Easter bunnies and chocolate eggs! Jump aboard for the ladies hoping the Easter Bunny will bring a very special egg.

[Pipbin]

Well the witch has caught up with me at last. So I have decided its time to start a new thread as I think our christmas reindeer need a rest.
So step aboard ladies and join me for a hunt for the golden egg.

squirrel a train in SE Asia, that would have been fab story, still at least you still have the experience!

well I tested today, BFN , very early as i am either 9DPO or 10 DPO or maybe even 11 DPO depending on which tool i use on FF. Going by advanced i'm only 9. Didn't expect anything else really but there's always that glimmer of maybe...I'll test again Monday.

Yet another friend has just announced her pregnancy on facebook today. Cue another session of crying in the shower.

But then DH said the following to me, which did make sense:

If everyone could take their problems and put them on a table, we would all take our own back rather quickly.

oh pipbin so sorry you felt so low. I'm lucky in that respect as my friends are done with babies. How do people announce their pregnancy on facebook? Do they stick a scan photo up with the announcement? Your DH is completely right though and wise to say that. Your time will come, hopefully the scan will be fine and you'll get results from clomid- it was clomid next wasn't it?

Blackcats I'm having an HSG on Friday. Then back to the specialist in October.

As for Facebook, yes, most people don't say anything until they've had their 12 week scan, then stick up a picture of it.
The thing is that I know I would do the same.

Oh Pipbin

Thanks Flying.

The thing with TTCing is that you don't know how many other people are in the same situation. All the pregnancy announcements on Facebook still only tell part of the story. You don't know how many months of trying have happened before that. How many doctors appointments etc. If everyone found getting pregnant as easy as it seems on the surface there would be no CBFM and the like would there. Companies don't make these products for fun or the kindness of their hearts.

that's very true Pipbin

Maybe in the past it would have been more obvious if people were having problems conceiving as babies would have been expected to start coming soon after marriage. Couples had little options other than to adopt.

Sorry you're feeling down Pip, but your DH sounds like he's got a really good view on things. And you're so right about not knowing the whole picture. I know it feels like we're alone in this but so many people take longer than 2 months to get pg.

6dpo and have the best chart I've had since I was pg with DS, but I'm feeling super cranky and moody today, so I'm sur it's only a matter of time.

How is everyone else? :)

Names change here, previously Flying. I've wanted a new name for a while and it's just come to me. Yes, I know, these books are hated on MN but I'm actually enjoying them dirty cow

Name... blimey, I can't spell on my iPhone or my iMac at the moment

I like it :) My book club is reading it as an addition this month! We've had a couple refuse to read it so we had to pick two books. We're off on holiday on Wednesday so I was going to download it!

Phew, I'm not the only fan on MN
I've just started book 2. I see it as a modern romance with the odd bit of outrageous naughties
I am in love with Christian Grey

Pipbin, how was your smear test? Mine is tomorrow at 4
Had to tell my male boss (thankfully he is lovely) that I'll be leaving early for a quick shower as it'll look odd if I lied and said it was a GP appointment (my GP is just 2 miles down the road and I won't be going back to work). Not a nice thing to be honest about

Smear was fine, now for the HSG on Friday.

Good luck pipbin, will be thinking of you x

Hi all! Hope everyone's doing well. Good luck for tomorrow Pip - let us know how it goes.

No news to report here, except I figured I'm supposed to ovulate this month while hiking in North Wales. Seems that every month requires clandestine SWI in an exotic location at the moment!

Good luck tomorrow pipbin

that's hilarious squirrel, at least it stops TTC sex from becoming mechanical!

Thanks guys. I'm sat here wasting time until it's time to head off.

We have just put our house on the market and I don't think that we could have contemplated moving if we had managed to conceive when we first started to TTC. If we managed it next month then that will work out about right for us.

just been to the GP who "kindly" pointed out that I'm getting old and there's lots of risks especially of Downs.
He also said the strange periods might be down to my age and that my body is shutting that bit down etc

Well that's me full of hope then

Having a blood test on Monday for hormones and thyroid (lack of weight loss despite going to gym classes and sweating my arse off 2/3/4 times a week)

Have a form to book in for a scan (book in 2 working days) to check for fibroids.

I think this might be the end of TTC for me.

But it's not the end of the world, I've got a gorgeous DS and, if he's an only child, there's a good chance I can pay for public school when he goes to senior school (I'll be full time then), that's if our local school doesn't improve massively in the next 8 years - it really is a dreadful school.

So there are positives... And I feel like we are functioning quite nicely without nappies, feeds and nap ruling my life...

Clutching at straws?!!! Maybe

shifty how old are you? BTW your GP doesn't sound very nice at all.

However before i start on about the amount of women who do have healthy babies even over the age of 40 i always think it is wise to consider what life would be like when we don't get what we want and to try to make the most of that. You are lucky in that you have a child and are a mother, same as I am. I too have started looking at not exactly the advantages of not having another but the different way my life will go and the different things I will be doing. It is very hard to give up on the future we wanted though and a painful process to go through. I know many women suffering from secondary infertility say on MN that they get cross when they are told to count themselves lucky as it seems to say they shouldn't feel pain and sadness, i don't mean to imply that at all. Of course it is painful and of course they should expect to be taken seriously and have investigations . I suppose i just feel for myself that I am always so bloody grateful to have had my own healthy child when there are many who don't and so many things that could have gone wrong .

It doesn't sound to me like you've reached the end of the road yet, just heard some unpleasant things from a GP that would upset anyone. If i'd just been told that I would be so upset. Please don't give up yet. You seem a long way off that.

For me shiny new cycle. AF started today, knew it was coming as had several BFNs . Am ok with that. Glad this cycle is over.

He is the most unpleasant GP at the surgery. I wrote a complaint letter about him a while ago but decided not to hand in as I was rather touchy at the time (PND) so worried I was over sensitive.
Got the appointment after my smear on Wed and was surprised I got one (normally have to ring in the morning along with the rest of the town) but I think most people would rather see anyone but him as his bedside manner is.... Well, let's just say he missed the training in empathy..

I'll be 40 in December, that was always going to be our "stop trying time"

I know it's not really old, but I need to draw a line at some point.

He's such a miserable knob

Well the HSG was an interesting experience.

I'll go through it incase anyone else has one another time.

So started off with stripping of and putting a hospital gown and dressing gown on. Nurses then called me through to the xray room. There I had to take my dressing gown off and lie on a bed. The bed went up and the doctor inserted a speculum, like having a smear taken.
She then 'injected' the dye. This was uncomfortable, rather like period pains.
I could see the screens and after the doctor told me what she had found.

Firstly, the uterus was fine. I have a fibroid but not one that will cause any problem.
Secondly it took her a while, and a little bit of force to get the dye into the tube. This could have been caused by a blockage, which the dye has now removed.
However, as for the other tube, nothing. Either its properly blocked or it was contracting and this was preventing the dye going through.
Now I had an ultrasound nearly a year ago due to suspected cervical cancer. And while having this done the radiographer said, 'do you have both your ovaries?' Which was worrying. But she found the other one and this is the tube that the doctor today couldn't find.
I'm taking it as a positive. One is there and working. I just need to persuade that ovary to ovulate and not the other one.

Fifty your doctor sounds a nightmare. I would ask to see someone else.

Hi pipbin, so it sounds like you have a blocked tube? and may have had two but one was possibly cleared by the procedure today? One blocked tube is def doable to conceive and I've heard of many women on MN who have done so.
sorry i've no time to write more. shall try again in the morning.

From what I understood one was blocked and has now become unblocked, one is either completely blocked or was having a spasm at the time.