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Anyone testing around 15 May and fancies some company?

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LoveInAColdClimate · 05/05/2011 15:30

Title says it all, really. The buses are so big I find it a bit confusing - if anyone wants to share in a bit of symptom spotting and POAS, please join me! 3 DPO and already enjoying some nice imaginary nausea Hmm... please come and share your similar delusions with me...

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Poppyjen · 10/05/2011 14:06

Hello can I join in? Due AF on 17th and the days are just crawling by....

FF suggests I wait to test until 21st (are they mad????) even though they have predicted AF on 17th. Not a chance I can wait that long Grin

Trying so hard not to obsess. Its not working Blush I have about 6 internet cheapies and one shiny clearblue digital in the bathroom.

Only 8dpo but so hard to resist so I POAS this morning and thought I saw a line. Before you get too excited, I decided to do my own "control" and did a test just with water and sure enough the same faint line showed up so I am officially going mad and seeing things.... Confused

I know that its waaaaayyyyyy early but couldn't stop myself. Am usually very rational person, do I have secret mental condition? Anyone else suffering from hitherto unknown obsessive compulsion?

SlightlyBabyCrazed · 10/05/2011 14:14

Hi, can I join too?

Am also due AF on 17th, am 9DPO and have been obsessively symptom spotting - sitting here now having mild AF-style cramps and have had the most sore boobs ever - not just sore, painful to the extent that I wake up in the night if I roll onto them at all! Unfortunately I have also recently taken up running and the pain started the day after I ran and found my "support" ineffective - so probably just an injury - that's what I keep telling myself to stop me POAS everyday!!! Blush

Anyone on here know what sort of soreness/pain is the 'norm' for a real symptom?

SBC x

Poppyjen · 10/05/2011 14:30

Hi SBC can't say what the norm is but just wanted to let you know I am experience similar - boobs feel more full and heavy and achey and sometimes shooting pains, especially on right hand side. Also have the cramps, not all of the time but noticeable. Too early for AF.....

Don't remember getting this with DS, not even toward the end of pregnancy (breastfeeding, well that was a different matter entirely Grin ) but I wasn't really madly symptom spotting last time. Definitely not a normal AF sign for me so who knows.

When do you plan to test? Can you hold out until Tuesday?

ellifino · 10/05/2011 14:33

See, now I'm not a POASer. In fact I have yet to buy or pee on a single stick since starting ttc nearly 9 months ago (6 of proper trying). I just wait and wait and wait... and get my period.

Have decided this month I can poas after the 23rd. Af due 18th maybe? But it's always late so actually due 21stish. And even though I'm allowed to poas from the 23rd I bet I won't actually until 25th+ in case I am tempting fate. But of course I won't be poasing at all because af will arrive before I let myself.

Hello PoppyJen and SBC. Welcome aboard.

SlightlyBabyCrazed · 10/05/2011 14:34

Hi Poppy, am desperately trying to hold off testing until the weekend at earliest - DP noticed me getting the tests out and accuses me of being obsessed - Pah!

maybebabyR · 10/05/2011 14:49

elli I need your self control! I have yet to POAS this month, but I am making no promises once it gets to the weekend Smile

welcome poppy and SBC This will be my first SBC so have no idea of the 'norm' either. But I never get sore boobs, even with AF. But all that means is if I get even the HINT of a sore boob...... Smile

poppy, I am normally a very rational, calm person. But when it gets to the 2WW, I am a loony. Trying to be better this month though. Though the funny smells at work today are def turning my stomach....

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LoveInAColdClimate · 10/05/2011 17:34

I am hating the TWW today. I know I should use it as a chance to think "I might be pregnant, how exciting," but actually I just feel umpleasantly obsessed. I also hate restricting my life half the time when at the end of the TWW there's no baby! It's my best friend's birthday party at the weekend, so while everyone else is knocking back cocktails I'll be sipping tonic water while everyone speculates that I'm pregnant, then two days later AF will arrive. I feel like I'm living with the downsides of pregnancy without getting a baby! Sorry, that was all very gloomy - PMT?

I am going to POAS on Friday as well (will only be 10 DPO but at least if is a BFP then I will drink my tonic water happily (although know it won't be)). Looking forward to hearing other people's weekend POAS results too!

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pigletmania · 10/05/2011 20:14

I think that I will be testing around the 15/16 as my AF was due today but no show, usually AF turns up early, two days prior I have a thick white discharge which I did'nt have and no cramping, and very sore boobies. If I do have a BFP, I wont be celebrating just yet, after two MC it makes you cynical. I do have a healthy and happy dd aged 4 which is good, at least I can do it as one nurse at the EPU said to me Smile. If I have a 3 MC I will be referred for tests.

weimy · 10/05/2011 22:38

I am not testing at all [determined emoticon]

brimfullofasha · 11/05/2011 07:51

AF arrived this morning Sad which not only means I'm not pg but my cycles have started to be more unpredictable. Must not get too sad, have a large Wine at the weekend and keep trying....

Poppyjen · 11/05/2011 07:56

Oh no brimfullofasha sosorry to hear that! Don't be sad Smile you have another fresh shiny chance to try again now!

Extreme frustration at my end I am afraid.

Fertility Friend has now changed my ovulation date so still stuck on 8 dpo now (I think I will be stuck in the 2ww FOREVER). Any other charters out there care to take a look to see what you think? my chart is here they have changed my cover line so it is higher - it was 35.9 ish. Now I don't claim to be an expert about these things but I can clearly see what looks like an ovulation dip on 2nd May followed by clear thermal shift over the next 3 days. Confused

I tried to see what it would be like on the other settings ("research" and "FAM") and they now say no ovulation detected.

How irritating - there were a few days DH and I didn't manage to DTD after my alleged ovulation date so if they pin it as any later we may well have missed our window Sad

Would be curious to hear what any of you think Smile

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LoveInAColdClimate · 11/05/2011 08:18

I'm not an expert, Poppyjen, but I think ovulation looks most likely on 2 May as well, don't really understand how they have decided on 3 May.

piglet - so sorry to hear about your MCs, and brimfullofasha, sorry about AF - but as Poppyjen says, you now have a new cycle to try again!

I have awful cramps so suspect AF is on her way, but my temperature went up this morning rather than down. Am trying not to think "implantation cramps", though, as had exactly the same thing the month before last and was then really disappointed when AF arrived.

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LoveInAColdClimate · 11/05/2011 10:19

Hmmmm, am really feeling sick now to the point of retching in the loos at work. Please tell me this is imaginary (or that I am actually ill!) so I don't get my hopes up for a BFP. Surely 8 DPO is much too early for sickness anyway?

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maybebabyR · 11/05/2011 10:46

Sorry about your sad news piglet totally get where you are coming from about not celebrating too early.

And sorry AF got you brim

Ah, love poor you. If it's any consolation, I feel none too clever today either. And I am soooo hot too Sad

melliebobs · 11/05/2011 12:14

Well AF due today and nothing so far. Allready a bfn on an early response test 4 days ago so there is a very small light of hope! But as much as it does my head in im gonna grit my teeth and if nothing happens i will not do another until Saturday. And if AF does show up i'm gonna cheer myself up with a big bag of Haribo and a new book! lol

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LoveInAColdClimate · 11/05/2011 13:50

maybe - isn't TTC insane - I was actually thinking "ooooh, I feel sick and exhausted, horray, perhaps I'm pregnant" Grin. Being hot could be a good sign for you - maybe entering into triphasic chart territory?

mellie - hope the waiting's not proving too awful - and that you don't need the Haribo and book!

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maybebabyR · 11/05/2011 14:03

Haha love I know the feeling. DH suggested the same thing last night, but I had to be the voice of reason! I really am shattered though, which isn't like me. Amazing what the powers of the mind can do [smile}

May sound a little dim here, but triphasic chart??!!

mellie I am keeping everything crossed for you. And I would like to think that you would also treat yourslef to said haribo and book if you get your BFP Smile

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LoveInAColdClimate · 11/05/2011 14:15

maybe - triphasic chart - www.fertilityfriend.com/Faqs/Triphasic-Pattern-and-Pregnancy.html

Fingers crossed for you that that's what's going on you!

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maybebabyR · 11/05/2011 14:19

You are a fountain of knowledge love! Thank you for that!

I thought about charting, but am not sure I am ready for that yet, still in the 'seeing what happens phase'!

Hopefully your stpmtoms are a sign too! Any idea when you are going to test yet?

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LoveInAColdClimate · 11/05/2011 14:42

Thanks, maybe - although I think "obsessive" would be more accurate! I like charting - it makes me feel a tiny bit more in control of the process - but it does lead to greater obsession I think! Am glad I do it, though, as I ovulate quite late which I don't think I'd have realised without charting.

I'm going to test on Friday morning, I think (ok, I know!). Will only be 10 DPO so a BFN won't be conclusive - but at least if I've got to spend a weekend away for my friend's birthday unable to have a glass of wine then I'd like the chance to know if I'm updiffed! Feel bad that I'm not looking forward to having a night out with her, but she's recently moved away so I'll be staying with her, along with some other friends, and as we're going to the nearest town (she lives in the middle of nowhere) I won't really be able to slope off early as (a) would be a bit rude and (b) I think a taxi back on my own to her house would be about £50, which I'm seriously loathe to spend when I will clearly need to put it towards my Bugaboo shortly! May change my mind when I'm stuck in some dreadful club with my plastered friends and am completely sober, though! Are you still going to test this weekend too?

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maybebabyR · 11/05/2011 14:46

Haha, what you have just described sounds exactly like a hen do I have coming up in a months time!! (though I personally have my eye on an I-Candy. Not that I have been looking).

I think I will test on Friday. Going by pains in left side and CM, I am guessing I ov'd the day of the royal wedding, so that would put me at 14 DPO. I ovulate late too, none of this ov on day 14 business for me!

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LoveInAColdClimate · 11/05/2011 15:19

Ooooh, maybe, perhaps we will both be on the pregnancy boards next week (I am ever-hopeful!).

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maybebabyR · 11/05/2011 15:21

Ah, I really hope so love It is so hard not to get hopes up, but then you do, even if it is only a little bit! I will keeping my fingers crossed for you!

RunningDay · 11/05/2011 15:26

Hello, can I join? AF due on 14th or 15th, first month of trying for number 2. Smile (Well, we had a go last Sept or so, but then waited for a bit to start in earnest.)

Have some cramping and getting hopeful but def not going to test before Sunday.

Right, off to read the full thread.

maybebabyR · 11/05/2011 15:29

Hey running! It's good to have a nice little group forming!