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Is the tempation to test before AF is due too strong???????????

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ClearBlueFairy · 05/12/2006 21:38

Hello ladies!! I am the ClearBlueFairy, and I have been sent to watch over all you wonderful, gorgeous ladies!!
When you feel the urge to test before AF is due, count to ten and step away from the ClearBlue !! Have a warm cuppa and daydream about Sawyer from Lost (or someone you find attractive!) and take your mind off it!! Or why not come on to MN and I will sprinkle you with some common sense dust

A very wise woman once wrote - "Remember ladies that the percentages of those who get their BFPs on set dpo are as follows:
10dpo=35%/11dpo=51%/12dpo=62%/13dpo=68%/14dpo=74%/15dpo=80%/16dpo=88%/17dpo=92% and there are some who have not got their BFP until 21dpo!!"
Armed with those percentages you should never want to test early and risk all that (perhaps)unnecessary disappointment!

I can't stand to see all those understandably downtrodden women after that dreaded BFN... and some of those wonderful ladies will go on to get their BFP and needn't have put themselves through all that angst and worry!!

Come on now, it's the festive time... save your money... When the FirstResponseDevil is calling out your name... Just say NO!!!

Fingers crossed for lots of BFPs really soon for you all!!!! But remember, The ClearBlueFairy is always watching * * * * * * * * * * * *

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Original poster
ClearBlueFairy · 17/12/2006 15:06

Ooh I wonder who you are namechanger?? Got an inkling .. but I am probably completely wrong

Try not to get too frustrated, although it must be really hard. Remember the stats on the original post!!! Hang in there!! But you have permission to test cos you are over due. Just don't panic if you get a BFN because it's not 100% accurate!!

Fingers crossed x

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ttcnamechanger · 17/12/2006 14:50

My AF is two days late now and the test I did this morning was negative. I am shewing my own feet off with frustration, I keep trying to will myself pregnant

merrylissiemas · 17/12/2006 14:49

cracked yesterday and ordered some tests but will not use them til xmas eve. feeling v sick and boobs are all veiny and heavy. threw up a cup of coffee yest. so fingers crossed

Original poster
ClearBlueFairy · 17/12/2006 14:32

Greedy - I wasn't stolen, I was helping a little reindeer through a tough AF!

Bubble0127 - I like your style, 2 weeks overdue before testing!! good for you.

Quootiepie - How are you??

Tigertum - So sorry about AF! Fingers crossed for next time. But promise you will not test until AF overdue!!

Merrylissiemas - Pleased to hear your tests were all clear! Fingers crossed!! No early testing now!!

Snowdiva and FestiveFettle - Congratulations on the BFPs!! But you didn't test early did you?!

Everyone else who is coming up to AF time, I will not accept "I need to know for works do etc if I am pg or not" because remember a BFN before AF is not necessarily a true BFN is it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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bubble0127 · 16/12/2006 23:33

OMG i meant DH and i not DS!!!!!

bubble0127 · 16/12/2006 23:33

Ds and i are ttc for number 3. I am 8 days late ( have a few preg type symptoms)and have spent a small fortune on tests (BFN)up to now but im now going to hold off untill im2 weeks over due!!!

tigertum · 16/12/2006 21:53

Well my cheapy ebay testing sticks arrived yesterday. I did a test and a very, very faint positive showed. My period was about 4/5 days late, my tummy felt hard so I decided to another tst this morning with my first wee (meant to be stronger). These tests are v, v, sensitive so I was expecting a nice big positive line - I had made the fatal mistake of convincing myself I was pregnant. Well about an hour later AF arrived. Felt pretty sad and stupid actually. Still do.

If this ever happens again, I vow that from this day of my cycle, onwards I will never reach for testing strip of any brand until I am a MINIMUM of 2 weeks late.

QuootiepiesChristmasName · 14/12/2006 01:21

I gave in aswell - tested 11th, AF due 12th but still not here. Got BFN, of course though.

wishing1 · 14/12/2006 00:23

merrylissiemas:
My af is due on Christmas eve, I hope this is one present we both don't get this year!!!! Would make Christmas a little sad I will also be out of town on vacation and don't want af arriving to ruin my spirits with the relatives but it's really hard. I quit buying ept several months ago, so tired of seeing only one single line that I can't take it anymore, would rather just wait and see if she arrives, good luck and I hope it is a wonderful Christmas for us all!

tigertum · 13/12/2006 22:44

I was got by a First Response yesterday. I shamefully spent my last £6 on a test which turned out to be negitive. DP doesn't know because I bought so many pregnancy test last time around that I promised I would be a good girl this time and be mature and poised and not test for a long time.

My tummy is hard and a bit sticky-outy, AF is a couple of days late, I REALLY want to be pregnant, so am I being daft to still be holding out home despire a FR test on the day my period ws due? I have no money to buy more tests - so I wish I had enough strength of character to wait!

merrylissiemas · 13/12/2006 21:34

thank you clearblue fairy, you are most wise. af is due on xmas eve got tests back today and all clear. fingers crossed

snowdivaflakes · 13/12/2006 21:30

af due tomorrow, im tempting to test tomorrow morning, where as clearblue fairy?

greedyformincepies · 12/12/2006 15:57

OK.....COME ON!..... OWN UP!!!!!!!! who has stolen the clearblue fairy for their christmas tree?
i want her back!!!

greedyformincepies · 12/12/2006 14:30

well done for resisting festive fettle!

festivefettle · 12/12/2006 13:26

ClearBlueFairy - have you morphed into some adolescent boys swarming around the "johnnies" [to quote their delightful turn of phrase] at lunchtime today, which scared me away from the pg tests? well done - you succeeded for today anyway!

{think I prefer you as a fairy though, so morph back now, please}

[ps Ready, I miss you]

decorativeD2Bmum · 09/12/2006 14:04

CONFESSION : sorry clear blue fairy i tested this morning even though a/f is 4 days away. i have a good reason though....i wanted to know before i went out on my works xmas do tonight.

and yes it was a BFN!!

RudolphsREADY · 08/12/2006 10:13

Well the ClearBlueFairy is sitting on the shoulders of some of us I have never tested, as AF has always been on time (well a day early actually since we've been ttc) and I will NEVER test until I AF is late... oh please let it be soon.

Quootiepie · 08/12/2006 01:50

I havent bought any, I know id never stop myself testing then! Ive become abit pregnancy obsessed the last few days though!

wishing1 · 08/12/2006 01:46

Quootiepie:

I've found that NOT buying them helps because if they are in my purse, you better believe they'll be all used up way before AF! Do you get depressed when AF comes, I am so depressed the day of and the day after and then I start hoping again that maybe this month will be it?

Quootiepie · 08/12/2006 01:37

I am, I am, I am, I am... December 12th, December 12th... arggggh!

wishing1 · 08/12/2006 01:36

We are traveling alot for 2 months so I'm so proud of myself, normally I have at least 4 kits on hand and this past month I didn't buy any and knew that we would be out of town and if I didn't have one on me he wouldn't let me buy one early! Of course, af came DAMN HER, so I saved money. We are traveling over the holidays and AF is due to arrive christmas eve, what a rotten present, hope she doesn't show, I am not buying another clear blue easy until I am actually DAYS late!! It's just too disappointing, so everyone hang in there!

RudolphsREADY · 07/12/2006 19:08

Quootiepie... hang in there, hopefully it will be worth the wait!!

RudolphsREADY · 07/12/2006 16:57

firststar? how are you? how's it all going?

Quootiepie · 07/12/2006 16:51

5 more bloomming days...

firststar · 07/12/2006 16:49

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