Feck off with your babydust - The hut of gl/doom, home of inadequate reproduction

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ok, so the hut disappeared so I decided to open a new one. tis a 20's style gin joint!

Oops posted too soon. Feeling fairly positive about ttc, I'm on a promise for tonight! Trying to for in.swi around Dh's appt; can.but try eh?!

Promise unfulfilled...bit fat argument instead. Oh joy. No more bd until after Wednesday and his appt! Now thinking a bfp is highly unlikely this month .
But then again despite some ewcm, the cheapo crappy opk did not have two lines so maybe it's not quite time and the timing will all work out?! (Or the cheap ones are a bit rubbish....you decide!).

Well I'm.confused.com, FF decided I.ovulated cd8! How early?! No wonder opks were negative, egg had been and gone it seems! Good news is we dtd two data before so can relax about DH's test today (he isn't very relaxed!).

hello all.

nothing to report here, dtd every two days for a week and got EWCM this morning so will pounce on DH when he gets in.

I have been calorie loading for three weeks now and have managed to put on 2lbs! this is a major achievement for me and i am very happy that finally my body is working with me on something

Hello, artist formerly known as Bexamundo.
Well done queenrollo! Think people underestimate how hard it is to gain weight when you're under.
DH's sperm tests came back, low mobility . Guess they'll recheck and do some bloods. Need to go to GP about that and my lh/fsh results so will book.double appt. Man, this is tough. Trying to be positive but it's hard to hold on to hope after 18 months and dodgy test results!

Hello, anyone mind if I join in? 39, male factor problems, ttc 18 months, lap and dye last week but couldn't get dye in, next gynae appt [to explain results] in August, a couple of weeks before my 40th birthday.

hi onemorning, and welcome to the thread. Sorry you are here but you are amongst friends.

Queenrollo thats great news about putting weight on, I hope you well and truly pounced on your dh

faithbaby, hold on to your hope (and faith as per the new name!), you'll get there. don't give up on badgering your gp for everything possible.

af due for me tomorrow/ weds. Have had a lot of back ache this last week, would be nice if it was a symptom but I can't let myself get excited as then its too painful when it doesn't happen. still, its my day off tomorrow so at least i can chill with ds in our pyjamas.

Hello onemorning [waves enthusiastically and accepts a drink from ninjachipmunk. Drains glass then smiles].
Off to see GP tomorrow to get official.chat about improving DH's swimmers. He has been.googling 'improving sperm motility' and is keen to start putting it into practice. Lmao though he said 'I should be having zinc/this that and the other' to which I replied 'yes, they're all in the wellman supplement I got you that you can't be bothered to take!'. Oh well it's motivated him anyway! At least he's trying to be positive/proactive.

yay to your dh! thats sounds very positive, off to bed in a mo, have a good night y'all x

Feeling nervous about my appt next week. DH announced last night that he's got the day off work and that he wants to come with me.

Any ideas what will happen at this appt? I'm assuming they'll ask about my cycles (got 17 months worth written down thankfully). I've not had any blood tests so assuming they'll want to book those and typically i'll be away on holiday on the right days - potentially it could be August before I can get them done.

ok i got a questionaire in the post this morning along with a letter which states we have both been referred. It's a good job DH had already booked the day off work, as up til now all letters have been addressed to and referred to only me.

It doesn't give me room to discuss my irregular periods, only asks if they are regular or not. I suppose i should answer no as the last period was 6 days late?

This is confusing and not helping my anxiety

If you want to talk to them about your periods I would put it down as irregular, surely then they are more likely to ask you at the appointment? Not sure what they will ask tbh as my appt is not till July.

i've put it as irregular and have just written a word doc listing dates and cycle length since i came off the pill. Have also written a bit about conceiving DS as technically i didn't have problems conceiving him (no intervention) but had completely irregular and long cycles also pointing out that they were fine in the two years after i had him when i wasn't on BCP.
I suppose i can go prepared with this extra info, and it's up to them if they want to take it into account.

I was actually shaking after i filled the form in feel a bit silly about that but this is one of those

you know you made me realise that I haven't asked dp if he is coming with me to ours yet! I think probably he should.
good for you for filling the info in, maybe take a list of any questions you have too? When is your appointment?

appt is a week today. I don't know if i have any questions, i suppose it depends on what actually happens on the day.

AF due a few days after the appt, and we'll be away (camping!) and i'm hoping (of course) that i've been lucky this month and won't need to be prodded by a load of medical professionals......

my fingers are crossed for you and you also have a camping trip to look forward to, where are you going?

I have just made the fatal mistake of googling hsg, hysteroscopy and laparoscopy to see what they actually do. Yikes. In fact double yikes. This cycle dp had better manage it from day 7 to day 17 as I don't want to have to do that

Somerset - having a few days holiday before heading to Glastonbury for the festival.

I haven't googled anything yet - but i will because I'm the sort of person that has to know all the gory details about what's going to happen to me. At ante-natal classes with DS i was the only one who didn't gasp in horror when midwife got out the forceps. Though i did handle the catheter she showed round and declared that no-one was coming anywhere near my bits with one of them

To be honest after the indignity of an epi and stitches after Ds birth i'm not so bothered....

having said that i just googled.

I am going to get pregnant before i get to that stage.

I am

Ninja, I had a laparoscopy last week under general anaesthetic. It was done at 1.30 and I was out at 5.

I was in pain (shoulders, mainly) and tired for a couple of days, but back to normal physically in about 3 days.

queenrollo exactly! If theres a chance I won't have to do it I'm going to go hell for leather to make that happen! That said, if it comes to it then I'll do it. I'm guessing its better to find out if somethings wrong than just ignore it and hope it'll go away.
I shall be thinking of you when I see bits of glasto on telly.

onemorning did it show anything up whe you had it? And how do they decide which one they need to do on you?

Our IF was thought to be male factor only, and the specialist suggested I have a lap and dye 'just in case'.

Sod's law, they couldn't get the dye into my cervix so didn't find out what my tubes and/or cervix are like. They've suggested I have it done again at a larger hospital. I'm not seeing the specialist until 22/8 so don't really know what it means yet.

Blimey been quiet on here for a while! onemorning are you all recovered?
hairy, gastonladybird, are you still lurking? How are you?
I'm cd25, bfn so far but temps still up so will be testing again soon! (Normal cycle anything from 24-28days).

that might be cos we've been gassing on the other thread!

Hi faithbaby

All back to normal, back at work and all that. Back to gym again for fitness / de-stressing. I feel like I need to assert some control over my life again.

Ninja I remember shagging...