TTC #1 at 35+

[mazcal]

Thanks Ellamum, you have put my mind at rest! Its just kinda scary. You go along being on the pill for ten years, barely having a period, not even noticing your monthlies, then this! I am too attuned into it all, I guess cos I have just started to try at 37, I worry! I think I am in pill withdrawal, but not as bad as last month!
You should make the most of no symptoms, you will prob be getting real sick pretty soon! Hope everything goes well for you.

Hi Lisa, I am taking agnus castus and EPO first two weeks of cycle, then stop. Also I am taking folic acid all the time, have been for about 4 months. I don't take anything else, should I?

Thanks guys, you make this all so much easier!

I hope we all get our real soon!

HI hun why do you take agnus castus and EPO? is it to regulate your symptons? ovulate?

I take pregnacare its all the vit in one handy tablet.

I am taking agnus castus to calm down my hormones after coming off pill, I had such bad PMS last month I gave myself panic attacks over it, and I heard agnus castus can help.
I have also been taking EPO for a while now, as mood probs on pill, and now I am still taking it for the same reason. I will look at the pregnacare, I want to take everything that I should. Also I heard EPO can help out your CM, mine has seemed a bit sparse and off and on since coming off pill.
Its a bit gross but is it normal to seem to not have loads except when lol, how gross, but I thought there would be alot more thoughout the day, its confusing.

Gee I'm glad I am on here, I could never ask my mum this stuff lol

 

[EllaMom2B]

Hiya!

Welcome spacegirl!

Mazacal, yes coming off the pill things are weird. I'd be careful taking supplements, especially before you really know what's going on with your body. I'm sorry -- I don't mean to offer unsolicited advice... I just know that I'm really sensitive to any kind of medication, herbs included. You hear a lot that this and that is supposed to be good for this and that, but I think it's easy to oversupplement. Like Lisa, I just took a good all-around vitamin that had all the necessary folic acid. Just my 2 cents!

Hi Lisa, PMA PMA PMA for loads of s this month! You are all so incredibly good to me, so sweet and kind, and I count on you all to get me through these anxious early days! The dr's appointment is tomorrow (Tues) morning. I don't think she'll do much other than a blood test to check hcg levels, then schedule my first scan for 6 weeks+ (I'm 5 weeks tomorrow).

You girls are the best!

-- Ella

 

[mazcal]

Thanks Ella, I will take any advice I can get right now!

xxx

 

[Deb111]

Got my progesterone results back today and my level was 30.7 which confirms that I did ovulate so that's one test down!

Hope you are all doing well

Deb xx

 

[Leilani]

Got my progesterone results back today and my level was 30.7 which confirms that I did ovulate so that's one test down!

Hope you are all doing well

Deb xx

Yay Deb, that's great news - and probably the best result to get, cos if you're OVing, then a baby's posible.

 

[Leilani]

Hi Spacegirl - welcome, I think we can overlook the 6 months, as not matter what, you'll be 35+ when you actually have your baby.

Hello Mazcal- I think I could write a book about post-pill twinges and twangs, I can't believe that either a) I never noticed them before or b) the multitude of sins the pill prevented!! Please be careful the the Agnus Castus - I've heard some terrible things about what it can do to your cycle.

Have either of you been to see your GPs? Not for any other reason than to let them know you are TTC, so it can be in your notes, so if you get to the 6 month stage they can't "not" believe how long you've been trying. When I saw mine last July, she gave me a prescription for folic acid and said come back in 3 months, at first I though she was a negative nancy, but am now glad she is so supportive - especially when you rea on here about the muppets that some poeple have for GPs!

Tracey, Lou Lou & Lisa - I can't believe what the witch makes you eat/drink - she is truely evil. My colleagues gave us a voucher for a posh restaurant as a wedding pressie, can't decided if I want to wait for our BFP to go and eat out, or go next time the witch is is town - as she might appreciate a night out!

Ella - glad you are still feeling good - I know a lot of ladies who didn't really start to notice any symptoms until about 7/8 weeks - then you get those ladies whose only sysmptom is an ever growing bump!! I guess we have been waiting/researching so long, we've come to expect all syptoms under the sun!

As for me, about 8DPO - I only have 3 tests, none of them sensitive, so I won't be testing until next Monday if the witch is still MIA. First real day back at school today - as despite the lack of kids, it was a full-on day running around sorting out stuff for the not-quite onto it staff members (about 75% of them). I won't be able to relax until 11am next Monday - as that's when I'll know if I've made any major stuff ups. So Monday will either be a great day, or a rubbish one!!

 

[mand1975]

Hi everyone

Im new here. I like everyone else Im 34 now 35 this year we have been trying for a year and a half after my OH's vasectomy reversal. This will be my first child, a child that I have been desperate for for many years now.

We have had all our tests and my OH has a low sperm count so I have him taking a million supplements to increase sperm count before we start ICSI in May. We have 3 trys of conceiving naturally before then (as he works away lol not that I cant count lol)

I started taking pregnacare OMG nightmare. My cycles have been sooooo regular for the year and a half I have been monitoring them until I started with this. Was only on it about 2 weeks before I realised it had messed everything up. I was approaching fertility for 5 days normally only 2 then i was fertile 4 days later than normal so needless to say my period is now late too. Not getting excited as I know it was just down to the pregnacare and not that we have been that lucky.

Im psyching myself up for the starting our ICSI after watching someones video diary of it on You Tube. But will be worth it just to be a mammy!.

I wish you all lots and lots of luck in having the baby we all long for.

 

[EllaMom2B]

Apologies... I'm feeling incredibly despondent.

So OH and I go to the dr. today. We wait 45 minutes, with OH fuming (he hasn't the time to waste) only to be told that there was a mix-up, and the dr. can't see me today! So now I have to go back -- and take another 1/2 day off work -- on Thursday morning.

OH is livid, though I swear it wasn't my mistake! I left for work saying, "I love you," and he didn't even bother saying it back. (I should point out we're not married and don't plan to be.)

So the morning was a total disaster, and I'm here with NO symptoms, sure that something's gone wrong and nothing is happening. That wouldn't just be the end of my pg but also of my relationship and all my happiness.

Sorry, just feel like shit.

 

[mazcal]

Ella! Sorry you feel shit. Most people have no symptoms until 6 to 8 weeks, and some people never have them! You wouldn't get a positive result unless you were preg, and I am sure you would notice if something bad had happened. Its a shame about your OH, maybe he is feeling a bit freaked out that he is going to be a dad? I am sure it will be fine, and in a few weeks you can come and tell us what its like to have your first ultrasound. Sorry you feeling bad, you can't even get drunk though in your position!

Leilani, I am not gonna take the agnus anymore, it seems girls use it to shorten their cycle, and so far mine came back nice and regular, prob shouldn't mess with that. Should I take pregnacare though, even if I am not preg,
Mand you have scared me off it with your story! Sorry its taken you so long, its just so random when people get preg isn't it!

I am on the wine tonight, as I am pretty sureis on her way. On the plus side I don't seem to have much of PMS this month, except funny twinges down there, so am feeling happy about that.
to everyone.

 

[mazcal]

I just thought, Ella, this is obviously the start of your symptoms! Women always get really emotional and upset in the early stages of preg, its all the hormonal change, they are crying all the time at everything and very very cross and snippy too. Maybe thats why you feel so bad too, proof everything is infact fine!

xxx

 

[Lisa1]

Apologies... I'm feeling incredibly despondent.

So OH and I go to the dr. today. We wait 45 minutes, with OH fuming (he hasn't the time to waste) only to be told that there was a mix-up, and the dr. can't see me today! So now I have to go back -- and take another 1/2 day off work -- on Thursday morning.

OH is livid, though I swear it wasn't my mistake! I left for work saying, "I love you," and he didn't even bother saying it back. (I should point out we're not married and don't plan to be.)

So the morning was a total disaster, and I'm here with NO symptoms, sure that something's gone wrong and nothing is happening. That wouldn't just be the end of my pg but also of my relationship and all my happiness.

Sorry, just feel like shit.

aww huni you know OH was probably devastated as well and pissed off at the doctor cause he to was probably as nervous as you about the first appointment

men deal differently than women so it maybe came across as being mad at you but I am sure it wasn't meant like that

Also the hormones might have you a little sensitive and also with you being upset over the mix up dont worry huni everything will be fine i promise just remember PMA and enjoy this and don't get stressed, I know easier said than done but the hard bit is over now, just loads to look forward to

 

[Lisa1]

Got my progesterone results back today and my level was 30.7 which confirms that I did ovulate so that's one test down!

Hope you are all doing well

Deb xx

Debs that is great news huni i am off to the docs tomorrow so hoping it all goes well

 

[Lisa1]

Hi everyone

Im new here. I like everyone else Im 34 now 35 this year we have been trying for a year and a half after my OH's vasectomy reversal. This will be my first child, a child that I have been desperate for for many years now.

We have had all our tests and my OH has a low sperm count so I have him taking a million supplements to increase sperm count before we start ICSI in May. We have 3 trys of conceiving naturally before then (as he works away lol not that I cant count lol)

I started taking pregnacare OMG nightmare. My cycles have been sooooo regular for the year and a half I have been monitoring them until I started with this. Was only on it about 2 weeks before I realised it had messed everything up. I was approaching fertility for 5 days normally only 2 then i was fertile 4 days later than normal so needless to say my period is now late too. Not getting excited as I know it was just down to the pregnacare and not that we have been that lucky.

Im psyching myself up for the starting our ICSI after watching someones video diary of it on You Tube. But will be worth it just to be a mammy!.

I wish you all lots and lots of luck in having the baby we all long for.

Hi mand

welcome huni to our madness lol sorry to hear about the pregnacare messing up your cycles what vitamins do you have oh on? am thinking of starting my oh on some but not sure what to get. i have read up on wellman might start him on it.

 

[EllaMom2B]

I just thought, Ella, this is obviously the start of your symptoms! Women always get really emotional and upset in the early stages of preg, its all the hormonal change, they are crying all the time at everything and very very cross and snippy too. Maybe thats why you feel so bad too, proof everything is infact fine!

xxx

I'm definitely easily cross and very snippy! Of course that's just me being typically bitchy... don't think OH will appreciate being preggers as an excuse. He'll think it will be 9 mos of hell!

I always respond badly to our spats. Here's hoping everything's okay with us when I get home tonight, and with the little bean! New dr's appointment scheduled for Thursday.

And you're exactly right: what makes it all worse is that I can't drown my sorrows in a big glass of red wine, which always says I love you back!!!!

Thanks so much for the much-needed PMA, and here's loads of to you all.

 

[mazcal]

Thanks Ella, hope everything is good tonight with OH.

Good luck at Docs tomoz Lisa, hope they are actually helpful, be demanding!

Good luck this month all the girls!

 

[EllaMom2B]

Got my progesterone results back today and my level was 30.7 which confirms that I did ovulate so that's one test down!

Hope you are all doing well

Deb xx

Debs that is great news huni i am off to the docs tomorrow so hoping it all goes well

Good luck tomorrow, Lisa luv! Let us know how it goes! FX!

 

[Lisa1]

Thanks hun will do I aint leaving till im preggers lol

 

[zero7]

Hi lushies!

The witch seems to be on her way out the door so onwards and upwards again! I have also had an appointment date for the 4th of March with a FS at the local hospital. Hopefully she will agree to let me have an HSG (not tha I really want the pain but....). That will be the last test for me then as I have had everything else!!! Milked the system!! Mind you, I wont be able to have any free IVF cycles, so may as well get what I can!

Lisa- how did it go at the docs? Actually maybe you cant read this because you have handcuffed yourself to his desk?!

Ella- How are you hon? My hubby would have been just as grumpy - thats his reaction to stuff like that. They dont mean to make us feel bad about it though- they just dont think!

Hi Mand nice to meet you. xx

Debs- great result hon.

How's everyone else - good I hope. XXXXXXXXX

 

[Lisa1]

Hello girlies well spoke to my doc today and he arranged for me to have my cd21 bloods done. he was very good although sorta just said it will take a year and not to worry! I told him I was worried about my AF being so light and my my lining was not thick enough to sustain a pregnancy he said that it was fine and I went on to say I had researched it and it could be a problem he was very nice and explained he had trained in obstetricians think I spelt that right lol and he had never come across an issue of light periods=poor lining

He also said that OH should have his sperm tested and what vits were we taking so he was positive that I should get preggers lol I just thought OMG how do you know you only took my blood pressure but I am not going to be negative a least this is a start and hopefully with him training in OB he should hav a better idea than the rest of the docs in the practice

 

[mazcal]

Well its good that he said that about light periods. At least you know he is taking you seriously!
Out of interest what tests do they do at this stage (incase I am there in 6 months), what do the abbreviations mean?
I think sometimes we girls do know more than a GP, since we spend all our time reading up on it! I just ordered 'taking charge of your fertility', it should arrive tomoz, supposed to be a good book to learn whats going on.
I would love to know why PMS can manifest as extreme tiredness, and wierd cramping a week early, it never used to lol, for the next week I am going to hand an 'out of order' sign round my neck cos I am good for nothing!

Hope you feel better for seeing the doc Lisa!