Hello ladies. I would like to join you on this thread but am a bit daunted by its length! So far I have only read the first 10 pages then skipped to the end. Can you help me....?
Here's my story. My DS was born in 2008 when I was 40; I had had 2 mc before conceiving him and, at my age, I was sure that my life was complete when he was born. However, at the beginning of 2010 I started to long for a sibling for him and after 6 months of ttc (last 2 months temping), at the age of 42, we were delighted to get happy news in September 2010. At 12+2, the day before my scheduled scan, I mc and we lost our baby. Most of you will be much younger than me, I'm sure, and wondering why I'm even trying at 43. I too wonder why sometimes, but the path of my life has brought me to this place in my life now and I must just deal with that as my reality.
Prior to my last mc my cycles were regular, pretty close to 28 days and with ewcm every month. I felt young and was very fit. Since the mc my life has changed. I am preoccupied with ttc to the point of obsession and remain so unbelievably sad that my GP has referred me for bereavement counselling. I am so blessed by my beautiful little boy but want so desperately to give him a sibling that I just cannot give this up. My cycles since the mc have been variable in length and ewcm has been scant, despite taking epo, grapefruit juice, green tea and robitussin. I feel old and weary and am running out of hope. I saw a herbalist for 6 months following the mc but that failed to yield any results and I wonder now if the tinctures I was taking actually messed up my cycle. Last month I started taking maca, along with my standard diet of prenatal, flaxseed, fish oil, B complex and raspberry leaf. I have stopped taking EPO this cycle as I have read that it can reduce the follicular phase and I seem to be suffering with an unstable follicular phase just now. I am hoping that the soy will also increase my ewcm production so I may not need to rely on the epo anyway? I am also seeing a reflexologist which is soooo incredibly relaxing, as well as supposedly helping with ttc.
This month I have decided to add soy to my armoury! I don't have problems with longer cycles like some of the posts I have read on the thread so am I wasting my time with it? Please advise if I am doing the right thing: I decided to take on cd4-8. Despite the fact that I would consider twins a wonderful blessing, I figured my aged eggs would benefit from one good strong, mature follicle as opposed to multiple release. I took 160mg yesterday and plan to take the same dose today. I have read that some people increase the dose throughout the 5 day period, should I have started lower or should I increase further? Any advice gratefully received
Sorry to go on, hope you're all still awake..........x
Edit: Sorry, forgot to mention that I have under active thyroid which has been well managed without problems since 2001. I was reading further back in the thread and found someone who said that soy can disrupt thyroid function???
i usually O around CD 20-22.. exciting!
usually hurts for me after ovulation and it didn't start hurting until after this temp rise. I'm positively confoozled but not going to stress about it anymore. I'm expecting AF to arrive next week on Thursday and won't be the slightest bit surprised when she does! Hugs to everyone TTC! Congrats to all those with BFPs!
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. Thing is... the last two cycles I have taken soy 120mg and they have been particularly long...even for me, but I definitely OV'd on my last cycle (first cycle of soy), even got a +opk which is rare. So trying to decide if to try soy and risk the long cycle, or if to leave it and see what happens. IF i do take soy on my next cycle I am really going to step up my dose. I have a very high BMI and I have been reading that you should start on a higher dose of clomid if you have a high BMI, so I am thinking that I might not have been taking enough soy?? I am thinking of stepping it up to anywhere between 200mg - 250mg?? Too much?? 
i only DTD 2 days before i ovulated and on the day of ovulation, but used Preseed both occassions.
so I thought I would give it a go again this cycle (150 mg 3-5 200mg 6-7) it seems to have worked but I don't know when, ff has me at 4dpo on dashed lines but i'm not convinced could someone look at my chart please? unfortunately I didn't opk this cycle as I used so many last cycle and just got fed up... Now wishing I had! 
ur not out yet!
