Pre Af Spotters??? come join me!

Thanks mama. I knew it was on it's way and I was in so much pain last night it kept waking me up. Bloody awful. Anyhow, every month means another opportunity. I almost feel better on CD1 than the last few days of the 2WW. It's like confirmation and you just have to move on. I'm very lucky to have what I have, so I must keep things in perspective. I did have a little cry though.

My DP drops his little tub next weds. Not sure how long the results take.

Got to have my smear once my AF gone, so like you it will probably be next month before any sort of results come in. Who knows we might be up the duff by then!

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Thanks for your useful info Missmidden and huge congrats on your bfp!

And thanks mama31 for your graphic detail. Never tmi here! Anything goes. Mine is creamy brown and usually just after a bm. Maybe few spot during day, but only thin liner ever needed.

My CD 1 came today instead of Sat meaning CD4 will be on Monday so I will definitely have to get bloods done that day.

I suppose I'm lucky in the that my LP seems ok and I only spot for 2-3 days before AF. It must be really hard for you. I never believe it will be implantation spotting because I don't believe it's really that common. I also have pretty huge pre-menstrual pains so I always know that spotting is sign of AF.

One Q back to you mama - are there any further checks being done despite your bloods being ok?

Helen87 - sorry, but my only advice is to try and just not read in to anything with your body this month and to just make note of things. It may take a little while for your cycle to settle. CD1 will be the first day of full blood flow (if you don't get your bfp!) - you never know. The body is a weird one!

Hi, thanks for the welcome I've just come off Jasmine. I'm not sure when next AF is due because last one was my first one off the pill and it was crazy. I've had ovulation symptoms at the beginning of the week and also had a positive opk on tues so going to guess AF should be here in about 1.5 weeks.

I've been spotting on and off for the last few days so am thinking it's unlikely I'll get a bfp this month but I don't know. Any advice anyone?

I have posted on similar threads before because I feel this is an area it can be hard to get taken seriously.

My history was no spotting while TTC no. 1 which took 8 cycles. But as soon as off pill and TTC no. 2 I had spotting before AF for 3-6 days each cycle. Tried for a few mths then started investigations and ended up having IVF for unexplained infertility. I got pg 1stcycle with this but had an early mc, but then got pg naturally 6 wks later in a cycle when I spotted for 6 days before getting a BFP at 12dpo. I am now 13wks.

All the doctors I saw dismissed my spotting as of any relevance even though my own reading told me it was most likely due to luteal phase defect (basically low-ish progesterone for any one of a number of reasons). Finally, the last doctor I saw after my IVF mc said he thought it very significant and that if he had seen me a year before he would have had me on Clomid, timed intercourse and progesterone supplementation after ov and was confident I would have got pg easily (given my other test results).

That said, people do clearly sometimes fall pg despite spotting, as I did eventually. I am not sure if any of you here are ready to take things further, but if you do prepare to battle for spotting to be taken seriously. I now wish I'd made more of a fuss or sought out doctors who would take it seriously much sooner- it could have saved us a huge amount of time, money and heartache. Good luck to you all.

I am on cycle 8 of ttc #1. Pretty pissed off to be honest. I have always spotted a few days before AF. It varies from month to month, sometimes throughout luteal phase, sometimes just 2/3 days before AF.
I never paid close attention prior to ttc, but I am now a little obsessed with looking at my pants and toilet roll (sorry tmi)!
I am currently day 11. If no positive hcg this month, I will pluck up the courage to go to gp for some initial tests.

The one month I didn't get any spotting I got a BFP! My baby is just being put to bed by his daddy

I'll be CD1 of cycle 8 on Saturday. I sort of keep changing my mind which cycle I'm on because I'm discounting the first few because we didn't 'try' hard enough and we were still using ky. doh!

So, I'll get my first bloods done early next week. He's dropping his sperm off next Weds and I'm going to go for smear in few weeks. She said that the nurse can have a look at my cervix to check it looks healthy at the same time. She was quite proactive and talks about the dye test thing too. I was a bit worried that I was just going to be sent away and told to try harder, so although I'm not looking forward to tests, I'm feel like I'm doing something positive.

Warning - TMI question, but what is your pre-af spotting like?

Hi. Mama seen you on the buses before. I made decision to stop jumping on and off for a while as I was finding the 2ww even harder.

Anyhow, just wanted to say that last month I had 3 days of spotting before AF showed. I really thought it was my month, but alas it wasn't.

Same is happening this month. 2nd day of spotting.

Like you I'm on cycle 8 and can feel myself getting more and more down each month. So I went to docs today and started process of getting everything checked out, including checking to see if there is any reason for the few days spotting before AF. Bloods first, then go from there.

I completely sympathise. It's agony.

Not sure if I fit in this group but I came off the pill in October and have had loads of spotting on and off through out the month and I have no idea if it's ovulation bleeding, implantation bleeding, start of AF or something totally different! Very frustrating!!

My stats are TTC 1, cycle 1 (not counting last cycle as had just came off the pill and no idea what was going on!)