The 2ww Symptom Spotting continues....

OOoh Bucky you Project Manager, you! It seems like so far away...Although I'm glad T-day (testing day) isn't today. I don't feel like beginning an emotional roller coaster today, just want to sleep... zzzzz.....

Keep closing my eyes to see what it feels like, then opening them really quickly because Excitable has been known to fall asleep in less than a minute and it's so nice...

I think I'll test in 5 days, as that will be overdue from when I expect AF to come.

Too tired to be excitable today, feel quite zen, it's lovely really, since I decided to just go with it... hmmm... nice....

excitable I'm here, pretty much going to be on most of the day as I'm working from home trying to write a brief. I think the fact that you're not having usual pre-AF symptoms is looking good for you.

Are you going to test in 5 days or wait till you're overdue?

I'm being ignored, but I'm going to carry on anyway... is anyone out there?

I was expecting AF to come early this month as everything has happened early - ov pains, ewcm, mojo - everything, but she's due in 5 days time and I feel nothing at all. I'm not grouchy, I have no cramps, no headaches, I'm not farting (sorry if TMI, but I ALWAYS fart loads just before), and I'm not even retaining water. This is just not like me...

DG and Bucky can't believe the stories about slimy gaenies, although don't know why. We had a Glaswegian GP in West Yorkshire when I was little who I knew really well. He retired when I was about 13. My Mum is quite little and pretty and always has really nice makeup - child of the sixties, you see. Before I was born, she went with a sore eye or something and he noticed (legitimately) that she was due for a smear test, so made her lie down on the bed, but what really made her laugh was that in order to get to her...erm... business end, he threw her leg over his shoulder!!

He was normally very professional and really nice and she's never really been able to decide if that was really pervy or if he was just trying to use humour to relieve the embarrassment of the situation! At least she thinks it's funny! (She might not if she knew how many times I've told that story while drunk at parties

CD23 today and I'm still really tired. But a funny, too exhausted to sleep kind of tired, even though I've had plenty of sleep - I must have caught up after my boozy weekend by now! Think I may have had a dream last night that I was pregnant, because when I woke up this morning, I had to remind myself that I don't know that...

fairysnuff woohoo! good luck catching it tonight. I've spent the last three weeks sending similar texts to my dh!

er....too scared to look for my cervic this morning, have had a bit of browny-cm. either AF has decided to rear her ugly head unnaturally early, or it's (shhh) implantation bleeding.

have lost my appetite for the last couple of days and woke up with a head-ache this morning. not sure if I've caught dh's cold or if this is it!!! wasn't going to test till next weekend, but how soon can you test after 'possible' implantation?

(shreksmissus was 18 at the time, in the middle of A levels, and just pleased to never have to go back to the clinic - on reflection i think he was just trying to reassure me, can't be sure if the beautiful was for me or my healthy-looking vag! still broke out into a cold sweat tho)

I went in pursuit of mt cervix this am, not a one was to be found.
So sent a text to DH saying, The egg is coming! The egg is coming!

I am not surprised she doesn't like jumping jacks, she was prob more embarassed by you all LOL than the actual experienec. hehe
Sometimes I regret telling my family silly things I have done, they never let it lie (in style of vic reeves and bob mortimer)

Ooooo - I've begun the self aborping task of symptom spotting (bit early but indulge me) my temps have remained high which is good and this morning I woke up and felt really sick. Didn't last long but definite nausea. Too early methinks but right now its seems kinda fun - 2 weeks down the line and I'll be saying something completely different!!

Oh, and my cervix seems to have made a reappearance!!! really think I may have scared it off before but definitely back now!

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at both stories!
Why did she do it bucky??
And teh bum patting?? weird and euch.
My doc said I had lovely ankles, when I was 8 months preggers with DD, but that is not really in the same legue as your stories.

Wow, to your DH bucky, I can't imagine my DH ever reacting so strongly. But then again, we have never been in your situation, so he has never been pushed.

He won't talk about DD's birth though cos it upsets him to remember. (Ventouse, shoulders stuck then placenta stuck, not nice)

My doc got the fright of her life when she had a look 10 weeks afterwards, using one of those duck thingies, when she closed it and retrieved some placenta. She could barely speak
It rather took my fear away for going in for my d&c.

Oh god yes, I had the pokey thing too - can remember thinking 'they surely aren't gonna put that up there.....yep, yes they really are'. DH looked suitably annoyed about the whole deal but managed to keep talking to me so I didn't have to concentrate on what was going on (preferred to pretend I was anywhere but in that dr's room).

at your bottom patting dr dg and also at your star jumping cousin bucky!!!

Patting your bum is freaky, and being called beautiful is nice normally, but not in such a situation!!!

Bucky I had the condom on the pokey thing too, they wouldn't let OH come in with me (was in Germany)

LOL at your jumpin' jack cousin!!! That is hilarious!! Maybe not for your cousin tho...

Yep, my bare botty

clairePO that sounds horrible . i haven't had a smear for ages so have forgotten how painful it is - must be even more so when it's after an m/c and involves insensitive docs. but when i was younger i once had to go to the sexual health clinic (yes far tmi) and the male gyne patted me on the bum while i had my legs splayed and said 'all looks fine, beautiful'.

picknmix CD19, maybe you nearly ov'ed the other day and you're trying to ov again. or maybe you're oving again? who knows in the lottery of irregular cycles? just keep bd'ing i reckon!!!

DG I'm on cd19 today but my cycles are completely irregular - last one was 45 days, the one before 35, and before that 28 and 22 so just a guessing game at the mo. Thats why I've started temping as am hoping it'll give me more of an idea about things!!

Claire those pesky doctors insist on putting things in the most awkward of places. After I had my mc I had to have countless examinations and each one was painful (the worst bit was when the attending nurse kept stroking my leg and saying 'shhhh darlin, I know I know, it hurts a bit but shhhh darlin' - felt like I was 3 yrs old and had scraped my knee or something!!! I really feel for you and agree your poor cervix prob needs a rest.

Depressing bit: when I m/c'd the junior (male) doc wanted to look at my cervix to see if it was open. He used the thing you used when you have a smear test, but then had to keep swabbing me as 'there's blood in the way'. It seemed to take ages and he had to reposition it a few times. Possibly one of the miserable awful experiences of my life. My poor cervix has probably had enough fiddling with for this month.

Anyway I've had pains in my abdomen today, dull pains not stabby pains, slightly to the right. My LH surge was last Thursday. Is it wind?

picknmix what cd you on and what's your cycle length?

Hi Pixie! Glad to hear you had a fab time away - nice to see you back!

Bucky my friend got pregnant on cd9 and her cycles were loooooooong and irregular. Her af had only just left and she thought there was no way she could be fertile (her dd was a happy mistake!). So make the most of it - let the bding commence!!! (said in a Richard O'Brian of The Crystal Maze stylee.....)

Still have the most sore nips - really would've thought they'd be back to normal again now. Am worried that maybe I haven't really ovulated yet. Plus my cervix seems to have all but disappeared and gone a bit soft. May be its gone into hiding at the thought of all the cervical pursuits I had planned??!

can't hurt to bd away bucky! My philosophy this cycle has been to BD at least every other day since AF ended. The on the OPK did up the frequency to twice a day...but have kept up the every other day plan this week just in case I got the surge but not the egg (can happen in irregular cycles).

This evening I am definitely feeling hot and crampy. But no sore boobs. Have no idea what this means.

clairePO there'll be plenty of people looking at your cervix once you're pg...I don't blame you if you want to keep it under wraps til then!

What I've never worked out is how do docs/dhs/midwives know how many centimetres dilated you are when in labour? Have tried putting a mirror down there [lovely image for you all] and couldn't possible see all the way up...