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The Elderberry Pavlovas are pimping everyday – a lovely thread for 30+ ladies TTC #1 (Thread 7)

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CatsCantFlyFast · 16/03/2013 14:42

Newbies very welcome provided they meet the entrance criteria (TTC #1, over 30, TTC for 3+months, must have a special pot, NO instadiffers) and bring a bouquet of sausages when they join!

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CatsCantFlyFast · 20/03/2013 22:33

Hello Berries. Have not caught up, and am reading on my phone so not fully with the plot. Past caring if this is TMI, just need to get it out. Suggest not reading further if you are eating dinner etc. This morning was barely bleeding (was barely even spotting only a panty liner overnight) but put in a tampon just in case. Therefore back of my mind until this afternoon was the potential that it was still 'just spotting'. Huge disappointment this afternoon when it was heavier than I had hoped (to be clear I had hoped for nothing, and in actuality* this was a lite tampon with only blood at the tip). Crazy work pressure is helping to take my mins of it but I am truly devastated. I am not an emotional person, and so I logically feel like I am overreacting but I feel torn up. I know this will pass. I also know this is nothing in the scheme of TTC and the experiences others have been through however I am knocked for six. I feel guilty about even posting this however I am justifying my selfish post because I have no other forum to get this off my chest. Sorry.
To everyone who's in the 2ww and hopeful, I truly hope you can grad. To everyone who has had a bad day I am sorry for moaning about nothing, and I hope tomorrow is better x

*why the fuck do these have such a terrible name. Panty????!!! FFS
**despite being surrounded by teachers I really don't give a fuck whether this is a word. I like it

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ILoveMyCats · 20/03/2013 22:22

I cry at the opening sequence, yes, the one they show every week.....

Bunnygirlie · 20/03/2013 22:00

I know what you mean! Watched OBEM last night for 20 mins and ended up teary!

Tallyra · 20/03/2013 21:50

I'm with you boodle, obem is likely to bring on a crying fest and therefore increase the headache I've been Fending off all afternoon.
hugs for your literacy emergency barking, doesn't sound particularly fun.

BoodleLovesPot · 20/03/2013 21:46

We break up next week. I'm glad because I can see the end in sight, and when everyone who breaks up this week is heading back, I'll still be on holiday! Yeeeeah! What about you?

A break is definitely what I need. I've definitely shut my brain down into 'don't think just get there' mode.

barkingtreefrog · 20/03/2013 21:38

Sorry to hear you're having a bad week boodle, do you break up this week or next? Seems to be different all over the country. We've got another week. Sounds like a two week break is just what you need.

barkingtreefrog · 20/03/2013 21:33

Ta moc, not really too concerned just an arse when it arrives and doesn't feel like a definite game over!

BoodleLovesPot · 20/03/2013 21:33

Hey Thunder, I did, yes - thanks again for letting me barrel-roll in to your thread asking questions! I don't think it told me anything I didn't already know, but it definitely helped remind me that this is not in my head and I'm not being unreasonable to want treatment when I have so many symptoms of hypothyroidism.

I need to take action but I've been suckerpunched several times this week and I think at the moment I've gone into survival mode. I need to make it to the Easter break so that I can take stock and decide what it is I need to do to get the treatment I want need deserve!

Pity party over, sorry to hear of your Literacy emergency, Barking! I am so lucky to have the most amazing TA who knows exactly what's going on when I suddenly leap up from my group and dash out of the room clutching my bag! She is also one of the few who know about my whole TTC disaster and she looks after me a lot.

I'm not touching OBEM with a barge pole, thanks! I don't need to do any more self-pitying crying so I've got the radio on whilst I prowl mumsnet do planning.

Bunnygirlie · 20/03/2013 21:29

barking mine were like that until I had reflexology, now I have 2/3/4 days of proper period which my reflexologist says is healthy periods! But if it worked for mother who knows!

ILoveMyCats · 20/03/2013 21:16

My two periods were also v light.....

MotherOfCleo · 20/03/2013 21:15

barking mine were just like that, one day, or sometimes half a day of normal flow then it tappered off and I'd have another couple of days of spotting. Never enough for a tampon I had to just use pads. Try not to be too disheartened. I was used to heavy periods but when I said that to my doc he said I hadnt had 'periods' for 10 years as I'd been on the pill and shouldn't class my 7 day break withdrawal bleed as a normal period as it wasn't. Didn't really put my mind at ease but I'm diffed so I guess he must have been right?

barkingtreefrog · 20/03/2013 21:13

Would love to join you on the sofa boodle but DP is home so OBEM is being recorded for me to watch later this week on my own!!

Thundercatsarego · 20/03/2013 21:10

Good work on the mojo bunny! And sorry to hear about the af disaster barking

Thundercatsarego · 20/03/2013 21:09

Hey pot, how are you doing newbie? Not good eh? Sad

Did you find the thyroid thread useful?

barkingtreefrog · 20/03/2013 21:09

It wasn't actually any heavier when I got to the toilet, just a spot in my knickers (sorry, sorry, TMI.....)
No cats every period since stopping pill 16 months ago has been crazy light. I usually get one 'decent' day, but that's still light compared to previously, and never anything requiring more than a 'mini' tampon, regular ones are now too much.
Maybe I should add my light periods to my list of ttc concerns!!

BoodleLovesPot · 20/03/2013 21:08

OBEM has started.

ILoveMyCats · 20/03/2013 20:51

Oh no, barking. In the middle of literacy too! Do you think it's a good thing that you're having a heavier period? That is, that your periods are less like withdrawal bleeds? Im getting a bit obsessed by periods....

Bunnygirlie · 20/03/2013 19:53

Thanks barking so have you not had a 'healthy' period since you came off pill then?

barkingtreefrog · 20/03/2013 19:32

bunny fx the mojo sticks around a while Grin

barkingtreefrog · 20/03/2013 19:31

Just to make sure there's no remaining doubt about my crazy level of optimism, I decided that as the last two days have been pathetic amounts of spotting which is all I ever get since post pill I obviously wasn't having a proper period and was probably pg therefore didn't need to shove anything up there, as it were. Cue me being proved wrong in the middle of a literacy lesson and having to leave the teaching assistant to it while I ran to the toilet. Blush I really am a sensible person, honest, but this ttc thing has started driving me a little crazy.

How are you doing merk? Sounds like it's got to be your month!!

Bunnygirlie · 20/03/2013 17:39

Hi sargosso are you joining the gang?

Evening all, good days all round?

TMI alert currently on my back Grin as DHs mojo has def returned, too bad it's a week and half too late Confused

ILoveMyCats · 20/03/2013 16:54

SidI really hate how the Internet gives people the opportunity to over share in this way. It's the main reason that I've stopped using FB. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be without it for so many other reasons, but I do think people who are already self-centred play to the audience, as they wouldn't have one in any other context.
Bit of good news today. Insurance will cover consult with gynae re the amenorrhea. Wrote the GP a note to ask him not to mention ttc in the letter and he didn't. That must have helped. Got an appointment tomorrow evening. Hurrah! cherry - made me think of you, as you have been going through this for longer than me. Could you get a referral by saying that you are not ttc? It could get you through a door and some clomid or something to kick-start the cycle. Any word about the vitex?
sargasso my friend did the most amazing burps throughout her pregnancy. It was hysterical! Not for her, I know.....
merks how are you?

Tallyra · 20/03/2013 15:10

oh sidney don't worry, I'm just feeling sorry for myself. you are perfectly entitled to be worried about them, and I probably was in a crappy one-upmanship type of mood anyway. of course my problems are worse than anyone else's and you should all sympathise with me right now! Blush

SidneyBristow · 20/03/2013 14:16

Tally I'm sorry; my moaning about having mixed feelings over the ultrasound is extraordinarily stupid in light of what you have been through. It probably sounded very insensitive and for that I am sorry Thanks

Cats my cousin's wife is an attention whore; from the look of it, the internet exists to give her a platform to tell the universe her every movement. She's always had an issue with her shape, and I guess was finally seeing some progress after getting on meal replacement shakes, so when she discovered she was accidentally updiffed Envy hell who am i kidding Envy Envy Envy Envy, she kept on with the shakes 'for added nutrition'. Basically, she is thick.

WideSargassoSea · 20/03/2013 14:09

Really sorry about AF Merkin. I've been watching your updates the last couple of days with fingers crossed. I agree with Pipbin that a CP shows you're half way there. Frog I had the same sort of thing the last two cycles - nausea, burping (!), emotional, big boobs, but AF arrived on time. Thought I was going mental.