The Elderberry Pavlovas, sausage bouquets, one giant sofa and the Gü pots of destiny! (thread 9)

kitty, we'd been trying since December 2011 with a cp last October, and have another fc appointment next week to go through the results of my many didlocams and the hsg from last month. I'm wondering if it is the magic effect of the hsg? Partners sa was borderline rubbish, but not so bad that we were straight to ivf. Fc suggested that iui was our next step.

boodle - the hsg wasn't too bad really (I thought). I've had millions of smears and colposcopies though, so I'm a bot of a professional at having medical equipment chucked up my fanjo. I know that some people find that if they have a blockage that gets washed out by the dye it can be a bit grim though.

No sun here yet kitty. Weirdly misty at the mo!

book fab news, can I ask how long you've been trying for? Any top tips haha?

Re moon cup omelette, what happens if the egg goes off before it leaves you? Guessing rotten egg minge won't go down well with dh!!!!

Bunny, I had basically all the tests that boodle had before my Hsg, apart from the dildocam...wondering why I haven't had that though. Has everyone else?

Boodle loving the potential new thread title!!!

Well guys there's still no effing sun here grrr, bet its scorching in uk isn't it??

Of course you may ask, dear Bunny! Can I just list 'my journey' so far and you can take from it what interests you!

Aug 2012: First trip to GP to raise concerns. Ordered CD21 bloods for thyroid and progesterone (and possibly other stuff that I don't know about). Thyroid a little high but not in treatment range. Come back in 3 months.

Dec 2012: (House move, new GP): See new GP. She orders CD21 and CD4 tests. She also books me in for a swab test to check for infections. Nothing revealed by blood tests so she refers me to hospital for dildocam.

Jan 2013: Dildocam results clear. Referred to fertility consultant at hospital.

Apr 2013: First meeting with FC. Orders repeat progesterone tests and prolactin tests and books me in for HSG. Follow-up appointment in July to discuss results of both and next steps.

Room for a little one on the sofa Bunny and Boodle? Can feel the AF cramps starting so she won't be long now
Going to try to see the GP again this week so also interested to know what happens next.....

What?! I've been here the whole time!

Yeah...I've been AWOL too. Wish I could roll in and reveal a BFP like Book but it's not to be. Congrats Book Frog!

I'm mentally preparing for HSG on Wednesday. Really not looking forward to it and am contemplating getting hammered beforehand!

I'm pleased to see that in my absence there have been lots of potential ideas for the next thread title: lunching, sperm omelettes and cat vom!

Woohoo Booktart!! Congrats. Went on a bit of an impromptu booze binge myself yesterday at a beer and cider festival. By far the most I've drunk since starting TTC. AF due in the next few days so hopefully the law of sod will come in to play and I can join the BFP gold rush

Cheers everyone! This thread does seem to be on a bit of a roll

tart congratulations! Sounds like this could be the start of a bfp extravaganza

Woo hoo book

Good news on the positive opk yorkie. And congrats to foody and frog! It has all been happening whilst I've been hidden under a duvet on the sofa of pity.

Sorry that I've been AWOL this month. I've been having a really hard time with it all. I spent most of yesterday on the sofa feeling miserable and inexplicably angry in partner's general direction. Had a couple of G&Ts to cheer myself up, and then realised this morning that AF was a couple of days late. Yep, post drinking-binge BFP [shame]. I'm hoping this one stays put, and that my current nausea is baby rather than gin related, because the whole omelette thing really isn't all that appealing...

at the omelette. Where did that idea come from. I had heard of people using egg white as a substitute for ewcm, but never nuked or in a mooncup. Please tell me that it was just coincidence that she happened to get a bfp that cycle! Dear god!
I do agree that people have lost their social inhibitions thanks to fb and the like. There are very few social boundaries anymore as you can just post it online and forget it. People have let their own boundaries slide and no longer think that others may have still have them. I remember feeling incredibly anxious about my own life when I started using fb and after looking on it yesterday for the first time in months, I couldn't get to sleep for thinking of all the people and photos.... Bad.
sid glad you had a talk with DH. You have to hold hope that things will be different now. Sounds as though he had heard and understood.

Sperm omelette! ha ha. I read it to DH and he was but then said I bet you're thinking about trying it now!

In good mood today....my footie team are off to Wembley again and I've FINALLY got a positive on a opk!

I can only imagine dh's face if I suggested the sperm omelette. . He'd think I'd gone even more crazy!!

Lol at the sperm omelette. I mean I've tried some desperate things but even I'd draw the line at that!!

Re mooncup omelette, aren't sperm proteins? Proteins denature (ie change shape) with heat rendering them useless.

Re mooncups in general, just how high do they sit?

Well there ain't much sun here in Thailand! :-( hoping for a better day tomorrow

I know how you feel frog i still feel like a bit of a fraud sometimes. good luck x x

I'm so glad you & DH had a good chat sid. I get the second wife thing totally. The being mistaken for SS's mum still stings a bit for me too when TTC. I almost lunched DP the other day when he said he needed to tell the ex about the baby as soon as we were telling people but then he clarified that it was to tell SS at the same time.

The mooncup does get easier honest! I thought I was never going to get it out the first time!

As for the mooncup special omelette . Surely the microwave would kill swimmers?!

Thanks for the link foody I'll check you all out when I actually feel like it is happening. I just don't feel pg right now & feel AF is just going to turn up as usual. Tho I spent ages in Tesco looking longingly at red wine & soft cheeses.

Thanks for your support, ladies. DH and I have had a long and frank talk and he's said he was completely in the wrong and has no excuse for not being up front about it. He's had a pattern of this sort of thing but something this time seems to have clicked with him. He hadn't thought of TTC in terms of a swap, but figured we still DTD when the kids are here so it wouldn't be that big a deal. Frog yes SM stuff is hard to explain w/o sounding like the kids are the problem - in my case they aren't, it's feeling like I'm the 'second wife'. The kids can be exhausting and yes I'd prefer to have DH to myself during that time of the month, but I can't abide by feeling like another woman has his ear more than I do. DH seems to get it this time and says it won't happen again. For everyone's sake I hope he means it.

Mooncup seems to be working out alright, although I did panic the first time I tried to take it out. It seems to form quite a tight seal up there, and I wondered if I do have some sort of undiagnosed tube blockage, if the mooncup suction would be enough to dislodge it!

For those of you who've been referred to a FC, how long was it between your GP requesting the referral and the FC assigning an appointment? DH & I've decided to request a ref after our 12th cycle (#11 just started), thinking it'll take a couple of months to be seen, possibly resulting in us being told to go private at that point, since he has kids & we won't qualify for NHS IVF. Previous GP said to come back at 14cycle mark; IMO it might be 14 cycles before a FC sees us anyway so why wait 2 extra mos for a referral?

Boom did the croissant fairy show up?

Foody nice to hear from you! That is mental. I'm not sure I'd want to get pregnant with an irradiated sperm omelette, surely you're asking for mutant DNA! However, watch this space, if I'm not knocked up in a year or so....

Hello and congrats on your bfp. WTF! That is one of the craziest things I've ever read. Where on earth did she get the idea from?!