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Symptom spotting part 2 - Home of the suspicious boobs and other strange goings on!

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AddictedToRadley · 29/08/2010 21:54

Welcome to our new thread where everyone's welcome. Sit back with your favourite drink and get all those 'suspicious' symptoms off your chest including the ever popular suspicious boob (sb).

If you're squeamish this may not be the thread for you, as this thread is dedicated to those with strange goings on where no symptom is TMI.

Good luck to us all for that elusive BFP to arrive soon. Who'll be the first to get one?

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AddictedToRadley · 13/10/2010 03:02

Oh Assassin . You are the person I most want to get a BFP. Please don't get me wrong I wish everyone would get one but you have been through the most so I'm desperate for you to get a BFP.

I just wish my bloody AF would show up I'm now on day 69!!!! Sad Once the bloody thing (ha ha literally bloody thing!!) shows up I can get on with the blood tests etc. I've got an appointment on 6th Dec for results of genetic tests but seen as I haven't had the blood taken yet and have to wait til cycle day 2 I wonder whether the results will be there! Hmmmm trying for a baby's so difficult mentally and I keep seeing pregnant women and gorgeous tiny babies everywhere. The world and my body's conspiring against me!!

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sufferingbabyfever · 12/10/2010 21:57

Hey Aunt Flo

I know its annoying but at least AF marks the start of a fresh chance.

Have you spoke to a dr about the length of time ttc?

AuntFlosAssassin · 12/10/2010 21:51

Bugger, fuck!! I think afs about to show up.i noticed some slight spotting earlier and my stomachs starting to get a bit achey. Oh I could cry Sad. 29 months of this,its realy realy starting to depress me arrggghhh

AuntFlosAssassin · 11/10/2010 13:34

Hello ladies, esp pervy mcperverson aka arthurs Wink

arthurs are you ok-you sound so peeved off atm. Can't believe he said that to you!!! put some laxatives in his dinner as revenge!

Not much baby making went on in our house this month, only cds14,15+19. wish i could say we are trying the laid back approach but id be lying, we just couldnt be arsed.

We had a lovely chat about it last night, and ive just realised that even though it has been my body going through all the painful pokes and prods, dp really does want another dc as much as i do. makes me quite sad tbh Sad.

AF due on thursday and still no symptoms for me. apart from slight pre af cramps, not much else to report.

Hows everyone else doing?

arthursmum · 10/10/2010 19:34

Sorry for being absent recently ladies (and radley's husband of course, what with his miracle ability to conceive! Wink)

Things are a bit bleak in the arthursmum household, things still not straight with DH and we haven't been having any 'lovemaking' sessions so I fear this month will be another washout. I know I should probably get over it and forgive him, but I'm finding it a bit difficult to get past him telling me he is having to 'work himself to wanting to have sex with me'. Cheers mate, felt pretty shitty to start with but confirmation of my repulsiveness was not well-timed. Prat.

Hope everyone is doing ok and working hard at the baby making - I nearly typed that I would be thinking of you all but realised that is actually quite pervy!!

AuntFlosAssassin · 08/10/2010 23:23

oh jazzy so sorry i missed your post,i skipped it by accident. thats such a pity that that bastard af turned up.hope your ok Sad

AuntFlosAssassin · 08/10/2010 23:20

Hello everyone Smile.computer is back up and running again though we had to wipe it to fix it and i lost all the fotos of ds's 3rd birthday Sad.

Absolutely frig all symptoms for me and im now 9dpo, cd24, and af due on thursday.

Hello birdie -best of luck to you Smile

Hows everyone doing?

arthurs i nearly peed myself laughing at your post about your thoughts on making love Grin.your in depth description really made me giggle Grin.thats great that theyre gonna do the blood tests-hopefully you get some answers soon.

birdietimestwo · 07/10/2010 09:47

Many thanks Addicted, yes time to get off that old hamster wheel in my mind. Best of luck for you - good news re the ewcm - and everyone on here this month ! Incidentally my earlier 'suspicious symptoms' have now completely disappeared so I'm putting them down to the half ton of pasta and ice cream I snarfed up last week on holiday. Phht.

AddictedToRadley · 06/10/2010 20:55

Thank you all for the kind thoughts, hugs etc they were very much appreciated and just what I needed to kick my arse out of that low mood! So I'm back on the wagon even though I'm still waiting for the wicked witch to return from her holiday (the evil cows probably holed up in some 6 resort where the weather's gorgeous and the cocktails are flowing!! Harumph). The miscarriage clinic was brilliantly thorough and very understanding. If when I get a bfp I've got to ring the EPU to get an immediate scan that day, woohoo that's made me happy! They're running loads of tests Inc genetic blood tests which they need 9, yes nine vials of blood for!! She tried a few times to get blood but it wouldn't come so I've still got that to look forward to! You should've seen DHs face when he was told HE had to have blood tests!!!!! Grin He was mortified. Mind you the funniest part was when she asked for our history, then looked at DH and asked if he'd* had any miscarriages. He replied, in a serious tone, "No, you'd have heard if I had as I'd have been in all the papers with being a man that was pregnant!" The dr wasn't impressed as she flatly explained she meant with previous partners whilst we peed ourselves laughing!!!!! They've also arranged day 2 and day 21 blood tests. The genetics tests will take 3 months to come back and she said we couldn't try for a baby in that time! Yeah right - we'll be having an 'accident' then if we concieve before 3 months! Sorry but no way I could stop trying for 3 whole months, the 2ww feels like an eternity let alone 12+ weeks! I've also been prescribed super duper strength folic acid. The great thing is though that I'm too fat apparently because I'm a size 16 (it's alright for her the skinny bitch!) and DH has crap quality sperm (she knows this even without a sample) because he smokes sometimes. So she reckons the 3 month break will be enough time for me to loose 50 stone and DH to quit smoking even though the stop smoking clinic's packed out and he can't get in!

Anyway I got a bit of cm that looked a bit like ewcm yesterday so did an opk test and a 'squint hard enough and you'll see it' line showed and today it was a bit darker so I've told DH that we're at it like rabbits for the next few days (accidentally of course......).

Assassin how are you going to cope with no computer? I'd be lost without it! Think you need to invest in an iPhone then you can Mumsnet whilst shopping. I was Mumsnetting whilst waiting at the hospital and got a few funny lookings when I was laughing my head off reading Arthur's classic 'sodding geyser/clots like liver' out loud to DH!!!!

Arthur you're posts always cheer me up no matter how crappy I feel. I love your dry, warped and twisted SOH!

Hope everyone's doing ok and keeping warm and snug as the cold, wet nights draw in. Perfect time to close the curtains, put the kids to bed early and get down to some serious BDing with DP/H. I think that's the only thing winter's good for - cosy nights in with your loved one.

Welcome Birdie please don't feel guilty or that you're being punished for having a TOP when you were younger. I'm sure you had you're reasons and that it was the right thing to do at the time. Although I've never been in your situation I do think you need to give yourself a break. As I said earlier I was told there was no chance of pregnancy ever for me and I got pregnant first time with my DS so there's always hope until there's absolutely no chance ie menopause or hysterectomy etc. Good luck I hope it's your month.

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arthursmum · 06/10/2010 14:43

Howdy y'all and welcome to birdie! Hope your computer is back up and working assassin - and I will happily join you for that drink jazz!

Quick update, went to doctors yesterday and I will be having blood tests on Friday and then in three weeks time. She kindly suggested I not stress out about ttc, and aim to 'make love' 2 or 3 times a week.

I almost laughed in her face. I mean, the stressing out thing is completely unreasonable, but I was more amused by the 'making love' bit. I don't think I have ever 'made love' in my entire life! I prefer to think of it as 'make embarrassing squelching noises and try not to get the giggles at an inappropriate moment happy time'. If me and DH attempted to 'make love' we would probably have to employ a wind machine to ruffle gossamer curtains across our toned naked flesh, then lie in one another's arms gazing into each others eyes, whereas we are more likely to begrudgingly have a fumble before arguing over the duvet and straight after the doings form a tower of pillows to stack under my arse to try and get the baby batter to flow the right way.

Make Love! Fnar! Grin

birdietimestwo · 06/10/2010 11:28

Hi jazz, thanks for the welcome !
AMH is the (still a bit new-fangled, I think) anti-mullerian hormone test which apparently measures how many eggs you have left in the basket, tho not what the quality might be. I meat top not tpo sorry ! i.e termination of pregnancy.
Sorry to hear your AF turned up. That sucks. Funny how pregnant women / babies seem to be everywhere when you could really do without exposure for a while. Best of luck for next month.

allthatjazz · 06/10/2010 11:03

Hey Birdie welcome to the madness! Your symptoms sound good to me. I'm really unsure of the lingo AMH and tpo Blush so sorry!
I do know some nurses although they mean well do not realise what they are suggesting is unrealistic. I was also told to leave my stressful job.
At 7dpo it looks good to me :)
assassin my cycle buddy. I am afraid I out! at 10dpo- I had so many symptoms too :( I am truly gutted.
Think I need to lengthen my leutal phase. Vit B complex from holland and barratt for me I think.
Urgh and there is a pregnant woman on the tv right now too
First natural period since I was 16. It hurts:( I'm such a wimp!
Arthurs do you fancy a 'boohoo AF is here' drink? Im sulking.

birdietimestwo · 06/10/2010 10:51

New here and just started TTC. This is a totally brilliant thread. I'm driving myself bats trying to symptom-spot, 7 dpo :

  • lower back ache (don't normally get this)
  • full / pre-periody feeling in the baby house - sorry i nicked that expression from someone on here , love it.
  • chills on & off
-spaced out, light-headed
  • boobs look like they hang lower ?? Not bigger exactly
  • knackered - slept 11 hours last night & still snoozy
  • giggly & can't be naffed doing any work.
-craving coffee (don't usually) and beer Confused ditto. Totally off red wine which is my usual.

found out last week that someone we know got preg during honeymoon (first month of trying) and was so flipping jealous and sad. Totally irrational of me as we've only just started trying too.

The thing is I'm 36. I went for an AMH test at Zita west clinic in May (without telling dp - this was before we 'decided' to start ttc) and was told it is 5.04 which is "low" apparently. At least it means there must still be some eggs in there. still getting the mid-month egg white though not much of it. I got a lecture from the nurse about trying immediately which wasn't realistic at all, and giving up stressful job - equally unrealistic. My mum went through menopause aged 50 and couldn't have any children after me (she had me aged 37) - something about a dodgy IUD. So I guess I've got until 40, maybe. This is so scary, I wish I'd thought about it when I was in my 20s.

Also some residual guilt / do i really deserve a baby after a tpo aged 19. Irrational too, but it haunts me a bit.
Oh well, here's hoping. Good luck everyone.

AuntFlosAssassin · 05/10/2010 13:58

actually meant bd cd14, cd15 and cd19. not that it makes much diff lol

AuntFlosAssassin · 05/10/2010 13:56

Welcome to suffering and namechange Smile

Rad are you ok? like arthurs i have so much sympathy for you.

arthurs you always manage to make me smile. pmsl at "Its like a sodding geyser down there, with added clots that look like liver. Niiiiiiice.". Gross but funny Grin

Im 6dpo at the minute and nothing to report apart from the odd twinge. As usual. dont even think we stand a chance this month. got +ve opk on cd14, bed cd14 and cd15 then nothing til cd20 as we've been too tired or going to bed at different times. ho hum, will just have to try harder next month if af arrives as planned on 13th/14th ish.

I feel like ive been neglecting the thread a bit-our laptop is banjaxed so i am having to pop on at lunchtime while im in work. Not the most private surroundings for posting on here may i add! so if i disappear for a while its just cause ive no computer to use. .booooooo

allthatjazz · 05/10/2010 13:52

Oh radley! Beware as arthurs and I want to give you a very large hug and a drink :) I'm so sorry you have had such a hard time. :(

arthurs How are you doing? 57 days! I'm so sorry that sucks! Sorry to hear AF is still having her party. I used to get clots when I was in my teens on bc- way to scare the hell out of a 16yr old!

namechangetime drags sooo much. I've been off coke and marmite since my last pregnancy. I was a massive cola fan and when it tasted weird I knew I was pg.

assasin me old china where are ya?( that was me being hip Hmm) How are you cycle buddy? Are we in or out? Hoping for good news:)

Hope all are well
jazzy

arthursmum · 04/10/2010 10:46

Oh radley I am feeling so much sympathy for you at the moment that I want to reach into the computer screen and give you a big old hug. Not very Mumsnet but I like to think human! You are going through so much and life does not seem to want to throw you a fricking bone at the moment. I can't offer any solutions or suggestions, but hopefully knowing you are not alone, and that you are being thought of helps a little bit. Do go to the dr's about how you are feeling, depression is emotionally and physically draining, and they may be able to offer help. If you are anti-drugs, they may refer you to a counsellor. I am officially a loonbag so I have been running the exciting obstacle course that is having a mental illness but also being a functioning and useful member of society for years now, so am happy to help.

Welcome to namechange - glad you had a good Wednesday night! Wink. The more crazy symptoms the better!

Think I might try and get a cheap batch of OPK's on t'internet - will need about 5,000 to stand a chance of hitting an ovulation day, if indeed I am actually ovulating.

My AF is being a massive diva, leaving me hanging around for ages then storming in and demanding to be paid full attention. Its like a sodding geyser down there, with added clots that look like liver. Niiiiiiice.

namechange100 · 04/10/2010 09:49

ANTFLO Wow i thought I was the only one mad for halloween - I love it and willbe putting mine up soon Grin

Runner as I said I havnt ven bothered telling my DH this time as he thinks its all madness. Wink

namechange100 · 04/10/2010 09:44

Perfect thread - I am going out of my mind and starting to read endless stuff.....here is my stuff:

We ONLY did the baby dancing last Wednesday, this weekend:

  • Can swear the coke tasted metallic and there was something else (foodwise) but can't remember what that was.
  • Could not move for love or money on Saturday and slept most of day and still through the night
  • Had tingly to cramps like heavy feeling in the baby house area
  • Last night felt hungover/but hungry like so I had a yoghurt

I did experience symptons before missed period last time but it was to be a missed mniscarriage and also when I conceived DS - had terrible car sickness when a passenger.

But I have thought I was pregnant before and spotted symptons wrongly but also for me due to history its the start of anxiety - I hate the hormones my brain gies to mush and can't think of anything else!

Oh it feels better to ge it off my chest - I havn't even told DH - he is a fact based kinda man!

Ooooooooo the time drags so much - I dont want to go swimming of spa rooms just in case Arrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thanks Grin

AddictedToRadley · 04/10/2010 09:28

Briefly? Yeah right, who was I kidding?

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AddictedToRadley · 04/10/2010 09:24

Sorry I got so self-absorbed I forgot to say hello to everyone and welcome all those joining.

I'll read through the posts tomorrow to catch up and see if I've missed any bfps (I hope I have and I hope it was a few Grin I could do with some good news!).

Runner I saw your post and had to tell you, briefly, my story. After starting my periods on Christmas day 2 months before my 9th birthday I was finally diagnosed with endometreosis at 15. By the time I was 17-18 I'd had several operations and all sorts of meds but was still in a lot of pain. I was told that the only option left was a hysterectomy and that I may as well have it as there was no chance at all, not even a minuscule chance, that I'd ever get pregnant! I told them there was no way I'd do anything so final without having tried for a baby. I didn't want a baby at that stage but had always wanted children (I was broody for as long as I can remember and even begged my parents to have another baby when I was 12!!). To cut a long story short when dh and I discussed starting a family I went to the drs and found out I was already pregnant even though we'd been using contraception (don't know why we used contraception but I always did just incase!). Unfortunately we lost that baby but just a week later we fell pregnant again and went on to have our wonderful ds who's 2 in November. What I'm trying to say is that drs, whilst being very good, don't always know best and have been wrong several times. I would tell you not to get your hopes up as that would be hypocritical of me as I find it impossible. If you can try to relax as it def helps. As you may have difficulty conceiving I would highly recommend getting an ovulation predicting kit (opk) or a fertility monitor. The fertility monitor is the best but very expensive, you can buy second hand from eBay at a reasonable price. Opk's are good to but can also work out expensive the Clearblue digital is £22.99 for 7 tests (unless you know for definite how long your cycles are you may need 10-14 tests) another option that a lot of ladies on here use are the opks from Amazon or eBay which are £7ish for 50 tests which is a bargain! You can get sensitive (early testing) pregnancy tests from the same place at 50 for £7ish. I got a mixture of the two, 20 pregnancy tests and 30 opks for £6.96. It is very possible that you are pregnant so don't think you've lost the plot to suspect it so soon. I hope you do get pregnant, and soon too. Hopefully you'll find that your condition is much better during pregnancy, mine certainly was. It was only that last trimester that became increasingly difficult with baby squashing my lungs (I have growths on my lungs which cause pain and difficulty taking a deep breath).

Lots of love and baby dust to you all xxx

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AddictedToRadley · 04/10/2010 02:52

I thought I'd best post so you don't think I've gone off to some far flung corner and stolen a baby to stuff up my jumper for 9 months!! Gosh how I feel like it right now!!

Update on me; So far I'm on cycle day 60 (yes sixty blooming annoying six-o sixty !!). I don't know what's going on with my body as I still 'feel' pregnant and have every symptom I had with my ds. I'm so confused and upset at my bloody stupid idiotic crappy useless body that I'm feeling very very low at the moment. I keep telling myself I can't be pregnant because I've had bfns but my body's telling me otherwise. I'm so fed up. Sorry to be so negative but that's exactly how I feel. I didn't want a big age gap between my dcs, was hoping for 2 years like my sister and I (I was born on her 2nd birthday). My wonderful ds is 2 next month so I'm trying to concentrate on that. I'm so lucky to have him, he brings so much joy. Every day he surprises me with new things he's learnt and when I'm feeling down he comes up to me, turns his back, grabs my arms to wrap around him and says 'Ahhhhh, Mama's baby'. I try to hide my feelings from him and think I'm doing a great job of plastering a smile on my face (must admit though that's an easy thing to do, I just look at my beautiful little boy and grin like a Cheshire cat!) until he comes to cheer me up and cuddle me better, bless him.

I've been feeling really rough lately with my pain levels. I just wish I could raise the money needed to get me to America for treatment. DH had an idea of setting up a website with details of my condition with a PayPal donate button on it so people could donate some money towards the £20-25,000 I need. We worked out that if we sent a link to all our friends on Facebook and asked them to donate if they were able to and to post the link to their friends' pages then it's quite possible we can do it. We have over 300 different friends between us and if they were able to donate £1 or so and then pass the link on then we could achieve it in a short time. Am I just setting myself up for a fall again? We only raised £46 or so last time (after a full page article in the paper which raised £0, a paintballing day which nobody turned up to even though it was well publicised and dh spending 3-4 hrs a night every Thurs/Fri/Sat going round pubs with a charity tin which people only ever put a few coppers in, that raised the £46) so I'm hoping this may be more successful as I so want to be 'normal' and would love to work or be able to chase ds in the garden etc

Sorry to be so negative and bring everyone down with me but I'm sat here in tears and knew you'd all be supportive and (hopefully) wouldn't mind me being so bloody pathetic!

I'm at the recurrent miscarriage clinic tomorrow so hopefully will get some answers as to why I've lost so many babies. Do you think they'd be able to shed some light on what's going/gone wrong with this cycle? Or are they just there to look into the mcs?

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sufferingbabyfever · 03/10/2010 22:05

Hey arthursmum,

not a quick flash and gone. More like intermittent over a few days! So Im not sure what this is! Stopped the pill in April and things have been a little haywire since! Prob still not settling! So annoying!

arthursmum · 03/10/2010 21:37

Hi suffering! The mid cycle bleeding sounds pretty positive, was it a quick flash and then gone? Most people on here have described implantation bleeding as being similar. Fingers crossed for you!

sufferingbabyfever · 03/10/2010 21:09

Hi,

Im quite new to the world of TTC. Im on my second month of trying. I am blissfully unaware :) of early pg symptoms at the minute. However, I have a few symptoms if any one could offer any idea if they are

mid cycle bleeding (extreme bright red colour)
bit of nausea unless I keep eating at close intervals (food seems to make it go away?)
general wierd feeling of not being at my best almost confused at times ?!
Extremely tired (slept far too much over last few days)

I have been using opk so I know I hit my fertile window this time!