Just want AF to arrive so new cycle can begin...

I'm good @LS2020 a definitely peaking today - the OPKs are darker than control and I've been soaking wet all day haha! 🤣
How you feeling? Any early symptoms??
Seems like that weird CM was definitely your sign...
I love that wee have a wee side group - it's more exciting when the BFPs start coming in here!

@LS2020 I know exactly what you mean, feel like we’ve all been in this together! Aw I’m so pleased 😊 lets hope this starts a domino effect ae!

@Ughmaybenot aww thank you! I know I would always hate random people who got them on threads who I didn’t interact with but I feel like I’ve proper gone through it all with you guys and I’m so excited for you all to get yours!
Yeah honestly I think it does just show how it’s a time thing because we’re 27, healthy and no reason why it didn’t happen. I am literally just a 2 year statistic now 😂

@mrswilso thank you. How are you doing?

I know I've already said it on the Fitbit thread but...
CONGRATULATIONS @LS2020 !!! 🥳
Our first BFP of this thread! I'm sooooo happy for you! 💕

Oh my god my lovely, I am honestly still so happy about this and it’s been three hours... and it’s not my news 😂 @LS2020 best news 💗

And selfishly, this has really boosted my hopes 😘

@Ughmaybenot thank you!! AF isn’t due til Sunday so just got to hope it’s sticky 🤞🏻 I’ve never ever had even an indent on a test so couldn’t believe it. I did an internet cheapie and it was a bfn and I don’t know what made me do it because it wasn’t even an early one but I had a cb rapid detection and just decided to try that and it came up so quick and I was like oh stupid blue dye where you can see the indent and then thought hang on and had a ‘double check kit’ which has the same test and a digital and the same one came straight up too and the 3 minute wait for the digit was awful 😂 I’ve got 3 hours of work to do from home before my holiday and literally shaking. 15 months. I thought I was resigned to always seeing a blank one genuinely! I honestly think starting with the GP must have relaxed me or something or my body realised if it didn’t get its arse in gear then I’d have to keep getting poked with needles 😂

Monday but who cares about that now?! OH MY GOD congratulations!!!! I genuinely couldn’t be happier for you 💗

@Ughmaybenot when are you expecting to hear?

Yes I was due to test this morning and got the shock of my life!! It’s been 15 months so I’d long given up hope ☺️

@LS2020 Thank you lovely 😊 just keen to get the results now. In related news, I still haven’t come on my period, so we’re now on day 66 😂

How are you doing? Have you managed to resist testing? You’re going to try tomorrow aren’t you?

I really hope so too @Ughmaybenot! We will all get there ☺️

Oh I’m so glad they’re doing loads of checks for you. It’s really good just for piece of mind too, I think that helps mentally to chill out a bit too. I certainly felt that way!

Howdy team!

I feel like it’s a nicer, more chilled vibe on this thread at the moment, myself included. It’s so hard not to get stressed and upset by it all, but I truly believe all our luck will be in one of these days 💗

Been to the doctor this morning. Did bloods, results on Monday. PCOS was mentioned but neither myself nor the doc felt that was all that likely, as I have very few other symptoms. They’re checking my thyroid function tho, and a few other things. They’re not sure really but they are taking it seriously so that’s good.
Added bonus, they’re also checking my folate levels and my b12, which is linked to my EDS. Needed to do that for a while.

@mrswilso yeah that’s such a good way to view it and it deffo helps feeling more relaxed by it. The one year mark was like the best and worst thing because obv awful it’s not happened but in a way my mind is like meh isn’t going to happen and is on new things so it hasn’t hit as hard at all the last couple of months. Being able to get GP help was a weight off too.

I will do, trying to hold out til Friday to test. RHR is up this am but only 1bpm up and is still 2bpm down from Saturday so want it to get a bit higher first 🤞🏻

@LS2020 you're quite right to be taking it as it comes - I've definitely taken that approach the past two months and it's made such a difference in the TWW. Keep us posted though!
I'm CD13 today and have a feeling I'll get my peak on Thursday or Friday so I'm quite chilled out this cycle. Hubby and I haven't been putting too much pressure on DTD constantly this time around either. We've just been DTD when we want to so far. We were chatting earlier and we'll probably try to ramp it up from tomorrow onwards for babymaking purposes 🤣 done it last night so I'm quite happy that we'll be covered and relaxed about it all 😌
If it's BFN this month too then so be it, I think the further I step away from stressing about it, the closer the BFP will be 🤞🏻✨

@mrswilso I feel like this has been the closest actually realistic symptoms and not me making up ones to fit my agenda but it’s been 15 months so just can’t muster up the courage to get excited about it 😔
My RHR has dropped off today so if it goes back up I’ll test but probs won’t bother if it keeps dropping

@LS2020 🤞🏻 you too hun! That snot-like CM is supposed to be a good sign is it not? 🤩

@mrswilso well they say distraction is best way to conceive so fx for you this month!
Haha yes I do. My line manager is 20 weeks next month and I’m super over all her updates. I feel I’ve run out of people o don’t care about becoming pg so know it’s going to be someone close next 😫

Hi girlies 💕
Sorry I've been quiet - we've been really busy! We're renovating our entire flat and the plasterer is due in next week to start the first "phase" so I've been frantically filling holes and washing walls and trying (and failing) to keep up with clearing the endless dust away 🤣 on the upside I've had no time to freak out about TTC!
I'm over it this month...this is cycle 6 and I never in a million years (probably quite ignorantly) thought it would take this long. I don't know the right word but "losing interest" sums it up.
I'm dangerously close to losing my shit at the next person who announces "surprise! I'm pregnant!" IRL 🤣
Do any of you find that? I get excited for other MNers with their BFPs but when it comes to real life, face to face announcements I get all bitter and twisted!

@CaribouCarafe @mrswilso @AKcheer hope you ladies are all keeping well and wishing you some BFPs too 💗

@Ughmaybenot I definitely think they should be keen on referring you if that’s the case, even if it is your “normal”. I hope it all goes well.
My OH’s SA came back fine today and being sent for a scan which is hopeful.
8dpo and had some weird symptoms though. V sore boobs (don’t get this sore), had weirdest like yellow snot like CM this morning and come down with thrush but only thing I’ve had is a bath, OH has been away so not DTD in a few days. Sad when you start getting excited that thrush is a positive sign 😂

@LS2020 literally the same here 😂 the outrage when he has the audacity to have a day/week off 😂 the second gp is a very new addition and the trouble they had trying to convince some patients to go with her rather than dr old-trusty was hilarious!
Yea admittedly they have always been irregular, if I got them at all. I started late, maybe 15, had a couple then met my first boyfriend and got the implant so they stopped altogether for three years before having two/three week periods at random intervals, then the injection for a bit so didn’t have periods much on that, then the coil which was in for, I think, about 4 years.. which brings us to now. So no, it’s never been a normal cycle by any stretch of the imagination.

@Ughmaybenot oh that’s how mine was growing up but I think it was one doctor and one nurse and then if the doctor was on holiday we got the one from the next village over. Poor guy could never have a holiday or sick day without people demanding to know where he’d been 😂
Do you feel like they’ve always been the way of slightly irregular? I guess I could see why there’s less concern if it’s always been that way but still think it shouldn’t be dismissed

@LS2020 yea exactly. He’s a good guy, but it’s nice to know the option of the female doctor is there, should I decide id rather deal with her. There’s only the two of them at the surgery, it’s such a tiny village practice 😂
Er no, I did get periods, just irregular like now really. The only difference is that they were a lot heavier. Slightly more regular, maybe? But honestly I can look back over 18 months+ on the app I use and there’s just no pattern at all. But no, I won’t be standing for them even suggesting it might be the coil removal causing any irregularities, that’s categorically not the case!

@Ughmaybenot well at least you know you’ve got the option if your first GP isn’t helpful! Hmm that could throw a spanner in the plan... maybe just skip over that bit 😂 did you not have any AF on the coil? It’s non hormonal so hopefully they shouldn’t give you any issue about that causing it

Haha yea tell me about it @ls2020, I think we can all be a bit inclined to not be pushy enough, so I need to work on that!
I toyed with the idea of asking for a female doctor, as the one I have had previously was so truly lovely, but I decided to stick with my usual male doctor in the end as he’s been there (and very helpful too) with the other conditions I have. I may change my mind after seeing him as he can be very blunt but we’ll see 😂
I did think about it... but I had my coil taken out there in feb so I think they’ll see through that one unfortunately 😂

Yess @Ughmaybenoti know how annoying GPs can be but they kinda get paid to see people so they can put up with us 😂 I saw a female GP and that helped a lot, don’t know if that’s an idea for you? Can you up the TTC at all and just say you’ve been going a year might get you some fertility ones done too ☺️