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

Lol! Loving that slogan Bananafish! Good luck for this cycle x
Fx Pallas!! xx

Goodluck Pallas, update us when your back xx

I'm going to be offline from now until Monday or Tuesday. I'm doing an early FRER tomorrow morning but won't be able to update you. Keeping fingers crossed for you all! xx

Haha ladies, love it!

And banana absolutely only thorough research practices surely!

I did something similar with the IC OPKs - PCOS people can have low levels of LH circulating in their blood throughout their cycle, so OPKs can give confusing results. Anyway so I dipped mine quite a bit just so I knew what 'normal' for me looked like.

That said OPKs don't always work for PCOS women anyway, in that they do their job correctly and pick up the LH surge, but we can have multiple surges in any cycle as our body tries to ovulate (and then doesn't). So a pos OPK isn't necessarily a sign of impending ovulation - although in my case I was astonished that it was last month! If I'd not been temping I'd not have known either way.

TTC ladies - pissing on sticks FOR SCIENCE! Lol

Bananafish you just made me smile! To be honest it's a relief to know ttc is making us all a little crazy!

Is there a thread, or could we start a thread, about all the mad things ttc makes us think and do?! Lol

I bought a bag of cheapy OPKs and preg tests in preparation for TTC - I made sure I did a trial run of both just after stopping the pill so that I would know what a negative result looked like in advance!

It's only good practice to have a control group former scientist

Good luck banana :)

Fingers crossed Bananafish, your comment about the practice BFP did make me smile, I think this whole TTC business makes alot of us ( definitely me ) lose it in our own little ways Really hope it works out for you this time.

Oh bananafish bless you! FX for your treatment working this cycle.

Hello from one banana to another!

Well I have officially lost the ttc plot

So I had my trigger shot yesterday, which is an injection of hCG - ie the pregnancy hormone - to trigger the follicle to release that egg 36h later.

If you've had a trigger shot you shouldn't POAS early as the hCG can still be in your system and you can get a false positive.

So I'm obsessively dipping Internet cheapy OPKs to see how long the surge lasts and I decide to dip one of the Internet cheapy pregnancy tests just to have a practice to see what a BFP line might look like so I know what to look for!!! Who does a bloody BFP practice run??!!

Fingers crossed (is that fx in forum speak?!) you get the result you want on Friday Tabby. Hope you get a supportive response from your GP if you end up making an appointment x

Just wanted to say hello Banana! I'm quite an anxious person anyway but ttc has sent me overboard! Coming off the pill seems to have unleashed a whole load of irrational feelings & behaviours I've not experienced since I was a stroppy teen! It great that you got a positive OPK, fingers crossed for you too! Xx

Hi everyone, wow lots of activity going on!

I have friends who have been trying for 2 years now and they are several years younger than me so it definitely makes you anxious about your own chances, I worry I've left it too late

Well I finally got a positive OPK on day 29 of cycle 1, I had given up testing as I was fed up but then I noticed EWCM. Having been on the pill for nearly 15 years it was very strange but was very definite so I tested and got a positive! Luckily we had dtd the day before as well so fingers crossed.

I know it's pretty unlikely that we'll conceive first time (how the eff does anyone get accidentally pregnant?!) but I have a business trip in 5 weeks time and have agreed to stay an extra day to go to a theme park with a colleague (it's in US), now I've googled lots of awful things rollercoasters causing MC :(

Great news shary!
I did a test this eve after thinking I had IB at the weekend. It was negative No idea if I'm technically early or late as cycles have varied. Going to do another test on Friday first thing to be sure and then accept I just had a random 1 day AF.
On the plus side if it was AF then my cycles are reducing so less time to wait!
Planning to go to GP too so your update has given me motivation

Thank you ladies x

Great news Shary!! xx

That's great, Shary! Good news.

Glad your feeling a little better today Sizzle
Not really sure what prompted me but rang my GP practice earlier to ask whether any of the GP's have a fertility-type specialism in case I need to see a GP in the future (they don't!). Told the receptionist about my long cycles & anxiety/confusion over it all & the next thing I know she's getting a GP to call me back.
The GP was lovely & has booked me in for 'day 21' type bloods (day 35 in my case). I'm genuinely shocked (but made up) that he didn't tell me to phone back when its been 12 months. Got my one and only peak on day 33 so he wants to test a couple of days after that. If anyone else is unsure whether to book a GP appointment before 12 months of trying it might be worth just ringing your practice to see what their policy is- from what he said my particular surgery starts acting from 6 months of long/irregular periods regardless of age x

Thanks everyone. I'm feeling less wobbly today!!
Yes, fingers crossed for us all xx

Aww sorry sizzle .

Totally agree about anxiety because we've not done this before. When we first started a couple of months ago DH said was I sure I was ready to start trying now, because once we started it could all happen really quickly. Couldn't bring myself to say uh, yeah, it could....

Well, FX for us all this cycle

Yep! My husband was pretty confident we were going to get pregnant the first month of trying and I think he was quietly disappointed when we didn't! He doesn't have children already, I think it was simply based on male pride! Likewise, how people fall pregnant by accident is beyond me! Oh to be that lucky!

Exactly! How do people "accidently" get pregnant!!
Oh, if only!
I think I just felt really positive this month and now not so much, but oh well.
Early night for me! xxx

Yeah, my hubby was also surprised/shocked when I told him about the tiny window of opportunity we had.... I think he thought we'd DTD a few times a week for a couple of months and it would all magically happen...

I know what you mean Sizzle, because I've never been pregnant I keep having thoughts about not being able to conceive. I'm sure other ladies on this thread probably do too I can't even begin to imagine how frustrated you are feeling tonight. I think my hubby was quite shocked when I explained how narrow the window of opportunity to get pregnant is (to be honest I think I'm still shocked by it!) xx

Hi Shary- OH is not away. He has quite a low sex drive and just isn't interested although does was a child with me. He has a 5 yr old dd and I get the idea that it didn't take long to conceive her. I have tried to explain about the small windows and how lucky he actually is that it only took a couple of months but he just doesn't get it.
I'm of course panicking because, having never been pregnant, I worry that I'm not fertile. Grr! Sorry for the rant but I've been keeping it bottled!! xx
How are you this evening? !!

Sending you lots of luck Banana, I really hope everything works out for you.
Is your other half away Sizzle? Hope you're okay, you sound very fed up x

Wow Banana!!! What a roller coaster! So glad things have turned positive for you. Fx x
So sorry for those with long cycles. I really hadn't thought about the negative side.
Nothing to report on my end. Just pissed at OH as no dtd at all so am sure I've missed this month.