TTC for 10+ months, part 8

[eurochick]

A friendly, supportive thread for those taking a blooming long time to conceive!

I'm just leaving Piccadilly...

Hi everyone,
I feel like every time I come on here I am apologising for my crapness, promise to try to keep up then fail again miserably! I have been reading every couple of days but life has been so busy with a house move and other manic things (paranoia about outing myself) but my job has also changed. We're now off for a couple of weeks on our holidays...so you'll probably be on thread 9 by the time I get back!! Not before some bfps on this thread though, please please please!
Anyway, sorry to read about some really low points for some. How much more shit do we all have to go through to get our babies. We will get there though. euro I really hope the procedure goes well and all is straightforward and that it's not too painful. Hope for others that cycles right themselves and that period analysis results give some helpful info.
I am having this cycle off and am bloody loving it! Clearly the only way to 'relax and forget about it' is to not have sex. Which is clearly of the answer!
Hope you are all enjoying your Sunday's, especially those at the Great North Meet! I'll raise a sangria to you later! Xx ps. Can't proof read on phone today so apologies for all mistakes! Waves to all xx

Grrrr...not the answer, not of the answer. Blinking phone!

Just thought I'd raise a glass to the Northerners. Hope you found each other without too much difficulty. at holey trousers, tampax earrings and pee stick indicators!! Anyone have a spooks momemt? Any truckers turn up?

I have not much to add to the mix today, except I'm very proud that I have grown edible vegetables. We harvested some potatoes, baby beets, onions and lettuce. I killed a slug by dropping a brick on it too (I've never killed a slug before). I was as it ate one of my other lettuces. Goodbye slug, goodbye. Anyway. Murdering aside, hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. to you all. Oh and happy hols frannie

Hello all, busy weekend so have just sat and tried to have a read through. Hope the north meet up goes well, sadly not north enough for me :(
Sorry for self indulgent post yet again. At the clinic tomorrow to tell them I haven't taken clomid this month and won't be again due to side effects, no monitoring and no explained reason why I have been prescribed when I already ovulate each month.
I don't know what to expect, maybe I will get discharged as we can't afford IVF. I am hoping I will get my lap so I can get the endo treated. If not its back to GP and down the Gyne route. OH is sick of talking about it and won't make any decisions its all down to me. So very helpful

evening ladies and BIG WAVES to the northern meet up

Frannie enjoy your hols and thanks for the thoughts.

carrie your clinic really has been shit. I hope they are helpful (but I think we all know better than to expect that).

I have to say, bar the slight worry about if/when my cycle is going to come back, sff without worrying in the slightest about cycle days and optimum positions is brilliant. I highly recommend a month or two off for anyone if it is all getting a bit much. Although I have the additional benefit of not feeling that I am in danger of missing an egg because there isn't one "thanks to" the drugs.

rabbit I hope you feel better soon. It does sound like your body is just sorting itself out, post op.

Hello northern meet up people, I'm so sorry I couldn't make it. Bad planning/diary co-ordination with Mr Nelly on my part. Hope it was lurvely .

I have been rubbish at catching up and promised Mr Nelly I'd head up to bed now (he is just back from a Stag Weekend so you can imagine how enthusiastic he was this evening!) so just wanted to share some for the crew.

Anyway just a general hello, which is all I am finding time for just now, and I'm on a course the next 2 days so unlikely to have much time then either! BFP, where arrrreeee yooooooooo?????

Oh northern meet up was yesterday - tell us all! Did everyone look normal?

I know joyce it's very quiet around here.........

I was thinking the same! Why so secretive!!

Oh and morning all... :)

by the way Sarlet last winter 3 pairs of my trousers gave way at the arse, in 10 days. I really thought someone was out to get me. That was 50 % of total wearable trousers. The situation has not been completely rectified even now.

Maybe the northern lasses are still on it... maybe they are tucking in to a massive fried breakfast with huge sunnies on having stayed up to see the sunrise talking about all things TTC over a huge cocktail listening to some chilled Balearic beats....

What happened? We want to know!

Hi ladies, hope you all had a great time at your meet up!

pout glad you got on the IVF waiting list. I'd be interested to know on how you get on with your clomid as well so keep us posted please. Excellent result on your progesterone!

princess good work on the preconception diet. I'm doing something similar (basically staying away from anything that comes out of a package) and it's tough but seems to get easier with time as the sugar cravings lessen. I've been on it for 1 month now but still have a long way to go

euro too bad you didn't get your kitty. I highly recommend getting one though, they are so lovely and so little work. We have 2 and they brighten up every day until they decide to bring a live mouse into the house and then you get to spend your Friday night chasing down a mouse.

sarlat thanks for the tip on the baby carrots. I was using EPO which helped to some extent but would prefer to eat carrots than to take supplements.

carrie good luck at the clinic today

My cycle has clearly gone to the dogs. CD21 and temps are still low, I'm writing thing cycle off. I'm pretty sure I ov'd from the left last cycle so I'm wondering if my right ovary (the one that had the dermoid) is possibly not working. Hopefully I'll get some answers from my gyno today. I'm assuming she can test my progesterone levels to confirm that I haven't ov'd? Hopefully she'll do that although I don't know what that will mean and where we'll go from here. She told me before that even if one ovary is bunk the other often takes over. I guess we'll see and I'll report back later with what she says.

Medusa good luck with gyno today, hope you get some answers.

You are just adding fuel to the fire on the cat issue. We have never had a pet due to our gypsy lifestyle but I have been recently trying to reassess. Funny that it came up up here with euro not least because a Bengal is my choice.

Princess I'd been thinking along the same lines....

Nearly half ten and still no sign....

Do you think that the North / South divide has kicked in? Maybe they've set up a splinter thread. TTC for 10+ Months (North) A friendly, supportive thread for those North of Watford taking a blooming long time to conceive!

Ladies, we are waiting to hear all about it! Come on!

Did the northerners dump us...? Change their usernames and set up camp elsewhere?

Morning all

Popping on quickly to scotch emerging rumours that the northern 10+ers are recovering from a wild night of tight lycra, orange foundation, cheeky vimtos, amateur pole dancing in Yates's and a kebab on the way home... It was in fact all very civilised. Yes Joycep everyone looked normal and we managed to find each other without too much ducking and diving. We were lucky that the restaurant was spacious and not busy so i don't think we put any nearby earwiggers off their pasta and it was really nice to meet people in RL and have a proper chat about everything. I didn't notice anyone giving us a wide berth or making the sign of protection against the barren so I guess we weren't giving off any collective vibes

So no splinter thread! I had a really lovely time meeting everyone, hope the others did too and hope we'll manage to do it again at some point in future

Ah phew... there you are Artemis Glad you had a lovely time. And that we Southerner's haven't been dumped!! I haven't heard of cheeky vimtos for a long time. That made me and think of my times wrapped in tiny clothes, stinking of fake tan, drinking cheeky vimtos / stiffuns (a "cocktail" served in a pint glass in Morecambe consisting of 4 shots of vodka topped up with fake redbull) and doing the pole. I have no other way of describing drunken pole stuff.

Anyway, can we have a big meet up with everyone? Maybe in Autumn when summer arrives? I'd love to meet the Northerner's and the London crew again. Anyone else up for it?

Hi ladies,

I won't make apologies again for going AWOL as I'm beginning to sound like a broken record (and because I'm going on holiday tomorrow for 10 days). But I am here, reading and trying to keep up with everyone, though the thread is moving at lightening speed at the moment!

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to artemis for organising yesterday, it was so lovely to meet people in real life and talk through everything. We soon whiled away a few hours! Really hope we can do it again soon and it would be lovely to all get together later in the year.

Glad to hear there are no splinter threads emerging. I'm soooo far south of Watford.

If we have a big meet up we can skype you in Purple?

That would be most amusing Princess, in the meantime I will be busy lobbying local government for less power cuts and stable Internet connections. I'm sure they are just looking for a good enough reason to get this together. When I explain what I need and why they will likely sort it out in a second

Artemis Is it bad to be disappointed that the Northern meet up didn't end up with pole dancing in Yates? Still the Southern Plussers now have plenty of ideas for their next get together! I'm glad that it went well. Sorry to have missed the online toasting.

frannie Hope that the move went okay.

princess & Sarlat The IVF comment about 'not wanting a baby enough if you don't have IVF' is really appalling. I just think it is more evidence of how a lot of people simply don't understand the process and what exactly it involves. I think that some people must think that the stork magically pops a baby in your tummy. In my mind I don't view IVF as likely to get me pregnant. I see it as as an attempt to get some closure. For me if I have IVF I can tell myself that I tried every avenue to have a baby. It will also mark the end of hospital appointments and the hope that medical science will help me.

sarlat I have been eating loads of those little carrots...ohhhhh!
Incidently my Progesterone test was done on the same day as my post ov monitoring scan on CD20 of 32 & approximately 6dpo. Not quite Day 21 but the doctor said to do it then.

joycep any news from Athens? I am going to combust if they don't get back to you soon!!!!!

euro It is interesting that Clomid had little effect on you. I am starting to get the wobbles now about it and thinking that my cycle is actually not bad at the moment and worrying that Clomid might just mess things up. I just got pulled in by the idea of potentially producing two targets for MrP's sperm to missrather than just one.
I'm sorry that you missed out on the kitty. The poster did get a hell of a lot of responses. I'm not surprised it was one cute cat!

Rabbit I hope that you are less down today. I'm sure that the meet up must have helped cheer you up.

Well it is my turn to be hugely fed up today! It is 12DPO and I just know that I am out again. Seriously how many more months can my buggering period turn up? I feel like standing in the garden and having a bloody good scream.

My stupid mother upset me yesterday too with an utterly stupid comment about how she has been thinking and she reckons I'm not pregnant because "I am thinking about getting pregnant too much". Well thanks Mum, how remis of the consultant not to have shared that well known medically proven fact with me