35yrs + and trying ✨🫶🏼

Ag right. You are taking vitamin D and folic acid though right? I upped my vitamin d dose. Stopped taking my multivitamin. Started taking vitamin C and E and folic acid, which I upped my dose of too. I take 300mg of uniquinol too for egg quality. A few of my friends have had IVF and were told to take all of these for a better chance of conception.

Glad you aren't having a break. Better to just get on with it isn't it. I don't symptom stop but I do pee on sticks.. ALOT 😂😂 Here's hoping we all get lucky this month.

The new things I've changed is the supplements I've already mentioned and I started acupuncture too. I am still completely clean eating which is a killer for prep work and time consuming but some weight is slow dropping off, I have far more energy and I feel better now the cravings have stopped! How about you? Are you planning on changing anything this month? x

Sorry, I'm really not meaning to be unkind or fiery. But this stuff is important to get right - so yes, it makes a difference if the Day 21 test is taken at 7DPO or not. And it's helpful if you can interpret the results. Above 30 does not equal infertile - that's actually the kind of results you are looking for on that day. I think mine were 45 - and I went on to have 2 kids so not infertile (if not particularly fertile, as this current 3 year rodeo has demonstrated!). BUT your result of 20 is almost certainly fine and expected for later on in your cycle if the test was as 12dpo.

I honestly wish you the very best of luck. This journey is shit and heartbreaking, but do try and listen to our advice too. No one wants to have lot of experience in long term TTC but if we can use that experience to help others that's at least something. I really didn't mean to upset you and I'm so sorry if you took it that way.

Hey @SCK2024 sorry to hear AF arrived! How annoying! Yeah onwards and upwards! Are you giving it a break now then? I'm 2 DPO. So waiting game. Did you decide on what supplements to take in the end? I've just stripped back on mine x

Here's the NICE guidelines around progesterone tests. To be clear, I don't think you necessarily need to worry about not having ovulated - far more likely the bloods were taken on the wrong day. They might ask you to try again next month.

What did you read that said higher than 30 = infertility?!! If taken on the right day, the level you'd be looking for is over 30 to confirm ovulation (I was wrong that 40 is the minimum they look for - but it was 7 years ago I last had the test done).

Hi @Hailz1979 I'm trying for my 4th too! My youngest is 31 months and my eldest is 20 this week 🥴😂 Have you been trying long? I've had two miscarriages since June so hoping we get lucky soon!! X

@carolinep3 Thank you. Yeah if I did the test on CD21 I wouldn't have even ovulated yet! I ovulated (I hope) on CD 22/23 this month. Do you know what the levels should be to confirm ovulation please? I am finding conflicting levels and I'm getting the test at Superdrug so I'll likely have to interpret it myself which tbh I'd rather that, if I knew the values lol!

Hey I'm just short of 35, 2months and I'll be reaching that age 😱

I have pcos ttc baby no6 eldest being nearly 14 and youngest being one in three weeks.

It took us 2+ years to conceive my youngest and I had the coil fitted at 6 week check up but decided to have it removed last month as oh is 41 and we think a play mate close to little ones age will be nice so here we are again. Just hope it doesn't take the 2+ years again 😫

Goodluck ladies i hope you all get your bfp sooner rather than later i know how hard it can be on the roller coaster of a journey when it feels like its never going to happen ❤️

@laidir yes day21 doesn't necessarily
Mean cd22, 7DPO is most important. You won't know exactly when you ovulated without bbt, opks don't confirm and can be confusing sometimes.
Progesterone is supposed to peak 7dpo, but I had 7 and 9dpo done this cycle, and 9dpo was a lot higher (but this just confirms I ovulated) not much else I believe.

Hey babyborn!! How's are you? I'm trying to conceive my 4th...my youngest is 9...all from previous relationship and there's nothing my partner and myself would like more than a baby of our own 😊

I wouldn't have thought it would matter hugely whether it's 7 or 8dpo, given that ov date is always a slight guess (as it's anywhere between12 and 24 hours after a positive OPK). Good luck! As I said, it was on an irregular cycle that I conceived last time, whereas for the past 3 years when they've been much more consistent- nothing!

Yep, "Day 21" tests should be on 7DPO to be at all meaningful. Thus, when I was TTC my second I think I had one on CD32 as I had a silly long cycle - which, yes, confirmed I had indeed ovulated and ironically it was the one where I got my BFP!

Welcome @Hailz1979 are you trying to conceive your first? Have you had any investigations? I am 40 next month and hoping this will be our year!

4/5 DP(hopefully)O here.

Trying not to symptom spot but boobs sore on and off and cramping, twinges low in abdomen. But I've had all these symptoms before and BFN so not sure it means anything.

@carolinep3 Do the 'Day 21' bloods have to be on 7DPO exactly then, to be most accurate?
For me my cycles are variable, but this month was my first using OPKs and I got an LH surge on Day 21, then the next morning was down a bit, then another / the same surge on the evening of Day 22. No other surges this month before or since. Not sure which was correct, but I'm counting ovulation as Day 22/23, so I have booked in for progesterone bloods on 7/8DPO - would the one day matter do you think?
I just hope I'm ovulating, cause I have PCOS and my cycles vary.
I can totally see why the timing of the so called 'day 21' test makes sense if you look at the cycle graphs, like this - I'm guessing we are trying to find that progesterone level at 'peak', where the red arrow is which for me this standard 28 day cycle would be far too early.

I'm learning lots of new things!

If they were taken on the correct day, you are looking for over 30 to confirm
Ovulation.

Ahh boo, from memory you'd want to be looking at levels of at least 40-50. But not sure what you'd expect them to look like at 12dpo rather than the usual 7DPO. Does progesterone nosedive again just before AF?

So nice to come across this thread!!! I'm 45 and ttc really need to hear some positivity success stories as looking on google makes me feel hopeless like it will never happen for me 🥺

We're here for you, if that happens and it marks the end of this phase of your life, we understand and you can talk to us.