Post Pill Party – The Garden Soiree

@Nellieee those are so much darker! Congratulations

@TheHotelCalifornia I feel you feels extremely unfair to have long cycles and less chances! I'm sorry AF came x

That's a good strong line @Nellieee (!)

@Kat668 @TheHotelCalifornia @Tillybabs so sorry you're feeling like crap. I know how awful it feels every month. Have some me time today and let yourself feel how you are feeling. I hope your next cycles bring good news.

@TheDaydreamBelievers @Juno231 @Kay00 thanks all. I did a frer this morning. Definitely positive...! Just would like the line to get darker. Like a mad woman I have compared every test on FF with mine. The line colours vary wildly!!

Sent bf out to get some more tests at lunch but the chemist had none! Will send him out after work again. And so it continues.

@Kay00 amazing news about your O!!! So glad it finally happened for you! All going in the right direction.

Thank you @Kay00 & @Sperr 🙂

@Kay00 timing fits with implantation dip which fits with spotting too. Fingers crossed that's the case 🤞

@Nellieee I have my fingers crossed for you. Is it possible you ovulated a couple of days later? Also, i'm not that familiar with the blood tests, are they more or less sensitive?

I'm 9DPO, like I mentioned earlier my temperature is dropping and I have just had some spotting. I hope this doesn't mean AF is on her way early I forgot to take my B-Complex yesterday... hopefully that wasn't enough to shorten my LP??

@AllyCat31 I bought these from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Natures-Aid-Soya-Isoflavones-Genistein/dp/B000GY76L6?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I took 150, 200, 200, 200, 200 this last cycle on days 3 to 7.

@TheHotelCalifornia so sorry your feeling like this. TTC is so hard. Sending you love. Look after yourself today. And cry it out as much as you need too. I hope your feeling a bit better later on❤️

@Tillybabs hope your okay too. Its hard when it's coming as I always want it to come and have it over with but then desperately don't want it too. You are right, tell ourselves it will happen!

@Gracie2021 hope your okay also. My DH has had months that he's been so busy over the fertile period awith work nd its so frustrating

I am now 2dpo so have the long wait ahead. I just feel relieved ovulation is done, does anyone else feel like this? As in there's nothing more I can do, its out of my hands, stress over.
Until next week anyway. After 15 goes I can't imagine it happening it all but I am trying to be positive
I am very achy and a kind of crampy feeling in my Lower stomach feels weird. I know it doesn't mean anything but had it last month after ovulation. Seems strange x

@JT90 sorry I didn’t track with OPKs to start with! I was just kinda winging it the first few cycles. I just DTD every other day and to be fair that’s what I did this cycle anyways! I found waiting for ovulation very stressful because I ovulate late!

@Juno231 thank you 😊

@TheHotelCalifornia sorry you’re feeling that way! I found waiting for ovulation the most stressful thing as I also ovulated late. Just a warning when I took soy I think I actually ovulated a few days later but I mean I did get my BFP so I guess in the grand scheme of things it’s not all bad!

@AllyCat31 I got mine off eBay but I did see the local Heath store bought them in case they didn’t arrive!

@TheHotelCalifornia you're not alone. You've just described my morning but add in having a complete meltdown on the phone to a work colleague. Tbh I don't think it's even 50% TTC, I'm just finding the longer I'm off the pill the more hormonal and emotional I am at the end of the month and the gutting disappointment of TTC just adds into that.

Booked an app with my doctor next Monday to have a catch up and see if I can get any testing started. 10 months in now and I'm near enough to 35 so figure it doesn't hurt to ask. Plus not so much as a CP or a line in that time so really wondering if there's something up now. Feels positive to do something productive but emotionally I'm a hormonal mess.....

To add insult to injury the OH has mad hours the entire fertile window this month so that'll be great fun and likely another month wasted.

Anyway to sum up, if it helps at all.... you're most definitely not alone!

@JT90 yeah it's so weird how much a lie our bodies were on contraception 😂 I've never felt ovulation as I've never ovulated because of always being on contraception so as soon as I felt that I posted in here because I was like wtf is this pain 😂

@Kay00 if you don’t mind me asking, where did you get your soy iso from? I’d never heard of it before until the last few days but thinking I might give it a try. I don’t ovulate till like CD30-40 cause I’ve got really longs cycles so thinking of giving it a go just to speed things up. I’m only due to have 5 cycles this whole year which is going to massive hurt our chances of TTC

@TheHotelCalifornia huge hugs xx If you're not ovulating until CD27 then you might be a good candidate for Soy Iso. It seems to have really good success rates for helping bring forward ovulation helping women get pregnant... don't let my 1st attempt at Soy Iso (zero ovulation) put you off, as my body was fighting its own random battles at the time.

I'm 9dpo and my temp seems to be dropping, so i'm not holding out much hope for this one, but i'll certainly be giving Soy Iso a go again.

@TheHotelCalifornia I’m sorry you’re feeling so bad. Please make sure you take some time to yourself today or this week. I wish there was something I could do 💜

@TheHotelCalifornia I’m so sorry you are feeling this way. It’s rubbish isn’t it.

I’m not better myself tbh. I’m getting the AF cramps etc so it’s coming this week. I feel utterly deflated myself tbh.

We just have to keep telling ourselves it will happen.

@TheHotelCalifornia I'm so sorry :( All I can say is that it does get easier and it really helps to keep busy if you can? But also ultimately it's okay to feel down so don't hesitate to take the afternoon off sick and do something nice for yourself.

@Nellieee I can definitely see it in the second pic but if you're 14dpo I'm not sure it bodes well to have such squinters :(

@Sperr @Emmgrem congratulations you two!! We go through a dry spell and then BAM - two BFPs in one day.

I just got my first BFN 😔 we were 98% sure we'd missed it so I don't know why I am, but I'm really disappointed. Now just got to wait to see if AF decides to turn up for the first time in 12 years! 😅

@Nellieee do you have the proper coloured one and did you do one this morning?

@Sperr Do you mean you didn’t ovulate after your first actual period before the second one came. Or didn’t ovulate between the withdrawal bleed, and that first period? I’ve been using cheap eBay ones since Wednesday, which would be 9 days past AF. Nothing has peaked yet, but I’m still gonna test for a while as I’ve only had one period so far, so have no idea what day would be my ovulation day or even if they’re coming back to regular with the next period! Just thought I would just incase the next one pops up after 28 days and they do return to that cycle like when I was on the patch. Thought better to try catch it mid cycle than not.

@MissM94 Ahhh, okay. Mine hasn’t been like that yet. But tbh this is the first time I’ve had anything like this mid cycle, would never get twinges or aches on my contraception. It was all very smooth for me on the patch. Only a few cramps a few days before AF showed!

Sorry ladies. Have been awol recently - I've had lots on with personal life and work. @TheHotelCalifornia love the opening post. This is my type of party!

Girls can I have your wise words? I'm 14dpo, due on today(ish). I've been v lightly spotting for 2-3 days. Still no proper period this eve so I got impulsive and did a cheapy boots test. First pic is within the 10 min window. V v v slight line. Second is about 12 mins after testing so outside of the windows. Thoughts?

@JT90 it lasted about 15 minutes was pacing up and down trying to get rid of it, eventually fell back asleep then woke up did an OPK and it was a big fat positive x

@JT90 the pain I had when I last ovulated was on my right side next to my hip and it woke me up at 7am haha bit like intense stabbing period pain but was sharp and next to my hip not on my belly.. hopefully it's ovulation pain you're feeling! 🤞🏽

Omg!! Congrats @Emmgrem and @Sperr!! Amazing news!!! So happy for you both 💖