TTC 6+ months plus, part 2

[skeletonbones]

New thread as the old one was getting to 1000. So, 4 BFP's in the last thread, lets see if we can up the total considerably on this one :)

Hopefully the doctors surgery will be able to give me my fh and lsh (taken on day3) results in an hr... The doc is looking at them... Anyone know what they will actually tell me... From googling all I can see is whether I have or have nor got pcos...

And congrats to hope. New thread, new bfp!!! Well done.

Congrats hope, I must say I thought it sounded like you were pregnant!! Cramps are normally a good sign - the bean is implanting. I hope you have a non eventful pregnancy. But fills me with hope you only did it twice this month!

MrsD - what a good DH you have. My DH hates brazil nuts and it didn't go down well when i started forcing them in his mouth .

Spirita - hi , I think I came across you before on the short LP thread. I get everywhere. I'm very impressed your LP has been extended to 12 days from 6!! I couldn't get acupuncture to extend mine from 11 to 12...

Pout - i'm going to do temping against next month. I will have another pow wow with him about it.

Anyway hello to everyone else!

Karbea - sorry i'm not sure what LH/FSH will show. I think the ratio is suppose to be 1:1... i think. God knows what that means but it is something to do with your body gearing up for ovulation and yes if they are out it can be an indication of pcos. Best of luck. I hope you don't have pcos. I get terribly nervous when i get blood test results.

joy cep my gut instinct is something is wrong, I'm hoping it's something easily fixed though...

karbea it's worth asking your doctor exactly what they tested for, was it just LH and FSH? Because I know I had 7 vials of blood taken for my day 3 tests so I think they are testing for all sorts of things. One of the tests they sometimes do is about ovarian reserve I think. I know I've also been tested for blood type and Rubella immunity and also whether I have certain immune problems, thyroid and fasting glucose. But I have to pay for all my tests so I think I probably have been tested for more than would be done in a standard NHS test.

Spirita - your acupuncturist sounds amazing - are you London based?! Perhaps i didn't give it long enough...only 3 months and I was so disappointed it didn't do anything. The acupuncturist didn't think there was anything particularly wrong with me and kept saying I would be pregnant by June at the latest...urrr hello?!! Anyway, 13 dpo for you, i will keep my fingers crossed for you.

Congrats hope, that's great news!

congratulations hope fantastic start to the thread :) welcome to spirita and nervous nelly
I am feeling better about ttc now after a long talk with my dh. We have decided to give it a couple more months then go and start tests at the doc, we have also decided not to do temping, ov sticks ect ect and just try and get back into enjoying sex and trying to get the right times IYSWIM. I'm actually looking forward to DTD now instead of feeling that its another task that has to be done which is so much better. We've also decided to plan our lives as if a baby isnt going to happen to avoid putting everything on hold, as I dont want to spend all of my 30's on an emotional roller coaster, so weve kind of thought that we would try and live life as if we had planned not to have a baby and then if we get lucky it will be a bonus rather than feeling that it is the thing everything is focused on?! if that makes sense?!

Hi everyone,

Do you mind if i join? We've been ttc#2 since November but ive only had one period since then so this is our first proper cycle i guess. Using the CBFM and it shows i ovulated yesterday (i think thats right you ov on 2nd peak day?!) so i'm now in the 2ww!!

Thanks for the welcome skeleton. that's similar to my philosophy too I think. I have posted this on another thread today as well so sound like I'm on a bit of a recruitment drive, but I'm on a thread for those who are Just Shagging. Look for the JS Viroids threadif you want to join us. We try to avoid acronyms and obsession, imbibe in if we feel like it, and generally pretend -to-- stay chilled.

According to my iPhone, that knows stuff, I'm due tomorrow. But I don't think I am, so not going to get excited yet. Absolutely zero symptoms either way. I think I'm on 10DPO. Maybe if nothing by Saturday, but I'm not one for BFD's (Big Fat Dissapointment).

Evening ladies,

Beautiful weather around here, I hope everyone else is enjoying the same. I'm just back from the gym. The last month - with the birth of my friend's baby and getting the referral to the fertility clinic - I've been a bit down and my response to that is usually to eat junk and slack off on the exercise. So.... my plan for the summer holidays is to do lots of cooking of healthy but tasty things and get lots of exercise. No point putting on baby weight when I'm not even bloody pregnant :)

Good luck with the more casual approach skeleton, I didn't do any OPKs last month but I find that they help me to know when I'm due which helps my sanity a bit, so I'm back on them this month. I couldn't do the temping though because it felt too much like hard work, especially on the weekends. We should all be enjoying having long lies when we don't have kids to wake us up at an ungodly hour! (Apologies to those of you trying to conceive number 2 or 3....)

Spirita I'm a bit scared of supplements (agnus castus in particular), but acupuncture might be worth a go. I'll maybe do a little research in my area. It definitely sounds like it's helped you a lot. Even if it didn't help me get pregnant, I would feel so much better to have a nice long stretch with no spotting between periods. One week of AF is plenty.

Hello ladies and welcome Izzy.

Madness I think that I ought to follow your lead and cut out the junk too. I've been fed up and eating so much crap. I got a horrible shock yesterday when I jumped up and down (new test to see whether boobs hurt - don't ask!) and heard this slapping sound. I realised to my absolute horror that it was the sound of flab smacking flab

I love everybody's new relaxedness. Unfortunately my new found chilled approach lasted all of 3 weeks. I have had full on snotty, sobbing meltdowns two days in a row now because I know that AF is lurking. It didn't help that we found out yesterday that our house has been sold and we have a couple of months to find somewhere to live - have been looking since January so not looking hopeful. I just know that we will end up putting our stuff in storage and I will have to go and stay with my inlaws while DP stays down here for work so that means that TTC will go out the window too. I just love a bit more TTC pressure!

Good luck Nellie!

Thanks . Still no signs really, though I am getting the odd pain in my belly. Could be the imminent arrival of the fecker, who knows. No spotting yet, but no PG symptoms either. I am passing the time by trying to book flights for my weekend away. Why do I always leave these things til the last minute!

pout I hope something works out for you re. your home. It's awful when things like that are uncertain but they do usually right themselves in the end. Sometimes when you least expect it.

I am not feeling very relaxed either mainly because the bills for all the tests have started arriving. Each test seems to have been done by different labs so they are arriving in the post in dribs and drabs. I'm keeping a running total of what it's costing and it is quite frightening. Especially to think that this is only the investigations stage and not even treatment. I am able to start working out from the bills what we've been tested for though which is good seeing as I didn't really have a clue and I won't find out until I see my Dr again when my next period starts. So far I've had: Smear and chlamydia screening, Rubella antibodies, toxoplasmosis antibodies, hepatitis, various white blood cell and immune type things, blood group check. And DH has had a whole range of hormone blood tests like testosterone and prolactin. I haven't had the bill yet for the thyroid and hormone stuff but guess it's on the way. It's going to take the doctor ages to go through all these results, I think I better take my lunch with me when I go to see her!

Also, I know I said I wasn't going to take any notice of my cycle this month but I broke that and took my temp for the last few days. It was really low so I don't think I did ovulate last week when I thought I did. I wonder if the stress delayed it. Anyway it was up this morning so think I might have ovulated yesterday on day 20. I won't take my temp again now, I just wanted to have an idea about when AF might arrive so I can book my next doctor appointment.

I have discovered this site, a whole programme devoted to ttc with lots of clips, so much for not obsessing! tlc.howstuffworks.com/tv/a-conception-story

spirita - i feel robbed, i was paying £50 per session and £70 for the first!!. But thank you for the tip about community clinics. If i ever go down acupuncture route again, i will be sure to check those out.
Pout - i'm sorry you are down at the moment. Those days where all you want to do is cry are just awful. And I'm sorry to hear you have housing pressures as well. That's really not what you need on top of everything but as MrsD says, I'm sure things will work out in the end. I hope your dogs are looking after you. I've been banging on to DH that we need to move in to a garden flat if we can, so we can get a dog. I need to be looking after and caring for sth - currently i'm a bit too motherly towards DH and I think it would be best if i transfered my motherness on to a dog!!

Oh Mrsd I know exactly how you feel. I have those bill horrors every month and it is mind boggling and I worry whether i'm just being taken for a ride. I mustn't complain though because at least I have the nhs option. Have you had the ones like day 3 and day 21 yet? Has everything come back normal for you?

I'm loving all this relaxed behaviour on this thread. I have also been quite relaxed for a few days. It won't last long. I'm seeing my pregnant friend at the weekend and I hope I don't break down and sob on her again. Tactic for this meeting, is to try and be excited for her on her behalf. I am trying to think that it will happen to us and one day it will be our turn rather than let my negativity get the better of me.

joycep I was paying that too (Central London). I still am in fact!

AF is due tomorow and I am pretty well it is on the way. Oh well. On to cycle 8!

I'm new to this tread also. TTc since oct (although i use the term ttc very loosely as i recently went 18 weeks without a period) referred to gynae and await blood and scan results (didn't even occur to me to ask the consultant what tests she was doing), await tentatively for results......

Thank you Mrsden and Joycep. I'm sure the house issue will resolve itself, it's just so frustrating. Who would have thought that it would be so difficult to find a house when you are looking at areas across 5 counties.

Gynae bills intermittently popping through the letterbox sounds scary!

Joycep Ha at the dogs looking after me! They're the bloody reason we can't find somewhere to live Nobody seems to want dogs in their rentals unless the place resembles a squat to start with! I do hope that you get a dog. They are a great distraction from TTC and it allows me to make a tit of myself express my mothering urges. Mind you if I don't get pregnant soon they will be dressed up in bonnets and put in a tandem pushchair!

I hope that your weekend with your pregnant friend goes okay.

Sorry that AF is wending her merry way Euro. Mine too. Had period pain this afternoon so it's all over bar the screaming!

Any developments Nelly?

Hello Latin

Hello all . On phone so can't name check except from memory!

mrsden the bills sound very alarming. I've just had initial investigations and they have been NHS, I'm not sure what we'd do if we had to start paying. Find the money somehow, I guess, but it's hardly going to help with the Just Relax cliche is it? Hope you get some answers soon.

spirita know what you mean about a question Mark over ovulation being stressful. I use an iPhone app, which has my periods at an average of 25 days. That would mean I'm 15dpo and a day overdue, but although I don't temp, I noticed v obvious ewcm and mittleschmerz on the Monday. That puts me at only 12 dpo, hence I know it's too early to get excited/stressed.

That said.... As I normally get a few days of spotting which hasn't appeared, so I caved and PIAR. Bloody cheapy test was invalid- which kind of serves me right.. Still no period pain etc, though I am getting (TMI alert!) the sensation of something happening down there, so it could well be on it's way. Who knows.

Hello to everyone else, my memory has now failed so can't remember who said what. But good luck with house-hunting, PLEASE don't put your dog in a frock , here's hoping the threatened periods don't arrive, and hello to newbies! Pick from the above any comments that relate to you .

It's over. Meh.