Just MC and ready to try again? Pack your cake wine and tightie whities and join us for more ranting weeping and most of all laughing! All welcome! (Part 8)

[MummyAbroad]

A safe haven for those just off the mc rollercoaster and thinking about getting back on or are already on the TTC rollercoaster. Be warned these lovely ladies chat, and the thread moves lightening fast, but all are welcome to join in any time

For those who have just mc'd, there is great info about your first cycle here

If you want to add yourself into the stats, just copy and paste the lot, change everyones CD (cycle day) if necessary and add yourself in.
WTF = first cycle after mc
WTTC = waiting to TTC
CD = cycle day
UCL = usual cycle length

PFF cycle buddies request accepted. I really am ready to give up and its true - it seems so easy for other people to get pg and I do feel like I have had my shot at it already.

My temps were still high this morning and I have all the same symptoms as you so I too have no idea whats going on. If I could only go back to how it was before the pg when I ahd the "if it happens it happens" attitude. SWOI whenever I felt like it, ah those were the days

Gahhh Pink that list could be written for me. I have a feeling I am a symptomaholic ... I am getting so good at it I tend to have the symptom just before I read about it - I think my subconscious takes it in faster than my brain. Amazing creatures we are! If we were rabbits I don't think we would love our dc quite as much as we do - they are worth waiting for - even if it feels like it is killing us in the meantime.

MummyE I am enjoying the catch up posts. It is like seeing a commentated replay of all the action.

Velvet Pink LadyB and all others with recent afs make sure the sofa is a long one as I think I am coming to join you tomorrow.

To think Nix your DH is having every man's fantasy and doesn't even know it - might help in the quickie stakes!!

velvet we'll get through this and get beautiful babies at the end, I know we will. I have exactly the same thing as you - if only we could go back to the days of chucking away the pills and "just seeing what happens". My temps are dropping - if yours are still high maybe you should POAS, just to check? (((HUGS)))

DH is very engaged with my temping, especially since we have introduced a new game in the Pink household - DH guesses tomorrow's temperature and whether he reckons it will be higher or lower than the guessed temp - if you lose you have to make dinner...... :)

pink AR i had nausea, cramps, peeing etc for days before AF :( blardy bodies

intrigued by pinks scary blue boob veins tho.....! i thought they were only associated with pg? I still have mine, did yours just appear, or get darker?

good game pink, you should do that for sexual favours round fertile time.... obviously once you have detached your siamese twin!

I'm a bit concerned actually coz I'm bleeding bright red with really dark little clots which is unusual for me (its usually all dark and more sticky than clotty tmi soz!) also quite a bit of pain. I will see how it goes overnight. Why is there always something to deal with?

hmmm nix I thought that too - I got one mahoosive vein, let's call it the M1, when I was pg last time. But when I obsessed looked in the mirror this morning I've now got the north circular and some of the M4 as well..... Wouldn't mind if it was because I was pg but it's a bit minging otherwise...... Hehehe EXCELLENT plan on the favours. Actually talking of that, I bought the game Nookii the other day, looks great - am saving it up for the right time of the month, don't want to waste it too early!!! Definitely no panic SWI at CD12 this month given that I don't think anything happens until at least CD20...

velvet I would have thought red sounds more healthy than dark and sticky? Little clots (and some not so little...) is a new thing that I've started having since MC - last cycle I had clots in a big way and I freaked out. This time I haven't had any yet.

Hmmm velvet I'm of absolutely no help whatsoever. Just wanted to send a ((hug)) and growl along with you at the inconsistency of it all. I hope it looks better in the morning - otherwise that your GP can see you fast and give you reassurance.

Pink great work at playing on the competitive and the chart geek factor.

mummye thanks and hi, it puts my mind at rest a bit :)

pink so sorry she got you, I really thought it would be BFP, but there's still chance before Xmas. Yep there's a few to keep each other company if you all can cope with a newbie. FF is already updated accordingly :)

Been an awful day revising, currently watching You're Fired and drinking a 'medicinal' whisky To help me sleep.

I actually used FF website/chart ect to convinved DH i had not OV last night, handing him it on a plate didnt take much convinving

night ladies x

so when did i ovulate then

[[http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/1873b3
my chart this morning]]

Wow cool temperature jump!! I would say on the second day of your positive opk but you need the oracle's help really rather than mine!

orange is it your last exam today? Good luck!

nicks I think day 19 x

thanks Izz, have just posted it on charters anon, conception thread to see if i can get some guidance on there too!

Catch up later x

Morning all!

I'm resigned that I'm not pg this month but I am refusing to engage my mind with my stupid body today...it can go to hell, because I am determined to have a good day and not think about painful boobs, pant snot or other alleged symptoms I also seem to be displaying off of Pinks list BTW Pink, I see your bits of motorway network and raise you spaghetti junction!

I'm impressed with all the charting going on around here...some of you probably know more than the pro's!

velvet don't worry too much. Chinese herbal medicine says that most menstrual blood should be bright red. I ted to get a day of dark, and then bright red and sometimes clotty.

nicks I'd say day 19 too, that looks like a tremendous ovulation dip then rise to me. Oh and that dip today looks like the estrogen surge I found out about usually at 4-5 dpo.

Sorry I seem to have lost posts - am sure I composed posts on my phone last few days but they seem to not make it to mumsnet. Will keep this one short to seewhether that helps. Squeezes for all!

Oh and the veins I think aren't reliable after you've been of once. I have one that gets much more noticeable every tww, have learnt ignore.

How much grapefruit juice is recommended. Are we talking a glass with breakfast or a carton a day?!

Pg not of. Grr phone.

Velvet your flow sounds like my typical 'heavy' day - get 1 or 2 days like that out of 4-5 day bleed. Try not to fret.

Hi all,

Going to be a right cheeky mare and have a me post as I have no chance of keeping up with you all!

I have found last 2 cycles that I have brown discharge for around 10 days before oving, whats that all about?

At the minute I am CD26 and I think I usually OV around CD28/UCL40/42 (Blardy PCOS)and I have had brown watery discharge(only on wiping but quite a lot) with tiny little clots, which look more like fibres they are so small I have had this since last Fri, it turned pink on Sun then back to the above again.. Once I ov it stops and I have approx 14cd Luteal phase.

I'm starting to get a little concerned about it TBH, I've actually got a scan tomorrow due to pain when Oving last month and concerned that I won't be able to have it due to this discharge? Do you think I will have to reschedule? As I am assuming it will be Dildo Cam?

Its all so annoying isn't it, I am really dreading tomorrow anyway as Scan will be where I had the dreaded news re MC and think it'll bring it all back!

Sorry that its a mememe, I have been lurking but I need to write things down to remember whats what!

Loo X

MamaP Pink I have an entire family tree on my stomach - not much room on the boobs to get much of a motorway system going.

Loola am going to have to leave you in the hands of the experts - who I am sure will arrive shortly.

af arrived this morning right on time. I am surprisingly fine about it. A certain relief that my cycle has gone back to pre-mc cycle length and that I most probably had the ov time right. I also get to drink and eat sushi at my girls night out on Monday! Yeahhh. I am definitely, truly, ever so much I promise never going to symptom spot again (you'd never know there are Charlie and Lola fans in my household).

Nix sounds like it was a waste of a panic shag then!!

Hey loola I dont think the scan will be a prob-I had one before pg because I had some pain and they didn't use dildo although I did have to drink about 190 litres of water... Tmi but I had dildo cam during mc which I can imagine left a gory mess behind on the couch but didn't affect the scan so can't imagine they'll care less about a bit of discharge. Hope that helps!

A meme post from me-definitely tmi but have got proper AF now and had assumed what I'd seen in bowl were blood clots. However, when I wipe they are actually big lumps of old chewing gum type stuff. This is worrying me, WTF is it?? Does anyone else get this? I have no clue whether anything at all about my cycle these days is normal....

at mama's spaghetti junction-I can't beat that!! aandr I have stomach veins too!!

Loola I don't think the discharge will be a problem for the scan either - if it is internal they put a plastic cover on it anyway. I imagine that bleeding of unknown cause must be one of the main reasons they do scans so they will be totally used to it I'm sure!

Pink TMI alert (!!) but to try to put your mind at rest - I get all sorts - jelly-like clots and lumps of what I assume are uterine lining tissue I think they are all variations of normal but I'm sure your GP wouldn't mind putting your mind at rest or running some tests to check if you're worried.

Still not positive on the OPK here but I looked at my chart for July when I got pg and saw that I didn't get a positive until CD16 that month so I'm now feeling more upbeat about this month. This will be my month :) (am probably setting myself up for a fall here, but I'm going to go with the positivity for now and cross that bridge when if it comes!!). Also started to get a bit of EWCM this morning so hope DH is feeling in the mood tonight!

Lots of love and positive vibes for you all xxx

PS theatre was fab! Why have I left it so many years since I last went?! Can totally recommend "When we are married" at the Garrick for any Londoners out there. Maureen Lipman and the whole cast were exellent! Such a good giggle

Hi all,

I am reading the thread from both ends! Didnt get time to finish catching up yesterday.

Nix I am going to be controversial and say day 21 like FF says. Based on being a couple of days after the pos OPk and getting temp rise 1/2 degree above normal temps.

loola sorry I am not your period expert - but I can tell you that dildo cam scans are not scary or even embarrassing, read this I have had a fair few of them recently! I dont think it will be cancelled because of spotting and it will give you some reassurance to know whats going on in there. Let us know how you get on xx

I got an email report of the op yesterday, its says "excellent outcome" I have a telephone consult with the doc at 2pm today so will know more later. Feeling very encouraged.