Just put down the "Early Detection" Pregnancy Test and no-one will get hurt! Anti-POAS April/May

I am 18 months. From day 1 Ive been utterly convinced that this wasnt going to work for me. I have no idea why. Is the weirdest thing.

No name change, I don't post a lot, too scared!! I am working really, just keep popping to the loo and on here ! I know it's hopeless and my chances are minimal, but there are still chances....

I've been TTC for a number of years now scared - I still think irrationally most months, I'm exhausted

lissielou i have my fingers and everything else crossed for you.

undervalued - thanks for cooling my excitement! i do need it!

I have followed your story, almost feel I know you Lissie. Will you test tomorrow? I know that it's important that you find out ASAP

I have so much to do for work tomorrow and am too busy checking -the internet, this site and am in full knicker checking mode. Help.

When are you due on Lissie? Don't panic.....
Scared - 16 days is within the normal limits hun...

Im sure I can wait (who am I kidding...)

Just spent 20 mins on some charting website trying to work out if 16 days is abnormal from OPK to period. Talk about set up for a big fall!!

GMM - Im sorry you are having a sh*t day.

But HONESTLY! doing a test you know wont work. (Ive obv done the same)

We need to give ourselves some tough love

Oh my arent we all tragic? Rational women too.

So...what imaginery symptoms do I have. Well none now. I convinced myself that I had cramps earlier but Id been driving for 5 hours so it couldve just been back ache! I had sore nipples (!!) last week around Weds (10 or 11 days or so after my positive OPK). Now I have pain in one side. But I think that poss due to the large chicken jalfrezi I just hoovered up.

It would all just be too good to be true for me. I went to the fertility clinic last month for the first time. Even did the weekly acu even though in my heart of hearts I think is mumbo jumbo. Plus DH's gran died this week so he could get off on the cosmic-ness of it all.

bottom line - it just cant be this simple.

YNK, I'm an idiot.

I'm not here for too long. I'm in a shit mood. Like the last few posts have made reference to, my mind is working overtime - I put 2 and 2 together today and came up with 'I must be pg' so like a class idiot I did the most stupid thing I could have done given that I wasn't much more stable than my granny on a pogostick to begin with - I tested

It wasn't even an ED test so I knew it was going to be a bfn but I couldn't help myself

AND I'm still doing it! I'm still looking in the mirror for 'new blue veins' in my bbs. There's new veins alright but there protruding from my f**king temples! I'm still weighing my bbs too, they're heavier but I'm wondering if it might be to do with the fact that I'm trudging around the house with the posture of a chimpanzee such is the deflation I feel right now.

This is a crock of shit. I'm off for a bath (or maybe a shower I don't know. I'll have to first debate in my own head if submersing my cervix in water is likely to bring on a period - I know, I'll say it for you 'FFS!')

What other symptoms do you have?

Ive said Wednesday...but we shall see if I make it that long. The problem is the longer I leave it, the more crushing the BFN will be

You're not alone here!! Set yourself a target day, then test if your period hasn't turned up by that day. I'm going for Thursday myself

Im thinking of having a glass of wine to tempt fate.

This is the longest Ive managed not to test for AGES. Is killing me. I managed to get the OPK test to work. We even managed to have a shag on the right days. I keep telling myself Im not cause Ive had cramps since Friday, but I cant convince self.

Husband just asked why so quiet. Answer obviously as am obsessively surfing the Internet to find out how long after a positive OPK your period is supposed to come.

When did I turn into this?!?!

Sorry for butting in but you make such a good point there, our minds are very powerful. I hope you're lucky this month. You too lissie
I am 2 days late and I know I'm not pregnant but can't help myself. I have prodded my boobs so much I have made them hurt

hi there. yes thanks but it is not too bad - only varies by 3/4 days - just enough to make it complicated.

Im trying really really hard not to get my hopes up (again) even though 16 days is I suppose a longish time since a positive OPK.

Have convinced self that my tits are heavier than usual. I swear, Id imagine I had a stripey green and purple face if taht was a common symptom of early pregnancy.

Why do our own bodies play tricks on us?!?

this might be just the thread i need!

my cycle has been a bit iffy (part of the prob). I had an + OPK 15 and 16 days ago (didnt know you could get 2 days - there you go).

now Ive felt periody since Friday but nothing. I can tell DH is starting to get excited but doesnt want us to test.

I just know my period is going to arrive tomorrow, at work, and Im going to cry in the toilets!

so rubbish!

lots of luck everyone x