Thread for those who are Late for their AF, seems there is a few of us!!

@Ylladyoll poor you - must be a shock to go from TTC to that. Good luck

Hope everyone is feeling a bit better tonight. I've decided to book a holiday and just go on like nothings happening (as that's exactly what is happening 🤣)it will happen if and when its meant to! Sure I will go back to my usual obsessive where is my baby ways tomorrow like..

@Ylladyoll and @EnsignRoLaren
Thanks for the supportive messages! I've had the sudden flood of tears here and there over the last few days but for the most part, keeping myself busy and at least pretending to be happy. Wish you both the best on your journey going forward.

Sorry to hear that @EasterBunny7 - a mix of disappointment and relief at not being in limbo, I guess? I’ve had days of cramps now but I have noticed that being more common in the last year or so before AF.

I am assuming I’m not pregnant. Also, having a bit of a wobble that I can’t rely on fairly predictable cycles anymore (though to be fair my app shows 17-29 days over the last year, but I never had anything longer than 29 days until now).

When I thought AF must be due on day 31, we may have thrown caution to the wind 🤦‍♀️, so there’s still that sense of not knowing. Before that it had been a couple of weeks I think, so now I have had BFNs I know it couldn’t have happened earlier in my cycle.

I’m sad to face my own ageing and lamenting that I need to be much more organised from now on! And I will need to have a frank talk with DH that we need to be more careful.

Good luck to everyone hoping for BFPs - I know just how that feels

Not to burst anyone's bubbles but AF arrived today. It seems that all that symptom spotting of 9 days worth of cramps (one sided and then two sided) which I took for ovulation and implantation were completely false! I also had a lot of watery (and then creamy) 'cm' right up to the end, it didn't dry up at all which gave me false hope. I had acne breakout along my jaw early in the cycle, I was constipated throughout, and I spent the month wishing that all of it meant something.

And, it's so very true, when your period runs late and no matter how many negatives you get, there's always a little part that hopes... and that's the hardest part to deal with. So, I'm kind of relieved my period has arrived, a new cycle: a new opportunity. Because, what else can I do but carry on?

Another BFN this morning, now 8 days late for AF and 5 days later than it has ever been

Ive been taking pregnacare since December, and I've read mixed reviews. Costing me a fortune as well haha.

Ha! Katbaby, normally my CM is thick and opaque by this point (at the end of my cycle I mean) but it is still fairly wet. Enough to notice when wiping, certainly. I will admit to the occasional rummage as I sometimes get spotting or pink tinged CM before AF arrives. Nada so far.

I was taking multivitamins throughout winter but did switch to an expensive, natural, plant source vitamin early this cycle (30p a tablet!) and am now wondering if that is somehow involved.

Argh.

@EnsignRoLaren I agree, pure headfuckery. I agree you should test in another week.

Tmi but with the whole cm thing.. Is it appearing or are you going up there looking for it? Because if its there in your underwear I've never had any

Good luck @katbaby and sorry for the upsetting news.
@Ylladyoll thank you - still no sign of AF and I have been feeling sick today - though I’ve had this with PMT before. And CM seems different than it usually does.

I have a new level of respect for people with erratic and long cycles. What a headfuck!

Back to trying again now then, maybe a large glass of red wine 🍷🍷🍷 or 3

@Ylladyoll so just to update, bloodwork came back totally normal, pregnancy test negative so basically no further forward!

Really thought I could have been preg. Feeling really down now

I needed this thread today! Sorry for everyone’s belated AFs and all the headfuckery going on. Good luck to those of you hoping for positives.

After a lifetime of cycles averaging 25 days, and varying 17-28 days over the last year or two, I’m now on CD33 . We are not TTC and use condoms. I’ve had cramps for four days (not especially unusual for me before AF) and I’ve had shoulder pain for ten days or so. I freaked out a little about that but having done some reading, should tip pain is a late stage ectopic thing, not an early warning sign.

I’m assuming AF is just late (I’m 36) but I have never had a cycle longer than 30 days, ever. I did take a test yesterday evening but it was a definite BFN; in previous pregnancies I tested positive at CD21, so surely this must just be a late AF.

Complicating factor is that DH doesn’t want another DC, but I do. 🤦‍♀️

Presumably a neg at CD32 is pretty conclusive, right?

Glad to hear your awful af is over now @Ylladyoll, at least you now know where you stand. Enjoy your time away in April and things and hopefully something happens for you.

Got to ring for my results tomorrow, I'm starting to get stressed about it as I'm feeling generally sickly but scared that it's not for the reasons I want

@Ylladyoll

Really sorry to hear you've had a tough period, glad it's over for you and you can gradually try again soon. X

BFN at what is 13-15 dpo (irregular periods). I want my mind to accept it and bring on the AF. Can't do with another extremely long period and no hope. I don't know what's wrong with me, two years of TTC and not getting anywhere.