Fluffycookie]

@Meep
Sheer luck! Things always happen just fine when you don't want them to or don't care, right? If you want something to happen though, it's suddenly a lot more complicated.

@Hopeful
aww I'm sorry you had a bad time, I hope you're feeling all better now! I think TTC can just wear you down emotionally and when you're thin skinned, the smallest thing can be enough to make you break down and cry on a bad day. I totally get that.

@Steph
hello! That story with you and your hubby is so funny, I've been wondering if I'll have to do some crazy scheduling too with my husband flying out for conferences over the summer every now and then... but hoping I might already by pregnant come summer! :3

 

[MeepMeepHP]

A four hour hold will make all of the difference! It could be that you were getting positive OPKs on CD15 and 16, but without the four hour hold you didn't have enough LH concentrated in your urine. That temp rise definitely sounds like O, but FF will confirm after 3 days of high temps.

Ok, thank you! This was day 2 of the same high temp, fingers crossed it will continue.

Does anyone else get a second round of EWCM a couple days after O? I've noticed it both last month and this month...

 

[steph1607]

I said I was going to try and not monitor anything this cycle so as not to stress myself too much (ha!), but I am a bit worried that I barely had any side effects on the clomid, and have felt nothing at all since. I took it CD2-6 and today is CD 10. If it was working should I be seeing or feeling something by now?

 

[abennion]

Not necessarily Steph. I actually Oed way late on the Clomid (CD22 I think, back then I was Oing on CD16-17). I felt absolutely nothing once I stopped the pills. It was a little frustrating, but hang in there!

 

[steph1607]

Thanks Abe. Frustrating is definitely the word for it. Feel like I've seen a million pregnancy announcements on Facebook over the past couple of days too which doesn't help. I'll keep my fingers crossed and carry on looking for signs over the next couple of weeks. At least the weather here has changed and it now beautifully sunny and warm ready for the weekend!
I made the mistake of clicking on your journal yesterday at work - that was good couple of hours where I did zero things I was supposed to be doing! But thank you so much for sharing your journey. Everyone really has made me feel less alone this week.

 

[abennion]

Even I try not to dwell in there for too long haha! I'm glad we could be of help

 

[HopefulB]

Oh Steph I know what you mean about the pregnancy announcements on FB I just had nother one today. So exited for them but first I felt sad for me then guilty for not thinking of them and how amazing it is for them!
But its the weekend now ladies! I hope you all have an amazing one

 

[abennion]

Those who have done line OPKs before... is this a positive?

 

[MeepMeepHP]

Those who have done line OPKs before... is this a positive?

Is that First Response? That's what I used and mine never got darker than that. But I'm on day 3 of raised temps so I think that confirms it was O.