Spotting week before AF every month - anyone else?

[dreaminghopin]

gl to those in their twws!

chloe-if this doesnt usually happen, you could be pregnant! opks can pick up hcg, eeek! keep us posted! I know that when i opk i get 4-5 pos opks in a row for 4-5 days, so crazy! i stop after day 4 or 5, but wonder why i get so many.

just an update, on cd6 today, this is such a slow cycle, ovulation time come faster please!

Just approaching cycle day 7 we are cycle buddies!! I don't mind this part actually and it's so much more chilled out than 2 week wait.

 

[dreaminghopin]

Happy valentines day everyone.. No bd for us as dh has his second sperm analysis wednesday morning xx

 

[Chloe597]

chloe-if this doesnt usually happen, you could be pregnant! opks can pick up hcg, eeek! keep us posted! I know that when i opk i get 4-5 pos opks in a row for 4-5 days, so crazy! i stop after day 4 or 5, but wonder why i get so many.

This happened last cycle too, and I O'd during the second +OPK surge, but everything was shifted forward 10 days this cycle, with the increased Clomid dosage. If this cycle ends up like last cycle, in about a week I'll get another +OPK and then finally O. And if that happens I will definitely keep my RE appt, and not take clomid again until after I go to that apt.

I'm also seriously considering acupuncture. I am not a big believer in stuff like that, but at the same time it really intrigues me. Just wish I had a clue how much it would cost...

GL to all those in their TWW. Hope to join you soon!

 

[daydream]

Got a wonderful Valentine's Day BFN this morning a touch of pink spotting this AM when I wiped, maybe IB? Usually my early spotting is brown, not pink. If the spotting keeps on today, I brought my progesterone so I can take an extra dose per the RE's instructions.

 

[LilMissCheer]

Hi ladies

Can i join please? Me and my fella have been ttc for just over a year now and spot every single month before af - sometimes from about 6dpo

My fella had sa done last month and everything is good in his department so a week last Monday I had bloods done and the nurse who took my day 21 bloods yesterday showed the results on screen. I have high TSH and high prolactin - both somehow linked to hypothyroidism and can cause low progesterone. The nurse said she was not a fertility specialist so did not want to comment but I have another appointment with my doc on Monday to discuss the original bloods and hopefully by that time they'll have my 21 day blood results back too.

I always thought that my spotting was a problem - I am hoping I am right and that it's something they can sort out pretty quickly so i can get my i'm 33 now - no time for hanging about

 

[LilMissCheer]

Oh and i'm 7dpo today. Although with my hormone imbalances, I'm not holding out much hope for this month :wave:

 

[dreaminghopin]

Welcome lilmisscheer,

Sorry to hear that you are also a spotter. Looks like you going to get some answers soon though. Also fab news that DH is perfect in his department. Let us know how you get on at your appointment on monday and hope your coping ok with the 2 week wait. xxxx

Daydream.. are you managing to hold out till tomorrow. Thinking of you.

AFM - DH deposited his second sperm sample this morning and will get his results at end of next week 8-

 

[daydream]

lilmisscheer - Welcome! I hope this all means that the doctors can get you on thyroid medicine and hopefully your spotting will stop along with that!

dearminghopin - GL on the second SA sample. Waiting for the results on those is the worst part!

AFM: No testing today, will test tomorrow morning. As for spotting, NONE since that little teeny bit yesterday morning when I wiped. FX that this keeps up!

 

[lizc123]

Hi Ladies

Daydream-that's good news the spotting is hardly there, FX for you,
Dreaminghopin-good luck with 2nd SA results xx
Chloe597-hope O happens soon for you
LilMissCheer-hope you get your results soon on your day 21 tests and they explain things for you

Just a quick post to ask a question..........do people start spotting the same time each month, past 2 cycles have been 7DPO for me,am curious to find out if it will be like this all the time

Off to watch one born every minute now ha!

P.S just been reading another thread about b6 helping luteal phases and increasing progesterone and looks like quite a few ladies experienced spotting too but went on to have BFPS hurrar!

 

[Chloe597]

oh, daydream! Sounds like a good sign!!

Dreaminghoping, i hope your DH has a good SA!

Welcome, LilmissCheer! Sounds like you know the cause of your spotting, which is great! I hope the doc can fix it for you!

AFM, 5th day in a row with a +OPK. Took a cheapie internet HPT and got a BFN this morning. Played around with my chart a little and got it to tell me I O'd 11 days ago, so maybe I'm in my TWW now, and it just didn't have enough pre O temps to accurately display O. My pre O temps are typically 96.8F, so i put 2 of those in, and excluded the really high temp that i got the morning after drinking. All of these +OPKs are making me nervous now, like maybe I can get a BFP soon, but I don't want to get my hopes up! And I can't talk to anyone about it because I don't want anyone else to get their hopes up either. I'm so happy for this forum!

 

[almosthere]

gl to those in their twws!

chloe-if this doesnt usually happen, you could be pregnant! opks can pick up hcg, eeek! keep us posted! I know that when i opk i get 4-5 pos opks in a row for 4-5 days, so crazy! i stop after day 4 or 5, but wonder why i get so many.

just an update, on cd6 today, this is such a slow cycle, ovulation time come faster please!

Just approaching cycle day 7 we are cycle buddies!! I don't mind this part actually and it's so much more chilled out than 2 week wait.

woohoo, almost onto cd9!!! hehe. And I agree it is more laid back for sure, but I am still anxious because I want to get closer and closer to "the cycle" where I get my BFP! Maybe we will share our BFPS together, I hope this is our lucky month (even though we both prob won't be testing until March, o man!)

 

[daydream]

GAH. Just had small amount light brown spotting when I wiped. I spoke too soon

 

[MrsHY]

Daydream - you know what I'm going to say to you - you're not out until the red lady sings! (bleurgh).

Chloe - This is looking REALLY positive for you I think!!! Fingers crossed and make sure you let us know the outcome!

As for me, I just got back from my appointment at the assisted conception unit and it was BRILLIANT. This time I saw one of the consultant gynaes, who was amazing - really switched on. He said that my shorter luteal phase COULD make things difficult, but the progesterone score of 65 I got at 7dpo when I had that tested (in a cycle where spotting had started at 5dpo) suggested that progesterone deficiency wasn't an issue and prog suppositories therefore wouldn't be of particular help in my case. I asked about the spotting - he said that the signal to the body to continue producing progesterone can be emitted at the start of the implantation process - which would normally start to be triggered from 5dpo. So, it's unlikely that the spotting in itself means that implantation can not occur. Does that make sense?

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I start IVF at the beginning of my next cycle! Maybe this is stupid but I actually feel really excited about it. I know it's just as likely to fail as succeed (my individual chances have been put at 40-50%) but at least it feels like I'm getting closer. My PCT will fund one full cycle of IVF, then if it doesn't result in a pregnancy, up to two cycles of frozen embryo transfer (FET), assuming of course that everything goes to plan and more than one good quality embryo is produced.

My next appointment is 20th March with the nurse, where she'll show me how to self inject. All my drugs should be arriving in the next few days. On the first day of my next cycle (which I think will be around 20th March, funnily enough, as I'm due on tomorrow or Sat - been spotting for a while!) I start taking the pill (!) to down-regulate my cycle. After 3 weeks of this I will start to stimulate my ovaries for 10-12 days, after which my eggs will be collected, fertilised (hopefully) and returned.

There is lots that could go wrong at each and every stage, so I'm not expecting this to be easy. But I'm now a woman WITH A PLAN!

 

[LilMissCheer]

Hi Ladies

Daydream-that's good news the spotting is hardly there, FX for you,
Dreaminghopin-good luck with 2nd SA results xx
Chloe597-hope O happens soon for you
LilMissCheer-hope you get your results soon on your day 21 tests and they explain things for you

Just a quick post to ask a question..........do people start spotting the same time each month, past 2 cycles have been 7DPO for me,am curious to find out if it will be like this all the time

Off to watch one born every minute now ha!

P.S just been reading another thread about b6 helping luteal phases and increasing progesterone and looks like quite a few ladies experienced spotting too but went on to have BFPS hurrar!

Hey :wave: Ive just started taking a B100 complex from Holland and Barrats this month to help with my spotting and hopefully to try to extend my luteal phase. I'm 8 dpo and no sign yet so keeping my fingers crossed.

I terms of when I spot - it totally varies and there does not seem to be any sort of a pattern. Most of the time it's somewhere between 8-11 dpo and on the odd occasion it's been 6 or 7.

I can't vouch for anyone else that's just me. It's an absolute ballache whichever way you look at it

 

[LilMissCheer]

Daydream - you know what I'm going to say to you - you're not out until the red lady sings! (bleurgh).

Chloe - This is looking REALLY positive for you I think!!! Fingers crossed and make sure you let us know the outcome!

As for me, I just got back from my appointment at the assisted conception unit and it was BRILLIANT. This time I saw one of the consultant gynaes, who was amazing - really switched on. He said that my shorter luteal phase COULD make things difficult, but the progesterone score of 65 I got at 7dpo when I had that tested (in a cycle where spotting had started at 5dpo) suggested that progesterone deficiency wasn't an issue and prog suppositories therefore wouldn't be of particular help in my case. I asked about the spotting - he said that the signal to the body to continue producing progesterone can be emitted at the start of the implantation process - which would normally start to be triggered from 5dpo. So, it's unlikely that the spotting in itself means that implantation can not occur. Does that make sense?

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that I start IVF at the beginning of my next cycle! Maybe this is stupid but I actually feel really excited about it. I know it's just as likely to fail as succeed (my individual chances have been put at 40-50%) but at least it feels like I'm getting closer. My PCT will fund one full cycle of IVF, then if it doesn't result in a pregnancy, up to two cycles of frozen embryo transfer (FET), assuming of course that everything goes to plan and more than one good quality embryo is produced.

My next appointment is 20th March with the nurse, where she'll show me how to self inject. All my drugs should be arriving in the next few days. On the first day of my next cycle (which I think will be around 20th March, funnily enough, as I'm due on tomorrow or Sat - been spotting for a while!) I start taking the pill (!) to down-regulate my cycle. After 3 weeks of this I will start to stimulate my ovaries for 10-12 days, after which my eggs will be collected, fertilised (hopefully) and returned.

There is lots that could go wrong at each and every stage, so I'm not expecting this to be easy. But I'm now a woman WITH A PLAN!

I'm so pleased for you and you sound so optimistic. Got everything crossed for you chick

 

[_Nell]

Daydream - FX the witch doesn't find you.

Chloe - I think that sounds really promising for you!

Liz - My spotting starts 4-6dpo every single month. It is so annoyingly reliable tbh that this cycle i haven't manage to get a positive OPK and so if my spotting arrives i'll work back to feel confident in my O date.

MrsHY - Yay for a plan! It's pretty normal to feel excited - the IVF odds are great after all

AFM - Gah! As said above I seem to have missed my O this month on OPK's, even though i've done my cbfm every morning and a smiley clear blue each afternoon. It wouldn't usually matter except i'm having an aquascan and need to have it at 7dpo.
I know i had an estrogen surge as i saw it on the test sticks and felt it around my ovaries and a bit of CM.....but then no LH surge showed. I'm a bit confused as my O is reliably early, never late not even after screwing my body up with IVF cycle.

So my plan is that my spotting will arrive at 4-6dpo as it has done every single cycle since the BCP and i'll count back to figure O and schedule my scan. I know it's not ideal and I know lots of TTCers would say not reliable......please reassure me fellow spotters would any of you feel you could or would do similar? I have never spotted around or pre O so if my spotting arrives i figure it's 99% i'm in my LP.

 

[Chloe597]

MRSHY, thats so exciting! Those chances are still better than the 20% chance that a normal healthy young woman has of conceiving naturally. What is PCT? Fertility and health care work very differently in the US than the UK it seems (I'm assuming thats where you are, even though it doesnt say so in your info....?)

LilMissCheer, good luck with the B100!

If I am in fact 12 DPO, I haven't seen a spot of blood, so that would mean this is a spot free cycle so far, which is almost too good to believe and makes me think I am just setting myself up for disappointment.

 

[daydream]

Congrats MrsHY!! That makes me so giddy for you!

Chloe - Yay for spotfree! I hope that is true and your counting is right

_Nell - Seems like that could work. What is an aquascan?

AFM: Holy moly, so much spotting this morning, almost to full flow. I'm still taking my progesterone, so not supposed to happen yet. I'm going to call the dr this morning when they open. I took an extra progesterone, hoping I can get it to stop. Today was my test date, nothing except for MAYBE shadowy line on the FRER. But with bleeding like this, I'm feeling completely out and frustrated.

 

[_Nell]

Daydream - Really sorry you've got such heavy spotting, my AF breaks through porgesterone (and i've read other womens has too), hopefully that's not the case for you.
An aquascan is sort of like a HSG, but with ultrasound and saline solution put through the catheter, it's to check for womb abnormalaties. It's more effective in diagnosing issues than a HSG but not as good as a hysteroscopy.
I had both a hysteroscopy and HSG last year so this is just an up-to-date check on things for me before further cycles.....seems my Re wants me to play bingo with all the options on the fertility clinics price list, i'm almost at full house

 

[daydream]

ohhh yes, I had one of those. my dr just called it a saline sonagram, but the aquascan sounds much cooler Do they do it at 7dpo to check your lining? Mine was in the follicular phase.

last cycle AF did not start through the progesterone, so was a bit surprised to see how heavy the spotting was this morning. Though it seems to be consistent with the spotting I get before AF, heavy in the morning and my guess is I won't hardly have any the rest of today. Called the DR and they basically said could be implantation or AF starting, test again on Saturday per the calendar and then call back and we can discuss next cycle (possibly moving straight to IVF)