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 9)

Oooh....keeping my fx for orange and knitter and anyone else coming up to poas-ing - how exciting!!

baubles fx for implantation too!

mamac Cheltenham is lovely, as you know I'm in Brizzle so not too far away, I could wave to you (and orange !) when I go past

aandrmum I am very impressed with the ingenious decorations, being somewhat domestically challenged we're having to make do with egg-box-and-tin-foil-bells here!!

nix hope you're feeling just sick enough to feel secure and not so sick you can't enjoy it

wombat and tunnocks if you're worried at all, go and get checked out, otherwise you will only get more stressed about it x

MamaC the popcorn chains are mine - I saw it on Gilmore girls - you use fresh cranberries. Cheltenham is lurvley. Fx hope it all works out - there is a great kitchen shop there!

knitter oooo I am hoping madly - waiting is just the worst.

StMummy what a lovely thing to do - rubbish to have been rewarded with illness. Have you ever read Daddy-Longlegs?

Thanks for the movie tips - Animals United sounds great - Meerkats are high on her list!

Orange naughty testing - I am going with the weak pee concept.

Sorry orange slap me with a wet fish for saying this, but if it was afternoon pee and not first morning pee it might not have been strong enough anyway?

So..... I POASd this avo and was negative now I'm just annoyed with myself as I know it was too early :(
Cheltenham's my neck of the woods, very nice

knitter fx it's a BFP

hiding sorry she got you :(

lulu normal package doesn't seem as easy to read now my package has gone back to standard it's not quite so easy to read

Cheers Nix how are you feeling today? Must confess that with all this puking I have been thinking how horrible morning sickness is and could I really stand to go through it all again?!

Whooops, who has been making pop corn paper chains then hey??

my brain has obviously been affected by this bug too... just realised I missed out half of teacake's questions.

re: scan for Ashermans. Yes you are right a normal ultrasound scan can not detect scar tissue on the cervix or uterus. 2 helpful investigations are
an HSG - dye inserted in the uterus and xrays pictures taken
or an hSG - saline solution inserted into the uterus and 4D scan performed

but the HSG will not always show up mild scarring and the hSG results really need to be looked at by someone who knows about AS to get a good diagnosis. the vast majority of gynecologist are very poorly informed about AS.

If you want to cut to the chase, go and see the doctor who just treated me in London, Dr Adrain Lower,020 7 486 2440 he is one of only two Ashermans specialists in the UK and he is rated as in the top rank worldwide. He takes BUPA patients, and it is much easier to get BUPA to pay out for lack of periods than it is for light periods/infertility (which many AS patients have) so you might want to lie. If you are paying privately it costs £205 for a consultation (which you can do by telephone or skype if you want) and £250 for a 4D scan which will give you a diagnosis. Dr Lower is the only AS specialist who can diagnose AS via a scan.

The only thing is he might want to rule out hormonal issues first and send you for bloods tests (i already had mine done elsewhere by the time I saw him) and these can get quite pricey, so if you can get these done on the NHS then that is better. At this stage it is just as likely that the problem is hormonal as it is AS, so the best place to start is with some bloods tests and charting both of which can tell you if you are having normal cycles.

The great thing about Dr Lower is that everything is very quick, you can get an appointment almost immediately and if need be treatment scheduled straight away.

I do hope you dont have AS, but the good news is that if you do and it is treated promptly by someone who knows what they are doing then the prognosis is very good. I know how scary and worrying it all starts to get when AF doesnt show up properly. If you want more information and support, I would encourage you to enroll on the yahoo AS site which you can find through www.ashermans.org. The ladies on there have tons and tons of information.

xxxxxx

PS sorry mummy you have caught S*D but if there was ever a way to catch it, that sure was saintly

mamac i wish it were me with the popcorn and cranberries...sadly not!!!

Hope everyone is ok xx

lulu sorry didnt see your earlier question, yes FF will tell you about ov. I think the main difference between basic and VIP is that with VIP everything is colour coded, also you get to ask questions to "experts" about your chart.

lulu i cant read your link. odd because it looks like you posted the right URL??

what about this one?

baubles post your chart, then she clicks on "sign up" from there

to post from FF, go to the panel on the left and choose sharing, then home page setup (make sure you scroll down and select the relevant charts) then copy the URL at the top

Ovulation Chart for tunnocks if it works...

PS loola I couldn't see your chart then.

How do I invite tunnocks?

Oooh another question... will FF mark any poss ovu,ation on my chart even though I have not got VIP access?

x posts Mama .... Sounds really exciting about the pub, keep us informed! xx

Hi Ladies,

I'm sooo sleepy today Could really do with a snooze! The rest of the family have a really nasty cold/virus thingy so think I may be coming down with it too, I already have the cough so just awaiting the rest!

I started temping this cycle and have had some funny temps... don't know if this is how you link to my chart... but if it is do you think this might be just increased temp due to possibly coming down with cold?

Mummy Poor you! nothing worse than S&D, hope you feel better soon, especially with all the visitors you are getting!

Hiding Sorry AF got you!

Wombat 3 Pg announcements?! Yack! is all I can say! My sil is due next week, and had a friends PG announcement on FB, so I feel your pain!

Baubles FX for it being a implantaion spot!

Knitter FX for you too!

Orange FX those cramps were a beanie snuggling in! I'm with you on the BBT light up screen!

Tunnocks I've got a babymad BBT, but it does beep very quietly, it was £4.90 on Amazon.

Mummy x-posts. Sounds nasty, get well soon xx

Ohhh Hiding sorry the ole biatch got you! I'm also pee'd off with Amazon, now 3 days late with a CD I'd ordered! fx for xmas bean for you

Tunnocks fx your body gets its act together PDQ! I also had one or two raging hormone screaming and yelling outbursts this weekend... argghh!

Knitter will be keeping everything crossed for you, in the meantime step away from the sticks or i'll have to fish you slap you buddy and you Orange ... watching both of you to make sure there is no early POAS action! You can both have ((((cuddles)))) while you wait

wombat I think if you feel that something is 'not quite right' with your body, yes go the doc's. Female intuition is a great thing!

LadyB Your moment in Boots made me laugh Hope your feeling better

AR Exiting news on the work front. Good luck with the project, sounds interesting.

YRMOTB Hard not to enjoy an odd tipple or two at this time of year... I'm not gonna beat myself up for drinking during this particular 2ww! cheers

Loola I really like that little saying you posted 'to see the rainbow you have to live through the rain', how true.

Izzy hope dd is on the mend and there's been no more spewing in public places episodes this weekend

Nix popcorn paper chains! You are so creative!

For those asking, we now have another 3 pubs on our new shortlist, one near Cheltenham and that would be a v nice place to live, anyway, will keep you all posted on that front.

Humungous catch up so waves to all I've missed [fbear]

teacake i forgot to say, the easiest way to do temping is with www.fertilityfriend.com

can someone post a link so that she can sign up and get free VIP days?

Hi All,

just a quick one from me, I am struggling through a bout of mega vomiting and diaorrea! I helped organise a christmas party for the kids at the local orphanage and caught a virus from them.

teacake Here is the link that talks about not bleeding for 20 days

This NHS page says 4-6 weeks www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/954.aspx?CategoryID=60&SubCategoryID=180 for your periods to return after mc.

It might be worth printing this one and taking it to your GP? Were your periods regular before the mc? If so, be sure to point that out.

hi knitter hope all that three a day action is paying off

wombat hi, yes, painting is done and family is arriving tommorrow night! All christmas prep is done too, excpet for DH's present. Hopefully I will be feeling better tommorrow so I can get it before family arrives and we go off to the beach.

Ladyb sorry about AF, and the man cold.

hiding you're not the only person I know who's had Amazon do that to them this week. Seems like they're struggling to keep up with Christmas demand. Good luck getting the DVDs elsewhere.

fx for you knitter! It is sooo hard being patient and waiting though

It is def AF this morning. Ho hum. Still on the bright side I finally signed up for fertility friend once I found they have an iphone app! Hurrah. Put in all my data for last cycle and it has predicted I will be ovulating on christmas day so maybe a christmas baby? ahhh..that would be nice

ooo wombat I am in a rage with amazon as ordered some dvds for dp about a week ago and they have just emailed me to say that actually they don't have them! I thought I had been so organised!