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Good luck @lottieb92 !! 🍀Have you had an HSG/Hycosy?
I'm 8dpo now the cycle after Hycosy(when supposedly chance of bfp increases) and the wait is so hard 😣If it doesn't work in next couple of months then will also be going down ivf route

Thanks all!!
No AF today but as I have deleted all my apps I think I’m bang on CD30 which is my average and she’s meant to be here tomorrow.

im off out to buy any tests I can find… if it’s negative today I’ll have my answer I feel and I can go and book in for my tube tests ☺️ So either way it is a positive outcome for the day it’s a step closer to a baby!

@lottieb92 I'm still here!! Just finished AF so I'm on cycle 5, on holiday for O this month so my temp is going to be all over the place but of course I packed some OPK just to double check 🤣

Let us know if you test xx

@lottieb92 oh I hope you get your BFP 🙌🤞🏻🤞🏻 got my AF, had promised I wouldn't test early but of course I gave in was testing all last week 😂 xx

Fingers crossed for you , I know a few mums who got pregnant naturally just before they were due to start IVF xx

Has the thread expired!?
hope you’re all getting in okay…☺️💗

im dropping a quick message as NObody else to tell at the moment. But I had given up testing for BFP Early
i have STRONG boob pain tonight although period is due tomorrow or next day and I just want to put out some positive affirmation I guess 🙈 you never know

I’m TTC month 809 or something so I know this is a dream now to fall naturally until I start my treatment but Ive been told to call as soon as AF arrives to get my next appointment booked so worth 24hr of “what if”

id love to be the story that “got pregnant” just before the got ivf haha

Just a note to say hello and I hope everyone is ok, hope you all enjoy this lovely weather x

@Silverpixieflorence i reckon less than 12 hours! Mine doesn’t seem to gradually peak either. It’ll be low one day. Peak next day. Low the following day. How long is your cycle? You could’ve just not ovulated yet either. It’s deffo a learning curve. Took me a few months to work it out. I spent so much money in the beginning on those expensive clear blue ones 😅

Hi all, joining on my cycle 3 AF finished Saturday so hopefully this is my month. TTC baby #1

@Bluebell0921 oh that's interesting so when you say yours is short too how short is it? I think I'll do the same next month and just try the cheap strips with Premom to see if I can work out like you did. It's a bit of a learning curve isn't it 😅 I'm on CD16 now and hoping I just missed it. I'm so so bloated at the moment so not sure if that's a sign of anything

@Silverpixieflorence i never got on with the clear blue ones plus they are so expensive I didn’t test twice a day and I think it’s helpful to test twice a day until you’re a bit more familiar with your cycle. I have quite a quick LH surge it seems. I don’t think I managed to catch it until a few months in. I personally test once a day with strips from about day 10. Ovulation for me tends to be around day 16 so from about day 14 I test twice a day. With the strips I tend to find I usually get a positive test in the afternoon so I usually test at around 11am and 3pm. I use the pre mom app which I’ve found so helpful. If you’ve not got a positive yet the most likely thing is you missed it rather than it not happening. Also one month I was convinced I’d missed it but I kept testing and then I randomly got a positive on day 21. What day of your cycle are you on now?

So think I've mucked up this month with doing the clear blues not in the morning, didn't ever get a peak solid smiley. I checked yesterday with the Premom and the cheapey strips and it was just really low readings the T/C was 0.15. So I guess either I ovulated early and had a really short LH surge or I didn't ovulate at all 🤔 but I did get flashing smileys for 3 days in a row so maybe I did or maybe my LH surge is very low. Not sure but feel like this month isn't the month! Hopefully will be better prepared and know what I'm doing more next month 😅

Saw the gynae today she was super lovely. Basically said keep trying and next time we have a BFP she's giving me everything even if I get a positive before she's had any results she said taking them won't hurt. Steroids for my high thyroid antibodies, progesterone and aspirin and potentially blood thinners and thyroxine. I've got some blood tests to do tomorrow and I see her in around 10 days to go through the results see if they flag anything up other than my thyroid. She did say likely my nk cells are high because I have antibodies so the steroids would treat that too. She's prescribed me a higher dose of folic acid to keep taking now too. So now we just keep trying. I took a test today and it's a vvfl so hopefully by next weds the 3 week mark it will be completely negative 🤞🏼 I've had the startings of some stretchy looking CM but we probably won't actively try too hard until AF has showed

@Silverpixieflorence @TTCno1x your conversation has really cleared things up for me too so thank you. I had no idea how important it was to test at the sane time each day.

@lottieb92 that's good hope it's the one for you this month! 🤞
I had no idea it was so complicated I can't remember what I did last time but I'm pretty sure I was doing it all wrong anyway. So with the advanced one does that mean in theory there are 3/4 days where you get flashing smileys and 1 day a solid smiley?

@TTCno1x good idea I might get some cheaper strips as well just to make sure. It's going to feel like all I'm doing is weeing on sticks constantly 😂

Oh you are so welcome! It does have a memory! And then it resets after it isn't used for a few days so it can record the new baseline the following month. I'm sure you haven't messed it up. I'm not an expert so someone else might be able to advise better, I think my problem was that I was doing it at different times! So the holder got very confused! You could try the cheaper strip OPKs alongside this month to make sure you don't miss your peak?

@TTCno1x oh thank you so much for telling me really appreciate it! I had no idea, so does the clear blue digital have a memory then? Not sure whether to do one tomorrow morning or in the afternoon 🤔 the first one I did was in the afternoon so do I continue with that? Or have I messed it all up this month 😅

@Silverpixieflorence yay! I find the advance CB more complex than the one that only pin points two days 😅
but I got a flashing one morning this week and then that afternoon I had cramps/ pain and knew it was going to be ovulation did a second that evening and there the solid was!

sometimes youre just better trusting that instinct to test!! X

@Silverpixieflorence just to let you know, the clear blue ovulation tests have to be used in the morning. The reason is that each digital reader reads a baseline with your morning urine (always an empty circle) and then compared the levels every subsequent morning. Maybe it would work in the afternoons if you always measure in the afternoon though (if the first time you used that reader was in the afternoon as well). It took me 4 months to work this out! I was getting over a week (sometimes 2 weeks) of flashing smileys before a solid smiley as I was testing in the afternoon and it messed up the readings! Hope you don't mind me saying, I wish someone had told me 6 months ago! I tested in the mornings the last 2 months and it worked perfect, 2 to 3 days of flashing, then solid. This might not be the case for you but something to be aware of!

I just got a flashing smiley!! My first one ever 🥳 Yippee! I was going to try tomorrow morning but got a bit of CM so thought I'd do another one on the off chance!

Once my DH has finished doing some DIY I'm going to grab him 😂

Hope you are all ok today, is anyone testing soon?

@Silverpixieflorence 😂 that's ok it's what we're here for. You might O a little late aswell. I have a 11 day LP rather than the industry's "14" day standard it assumes everyone has so if you had a shorter LP like a 12 day one you might O around CD16. You just have to keep going with the sticks to try and figure it out

@bringmearainbow oh 🤦🏼‍♀️ thank you lovely it might help if I read the instructions properly 😅 I'll try again tomorrow morning!

@CatLadyH i think I might have ovulated late when I got pregnant with my DD from memory. If you ovulate late though will the cycle still be 28 days or will it be slightly longer?

@lottieb92 try and hold out! I'm the same I really want to be strong this time after the chemical 🙈😂

@Daniki super hope we can maintain sanity together haha…
I am due about 14th but going to wait until 11th if I can 🙈 I haven’t been tracking as much as I can as giving that a rest for a bit - but I just typed into clear blue - and it’s told me I can test then 👍🏻

@lottieb92 AF due the 11th for me aswell actually, going to try and hold out and not test til then 😂