MAY we all be blessed with baby! May 2013 and beyond (BFFs Seeking BFPs)

[burgbrandy]

Dollar tree opks worked well for me. Im no help. Sorry.

 

[chulie]

Ack. I am to the point of peeing every 5 hours (which I'm scared is going to give me a uti), and still negative on the opk. Has anyone else used the dollar tree opks??

Pennymarie, you can go 5 hours without peeing??? Wow! I rarely make it to 2 hours but that's because I drink so much water (about 1.5 hours while at work from 7:30 to 3pm, plus about 2-3 cups of tea per day and water at home). I doubt I'll be able to use extra peeing as an accurate symptom

(Hope you don't have a UTI and nope, never used dollar tree opks, nor any other opks (can't get them where i live) and not sure what dollar tree is!!)

Oh newbie this is me to a tee!!!! I seriously pee every 45 minutes. I purposely have to stop drinking water 1/2 hour before my day is over or I won't make it home!! Hahaah. When I got pregnant the peeing really neve changed at all! Only difference was at night. Not pregnant I could slee through the night without peeing...but once I was preggo..no way. Haha. I used to think there was something wrong with me...but my dr said nope..apparently I just LOVE to drink too much water! Hahaa

 

[OurLilFlu]

Aliko! You're definitely not being a Debbie downer I was just misunderstanding your situation. Ya I was never very 'good' with the pill and once when I was younger did also do the morning after pill once... It was actually my bad pill missing that got me off them, with a 42 day cycle and every pg symptoms in the book, stupid hormones. I think lots of women worry about their fertility even when they havent tried or ntnp, when others are just sneezing on tests and getting a BFP. It'll come!

 

[Mme2kdee]

Ok all...it is one of those days where i feel very much out this month... I just found out 2 more people I am close with are pregnant now. I am hoping so much I am wrong and am not out!
Sorry -- had to vent lol

 

[pennymarie]

Ack. I am to the point of peeing every 5 hours (which I'm scared is going to give me a uti), and still negative on the opk. Has anyone else used the dollar tree opks??

Pennymarie, you can go 5 hours without peeing??? Wow! I rarely make it to 2 hours but that's because I drink so much water (about 1.5 hours while at work from 7:30 to 3pm, plus about 2-3 cups of tea per day and water at home). I doubt I'll be able to use extra peeing as an accurate symptom

(Hope you don't have a UTI and nope, never used dollar tree opks, nor any other opks (can't get them where i live) and not sure what dollar tree is!!)

Its just an American Store (maybe in Canada too?) where everything is just $1. So I can buy 10 opks at a time, or even 20 for the price of the name brand ones. They are called New Choice. Everyone I've talked to who has used their pregnancy tests or opks say they are just as accurate, but I should've gotten a postive by now

 

[pennymarie]

Dollar tree opks worked well for me. Im no help. Sorry.

Did you get a gradual darker line until postive, or was the second line very faint until *wham* positive. Cause on other websites people say its the second situation...its driving me nuts. I'm scared I missed it because I started testing on CD 14. And the lines are SO faint. Like no LH at all

 

[MamaBear93]

I never got added to the list Af is supposed to be here on the 31st

 

[kirstyjane13]

I did an opk yesterday and test line was quite dark but not quite as dark as control line.... did another today and there is hardly no test line at all ... is that normal to have a dark line then nothing. ..surely it should be getting darker this close to suspected o day xx

 

[burgbrandy]

Dollar tree opks worked well for me. Im no help. Sorry.

Did you get a gradual darker line until postive, or was the second line very faint until *wham* positive. Cause on other websites people say its the second situation...its driving me nuts. I'm scared I missed it because I started testing on CD 14. And the lines are SO faint. Like no LH at all

My cycle works like this: i get dark lines at first and then they fade so i think i missed my surge cuz they get lighter, but then bam! Positive! Then they stay dark the rest of my cycle. Keep in mind, this is how MY body works and doesnt mean urs is the same. Make sure u are testing twice a day, about 12 hours apart or so, and not fmu. Lh is produced during waking hours and peaks for the day between 2-6 pm.

 

[MamaPeaches]

Ok all...it is one of those days where i feel very much out this month... I just found out 2 more people I am close with are pregnant now. I am hoping so much I am wrong and am not out!
Sorry -- had to vent lol

I'm sorry I know how that is! Both my sister and sister in law are newly pregnant and it's not easy when your waiting on your BFP! But it's not over till that ugly witch comes along, my FX are for you!

 

[Ruskiegirl]

I always have a line on opks but I get a gradual increase in darkness leading up to O and it declines afterwards , I start testing myself with Wondfo OPKS and Dollar Tree Opks on cd 9 or 10 and test until it isnt positive anymore

 

[J_Lynn]

Welp - the dr put me on 2.5mg of Femara today. Cycle day 3,4, and 5 - then I have to go back in on CD11 or 12 and have an ultrasound done to see if my folicle is doing what it's supposed to be doing. So, I am now just waiting for AF to get here. I had a blood pregnancy test done just to make extra sure I wasn't pregnant - which, why does it take so long for some of the doctors to get back to yall about them? He had mine in 15 minutes.....so that's fishy for some of these doctors that take all day! But anywhoo - so now I just have to wait for AF to get here, start the femara and see how it goes on CD11 or 12, whenever I can get in. He is hoping that with me having an issue making fertile CM that the femara will help that out. I am also having to take 1 baby aspirin every day. I guess there is a clinic study showing that 1 baby aspirin a day helps with infertility. Whodathunkit. lol

So now I have to take:

Femara 2.5mg CD3,4,5
Metformin 1500mg daily
Vit B6 500mg daily
Vit d12 50,000 units weekly
Low-dose steroid 1/2 tablet twice daily
Vaginal progesterone day peak+3 through peak+12
prenatal daily
81mg chewable baby aspirin

There is something else I am forgetting .... dang it .... well I'm too lazy to go look. But whatever, I am so sick of pills. lol THIS BETTER WORK!

I did ask him about IUIs and the "what ifs" if I have to do them - they're only a couple hundred dollars at my clinic - I was scared when some people were talking about $1,000 a pop. So I was thrilled he said that. But, he said we can use the femara for up to 12 months so he said we will talk about IUIs and other options after a solid 6 months of the femara. I think I will have to do IUIs, since I don't make fertile CM - but I am just letting him do his thing and he is the #1 doctor in West TN and the #3 in the entire state, so he knows his stuff. I just have to trust him.

Here's to all of us being knocked up in June!!!!

 

[chulie]

Welp - the dr put me on 2.5mg of Femara today. Cycle day 3,4, and 5 - then I have to go back in on CD11 or 12 and have an ultrasound done to see if my folicle is doing what it's supposed to be doing. So, I am now just waiting for AF to get here. I had a blood pregnancy test done just to make extra sure I wasn't pregnant - which, why does it take so long for some of the doctors to get back to yall about them? He had mine in 15 minutes.....so that's fishy for some of these doctors that take all day! But anywhoo - so now I just have to wait for AF to get here, start the femara and see how it goes on CD11 or 12, whenever I can get in. He is hoping that with me having an issue making fertile CM that the femara will help that out. I am also having to take 1 baby aspirin every day. I guess there is a clinic study showing that 1 baby aspirin a day helps with infertility. Whodathunkit. lol

So now I have to take:

Femara 2.5mg CD3,4,5
Metformin 1500mg daily
Vit B6 500mg daily
Vit d12 50,000 units weekly
Low-dose steroid 1/2 tablet twice daily
Vaginal progesterone day peak+3 through peak+12
prenatal daily
81mg chewable baby aspirin

There is something else I am forgetting .... dang it .... well I'm too lazy to go look. But whatever, I am so sick of pills. lol THIS BETTER WORK!

I did ask him about IUIs and the "what ifs" if I have to do them - they're only a couple hundred dollars at my clinic - I was scared when some people were talking about $1,000 a pop. So I was thrilled he said that. But, he said we can use the femara for up to 12 months so he said we will talk about IUIs and other options after a solid 6 months of the femara. I think I will have to do IUIs, since I don't make fertile CM - but I am just letting him do his thing and he is the #1 doctor in West TN and the #3 in the entire state, so he knows his stuff. I just have to trust him.

Here's to all of us being knocked up in June!!!!

Yes when my SIL was having fertility issues she had to take baby aspirin. Apparently it helps to increase the quality of the eggs..strengthens them??? Can't remember the medical term but ya...it's for the eggs...good luck. Sounds like your dr is amazing and totally on the ball!!!!!!

 

[J_Lynn]

Yeah, he's amazing He's Catholic, and I am also - so we have that in common and down here it's hard to find other Catholics (Everyone is southern Baptist around here) and my husband is ALWAYS involved in EVERYTHING and is always at all the appointments and asks questions, takes notes, makes sure I listen to everything (even the bloody no wine rule ... ugh!) and the Dr really, really likes that and is always talking him up because of it. So over the last couple years, we've just bonded with him.

Although last month I could have slapped him because I am deathly allergic to all antibiotics, and he sure did say - "Well, I am going to put you on an antibiotic, that is known to help increase CM ... so I am going to put you on pennicillin for about 10 days" and I looked at him like he just stabbed me in the heart. I said, "NO WAY - that will kill me!!" he said, "OH THAT'S RIGHT! I'm so sorry! Ok, low-dose steroid for you then!"

That was the only time he almost messed up, but of course it's nothing I wouldn't have caught - but still, and I gave him a pass on that because he had just finished being up for like 3 days straight almost because of labor and delivery calls at the hospital plus his clinic time. So, he got a pass on that one

 

[FrancoRie710]

Yeah, he's amazing He's Catholic, and I am also - so we have that in common and down here it's hard to find other Catholics (Everyone is southern Baptist around here) and my husband is ALWAYS involved in EVERYTHING and is always at all the appointments and asks questions, takes notes, makes sure I listen to everything (even the bloody no wine rule ... ugh!) and the Dr really, really likes that and is always talking him up because of it. So over the last couple years, we've just bonded with him.

Although last month I could have slapped him because I am deathly allergic to all antibiotics, and he sure did say - "Well, I am going to put you on an antibiotic, that is known to help increase CM ... so I am going to put you on pennicillin for about 10 days" and I looked at him like he just stabbed me in the heart. I said, "NO WAY - that will kill me!!" he said, "OH THAT'S RIGHT! I'm so sorry! Ok, low-dose steroid for you then!"

That was the only time he almost messed up, but of course it's nothing I wouldn't have caught - but still, and I gave him a pass on that because he had just finished being up for like 3 days straight almost because of labor and delivery calls at the hospital plus his clinic time. So, he got a pass on that one

What's the "no wine rule?"

As I mentioned in a previous post, wine is my consultation prize for not being preg; at least I can drink!

If there's some definitive "no wine rule" I don't know what I'll do...

 

[nikkilucky77]

Ok ladies...i took this last night at 6 dpo with a 2 hour hold. I swear i see something. This pic was taken about 10 minutes after i took it. Wondfo this morning with fmu had a shadow line. Saving my other frer for friday morning at 9 dpo! Hope this isnt a fluke cuz 6 dpo seems way too early.

I see something too! I hope it is your bfp

 

[EAandBA_TTC]

So I think staying super hydrated is messing with my OPKs... Or else my ovulation is delayed this month...
Has anyone noticed diluted urine messing with their tests? I use cheap ones from Amazon, and test every time I pee for the week... So faint so far this week

 

[burgbrandy]

I always try to not drink anything after lunch and hold for at least 2 hours before I test. However, I can get positives with no hold during my surge. My darkest positive this cycle was at 8 pm and I held for maybe 45 mins cuz I drank 3 glasses of water! I use those same opks.

 

[Hopeful2014]

@chulie Thanks! I'm so glad you found us as well!

@FrancoRie710 I'm sorry. I hate the dreaded temp drop. It's depressing to wake up and see the drop and know what it usually means. Let me know if you need to be moved to another date or to TBA for now.

@omgbaby I hope you feel better soon.

@ALiKO I understand about not testing. I am nervous about testing too early. I always get a slight/large drop on 13 dpo so I know what's happening by then usually. I also understand about worrying if I can get pregnant. I have never been pregnant, I've never really had a pregnancy scare, and everything seems 'normal'. I've been with my husband for twelve years, not married that long since it started in high school, but we always used protection before trying. I feel so funny thinking of those times when I was like, are you sure nothing got out of it and then I would be nervous. HA! Of course I was much more naive then. I agree that once you do get pregnant you will feel like okay, I can do this! I hope we both get the feeling this month!

@kksy9b Date updated. I'm sorry. I'm glad you're both feeling good about June. Good luck!

@kiki13 I hope she doesn't show and that you have a good, relaxing vacation. Good luck!

@J_Lynn That sounds so good. That sounds like a really nice place to go. I hope this gets you on the path to a BFP!

@amanda111308 I'm sorry that you are having to go through this confusing and frustrating time.

@melann13 & @allforthegirl Awesome! I updated your information. I'm looking forward to hearing news from both of you on June 4th.

@newbie2013 It could be either too rough or IB. I've had small spots after dtd before. It could be IB as well, which would be so much more exciting! I am so glad your dh is so sweet to you. I agree; it is amazing to think there are so many of us who can connect on something so intimate and so personal especially when we can't/don't want to with people we 'actually' know. It is so helpful. Thanks for being here for us as well!

@pennymarie I haven't used them before. I see you marked W cm today. I hope that means it's coming soon for you.

@hopeforamirac Welcome back! How have you been doing?

@Mme2kdee I'm sorry. A lot of people feel out before they get a BFP. Sometimes we don't get all the expected symptoms. I know it's so hard to see those around us seemingly get pregnant so easy.

@MamaBear93 I'm soo sorry. You were on the original list, but when I updated last night (copying/pasting/splitting months/separating BFPs) I split the May 31st - June dates and I see now that a couple were left out when I added the lines in-between months. You're on the front now! Good luck!

@kirstyjane13 You might have had a temporary surge. Sometimes lh surges before ovulation but it is delayed to actual ovulation time. Keep testing to see. Good luck!

 

[PrettyPixie]

Quick update: 4 days late but still BFN!