POAS Anonymous - Thread 2

@jessi60 ohhhh god sorry you're not well 💚 sounds so strange! Would you have picked something up at work? Hmmmm ya that's interesting? At least you can take that your body is trying to get there and is doing all the right things. Apparently EWCM can be affected by how much water you're drinking... so if you're drinking little because you're trying to hold it for LH that could be why 🤣 also it's apparently best to check EWCM after a #2 🤷🏼‍♀️👍🏼 xx

Hey @ams19 ohh amazing! Must be such a relief. What was the epu like? There isn't an EPU here, waa.

I keep getting weird twinges on my left hand side. Nothing too sore, but I think I'll tell the midwife next Wednesday at my booking in if it continues. I did toy with asking the GP about it, but decided I was being paranoid and I'd leave it unless it becomes an actual pain as opposed to an intermittent tweaking/pinching kind of feeling. What was your pain like?

@AMS19 that's great news! Eeekk! And what fantastic service 🙌🏼

So even more confusing ... 😂

Also interestingly .. I’ve just rescanned some of tests in and I’ve done them on different angle and not so zoomed in and some of them are reading as 0.73 etc so think it depends how your inputting them!

@AMS19 ah that is lush news. Glad everything is ok Xxx

@positivitytree2020 Found this online ..
How Does Premom Accommodate Lower Levels?

If the highest ratio value (peak) in your previous cycle was below 0.8, then the app will adjust to the following:

Less than 0.5 = Low
Greater than or Equal to 0.5 = High / Peak

Note: Keep Testing Through "Peak"!

In these circumstances, once a ratio reaches 0.5 in the current cycle, the app will be triggered to begin identifying "peak", and will automatically mark the highest ratio value as peak. Keep testing until your levels are done rising and begin to drop again. As you continue to test, the app will continue to adjust and choose the highest ratio valuE that ovulation cycle as your peak for the cycle.

It is possible you still ovulated, even though your highest recorded test levels fall below 0.80 – 0.50. Some women can fall in a lower spectrum of LH metabolite levels. If this is the case, target the days 0.50 or above as your potential ovulation day. The Premom app will automatically select your high / peak even if it falls below 0.80, as long as it is 0.50 or higher.

@DrS44 Nope no EWCM. I’ve had the worst cramps all day and I’ve been sick 🙁 so i don’t think the cramps are related to ovulation if I’ve been sick, probably got some bug. I feel like crap. Laid in bed feeling sorry for myself😂
There’s no way I can dtd tonight think I’ll spew 🤣 so now worried I’m missing it xx

@jessi60 because it's high for you 🥳 the numbers really don't mean much so don't be stressing about that! Everyone gets different readings, and has different spikes for a range of reasons. What important though is if it's as dark or darker, and of course almost as dark is a great sign too! Have you had any EWCM? xx

@DrS44 Yeah but it read low for someone else with that reading lol 🤨 x

I realise I'm only 5DPO but I keep getting a slight stitch type pain in the right hand side of where I would imagine my ovaries to be 🤷🏼‍♀️

@jessi60 maybe because it is high? It's not your peak? Same time of the day with most accurate reading maybe tomorrow it'll go up again? Xx

@positivitytree2020 I have no idea, does anyone else know on here why it’s reading high for me? Doesn’t make sense xx

@jessi60 hmm that is very strange! 😂 maybe your lh tried to surge on CD14 but didn’t fully, so now it’s trying to again? 🙈 I have no idea tho, I can’t even figure my own ones out tbh! 😂
Strange how it called your 0.64 one “high”, but same app has called my 0.62 one as “low” 😅

This is mine this afternoon. I’m confused 😂

@Bells20 I just went to Morrisons there and suddenly found myself in the baby clothes section 😂 my OH was searching the whole shop for me lol

Definitely falling into the rabbit hole of imagining having a baby constantly and it doesn’t help having TikTok and watching people videos of having a new born 🤣 just constantly wishing it was me haha

@Dex1521 i had the same problem last month except I think my poor concentration was because every 5 minutes I'd feel the smallest twinge of nothing and convince myself I was pregnant then fall down a rabbit hole of thinking about it haha

@jessi60 @positivitytree2020 mine is 0.37 so I'm totally with you.

So far today I feel really bloated which I do get once a month but never really tracked when it was when I was taking the pill and really bad lack of concentration at work which isn’t like me but maybe that’s just because it’s Friday 😂

@jessi60 lol we are being taunted by these opks! 😂 hopefully we both get more definitive results over next couple of days! Just hope I didn’t miss it! 🤞🏼

@positivitytree2020 Mine was 0.38 aswell x

This is quite a nice thread if you haven't seen it:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/conception/4081114-Did-you-know-you-conceived-before-taking-a-test

@AMS19 @GreenApplesYo yeah that’s helps! I know everyone is different when it comes to symptoms and it’s so annoying that they’re so similar to AF symptoms - I bet it was a man who decided that the symptoms would be so similar 🤣 kidding lol

I’m going to wait to test until at least 10dpo but if it comes back negative to not be disheartened and to focus on the positive. I have loads of IC tests but will get some FRER closer to the time

@positivitytree2020 Yeah it’s all so weird I had that high one yesterday morning and then I was low on the afternoon and then low again today and low on clear blue so have no idea whether that high one was a false one somehow x

Oh PS I think implantation cramps and spotting would be the main thing to look out for 🙂because that does happen to a third or so of women I think? x

Hey @Dex1521 I didn't have any symptoms except feeling 'odd' on 7dpo - I had the shivers and was grumpy and demanded DP go buy pizza with extra mozzarella for tea. I got a v v v v faint line on a cheapy at 8dpo and thought, well maybe that explains feeling off.

Tbh I think it's rare to get any clear symptoms that aren't also associated pms? The hgc levels are so low at first it's unlikely you'd be needing to pee more often/have darker nipples/have a metallic taste in the mouth. It must be unusual to be so sensitive to hgc that you are having to pee more etc before a test can even pick up you're pregnant? Of course I've googled early pregnancy symptoms loads of times anyway!

I tested early to scratch the POAS itch. I really thought the test would be blank. So I was a bit like 'holy crap it worked' I still am!

If you wouldn't want to know about a chemical pregnancy it's more sensible to wait until AF is due 🙂 Because I tested so early, I had a 2ww anyway to get to the 5wk mark when you're out of the CP zone.