TTC for 9 months+? Please come and join!

At least your GP surgery sounds like they are trying to fit you in and vaguely concentrating! Hope there is a cancellation for you.

My LH doesn’t normally go up and down really fast so will test again tomorrow around 10am to see. Anything over 0.7 would be good, to then hit over 1 by the evening. The hope/ crash cycle has started again, back in the hopeful phase! Bet AF arrives on Thursday and I’ll be despairing again.

Hello and welcome to the club nobody wants to be in! How long have you been trying for now?

I know where you are coming from with the C-section thing! It does play on the mind a bit (I’ve had two). Was yours planned or an emergency? It is so hard mentally when you feeling like you are doing everything right, your timing has been good and it happened quickly last time and you are still seeing the BFNs month after month ❤️

Hello! Sorry to hear it’s been such a long time for you ❤️ What symptoms of PCOS do you have? For me it mostly affects my cycle length and hair growth/ loss pattern! I started taking myo-inositol which is suppose to help but not sure it is for me.

I’ve just contacted my GP and got a referral but the GP seemed to think the waiting list was long! So my advice would be to contact the GP, these things don’t move fast. Some areas seem to have wait times of 2 months, others 2 years! Know its hard to make that initial appointment though, I procrastinate for 4 months! I didn’t want to be struggling to conceive and going to the GP made it feel so real!

Ooooh, Lh at 0.76 this morning! Hoping to peak this afternoon. And at CD 38 it’s about time! I had had rises like this before and then no ovulation but got lots of EWCM so cautiously optimistic.

Where is everyone else up to in their cycle? Anyone else Lh testing?

Those Clear Blue tests are extortionate! Wish they were cheaper! Hope you get your flashing smile tomorrow. Is that when you are supposed to start dtd?

I’m using the premon app and easy at home tests. If it doesn’t work this cycle I might try BBT to confirm ovulation (given that’s such a problem for me!) but think I’m up too much in the night for it to be accurate.

Test at 5:30 was bang on 1. Really hoping that’s enough for ovulation. Some people seem to get really high numbers, 2 point something but I never seem to! Do you think that’s a problem?

I was looking back at my tracking and all the little heart for dtd and it is ridiculous. I just don’t get how I can have so much unprotected sex and still no baby!! It does start to become a bit of a “oh do we really have to tonight?”

Glad you’ve ovulated with only just a positive, gives me some hope. I have been drinking a lot of tea today!

That definitely sounds like PCOS! I’d mention that to the GP too. I think if you have PCOS they try ovulation induction earlier in the fertility clinic process and so GPs will agree to prescribe Metformin before you are seen by the fertility clinic.

Good luck with the post-grad! It sounds super busy! Real life does have a bad habit of getting in the way.

Sorry that the myo-inositol isn’t doing much for you either. I’ve seen so many reviews raving about it online, it’s a bit depressing to be in the “it does nothing” group.

That’s great about the blood test! Fantastic! Hopefully it is still helpful, even if it is a day early. Given ovulation is a bit of guesswork anyway I’d imagine they can still interpret the results if you know you’re a day or so early?

Yes, high of 1 this evening! Going to test again later, hoping for higher still. Annoying I’m on holiday next Thursday/ Friday so won’t be able to have my Day21 blood tests if I do ovulate tomorrow 🤦‍♀️ so so typical

Hello! Sorry that you are in this boat too.

Your referral time doesn’t sound too bad, around 4 months? Did the GP give any details on what they would be able to do? I know they don’t offer IVF for a second baby but trying to find out any information about what they actually do offer seems tricky!

How are you finding managing PCOS? Do you have long cycles? I’m finding the long unpredictable cycles so hard to deal with right now. So many ovulation strips!

I’m hoping for letrozole too! Not looking forward to the side effects but it would be worth it if it worked.

60 days is hard! Fair enough having given up with the test. It all gets so expensive too when you have such long cycles. Are you tracking at all now, using CM/ BBT, or just going with the flow?

I was on 60 days cycles last year, but had a few 38 days this year with only one super long one at 87 days. It’s so frustrating having so little chances in a year. Partly why I delayed going to the GP, felt that I needed to have tried for 6 cycles, even if it took me 10 months!

The weight thing is so hard! The PCOS makes it more difficult to lose weight but extra weight has a bigger impact on fertility than is typical! How have you found the WeGovy?

Hello! Sounds like we started at a similar time? I was hoping for a September ‘26 baby 😂 look how that turned out! I was saying to DH last night that if this cycle doesn’t work I’ll be back round to a September baby again 🤦‍♀️

Hope your tests go well. I’m still struggling to get DH to book a SA… Are the blood tests for you or him? I might have more luck convincing him to go if it was starting with bloods and then the SA!

I’m surprised the GP wasn’t more interesting in a 7 day luteal phase? I thought anything until 10 was a problem as the embryo didn’t have enough time to implant before the uterine lining started to shed? A friend had this and it was a thyroid problem I think? Once it was medicated she was fine. Can you get a second opinion? Though I’m not a doctor so it might be totally fine!

Thanks for the good luck! The LH tests was still high yesterday, 1 again, but down to 0.5 this morning so think I’ve ovulated.

I did have some weird pain too, not ovulation pain, more general stomach pain? Hoping this won’t have affected anything!

Sorry to hear you are spotting! Has AF started today? I always find the bit between 12 dpo (when I have no hope anymore) and my period ending to be the hardest bit too ❤️