ttc #1 support during the waiting game and friends needed on same boat

Sorry Violet - same here - AF got me yesterday.

Sorry AF has arrived mrsstickll

Have just watched that video. It really is amazing.
OH wasn't impressed and I now think he has an idea about my level of crazy with ttc!! Haha

Hello, I haven't been posting much but have been keeping up with the thread. AF got me this morning so I'm moving onto cycle 5. Started temping this morning actually Cinder are you doing opk's as well or just temping? I have been doing opk's for the last few months and they always go positive on CD15 so I guess I ovulate on CD16, wondering if I need to continue with opk's or just assume it will remain the same each month and just confirm by temping that ov is actually happening?

I've been taking my temp, but TBH it's fairly all over.... I'm taking it first thing in a morning before I get out of bed etc. Got a decent digital thermometer but as yet I'm unconvinced...

It is amazing isn't it?

My off colour feeling and weird pains seem to be gone today, so I think it was all in my head!

Is anyone temping? I've tried to start, but the temps I've got seem to be all over the place. I guess I won't be able to make any sense of it until I've done a whole cycle, but I thought I might as well start right away to get into the habit.

Babycakes that looks like a positive OPK to me! And yes, conception is a miracle. The egg only lives for 12-24h max, and sperm CAN live for up to 5 days, but only if they can swim through fertile CM...and of the millions that get, er, deposited, only 300 or so make it to the fallopian tube. And only one gets in. And then even if fertilised, lots and lots of embryos don't implant. I do find it bloody amazing that there are so many BFPs, as when you think about it, the 'trying' in TTC is really very true!

OMG I just found this video:

Fascinating but made me think conception is EVEN HARDER than I first thought. The sperm have to go on a major quest to get there jeeez

Cinder haha not Conder. Was typing really fast with excitement haha

Thanks ladies :) I really hope so. It might explain my cramps and fatigue.

Conder - from what I've read, that is what implantation feels like:
"Implantation cramps feel like light pricking or pulling pains and occur in your lower abdomen around a week before you are due to get your period. The cramps are due to some of your uterine mucous membrane melting at the implantation site as this allows the fertilized egg to better attach to the uterine wall". That couples with your off colour feeling could most certianly be a positive sign. FX for you xxx It know it's hard though isn't it...when you think you notice a symptom you obsess over it and end up wondering if it actually exists!

Those two lines look the same colour to me babycakes - that means positive doesn't it? I've never used them so I'm not too sure!

I did wonder about implantation pain - I guess it could just about be possible: I reckon I could be 6 or 7 dpo. It's not very likely though. It is a weird kind of dragging pain. I have probably imagined it! I have felt really off colour all day, but it's more likely to be a bug or something!

It looks positive to me

Sorry to hear about your AF mrsstickll FX for your next cycle xxx

And for you other ladies waiting, I hope it stays away and that your symptoms are positive. Cinder - your ache sounds peculiar. Do you know what implantation is supposed to feel like? Is it like a pulling pain?

Sooo even though I said I was giving up OPKs, I just had the urge to do one today. My clearblue ran out yesterday so I went to the shop to buy some cheapies. Can anyone shed any light on the result below?? Is it positive? And if not, why the hell is it so dark?? Does it mean I have PCOS?

I find them really exhausting. It's interesting - it's not really acknowledged much is it? If men had them I bet they wouldn't ever stop going on about it.

I'd totally forgotten how awful natural periods can be! Ugh couldn't agree more!

Sorry MrsStick

Mermaid - SO very much this!! When I was on the pill I used to run on packets and just have a break every few months, GPs all said absolutely fine. With the hormones, the lining doesn't really build up so there's not the same risk as not having periods if NOT on the pill. If my PCOS meant I wasn't having periods, I'd have had to be given a few days of the mini pill to break on a bleed every few months, because of the lining building up and risk of endometrial cancer.

But these faux periods are a) nothing like a real AF and b) for me were v infrequent. Seriously, how do women do this every month? One week in every 4?!!

Thank goodness I'm not the only one! These last few weeks have been hellish!

Apart from TTC, i have no idea why women put themselves through this every month. I have felt worse than almost any illness I've ever had....and I've still not started AF!!!

Oh I know - I came off the pill in October after years on artificial contraception and no periods at all for quite a long time. I'd totally forgotten how awful natural periods can be!

Cinder I feel your pain! I'm fairly sure AF is coming, as I'm feeling crampy, grumpy and nauseous...it's my first natural period in YEARS (break week on the pill doesn't really count as it's totally different hormones) and I'd forgotten what it was like - as my AF only came every few months when not on the pill anyway (and that was likely just a withdrawal bleed anyway, not a real period either). I'm conflicted between being delighted I think a proper period is coming, and hating it because I feel so minging!!

Haha I'm like you cinder - I get nauseous so easily...am really dreading morning sickness because I HATE feeling sick, I'm such a wuss about it haha.

Interesting about your abdomen ache - good luck over the next week, I HATE waiting so completely sympathise.

AF should be coming in the next couple of days so planning to test on Sat x

How is everyone today?

I feel rotten: nauseous and with a weird ache at the bottom of my abdomen/top of my groin.

I don't think this is likely to be meaningful - I get nausea at the drop of a hat, including during he run up to my period (I suspect this means I will have appalling morning sickness when the time comes!). The ache is odd though.

I don't really have anything that could possibly qualify as a symptom. Which, at this early stage, is probably meaningless anyway!

cinder I'm in same boat though mine due next thurs/fri and I'm driving myself mad. Got some pelvic cramps but could be anything! Also spotty chin but a classic PMS sign for me.

Sorry mrsstickll hope next month is your month x

I'm no good at this waiting lark - AF not due until a week on Saturday so there's still aaaagggeeees to wait. And then odds on I won't be pregnant anyway, and it all starts again. I'm such an impatient person!

How's everyone getting on? AF arrived for me today so feeling a bit down.

Still no AF....sorest boobs on the planet ever though. Feel very 'meh' but dragged my sorry ass to boxing and worked the shit out of my lethargy....feel slightly better for getting off my bum!

Also having the cramps like AF but no bleeding or anything....frustrating!