TTC for 10+ months, part 8

[eurochick]

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

I googled them. Fecking hell...! Purple I thought you were joking when you said they had teeth

That sucks purple and enormously big time :(
I like the feeding the alien chocolate though!

Morning all, so far I have done no work. I have tried on bird and bee dress with several bras, ordered black barren Hunter wellies and cheerful red fleece socks, because it is forecast rain all day at another outdoor wedding, I have looked up how to make a large paper flower (part of the exotic paper flower display at the wedding - don't ask) and signed a contract to move gas pipes. Oh and eaten a boiled egg with 4 soldiers.

Artemis at poking in the eye. Kneeing in the back also works a treat. As does, "I need seeding, it's time for hide the sausage NOW" Thankfully since we have been SSI and I have been taking all of my sexy drugs (a.k.a big brown unsexy supplements) things have heated back up in the princess household. Despite the daily arguments about the cost of the house and how long it's all taking. And Mr Princess's increasingly Mr Grump routine about his increasingly infuriating friends and all of their alternative fucking stupid ideas about how to have a novel wedding. Just get married in a white dress and feed people nice booze and food FCS. It's not that hard. Enough of themes and paper flower demands and outside weddings..... oh hang on..... we had an outside wedding but arranged for a glorious summers day were very lucky buggers but we didn't ask for people to dress up or bring anything except themselves. I see the nutritionist every 4 - 5 weeks. I don't know how long this will continue. I don't think it's very expensive in the scheme of things and she is always there on the end of an email if I have any questions / concerns. She's cheaper than weekly reflexology and my old boozy fag habits in any case.

MissM loving the schedule. When I had my wax the other week, I invited OH to a calender event called 'Party in my pants'. It raised a smile anyway :) FX for you and your shag week activities.

Lemons as you say there is nothing I can do. I will step away from google. Thanks for the shoulder shake. I'm sure I'll return the favour one day Glad that you are enjoying your month off too.

Nelly tres restrained with the ab's.... I love that Wayne's World sketch!

Buzzy hoping things are settling back to normal for you. I've got my fingers firmly crossed for some luck in your direction.

Purple I don't think you're mad for bi-carb douching. You gotta give everything a go. We're all in the same boat. If I had thick CM, then I would be in the bath with a syringe too. However, I have only started to get CM so I don't think this would be the particular solution for my lack of baby. Eek, an alien, that sounds scarey. I don't think I can stomach googling any more lady things.... although I do have a morbid fascination and expect to find myself googling just that later............

I sorry to hear of all this sex failing. SWI does add an extra pressure doesn't it. One of my loveliest friends said years ago now does it make it any less pleasurable to be having sex for a purpose rather than just for fun? She had a point.

I have been at all the flinging of regional items. And talk of cuddling tiles. I awoke to blue sky this morning and short of sticking my limited edition blue ELO 7" on and flinging my arms around to thank the weather gods for a pleasant day (I have a Mr Blue Sky routine - which involves running around the flat in circles punching the air - don't ask - it's a habit left over from my former 'fun' life with a couple of friends who we don't see anymore) I went. "oooh blue sky. look no clouds" It's grey again now. Maybe they are punishing me for lack of enthusiasm. And still muggy. And my plaster still isn't drying. I'll take some sun from Purple and some Northern rain from Artemis and inspiration with my new Hunters from Nellie. Now who wants grey, dank, muggy weather with some squawking seagulls from The South Coast?

Ok, so awoke at 4.30am and did temp as didn't realise time. 36.4. Went back to sleep and awoke at 8am. 36.7. Both are good as are way above the coverline so that means I still have plenty o' progesterone knocking around. I have put the higher one into my chart as it is more consistent with the time that I usually take my temp. But this has made me feel a lot less mental today. I don't have sore boobs or feel sick or metallic taste. My temp is a bit high or a bit low depending on time of taking, so perhaps yesterday was just an random spike. Mentalling has evaporated. I will be keeping the tests for next month.

Over and out. Waves to all I've missed. Work to do :)

purple did they ever tell you what was in yours? Mine was discretely swept away for testing and I decided against asking. I did get a photo of it and it looked a lot like an egg in size, shape and colour. DH has taken to calling me chicken lady.

Artemis you have made me laugh. Sorry for the shock. I nearly wrote 'and I'm not joking' but didn't.

MissM I didn't give it a thought at the time being that I was too busy thinking 'I feel like shit'. Mr Purple wouldn't let it lie though, due to the previously mentioned affection for the gross little bugger. He made me ask the Dr at a check up "how many teeth did it have?" some time had past though and all she offer was "most often they only have one molar". That's one molar too fecking many.

Artemis just snorted again at your response. Blame it on MissM cause I had kept quiet regarding alien til now [ grin]

Artemis I am another one who didn't want kids for years. I changed my mind around age 31, but I am still a bit scared of what a kid might do to my nice little life.

purple I am going to have to google, despite your warnings. Teeth???

princess you do seem to have a run of these themed weddings. All my friends have done the standard church/registry office/stately home thing.

I have never heard of a dermoid cyst so just wiki'd it. I feel really nauseous!! especially when I read that " Canadian Football League linebacker Tyrone Jones, whose teratoma was discovered when he blew a tooth out of his nose."
I actually thought you were all joking but they ACTUALLY grow teeth and hair.

Just passed out at my desk ... [now wondering whether a dermoid is in me].

This dermoid thing has been in the back of my mind (they can reoccur) along with need for a smear - you may recall I was quizzing you all bout smear timing last week - I just called a Dr recommended to me by friend. Shouldn't have worried about timing, no choice whatsoever. one option.

Friday the 13th.

Of course.

The specimen dermoid cyst outside the pathology lab at uni was one of the more interesting items . They kept the really interesting controversial stuff in the dissecting room. Yes, I'm weird, MrTeu reminds me frequently.

Tupperware party tonight (I live the high life) with 1 bump and 2 bundles At least MrTeu is offering sympathetic support now.

Need to catch up with the end of part 7. Wave to all. Hi to MissMedusa.

Ok, to add to those gross talk. OH has just informed me that his grandmother's friend had her siamese twin removed from her brain at 60. They thought it was a tumour; it was in fact a calcified siamese foetus that they ended up removing. I am still not looking up aliens.

Teu I take my hat off to you and your iron stomach. Tupperware party?!?!

JoyceP through his nose?!

Purple I met OH on Friday 13th - that has worked out ok!

Euro All of these weddings are OHs friends; my friends have normal weddings (i.e. without sappy themes)

Cysts with teeth and hair, calcified Siamese twins in brains and tupperware parties....yikes, this is all really a bridge too far (mind you I feel a new insulting term for DH coming on when he pisses me off. Oi Dermoid, pick up your blardy socks).

DH went to a themed wedding once and I thought it was all a bit odd. Back in the day I was a bit more poe faced and felt that it wasn't taking the sanctity of marriage seriously enough. What a knobby thing to think!

I haven't looked at the original thread but think I was on it. It would be too depressing I think to look at that and then think that I am now on Part 8 and with still no whiff of a baby and no diagnosis.

Well despite the positive ov pee stick, over 36 hours on & I still don't think that I have ovulated. I normally feel it and there has been nothing except continuing EWCM. There has also been no boob pain which is another indicator. What the heck is going on? Is this what happens every cycle? Does this explain what the problem is after all this time secretly hopes so ? If, as I suspect, I still haven't ovulated I have worked out that in the best scenario my follie will be 24mm, worst case scenario 36mm (or most likely somewhere in between). That is pretty big and would, according to Dr Google, in the case of an IVF or IUI cycle be discarded as too big and unviable

Well done Joycep on posting your period. at having to keep your period in the fridge. I have pile cream in mine nestling up to the bolognese sauce for tonight's dinner. Hmmm, hmmmm!

FFS, I'm on CD 11 following my downreg bleed and I am STILL bleeding. Well, nasty brown sludging. I am going to look like a flipping prune soon. I can't believe there is anything left in there. At the scan on Monday the nurse said she expected me to stop bleeding in the next day as there was no liquid left in there. It's now Thursday and I am still going! I am hoping this clearout of what must be old lining will do some good. A belated spring clean, if you will.

I am desperate for sff (it has been a while since any kind of s as the mentalling and bleeding have got in the way) but the nasty brown sludge is offputting. Harrumph.

BTW, I know talk of nasty brown sludge is a bit grim, but I figured it was probably the least grim thing on this thread right now...

Euro this thread has indeed got very scary. Tupperware party? Ye gods, can it get any worse? I went to one of those a year or so ago. Took an ironic bottle of Babycham. The hostess was most unimpressed when I drank it all then refused to buy anything Teu I'm not sure that tactic will help you survive the bumps and babies though. That's very unfair.

I'm struggling to concentrate today, work's not being very inspiring. Thankfully I have these exciting new things to mental about:

• Those 'hidden' sexy colds
• Possibility of there being teeth clamped round my ovaries
• Humongous, hard-boiled eggs

Artemis do you work from home? I seem to remember that. I 'worked from home' today. Not very inspiring today either particularly when there are teeth in the wrong place to talk about.

Sometimes they have fully formed eyeballs in them too.

This could be a fun topic of conversation to introduce at the tupperware party. On the up side, you may never have to attend another one :o

Afternoon all, I too am bored out of my tiny mind. Work is proper dullsville. My bestie has pulled out of our meet (with a couple of friends I haven't seen for ages) because she continues to spew. I am mentalling like a wrongun since the metallic taste has now appeared and I'm mega tired and have more CM than I have ever seen in my life and my ovaries feel like they're twinging away. I've done a cheap test and it's arctic white as pout would say. Bodies are weird and horrible. I am angry because a few days back, I was merely happy that my chart was looking good; chuffed with dedication to the brown diet; looking forward to my anniversary; looking forward to having had most investigations done; looking forward to TTC with renewed hope and increased sex drive and now I've managed to land in an unwanted 2ww. When my period arrives next week, rather than be pleased that everything seems to be working ok, I'm instead going to be wailing that I'm not pregnant from one shag. Please, don't humour me with any kind of reason. I know that this is ridiculous. I am a reasonable, logical kind of person and even I know that this 'pregnancy' feeling is merely mind fuckery. However, this has all got to me this afternoon coupled with a reminder that my bestfriend is well and truly pregnant (and now can't come out for spewing up all the time), combined with the bird and bee themed wedding with the 5 month pregnant bride in two days time and the possibility of another announcement tonight (from someone who is just celebrated their wedding anniversary) - it's only a small neurotic hunch. DH is very stressed out and thinks that my body is just readjusting and possibly getting used to new things happening, such as pumping out enough progesterone. Only time will tell. And a boring day sat here in steely silence is not helping.

Artemis I hear you on the new mentalling. I am now wondering whether I have sexy colds hidden up there and wondering at what point I send my period to Athens.

Euro sorry you are still bleeding. If it's brown, could it just be old stuff that hasn't worked its way through yet? I hope you don't keel over though. So much bleeding is so tiring. I felt rubbish when I was having two periods a month. Sometimes at the end of a period I put a tampon in and pull it out again to get rid of the brown sludge before sexy time. I know you are a moon cup girl, but I use non bleached organic tampons, they sell them in our waitrose.

Pout we are being miserable gits about the theme. If I wasn't at the pregnant bride; tight on time and needing to do DIY this weekend; and able to drink myself into a stupor I would be very much looking forward to the wedding. They are already technically married - small registry office affair in May. This is a faux ceremony on top of a hill and then lunch in his back garden (epic house in posh part of W.Sussex). It's sort of irritating that they are pleading poverty and making everyone bring the decorations for their wedding / own food and booze for the evening because there is quite a considerable amount of cash floating around behind the scenes. Still shouldn't judge and at least I can adhere to the brown diet. Sorry that you don't think you have ov'd and that your bits are playing silly buggary.

I am back in the meh mood this afternoon. Boo hiss. stamps foot

Euro I think you are right that the best way to view sludge gate is as a good spring clean. Still I hope that it abates soon.

artemis at embracing the spirit of the Tupperware party and bringing Babycham and extra grins for pissing off the host. FGS how seriously can one be expected to take a few lunch boxes and boxes with lids?

princess Oh cripes at meh and pukey friend cancelling...hugs! If it makes you feel better and helps you to stop stressing, I have had metallic taste as part of my 2ww. Also last cycle I could smell metal so badly through my nose (yeah I know that it is the normal method in which to smell but that is the best way I can explain it!) and also coming off my skin. So much so that I really did wonder if we had hit the jackpot. I can't help to explain the rest so shall I launch a kipper instead? Seriously, I sympathise. The 2ww is hell especially an unexpected 2ww that is giving you cause to wonder. Hang in there.

Rolls eyes at cheap skate wedding. I can't imagine what the paper flowers are all about??????

Want to add that I hate Google. Why can't it provide a straight answer to my question? Why is it bringing up stuff on hard boiled eggs and Bovine insemination?

Hello all, well I have had a good laugh today reading all the posts.
Had more blood tests and still waiting for AF but have period cramps and PMT so its just time. Just spoke to OH about periods to Greece he was a little suprised but more that we don't do it over here.

Pout - really really pleased for you about positive OPK

Mrs M - hello and welcome - sorry you find yourself here but I love the entetaining way you write your updates. Love the idea of alien dermoid munching the choloclate and treats.

Princess - hang in there, it's one day less to finding out what's going on. I have my fingers and toes crossed.

Got to dash as somewhere to be tonight. But hellow to all and I am soooooo gonna google dermoids when i get the chance.

Pout - uuum curious.. I'm sure this isnt helpful but am bored and sitting on a bus. Have you poas again? Might be worth it. What cycle day are you on now? I think it strange that he saw an 18mm follicle on day 11. My nhs gynae specifically said that the follies have a huge growth spurt in the days leading up to ovulation. It starts around 18mm and that's when they grow 2-3mm a day as opposed to 1mm a day. Hence why he predicted ovulation for you sometime ago. So I wonder whether a new follicle took over from the one he saw. Or perhaps this isn't a hard and fast rule an perhaps yours grow slowly...anyway Bodies can struggle to ovulate and I think that's when you get several days of positive poas so that may be happening. Do you know the kind of temp you would expect before ov as it may be worth doing tomorrow morning. This could be a freak cycle but I do think they should probably do another monitoring month but with more scans and with you doing temps and poas . Easier said than done when it comes to pushing the nhs but imagine if this is the issue - ovulation problems can be fixed.

Princess- all sounding intriguing your end. I would have mentally decorated the nursery by now.

Euro - sorry about the bleeding, I hope it stops soon.

Hi guys! On phone so just a quick post to welcome miss m and say howdy to everyone else - I pissed myself laughing at the scrotum cooling patch Artemis! Period has arrived so I did indeed ovulate and was fretting for no reason. Onwards and upwards! Still in Maine with my sis, having lovely time eating lobster. Proper post when I get back to civilization on Sunday!

purple and artemis my Canadian friend has an alien dermoid, I googled it and nearly called her yelling 'get it of you, get it out of you' but I managed to pull myself together but they are hideous things

euro sorry about the bleeding

gin whenever I go in my bosses office he starts to look really worried and says 'I don't have any tissues' sometimes I just hang around his office to freak him out my faux fur baby is a sheepskin cushion, almost went for possum

carrie thanks, I've been given so much conflicting advice about sperm that I might still ask Shehata, according to my ledger, we shagged on a Wed and Sat and got updiffed twice last year

purple your boobs give you alot of grief, mine seem normal this month so far, how long before swi did you douche??

nelly i would have nabbed the drugs, kids need to build up their immune systems

teu oooh tuperware, i'm a tidy control freak and like things to be put in pretty boxes out of the way not sure about a tuberware party unless there was booze and snacks offered

pout at calling Mr P that, i'm still laughing about it, pile cream is good for the bags under your eyes too

princess Mr B is getting better and hopefully he will up for dtd, hope your mehness has lifted

sarlat DON'T google it, you'll have nightmares

carrie glad you're having a lovely time with your sis

Not much to report my end CD13 and still 2 bars on the cbfm, which is fine by me, having scan tomorrow so we'll see

waves to everyone else

Woah. I googled. Of course. It's a bit nasty, isn't it. joy when you said you passed out, did you actually, or was it metaphorical?

Sorry for scaring you artemis at our similarities. Guess what - Mr Nelly is a big cyclist too

Sorry for the excessive violence directed towards you purple. Don't worry, I can't see me tossing the caber that far. I will PM you if that's ok, as we have ......drumroll..... booked our honeymoon . Well we've booked the book-end flights, to a hot sunny desert destination. Our intention is to spend about 3 nights there, then fly on to the Seychelles. By doing it this way we've (oh god I'm so excited) been able to use our BA miles and are flying First class on the way out only as that uses them all up so are in the back of the plane coming home Needless to say this is a treat of a lifetime, and I am most excited . I also haven't checked the malaria map as am now in denial

Anyway I need to go and get more excited about my honeymoon so am off to search for ludicrously expensive hotels that we can't afford .

ooh we'll have to start calling you poshnelly very at your honeymoon and upgraded flights, how long will you be away for in total :)