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[HappyCpl]

Welcome Melissa! It's great to have you. Good luck to you this cycle.

 

[HappyCpl]

I'm so crampy today. And moody. Oh Lord!!! Lol. I feel sorry for DH. He wanted to BD last night and I just couldn't. My cramps are so bad. As much as I hate to, I think I'm going to have to give in snd have surgery for my endometriosis. I didn't have a good experience last time in 06. Then when my daughter (previous relationship) was born in 09, the dr took care of my endometriosis during my c-section. So it's been 3.5 years. It may be that time again.

 

[HappyCpl]

Hann I hope you get some answers soon. I think it's harder on us when we don't know what's going on with our bodies. We know what should be happening, but when we feel like its not, it drives us crazy.

I also am afraid that I'm gearing up to OV, never actual lung releasing an egg. This month I had 4 + OPK's. But after DH gets tested and all is well with him, I'm going to tell my dr to get aggressive with me.

 

[Hann12]

I am now not sure if I have ov! Now have a lot of really watery cm and just had a faint line on an opk. I'm testing these opks now every 2 hours, if I haven't ov yet I don't want to miss it!! But then it doesn't explain how I had lines 2 days ago, negatives yesterday and now faint lines today. Maybe my body is trying to ov but can't
Will see how the next 24 hours go, guess if I have ov then my temp should rise and if I haven't I should get a positive opk. So confusing!

Happycpl - hope you feel okay, sounds like you should check in with a dr about the endo. I hope you don't have to have surgery

 

[Hann12]

I will say though if I haven't ov yet then I have no idea why my boobs are hurting before ovulation! I tell you what all this stuff is such a mystery - and just done another opk, its negative! Not even a sign of a faint line! wtf?! Guess I continue testing......

 

[ooSweetPea]

:wave: Mel!

Hann... I had almoooost + OPK's a few days ago and they went to super faint - however today they are getting super dark again and I am expecting it to be + by this evening. Maybe the same is happening to you? I remember on soy my LH levels seemed crazy but I did eventually ov which led to BFP that cycle with an ov date of CD25! Hang in there sweets.

 

[IsaacRalph]

I'm so crampy today. And moody. Oh Lord!!! Lol. I feel sorry for DH. He wanted to BD last night and I just couldn't. My cramps are so bad. As much as I hate to, I think I'm going to have to give in snd have surgery for my endometriosis. I didn't have a good experience last time in 06. Then when my daughter (previous relationship) was born in 09, the dr took care of my endometriosis during my c-section. So it's been 3.5 years. It may be that time again.

Totally with you there hun, i've got such bad pre menstrual cramps at the moment and not even due on for few more days yet at least my breast soreness has subsided, thank the lordy! My sis has just had endometrial ablation for hers so hopefully this will have helped her, she's suffered for years! Hope your not feeling too crappy and maybe a good sign for your bfp, hope so!

 

[IsaacRalph]

I will say though if I haven't ov yet then I have no idea why my boobs are hurting before ovulation! I tell you what all this stuff is such a mystery - and just done another opk, its negative! Not even a sign of a faint line! wtf?! Guess I continue testing......

hey you! Boob soreness is a good sign for impending ovulation, mine always start to tingle a little around ovulation and few days after. come on bfp opk! x

 

[IsaacRalph]

Hi ladies.
I hope you dont mind but i have been recomended this thread by my good friend Hann, who says how helpful and supportive you ladies have been.

A bit about me.. Im 32 and have a beautiful little boy Harrison is 1 next week. We are currently TTC#2 and this is our 2nd month of TTC, with a month of NTNP before that.
So i know we havent been trying for too long but as im sure you ladies are aware, it can be even more frustrating the 2nd time round!
So ive been a bit blaise about it really and other than using tests to determine when im OV ing i havent charted or temped at all so far..And to be honest i dont have much of a clue about those things at the mo. We are just winging it and seeing how we go really!

From what i read this seems to be a lucky thread, would love to be able to support YOU ladies and get support in return on the road to getting our BFPS!

woo hoo welcome mel, hope you enjoy your time here generally hearing us and joining in, ranting and raving and hopefully screaming with joy when we all get our bfps!

 

[sla545]

I am now not sure if I have ov! Now have a lot of really watery cm and just had a faint line on an opk. I'm testing these opks now every 2 hours, if I haven't ov yet I don't want to miss it!! But then it doesn't explain how I had lines 2 days ago, negatives yesterday and now faint lines today. Maybe my body is trying to ov but can't
Will see how the next 24 hours go, guess if I have ov then my temp should rise and if I haven't I should get a positive opk. So confusing!

Happycpl - hope you feel okay, sounds like you should check in with a dr about the endo. I hope you don't have to have surgery

Hann- If you are testing every two hours, you are probably not giving your body a chance to accumulate enough LH in your urine to get an accurate result. If I remember correctly, you should wait at least 4 hours after the last time you peed, and if you are drinking alot, it may mess up your results as your urine will be very diluted. This may be why all you are getting now are faint lines and negatives. HTH and good luck!

 

[sla545]

Welcome Melissa!

 

[sla545]

So Af is gone today, now we can move on to baby making this cycle! We are moving this weekend, so hopefully before I know it I will have o'd and be in the TWW!

 

[MamaMac123]

Welcome Melissa! Nice to have a new friend in the thread!

IsaacRalph, hats yuck about your endo...hope you don't need surgery and hope you get feeling better.

Hann, I had some OPK confusion yesterday myself. I've decided to start taking Vitex. I started with my first dose yesterday morning. Around noon I did my daily cervix and cm check. My cervix was high, soft and open and I had a lot of Ewcm! Didn't want to get my hopes up but I wondered if I could possibly finally be ovulating. I ran out and got some more tests and took one. It had a visible line but wasn't very dark. I had a noticeable increase in sex drive though haha. Last night I took another OPK and there was no line at all. Hoping the Vitex will make something happen....either ov or AF. Don't really care which anymore, just want my cycle to do something! My temp went up a bit the last few days but nothing super high. Anxious for my ultrasound on Saturday but hopefully I'll get some answers.

Today I feel rather fatigued and having some low back pain on the right side.

Something else that has me a bit worried today...I did my cervix check and I can feel a small hard area near the opening on one side. I figured it was just an odd change in the firmness but I made the mistake if googling it and I got a ton of hits for cervical cancer! Lovely, just what I need to read! I'm not panicking totally yet....will check again later in the day to see if it's there. But I'm wondering if anyone else who does cervix checks has ever felt something similar?

 

[Hann12]

Sweetpea - thanks for the information - out of interest when you took soy did it make your cycles shorter or longer? I was hoping mine would be shorter, last month I think I ov on CD 18, I thought I ov yesterday on CD 14 so I was quite happy but now I have no clue. I'm just going to see what happens with my temps tomorrow. I did another opk and it was negative.
I have barely drunk a thing all day so that the urine isn't dilluted lol but the tests are definitely negative now. On CD 13 when I had the almost positive they did get less and less prominent as the day went on and then I got ov pains so I assumed that was it but I guess I'll just have to sit it out. Its so frustrating! Funnily enough even when I was trying for my DD I have never had a positive opk so maybe its just me!!

Hope all the cramps get better for those of you!

SLA - yay to trying again, hopefully this is your month!

Mamamac - I always google stuff like that and get scary answers. Have you had a smear recently? I imagine its just because your cervix is in the process of changing from hard to soft or vice versa. Cervical cancer happens over quite some time so if you haven't felt it before, and it sounds like you do regular checks, I think its unlikely to be that. You could always get a smear to double check if you are really worried. As someone who has had pre cancerous cells quite severly (and lazer to remove) I can say that it does take a while for them to develop, years for most people, so def not something that arrives over night. Hope that helps.
As for ov/AF I hope something happens either way. I know what you mean though, would be just nice to get some assurances that something is happening!!

 

[ooSweetPea]

mama - I don't know if this is what you are talking about but I have a little bump on my cervix that almost feels like a grain of rice right near the opening? Had it checked with a pap when I was TTC #1 (as it was the first time I had ever even felt my cervix) and it was nothing sinister - dr had said that he thought it was nothing unusual but did the pap to ease my mind as I had a normal one approx 6 mos prior as well. Though not every case is the same - so if you are worried at all I would get it checked out hun!

Hann, soy made my cycle shorter by about 5 days, however I wasn't ovulating until closer to CD 30 without it, and soy made me ov at CD 28 the first time I used it and CD 25 the second time when I conceived. I took one cycle off soy in between too and ov was at CD 29 that cycle. I can def say that soy made me feel ov a lot stronger and I think it made ov/egg stronger as a result. I cannot remember for certain but for some reason I have a niggling feeling that my OPK's went nuts my last soy cycle with getting almost + and then nothing then + again... I would just BD every other day til temp rise just to cover yourself

 

[MamaMac123]

Thanks Hann, I'm sure I'm probably just freaking myself out but ive been doing daily necks almost this whole cycle and ive never felt it like this. This morning I checked and it wasn't there. Then a few hours ago it felt harder on one side than the other like I mentioned. I just checked again and now it feels more like a raised round hard bump...about pea sized. It wasn't there in the morning and now I feel it very clearly and defined. Is it possible it's a cyst or something? Ugh, one more thing to worry about. I hate my body right now. I just want it to work feeling so down and worried now

 

[IsaacRalph]

Welcome Melissa! Nice to have a new friend in the thread!

IsaacRalph, hats yuck about your endo...hope you don't need surgery and hope you get feeling better.

Hann, I had some OPK confusion yesterday myself. I've decided to start taking Vitex. I started with my first dose yesterday morning. Around noon I did my daily cervix and cm check. My cervix was high, soft and open and I had a lot of Ewcm! Didn't want to get my hopes up but I wondered if I could possibly finally be ovulating. I ran out and got some more tests and took one. It had a visible line but wasn't very dark. I had a noticeable increase in sex drive though haha. Last night I took another OPK and there was no line at all. Hoping the Vitex will make something happen....either ov or AF. Don't really care which anymore, just want my cycle to do something! My temp went up a bit the last few days but nothing super high. Anxious for my ultrasound on
Saturday but hopefully I'll get some answe

Today I feel rather fatigued and having some low back pain on the right side.

Something else that has me a bit worried today...I did my cervix check and I can feel a small hard area near the opening on one side. I figured it was just an odd change in the firmness but I made the mistake if googling it and I got a ton of hits for cervical cancer! Lovely, just what I need to read! I'm not panicking totally yet....will check again later in the day to see if it's there. But I'm wondering if anyone else who does cervix checks has ever felt something similar?

Hey mamamac, i think you must had read wrong i haven't got endo my sister has and i was commenting on happycouples post as she has it!
Best thing to do is never ever google anything cuz it can scare the living daylights out of you! x

 

[MamaMac123]

Welcome Melissa! Nice to have a new friend in the thread!

IsaacRalph, hats yuck about your endo...hope you don't need surgery and hope you get feeling better.

Hann, I had some OPK confusion yesterday myself. I've decided to start taking Vitex. I started with my first dose yesterday morning. Around noon I did my daily cervix and cm check. My cervix was high, soft and open and I had a lot of Ewcm! Didn't want to get my hopes up but I wondered if I could possibly finally be ovulating. I ran out and got some more tests and took one. It had a visible line but wasn't very dark. I had a noticeable increase in sex drive though haha. Last night I took another OPK and there was no line at all. Hoping the Vitex will make something happen....either ov or AF. Don't really care which anymore, just want my cycle to do something! My temp went up a bit the last few days but nothing super high. Anxious for my ultrasound on
Saturday but hopefully I'll get some answe

Today I feel rather fatigued and having some low back pain on the right side.

Something else that has me a bit worried today...I did my cervix check and I can feel a small hard area near the opening on one side. I figured it was just an odd change in the firmness but I made the mistake if googling it and I got a ton of hits for cervical cancer! Lovely, just what I need to read! I'm not panicking totally yet....will check again later in the day to see if it's there. But I'm wondering if anyone else who does cervix checks has ever felt something similar?

Hey mamamac, i think you must had read wrong i haven't got endo my sister has and i was commenting on happycouples post as she has it!
Best thing to do is never ever google anything cuz it can scare the living daylights out of you! x

Oops my bad, meant that to Happycpl! Sorry

 

[Hann12]

mama - I don't know if this is what you are talking about but I have a little bump on my cervix that almost feels like a grain of rice right near the opening? Had it checked with a pap when I was TTC #1 (as it was the first time I had ever even felt my cervix) and it was nothing sinister - dr had said that he thought it was nothing unusual but did the pap to ease my mind as I had a normal one approx 6 mos prior as well. Though not every case is the same - so if you are worried at all I would get it checked out hun!

Hann, soy made my cycle shorter by about 5 days, however I wasn't ovulating until closer to CD 30 without it, and soy made me ov at CD 28 the first time I used it and CD 25 the second time when I conceived. I took one cycle off soy in between too and ov was at CD 29 that cycle. I can def say that soy made me feel ov a lot stronger and I think it made ov/egg stronger as a result. I cannot remember for certain but for some reason I have a niggling feeling that my OPK's went nuts my last soy cycle with getting almost + and then nothing then + again... I would just BD every other day til temp rise just to cover yourself

Thanks thats useful to know, I thought i would experiment with it but really hope it has no negative side effects. Will def keep BD and see what happens, though DH is out again tonight grrrr. Hoping he isn't back too late and has some energy lol!

 

[IsaacRalph]

Sweetpea - thanks for the information - out of interest when you took soy did it make your cycles shorter or longer? I was hoping mine would be shorter, last month I think I ov on CD 18, I thought I ov yesterday on CD 14 so I was quite happy but now I have no clue. I'm just going to see what happens with my temps tomorrow. I did another opk and it was negative.
I have barely drunk a thing all day so that the urine isn't dilluted lol but the tests are definitely negative now. On CD 13 when I had the almost positive they did get less and less prominent as the day went on and then I got ov pains so I assumed that was it but I guess I'll just have to sit it out. Its so frustrating! Funnily enough even when I was trying for my DD I have never had a positive opk so maybe its just me!!

Hope all the cramps get better for those of you!

SLA - yay to trying again, hopefully this is your month!

Mamamac - I always google stuff like that and get scary answers. Have you had a smear recently? I imagine its just because your cervix is in the process of changing from hard to soft or vice versa. Cervical cancer happens over quite some time so if you haven't felt it before, and it sounds like you do regular checks, I think its unlikely to be that. You could always get a smear to double check if you are really worried. As someone who has had pre cancerous cells quite severly (and lazer to remove) I can say that it does take a while for them to develop, years for most people, so def not something that arrives over night. Hope that helps.
As for ov/AF I hope something happens either way. I know what you mean though, would be just nice to get some assurances that something is happening!!

Bit of advice, make sure you don't dehyrdrate yourself hun as you need to drink lots of water to make an abundance of ewcm! if i were you i wouldn't be doing every 2hrs opk's, i'd do it in the morning say around 11, then in the evening at about 7 and drink plenty after first test until few hrs before next. I would defo think that you will see the lines gradually getting darker leading up to + and like sweetpea said just bd every other day until temp rise to cover yourself! goodluck & happy bding