Cycle buddies we can be !!!:)

[Lol78]

i am in the same boat as you lol78...my temp can just drop like that too...sometimes the day before Af and sometimes the morning of AF....

so i am still waiting and will see on friday where i am at...i usually have a 26 days cycle but last month with clomid it was 28 so saturday will be CD28 for me !

Ha ha! Just looking back on this. I hope I am really in the same boat as you Miel - that would be a fab boat to be in !!!

 

[Lol78]

Well my temperature dropped today and I am feeling quite crampy so I guess it's just a matter of time.

Miel, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you too, really hoping we both get our this time round. I don't know much about clomid. Do they check you while you are on it to see if you are ovulating (that's what it's for isn't it?)?

I enquired with the doctor last time I was there what we are entitled to. Apparently it's one "free" cycle of IVF at something like a 25% success rate then you are on your own and that's mega expensive. There is no way we can afford to go private, so I'm just really hoping it happens soon. Some in the UK don't qualify for anything, some qualify for multiple attempts. It's all based on where you live - a postcode lottery. It's not really fair because we all pay the same taxes. At least we get one "free" attempt - it's better than none. Also, they will only put back 1 embryo, so even less chance. Im really hoping it doesn't come to that but beginning to realise that it may not happen without some help.

What upsets me is that most people have a baby and never have to consider how much they "cost". I mean, how many people do you come across who say, "I'm saving to buy a baby". That's effectively what it is - if you don't have the money, you can't have the baby. It sucks.

I know. It's crazy when you start to think about all of the people in the world who are oblivious to the struggles of infertility. I admit I was one of them. I thought I'd get pregnant right away. My sister always did! I thought I'd have a baby by now and I definitely never considered meds. It is what it is though and I've come to terms with it...
Sorry your temp dropped hun. xx

I must admit that I wasn't naieve to the struggles of infertility as my best friend has been through it.
So I actually went in with a bad attitude of "it won't happen to me" so have never really felt positive about it. I sometimes wonder if that has had an effect but I really can't make myself think in another way and the more cycles that pass, the more I feel like it just won't happen. But then I look at Miel and how positive she has been and how hard she has tried and how it has paid off and I try again, really hard to be positive.

 

[Lol78]

Aww hun I kmow exactly how you feel. I am not entitled to any free ivf goes as OH already has kids from prev relationship. There is no way i can afford IVF and to have IUI at a top clinic works out at just under £1000 a go

That sucks Krissi. How can that be right? YOU as an individual deserve treatment (and pay your taxes for it). OOOooooohh, it makes me so cross.

 

[Lol78]

Someone stop me, I have post-itis. Look at me and my big mouth - five or six posts in a row!! I'm off to work now - booooo!

 

[BizyBee]

Lol, if FF is telling you to test, you MUST be pregnant! I love how you worded that post. Good luck hun. Hope you can join our beloved Miel!!!

Although it's been difficult, I have tried to stay positive. Once I realized that women only have a 20% chance each month, I eased up on my expectations and it seemed to work. I was really down at first when I realized my cycles weren't normal. Now, I'm sort of used to it.

 

[Lol78]

Well a large temperature drop today is a fanfare to herald the arrival of the evil one tomorrow morning so it looks like I'm out for April. No 2009 baby for me then.

Better luck to the rest of you. Got to dash!

 

[BizyBee]

Well a large temperature drop today is a fanfare to herald the arrival of the evil one tomorrow morning so it looks like I'm out for April. No 2009 baby for me then.

Better luck to the rest of you. Got to dash!

 

[krissi]

Morning girls hope you all had a good weekend. Lol sorry she got you hun xx

No exciting news fro me I am afraid, pretty sure i didn't O this cycle so far so not to hopeful and only DTD twice so i am writing this cycle off officially!!

 

[Lol78]

Hi girls! Thank you.
Krissi, that's a real shame about having to write off this cycle - how do you know you didn't ovulate - temperatures? Could you not just be a bit late ovulating?

As you can see, she got me yesterday. So now dh has to "do the deed" and give his sample and I need my next blood tests of Thursday. We will book an appointment to get the results after Easter. I had a couple of really really very insensitive comments this weekend - I'm not going to go into it now because I will just get really mad again, but just feeling a little bit sensitive right now.

We are getting a little sparse in here now that Miel has left us! Great news for her!

 

[krissi]

Lol I am pretty sure I haven't O'd because with Clomid you O 5 - 8 days after last pill and I am past the now and I had no O pains, or EWCM so pretty sure I haven't but the blood tests next tuesday will tell me more.

Sorry people have been insensitive, you can always PM me if you want to chat xx Good luck with the blood tests and OHs SA tests.

Our group is getting very sparse, hopefully it will get smaller and smaller now until we are all preg buddies!!

 

[Lol78]

Lol I am pretty sure I haven't O'd because with Clomid you O 5 - 8 days after last pill and I am past the now and I had no O pains, or EWCM so pretty sure I haven't but the blood tests next tuesday will tell me more.

Sorry people have been insensitive, you can always PM me if you want to chat xx Good luck with the blood tests and OHs SA tests.

Our group is getting very sparse, hopefully it will get smaller and smaller now until we are all preg buddies!!

Here here!! We want a non-existant group very soon!!

Thanks hun. I have dealt with one of the situations, I have actually emailed the person concerned to tell them how I feel - it's more than just a silly comment, it was said in front of people who do not know that we are trying and so I saw it as a major breach of trust by a friend. And the second comment was made by an idiot who I have never met before and will most likely never meet again. He was just a dick and not worthy of me giving a sh*t about. I just hope that my friend understands where I am coming from. But I had to say something.

I didn't know that about clomid. Well I guess like you said, you will find out more next week with the blood tests. Do you not temp? I guess if you get ov pains there is probably no need to. I just find it helps me. For example, my last cycle was (I think) 33 days long, so well after my usual 28 days. If I hadn't temp'd and didn't know that I ovulated late, I would be going mad thinking perhaps I was pregnant. Ok, I was a bit hopeful anyway , but I would have been worse!

How much longer do you have left on clomid?

 

[krissi]

Clomid gives me hot flushes so i found temping a bit unreliable tbh. I have another 4 cycles of 50mg clomid before i go back to my consultant so we will see!!

 

[Lol78]

Oh, I have learnt something else about clomid today.

Good luck sweetie.

 

[BizyBee]

Hey, girls! I was away yesterday so sorry for being MIA.

Every cycle my body gears up to ovulate, but it doesn't happen. Yesterday (CD34) I got a dark OPK and tons of EWCM. I'm hoping that this is finally the month that I actually release an egg. We've been every other day, so giving it our best shot! That would be unlikely but great if I actually got a bfp before starting Clomid. PMA!

 

[krissi]

Aww Bizy thats great news go girl xxx

 

[Lol78]

Hey Bizy, that's fantastic hon! and really hoping it's your time.
xx

 

[miel]

i am not going anywhere !!!

it's still my buddies thread after all !!!

like you said lol78 many time during those 20 over cycles i thought it will never happen ...it's hard to imagine yourself pregnant as that point really this cycle was a hard one for me like you krissi i only BD 3 times during the ovulation time i believe and was not so certain it was in off ...
this cycle i felt no symptons at all and i still don't have any !!!
this all ttc thing is so unfair i still believe why it took me 20 cycle and other it will take 2 to get the bfp ? why some get the bfp on the first round of clomid while other it take up to 6 ? i still don't get it it's unfair for sure

so like i said in my lttc journal my ttc journey is just to precious to leave it and forget about it ...YOU ARE ALL TO PRECIOUS TO ME FOR ME TO LEAVE YOU!!

i am staying in this thread!!!

 

[BizyBee]

Yay Miel! I am so glad to hear you'll be staying!

Another dark line today...

 

[krissi]

Aww Miel thats so sweet, I am glad you are staying about your story gives me hope.

Bizy woohoo for another dark line, I have a good feeling for you hun xx

 

[Lol78]

Great, Miel's still coming to see us! We would be a little lost without our cycle buddy founding member. I'm still so inspired by your positivity throughout this all and it just goes to show how it pays off in the end.


Go Bizy Go!!!