September TTC thread 💛

@Mash0917 This is good to know, thank you!! Will keep the wine away then

@blackberryhillunderstand your frustration. When you are trying to concieve literally ever cycle counts. Especially when it's been months/years of trying. You just don't want to wait around. They sounded very unhelpful. Sometimes I find it easier to speak to someone, so I'd be likely to give them a call x

Thanks - this is what I'm going to try to do but they won't book anything until they know this cycle hasn't worked. Obviously I hope it does! But would be good to be prepared if it doesn't.

That is so frustrating, sometimes there can be such a disconnect between clinicians and people actually really trying to conceive - it's understandably really urgent and important for you so to be greeted with quite a breezy response can be really frustrating. I'm sorry you're having this experience - can you try and push to get a few appointments on the same day perhaps given the timing issues with the weekend?

Sending lots of support your way

As someone currently on progesterone suppositories and suffering from what feels like raging PMS, @Mash0917 is spot on - it's the progesterone that gives you the symptoms. Even after a positive test, for most people the rising progesterone levels will be what cause the initial symptoms as opposed to the hCG.

On a related note, I don't know if it's just the hormones but I emailed my clinic about what we need to do to start our next IUI cycle if I get a negative test to ensure that we can do it consecutively and got such an unhelpful response about needing to have three different appointments and then order medication, all in the time between my negative test and Day 2 of my next cycle (which at best will likely be four or five days, two of which are weekend when they aren't open for consult appointments). When I said that it sounded like they were saying we therefore couldn't do consecutive cycles they were just super-vague like, oh it just depends on timing, but then told me to just keep a positive attitude about this cycle 🙄Our odds of it working are, at best, about 15%, it's called being a realist so I don't keep my work calendar clear of travel only to discover we can't actually do a cycle at all.

/rant

Implantation can happen bwtween 5-11 dpo. Before that happens, any pms/ pregnancy symptoms are caused by progesterone as our body prepares every month just in case there is a baby. With my dd, I had bad nausea on 9dpo but had implantation bleeding on 12dpo, thinking af was starting. Female body is so weird! 😂

Not trying to give you false hope. Just saying you are not out till you are out. ❤️

Thank you, I’ll hold out some more hope then.

I was always under impression that if you get pms symptoms & BFN then you’re not pregnant, because if the symptoms were pregnancy-caused then the test would show the hormone and be positive, as it’s the same hormones that cause symptoms?
So if negative then only PMS could be causing the symptoms if that makes sense
If I’m wrong I’m happy to be! 😂

@memorablemicker Yes on Amazon! If you’re waiting until tomorrow morning I’d just use any test as levels should be higher then

Hi darl, sorry about the bfn. If I'm not wrong, implantation can happen after 9dpo as well. The test wont be positive if implantation is yet to happen. Don't give up yet! I just got up from the longest flu of my life. 9 dpo today. But the bbt and symptoms are all over the place because of the flu. Haven’t tested yet, SO frustrated.

@imnew548 that definitely looks positive to me!

@memorablemicker I wouldn't be questioning this one if it hadn't been left sitting and if you hadn't said that your others hadn't done the same. I think any pink dye test would show if it's a true positive (based on that line), doesn't have to be a FRER (which as far as I'm aware you can now only get on Amazon in the UK).

Thanks @FunnySam - I didn’t realise they were notorious for it. I can test again but don’t have any FRER - are they an Amazon purchase?

@memorablemickerThese tests are notorious for evap lines, I’d only suggest it’s a no as the line is thin and a little diluted, esp if it was over the time frame by a while…. Test tomorrow morning or you do have any FRER?

@imnew548Looks positive!

Hi all, I need some help with interpretation here. Did a test yesterday morning, nothing came up within the time frame, hopped on a couple of conference calls, went back to the bathroom and found the test like this. Is it an evap line? I’ve actually left a couple of other tests out on the bathroom shelf from previous days and none of them have done this. Any help gratefully received! I would have been 11DPO.

I tested again this morning and nothing but I was very hydrated so it might have been too diluted? I’m not sure.

@blackberryhillthanks so much for sharing your experience. Can't say I'm looking forward to it haha. Yes I've heard the same about fertility, but try not to get my hopes up ! Xx

That certainly looks positive to me!! ❤️❤️

Hi ladies, sorry to jump on this thread, does this seem like a true positive to you? Period is due today, getting some cramps like I’m going to come on, had 2 previous mc so feeling very anxious! I’ve used these strips before and don’t find them very reliable, thanks x

9dpo & sore nipples, BFN so that’s me 90% out this month, will do another test in a couple of days just in case

@PBandJellySandwichI have another but I may wait a day or 2 before I test again

I think I can see something on the second picture, but it looks a little closer to the control line than usual. Have you got another one to do in the morning?

Oh I can see something on these!!! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

I can't see anything atm, fingers crossed for you 🤞🏻

I would say that's a positive! 🤞🏻 I'd be going out buying a FRER

@givingitanothergoI had one cycle which was like 32 days, I'm a regular 26/28 was very strange, then after that they went back to normal 🤷🏼‍♀️