Let's get Pregvember off with a bang! November BFP bus (thread 2)

Still waiting for full flow to start toots thanks for asking. Brown spotting tho so I'm sure it's imminent unfortunately. At least I'm not crying uncontrollably like I did last month!! Onwards and upwards. Might try temping this month. Worth a try anyway.

quitely I just got some male conception tablets from tescos but they may not have been the best ones.

So question.....has anyone tried a home sperm count test? mrse I seem to remember u might have done? Just wondering whether it's worth it, if they're accurate etc. I just want to be doing something to put my mind at rest that the problem doesn't stem from my dp seeing as I have been pregnant before. I think it's just me being paranoid but I just want some reassurance.

april keep the af burning fire starters for me... Skin just horrid - went on bc at 15 ( dianette pill of fat making) then others to keep on top of it but now off the pill- well Laura mercier foundation is my friend. Means that my hormones just jumped off a cliff on cd 19 (today) and af is probs on route.
That and bloating and a headache of death today.- or if am symptom obsessed this is just my sugar crash from Friday physical impact!

I didn't drink at all over the weekend- parties sat night and had people for lunch yesterday - just too scared to drink in case... Might need a painkiller for my head... Any I should avoid?

spinning glad it went well- you sound quite perky about it! Excellent!

dozy how are you feeling? Did af get you? Have not caught up entirely as so tired I could not read my phone last night .

Oooh sorry, that was way longer than I intended it to be!

Morning all!

Sorry to hear about your bfn Blueberry. It ain't over til the red lady sings though, right?

Glad your appointment was good spinning!

1 dpo today apparently (according to ff, based on Saturdays + opk). Dp and I dtd Sat afternoon (cd16), early hours of Sunday morning (we just both happened to wake up at the same time) and again late last night (negative opk yesterday afternoon) so I'm hoping we did ok, though this does change my bfp due date to 17th November, so I guess I won't be joining the 14th poas party after all.

Anyway, after explaining the whole opk thing to dp (he likes details) we ended up having a long chat, the results being that we are giving up on the 'lets just see what happens' approach and it seems that opks, temps et al will now be a regular feature in our months ahead. Ordered a bbt and ov sticks from Amazon and dp is even suggesting that he should be taking some kind of vitamins to help his little guys out. So my question today is this... What's best to buy for him? Google is a little indecisive on this point so I thought I would ask you ladies.

Good luck to anyone poas today!

Hi, just a quickie to say appointment was good. No dildo cam today. Got to do 21 day bloods and then 3 day bloods. Then I'll have a scan and the Fallopian scan/flush through thing.
Dp has to drop a sperm sample off.
Everything else ok, my weight and diet are good.
She was interested to here about the soy isoflavones and said she's going to research them later.

Will read back later, off to the gym with dp and then for lunch

Oh and my temps are all over the place this month spinning. I had a massive spike yesterday for no reason other than I think our bedroom was too hot and I'd had a few glasses of wine the night before. It's crashed back down again today!

Morning all.

spinning good luck! Dildo cam really isn't that bad. depending on where you are in your cycle they should be able to give an idea re ov.

blueberry sorry for the bfn. Hopefully now you are ov your luck will change soon.

april sorry you think AF is coming.

cd 11 here and life has been so manic we have not dtd once! but the past few cycles I haven't ov until cd15-17 so we are ok I think. ic opks are still negative too. Think I'll crank out the cb opk from tomorrow and crank up the ic opks and start dtd eod from today!

Spinning my temp this month is also higher on average (although it's very jagged). My chart is very similar to my bfp chart with DD... not that I'm reading too much into it! What is your scan for today? Sorry if I missed that!

CD13 here, -ve OPKs so far but we DTD CD11 and 12. The only thing I've done differently this month so far is to hold a hot water bottle over my right side each evening since AF, someones acupuncturist recommended it (can't remember whose??) to increase blood flow so I wanted to see if I could get my right ovary to beat my left one this month

So who is POAS this week?

I did wonder about room temperature but we haven't had the heating on yet so my room is the same temperature, this is only my second cycle temping so not much to go on.

Good question Spinning. I'd love to know the answer to that as well. I've all but given up temping this cycle as my horrific cold and sore throat last week meant my pre-ov temperatures were off the scale. Illness aside, I'm sure room temperature must make a difference (last time I got a BFP, my temp dipped by 0.2 of a degree when I stayed at my parents house, which I can only really attribute to their house being colder than mine).

Any temping ladies....do your temps vary much? My temps are much higher this cycle than last.

Haha Cariad that made me laugh
Thanks, now I'm hoping to have it done just so I know if they can see a nice big egg! Got a poking pain in the area of my right ovary this morning but negative opk last night so don't know what that could be.
I can understand you being cautious about the timing for next cycle, fx this is your month.

Dozy, they say it takes 3 months for any new vits/tablets to make a difference. Don't know how true that is, maybe it varies in all of us.

I meant Dildo scan not dildo cam - which sounds even more sinister!

sm2012 I started taking b6 last month to try to prevent spotting pre AF and to lengthen luteal phase but it hasn't seemed to have worked so far. Only had 10mg a day. I might increase it next month or not bother at all if its not doing anything.

Thinking of u today spinning.

nettle sorry for the bfn. Hopefully it's just too early to pick up just yet. Fx for u.

Brown Spotting is getting heavier so I'm expecting AF any day. Really wanted to spotting to have stopped this time around as id prefer just to be hit with AF and get on with it rather this lingering.

Waves at Spinning. Good luck with the dildo-cam this morning. My only experience of the dildo-cam was when they were diagnosing my ectopic (so slightly different I know), but they did take pictures and measurements of my ovaries to see whether they looked normal, and to check from which side I'd ov'd etc, so I would say that this is almost certainly something they'll look at in your case. Keep us updated.

Treacle and Frolic - I'm not naturally a morning person either but DH is, and because we both tend to work reasonably late and invariably come home exhausted, we find that mornings are far more reliable for our dtd sessions.

CD11 here and I'm on my third day of flashing smileys. It's very rare for me to have more than 2 so I really hope my monitor gives me a solid smiley soon, otherwise I fear this month may be anovulatory.

We've reluctantly reached the conclusion that unless this cycle turns out to be particularly long, we probably won't try next cycle if this one isn't successful. The main reason being that if I got a BFP I'd be between 5 and 6 weeks over Christmas, and given my increased risk of an ectopic next time (a 17% chance), I really don't want to risk getting inferior care and ending up losing my other tube because hospitals are operating on a skeleton staff over the festive period. The thought of starting the new year without a BFP is really getting me down though.

Morning ladies. Cd32 and still no sign of AF so pos with a clear blue digital (f*ing rip off!) And BFN :( I've got a doctor's appointment on weds anyway so might mention it to him - not that I've got high hopes purple.

Morning

Frolic, hope dh was up to dtd.

Cariad, well done on a morning session, we don't often manage it so early!

I woke at 4am, took temp as alarm was set for 6. Then I couldn't get back to sleep, started worrying about not ovulating due to the soy or possibly missing it! Also had another crazy dream involving Kate Garraway!!
I wonder if they do an internal dildo scan today if they'll see if I have ov'd or about to?

Thank you everyone

purple and frolic all the doctors down here are pretty crap and mostly old fashioned lol I'll be ok when Af arrives and we can start again

Hi dastardly haha I wouldnt have minded you private messaging. I think my symptoms are just the clomid messing with me to be honest but thank you for your story fx next month is the one

Thanks everyone haha.
4th flashing smiley today. Guess it's gonna be one of those months.

Well done treacle and frolic on your reluctant dtd. Glad to hear frolicdog is doing better.