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Feeling sad. How do you keep positive?

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MrsDash · 08/11/2018 13:10

I’m 11dpo and have just had a tiny amount of pale pink spotting. I used to get excited that it might be implantation bleeding but 5 cycles later I now realise it signals AF is on its way.

I’ve been off the pill 10 months. I have recently been diagnosed with endometriosis (mostly on my bladder so in theory shouldn’t stop me conceiving) and my gynaecologist has now told us to have fertility checks. I had a chemical back in June though so know I can get pregnant but at the moment it just feels so remote and at the same time so many friends are getting pregnant. I’m really struggling to cope.

How does everyone keep a positive mental attitude?

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MrsDash · 08/11/2018 15:14

*it’s so tough

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MrsDash · 08/11/2018 15:12

Thanks all!

Yes, totally agree it helps to share. I feel like the moment I know af is coming I need to tell DH or my mum. Feels like I need to offload or something. They are brilliant but to be honest my mum had no problem conceiving 3 children so hasn’t been through it, and DH seems to feel more positive and that it’ll happen soon.
So it’s great to have this outlet where we’re all in the same boat. I’ll deffo check out the Yam page.

That advice makes a lot of sense @monkeytoucher and @orcinusorca . I’ve spent so long thinking ‘we’ll I’ll be pregnant then’ and altering plans and it just makes me feel worse when that date comes along. I need to focus on living my life as I was before TTC. I also need to work out how not to feel sad when I hear of others being pregnant. I cried the other week when I heard our neighbour is pregnant. We’d hoped to be having a baby around the same time as them.

It’s so touch.

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Chooklass · 08/11/2018 14:56

Can't offer much more advice than those above, but there are a bunch of us on the Yam thread in the same boat and it seems to help sharing our woes! Come over and join us if you like x

Yam Fam! www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/3389057-yam-fam

MonkeyToucher · 08/11/2018 14:24

It really sucks! I conceived DS on the 15th cycle and I think I cried when af arrived for 14 of those...

My main advice is not to put your life on hold. I spent a full year putting things off/not booking holidays/not applying for promotions etc because "I might be pregnant then" and for me that made it worse when I didn't turn out to be pregnant. The same with depriving myself of things like alcohol - the abstinence feels like such a waste if its been for nothing!

When we finally were successful we had to cancel and rearrange a holiday and I had to pull out of being a bridesmaid, but those things were much easier to do than if I had turned them down and still not been pregnant (if that makes sense)

OrcinusOrca · 08/11/2018 13:46

I don't have much advice I'm afraid, but I feel the same. I've just taken up a couple of hobbies again to try and distract myself a bit more, focusing on 'me' a bit, I feel like TTC can batter your mental health if you have the kind of experience we do (I have been TTC over a year and had a chemical last cycle).

I'm hoping someone else has some ideas for the pair of us!