Testing around the 16th Feb? Join me for some "too knackered to SWI" laughs (!) with a bit of symptom -spotting and "shall I test early?" agonising thrown in!

oh katy I really hope it's just a passing thing. DH and I both have flu at the moment (he's a few days behind me so I can at least look after him as I feel comparatively better). This bout of flu has been a real doozy - congestion, shortness of breath, awful coughing, sore throat, headache, swollen glands, aching, fever and vomiting - and I've been ill for at least 9 days now. In any case I really hope this is not what you have!!!

On the bright side as I was vomiting I was thinking, gosh, at least if I get morning sickness I won't have the headache and the swollen glands...

Feeling shocking today. You know when you brew tea for too long? I've got that taste in my mouth. Feeling travelsick as well, and dozed on the sofa this afternoon. I had to clean out the slowcooker this morning after yesterday's chicken casserole and I was heaving. I'm scared though that I'm thinking myself into symptoms. Way too early for any of this, isn't it??

Sorry to hear about those of you who think you're getting off this bus. If you do, extra good luck for next month to you!

Grottielottie same here - on to next cycle eh?

Katy I hope you have good luck this month - it's your thread, it's most unfair if you don't.

Where do I go now? Can I stay on this thread once everyone's tested and either got on a bus or is starting again? MN is very big and there seem to be a lot of people on here - I find it really bewildering TBH.

It looks like I won't be testing after all, having bad cramps although not due till Mon. Ho hum, at least the good thing about periods pain that start about a week before I'm due and are incredibly painful is that I am going to save a lot on wasted tests and the tww seems shorter.

I wanted to be joining this thread but we missed it ( arguments and crossed working meaning didn't see each other!) so am hoping to be on the next one.
Wishing you all lots and lots of luck for your BFP!

Sorry to hear about those BFN's. I'm holding out as in a way I can hold onto maybe perhaps being pg, but once I've done a test and it's a BFN I come crashing down to earth.
My boobs are still sore and I've got lower back ache so I've still got my fingers crossed.
Hopefully by Monday we'll have lots of BFP's!

Hello there

11 DPO here but temps took a tumble this morning, so expect AF.

This is our second cycle of TTC #2. We were very lucky and DD was conceived first time round last time. However I was a fresh trim 34 then and am now 36, knackered and saggy!

My cycles can vary between 29 and 32/33 days normally, though last one was a mad 38 days.

Good luck all.

Bumps x

This month I've been telling myself I wouldn't obsess and I've been staying off MN but here I am again with 3 days until AF due and I'm symptom spotting like a mad thing. So thought I'd jump on this thread and wait out the last few days with you lot! :)

Symptoms:
tender boobs, bloating, pain in right side (have had on and off since ov).

Oh dear, to hear that, busy. I hope next month is your month...

Thanks Lucy good luck with your testing and well done for holding out x

Sorry to hear that busy. I'm sure you'll get that BFP soon x

Well I think it's over here sadly - have got af (pretty sure it is af although of course I have been googling implantation bleeding clutching at straws!!)

Good luck to everyone else on the thread - I hope to see some good news from those left to test.

Don't be too mad at yourselves busy and monkeys, the 2ww can send the steeliest woman insane! AND it ain't over til the fat lady sings, and there are no AFs yet. I haven't tested yet, only because my telltale preg symptoms are constipation, stuffy nose and breathlessness (oh the glamour) and I don't have any of those.
Rainy day here, hope it's better where you all are x

Oh and welcome pink, let's hope your symptoms are signs of a looming bfp!

Towlittlemonkeys I am with you there - both my freebie tests wasted, two BFNs when will I learn?

And to top it all off I feel a bit crampy this morning, like my period is coming - argh I hate this analysis of every little feeling.

Despite having decided this was our month, that I wasn't going to test early, that I was going to be cool calm and collected about it, I am a huge failure in all departments!!

Dammit, I caved and tested this morning.... BFN That means I have no excuse for eating like a pig the past couple of days nor for feeling knackered despite lots of sleep. Need kicking into gear a bit. Grrr.

Welcome Pinkpink. If you do succumb and test on Saturday you'll have some company as I plan to try to wait til then

oh that bodes very well indeed! Good luck for Monday (or Sunday )

Day 28 will be Saturday but I'm going to try and hold out until Monday, but as I leave for work at 6.30 I might do it Sunday instead (any excuse really!) Last month my Af came on day 24 so every day is a bonus at the moment!

[welcomes pinkpink to the thread]

Good to bring another lurker onto the boards! What day will you know whether to test or not? Fx for you!

Everytime I tell him a new symptom he says 'is that good?' and I then reel off all the pros and cons and add that maybe they are just in my head!

Welcome to the thread, pinkpink! Hope you get your BFP this month. I think my DH is also very grateful for MN - is an outlet for my insanity that doesn't involve chattering to him about TTC non-stop...

Hi, I'm very new to this and have been secretly lurking on a few conception threads when I discovered this one and thought I must join as everything is just so familiar to me and the fact that everyone is symptom spotting like mad is making me feel so much better so thank you. (phew take a breath!)
I have 2 dd's (6 and 4) and had a mc 2 years ago which took me a long time to get over. We've now made the decision to TTC#3 and obviously I want it to happen NOW!
This is only our second month but I'm sympton spotting with the rest of you, feeling quite positive it may have worked, and desperately trying to not test until Monday.
By the way my husband has already said 'thank goodness for MN' as I'm driving him potty with my drivel!
Phew sorry long first post

Oh, and re tests, I just bought some off a random eBay seller. Packaging was very discreet. But they are obviously faulty as gave me a BFN last night despite hula hoop incident above clearly definitely meaning am updiffed .

Oooh, symptom spotting alert! Just did a Hoopercise class (wih giant hula hoops - bashing your middle with a hoop is probably contra-indicated in pregnancy anyway, nearly came on here to discuss whether I should go but decided that way lies madness) and felt so sick and knackered three quarters of the way through I considered stopping! Did carry on til the end but slowed right down. Of course, the alternative explanation is that I am very unfit...