TTC 35+ Thread 8

Good luck to everyone testing 🤞🏼 hopefully lots of lovely BFP announcements just around the corner 🤞🏼🥳

@lemonade83 when are you testing? I'm 9dpo tomorrow and I've got a frer waiting!

My body is seriously all over the shot!!
Coil out 2 and a bit weeks ago, questioning if i even ovulated (my only dark like was cd13)Altho cheap opk and first time using them and this afternoon I've started to feel nauseous and just been a tiny bit sick 🤷🏽‍♀️
I'm only cd17 so chuff knows what's happening now.. I had headache earlier and feel shattered but wasn't expecting to actually be sick!
Highly unlikely to be caught surely??
Dtd cd11 and cd13 so surely not?!? It's too early right??

@VixFromThe6ix shout if you have any questions regarding prolactin I've had high levels for about 10 years and been on Cabergoline for 8.
Mine are just mildly high, but I have a 4mm prolactinoma, had no periods, daily headaches, high T3, low estrogen - all of which should have indicated much higher levels of prolactin. But I take the tablets and all goes back to normal so we're sticking with them.
If it's any consolation, it's meant to be the cause of infertility that's the easiest to treat. Literally, after 2 years of no periods I started taking tablets, ovulated after 2 wks, then period after 4.

• @pamparam

Hi all!
Seems like lots of us will be testing soon. I am at 9 dpo and starting to get a bit obsessed! Checked my heart rate there and it seems elevated...anyone else do that?!
I will be holding off on testing for a few days. Hope there is a BFP or more this month. Sorry to hear you are out @pamperon it sounded promising to me!!

@Pamparam haha I’m going to be strong. I’ll find other distractions. I need to do house clear out anyway.

@Katiekattty don't buy any!

It was definitely me buying them yesterday which made my implantation bleeding suddenly transform into AF. I jinxed it for sure.

Don't be like me...! haha 😂

@Feanorous no symptoms and feeling good. At least no real symptoms that’s probably not in my head. I’m trying to hold out till Wednesday to test if I haven’t started spotting before.

I'm 3dpo and just wish it was next week already!

7DPO and the days are moving very slowly. How soon can you use a frer? Not that I’m planning to buy one. Resisting! I must resist early testing.

Sorry to hear that @Pamparam

And @misty84 I'm really sorry to hear your news. Fingers crossed a second opinion yields better results xx

@thislittlebird yes no ewcm apart from a random blob on cd 5/6 when I had a big fat zero on the ov test 🤷🏼‍♀️ made no sense whatsoever! My fp was 14 days and Lp was 13 days, assuming I ovulated the day after my peak, so I'm guessing tomorrow will be ov day cd13 and then if still a 13 day Lp it'll be a slightly shorter cycle when I was expecting longer 🤦🏼‍♀️ the apps do change depending what you put in, I use 6 in total 😂 and they're usually all different every month!

I’m wrong, even they disagree. But flow is on the money this month, it seems.

Weirdly I just checked my apps and they all expect me to ovulate today lmao. I don’t know how they know? Unless they’ve been just pushing the date back each day while I haven’t been checking them.

@Marvellouslymadmum you’ve not had any but you are ovulating? Huh. if it’s tomorrow for me, which it could be, it would be day 19 which feels quite late but I guess it doesn’t make much difference if my LP remains about 12 days. The bodies are super confusing .

@climbershell got to day 20 so I guess it’s not unusual.

@02Carol yes luckily we had started dtd cd 4,7,9,11 so far so may leave today and try and do cd13 & 14 it really caught me off guard! I have one sore boob which is odd, I don't usually get sore boobs at all but last month they were both like it from just after ovulation, I'm thinking all these supplements etc are doing their jobs and regulating my hormones!

@thislittlebird no I haven't sorry, maybe you're about to Ov as you have the ewcm? I still don't really have any and thought I was going to ov late as I only got my first flasher yesterday but nope! The more things I track and try the more I think do we ever really know our bodies and what's going on?! It just gets more and more confusing 🤪

@climbershell 🤞🏻 for you this month!

@Twelvestars 🤞🏻 for you too!

I feel like there's more tww than anything else each cycle - slightly unfair

@thislittlebird oh goodness! You’ll get used to it in no time hopefully!

@02Carol I’m 8 days too until AF. Let’s how this cycle goes. We’ve dtd way too much so all that effort need not go to waste 🤣

Good luck @climbershell

I'm now 1dpo. But CD21. One app has af due 7 days, but obviously wrong as on for a long cycle this month.

Longest in the last year has been 30 days, so I'll take a guess & say due poss from 5th which is only 11dpo. I've marked 14dpo in my calendar 🤞🤞🤞

Good luck to everyone in the TWW... I started proper bleeding this morning so 11DPO but CD31, can’t really be anything but AF so no idea what was going on with that spotting on 8/9DPO. Hope this isn’t the start of a shorter LP trend. The rollercoaster ride starts a new climb ☹️

I’m still waiting for my peak, it’s day 18 now and I’m still reading high.

@Marvellouslymadmum I’m guessing you’ve never monitored whether oral steroids can push back ovulation when you’ve been on them? We’re into latest ever o day territory in my house. Maybe I just won’t ovulate but I am getting EWCM.

@Twelvestars at least it’s good practice for what’s to come I guess . I didn’t sleep well today mind, the drug jitters kicked in and I’ve been up since 5.

@Marveouslymadmum same here, last month I had 9 days high then my static smiley, this month high alert, get to it now smiley 🤦🏻‍♀️

Had luckily DTD the day prior, on the day and the day after and 2/3 times after, might this weekend just for good luck 😂 why not!

Boobs are sore which I don't get during my cycle, but i think that's my TTC hypochondriac coming into play. 🤦🏻‍♀️

@02Carol it's weird isn't it! Last month I had 7 days of flashing smileys before the peak! Only one day difference in peak so not too much change there but still I wasn't expecting it as had no warning, thought I would ov late this month 🤷🏼‍♀️ our bodies like to keep us on our toes

@Marveouslymadmum Tell me about it, my ovulation was the same, and a week earlier than expected this month, so I have no idea what my body is doing!

Good luck 🤞