Morning ladies, thanks all for asking how I am. Well, normal night of waking every goodness knows how often but dreaming (as you might imagine) of miscarriage, but that's it, nothing else overnight. No real change this morning however, still got chronic lower back pain and mild AF-type cramps, with the lovely extra addition of a sicky headache. No spotting when I got up, but I am expecting it, I didn't used to get spotting first thing after getting up, it was always later on after I'd been up for a while.
Good suggestion about the acupuncturist but to be honest ladies, I don't see much point (if you'll excuse the pun) of throwing good money after bad. I don't want to stop this if it's down to a chromosomal issue, which I'm convinced it is. Not meaning to be fatalistic, but I haven't thought this pregnancy was right right from the beginning, and I just don't want to delay things that will still have the same outcome eventually anyway. If it's wrong, then I want it sorted out as soon as possible, hope that doesn't sound callous?
Had a chat with DP last night about this whole thing; he still wants to keep trying but is very concerned with what I'm putting my body through, with the repeated MCs and the drugs. He asked if there's no way eggs can be tested for chromosomal fitness, so I explained the only option would be what duggs mentioned, the new IVF testing Array CGH. I also explained we'd be looking in the region of £7K a go, which effectively puts it right out of our reach. :( I did gently point out that it may well be this never works for us - time is very firmly against me, and I really can't take MC after MC due to bad eggs.
Anyway, playing the waiting game again, only this time waiting for my body to get with the plan and sort itself out. Ho hum.
cheerful I want to be where you are ... oh the bliss to have to worry about getting sunburnt! :)
choccy that doesn't sound good, although if you say it's been a side effect of pregnancy for you before, maybe it IS a good sign? :) Take care of yourself, and watch out for that blood sugar dip!
snoopy I always start testing with OPK about CD10, so that sounds about right if you usually OV somewhere in the middle of your cycle?
digi do you usually react to Chinese like that?? That sounds quite alarming, what do you think would trigger that reaction? I didn't know you could get that from a Chinese!
free ironically it was me that wanted some glaring signs yesterday. Guess we should be careful what we wish for, since I got my glaring signs after all (although not in the way I meant!). As for feeling pg in the second trimester ... from what I can remember of DD, I did indeed feel pg almost all the time after about week 14 or so I think. But it was all new to me then, so I was very aware of any differences in my body. Now, I think I would doubt anything I felt was necessarily pregnancy-related, I might well be blaming it on the pred! If I ever get that far again, and I'm not feeling too hopeful for that right now, understandably.