Testing around the 16th Feb? Join me for some "too knackered to SWI" laughs (!) with a bit of symptom -spotting and "shall I test early?" agonising thrown in!

[KatyCustard]

Hello,

So, I've been TTC on and off for TWO BLOODY YEARS!!!!! And am going to the doctors next week. However, I am the eternal optimist and will be SWI like the best of them for the next few weeks before I start symptom spotting again.

Come and join me and lets see who gets lucky this month!

(But pretty please let me be one. I mean, I am starting the thread, those are the rules aren't they?

Ghostie - how many DPO do you think you are - if you are 12 plus tomorrow, I would test!

OK, so according to the MN Ovulation Calculator, I was fertile between the 31/1 and 4/2, 31 day cycle and AF due somewhere around 17th/18th - am on CD 27 now. So, taking as an average that I ovulated on the 2nd, tomorrow would be 12DPO, so I'll test in the morning! Woah, sorry about the period maths there, but I needed to write it down to make sense of it!

I have a Dr appointment in the morning, so it would be fab if I could go in and say I'd had a BFP! OMG, so nervous! wish it was next weekend so I could know one way or the other!

Is anyone else starting to develop the superstition that if you can resist testing before the day AF is due, then when you do POAS, you are more likely to get a BFP? Suddenly realised that I am managing to prevent myself from using my last stick by convinceing myself that it will come out negative, even though I might be able to tell by tomorrow. OTOH, if I can wait until Thursday, then it's sure to be positive?

Slowly going round the bend, apparently...

AF turned up today, which resulted in me being a crying heap for awhile, my DH is so good putting up with all my emotions, and the i want a baby now!
Good luck to everyone else due to test.

Sorry q. Maybe next month will be your month. And November babies are great. I know. I am one.

Sorry af got you too q.
Thanks for all the advice re pilates. I will definitely go to some classes. In fact, I know the teacher a teeny bit so might quietly confide in her that I'm ttc and see if there's anything to avoid. My tummy is a disgrace at the moment and I really need to do something about it.
Ghost, I'd test. It's probably not the best advice but if I had symptoms and there was the opportunity to find out for sure, I would spend all day regretting it if I didn't use first morning urine on a test. Silly, eh.
Good luck to all others testing too!

Sorry q about your BFN. Gutting isn't it?

babybythesea - yes that is exactly the logic I am applying - am 15 DPO (or so FF says anyway) and on cd 35. Normal cycles are 29 -31 days, apart from last month which we ttc'd and was 38 days. So I am just going to "expect" AF every day this week and perhaps test Friday if she doesn't arrive!

With dd we were incredibly lucky and got a bfp first time, and I found it really disheartening last month when AF was late but got bfn after bfn. I would rather just sit tight and try and forget about it.

Good luck to all testing !

Any news, knittymum? Hope you got your BFP!

Morning ladies, have been lurking here for while but POAS yesterday morning and their was the faintest line but their was a line. Did it again this morning and another really faint line.
AF is due on Wednesday.

Has anyone used these early tests from amazon and whats you opinion of them?

Am I upduffed??????

Sorry about AF q.

Would be interested to hear what she says Lucy.

My temp took a nosedive this morning so AF is imminent. :( Knew it was but sad anyway.

Good luck to the testers!

Corky - a faint line is supposed to be as much a positive as a big strong kick you in the teeth line. So I'd say there is a 99% chance that you are indeed unduffed. Especially if you've had two of them now. Best start researching cots. Amd prams. And nappies. And bouncy chairs. And....

Eeek thats what I thought. Dont know why its such a surprise we have a DS already and have been trying for this one.

Good luck to all of you hope you all get the BFP's you deserve very soon
xxx

Congratulations Corky as they say a line is a line!

Still no progress here. No change from yesterday at all and still no AF. I have all the other symptoms that she is about to show but that?s it.

I didn't test this morning, mainly because when I had DC1 I felt different and this time I don't, I feel that there is no chance of BFP this month.

Thank you for all your advice ladies it really is appreciated.

Congratulations Corky! :)

wow, it's all go this morning! congratulations corky !

I'm not charting so I don't know exactly when I ovulated but I'm on cycle day 24 so could well be at least 12 dpo. However if AF has reverted back to 28 day form then I might be a bit early.

After a bit of dithering last night I decided to go a head and sod it, so I tested this morning with a cheapie. BFN. Strangely enough I feel much calmer now and I think I'm happy enough to wait to see if AF turns up anytime before Friday. There was a lot of squinting and examining of the test and for a moment I thought I saw the start of a line on the bottom half of the test, but on a proper look it disappeared. I was all heart-poundy and full of adrenalin before I tested, though - can see why these things are addictive!

I did find my keys which have been missing all weekend though! There was some frantic searching last night but no luck, but this morning DH found them in my dressing gown, of all places! So, y'know, you've got to take the rough with the smooth...

any luck knitty ?

Ghost, ah well, you may well be much too early. Still hope!

Hey bumps thank you! Yes, still hope and of course it's all very early in the game generally.

It's the uncertainty that's so stressful - if I knew it would take 6 months or whatever to conceive I'd probably be ok with it. Is jolly lovely to have MN people to talk out all the crazy with though

Ghost - I know what you mean about the awfulness of "not knowing". I think the TTC thing is a sort of warm up lesson in getting used to having no control over your life!

So you could be quite ascetic about it and think to yourself "the more I get used to accepting I have no control now, the easier it will be during the pregnancy (when I will have 100% anxiety and 0% ability to actually DO anything) and with a baby (when my entire ability to control what happens in my day disappears compeletely!)".

Hmm, I do want no.2 desperately but, bloody hell, it is going to be hard work if it happens.

I guess I hadn't really thought about it that way and it sounds eminently sensible.

Ironically (or not) I'm feeling quite crampy this morning so I expect AF is on the way. Ho hum, at least it resets the TTC calendar more quickly...

Hmm, I've just been wondering whether I actually should stop being sensible and go out and buy a first response in my lunchhour and test - then if it is a BFP I can send a photo of it to DH as a valentines present?!

Please talk me out of this. It wouldnt even be FMU.

(I live out in the sticks and don't drive so if I don't buy a good pg test today, the next opportunity to do so will not be until I am back in the metropolis on Thursday!)

No, I shall HOLD OFF. I shall. Really.

bumps , for what it's worth, you are pretty late based on your stats (even with last month's extra long cycle) - however without being able to use FMU you're probably not going to get the result you want.

If you do buy one, would you be able to wait? You did say you wanted to wait until Friday so Thurs would be ok for purchasing...

Am just playing devil's advocate here really. If you can afford it, it's not really silly to test at this stage (could you just not pee for four hours and then try?) and it's a little bit romantic so I can see the appeal. However I'm sure DH will be super pleased whenever you find out and it being valentine's day won't really improve that!

Will it spoil any romantic plans if you don't get the result you want?

I think you are right that there's not much point testing today - if its a BFN then I would just be very disappointed which would spoil tonight, and it wouldn't be that reliable a result anyway.

I just think that until I am later than my mega cycle last month, I can't consdier myself truly "late" if you see what I mean.

Though on the other hand FF thinks Ovd on CD 20 and I think it was either CD20 or CD22. So tomorrow I will be 14 DPO by the most pessimistic reckoning, so perhaps I should buy one today and try tomorrow am!

Cheers - I will stop ruminating now!

Ooo just found this thread and am gutted that I could have spend the last 10 days obsessing with the rest of you. In a slightly different position in that we had our 3rd round of IUI on the 3rd of Feb and am feeling really hopeful that it is 3rd time lucky and that I am upduffed.

So far I have had crampy implantation feelings, lots of strange nausea and travel sickness issues, coupled with an appetite to rival an overworked rugby team . No sore boobs yet - no matter how hard I prod them but am sure that my areola looked weird this morning. DD came in the bathroom at that point and was keen to know why I was looking at my boobies like that!

Tested this morning and got a BFN but am only on day 25 so am going to try and resist 'pissing on a fiver' until the weekend. I just really wanted to give DH a Valentines Day to remember.

boobellina fx for you! I'm on day 24 so we're in a similar position.

q - sorry to hear that. I really hope next month is your month .

babybythesea - I apply that logic all day long, then I go to bed, wake up earlier than usual needing the loo, hold on and hold on (to make it stronger ) and then give way and pee on a fiver. I'm just weak!

Congratulations, Corky! What will your due date be?

Ghost - good luck for later in the week! Is it definitely cramping, or could it be uterus stretching type aches??

Bumps - good luck for when you test! I'm loving this thread with everyone at about the same stage in their cycles! Really helps you to not feel so alone with it all, doesn't it?

Boobellina - good luck for the weekend. And what Ghost said to Bumps is true, it'll be super special whenever it happens!

As to me, I POAS this morning, and when I squinted and squinted I'm almost sure that there was something there, even if it did only look like the wateriest of watermarks. DH, being eminently more sensible and level headed (and patient) than me couldn't understand the squinting and refused to join in, telling me I should just wait until the weekend. Fat chance!! So I shall POAS tomorrow morning again (expensive hobby, this one!) and see what that looks like.

Extra symptoms now include that the smell of tea can make me feel ill, and I got all hot and dizzy in the supermarket this morning. So if I'm not pg, I think I need to get myself checked out for a variety of illnesses!