Hey girls, finally have time to post again. Will reply first and write about myself slightly later.
Sorry about all the stress Lulu, but concentrate on the positives - ov on cd14! How long have you been taking the EPO? Ive read that it takes 3 months to start having any effect. I stopped the B-vits on CD1 last time round. They didn't shorten my LP - it was still bouncing round from 8-11 days - but they clearly weren't what I needed )which makes sense if what my body needs to do is manage to ov earlier). You to try these things for a few months though, just to find out, don't you? Fingers crossed for your 2WW!
Sorry the bitch got you, Glitter. I'm still waiting for my ruddy maca capsules to turn up
CD8 now and rapidly losing hope of them helping me this cycle unless they do have miraculous effects on me. Maybe they'll tweak my ov date a liottle faster then the acu is managing. Try to stick to the dietary advice because it really is an integral part of TCM.
Reba, same about the dietary guidelines for you diagnosis. Are you following them? They do make a real difference (they certainly have for me!) and woudl enable you to have the acu less often. It takes 3-6 months on average when you're following all the guidelines. Stick with it as much as you can!
Hey Fitzy, not you too! Oh dear. I we're all major cases, which is why it's taking a while. I still believe though, impatient and exasperated though I am with my body. Please don't lose faith - I think what's difficult is the fact that it takes months on average when you're following all the guidelines, because it works naturally, in harmony with your body and these days we've come to expect things to happen quickly. Wish I'd started acu a ruddy year earlier!
Hey Rubyloo, thanks for your post. I think my immune system may be slightly compromised by the dampness, but I'm actually really healthy most f the time. I have the healthiest diet (if somewhat currently restricted) and lifestyle of anyone I know and take Pregnacare conception, spirulina, wheatgrass, Omega oils daily, along with a veggie diet incorporating plenty of fruit, veg, non-animal protein, wholegrains, pulses, seeds. I drink loads of water and fruit teas, some decaf tea, don't smoke, exercise regularly (walking, swimming, yoga), drink very little alcohol and am tryin to up my egg intake as Qing (and Randine) tell me I need animal protein every day. I did find I was picking what I thought was lots of colds, but given that my temps weren't generally rising, I think that, as was the case last winter, the awful phlegminess and congested symptoms I was having were all down to the damp and spleen deficiency. I believe now that my kidney yang, spleen damp problems had got to a stage where they were just at roak bottom, which is why balancing me is taking so long. If I do ever get anything, like my coldy symptoms followed by the sore throat last cycle, of the cyctitis the cycle before, I do get rid of it very quickly. As for the tears, I'm one of those people who cannot, and doesn't try to, hide emotions or stop herself crying - from what you're saying, that's probably saved me from even worse damp/cold problems! Really interesting stuff Rubes. Last time I cried was a meltdown around (late!) ov time last cycle. Thanks for your concern though, very much appreciated.
I remember that your cycles were very long - how long was your luteal phase though?
Glad you're starting to feel better - must seem like ages since you were longing for just any sign that you were pregnant; I imagine you've had all the signs you want now! How many weeks are you? Any signs of little one kicking yet? THat is absolute magic!
Daydream, how was your weekend?
Right, friday's session.....
CD4. QIng was very calm about my stupid 7-day LP. Think it's all down to being ill then having late ov last cycle.
My tongue tells her that the damp is clearing now, but my pulse is still showing congestion from damp and my spleen and kidney yang are still weak. I've been doing moxibustion whenever I'm at home in the evening, which can help to dry up the damp. I told her about the maca and it's potential for bringing ov forward and she told me that anything that might help can only be a good idea.
Lying on my front, I had needles in my scalp as normal, some heavy pinching on my back followed by some needles in the normal places on my lower back. Then some lovely heat and I really relaxed. Didn't stay on my back for long as she wanted to concentrate on my abdomen.
She tried some needles in my tummy, but I ended up with just the one, very low down (apparently lots of women can't feel needles in the abdomen very well), and then the normal (again, very dull and heavy-feeling) needles in my lower legs. Also needles in next to my thumbs. Then I relaxed for about half and hour. Bliss!
She gave me some seeds in my right ear again, reminded me to do the leg massage for my spleen and tummy massage for my digestion - also to helop my spleen (her words, roughly, were that we have to do absolutely everything we possibly can for me).
I have (spleen) er-chen-wan pills again but for this stage in my cycle she's swapped the (kidney yang) you-gui-wan for jin-kui-sheng-qi-wan. She also gave me some more moxa. Next appointment is monday of next week (she's away friday).
A friend has lent me a Gillian Keith recipe book which I'm findin guseful. She makes references to areas of TCM - ie bit of info about tongue diagnosis of damp and spleen issues (yay!) and recipes to suit. A really useful piece of info for spleen/digestive issues is to frink peppermint tea after meals and not to have fruit with a meal but half an hour before. If you ahve a line down the middle of yoru tongue, it points to digestive problems and therefore spleen deficiency.
That's enough for one mammoth post today!
Abi x
don't forget everything being perfect still only 15-20% chance of success so statistically next month will bring you your bfp! 
Then it changed to sticky creamy and now seems watery at cd11. Have any of you girls had anything like that? I'm getting alot of tension headaches too. I see Adam in two days just before we leave to go away so hopefully he can tell me whats wrong. I'm annoyed as I've been so good and doing everything I possibly can and my body still doesn't feel right. 
