My periods have been all over the place since i had my mirena removed 16 months ago theyve never been consistent ranging from 26 day cycles to 56. This is the first month ive done opks regularly enough to monitor so its a waiting game to see how long it is. Just hoping i dont have a short LP this month and im still in with a chance. Ive got so much cramping and bloating today like AF is imminent so im not so hopeful xx
Also constipated at 8dpo for some reason and oh my days the bloating was immense!
......hope is just around the corner.
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10.20pm update: **TMI** my CM is white and creamy looking I think - it mostly jut looks wet in my fingers but there’s definitely some white colouring and almost lotion-like (new to CM monitoring!) and my cervix is at the tip of my middle finger when I check so I don’t know if that’s classed as low of high but it’s super soft and spongey! Got slight tummy pains this evening and I just walked in to the kitchen after hubby made a coffee, retched and now I’m up in bed feeling quite nauseous so I’m still hopeful! I handed over remaining HPTs to hubby to confiscate from me until Saturday! Haha! I also got really dizzy/faint/breathless for no real reason and just felt quite puffed out and knackered all of a sudden!
I wanted to share because I literally thought I was going insane.
Ok so...
1 DPO felt inflamed but was probably more to do with that me and DH hadnt DTD for a long time and my insides were like what the heck just happened.
2 DPO sore but not a preg symptom.
3 DPO the same as 1 and 2 DPO.
4 DPO felt like someone had gotten an air pump and pumped me full of air.
No other symptoms.
5 DPO AF like cramps except worse. In fact the last time I had these types of cramps were when I was around 15 and they would be so bad that I'd have to get in a hot water bath or I'd place a hot cup of water on my pelvic area. As I've aged (now 27) my periods aren't so bad. But yeah, this felt like back then. Lower back ache like I'd broken something, and sh*tty cramps.
6 DPO Again with the cramping and back pain, was nasty. I thought either I have issues down there, like a vaginal infection or I have a UTI. And I also got electric shock zapping sensations inside my uterus in random places which made me think was definitely infection related as the sensation was definitely abnormal to me. Slept for 2 hours at around 6pm.
7DPO Cramps again, mum even mentioned that I was in a mood. Which i didn't think I was haha. I guess I was. Again slept a couple of hours. Breasts feeling heavy and sore around the sides. Like if I move a certain way they just hurt. I think compared to AF boobs, it's more stingy than your general swollen breasts.
8 DPO Breast soreness not as bad but still there and cramps basically zero unless I did something strenuous, then my body would be like... Guess who's back, back again
9 DPO no cramps at all, boobs aren't as sore, thought I was totally out. I did sleep 10 hours in a row though and then another 4 very easily later on. I did have a night shift though so needed to sleep but it's never usually that easy to just nod off. But I can't say I felt that tired more so than usual. Lots of Cm like creamy white. But then I didn't really think anything more of it. Did retch at some smells at work, but thought it was because it was bodily fluids.
10 DPO just got back from night shift, only had a wee like 3 hours prior and decided, sod it I'm testing. I'd been reading this and so many other threads.
Well, to my amazement as I scratch my super itchy boobs (not nips) I have a BFP . I'm really surprised. I mean I felt like I was pregnant, but I know the power of the placebo is extraordinary. In fact now I think of it I refused to lift heavy things and I still since 5dpo havent slept on my left side. It doesn't feel right to do so. Odd.
I hope it's sticky. I really really hope. AF is due on the 2nd so I guess I will have to wait. I think I'll test again tomorrow and each day to ensure that it's progressing. I won't tell DH until I'm certain.
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Things I did this cycle (first cycle. Too
- Cut our caffeine completely, this includes fizzy drinks.
- avoided artifical drinks, I am one to love the coca cola sublime lime and a cream soda but that stuff has aspartame. Essentially it's a wood formaldehyde, which doesn't leave your body, ever. It has no way to be metabolised out.
- I ate healthier, for example I'd try to have veg every day, fruit like blueberries, raspberries, and foods like Brazil nuts and reduced my intaje of inflammatory foods like red meat.
I essentially followed this book: The Fertility Diet - Sarah Dobbyn.
I tried to exercise but not as mad as I'd usually do so. I love walking around 6 miles per day. This time I stuck to around 40 mins every other day. I figured too much exercise could induce stress.
I avoided all naughty treats up to OD and a few days after. Now I can't help but eat magnum white choc ice cream. I had one for breakfast on the way back from work. The man at the petrol station was like... Are you sure
I used opks, and DTD a few times. More so before so the swimmers were there ready to meet the egg and I think two days after O but the later one was just urges .
I rested alot and essentially treated my body as if I were already pregnant.
I also reduced my stress dramatically. I have an assignment due for uni Monday not tomorrow but next Monday. I decided it can wait a bit longer.
Every day I also have listened to this, I believe it helped calm my mind.
I even listened to it last night at work when the residents were asleep.
I also took 800 micrograms of Folic acid. I saw a reassarch paper on fertility success in Sweden on this dose. It is a very old paper though so was slightly skeptical.
Right now as I type this I have like a burrowing feeling in the rhs of my uterus. So hopefully that's normal. Anyway, sorry for waffling I'm just genuinely surprised and happy.
Lots of love and take care xxx
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Hi @Lottielouf - I’m relating to your post quite a bit at this second... any news? Xxhi
I’m also 10dpo today!
I had left side pelvic pain type things at 5/6dpo.
8/9dpo I have been soooo tired! No energy at all and generally feeling a bit meh
Not a great deal of CM but what is there is thick and whiteish but then I don’t usually check this so I’m not sure what to look for...
today at 10dpo I’m feeling a bit more awake, a few mild low down aches as opposed to cramps and still a little bloated.
thought I’d look into checking my CP which I’ve never done before and it feels very high up like I can barely reach it and squishy.
impatiently waiting to test!
. We BD’d from June 19th-June29th every day except the 21st, 22nd, & 25th, certainly covering both predictions!
Typically it's pretty unrelenting for several days before my period. Hoping this is a good sign! Breasts feel a bit more full and nipples a little more sensitive....but that could all be in my head. Slight cramps, not too noticable. BFN (obviously...way too early).
