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?

lucy what's corpus luteum? I know I could google it but you sound a bit expert!

knitty, I know what you mean, IB made me eat a piece of cake today!

ghost At least your IB is doing nice things for you! Mine's so far put me off quality street, baked beans, orange juice, casserole and tea. :( Was the cake good??

Ghost don't be fooled. I nodded very proudly when fertility guy told me corpus luteum was 'perfect' and then googled frantically when I got home to see what the heck he was talking about. Anyhooow, the CL is what's left of the follicle after the egg has been released. It produces the progesterone necessary to maintain pregnancy and nourishes the bean until 12 weeks when the placenta takes over. I think that's it. ish

I hope you're right lucy and let's hope IB becomes RB so you don't have to go to the dentist!

Ah yes the cake was mighty good! Would have been nothing without tea though, poor you!

I normally do a lot of exercise but with being so ill I haven't even done any yoga, so the last thing I need is to indulge in cakey goodness, but I feel sorry for myself, so cake it is!

busy - please do stick around on this thread and we can start a new one for next cycle. Although think I may be getting out of synch with everyone here as after thinking no ovulation this month have had 2 consecutive temperature rises (today is cycle day 22!) so if tomorrow is the same perhaps ovulation happened earlier this week when I'd decided nothing was happening and was not engaging in much SWI. Between DH's crazy hours and my insane chart I don't think this will be our month! Bloody Implanon messing everything up... am having tonight to cheer myself up as had a tricky day at work then spent too much money on random purchases to make myself feel better (including, shamefully, nativity and gingerbread house cookie cutters in the Cox & Cox sale to create Christmas traditions for IB... might have to put that one in the insane TTC behaviour thread!).

I'm glad your appointment went well, lucy. Most impressed by your perfect corpus luteum!

How are you feeling, knittymum? All sounds most exciting...

katy - I hope you are feeling a bit better?

lucy I'm glad your appt. went well.... I've got my fingers and everything else crossed for all of you still....
those of you who are/were sick around ov time... that doesn't rule things out.... DH and I were both sick when I ov'd this month and both really busy at work too and really couldn't be bothered when it came to SWI....and hey presto! (line darker now btw!)
Good luck ladies.....xo

busy I hope you do stick around, I know exactly what you mean about mumsnet being a bit overwhelming!

knittymum it does sound promising, fingers and toes crossed for you! BTW are you called knittymum because you like knitting? I like knitting too. Are you on Ravelry?

LIACC Talking about buying stuff for IBs...I remember buying a table mat with a picture of the three little pigs on it at a craft fair when I was 14 !!!! (It gave me great satisfaction to use it with DD when she was small.)

I'm feeling loads better today, - I only started feeling weird at about 3 yesterday, and just so exhausted. I slept all evening and have woken up much better but feeling like I'm getting over the flu, which I clearly haven't had! Oh please oh please could that be a symptom? I've still got untill Wednesday before AF is due, and have had some mild crampy feelings?

Ahhhhh! I want to know now!!!!!

Hi all - thanks I will stick around and watch all your testing with envy interest good luck all. I will have everything crossed for some BFPs amongst you all.

My period has come early as wasn't due till after the weekend - I do wonder if the egg fertilised but wasn't able to implant for some reason (overthinking things as usual!!)

So, IB now dislikes curry, samosas, pie (of any sort) the smell of both roast pork cooking and bacon and tomato pasta sauce and pickled onions. IB loves cheese though, so I indulged him today with cheese on fruit bread for lunch and cheese and crackers for dinner.

LIACC enjoy the wine! Not feeling great tbh, and if IB doesn't turn out to be a RB I'm going to be extremely annoyed with whatever bug I've caught which is making me feel this way! And every household should have lots of different cookie cutters, regardless of whether there are children or not!

Katy I've been tired too - naps 2 days in a row, which is most unlike me. Or at least, if I nap I don't sleep at night, and I slept like the dead last night. I do like knitting, and I'm on Rav too. Called something different there though as I don't want to be 'outed' on here by people I know IRL! If I'm not upduffed I'd rather people I know don't know anything about it, IYKWIM. Especially with DSIL expecting.

Oooooh, knittymum, that sounds so promising! Very excited about everyone's prospective POAS even if pretty sure no need for me to do so. Do hope we get some February BFPs...

Y'know, my IB is at least 2-3 lbs by now, feeling, very bloated. Am guessing it's the 10 days of being too ill to run around much, and comfort eating after I got over being sick. Today was yummy pasta bake, carb central!

Bugger bugger bugger. I caved. I bought the sticks to wee on last week and promised myself I wouldn't think about them until the 17th. Then today the 2WW got too much and I couldn't resist any more, so I have wasted a stick peeing on it far too early. BFN. Well there's a surprise. Cross with myself for giving in so early, and aprehensive in case it just foretells next week's result and there is in fact nothing to detect. Hate hate hate this 2ww.

hey babybythesea, don't worry too much, nearly everyone has done it, and today is far far too early to test so it won't affect your chances next week!

next time you see the evil sticks, repeat the mantra I wouldn't pee on a fiver, I wouldn't pee on a fiver ...

[sympathy] though, 2WW is driving me nuts!

Knittymum I'm glad your IB has put you off things, I've gone off tuna, and curry, and just want to eat pasta and cheeses.
Also my jeans hav got too tight, but maybe that's just all the pasta!
I'm holding out quite well not POAS and it's actually DH who keeps asking when we're going to! Which isn't what I need as I'm desperate to wait until Monday, but probably Sunday.
Until yesterday I thought if it did happen this month I'd be having a November baby, and have only just worked out it would actually be due in October. Maybe this is another symptom - baby brain!
I can't wait to start seeing lots of BFP posts!

I know ghosteditor - am cross with myself more than upset at the negative. Why is it that logic jumps completely out of the window when you start thinking about those little white sticks, just begging to be peed on? You know it's too early, you know it's a waste of money, and something drives you on to do it anyway. Still, I'm doing better than last month - used six during the 2ww for a BFN end result - so if I can get to next week without using a second I shall count it a victory!

babybythesea I'm with you. I HATE the 2ww too. Haven't caved yet but have accepted I'm going to cave over we, if only to put myself out of my misery that no symptoms = no pregnancy. Just really fed up with it all. I wish I could be more relaxed about it all and take the emotion out of ttc, as it feels like it's taking over my life, but I know that while there's any, slight, slim chance that I could get pregnant, I'll be hoping and praying for it to happen.
I'm glad to hear there are some strong symptoms amongst you though and keep my fingers crossed for next few days

Ghost - am loving the I wouldn't pee on a fiver - great way to remind myself to hang on!!

To all of you POASing over the weekend, good luck! And I hope that a BFN (if that arrives) doesn't get you too despondent.

hi all
I am driving myself crazy, keep getting lower back pain and pian in tummy that comes and goes, but no where as bad as period pain, so think this is it AF is here then nothing, so then i start hoping that maybe im pregnant after all, im driving Dh crazy with going from upset to back to being hopeful.

q2011 It's the madness of the 2ww, isn't it? I'm fairly certain I've not thought about anything else properly for a good couple of weeks now, and AF's still not due until the end of the week! At least being on here you can reassure yourself that you're completely normal in what you're feeling. I remember when I was expecting DS1 I thought I was going round the twist!

hiya

another 2ww driving me insane.....
got a mammogram on friday so will test thurs just in case. Is that too early? period due around 21st.......

Well my resolve disappeared and I POAS and got a BFN, and what do you know but 2 minutes later my AF arrived - how is that possible? Is it all in my mind and once no line appears my body just decides that my AF can start?
I was fairly coninced it was going to be +ve and now I'm wondering if I've gone slightly cuckoo and can really have imagined all those symptoms.
Do you think it possible I was and then I wasn't as I even had text book implantation bleeding at the right time, lower back ache, sickness and tiredness, or do I just need to worry about going slightly mad?
Oh well no October baby for me, but my fingers are now doubley crossed for those of you still to test. I shall hold on here with baited breath for you, while putting a nice bottle of white in the fridge for tonight - there's got to be an upside to a BFN hasn't there!

Sorry to hear that pink - I'm a bit worried about psychosomatic symptoms as well - still have the metallicy taste in my mouth, but is it all some elaborate fantasy that my body is tricking me with? I REALLY wish I could just sleep until Friday!

Good luck next month!

I really hope you have better luck than me, and hold on to your resolve to wait until Friday, it is less than a wekk now!
Long may that metallic taste last.....

Sorry knittymum, it's not less than a wekk it's less than a week!

LOL, feels like a lifetime though!!