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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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LoveInAColdClimate · 12/05/2011 08:36

ellifino - thanks for the kind wishes and the name enthusiasm! I love the Mitfords as well (as I suppose is fairly obvious!). Am thinking about calling the Imaginary Baby Polly Grin.

It was me bemoaning the fact that you spend half your life unable to drink - I just find it so disheartening when I spend parties and weddings sipping Perrier then get AF a few days later. I seem to have a miraculous gift of timing the TWW so that it overlaps with every social event I have on! I also assume that everyone is speculating that I must be up the duff (if they even notice I'm not drinking - I'm pretty discreet about it) which makes me feel sad when I never am. I have also just finished the 6 month supply of conception vitamins I bought assuming I wouldn't need them all and would be giving the rest away to a friend which has made me a bit Sad.

Part of me wishes I could just relax during the TWW and "drink til it's pink" and not angst over caffeine, but I just can't! Friends who know we're trying say "why don't you just have one drink?", but I don't want one drink, I want either a baby or a nice relaxed night sharing a bottle of wine over dinner then maybe going for a few cocktails, not having a 125ml glass of wine then being convinced I've prevented implantation!

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CookieRookie · 12/05/2011 08:51

I everyone, can I join in?

I'm 10dpo today and thinking about testing tomorrow though I'm trying to hold out til Sunday. Just started using FF which I've been obsessing over for the last 10 days. I think I've probably looked at every chart on there to see a similarity to mine.

We've been trying for four years for #2 and had surgery for an ectopic two years ago so only have one tube now. I had finally gotten to the point of acceptance when my best friend told me a few weeks ago she was pg. Obviously I was over the moon for her but it sent me right back on the crazy, symptom spotting (imagining) rollercoaster again. Whats drivings me to distraction is that my AF symptoms are different every month so it makes it so much harder to know if a symptom is pg or just AF playing tricks on me.

I was utterly convinced I was pg last month and after spending about 100 quid and 8 tests later AF finally arrived and dashed all my hopes.

So far this month I've felt sick for about an hour for the last 3 mornings, boobs are mostly sore before AF but they're REALLY sore and heavy this month but I wonder if poking them every 5 minutes to see if they're sore might have something to do with that! I've had AF type cramps for about 5 days which is way earlier than usual, CM didn't dry up like usual after OV but I've just learned it can be very different at different times of the day and I only ever checked once a day before so ?. I've had low right side twinges which i would have hoped were implantation but thats what got me last month so again completely in the dark.

I'm so afraid to test early for two reasons a) a + could be chemical b) looking at another bfn hurts so much that I think AF arriving would be the better of two evils but I know me, this crazy me and, well, I can't hold me p**s Grin

That's very long, sorry.

So am I right, there would be 3 of us testing tomorrow?

Good luck everybody and congratulations Piglet

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LoveInAColdClimate · 12/05/2011 09:00

Hello, CookieRookie - sorry to hear you're finding it so hard to conceive #2. I hope you get your BFP this month!

I have officially gone mad - I have a bit of a cough and found myself googling "cough early pregnancy symptom" Hmm.

TBH I feel like AF is on the way but am only 9 DPO which would be unheard of for me (although am also on day 25 and had a 25 days cycle last month - why must this be so confusing?). Am going to the loo about every 5 minutes to check - my colleagues are going to think I've gone mad.

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ellifino · 12/05/2011 09:13

So that's yeastless bread and a bit of a cough...? Grin You are brilliant at finding symptoms!

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LoveInAColdClimate · 12/05/2011 09:23

What can I say, ellifino - it's a gift!

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CookieRookie · 12/05/2011 09:23

Grin If there were gold medals for googling pg symptoms I'd be in the running too!

I've also daydreamed about different ways to tell our families. Love watching the videos on you tube even though they make me cry.

At the moment I'm trying to decide if I always have this much saliva and if the metal taste is bfp-in-waiting or a filling coming loose!

maybebabyR · 12/05/2011 10:40

Morning everyone!

Hi cookie sorry you are having a few troubles. I know what you mean about the crazy amounts of money spent on tests! The companies must be laughing all the way to the bank Smile

Wow love, coughing means you are up the preverbial duff?? Grin

Took all my will power not to POAS this morning. It was just sitting there, looking at me. Think I am slowly losing the plot...

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LoveInAColdClimate · 12/05/2011 11:03

Sadly I couldn't find any actually conclusive Dr Google evidence that the coughing meant I was certainly pregnant and should rush out and buy a pram without waiting for anything as pedestrian as a BFP! But clearly that is what it means Grin.

I think I am going to end up testing tomorrow too (assuming no AF by then) after seeing about two Fertility Friend charts that showed people getting BFPs the day after an implantation dip (amongst the hundreds that didn't). FX for us all!

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maybebabyR · 12/05/2011 11:07

Will be keeping my fingers crossed love

Think I may wait till Saturday to test. I think it will be a BFN anyway, but would rather wait till I am actually late I think!

ellifino · 12/05/2011 12:15

How about indigestion as an early pregnancy symptom? It's not the cold samosa I ate earlier. Oh no.

Also, a friend has offered to make a cake to save me the bother and I am feeling incredibly hurt and bolshy because I want to make the cake. I am thinking about not going now (don't worry, sane me will get the deciding vote on this and I will go). I am clearly pre menstrual hormonal and pregnant. Conclusive evidence, yes?

maybebabyR · 12/05/2011 12:17

And surely the cold samosa was a craving.....

ellifino · 12/05/2011 12:36

Brilliant! Yes! Of course it was!

Tanif · 12/05/2011 13:03

Afternoon all waves

Thank you weimy and uber uber UBER congrats to piglet!

I still haven't POAS and I still haven't got any sign of AF. I have a tesco test in a roses tin (it's where I keep things I don't want to misplace) and with every hour it gets harder and harder not to test...

Boobs are getting sorer and sorer but other than gagging when brushing teeth and the occasional mouthful-of-sick-whilst-burbing (I apologise SO much if anyone was eating lunch when they read that), I have nothing major to report. So I'm convinced I have some kind of underlying PCOS...

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LoveInAColdClimate · 12/05/2011 13:03

Isn't it just so cruel of nature to make PMT and early pregnancy symptoms basically the same? Still no AF despite temperature drop, though, so keeping my hopes up. Oh god, now am starting to think it could be my month so will be a wreck when AF shows up.

Definitely think the cold samosa sounds like a craving Wink

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LoveInAColdClimate · 12/05/2011 13:05

Oooh, x-posts, Tanif - boobs and sickness do sound v positive! Plus you're 4 days late, aren't you? You could definitely justify testing (but maybe tomorrow am for FMU?)?

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Tanif · 12/05/2011 13:11

I know, I probably should test, then I can start adjusting my lifestyle and eating habits and taking pregnacare etc. Even my mum was on the phone this morning, trying to convince me I am. But I'm going to hold out until Sunday, just so I feel a little more justified in it. Being late isn't like me. Unless I lose/gain weight during my cycle they've always been spot on. Even post pill they were of even length, even if they were a couple of days longer than they used to be...

Elli they say heartburn is a pregnancy symptom... and you'd have to have something up to eat a cold samosa, surely?!

maybebabyR · 12/05/2011 13:16

tanif I am getting excited for you! I want it to be Sunday so I can find out the answer Grin

I have slightly sore boobs today, and they weigh a tonne. No exaggeration.

You are so right love why do all the symptoms have to be the same? It isn't good for our states of mind!

I am currently in the 'convincing myself I'm not pregnant in order to stop myself thinking I am pregnant so that when I get a BFN/AF I am not too gutted, even though I know I will be cos my hopes are not entirely dashed yet' phase Smile

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LoveInAColdClimate · 12/05/2011 13:23

Tanif - things really do sound hopeful for you!

maybe - that is what I am trying to do but I am failing miserably!

Perhaps a silly concern, but on Saturday I am meant to be helping to paint my brother's house... if I am updiffed (or at least AF hasn't arrived by then so I don't know for certain that I'm not), do you think the paint fumes could be a bad idea?

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maybebabyR · 12/05/2011 13:33

I think most of the pain nowadays is pretty safe. You may be a bit more sensitive to the smell of it though. Just make sure you have as much air as possible!

Why are the days dragging? I hate this part. I either want a BFP NOW or AF so I can forget about it for a few weeks Hmm

Tanif · 12/05/2011 13:33

Love I wouldn't suggest you bury your nose in a can of dulux and start huffing...

But I'd imagine if all the windows are open and you pop outside for frequent breaks that you'll be absolutely fine.

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LoveInAColdClimate · 12/05/2011 13:38

Thanks, maybe and Tanif - will just make sure I'm sensible about it and try not to stress!

Totally with you, maybe, re the days dragging - I just want to know now! I either want my BFP (obviously!) or for AF to arrive so I can start the next cycle and have a few days off thinking about it. Although will still be sad when AF shows up...

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maybebabyR · 12/05/2011 13:41

It's rubbish isn't it. I am sitting at work thinking about it non-stop today (shows how very not-busy I am today!).

Think I may take day off tomorrow as DH is off, so would be good to go do something and occupy my mind Smile

Tanif · 12/05/2011 13:41

Oh! Are dreams about BFPs indicative of anything? I had a strange one last night that my best friend was pregnant with her ex's baby but she and her current boyfriend had decided he was going to raise it as his own. I then went back home and did a pg test which didn't immediately do anything so I assumed it was negative, then remembered they take a few minutes, had another look, and discovered a BFP...

maybebabyR · 12/05/2011 13:45

I hope they are tanif I had one last night too!! I dreamt I was at work when I did it, but had to hide it so didn't get to see the result for a bit, then it was a BFP, and started crying, and then everyone guessed why, and my whole office then knew.

This is a very unlikely senario, just to emphasise Grin

Tanif · 12/05/2011 13:48

I think, if you're having a day off tomorrow, you should go to the seaside if there's a beach near you [nods]