Thread 21 TTC #1 - The one where all our cycles went haywire but we DID NOT GIVE UP

Happy birthday ej, I'm sorry you feel like that, it's a difficult time, don't beat yourself up.

mouse wait if you can. I peed on a frer today, stupidly, 3 days before af is due and got a bfn.

EJ happy birthday hunny. Hope you have a lovely day regardless. It's hard when close friends are pregnant. Sending you birthday wishes.

Totally get that Gee, I'm completely the same. We started trying after my 26th and then again after my 30th and had to stop both times. I'll be 33 on Wednesday. It doesn't get any easier unfortunately the longer you have a baby on your mind. It's been my New Years wish for the last 8 years.

EJ I completely sympathise. It's my birthday next month and I'm already worried about crying through it. Try and enjoy some of your day if you can. Chances are you'll have a little one in your arms on your next birthday and this will all be a bad dream

Sorry to hear that EJ. I have totally been that person on my birthday and utterly sympathise. When I stared ttc I thought I'd have a baby in my arms while I was still 33. Now even if I miraculously got pregnant this cycle, I'd be 35 (a high risk mother according to NHS) before I had it. Birthdays and Christmas are major milestones for me and they're hard.

That would be pretty good timing mouse. We are due a bfp out of us anyway.

Its my birthday and im avoiding letting my pregnant friend come over today as i really cant face it. Im feeling terribly teary, and self pitying about my lack of bfp this month and i dont want to celebrate. i have such a ball of pain in my chest and it seems rude to cry at her when she is innocently making a birthday visit.

I'd be 6PDO today if I oved on Saturday when my positive OPK finished. Isn't that too early for implantation? I'm being totally realistic here, I don't really think I timed DTD well this cycle. We DTD Thursday. Oved Saturday.

mouse remember implantation dips!

It's my birthday on Wednesday. Please talk me down from testing early. I'll be 11DPO. I only have the internet cheapies anyways. My tummy ache has subsided. I woke really early this morning, took my temp and it was super low so I think I'm out.

Thankyou ladies :)
I've started agnus castus so let's hope this kick starts AF!!

Loads of my family (on both sides) have birthdays at the end of August. This cycle would give me a due date of around 22nd August. yes I looked I'm hoping this is the one...

Alice - welcome Alice, sorry to hear about your MC

Aw sk1pper hope you managed to get to sleep

AF arrived at 3.40am for me, think this ones making up for the light one last time, having awful cramps! On a positive note I now think I know when I ovulated, had slight cramps on the 12th which would make sense with 33 day cycle, I rather naively worked off a 25 day cycle so thought I would have ovulated on 6th latest so we were way off with our timings! Will use OKPs this time round as last cycles have been 25 and 33 days

Hope AF comes for you soon Alice

Have a lovely Friday everyone

Mental note to self: do not take anadin extra 5 mins before bed time. FML

Hello I am new to this thread and just would like some advice please....

Here's some info about me :)..

• had a mc in march
• from April - September didn't have a period
• September had a week long period
• Sine the September period I haven't had one and still waiting
• we are ttc but so frustrating without af!!

Have had blood tests a few weeks back to check everything everything was fine except one hormone was higher than the others - doctors not worried and told me my period will come

I have recently brought agnus castus to see if that can regulate me and balance hormone !! Fingers crossed for AF!

Mrsg maybe see how you get on this cycle and if you get AF you could look into getting him a test. Even if just for his peace of mind. Hope you get your BFP And don't have to consider it

Sorry it was BFN Miranda hope you're alright

Miw I had a bizarre period this month too - light and only lasted two days with no cramps. Unheard of for me! Always have terrible cramps. Periods are weird.

Tenner it's always good to feel you've done everything you can

Wanting that all sounds promising! Fx

I've got persistent almost constant ovulation pain in my left ovary. It's so strong it's really quite uncomfortable. OPK still negative, think it must be close though. More DTD tonight..

I'd say wait wanting until at least Sunday if you can. It's too early for real symptoms so you might be starting with something.

I've completely lost my marbles. Got on the tram to come home, sat for 30 mins before I realised it was the wrong tram and I was going the complete wrong direction. Yesterday I started to drive forward when I needed to reverse and on Tuesday I missed my tram stop and had to walk back home. And it's DHs birthday party tomorrow and I'm sooooo unorganised it's bloody silly. And it's not FLIPPING tomorrow, see I just wrote that and I'm not editing. It's FLIPPING Saturday.

I think I'm in the two week crazy mind stage. Seriously head up arse at the moment.

Hi ladies,

Still no af here, have been having tummy pains for last 2 days and loads of trapped wind but she's not due until Monday. I'm CD 25 today, approx 7 or 8 days dpo I think. Far too early to poas tomorrow morning? I have a couple of frers. Wouldn't usually but with the tummy pains... Felt so sick yesterday too, starting to feel quite odd now. Totally gone off my food, which is most unlike me! But good for the diet I guess!

Well done on the positivity tenner, we could all use some more of that!

Sorry Miranda, could it have been too early to test? When is af due?

Hope your day has improved Mrs , I'd go and see your go if at all worried.

Excellent news on he OPK music, it is exciting! Now LSFX!

Sorry to hear about af skip and sk1pper fx for next month for you both.

Thanks Sk1pper. I would love a Chinese right now haha, need to sort my diet out, I'm not eating healthily and skipping meals which is not going to help!

miw my AF was like that last month, really light and bright red then went to brown no idea why though it's usually really heavy

FX to you tenner hope it goes quickly for you 😊

Just settling in to the 2ww. I'm feeling really positive today. Have done just about everything I can do, waiting game now.

Sorry for everyone caught by AF.

London congrats on the award, well done

Sorry for everyone with AF.

We needs BFP soon!

Have weirdest AF ever. Light for past two days bright red blood and no clots at all. I usually have heavy periods with clots. I just don't get it.

Miranda - sorry to hear that lovely xx

AF cramping is back but not at all excruciating. Just did my second class of Yoga which was focussinng on the abdomen (lucky) and I think that has squashed the pain from progressing. Problem is OH was back late too and just wants to order Chinese, not the best day to ignore my healthy eating regime but I know there's no point arguing. And secretly I really want to eat something unhealthy.

How has everyone's days been? I feel like a lot of us were hit with AF recently, anyone coming up to test?

BFN for me which I guessed it would be but its still disappointing, more so because DH was getting excited this time round... Oh well got to wait for AF to appear now, hope it's not a ridiculously long cycle now!

FX to everyone else still waiting 😊

Thanks Jam I think its just one of those things, he's a worrier anyway so if there's anything he can think of that might be stopping us getting pregnant he will focus on it.

It doesn't help that he had an undescended testicle as a kid so had to have two operations on his bits before the age of 13 so he worries that has caused complications also!