long cycles support thread :) the yelping vaginas club! (closed group)

[Rachel789]

newmrs-I am happy to hear you are feeling better about TTC! We would love it if you stuck around

luvu-I agree with what the others said. I would try opks and skip the fertility monitor because your cycles are too long for it.

Dee-Yay for a higher temp! your chart is looking good and I will be stalking it in the days to come, I really hope this is it for you!!

Raven-What a cool story about saving that bird. That sounds like something I would do. I hope O is around the corner for you

 

[mrsc81]

Ive got my 12wk scan tomorrow girls Hope everything is well with bubs! Been listening with the doppler every day, will post pic in the afternoon

 

[Rachel789]

How exciting, can't wait to see the scan pic!!

Louise-When did you first hear the heartbeat on the doppler? Is it hard to find?

 

[mrsc81]

9 weeks exactly, and i couldnt find it on first attempt, but tried again about an hour later and found it quite easily. It was low down and slightly to the right, but it has since moved and i was finding it in the centre for a week or so but past 2 days its now slightly to the left, i can usually find it within 30 seconds now.
Theres some good youtube videos on how to find and the sound to look for.

 

[CupCakeFairy]

Ive got my 12wk scan tomorrow girls Hope everything is well with bubs! Been listening with the doppler every day, will post pic in the afternoon

Hey! Good luck!

I'm thinking about getting a doppller as the midwife at the booking appointment has muddled my dates and I'm sure I'll be diddled out a scan so was wondering where you got your and why you chose that one (also, if it was cheap )

How exciting, can't wait to see the scan pic!!

Louise-When did you first hear the heartbeat on the doppler? Is it hard to find?

Rachel, couldn't help but notice your only one day ahead of me and you were also diagnosed PCOS in August! Hope you don't mind me saying, but yay! I was diagnosed with PCOS (and suspected blocked tubes) at my HSG on the 6th of August an then 10 days later I ovulated and 14 days after that I got the first ever BFP!



I'm just happy to see another PCOS defier!

 

[mrsc81]

I got the sonoline b as it seemed the most popular and also most people picked up hb really early, for some at 8 wks! Got mine off ebay was £42.50 brand new, i get fed up with bidding on ebay lately as everything goes at a 'buy it now' price or more, even for 2nd hand items!

 

[cmwilson]

luvu12 - Hi! Welcome! I agree with the others that OPKs would be a great thing to try. I also agree with Dee (seabean) that you should try to chart your temperature every morning. It helps you to determine whether you O'd or not and you're not wasting those HPTs! I hope you stick around! This is a really great group.

Dee - Hooray for the higher temp! You know, having trouble sleeping can be a symptom. Just sayin. I really want this for you!

Raven - That's such a sweet story about the bird! I teared up at the end! Hormones I guess! One of my cats is named Kit! The white one in my picture.

Louise - YAY for scan! That must be so exciting! I can't wait to see the pics! Will you start telling the general population after the scan?

Cupcake - I'm only a little bit behind you and Rachel and I have PCO too! TAKE THAT PCOS!

Nothing new here, feeling good.

 

[mrsc81]

I'll be facebooking it tomorrow
One way to let everyone know!

 

[CupCakeFairy]

Cupcake - I'm only a little bit behind you and Rachel and I have PCO too! TAKE THAT PCOS!

Nothing new here, feeling good.

Damn Right! And I love that you are feeling good!

I did post in this thread a while ago and then I quit bnb for a while and when I came back you were all so friendly and I just missed so much to just jump back in (and I'm an introvert, which makes even Forum 'socialising' difficult) and I never wanted to seem nosey but with all the high temps and ovulating and BFPs I thought 'what the heck!?'

Yay! there's a wee group of us

Hope everyone's alright

 

[MommyDream]

*raises hand* another PCO here.... Cupcake-I want to bake some cupcakes now!

Good luck tomorrow Louise!

 

[CupCakeFairy]

Hey MommyDream! I don't even know why he said PCOS They only symptom I have are irregular/anovulatory cycles and loadsa cysts on me ovaries!

Lets just prove 'em all wrong!

 

[Rachel789]

cupcake-I always love hearing about other people having success after PCOS! Congrats!! I don't really have many symptoms of it either. I just have the irregular cycles and the "text book string of pearls" as my dr says.

The cycle I got my BFP I had the saline sono and all was clear with that. I went to visit with my RE to go over results from bloodwork and he wanted to do another scan to see my ovaries, it suprised me when he said he saw a corpus luteum and that I had ovulated recently. It was my first cycle off clomid after being on it for 3 months so I figured my cycle would go back to crazy long 50+ days and instead I o'ed on CD 18. My dr. said the clomid may have still been in my system a bit. I was going to get the HSG the following cycle and then the following I was going to be put on Femara and have an IUI but I never made it that far because I got my BFP

 

[CupCakeFairy]

cupcake-I always love hearing about other people having success after PCOS! Congrats!! I don't really have many symptoms of it either. I just have the irregular cycles and the "text book string of pearls" as my dr says.

The cycle I got my BFP I had the saline sono and all was clear with that. I went to visit with my RE to go over results from bloodwork and he wanted to do another scan to see my ovaries, it suprised me when he said he saw a corpus luteum and that I had ovulated recently. It was my first cycle off clomid after being on it for 3 months so I figured my cycle would go back to crazy long 50+ days and instead I o'ed on CD 18. My dr. said the clomid may have still been in my system a bit. I was going to get the HSG the following cycle and then the following I was going to be put on Femara and have an IUI but I never made it that far because I got my BFP

Amazing! SO thrilled for you! Glad you missed the HSG.

I had mine on the 6th of August and had 2 blocked tubes. Was due to have a lap and dye on the 10th! lol

Seems like another symptom of the PCO/PCOS is sneaky BFPs!

 

[Rachel789]

Were they able to unblock them during the HSG? I would assume they had to if you got pregnant, right?

I heard if your tubes are blocked it is painful, did it hurt?

Yes very sneaky BFPs

DH and I were so releived because my insurance doesnt cover infertility so we were about to spend a ton of money on treatments, what great timing!

 

[CupCakeFairy]

Were they able to unblock them during the HSG? I would assume they had to if you got pregnant, right?

I heard if your tubes are blocked it is painful, did it hurt?

Yes very sneaky BFPs

DH and I were so releived because my insurance doesnt cover infertility so we were about to spend a ton of money on treatments, what great timing!

They do say that blocked tubes are more painful. The consultant said that the uterus sometimes reacts to the dye by contracting and from the way my tubes were blocked, that's what he thought, hence the lap and dye! Regarding the pain: I don't know how I coped. Really... My pain threshold is crap to start with but then he couldn't get the pressure for the first catheter and needed to use a smaller one. It was really sore, if I never had to leave that room and see hundreds of other people, I would have just cried and cried! Really glad you didn't need one, both for your cervix and finances

I felt pain in the 24 hours following the HSG which colud have been my tubes unblocking from the trauma lol But they may never have been blocked in the first place?!

So maybes it helped and maybes it didn't!

ETA I think, from reading that, I may still be traumatised from the experience!

 

[Rachel789]

I have heard some horror stories about the HSG, I was pretty scared about having it. I have heard some people find it really painful and some not at all. When I had the saline sono they used a catheter and I was worried about that but I didn't even feel them put it in. I had some bad cramps for a few seconds but that was it, it wasnt too bad.

I guess you will never know if it helped or not. But all that matters in the end is you got your BFP

 

[cmwilson]

Oh Cupcake, I'm so sorry your HSG experience was so traumatic. At least you don't have to do it again!

I had my HSG back in April and it wasn't bad at all. I guess when there are blockages it is more painful. Something obviously worked for you though so that's all that matters!

Side note: Nat, where are you? I miss you!

 

[mrsc81]

First time i was measured she said 11wks 6 days but then decided on 11wks 5 days, i had the downs test, fluid was 0.9 and i had a blood test. 20 week scan booked for 5th November

https://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh163/klassykitty81/scan3.jpg

 

[rmsh1]

Lovely scan pic! Hope mine is as nice

 

[Rachel789]

Aww Louise thats amazing!! What a great scan pic

I wish I could stop worrying but I guess that is normal this early on. I just really want to get to the day of my scan and see a heartbeat so I can be reassured. My breasts were finally sore for a few days but yesterday they were much less sore and today they aren't really sore at all and I feel perfectly fine, zero symptoms. It worries me that the few symptoms I had are gone I just hope everything is ok in there!