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When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

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When the going gets tough, the tough get Yams

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SoozC · 10/02/2018 13:24

Thread five!

A safe place for those of you who have been trying to conceive for 6+ months and even yams aren’t helping. Come and have a good ol’ bitch and a moan without judgement.

The Yam Commandments are as follows;

  • Thou shalt not arrive one day and post BFP next day
  • Thou shalt not give advice to others when TTC for one month only
  • Thou shalt not participate in one-up-manship and realise TTC is shit for everyone in different ways
  • Thou shall allow posters to be fucked off with the world and everything in it at regular points in the month
  • Thou shalt not be offended by strong language
  • Thou shalt not tell everyone to eat yams
  • Thou shall accept being called a muppet for testing at 7dpo at 9pm at night

And most importantly...

  • Thou shalt not symptom spot during the two week wait and must be prepared for a telling off if you do so.
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SparkwoodAnd21 · 12/03/2018 21:54

Aaarrrgghh stupid phone. Sorry for diagnosis chook and looking. And for AF Pink.

I have an Ovia question. I’m due AF on the 22nd, which is ten days away. But Ovia is telling me it’s 7 days till pregnancy test. Surely it doesn’t normally tell you to test three days before you are due on? Or have all our apps given up on us too?

SparkwoodAnd21 · 12/03/2018 21:50

Sooz we are cycle twins, I’m about 6/7 dpo and also around cycle 24. Or more, who fucking knows anymore.

Eek good luck si1ver! Scary but exciting.

Sorry for diagnosis

MynameisJune · 12/03/2018 21:38

Thanks @sooz I’m pretty sure I’m not pregnant just having a random long cycle. Unfortunately this is not the first time my body has decided to throw completely change what it has been doing just to mess with my head a bit more than usual.

Chooklass · 12/03/2018 21:34

@LookingAtTheStars89 Haha! A TTC twin not something I ever dreamed of having 😂! I ate a ridiculous amount of chocolate at the weekend to get rid of it all before starting health kick today! As a result I woke up spotty and bloated but feeling ready to start. Fortunately I'm only slightly overweight - it's been creeping up over last few years and everything I've read says losing weight is harder with pcos so it's probably the scare I needed to sort that out before it gets worse.

I've been referred for an HSG scan next, and another procedure involving a camera up my foof which I don't know the name of!

Hi @SoozC , yeah - we were referred for DPs poor SA results ... and I ended up being diagnosed with pcos and endo as soon as the doc did internal sonogram! Bit of a shocker and a lot to get my head around. Feeling more positive than a few days ago by taking action, but our chances of natural bfp must be very very slim. Nice to have some answers though, must be more frustrating for those of you with unexplained issues. X

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SoozC · 12/03/2018 21:30

Pink, sorry for af.

I was just thinking earlier that we're approaching 40 pages... Didn't think I'd be here for thread 6 (no offence!). :(

June, sorry it's still mia. I had a cycle in my first year ttc where I was inexplicably 5 days "late" for af. I was so excited. I don't know why I ov'd late (guessing it was that) that cycle. I hope you find out one way or the other soon, and obviously I hope it's the good way x

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MynameisJune · 12/03/2018 21:05

@pink sorry for af arriving, hope you feel better soon.

@si1ver that’s exciting that your first (and hopefully only) round of IVF is just around the corner. Keeping everything crossed for you.

CD29 here, still no af. Just want it to show up now after negative tests. My apps have stopped predicting anything now as even they don’t know wtaf is happening.

Pinkemi · 12/03/2018 20:59

Wow.. I don't check this thread for a few days and suddenly lots of reaponses. Haha

@lookingatthestars89 I had strange CM and a burning sensation down there. I just thought I was reacting badly to my husband's sperm. (Stupid I know.)

Anyway I called my doctor in a panic and she has given me antibiotics . . And was like take them when you start your period if you are worried.. and guess what started today. Sad

Bubblegum89 · 12/03/2018 20:49

Sorry to hear that looking :(

Ooh good luck si1ver scary (but exciting) times!

LookingAtTheStars89 · 12/03/2018 20:44

@WonkyDonk87. I'm halfway in and halfway out of the door at the minute! Waiting for day 21 bloods on Thursday.

@Si1ver. What kind of data do you have to send in?

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SoozC · 12/03/2018 20:26

Ooh, good idea, I haven't tried tree hugging yet...

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WonkyDonk87 · 12/03/2018 20:22

Booked in for acupuncture next month.... might pop out and hug a tree whilst I'm waiting.... 😉

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SoozC · 12/03/2018 20:19

Maybe you need a rose quartz and moonstone fertility bracelet, Wonky... Come join me on the hippie side...

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WonkyDonk87 · 12/03/2018 20:10

Very restrained of you @SoozC !
I've been symptom spotting like a crazed woman (googling until the wee hours) and I think I'm only about 9dpo. Was thinking of you and your posts whilst doing it 😁

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SoozC · 12/03/2018 19:53

Wow, Si1ver, so not long to go until your first round? Sorry you're terrified, although I can understand why. Let us know how you get on x

Chook, sorry, I must have missed your diagnosis announcement. How are you feeling about it? Great to hear you're making some changes that could help x

Dreamers, sorry yesterday was crap. I just ignored it, although my lovely nurse/fellow mc-er cousin sent me a "Happy Mothers Day" text. She gets it that I consider myself a mum even if I never made it past week 7. I hope you're feeling better today and get a renewed sense of hope for the upcoming fw x

I am roughly somewhere around 5-8 dpo. Had some cm, twinges and aches but not tracking them, just forging on ahead with life, as I've no idea when to expect af. I always get symptoms of some kind and they always end up being progesterone-related. I'm still harbouring some positivity though, which could be down to the maca or the acupuncture or my lovely new fertility bracelet (still doing the hippie thing!) or, most likely, for no reason at all. But I like it, I like not analysing everything.

Who knows, maybe this is what comes after 24 cycles?

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Si1ver · 12/03/2018 19:22

I've just sent all our data off to the IVF clinic. I'm bloody terrified.

And also shortly about to be terribly skint.

WonkyDonk87 · 12/03/2018 19:15

Sorry about the diagnosis @LookingAtTheStars89 did they say anything about the next step or was it just diagnosis and pushed out the door?
@Si1ver tearful few days here too. Double babybomb (one unplanned) and an ikea construction fail set me off.

LookingAtTheStars89 · 12/03/2018 18:55

@DoAsDreamersDo. Thanks x x

LookingAtTheStars89 · 12/03/2018 18:54

@Chooklass. We are like ttc twins! Confused lol. All joking aside, I'm sorry to hear that x Having fertility on both sides is like being kicked twice as hard! I'm giving myself a "let me absorb it" night and I'm going to have a bar of chocolate but then I mean business! I'm tempted to ask my GP if he would consider prescribing Orlistat for a little while to help me shift some weight. Are they doing anything with you?

@SoozC. I'm having my day 21 blood taken again Thursday so they are going to wait for that to come back first I think.

@MynameisJune. Yeah not great to hear but I've always had my suspicions - I have to pluck my chest hair Blush lol. I'm mortified just typing that!

@FairyAnn. Good luck! X X

You ladies are so lovely x

DoAsDreamersDo · 12/03/2018 18:47

Looking sorry about your news.

Sorry that you also had a shit day yesterday Si1ver

Chooklass · 12/03/2018 18:03

Sorry about your news @LookingAtTheStars89 . Just 5 days since my pcos diagnosis too. I've been doing lots of reading and have started a low GI/ generally healthier diet today to see if that helps. My DP also has poor SA results. Xx

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SoozC · 12/03/2018 17:41

Sorry for the diagnosis, Looking. Are there things they can do to help? Like clomid?

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MynameisJune · 12/03/2018 17:31

@looking sorry for the diagnosis, can’t be easy to hear. Be kind to yourself x

FairyAnn · 12/03/2018 17:24

Hey all, sorry to hear it's a particularly rough time for some of you.

I had my blood tests today; FSH, LH, bone profile, etc.... Just got to wait now.

LookingAtTheStars89 · 12/03/2018 16:36

@Si1ver. Thanks x x

I have officially been diagnosed with PCOS. They could see a pearl string of follicles on both ovaries, which were both enlarged. So with my ovaries and DH's small soldiers being as they are, I think I may be with you ladies for a while yet!!

Si1ver · 12/03/2018 12:00

@LookingAtTheStars89 and @DoAsDreamersDo I'm sorry things have been so awful for you both.

Yesterday was pissing awful, I spent quite a lot of it crying on the sofa.

I've just started FW and my husband has buggered off snowboarding for week. I'm due to ovulate the day he comes home.

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