Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your cake, wine and tightie whities and join us for more ranting, weeping and most of all, laughing. All welcome (Part 7)

Just on subject of OPKs as well, I have never had a line darker than test, not even as dark I think, but am pretty sure that this is because I drink lots of water so bear that in mind if you're using them too (mine tell me to not drink too much and to try not to go to the loo for 4 hours before testing - impossible!) x

Thanks for info getdown and explains why I have no line today. Telling myself I won't test again until 1st AF

I'm doing the same with grapefruit juice when it's time, just saying it's "good for me"

Hi Izzy,
Have you talked to your doctor about it? Could you talk with a nutritionist about agnus castus (and any other stuff) which could prolong it? I'm sorry, I can't remember if you go to acupuncture at the moment but that's helped to regulate mine again. I know it's so frustrating when your body just isn't being fair. I'm sure it'll sort itself out with time but maybe you can find a way of giving it a helping hand? x

p.s. just done a quick google and some people say B6 to extend luteal phase

PS nix you're evil!! Poor MrPink !!!

Arsecrackers. Sorry TMI coming up but 6dpo and traces of pink on tissue when I went to loo. Would love to kid myself it could be implantation, but it was exactly the same last month and then AF arrived 8dpo. This is rubbish

Sorry for mememe and self-pity, just starting to feel the Doooooooom here...should be 33 weeks pg and getting ready for mat leave now and instead I'm back to ttc and getting nowhere, with a useless luteal phase that I don't know how to sort out!!! Grrrrrrr....,

Mm the barfing mid bonk may prove less effective than a splint! Give him a Viagra :) tell him it's a vitamin pill!

Then shag his brains out... They last all night dont'cha know?!

I meant the barfing

Hehe yep bonfirebut he's used to it now :)

My suspicion is that cbfm and opk are identical sticks, they are both looking for lh as far as I can tell and give suspiciously similar lines..... Oh well, poor DH...

A sure fire passion killer.

If OPK and CBFM are both peak then that must be an LH surge - can you equip DH with a splint or something to see him through yet more SWI?

Worth a bash, surely. If you have the energy. Try not to barf on him

7dpo according to graph, feel pukey and knackered, opk positive, cbfm peak, hpt negative...... This pukey knackered thing tricks me every month though, think it might be an ov thing. Gaaaaahhh

orangetoenails I think a faint line on an OPK is a negative - the line has to be as dark as the control line to be a positive (bit different from pregnancy tests).

The reason is that we produce LH throughout our whole cycle (hence the faint line) but only a dark line indicates the surge.

Well my bleeding finally stopped - hurrah! Feeling a bit crampy and achey still though... confused what my body is doing down there.

I have been a bit obsessed and gone and bought myself some fresh grapefruit juice. Trying to think of a way of explaining it to DH so he doesn't drink it all himself! Without actually having to talk about pant snot!

(((( nix ))). 'tis indeed very rubbish when you hear all that about how fertile you are post mc and then it just doesn't happen, I share your pain

only a brief one as in school run - pink - POAS. YRMOTB loving the daisies, always makes me think of dd who went through s phase at about 18months where she would only answer to Daisy (not her real name!)

Afternoon everyone I did a ov stick last night and had a faint line, does that mean it's on it's way? Ewcm-ish too. Sorry, would have been 16 wks for me so looking for good news somewhere...anywhere!

PFF sorry you're having a rough time, my fingers are crossed that the 1st test was right and you're on your way to a BFP soon :)

Sorry not more talkative, finding difficult on iPhone

love the faceYRM just what i needed before having to train 10 car salesmen! Pretty flowers :)

Fondant try that?!

it should pick up HCG, but a pregnancy stick wouldn't pick up LH. So maybe try that?

nix sorry you're a bit meh. I certainly felt worse the first two months after mc, as you say everyone says you're mega fertile, and it was very disheartening that you aren't pregnant, and everything becomes a mission, when you feel it shouldn't be? Plus your cycle length is more erratic, like mine, and it makes the 2ww a 3ww and EVERYTHING JUST GETS TOO MUCH!! So mahoosive hugs for you, we understand it all!

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.peteykins.com/images/FarkApr04/daisies.jpg&imgrefurl=www.peteykins.com/images/FarkApr04/pages/daisies.html&h=518&w=580&sz=54&tbnid=ez_phB6HSlnHZM:&tbnh=120&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ddaisies&zoom=1&q=daisies&usg=__O57rDH5xV8mVrIZy3_JeetcaUUA=&sa=X&ei=42nRTM-1G9WL4QaD5Oz_DA&ved=0CBwQ9QEwAA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">a picture for nix. like the face?

Can you put on your FF chart?

fondant just a thought, would it help to do a pee stick OPK, thats not linked to cbfm? to see whether that brings up anything?

would the CBFM (shag dicktator) pick up HCG like an ov stick would....could it be?!?!!?

YRMOTbonfire love sunflowers.... do you have daisies in your portfolio?

Daisy is my favourite flower, i have a daisy head tattoo on my back and daisy was a girls name we considered for DC2 :( Daisies make me happy so do stargazer lilies

(((nix))) will catch up with you later hun, at work now xx

Thanks guys, temps look like I ov'ed as there's definitely a temp shift a week ago. Also pant snot lined up with temp shift in a tcoyf kind of way so I am completely perplexed by what the dictator's saying. The whole point of getting it was to be able to safely time a break!! Is it possible to get a LH surge outside of ov? mummya are you awake?? I need your help!

Sorry mememe again, am a bit freaked out and totally can't concentrate on anything else!

Thanks guys, temps look like I ov'ed as there's definitely a temp shift a week ago. Also pant snot lined up with temp shift in a tcoyf kind of way so I am completely perplexed by what the dictator's saying. The whole point of getting it was to be able to safely time a break!! Is it possible to get a LH surge outside of ov? mummya are you awake?? I need your help!

Sorry mememe again, am a bit freaked out and totally can't concentrate on anything else!

sorry to everyone who has become POAS addicts.... there is a programme available to all (but you all have to stand in a circle and say the following...

"Hello, my name is xxxxxxxx, and i am a pee stick addict!"

fondant am with owl on this... same as i had last month. Maybe your body was trying to OV and didnt manage it due to stress or something, and now you are? TCOYF says its possible to OV twice in 1 month but only the eggs are released within 24 hours of each other, hence non identical twins....i dont know if its likely to be a week apart? Its poss that you are ov now late, like me or poss you ov last week? Is your evil shag dictator pissed? Or is your thermometre working?

Sorry not been on much this week, heads not been in the right place for the speed of the thread this week. Not emotional or anything (well been a bit teary in the evenings) just cant explain it, bit of an odd week and whilst i absolutely love everyone on here i just havenot felt like posting anything! Dont really think i have anything much positive to say...so its easier to abstain if that makes sense? Plus also just finished period, getting with the temps ready for fertile time etc.... tbh it can be a bit demoralising having long cycles as you dont get the same opportunity for fertile times as those with shorter cycles so in limbo that much longer iyswim?

I think i have had the manic TTC post MC mode and its passed. Grumpy cos it didnt happen when i thought it may, pissed off cos everyone says you should be mega fertile post MC so makes that feeling of failure more intense...grumble grumble grumble!

I'm ok just in a wierd place at the min! Work is busy, trying not to get stressed at all with it, and i think its working a bit! but will see when we get to fertile time!