Symptom spotting part 2 - Home of the suspicious boobs and other strange goings on!

[AddictedToRadley]

Welcome to our new thread where everyone's welcome. Sit back with your favourite drink and get all those 'suspicious' symptoms off your chest including the ever popular suspicious boob (sb).

If you're squeamish this may not be the thread for you, as this thread is dedicated to those with strange goings on where no symptom is TMI.

Good luck to us all for that elusive BFP to arrive soon. Who'll be the first to get one?

Howdy all - still no AF chez Arthursmum, just wish the bugger would turn up now. Thanks for the kind words jazz, we are very fond of his name, although shortly after we gave it to him bloody David Cameron had a baby and called him Arthur. And now he has had a girl and called her Florence, which was one of my shortlist names in case I ever have a DD - name stealing git.

Everything sounds right with you addicted but I can understand your reluctance to test - you are in my thoughts, as are all the ladies on the thread, whether pg, not pg, grumpy or homicidal - you are not alone!!

I have sore boobs. Not the usual sore nips (which I have got) but the actual boobs themselves. I am vein spotting. Just needed to get that off my chest

lol @ david cameron the name stealing git!

hairy youve got me doing a boob check now! I dont even know if ive ovulated yet never mind any symptoms!

If we are on boobs mine aren't sore, but they do seem to have got larger and puffy round the sides (as in where your boob goes into the bit under your arm) - they are already a size 40G so if they get any bigger I am going to have to stitch together a pair of marquees to use as a bra!

Loving the name hairy!

Hi everyone

arthurs your posts make me laugh so much at marquees, and pmsl at the post where you may have made "a little bit of sick erupt in our throats"

Row you had me doubting myself there-i was starting to get embarrassed that i had asked the wrong person about the hsg lol
Good to hear that the horrible sickness has left you alone so far!

Thanks everyone for your lovely messages.

Radley you nearly made me cry, your post was so lovely-thank you

Well i have starting spotting so i think af is going to show up shortly.im so glad cause i hate all this hanging about not knowing and at least we can concentrate on next cycle.We've to go get dps SA results on friday so fingers crossed everyone!!!

Bossy i think thats a really good idea to print the old thread off,i wouldnt mind having a read of it myself. I dont have a printer at home thought so will wait until a day when my boss is not in the office and print it off then. Im sure we will get some giggles and tears from it.

Rad i cant believe you havent tested yet,though i can understand your reluctance. good luck for when you do test-you will be our next bfp im sure!!

radley - it sounds a bit late for implantation bleeding, but I had some spotting the other day that wasn't implantation (I did get the mystical implantation spotting this time at around 10 DPO) so it could be the same as that? Some women bleed all the way through pregnancy.

assassin - haha, I do apologise. I think I'm slightly obsessed with hcg levels at the moment with all the pregnancy tests I have taken. Sorry to hear the witch is on it's way. Fingers crossed for next month.

good luck to all with big or sore boobs :-)

Its Day 40 in arthursmum's knickers and still no sign of AF...

The thing is, I keep getting that sort of bubbling feeling that comes just before period arrives but nowt's coming out.

At this rate, when the dam finally bursts I am fearful that it will come in such a rush I will be shot off my office chair and smack my head on the ceiling.

Sorry about the spotting assassin - AF is just teasing you now, and will probably wait until you are wearing some really nice knickers before blossoming forth!

I'm so glad you joined this thread Arthur I think you're just the tonic we need!! Pmsl at "Shot out of office chair and smack my head on the office ceiling"!! There was an advert (think it was for drynites or calpol but can't remember) where an over protective mum taped a cushion to the ceiling to prevent her son from bumping his head on the ceiling when he bounced on his bed - I've now got an image of you in an office with a mattress taped to the ceiling above your chair 'just incase'!! Lmao

Assassin and Arthur I'm so sorry your on the extended af wait. It's truely awful isn't it? When I had mine a couple of months ago you convince yourself you'll get a bfp but it's just af playing her wicked games. When you're not ttc you wish you only had 1 af a year but when you're ttc you want to ovulate weekly as it's such a long drawn out month when af hits.

Assassin I'm glad you're finally getting your dh's sa results in a couple of days and really hope they're normal shown to be super-swimmers. Will be thinking of you xx

Arthur I agree Arthur is a lovely name. My ds's middle name's Arthur after my Grandpa. Mind you I do remember watching On The Buses in the '80's and thinking it was too much of an old man's name for the little boy to have (although he won't be so little now, probably 40-50ish!). It's amazing how names go in and out of fashion. I adore it now for a little boy! Mind you my ds's first name always appears in every generation - James.

I finally get my new car on Monday (only 19 days late!) so will test then. I've now developed an awful metallic taste in my mouth and adore peppers which I normally HATE. If I'm eating something I've to share it!

arthur does have a lovely turn of phrase doesn't she!

radley - just bloody test! How can you stop yourself?

Thank you for your kind words radley - if I can't make myself laugh about it all I just keep sobbing, which is much worse!

Re: names, we had decided on Arthur, and then discovered that it cropped up now and again in DH's family, if we have another DS the top two names in the frame are Stanley and Barnaby - I want to stick to old school - never goes out of fashion!

What flavour is the new car? Very exciting!

Hi everyone

Well af showed up yesterday, sorry in advance for tmi but its been totally unlike normal!! usually starts 3-4 days of spotting then very clotty bleeding after that. day 2 is always a nitemare. This month i spotted red and it turned up properly the next day, and its not clotty at all. I wonder did the hsg do this and im finally having a normal healthy af?? i am not letting myself mope about it anymore-so its onwards and upwards for me for this new cycle with lots of bding and happy thoughts

Rad how can you have so much self control with the not poas-ing! i really hope you get your bfp this month. surely the peppers thing is a good sign!!

arthurs im loving the old school names too,but dp is having none of it. I love the name jasper but dp said someone he knew when he was younger had a dog called jasper so thats a def no no

Boo and hiss to the af assassin, I have a feeling now that yours has arrived mine will too. And don't worry about the tmi - nothing is ever tmi where pregnancy and ttc are concerned I am sure!

I love the name Jasper! I am also rather fond of Percy but DH has veto'd it, along with Jemima for a girl. Didn't like someone at college with same name.

I have done something positive today by joining the gym, I was going last year following gp referral but couldn't afford to continue but I have made a space in my finances and am back into it again. I think it will good for me, physically and emotionally, bit of a chance to distance myself from the home life and just be me for a while.

arthurs i think the gym is a great idea. Im sure it will do you the world of good. my friend from work joined 1 a few weeks ago and she is encouraging me to join but i dont know where id find the time. I work full time and i am always too tired when i get home and after ive made dinner i couldnt be arsed doing anything.i also find it so much harder come winter to motivate myself lol my friend has 3 dcs though and she said she loves using the swimming pool at the gym and having some time to herself to relax,so i def get what you mean re the me time.

Every time i hear the name percy it makes me think of the percy the park keeper books that i read to ds. Jemima is a name i havent heard in a long time-as a matter of fact i dont know anyone called that in RL. Whatever happened to individuality??
I hate all those names that every other child you meet is called.

Just a wee update on me: we went to see consultant today. Saw a diff one from last time and she was so lovely and sympathetic. Dps results are on the lower side of normal. We discussed our options. She thinks i still may not be ovulating. she asked me if i wanted to go back on clomid.Said they would give me a higher dosage than last times and carry out follecular tracking,which would mean me going to the hosp for scans every few days. She said this would be my last dose of clomid and that if scans showed multiple follicules they would advise us not to 'try' that month due to risk of multiple pregnancy and other risks. I really dont see the point of taking the higher dosage just incase we get alot of follicules and cant try anyway.also the clomid gives me horrible side effects. I declined,and said i would like to go it alone for another while to see if it happens naturally. she wants to see me again in 6 months time,and if it doesnt happen by then we will discuss assisted conception,and referral re ivf. She said we need to talk about how far we are willing to go to have another baby as we would have to pay for ivf as we have one dc already. We did not even need to think about the answer as we will do whatever it takes to have a little brother or sister for ds.
So for now we are just hoping for the best. we are both going to cut out caffeine,dps going to stop smoking and we are off to tesco later to buy ov tests,nicotine patches and decaf coffee.
We know we need to count our blessings and be thankful that we are lucky enough to have one beautiful son,when there are some people in the world who are unable to have any.

Sorry for the rambling post girls

Its an interesting question about how far you are willing to go. DH and i were talking about this the other night and I said to him how long will we do this for and he didnt catch my drift so I said well what if we get 18 months down the line and still no baby DD will be nearly 5 and even if we were lucky the next month add onto that the 9 month pregnancy DD will be even older again and is that what we want. Im hoping to get back to work but not till DC are settled in school, the longer it takes to conceive the longer that takes.

I dont think I would go down the route of any fertility treatment be it clomid or ivf or anything big or small, dont think I could deal with not only the nature of it all, find a smear bad enough never mind anything else, but also the time it takes to go from one thing to the next. The ladies here who have gone through so much in terms of MC's and appointments and treatments to find out what is going on, im in awe of you all but I havent got the strength to go through it. I admire you massively, I think you are amazing.

Hello! Complete newbie here. I'm TTC#1 and have had a week of

• massive and sore boobs
• mini-cramps Really I'm thinking it's just a one-week delay on AF but secretly I'm hoping it's something else... When do you take a test?

Underthetrees welcome to the thread! To test or not to test, that is the question... I think we tend to fall into two camps, the take the test and deal with the crushing disappointment crew, or the leave it until AF starts so tiny glimmer of hope lasts. Your symptoms sound pretty positive, massive and sore boobs were my first clue when I was pg with DS...

Radley it seems like you are really going through the mill at the moment, you must be exhausted and feeling pretty drained by it all - its interesting that the consultant asked how far you are prepared to go - its such a strange question and reminded me of my doctor when I was talking about ttc. He said 'After what happened before why on earth would you want to go through it again?' I was dumbfounded! Whether your first child's birth and/or pregnancy was easy or difficult has absolutely no bearing on whether you would like another baby - I can only put down the desire for another child as completely instinctive and beyond all reason.

Keep us up to date with whats happening, you are in my thoughts - and love to everyone else as well.

Oh, further update on me, its Day 44 and no AF, am obsessively checking knickers at an alarming rate - come on you witch, put me out of my misery!!!

Yes indeedy I'm preggers. Talk about a surprise! I've been living in a land of 'not thinking about it' in case I jinxed it. Better start thinking about it then!

Congratulations underthetrees - wonderful news!

Still 'feel' pregnant with more symptoms by the day and af 2 weeks late but bfn

Oh radley - you are singing my song sister! Am trying to resist taking another test as know it will be a bfn - but its impossible to know whats going on with our bodies at the minute - I feel your pain!

Further symptoms update - backache, period pain tummy ache, random nausea, clumpy brownish tinged pant snot first thing in morning then nothing all the rest of the day. Charming.

hi everyone,

arthurs i think your getting me confused with radley-it was me the consultant said that to on Friday. i agree that the desire for another child is completely instinctive and we will go as far as we need to. cant believe your doc said that to you-he obv doesnt like children much!!
BTW have you tested yet???

rad sorry your in limbo-bloody stupid af and stupid womens bodies arrrrggggghhhhh

big congrats to underthetrees

Hi all, sorry not been around for a while, am trying really hard not to start obsessing about TTC - fat chance!

Am finding it all a bit difficult tbh - I really have no right to at all, we're only on month 3 of ttc, we've already got a gorgeous dd, but I'm starting to panic about how long this is going to take/whether we're going to be able to conceive another baby. bossyboop I can really relate to you, I'm already thinking about when we should give up. Ridiculous, I know, but I foolishly opened a thread on difficulties of conceiving no. 2 and I'm really worried it's not going to happen for us. The first two times I conceived (one of which was a mc) it happened the first month of trying so I don't understand why it hasn't happened yet.

I know, I'm being really insensitive and selfish - I know I'm so, so lucky to have had one healthy baby, she just badly needs a sibling and I feel like we've selfishly waited too long to try for another, and now maybe it's too late. I just feel really guilty, all dd's friends have siblings and I worry that she's lonely.

Sorry to moan on at you all! Blame my hormones, I just seem to have PMT all the time since coming off the pill in March (or maybe I'm just naturally a grumpy cow and the pill made me slightly normal...)

Underthetrees congratulations on your BFP, fab news!

Sorry assassin - being a feeble minded twonk is another symptom! I would have been less concerned by what the doctor said if he didn't have a photo of his wife and their two children on his desk. Had to fight urge to ask why he had two kids then.

I tested last Saturday and got a BFN - got that cling to hope/find out and move out dilemma going on at the mo. Mind you, someone told me (and I am not sure I believe them) but apparently you have to do it to make a baby. I told DH and he was shocked and surprised.

Seriously, does anyone else struggle to find the time/energy/urge/not reading an interesting enough book in bed to make rumpy?

Sorry munki - didn't see your post until after I added mine.

Sorry you are feeling so down, the length of time you have been trying is unimportant, its the need and desire that drives you on. You are not being selfish or insensitive, but I totally understand where you are coming from re: DD needing sibling and waiting too long. I was in floods of tears two weeks ago when DS started school, I felt completely bereft and when I saw him playing by himself I totally blamed myself for making him an only child. Since then I have had visions of him not getting on with others and plenty of tears. On the other hand though, and I hope its the same with your DS, we have a unique, special bond with each other which has been a huge source of joy for me.

Keep you chin up, and come back and chat if you need sympathy or cheering up.