August bus in full summer swing, lightening strikes and symptoms spotting galore!

Congratulations Sarah!
Sorry AF got you Detective.
No news here either way. ..

Congratulations Sarah

I'm desperately holding off testing until Monday - as is my deal with 'comeawaywithme'

Finding it so hard to wait. I'm not a patient person by nature and the first response tests keep mocking me and taunting me from the drawer they are in.

Only 9dpo and Af not due until 28th so must hold off until then.

Congratulations Sarah!!

Hooray for Sarah! Congraulations. Very pleased for you.

Laughing at Kittys attempts not to spam us! But your symptoms sound positive - looking forward to a BFP for you on Monday. Wouldn't that be wonderful!

Detective - oh no, AF! I am a novice at temping, just started this cycle. Not sure how accurate it is as we had a lot of disrupted nights due to poorly toddler, so I was either very restless or waking up and taking the temp at different times. (No way I am setting an alarm with a toddler!) However, I seem to have had a dramatic temp increase at CD14 that Fertility Friend is calling ovulation, so I hope it's accurate. 7DPO here and temp is still high. I like temping, actually, feel like something to do that just provides information - nothing hinges on a big POSITIVE or NEGATIVE. I just do orally though.

A bit of symptom spotting yesterday - wave of nausea and lots of dizziness (nausea v v unusual) and recurrent weird feeling of swollen left breast! Probably nothing. Will wait until 14DPO to test if AF doesn't arrive first.

MrsBee, I probably should change but I haven't adjusted my alcohol intake at all while TTC. Just my luck that I would abstain it would take a year to conceive. With my DD I went on a bender in Istanbul about 2 days before AF was due (and never arrived)... I would say if you have good news and some prosecco, go for it. (And congrats on the good news!)

Ah thanks everyone. Nervous but excited!

I got what can only be described as the world's faintest line on an ic at 11 dpo at night, and another near identical one the next morning. Then did a frer at 12 dpo and got a clear but not especially dark line and just done another with DH (today is 13 dpo, AF due tmrw) and it was a little darker so finally ready to believe it...

Yay Sarah! Congrats :-)
What dpo did you get your bfp if you don't mind me asking?

nervously announcing my bfp.... hope this brings positivity to the rest of you. fingers crossed for you all getting bfps soon x

Sorry detective AF got you, i am thinking about going down the road of temping next month too, I have the Ovia App, so i could put my temps on there, I see tesco sell thermometer, i might buy one and see how i get

Sorry AF got you detective. she's a sneaky one.

waves at kitty - hope you are having a lovely hols!

love your spamming of the board

So I'm either coming down with something or I'm having symptoms but I've already convinced myself I'm not.

I've got dizziness / vertigo and the smell of dh's aftershave today and whilst cooking dinner were really strong and everything smelt weird - such as when I was chopping the garlic.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it all.

Won't test until Monday though.

I don't do regular nights as such. I just get given random shifts it seems!. So tonight is my last night. Then off until 8th sept when I'm on for 3 nights, off for 2 days, on for 4 nights, then I've got a week with mixed night and day shifts!!!

At least I might be able to track ovulation. However I won't be able to start temps til sat morning. Which is CD3? (Do you count CD1 as the first day of your period?)

I've got my thermometer already, purchased with last months opks/hpts!

I need more tests though. I may have gone through the 30 of each in one month .

I didn't know to use it vaginally though .

Does it have to be done at the same time each day?

Crap. I'm going to stop posting and spamming the thread

Crap. I'm going to stop posting and spamming the thread

Oops, sorry
So sorry AF the bitch got you Detective What jazzy says is right so night shifts, if regular shouldn't make a difference. Get a basal thermometer to two decimal places and the best temps are done vaginally. I use Fertility Friend to plot my temps and all the other symptoms and things like opks. V good.

Glad you are further in the tww Grand the days drag!

If AF doesn't arrive I will test Sunday morning

Oops, sorry
So sorry AF the bitch got you Detective What jazzy says is right so night shifts, if regular shouldn't make a difference. Get a basal thermometer to two decimal places and the best temps are done vaginally. I use Fertility Friend to plot my temps and all the other symptoms and things like opks. V good.

Glad you are further in the tww Grand the days drag!

If AF doesn't arrive I will test Sunday morning

Oops, sorry
So sorry AF the bitch got you Detective What jazzy says is right so night shifts, if regular shouldn't make a difference. Get a basal thermometer to two decimal places and the best temps are done vaginally. I use Fertility Friend to plot my temps and all the other symptoms and things like opks. V good.

Glad you are further in the tww Grand the days drag!

If AF doesn't arrive I will test Sunday morning

Sorry to hear that TheDetective. I don't profess to be an expert in temping but afaik, shift work will play havoc with your temps and make it harder to track ovulation. Hopefully the two weeks off will get you to ovulation with as stable a temp as possible.

The detective, this is me atm, been researching temping and chatting with sept girls and another group on fb that i'm a part of.
You can temp if you have had approx 4 hrs sleep and do it as soon as u wake. A f thermometer is better than a c as it has more ...points so more accurate.
You can chart in ovia or can download from dr google.
I bought some epo today and will now take until opk pick up surge. Opking from end of af as i need to pinpoint ovulation.
Gud luck to all still on this bus, there are alot of positive signs out there.
Katy, hope u are ok? Not sure how to read your silence today, hopefully ur busy dtd

Hello ladies!
sorry to hear you're out detective.

looking forward to some BFPs in the last part of this month.

kitty when are you testing?

I'm 8dpo. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Ladies what do you do about alcohol etc in 2ww? I normally don't really drink in 2nd half of cycle but I got some fab news today and have prosecco in the fridge.... so am thinking of a cheeky couple of glasses. Not sure if I'll regret it though if we did get a BFP.

And can I temp when I will be doing night shifts?

Can people talk to me about taking temps and what not? And the charts?

I need to go all put this month! Lucky DP ;)