STOP! Yammer time. 🍠

@Owlpatrol. Hugs Don't worry, it is an emotional thing. The phlebotamists where I go are really nosey! Always asking inappropriate questions "Are you going to have any more children?"

Owl oh no! It is overwhelming. Definitely load up on carbs and wine this weekend. Allllll the wine

Best/worst typo! Glad it gave you a laugh! Daren't tell H that I've been telling women on the internet about his sword problems

just good luck with your bloods. I second the thank you for this thread. So pleased I joined, you lot are truly sanity-savers.

Bubblegum that sounds truly horrendous. Hope you feel better soon and definitely get yourself straight back into hospital if you feel worse.

I don't get spotting wonky - generally just a bit of brown discharge and then boom, full on FP two hours later. Usually on the least convenient day it could possibly arrive, and often late so I've gotten my hopes up. I really like 'my womb is a knob' as a catchphrase though. Perhaps we all need that on t-shirts? -with a cartoon yam on the back of course

Morning yammers just been for day 1 bloods but got so emotional I cried to the blooming blood nurse!!!! It as so overwhelming. Dh been great and said it was probably a build up of emotions and stuff so anyway. Here's to the weekend of carbs and wine xx

The pre FP insomnia has started. I had a dream last night that I was being held hostage by Pat Phelan off of Corrie and I had to call my Dad who's a policeman to send in reinforcements to come and get me! What the hell!

@Bubblegum89. I hope you're feeling a bit better today x x

Thanks Owl and Star. My instinct said day 18 too.

I’m not here often (I get too bogged down if I read/write on the subject too often), but thank you guys for being here (even though I wish none of us still were). The lurking gives me a bit of extra sanity sometimes.

@bubble hope you feel better soon! Sepsis is really bad so better safe!

@justwaiting sorry for the bad news on your DH’s results. Big hugs x

Does anyone else get spotting before their FP? It's being all crap and not doing anything definite my womb is a knob

@Bubblegum89 hope you feel better soon!

@justmeonly I'd say day 18 as well. Me and my Dh are registered at different doctors and he has to sign a bunch of forms for my dr to then refer us to the clinic

*also really enjoyed that typo 😂😂😂

@Bubblegum89 Hope you feel better soon, sensible of the GP though - sepsis needs to be treated ASAP when it happens. My mum used to give me mini-milks when I had tonsillitis- bliss!

@justmeonly if you have a short cycle I would go day 18. My day 21 fell on BH but the hospital did it so I got in anyway however she said the day after or the Saturday would have been fine.

Like you we have changed gp during tests and treatments. As long as it is all Sent to your gynaecologist it'll be fine. You can ask your go for copies of everything so you can build a file of results that is yours and you can take to various drs if the records take time to transfer over.

Hey everyone, two questions that I know you’ll probably be able to answer given that most of you have been through it all already... Thanks in advance...

1. I’m due my “day 21” test over the BH weekend. I average a 24 day cycle so the dr said aim for day 19, but later if it’s on a weekend (this was before my cycle so I didn’t know when it would fall exactly). So I have the choice of day 18 or 22. Is day 18 better? Or do I need to ring the dr to check?

2. Has anyone gone through the initial tests whilst you’re registered with different gps? Does it make the process a lot more complicated?

Thanks xx

@Bubblegum89 you poor thing, a bad tonsillitis is really miserable. Hope you improve quickly.

@Justwaitingforaline I’m sorry you got bad news. Probably worth having a consultation at least with fertility clinic to see what the options are.

He’d be up for supplements but he also has anti sperm antibodies which means that his immune sees his sperm as a target and attacks it.... there isn’t a cure for it but it can be bypassed by ICSI. Sorry, I forgot to mention that in my post earlier. It’s been a long day

Poor you @Bubblegum89 I hope you start feeling better soon xxx

Well last FW was a bust as I didn’t ovulate and this FW which is my last one before ivf is also a bust. CD9 and spent all day in hospital with what the GP thought was sepsis. I went in with a sore throat and fever thinking I had tonsillitis and she sent me to the hospital immediately because my heart rate was through the roof and I had a high temp. I had bloods done, two bags of fluids and an IV antibiotic. Heart rate is still high but they let me go home with oral antibiotics as long as I promised to go straight back up if I feel unwell again.

So today has been fun. And I do have tonsillitis. And not sepsis (hopefully. I’m assuming that would have shown in my bloodwork?) Bah humbug

Well my FP started Monday and has been minimal, pain free and finished yesterday lunchtime. So that's two and a half days compared to the usual 8/9 days of horrific pain! Awesome! Love laparoscopy if that's what it does!

@miserable no you can't feel it at all once it's in! No different to putting a tampon in really!

Oooh could be onto something here!!

Well af hit me today not even had a day of spotting this time so off for bloods tomorrow morning. I'm actually fine about it this month I think it's because I am doing something about it.

I'm off to eat obsence amounts of carbs this weekend and drink plenty of plonk!

OH MY GOD *sperm not sword!!!

Thanks LG, I might have to give it a go! Does it feel weird?! I’m worried I would be able to feel the sensor and not be able to sleep haha.

Fingers crossed the results will be quicker and better michaelknightscar. My husband got his letter and pot through today, hopefully doing it next week if he can move the appointment. Is yours a repeat because of poor results first time? Was he okay? I think mine is really worrying about his. I am too j suppose, but I’m so convinced there’s something wrong with me that I haven’t really given much thought to there being an issue with his sword.

Just - there have been pretty good results on improving sperm quality with supplements.

Unlike women, men can make new sperm in three months, so a healthy lifestyle and lots of supplements can make a big difference.

Would he be up for it?

@BGDino I had my laparoscopy on the 4th April and started ttc on the 5th. We didn't conceive this cycle just gone so it wasn't worth it for us. It's always worth hoping though xx