Anyone else trying to get pregnant and want to talk about it?

DOn't despair Dot!
OK , no, 19 isn't good - BUT it could just be that you got the timing wrong if your cycle isn't completely regular - and that would give you a false reading - plus we all have annovulatory cycles form time to time so one means nothing.
What was your FSH result?
Even if you do have PCOS it is not such a big deal - many people get pregnant fairly easily wiht low tech help such as Clomid. In the mean time look at the PCOS support websites and look into a low glycemic index diet which is really supposed to help ovulation for PCO sufferers.
I can't find the right website for glycemic indexes at the minute but will pop back later if I've time and put it on.

Aaarrgghhh!

I went to see my GP for a proper discussion of my blood test results, and my 21 day progesterone level was 19, and I remembered a posting ages ago saying that under 20 was no good....

My GP wasn't sure what to do, so I'm taking the test again on day 23, just to check, as my cycles are sometimes longer than 28/29 days.

Bayleaf - you're good at this - what do you think??!

I can't remember my other results - have got them but not here, but GP also said my LH/FSH ratio could indicate PCOS - but I'm still waiting (6 weeks later) for my scan date...

Yours despairingly......

Thanks Wills

Yes I did and promptly had an agonising wait overnight until I could get to a chemist the following morning. My dh was out for the evening and I couldn't think of a valid excuse to get my mother to come over and baby sit my dd whilst I went to a 24hr Tesco. I proceeded to go through 3 different packets and to my joy eventually got a positive. Unfortunately I lost that one, but I do understand the urge to squint your eyes and stare hard. Personally I think it sounds positive and I wish you great luck!

I am wondering if anyones has ever taken a home preg test the day before their period is do and gotten a very faint line and I do mean faint. You almost need a microscope to see it.

I took 2 tests spaced a couple days apart the last one being done on this past sat and they were neg. I took one today since I had 3 in the box and I think there is a faint line. Its very hard to see unless you hold it up to the light and even then its hard to distinguish. I feel so pregnant with what I think is morning sickness starting today. I just want that NOTICEABLE positive result. Anyone ever had this happen with a test right before their periods due? I'll probally test again on Wed.

Dot1 I too had polycystic ovaries and fell pregnant about a month after coming off the pill although it wasn't intended and we were supposed to be waiting 3 months. I was then anxious that I would have a 4 eyed monster but my doc reassured me that the hormones from the pill don't harm your baby and the only reason they say to wait 3 months is so that your cycle can settle down. Otherwise they don't know when you ovulated. So my doc now says that I should stay on the pill and start trying again as soon as I come off rather than waiting a bit when we want another child because you are very fertile when first comiing off the pill.

Does anyone know of a way to pinpoint ovulation to within 12 hours (apart from ultrasound!)? I know this sounds ridiculous but for various reasons we need to be able to have sex 12 hours or less before ovulation. I'm looking for a miracle. Persona can't do it, can it? (Persona users?).

Dot - don't worry about moaning - we'll all moan until we're pregnant!
I know exactly how you felt about wanting ''something done'' as when I was laready on clomid and saw a specialist and he just put me on more of the same as I wanted different/miracle cure and I wanted it NOW! The thought of just going back to having fairly mechanical sex ( or in your case even less fun) every month and hoping against the odds is not appealing.
FIrstly tho which blood lests did your dr do?
Like Jane I am NOT an expert but I know significantly more that I did 18 months ago and I wish I'd know aeverything that I know now when I started if you see what I mean. Many Gps do not put a high priority on this sort of problem and their whole attitude is to maximise the ''go away and try some more'' and minimise any real intervention. Now this may well be appropriate - but then again it may not! Jane is right - you will rarely get any referrals in less than 6 months ( and only then if you're 'old'but for example have you had your doner's sperm tested? How do you know it's OK? And if you can afford it it is alwasy worht having it done at a fertility clinic rather than a GP one at the local nhs clinic ( costs around £70) - I know personally of people who had a 'normal' result from nhs ( basic test) and then an 'awful' result from fertility clinic. The consultant said it was like a Ford mechanic looking at a Ferrari engine and saying ''it looks fine to me'' the people who look at sperm in an average nhs lab are not specialists and they can give very misleading results - people in a fertility centre ARE experts.
DO your blood test say that you are or aren't PCOS? IF positive have you tried low glycemic index diet?
Are you ''charting'' your morning temps? Have you tried Vitex? I could go on and on - but I'll stop rambling for now....
Bayleaf
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Lulu41, That's wonderful - I'm really pleased to hear your news.

Dot1, I was going to say that a lot of infertility is unexplained so don't worry, there could be something wrong with you after all. But that's not exactly reassuring is it? I don't think that a blood test necessary proves that everything is working perfectly. I don't want to pretend to be an expert, but I'd have said the length of time you've been ttc should be what determines whether you get referred. I believe 6 months is about average to get pg, and anything upto a year is quite normal.

Wills, they were absolutely bloody useless for me, never showed that I'd ovulated, and lo... that month I'm pregnant!!

HI - Haven't "talked" on mumsnet recently because I'd wanted to tell the whole world how great it was and then was fearful that people might work out my "cyber" name and therefore cotton on to the fact that I'm trying to fall pregnant. Lousy excuse I know...

Anyway I desperate (as my dd would say) to know whether or not an ovulation kit can tell you when you've not ovulated. We went for it virtually evey night last month but no success (apart from that fact that dh skirms whenever I appear at the moment). I having a terrible time at work and home life is also incredibly stressful so I probably didn't ovulate but now I'm panicking so I was wondering whether the kits would help.

aloha - you've given me hope! I never get a line on those bloody ovulation kit things and have spent a small fortune on them over the last year...

Can I have a v. selfish moan please? Went to the doc's today and was told my blood tests are all normal... Should be pleased, but am so used to thinking I can't conceive ('cos of pcos diagnosis when I was 19) that I was really hoping to get referred to someone who'd put me on Chlomid... I haven't had my scan yet, but now I'm thinking everything will be OK on that aswell.

So now it's down to me (and Mr. Donor) - which is quite depressing as I haven't had any luck so far...

Sorry for the selfishness - I know there's lots of you with 'real' ttc problems so I should be grateful there's nothing majorly wrong with me.

Hi everyone - hope you don't mind me sticking my neb in, as I'm not ttc, but I wondered what methods you were using to get pg. I know it's not exactly scientific, but I got pg twice in trying a grand total of three months by having sex every other night for the middle two weeks of the month. Another side effect is that I wasn't completely bored by the whole thing after I'd conceived. I'll dip out again now - good luck to all of you trying.

Had a very exciting moment this pm when felt sick as a dog and decided I might be pregnant ( somewhat unlikely symptom when period not due till weekend but hey I'm an optimist!!) then my happy musings were broken by dd puking up mulitiple times - followed by me of course - I don't think maternity sickness is catching is it!
ps Congratas Lulu - I'll bear it in mind when I get a negative - I always think I'm just wasting money getting another one - but clearly not always!

Fantastic news Lulu! hoping for a smooth ride for you this time round.

Lovely news Lulu41. Ovulation test sticks worked for me last time around in the sense that they told me when I was ovulating. Still took a few months of using them to conceive though.

bayleaf, I'm sorry to hear about the babies you lost. It must have been a hell of a wait for dd. One thing I am thankful for is that I have never lost a pregnancy (unless you count the other embryo put back with ds, but that is rather different).

Yes, I see the problem with recommending mumsnet - I'm active on another list and keep having to stop myself from raving about mumsnet for that very reason(not that I would really mind my cybermates identifying me - and all my real-life friends are computer illiterate, so I think I'm safe!)

No probs if you don't want to reveal more - good luck with your decision making. FWIW, when we started out we were very reluctant to comtemplate something as invasive as ivf, and didn't want to get into an endless treadmill of treatment upon treatment. Of course now I'm so glad we went through with it, but I still feel it is important to set limits, as I find the uncertainty hardest of all.
So our current plan is probably 2 more attempts, then no contraception until I'm 40. We will see what happens!

WWW - worked for us when DS1 didn't arrive as expected. I think DH was secretly disappointed that we'd conceived actually.

No,I'm not trying nor thinking of trying, I was just being nosey...

Not trying... but not not trying either IYKNWIM! However,let's just say that WWW's forthcoming sexfest would just about cover our annual allowance at the moment - actually, it would beat it about ten times over. Oops, what AM I telling you all?! So I think trying implies a lot more activity/effort than is actually the case. And I'm in no hurry - we're so happy with ds who at 14months is such an angel, a wonderful sleeper, has an angelic nature and is lovelier every day. He can now say Hawow Dada on the phone to dh, and pats us all and strokes our hair and says 'aah' etc etc. I have to say, all the ovulation sticks ever did was confuse me and make me slightly gloomy. I NEVER saw any sign of ovulation despite using about three boxes of sticks, yet there must have been something going on because ds appeared 1yr after throwing out my pill packet...

lulu, many congratulations! I hope all goes smoothly and especially that the next 3 months are trouble free.

Hiya everyone I started to feel sick this morning and even after my negative test on Saturday was so convinced so I did another (Clearblue not Tesco's own) and my result was positive. Am overjoyed but also a little scared etc etc. Good luck to you all that are trying and I hope this little one stays with me as I lost two before my ds everything crossed xxxxxx

Well WWW - I hope it's still fun by the end of the month! We tried it once when trying for dd and it did actually work ( but was one of the babies I lost) but I have to say enthusiasm was flagging somewhat by the end....
Elliot - Dd was entirely natural - altho' I lost 3 babies ( 2 very early) in those days I didn't seem to have significant problems getting pregnant. Yes I am seing a consultant who is very good and very nice and we are considering our options so to speak - but the bugger of having recommended Mumsnet to various people is that I'm very identifiable from other threads and am reluctant to say anything on here that I haven't told people in real life - serves me right for recommending it I suppose!

Bayleaf, it took six months first time round.
Sort of relieved to hear Aloha's news on the lack of usefulness of the ovulation predictor kits, but it makes me cross to think of the ££££ being spent by hopeful couples, probably needlessly. At least Persona's manufacturers were confident enough of its accuracy as a monitor of hormone levels to put it on the market...and yes I know it's far from 100% reliable as a contraceptive device.
WWW, carpet-bombing approach, eh? Have fun.

bells, I know someone with 4 boys, she is definitely stopping there! Good news is she's got her figure back, but I think its the stress/physical activity in bringing the boys up!