The Elderberry Pavlovas who occasionally sausage wang – a fabulous thread for 30+ ladies TTC #1 (Thread 8)

Pip glad to hear you're in the system now. Good luck tomorrow Boodle wow, lots of berry appointments. Hopefully results will duly follow.

Barking I've just caught up on the amazing wooly mice. So cool, I lurve them! Someone knitted us a bride, groom and a lucky sweep for our wedding day and I love them. Such a personal gift, awesome.

Evenin' Thunder! Jealous of your booze, stupid detox

Oooh all these appointments! You will all be SO diffed soon!

Hi to lovely berries old and new. Sorry for AWOLness - I?ve been thinking of you all and hoping you?re doing OK.

Peanut and Boodle Yay for self medicating! I do think there?s a lot to be said for getting all the knowledge you can and supporting your system wherever poss.

Merkin sorry to hear you?re still feeling out of sorts. Totally understandable though. Take care of yourself

Cats glad to hear all went well today, even if they were a bit rough. I?m the opposite from you though, only used pads a couple of times ever. Hated them so much the damn things fill me with dread! My dildocam was fine even though I needed to pee desperately and had to sit on my fists at one point so Dr could locate an ovary that was hiding behind a full bladder. Still if something had been not quite right surely that would be part of the exam and would have been noted? We're all different afterall so try not to worry.

Bunny my DH hated his jizz test, he had to come home in the end and do an emergency hospital delivery later that day. IYSWIM!

I have an appointment tomorrow too!

I think this TTC-lark has a habit of making us all go a bit bananas!

I'm very upset that the doctors don't want to look at DH's swimmers. Everyone else has had swimming tests!

It certainly shouldn't charming (unless you still have half of your hymen intact and the tampon gets stuck behind it on the way out, not that I'd know about that of course). I have a friend who had a 'friable cervix' and she always bleeds after smear tests, have you ever had a problem with that?

Bunny sorry I've lost track, are you already under FC or just GP?

Boodle I have a mahusive cardboard box in the kitchen full of Agnus, red clover, yam root....oh God. I'm mental aren't I?

Bunny, I suppose it will depend on your results! When DH and I were at that stage it went like this: For DH, he had to schedule a second SA as he had a slightly low motility result (was normal on the following SA). For me, bloods were all "normal" and I was sent for the dildocam. I also had swabs done at the doctors around the same time as my blood tests.

Feeling like a wimp, really, but it was very tender when she was steering it around and I was bleeding as soon as it was over. Think my full ish bladder was making things difficult (I had gone before I left the house, about 45 mins before. How could it have filled up in that time?)
Nurse told me it would be like putting a tampon in. Didn't have the heart to tell her that I've never done that. Yes, I'm weird..... But after a few failed attempts as a teenager, I gave up and have never needed to do it. Running packs of the pill together ensured no af on holidays etc. surely a tampon doesn't make you sore?

My appointment is at 2.30, as long as I manage to park! I've never been to this particular hospital before and all I know is that the car park is tiny. No way I'll be missing the appointment though - might just have to abandon the car in the middle of the road or something!

I too have rather a lot of pills and potions. My parents came to stay recently (to hold house and feed the furbabies) and I filled a very large bag of fertility / TTC / DTD paraphernalia and hid it at the back of my cupboard.

Haha charming checking out your well-accessorised ovaries! I didn't get any spotting/soreness but then I never bleed at all. My uterus is the proverbial stone, there is no getting blood out of it. Sounds like she was a bit rough, didn't hurt at all for me..?

Boodle yum, Peruvian ovary-stimulating porridge. Sounds mega. I already have a zillion lotions and potions, but I am a sucker for black magic alternative remedies because I don't have to wait for GPs to prescribe them! What time is your appt tomorrow? I want to live vicariously through you!

Sydney I'm happy to share hsg story/info!
we went to our gp in Sept and I had a couple of blood tests and oh had sperm tests. as these were normal by Nov when all were completed (oh had 2 tests) we were referred for a fertility app at the hospital.
Doctor there asked for more blood tests and hsg. That appointment was March. with follow up booked for June and hsg to be done before that.
It has to be done between day 7-10 so is a small window, luckily it all fell right and I got it done straight away.
The actual hsg was fine (but I have had a colposcopy & Dr said to me if I was ok with that hsg would be fine!)
I found it like a longer smear with more people in the room! it was painless and she said straight away my tubes looks fine.
The Dr will go through it properly with us, along with the other blood tests in June.
Its not been a quick process but at least we can keep trying in the meantime.

any other questions feel free to ask!

Gosh, Charming, they must have really had a rummage around up there with the camera! When I had my date with the dildocam, I was already spotting with imminent AF but I wasn't sore at all. I found it all very gentle though, so perhaps they got to see what they needed without 'bodging' me too much!

DH made a very funny joke about ovaries spotting the camera and hitting it with their handbags....made me think of sausage wanging.

Yay, boodle! Good luck!

Never heard of it, peanut, sorry. Sounds great though! Did you have any pain and/or bleeding after your dildocam? I'm very sore, especially in the right ovary area and spotting....DH being v sympathetic, bless.

Oooh, oooh, me Miss! Me, pick me! I've heard of maca! I've got some in the cupboard and it's bloody vile! Still, not too bad if you stir it into porridge. I haven't used it recently because, like everything else I've tried, it seemed to do nothing for me. Still, some people must have had joy with it, I suppose, and I'm of the opinion that most things are worth a try (within reason)...

Glad you've had a lovely day Tally* - can sympathise with the FC appointment waiting though! I can't believe mine is tomorrow! I've been waiting for this since the referral in January!

Right berries! I'm installing myself here for the evening, whilst also secretly looking up and e-purchasing all the supplements my acupuncture lady recommended today on DH's credit card. Anyone heard of something called Maca not Paul McCartney? Apparently it's some Peruvian wonder-root that causes all who behold it to spontaneously ovulate and conceive octuplets. Or something. Anybody tried it?

Hellooo all, new and old.
Had almost perfect day today. went for lunch with a friend, bought chocolate and then went fabric shopping with a birthday voucher so didn't even spend much of my own money. Only thing missing was a bfp. or at least an appointment from the fc...

Runs in.
Waves at yet more new faces.
High fives Peanut for being jealous of pregnant animals.
Shakes fist at pregnant sheep, BFP car and the moon.
Runs out.

(I do intend to come back later so that you can all keep my sane before my appointment tomorrow but for now, busy bee!)

Hi pip - PID is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. It's what happens when due to germs or another infection (like chlamydia) you get an infection of your ovaries,womb, pelvic area in general.
I got mine with my first boyfriend when I was 16 so probably due to teenage boy germs (or my own!) rather than STDs as we were both virgins - unless he lied!
I had horrible pain during and after a period and nasty green discharge.
Unfortunately if you've had one it's usually hard to conceive and a high proportion of people become infertile because of it - you can get scarring, or blocked tubes. We've been trying for eight months with no joy, so it may be something to do with that. We'll see!

Glad all went well for you Pip and your IVF journey has actually started, even if all the running, bathing and ahem pooing was in vain
Welcome to all the newbies!