If TTC # 2 has turned you into a nut job this thread is for you! (Part 4)

Yeah it was like that for me sebs. And worse after I did a poo. I never bled though properly - and wasn't bright red until I passed it. Have you done another test?

My advise would be to wait til you are over five weeks and if still bleeding trot down to EPU for scan to at least locate the pregnancy. 6 weeks if you can wait that long / to be sure of dates etc.

It can be normal sebs but obviously my experience it wasn't. But that's not to say yours is the same chick xxx

I drink but don't smoke. But don't drink much. And there is a trade off between giving up something that you really like and then getting more worked up and miserable each month. And stress is even worse for ttc! . Plus I don't know anyone that conceived after giving up booze! I also got pregnant with DS around the time I was on a diet of coffee and wine as was working ridiculous hours at the time and needed coffee to stay awake but booze to send me to sleep (have left that job now thank god!) He was actually conceived whilst on the booziest ski holiday I've ever been on!
But i have decided I'm going to not drink in the week and have a couple at weekends / and a blow out on af arrival - ha ha!
Booze apparently affects the man more than the woman too. I have a friend who's husband has low motility and the medical direction is for him to give up booze and not her. (But she's cuts down to support him).

Right - am putting the opks away and I'm getting on with my homework, I've got more exams in 3 weeks and tonnes to do beforehand!

I agree, Fedup leave them alone! They just cause undue added stress and worry and fretting. At the end of the day all we can do is have sex as often as possible. Don't take up skydiving or glue sniffing and hope for the best. Wish I was feeling as sensible and rational as I sound!!!!
Glad everything seems to be ok Sebs.

Yeah I know. Just wish I hadn't spent 25 quid on them! Idiot. My logic was a friend gave me some spare sticks so I kind of needed to buy some more to have the holder!

Who knows really as think cycles are a bit weird at mo. I could have ovulated already - about 3 days ago. Bit not sure so will keep shagging jic.

No, the last cycle i used opks I had false positives for days! And actually got a real positive about a week later. I've thrown my wee away now! Or would have dunked just the stick but to be honest I just don't believe them any more. I really don't think I am yet either...
Opks put me in a bad mood. Just wish had still left them alone and wouldn't have to deal with this shit!

Ugh. Why did I do opks?! There's a reasons I stopped with them. Yesterday morning I had am empty circle with 5 am wee then I did another with 8 am wee that was fixed smiley. Took out the stick and screen was all blurry again so I think a false positive. However these stupid sticks keep the fixed smiley for two days after you have a peak so I can't retest today!
Sod it. I'm keeping going with our every other day method. No ewcm so I'm pretty sure no ovulation yet.

Hopefully you will get a positive tomorrow fedup? There is still a chance yet. Will you keep testing until you do get a positive? I hope your cycles sort themselves out soon. Normally I would be due AF in a week but I am scared to even think too much about it, my last 3 cycles have been all over the place so now I just have no idea where I'm up to or when to expect AF.
I think the january blues are getting to us all, we need some sunshine...and some babies.

Oh and hi geta! Obviously the pregnancy is going well - am so pleased for you. Thanks lovely, I have my moments - sometimes positive about the year and other times right rock bottom. To be expected I guess! Take care xxx

Yeah, it does - it acts just like cough medicine does in your chest but down there!
I've decided tho that am not ovulating yet as had no ewcm since and think might have been left overs

Feeling a bit down as been doing opks last two days as a pregnant friend gave me them and they are these dual hormone ones which say high and peak fertility but have had neither yet and I'm cd 10 but norm ovulate on 11 or 12 so thinking my cycles are prob going to take an age again to sort themselves out after mc. :(
lucy am bored and fed up and tired of it all too. Why can't I just have a baby?
sebs how are you?

Hi everyone. Sebs how are you doing? I think putting your feet up and trying to relax is the best idea!
Fedup does cough medicine thin it down?? I had no idea ewcm had to be a certain thick/thinness to do its job properly!
I haven't been doing too well today. I'm just fed up of the whole thing. I have cried about 4 times today and had to pull over the car driving home from work as I was sobbing so hard. Ended up telling my parents tonight too after a the conversation sort of started steering that way....felt a bit better to talk it through in real life, but no one can really help can they?? except maybe fertility specialists and gynecologists....oh and storks!!

Hi all, I have caught up with this thread with baited breath. Oh god, sebs. I can feel the emotion, and I know what you're going through. Everything you do, you wonder, is that going to cause a mc? My guess is there's nothing we can do to protect our little beans, just pray (and I'm 100% not religious). I will be thinking of you lots.

Fedup darling, I saw you did great on your exams and you're thinking of doing personal training. I would love to retrain as a legs bums and tums workout woman...! It's when I'm at my happiest, in the throes of physical exertion. And my LBT woman has killer legs, bum and tum! I've been thinking about you fedup, I'm pleased you're so positive after a horrid 2013.

punky, you're going to have to tell dh off, he needs to play ball at ov time!

I'm thinking of you all and hope when I visit again - no one is here!

And sebs, I turned this it to the fed up show when I went through my mc in sept so don't worth about using this space to not STFU!! Rant a way! And does look much more positive for you that it was for me so am keeping the faith!!

Ewcm here but a bit too thick so hot footing it down to boots for some cough medicine!! Ridiculous but necessary for a ttc nutter.

cake I know how you feel. I didn't go to something today with NCT as couldn't face being the only one without two kids. :(

sebs darker test is def a good sign. Fx for you!! Xx

Sebs that line is so much darker and now the bleeding has stopped it's all going in the right direction - try not to worry, easier said than done I know, but stress is not what you need at the mo! Please do stick around, we're all willing this to be a sticky one xxx

I feel like a nut job even more than normal today, totally symptom spotting for implantation, really really stupid as the likelihood this month is v slim. Just found out another of my NCT group is preggers and although delighted for her I do feel a bit

Re the scans sebs, I had one at 5-6 weeks, I had bleeding (after the initial stuff that I thought was AF) , this was a couple of weeks later) when away in a different city, rang NHS direct and they sent me to a walk in, who sent me to A and E, who sent me for a scan the next day. It was an internal one, they could see the corpus luteum etc and said it was a normal early pregnancy. I couldn't see much. But you might not need one, this is all sounding positive! x

I think going private will be worth the money for the peace of mind. If it gets to that of course!