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?

Ive come here as I know you will all understand, after spending the last week having dizzy spells and just generally feeling iffy with a constant metallic taste in my mouth and just feeling like this month WAS the month, AF is on her way and im just gutted. I know DH will be a bit sad too but he doesnt feel it like the way I do, like the way all of you do

am gutted for you bossyboop. Bastard AF! Arthur I too have resorted to a letter in the past, found was the only way to get points over without getting upset/angry/emotional etc. Worked so fingers crossed for you to

Oh bossy, I am so sorry that AF has arrived. Its a crushing disappointment, and I really hope you and DH have better luck next time around.

Thanks banana - haven't tried it before as know it will get one of his sarcastic eye rolls but I am off to play football tonight so he can read it while I am out.

Ah I see banana I will be monitoring from tonight Sorry things still arent great arthurs hopefully the letter will help. Of course, you can contact me whenever :)

sorry pressed send before I was done. I would def go to docs and ask to be referred for peace of mind if nothing else. Enjoy your football :) Wish I could do something like that but I fall over my own feet...and during yogabossy so sorry AF is coming :( its such a horrible feeling when you are so convinced you are and turns out the witch is out to get you. I'm still waiting but alas I fear it wont be our month. If anyone knows anything about ovulation can you come talk to me please. I am still confused- please see earlier thread. Hope everyone is ok :)

oh bossy so sorry to hear af is on her way-hope you're ok

arthurs hope your letter works,it is horrible when an argument draws on.as if you are not stressed enough with ttc.also def go with your instinct in relation to your health

I am so excited tonight girls! i got a +ve opk at dinnertime This is the cause of great excitement for me & dp as this is only the second +ve opk ive ever gotten (the last 1 was a few months ago and i think it might have been when i was on clomid,which i heard can give false results so i know i can def rely on this 1 as i am clomid free at the minute) . dp in particular got very excited about it,bless him.

jazz i only found out i wasnt ovulating after blood tests at gps and then he referred me to gynae for further tests.

How exciting assassin I got my first one on sat night, shame dp wasnt as excited as yours.
Well it seems my turn to have a row with dp. He is stressed out thus extremely grumpy atm and I do understand and do everything to make homelife easy for him but I'm not prepared to be dragged down with him.
He cant seem to see that my body working by itself is amazing and nature is giving a chance we need to bloody take it.
I think after how horrific last time ttc was I'm not sure he's backing me 100% anymore :(
I'm gutted tbh.
Also went to see my private doc- she understands me perfectly(wish dp was more like her in that sense).
Have odd pains low down kind of womb area I would say 3dpo-probably gas or that nutella on toast I had earlier. Any ideas feels bit tender there too. Its too early for implantation so I'm not what it is.
Anyhow hope the rest of you are all ok, bossy, arthurs, banana :)

Helloo, im in a much better mood now me and DH fell out the other night while we are onto the subject, just trying to talk to him about money and cutting back a bit to have some to spend when the time comes but he isnt really into giving things up until reality sets in, it takes a while but we should get there in the end! Men eh?!

I get a bit flat sometimes and dont feel like im as bothered about ttc as what I was but then I saw a baby at the doctors and she was gorgeous and I want one! I think its just my way of trying to protect myself from it all, if I convince myself im not bothered any more then I cope better with the disappointment.

Anyway, night out with the girls is coming up and I can enjoy a few drinks before the fertile time comes so glad to have something to look forward to!

Got AF this morn so within 5 mins of dicovering this I was on ebay (at 6 in morning) to order ovulation predictors!! Obsessed??

Hi ladies, been suffering a vile cold so haven't had the strength to post.

Hope everything went well on Tuesday night assassin! I am really pleased that your body has decided to play ball!

Sorry for seeming to set off a chain of events re: arguing with partners - hope everyone else has managed to resolve their issues. The letter sort of worked, it got us talking again at least, although thats all we are doing at present.

Sorry about AF banana, get peeing on those sticks asap!

And bossy, I know how you feel re the flatness - mind you, everywhere I go and everything I watch seems to be about babies at the moment - so even when I am pretending I'm not thinking about it, the world seems to be conspiring to make me!

Hi all, how we all doing? I am exhausted- did brave 2 baby groups today. Trying to wear ds out ended up in me being tired and ds fine!
arthurs glad you and dp are talking again Me and dp seem ok now- bought me wine and a mag to apologise, so at least he knew he was wrong.
banana nothing like a new pack of tests to start the morning!
bossy I know what you mean I convince myself I'm not pregnant each cycle because I cant handle the bfns :( Hope you're ok though.
At 4dpo I am so tired, napped this afternoon havent napped for months! I also... TMI warning! have yellow cm not too much of it and even worse TMI softer stools sorry, sorry!!! I am being silly arent I? I hate the 2ww blooming symptom spotting!
Im also addicted to rich teas and drinking red bush tea atm
Hope everyone else is ok
Jazzy

Helllllooo

Im in such a good mood today-have no idea why lol i think ive lost the plot a wee bit,i put up loads of halloween decorations earlier . ds loves them though so its not too bad and tomorrow is the 1st of october so i suppose its not too weird lol

Sorry to hear about af banana-best of luck with the opks!! i had another +ve on mine last night .conflicting reasons for this on google so im just not going to worry about it.

arthurs glad you+dh are talking again-its so stressy falling out and i hate going to sleep on an argument.same for you jazz

Cant believe this is the first time ever i can use the letters dpo to describe where i am in my cycle!! woohoooooo so its 1dpo for me,im not far behind you jazz

Can I join the madness please (DH not impressed by it at all)! I've only just started TTC but it has already been years to get to this point. I have some auto immune problems, so when I wanted to start 3yrs ago and came off my drugs I ended up needing extensive surgery for UC. It has taken this long to get all the operations out the way, get back to health and wean slowly off my drugs again. I have been warned that I have a high risk of infertility and if not, will take years to conceive but I can't help thinking I might be pregnant after 2 weeks of trying (daft, huh)! I only have until my arthritis gets out of control to try before on then off drugs again.

AF is due tomorrow but I have had no PMT at all and my arthritis has cleared up on its own (which has never, in 14 years, happened before). I'm a bit warmer than usual (fingers in ears that this can be PMT as well)!

I thought when I was told it was okay to start trying that was the end of the stress, but this is even worse!

Hi all - sorry for neglecting the thread and a hearty welcome to runner! You are very welcome to join us in a world of icky mucus details and wondering if the slightly sore ring finger on our right hand is a pregnancy symptom!

It sounds like you have really gone through the mill to get to this point, and if you can get through that, I think you will survive anything! Interesting point re: the arthritis - my mum has had it since she was a young girl, and the only time in her whole life that she has been pain free has been during pregnancy...

For the old timers, I know you have all been on tenterhooks about this, but AF finally arrived this morning - 57 days! Silly witch. Still going to see the doctor, although she is sometimes really lovely, and other times really curt. Lets hope I get her on a good day.

I'd love to hear some updates from everyone - thinking of you all!

Hi,

Im quite new to the world of TTC. Im on my second month of trying. I am blissfully unaware :) of early pg symptoms at the minute. However, I have a few symptoms if any one could offer any idea if they are

mid cycle bleeding (extreme bright red colour)
bit of nausea unless I keep eating at close intervals (food seems to make it go away?)
general wierd feeling of not being at my best almost confused at times ?!
Extremely tired (slept far too much over last few days)

I have been using opk so I know I hit my fertile window this time!

Hi suffering! The mid cycle bleeding sounds pretty positive, was it a quick flash and then gone? Most people on here have described implantation bleeding as being similar. Fingers crossed for you!

Hey arthursmum,

not a quick flash and gone. More like intermittent over a few days! So Im not sure what this is! Stopped the pill in April and things have been a little haywire since! Prob still not settling! So annoying!

I thought I'd best post so you don't think I've gone off to some far flung corner and stolen a baby to stuff up my jumper for 9 months!! Gosh how I feel like it right now!!

Update on me; So far I'm on cycle day 60 (yes sixty blooming annoying six-o sixty !!). I don't know what's going on with my body as I still 'feel' pregnant and have every symptom I had with my ds. I'm so confused and upset at my bloody stupid idiotic crappy useless body that I'm feeling very very low at the moment. I keep telling myself I can't be pregnant because I've had bfns but my body's telling me otherwise. I'm so fed up. Sorry to be so negative but that's exactly how I feel. I didn't want a big age gap between my dcs, was hoping for 2 years like my sister and I (I was born on her 2nd birthday). My wonderful ds is 2 next month so I'm trying to concentrate on that. I'm so lucky to have him, he brings so much joy. Every day he surprises me with new things he's learnt and when I'm feeling down he comes up to me, turns his back, grabs my arms to wrap around him and says 'Ahhhhh, Mama's baby'. I try to hide my feelings from him and think I'm doing a great job of plastering a smile on my face (must admit though that's an easy thing to do, I just look at my beautiful little boy and grin like a Cheshire cat!) until he comes to cheer me up and cuddle me better, bless him.

I've been feeling really rough lately with my pain levels. I just wish I could raise the money needed to get me to America for treatment. DH had an idea of setting up a website with details of my condition with a PayPal donate button on it so people could donate some money towards the £20-25,000 I need. We worked out that if we sent a link to all our friends on Facebook and asked them to donate if they were able to and to post the link to their friends' pages then it's quite possible we can do it. We have over 300 different friends between us and if they were able to donate £1 or so and then pass the link on then we could achieve it in a short time. Am I just setting myself up for a fall again? We only raised £46 or so last time (after a full page article in the paper which raised £0, a paintballing day which nobody turned up to even though it was well publicised and dh spending 3-4 hrs a night every Thurs/Fri/Sat going round pubs with a charity tin which people only ever put a few coppers in, that raised the £46) so I'm hoping this may be more successful as I so want to be 'normal' and would love to work or be able to chase ds in the garden etc

Sorry to be so negative and bring everyone down with me but I'm sat here in tears and knew you'd all be supportive and (hopefully) wouldn't mind me being so bloody pathetic!

I'm at the recurrent miscarriage clinic tomorrow so hopefully will get some answers as to why I've lost so many babies. Do you think they'd be able to shed some light on what's going/gone wrong with this cycle? Or are they just there to look into the mcs?

Sorry I got so self-absorbed I forgot to say hello to everyone and welcome all those joining.

I'll read through the posts tomorrow to catch up and see if I've missed any bfps (I hope I have and I hope it was a few I could do with some good news!).

Runner I saw your post and had to tell you, briefly, my story. After starting my periods on Christmas day 2 months before my 9th birthday I was finally diagnosed with endometreosis at 15. By the time I was 17-18 I'd had several operations and all sorts of meds but was still in a lot of pain. I was told that the only option left was a hysterectomy and that I may as well have it as there was no chance at all, not even a minuscule chance, that I'd ever get pregnant! I told them there was no way I'd do anything so final without having tried for a baby. I didn't want a baby at that stage but had always wanted children (I was broody for as long as I can remember and even begged my parents to have another baby when I was 12!!). To cut a long story short when dh and I discussed starting a family I went to the drs and found out I was already pregnant even though we'd been using contraception (don't know why we used contraception but I always did just incase!). Unfortunately we lost that baby but just a week later we fell pregnant again and went on to have our wonderful ds who's 2 in November. What I'm trying to say is that drs, whilst being very good, don't always know best and have been wrong several times. I would tell you not to get your hopes up as that would be hypocritical of me as I find it impossible. If you can try to relax as it def helps. As you may have difficulty conceiving I would highly recommend getting an ovulation predicting kit (opk) or a fertility monitor. The fertility monitor is the best but very expensive, you can buy second hand from eBay at a reasonable price. Opk's are good to but can also work out expensive the Clearblue digital is £22.99 for 7 tests (unless you know for definite how long your cycles are you may need 10-14 tests) another option that a lot of ladies on here use are the opks from Amazon or eBay which are £7ish for 50 tests which is a bargain! You can get sensitive (early testing) pregnancy tests from the same place at 50 for £7ish. I got a mixture of the two, 20 pregnancy tests and 30 opks for £6.96. It is very possible that you are pregnant so don't think you've lost the plot to suspect it so soon. I hope you do get pregnant, and soon too. Hopefully you'll find that your condition is much better during pregnancy, mine certainly was. It was only that last trimester that became increasingly difficult with baby squashing my lungs (I have growths on my lungs which cause pain and difficulty taking a deep breath).

Lots of love and baby dust to you all xxx

Briefly? Yeah right, who was I kidding?

Perfect thread - I am going out of my mind and starting to read endless stuff.....here is my stuff:

We ONLY did the baby dancing last Wednesday, this weekend:

• Can swear the coke tasted metallic and there was something else (foodwise) but can't remember what that was.
• Could not move for love or money on Saturday and slept most of day and still through the night
• Had tingly to cramps like heavy feeling in the baby house area
• Last night felt hungover/but hungry like so I had a yoghurt

I did experience symptons before missed period last time but it was to be a missed mniscarriage and also when I conceived DS - had terrible car sickness when a passenger.

But I have thought I was pregnant before and spotted symptons wrongly but also for me due to history its the start of anxiety - I hate the hormones my brain gies to mush and can't think of anything else!

Oh it feels better to ge it off my chest - I havn't even told DH - he is a fact based kinda man!

Ooooooooo the time drags so much - I dont want to go swimming of spa rooms just in case Arrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thanks

ANTFLO Wow i thought I was the only one mad for halloween - I love it and willbe putting mine up soon

Runner as I said I havnt ven bothered telling my DH this time as he thinks its all madness.

Oh radley I am feeling so much sympathy for you at the moment that I want to reach into the computer screen and give you a big old hug. Not very Mumsnet but I like to think human! You are going through so much and life does not seem to want to throw you a fricking bone at the moment. I can't offer any solutions or suggestions, but hopefully knowing you are not alone, and that you are being thought of helps a little bit. Do go to the dr's about how you are feeling, depression is emotionally and physically draining, and they may be able to offer help. If you are anti-drugs, they may refer you to a counsellor. I am officially a loonbag so I have been running the exciting obstacle course that is having a mental illness but also being a functioning and useful member of society for years now, so am happy to help.

Welcome to namechange - glad you had a good Wednesday night! . The more crazy symptoms the better!

Think I might try and get a cheap batch of OPK's on t'internet - will need about 5,000 to stand a chance of hitting an ovulation day, if indeed I am actually ovulating.

My AF is being a massive diva, leaving me hanging around for ages then storming in and demanding to be paid full attention. Its like a sodding geyser down there, with added clots that look like liver. Niiiiiiice.

Oh radley! Beware as arthurs and I want to give you a very large hug and a drink :) I'm so sorry you have had such a hard time. :(

arthurs How are you doing? 57 days! I'm so sorry that sucks! Sorry to hear AF is still having her party. I used to get clots when I was in my teens on bc- way to scare the hell out of a 16yr old!

namechangetime drags sooo much. I've been off coke and marmite since my last pregnancy. I was a massive cola fan and when it tasted weird I knew I was pg.

assasin me old china where are ya?( that was me being hip ) How are you cycle buddy? Are we in or out? Hoping for good news:)

Hope all are well
jazzy

Welcome to suffering and namechange

Rad are you ok? like arthurs i have so much sympathy for you.

arthurs you always manage to make me smile. pmsl at "Its like a sodding geyser down there, with added clots that look like liver. Niiiiiiice.". Gross but funny

Im 6dpo at the minute and nothing to report apart from the odd twinge. As usual. dont even think we stand a chance this month. got +ve opk on cd14, bed cd14 and cd15 then nothing til cd20 as we've been too tired or going to bed at different times. ho hum, will just have to try harder next month if af arrives as planned on 13th/14th ish.

I feel like ive been neglecting the thread a bit-our laptop is banjaxed so i am having to pop on at lunchtime while im in work. Not the most private surroundings for posting on here may i add! so if i disappear for a while its just cause ive no computer to use. .booooooo