Anyone else trying to get pregnant 2

I'm glad i'm not the only who hasnt had success with the kits. I thought i meant i wasnt ovulating. i'v spent a small fortune on them. Has anyone else has success with the mucus method?

Ovulation kits never have more than a fait blue line for me, either - but my gynae did a scan when I went for a checkup last month and said she could see that I'd just ovulated. So I'm a bit doubtful now about how reliable the kits are. I'm just assuming any line is better than none. I also think it varies from one brand to another.

how do the ovulation kits work? I did try Persona a few months back but kept forgetting check at the same time every day!

They have worked for me although it took a while to figure out that I was not ovulating until day 21 or so. I ordered a load of cheapie ones over the internet so I could test every day for 2 weeks.

buttercup, I never had much luck with ovulation predictor kits either - charting (although I was "practising" at the time pending a consultant's appointment...) did it for me this time round. Previously I used a Persona, what a nuisance for you that your cycle is just a bit too long.
Elliott, best of luck tomorrow, hope the scan goes well.
Bayleaf, enjoy your meet-up!

yes exactly the same for me. The mucus thing is definitely happening though different amounts each month. As you say, two weeks to wait and see.

Hi Buttercup - I'm not sure about ovulation kits either. This month I got a faint line (which is better than usual - before my latest medication I didn't get any line at all!), but lots of mucus changes at the right time, which leads me to think I did ovulate. But it's really depressing when the ovulation kit says the line has to be as dark as the test line...

Ah well - 2 weeks to wait and see....

I haven't posted on this thread (or any other) for a long time as I have been totally bogged down in work. I have been trying to conceive for five cycles. Last month had the sicky bug which seemed to be going round and thought that was it but then on-no-not-again the period came. Conceived quickly the first time. I have tried using the ovulation predictor kits but they dont seem to work for me. never get the deep blue line, just a feint one for a few days. Am now doing body temperature chart which seems to indicate that I am ovulating although looks more like a moutain range than the smooth line you are supposed to get. Has anyone else not found the predictor kits work for them - what does it mean do you think? Bought persona but cant use it because my cycle is slightly longer than the maximum 35 days. Also having problems getting my boyfriend to have sex more than once in 48 hours!

Elliot, good luck with the scan tomorrow .... needles at the ready !!

Thanks Janinlondon - think you may be right! Must be something I ate....

Grommit darling, I think you may be clutching at the proverbial straws here. Sorry. Implantation rarely happens within a week of conceiving (presuming you are talking about the egg/sperm confluence, rather than anything else?) so your body would be doing brilliantly well to register something at that stage. Of course I could be wrong. Hope you're feeling better or worse (as the case may be, depending on the cause) soon!

Hi Bayleaf - yes, first scan tomorrow and hopefully start injections the next day. I'm worried that I haven't down regged again as I haven't really had any symptoms and my mucus looks suspiciously ovulatory (sorry for the graphic detail). Also had a couple of times when I was late taking the spray - last week got all the way to work before I remembered- had to turn round and go back again, I can really do without that at the moment!!
Other than that just plugging away.
Enjoy your meet up.
Hope everyone else doing ok.

has anyone ever experienced morning/all day sickness within a week of conceiving...? Hopeful thinking (probably a tummy bug)

bluebear - congratulations!
bayleaf and elliot - I'm hoping for you. (Bad grammar, but YKWIM).
sprout - of course you can feel sorry for yourself, I know it's horrible when you convince yourself it's worked and then feel so let down when it hasn't.

Bayleaf,
sorry to hear you're feeling a bit down with it all at the moment ... it's impossible to feel upbeat and positive all the time isn't it?
I want to wish you all the very best for your transfer in March and really really hope that all goes well. I had 3 embryos transferred each time and always thought 'I'll worry about triplets if it happens!!' .... I think it's worth it just to increase your chances of success.
As to thinking about 3 of 4 more failures, it's hard not to I know, but just try and focus on the next cycle and put your energies into that not into something which may not even happen.
Best wishes ... CM

bayleaf, glad you've got your next cycle sorted. I'm sure going for the natural cycle is a good idea - it sounds so gentle and non-invasive (she says enviously!!) PLus avoiding all those hormonal swings and the risks from superovulation etc etc. Do you have an approx date for transfer - probably won't be that different from mine!!

Sorry you're feeling fed up about it all. Birthdays don't help do they? It is such a game of chance and that uncertainty is hard to live with.

I must admit my way of coping with that uncertainty is to set limits - even before ds I never imagined that I would go on and on with treatment whatever. I hate that feeling of life being in limbo and I need to be able to see a time when I draw a line and move on. (of course I have not yet had to face this in reality, so don't know how long I really would have gone on, but that's the strategy I adopted). This time I feel even more strongly that I cannot do this many times - because now the resources (both financial and time/energy) I am putting in to treatment mean less left for ds. Its one thing bankrupting yourself when you have no children, quite another when you are potentially frittering away their university fees or similar!
The good thing about this is that I can think to myself, well at least by next year all this waiting and uncertainty will be OVER, and I will have a good idea whether I'm having more children. And if ds is going to be an only, I can try and focus on the good things about that, and maybe plan something that wouldn't be possible if I were pregnant/looking after two.

Well, that's theory anyway!! I'll get back to you when I'm on my 5th IVF....and of course I do know of people who have done loads of cycles and eventually got there, and I'm sure they don't regret it.

The other thing I find helps, when I am feeling really sad at the thought of perhaps never being pregnant again, is that I realise that I might always feel like that even if I had reached my desired family size - I'm sure that a lot of women have a sense of sadness when they know they're not going to have another baby (in fact perhaps those feelings are even stronger for the very maternal ones with huge families!!)

Anyway that may not help any. I know we all have our own ways of dealing with this stuff. Just doing some therapeutic offloading really!

congratulations bluebear!! Hope the first trimester passes quickly and uneventfully. Will this be number two for you?
www, I'd say with 'not many days' when you didn't dtd who knows what might happen...

I posted on the original thread - have been using persona - and am almost 5 weeks pregnant. Haven't told anyone in real life yet.

Good luck to everyone!!

Thanks for asking elliott. We've had lots of sex this month (because we wanted to, not just because of trying) but I'm sure I'm not pregnant although my period is a week away. I'm premenstrual for one thing and still haven't got around to working out when I ovulate for another. So although there weren't that many days when we didn't have sex we could still have just about missed ovulation (if I am ovulating, don't even know that for sure!) I feel Ok about it in a kind of 'if it happens it happens if it doesn't, never mind' kind of way. I think I was expecting it to happen straight away and was disappointed at first but I've decided really that what will be will be...

sprout
I do know exactly where you're coming from - most of my time spent ttc ds was like that, as I had no reason to think it wouldn't just happen normally. So don't talk your feelings down - they're real enough!

I think I last posted on the previous thread, but I'm still ttc... "with conventional methods" (and a bit of help from Persona/ovulation sticks). Eleven cycles and still counting. At least we already have dd, and I had a mc before that, so know it's physically possible.
But that doesn't stop me feeling pretty fed up from time to time - especially this weekend when not only did my period arrive just as I'd convinced myself we'd cracked it this month, and then had the worst period pains I've had for ages. I realise it's nothing at all in comparison with the agonies some of you are going through with IVF, but I did feel a mite sorry for myself.