TTC 35+ Thread 4 Cougar and Silver Fox Club

I’m really sorry @claireb707. What are the next steps do you think? I’m sure you have said but it’s hard to keep track of everyone’s stories.
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[quote mouldygrapes]@claireb707 sorry 😥 what was the reason for the repeat, remind me? Had they suggested he make some changes to see if it had any impact?
I wonder if it is possible for you to get the previous results just to be able to compare[/quote]
Apparently they do a repeat to confirm low results. So I suspect the first lot are about the same

@claireb707 sorry 😥 what was the reason for the repeat, remind me? Had they suggested he make some changes to see if it had any impact?
I wonder if it is possible for you to get the previous results just to be able to compare

[quote selina37]@mouldygrapes 🤩 oh hey!

@ShouldEyeShouldntEye fab! As I thought! That's great to know, thank you 🙂

@claireb707 does it tell you a list of normal ranges too? 🤔 [/quote]
What the numbers should be are on the right. His numbers are on the left 😢

Density and motility are both low

@Sleeeeeepy was your last period normal? 🤔 Is it ovulation?

@mouldygrapes 🤩 oh hey!

@ShouldEyeShouldntEye fab! As I thought! That's great to know, thank you 🙂

@claireb707 does it tell you a list of normal ranges too? 🤔

Thanks both. I’ll see what tomorrow brings.

@claireb707 - do you have the other SA results to compare to? I guess it would be helpful to know if these are better, worse or the same as his previous.

@Sleeeeeepy how strange! Bodies are weird, aren’t they. I’m guessing this is not normal for you?

[quote Sleeeeeepy]@mouldygrapes Ooooh fingers crossed!!!

My period has just arrived. It's CD18. WTAF is going on 🤨[/quote]
😢 definitely period? Could it be ovulation?

Got partners numbers from his 2nd SA today, when he went to have his blood tests. Except I don't know what it means

I’m an idiot, was trying so hard to hold out till tomorrow and do FRER with FMU.
Did an OPK this afternoon which was the darkest I’ve ever had. Stupidly didn’t hold onto the urine (3-4hr hold) then downed a load of water and did a test at work (not a FRER) and these ones are a bit tricksy for false +ves if you leave them too long. This took a while to come up but also the urine was so dilute. I don’t know whether to believe it, and will still do the FRER tomorrow!!!

@selina37 I feel the pain, do the deed and have got pregnant four times that way. So I assume it’s the egg popping out.

For anyone who gets the ovulation pain, can you confirm if it's right before or during the egg popping out? Or even after?

@ShouldEyeShouldntEye ah so sorry, but enjoy your camping - I love camping! And relax 🙂

@Sleeeeeepy defo happy it's Friday! Been a slog of a week!

My period came! I was on day 38 which is so late. And it’s turned up the day I’m off camping for the weekend. But at least it’s here. That was our first month trying after my missed miscarriage. We were t trying for the baby I miscarried, it a surprise. So I’m learning my way into this. My three children were all conceived first month which is crazily lucky now I think about it. But I was much younger then.

@selina37 I get very obvious ovulation pain every month. I know when I ovulate just by feeling.

@mouldygrapes are you going to test today? Good luck!

Thanks ladies, hopefully it means a strong ovulation then! 🤞

Still no idea what's going on with me, now cd32, 14dpo, temps are still up a little but bfn this morning and also got a dark ish opk (not close to pos but dark all the same). No sore boobs at all this month and have had a couple of days of cramping around 9/10dpo

Yes I too notice the dull achy pain every month! Its amazing what you start to notice when ttc

@FridaKFangirl glad you've confirmed it too!

So, does anyone get the ovulation pain too? Feels almost as if your ovary is throbbing inside. Kind of an ache, usually mine's on the side back, crampy, and almost constipation pain?

This is exactly what I had on Tuesday evening, I wonder whether it was then that the egg popped or it was swelling up getting ready to pop. Cm has kinda dried up the following morning...

@Loladoodle, I used to have this back when I was a teenager. In fact it’s why my GP put me on the pill at 17 as it was interrupting my swimming! (I was planning ahead for uni so enjoyed the excuse to go on it!)

He called it Mittelschmerz bleeding (German for middlepain) and said it was exactly as @selina37 described... part of the egg ‘popping’ out the follicle.

@mouldygrapes try an hpt! I have no idea at all why we are supposed to have lh rise before AF...

@Loll35 thank you, kind of assumed I'd feel better after today but I feel put back. Possibly because I know im out for trying this month.

@Loladoodle well, my scan before the hycosy confirmed recent ovulation - I suspect yesterday or the day before and funnily enough I had a little brown spotting this morning. I usually I get it 1/2 dpo. I think it could be where the egg has literally burst out of the ovary.