Mid 30's TTC - you're my BESH mate you are..... <hic hic>

bloody buggery. she doesn't think it's a hair, she thinks it's some sort of cyst (not Bartholins as is in wrong place), need to see gp.

Trog that's what we tried yesterday, but nothing doing, there's too much skin on top, when TGO suggested the scissors, I put a stop to the whole thing.

cosmos I get this about twice a year from shaving. Stick some savlon on it, drink some meths then take a pair of tweezers to it

Cos - that made me laugh so much I nearly lost control

Right, I am off. Wish me luck.

Mind you, I've bared my bits to that many people these days I'm practically dropping my pants in the street.

Um, it's the equivalent of Monday morning, obviously. Bank Holidays - they're great, but they totally screw my sense of time.

It's Monday morning. I need warning before tales of home undercarriage surgery. Was almost sick on my keyboard.

vag I'm a bit suspicious of OPKs, purely because you'd have to pee on so many to confirm that you're ovulating if your cycle is so long. Am currently temping which is fascinating a bit of a bind, but I like being able to see lovely graphs of what my body is doing. Anyway, temping might give you more of an idea of what your body's doing before you start literally pissing money away and torturing yourself because it's really easy to miss the lh surge.

(ooh, look at me, answering a proper question)

longwee hahah

OK - since there's no such thing as TMI in the underpant department...

I woke up at 6am this morning feeling verily sick.... Ooh get me - morning sickness, I thought... but then have been shitting through the eye of a needle ever since! Wah - it's every 5 minutes - when will it stop??!

No, I've googled that and it's not near enough to my bits, it's right in the leg crease. According to TGO, you can see the hair under the skin

TGO was all for attempting home surgery on it yesterday but I was too chicken. Perhaps I should have attempted it again post G&T.

I agree - but I think I'll follow the instructions as given this time and may have to go back another month. Dr also suggested ov tests, which I found surprising as I assumed they've be considered "black magic" by a GP. So I may get some for this month. Any brand particularly recommended?

Sounds like an ingrown hair, cossy, they are blimmin' painful. Hope appt isn't too awful.

Cosmosis Could it be a Bartholin's cyst? I had this when I was 25 and I stormed in to the doctors office - not before screaming at my on/off boyfriend for giving me an STD. It's an infection of your "lubrication" glad on the outer lip. Antibiotics should clear it (if it is that) - and then have a few salt baths. Do not under any circumstances let them operate because they remove the whole gland and it can be tricky to heal/affect your SWI-life! I got it one year when I was skiing... I ordered room service (steak) and a few G&Ts. Drank the G&Ts and then straddled the bath and plunged he steak knife in. Problem solved and I very much enjoyed the mile long button lift in the morning!

Scorpette have you POTFS yet?

I'm right in thinking there's no such thing as TMI in the palace aren't I?

Well I am off to the docs (I might as well live there just now) this morning to see the nurse as I have a really rather painful huge bloody lump in my fanjo area. It's where the knicker elastic goes, right underneath so I can't see properly, but I think it's an ingrowing hair / saddle sore type thing and I currently can only wear loose knickers and can't ride my bike without being in agony. I think she may amputate my whole front bottom area. Franky at the moment that would be preferable.

VAG I think the Monday would be better than the Friday, but I think still too early, the doc I saw said that the period between ov and the RTOD doesn't change in length, so unless yours is very long I think you'd be getting tested before you ov'd, as you suspect too.

Hey cossy - my cycles so far have been: 37, 49, 37, 42, 33 and 36 days. Argh! I think I'll go on the Monday and see what happens - and I go to a special clinic for the blood anyway as GP doesn't take. I quite like that - they're very efficient and open at 8am so I can get to work on time afterwards without having to make up reasons for going for multiple tests.

Or, you may be able to get them done at a local hospital rather than your gp, they generally have a blood testing place (that's where I'm getting mine done as GP can't fit me in) you just walk in and take a ticket. don't know if they're open on Sundays though.

VAG, how long is your cycle usually? My doc counted back 10 days from my last cycle length to get the date to test my day21 bloods - that might give you a different date to get them tested?

(getting mine done tomorrow).

Greetings oh pissed ones! Well, my life was complete when at a wedding on Saturday, mother of the (baby before wedding) bride asked me when we were going to get round to it. Luckily I was drunk and the swing punch missed......

Anyhoo, around that very moment the RTOD arrived. And i have a Question. When I have my Day 5 and Day 21 blood tests - the Day 21 will now fall on a Sunday - should I test on Day 22 or Day 19 instead? (I actually think that due to long cycles the Day 21 test may be rubbish in my case).

Tequila Sunrise, anyone?

Cheggers I'm so glad you're on the mend again but for the love of god - how many of the little blighters implanted? We need to know!

trig you'd better not go around spouting such left-wing nonsense on the pregnancy boards - won't somebody think of the children?

Tbh - most of us need worry more about our kids eating mud & getting tetatnus.

A little bit, but the listeria's making me feel really knackered and confused...

Only one person in the world has ever had listeria - it's pathetically under-represented in the tally of foetus-inhibitors. Do not spare another worry in its direction. Listeria is killed by cooking anyway, but even if it wasn't you would have to eat cheese which is running off the plate and had been out for days having already been injected with listeria monocytogenes first to be at any risk. And it would have to have been the third Tuesday in July, no later than 2.46pm, and only if it was raining in Tripoli.

Feel any better now?

PS I seem to have a jinx of getting weird health things befall me, so I might seem to worry unnecessarily to everyone some, but bitter experience has left me paranoid

Yay!... ? But is cooked okay? I can't see why not.

scorpette there ought to be a ttc hitchhiker's guide, just so we can all look at the big capital DON'T PANIC. Seriously, you shouldn't eat soft unpasteurised cheese when you're pregnant because you risk getting listeria and thus losing the baby. Unlike booze or drugs, it has no effect on any foetal devlopment. So you shouldn't regret eating it if you are pregnant.

Giving you a good kicking.

Ah shit, have just eaten COOKED soft goat's cheese, but it was unpasteurised. If I am updiffed, I shall worry 'bout this. Cooked is okay, right? See, I'm a proper mental. ski, I'll just take a blow to the head, cheers!