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Conception

When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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anyone else see imaginary lines?

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DizzyKipper · 21/05/2011 10:22

Ok I may possibly have reached my most desperate point so far, I may well be making myself believe I can see a faint line . I'm also struggling to not go obsessively back to the test to re-look and figure out whether there is a faint line there or if I am just making myself see things. It's the kind of faint line where 2 times after looking at the test I didn't even see it, and then after a lot of squinting and staring I wondered "am I making myself see things" (and I reckon I probably am).

My AF is due in 2 days, it is going to be a particularly long and torturous 2 days.

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Jebel · 26/05/2011 08:08

ps said on other board but congratulations!

Jebel · 26/05/2011 08:07

Yes AF late but was taking progesterone until Tuesday so that would have made it late anyway (due Monday but expected it to start yesterday or today after progesterone, am 15DPO). It's so silly, I want to go and get another test but have had 1 cup of tea and 2 glasses of water this morning so am going to be v diluted. Also, I will lose my parking space and it is 50C outside and I don't fancy having to walk!! I am turning into a fruitcake.

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DizzyKipper · 26/05/2011 07:59

Maybe the horizontal line was a little too faint to register, but if you've seen the vertical then it does sound promising. As your AF late?

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Jebel · 26/05/2011 07:54

Dizzy am going through what you went through so am getting hope. I had spotting and then a faint line this morning. Am now sitting in the office wondering if it was a faint line and trying to remember which test I used. Because I think it was a clear blue plus and I don't remember seeing a horizontal, only a vertical. I've scoured the internet and POAS site says if you only get a vertical it is still positive (but if you only get a horizontal it isn't). But I'm going to have to wait until tomorrow morning to test again - aaagghhh.

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DizzyKipper · 26/05/2011 06:50

Thanks And I'll go find that thread now.

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Stangirl · 25/05/2011 13:22

Congratulations!...as my GP said "a line is a line is a line".

Now go get yourself over the the appropriate ante-natal thread.

GenericDietCola · 25/05/2011 10:32

Brilliant news - well done!

WorzselMummage · 25/05/2011 08:43

Told you!

Congratulations :)

fledtoscotland · 25/05/2011 08:20

Congratulations xx

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DizzyKipper · 25/05/2011 08:14

Thankyou bex I'm literally sat at the computer staring at msn waiting for OH's status to turn green, it should be any minute and I get to tell him!

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Bexamundo · 25/05/2011 08:12

Oh wow oh wow oh wow congratulations!!!!

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DizzyKipper · 25/05/2011 07:25

Ok FR just confirmed that faint line was not imaginary or an evaporation line, BFP! It appeared within the first min, there's no doubt about it.

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DizzyKipper · 24/05/2011 23:08

Damn, 5 years, that is an eternity isn't it? You've definitely got my sympathies. Even with how unlikely it is you still manage to get yourself worked up every month don't you? I'm 25 btw, we want to have 4 by the time we're 30 and this will be our first one, so we've lots of work to do

Made my way over bex, see you there :)

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Bexamundo · 24/05/2011 21:20

dizzy the thread disappeared so I started a new one. Vol.2, hope you find it!

Catface1984 · 24/05/2011 16:54

Hey Dizzy'. I know how you feel about the waiting to TTC. DP wants to wait till next summer after we're married. But I just don't want to wait any longer, we've been together nearly 5 bloody years! I got all excited this month thinking I was pg, and how as he never ejaculates inside, it would be down to only a very few sperm, so it must've been just 'meant to be'... I came on the other day though :( But anyway, I just wanted to say how I envy that you're even trying, and wish we were... How old are you if you don't mind me asking? Because if you're under 35 you should be very fertile and it shouldn't take long before you've got yourself a bun in the oven... :)

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DizzyKipper · 24/05/2011 13:56

Thanks think I may do (will have to wait 'til OH leaves the house - we agreed to test Friday :s). Been googling again and am now wondering if it could instead be breakthrough bleeding - unlike implantation bleeding it's supposed to happen around the time you get your period (apparently the hormones controlling your "bleed" switch are still active for some women early on) and can also resemble light spotting. Still no full-blown AF, if she doesn't get here by tomorrow I might let myself get slightly more optismistic.

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GenericDietCola · 24/05/2011 13:44

Could be implantation - try another test in the morning - FX

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DizzyKipper · 24/05/2011 12:04

Hmm, I have just got some spotting - not very much and it's old, dark brown blood rather than the heavy, bright red blood I normally get at the beginning of a period. Am trying to work out whether implantation bleeding could possibly take this long to come out (it's been 4 days since I got the first faint line, meaning implantation would've had to have happened before).

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GenericDietCola · 24/05/2011 11:43

Oh Dizzy hope you get a nice, strong BFP soon. If no AF yet, you're still in the running.

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DizzyKipper · 24/05/2011 08:39

Sorry I did try this morning but my camera isn't good enough, it just came up really pixellated and none of you would've been able to see the line (OH has confirmed I'm not going mad and seeing things though).

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WorzselMaamage · 24/05/2011 08:36

Take a picture

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DizzyKipper · 24/05/2011 08:34

Thanks for the responses. It was a one-step ultra test strip, the 10mIU sensitivity ones. I think I'll try holding off for a few days before testing again, if AF doesn't get here first.

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Stangirl · 24/05/2011 08:20

Dizzy - you don't sound silly at all. I don't know enough about the test you used - but it might well be worth a second try tomorrow to see if the line's darker. BTW I myself took a very long time to conceive after waiting a very long time to find someone I wanted to conceive with (met at 35 had first DC at 41 and due another in July at 42). I also have many many friends who only started ttc in their mid-30s. The main tips for the top are have loads of sex (I know that sounds daft but in the pressured environment of ttc it is strangely overlooked) and if you take longer than 6 months go straight to your GP and start asking for exploratory tests - no piont hanging about.

WorzselMaamage · 24/05/2011 08:19

Evaporation lines done occur on tests immediantly, the clue is in the name, the form when the urine evaporates and the urine dries out. That's hy you should only look at tests in the allotted time.

If your second line was visable in the right time it's probably a bfP :)

What sort of test was it ?

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DizzyKipper · 24/05/2011 08:14

This is only my second month, so I know it's a bit silly of me to be this upset and many people have been trying for longer. But I've been waiting for over 3 years just to start ttc already, and even though I was on the pill just about every month I would get myself in a mess hoping against the odds that I might have accidentally been upduffed - but the darn pills were effective! I know it's still early days for ttc yet, but I feel like I've been waiting for so long already, I really don't want it to take ages to conceive as well.

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