Positive OPK today need a buddy 38-40s

Can I join please? 37, 7th month of trying, hycosy app on the 8th and feeling very blue

N.B. I'm just about to pop to pharmacy to purchase a thermometer. Ticks the 'feels like I'm doing something' box.

Wikipedia puts him at just one year older than Paul Rudd. So plenty of vim and vigour. I'm sure he'd undertake the swimmers test with aplomb!

I just had to google image Paul Rudd to make sure he's the person I thought he was. Yes, he'll do. Wikipedia says he's 46. Do we want him with or without beard? Or any other contenders?

I said I might not be temping, but I am of course so far. Will do til right after ov I think, we might miss it this month, won't be in the same town.

Oooh. Cate Blanchett?

For male lead please can we have Paul Rudd? Not that well known generally in fairly poor romcoms starting Jennifer Aniston, think he was Phoebe's boyfriend in Friends

Female lead, somebody fabulously beautiful and clever and 40. The male support would have to be played by an actor who can be a convincing husband yet exciting and who manages to remain sexy whilst popping Wellman conception and squirting onto glass slides for microscopic swimmer investigations. He needs to make it look romantic when he is *ahem supportive during humping week around ovulation. I foresee queues around the block when we are casting.

PS. You two have inspired me, I think I might give FF and temping a go this month. (Reni I know you said you were over temping this month, but it might be good to get a sense of when/if I'm ovulating.)

I quite liked Ovia as it's very user friendly and FF looked a bit complicated, but I'd read it's the best one for charting.

I might be a bit embarrassed to share charts though as then you'd see how infrequent our DTD is .

(Though when I had my little cry about TTC the other day, DH did promise to up his game.)

Groundhog Month is, of course, perfect. A long as we don't have to have Andy MacDowell in it. And who shall we have as our leading man instead of Bill Murray?

Flourishing I use ff, I like it, never tried another app though. I can pm you my username on ff so we can snoop on each others charts you have a buddy on there. What would one call the TTC movie, really, Groundhog Month?

Sounds like a fun weekend!!

at lady garden.

Excellent synopsis of TTC reni. Someone needs to make the film now - it'd be a hoot!

Commiserations on af all round. She's been and gone here, I am drinking beer tonight. Not sure I'll temp this month, it is all too futile. CD1-4 AF and usual left-it-too-late-panic, CD5-7 grand new plans about this month, CD7-13 humping week (ov CD10-12), CD14-20 boring week, CD21-25 waiting and NOT symptom spotting week, CD26 af again. gets another drink

So sorry Fridge. Me too. Spotting started last night. Not full AF but that will come shortly.

Thanks Flourishing yes on the bright side, at least LP has improved.

I can see how the sticks just let you know.

For me it's almost like I find out too early though. My boobs start to hurt about 5 days after I (think) I'm ovulating. Then they continue to hurt like buggery till the witch shows up on her broomstick about 5 or 6 days later.

So it's not so much a TWW as a very short 5 day period of hope, max, before the dreaded Boob Ache says 'game over'.

I get my blood test results back on Aug 11th, so hoping medical science can at least give me some pointers about what's up with Really .

Knew it. Early hours of CD29 and she finally makes an appearance. Too late for now but I am going to be making the most of cocktails on Sat. Really need to step up on DTD next month too.

Good reasoning Fridge you're right, I should know what a negative feels like!

I actually did always wonder about that (why POAS when you could find out for free with AF), but because AF is never normally late (even by a day) I got this urge to test this time. Now I've done it I may not bother again unless it's at least 27 days.

I took the inositol to lengthen my cycle though so not sure why I'm complaining now that it seems to have worked!

You're right, I think I must've built myself up in those 2 mins....was so deflated I retreated to duvet (one benefit of no DC), fell promptly asleep and only woke up just now cos DH came home and woke me up.

Might send him to the shop now for !

Sorry Really. Even when you are sure you're prepared for disappointment, actually seeing it on the stick always gives you a jolt. You can build yourself up in 2 minutes without fully realising it. I avoid the sticks mostly because that's what happens for me and then I think 'I spent £s to feel like crap when I could have waited on AF and had it for free!' But everyone should do it at least once and it'd seem wrong if when you get your BFP it's the first test you ever did .

Last time I gave in and tested, the witch came the next day. Having said all the above, I will be testing this Sat afternoon if still no sign as a big night is planned. I am expecting AF tomorrow though so don't think it'll come to that. #getonwithitwitch

So I did my first POAS. I went for Clear Blue (non digital). Thought I'd keep it simple. I'm surprised by how much they cost!

Big fat negative. I'm surprised at how crestfallen I felt. I'd given myself a stern warning not to beforehand.

I only did it because AF is a day late. No idea where the witch is hiding. But am def not preggo. Ho and hum!

Okay it's CD 27 and still no AF or spotting. I feel like I'm tempting fate but seeing as I've never got this far in the cycle I'm wondering if I should POAS. Even if just for sheer novelty factor. Also my Ovia app is telling me it's CD 1 even though I haven't told it AF has come yet.

If so, which HPTs do you experienced persons recommend?

Having been a very sensible teenager I have reached the ripe old age of 38 literally without ever having to buy one.

I think I would prefer one that unequivocally tells me yes/no banana rather than one that I have to squint at/interpret different shades of pink. Also one that you can pee on in the afternoon. Any idea which might suit?

I'm pretty sure it's just the inositol that's lengthened my cycle. However, I've got the idea in my head now to POAS!

Oops missed that Q - I'm 11/12 DPO (if ovulation occurred on CD 15, and that's a big if.)

Ha - they do cry and keep you awake / interfere with sex life etc. I've got two sets of friends with newborns so I've heard all the gory details!

Thanks Flourishing I've only had one other cycle that's managed to last this long in 8 months. Normally I'd have also started spotting like a mad person 4-5 days beforehand too.

All month I was taking myo-inositol though to try and lengthen my LP (read about it on MN, no less).

I came off BC beginning of December too - mine was the pill though (Marvelon). I'd been on it about a hundred years. My periods have also been incredibly short (1-2 days.)

So can't be building up much of a lining. Why I stayed on the pill so long I'll never know something to do with worrying about spots