Hoping for a July bfp part 3 the poas addicts

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Oh have i started the new thread??
Red, I've never had symptoms when pg so don't let that put you off

No it doesn't hurt. Well I guess - if I jab it in wrong or something but I discovered that 45 degree angle hurts less. Sometimes my legs bleed a bit when I inject there but I think it's either capillaries or apparently just a bit more muscle.

So lets say that 8 times out of 10, I barely feel anything.

What do you mean it goes into my hips? Like the injection or I get fat?

Glad to know they are not that painful. Meant ...it literally has to be injected near the hip bone?

Typical Pre-AF symptoms are coming now.
Don't stand a chance this month

No - it just has to be subcut - so into any fat. The stomach, the upper thighs, the (wobbly under) arms, the buttocks...

Injecting into muscle means the insulin is taken up a bit quicker.

I think that's what happened this morning. I had a spot of bleeding so I don't think it got into the fat properly and hence the high. Plus sudden increase in the temperature outside.

Don't worry red - I reckon in September, I am going to be mad as hell doing symptom spotting and swearing by all kinds of random laws that I will be pregnant.

TMI story but we bought two fertility tests - one for DH and one for me. DH's is a whole science kit that tests his swimmers. His are apparently fine

Ooooo fertility tests - are they expensive? How do you test yours?
Hang in there wifey its not over till AF arrives.

They were like...16 squids I think? Fertilitystart or Babystart male fertility tests. I got them off Amazon.

Laydees pee in a cup.

DH needs erm...help for his.

will get these next month.
My Amazon basket now contains Internet cheapies, OPKs and Fertility tests but I will buy them if I get AF this month. I am hoping I don't have to make the purchase.

Yeh my DH refused the OPK purchase. We decided to DTD EOD throughout so it would have been a pointless buy. I am still convinced we didn't need OPK's but I have a huge number of pregnancy tests and still have my fertility tests.

Oh and I have ph tests - apparently the whole "must be alkaline" thing means I am now drinking an alkaline powder stuff to try get my body to be as alkaline as possible.

Totally an old wives tale but it helps my body in general so I don't mind... :)

Well done for holding out red very impressed with your willpower.

I am on my third cycle and I know I sound way too obsessed this early in the ttc process. But I have waited for a year and a half to start TTC. I came off the pill in Oct 2010... and its half way through 2012 now. Just want to be a mum next year :(

I don't think you sound obsessed either, red

I know I was exactly the same. I think time makes you relook everything so the focus changes. I had the OPKs and everything every month - I guess it would be different if I ever got the fucking smiley faces. Sorry if I sound like I am making you sound obsessed - I really was exactly the same so I really do understand. I try to be a voice of reason rather than give hope only because of my own personal experience and how I find it easier now for people to be my voice of reason.

That said, I get effing annoyed when people come on all offering voice of reason and "you don't know how diabetes is going to affect you so don't try falling pregnant for another year" so I would imagine that perhaps I do just need to suck it up and tell people what they want to hear :)

And just so we are all on the same, it took us nearly a year to be in the same position where we could DTD EOD. Moving house and stress and both being on antidepressants and DH being on tranquilisers and me getting random thrush or (now) UTI's seem the order of the day. So we've never been in a position either to DTD EOD whenever we can - the only month (and the first month) we were able to was June and it was wasted.

However, we will put everything aside as well for September and hump every conceivable day. Every night, I bring DH his Wellman Conception tablet and a little sip of water and every night, he says "there's nothing wrong with my swimmers" and gulps it down. And I have leftover OPKs from a few months ago that I am going to try for my next cycle (without telling DH)

And my last admission is that even though I knew being pregnant now would be VERY bad, a tiny bit of me hoped and I POAS every single morning in case it would change. While the BFNs didn't overly bother me, a little part of me hoped it would be positive. The hospital would put me on a strict diet to bring hba1c down ASAP and I am positive it would have been ok.

I also sit and go through the baby section on Amazon and have created a "wish list" of stuff I want.

So no, you're not obsessed. :)

Thanks Kick and lisa I don't feel too bad now.

kick your post nearly made me cry. I know how you feel, for the whole year I was off the pill, whenever I was late a tiny bit of me wished I was pregnant. It's strange wanting a baby brings up strange emotions and makes you want to do crazy things.

And no, please dont tell me what I want to hear, I like your voice of reason. It brings me back to reality. I especially liked your comment about no symptoms till atleast 13dpo as hcG levels take time to rise - thats how I stayed sane till 13dpo. I think Mumsnet needs you .

Thats very nice of your DH to have the wellman pills. I like him a lot for just doing that. It helps when they are supportive and want it as much as you do.

It will happen, red. Even if it takes some time. But I know all about seeing the symptoms and hoping against hope.

My DH is insanely supportive. He wants it just as much as I do and whenever we're in the 2ww, he is the one who also watches and says "oooh xxxx looks different, you must be pregnant".

I think I am quite lucky because I get so much support from him at home that I forget maybe a lot of ladies get some degree of support from MN and perhaps not as much from their DH. I never understand when someone says their DH is too tired or whatever - mine would hump at 2am on a 6am wakeup if he thought there was a chance I would get pregnant from it.

:)

We will get there. All of us. We just need to be where we are meant to be

Arrgggh sorry she got you kiwi

welcome wifey

Thanks for sharing tips Aussie :) I hope I get to join you on the April antenatal thread as that'll b my second wedding anniversary so it wil be nice to have a baby around the same time.

cherry - hope the docs give you some answers! It's a rollercoaster of emotions when shes late isnt it? I resigned myself to the fact that she wasn't coming and started treating it like a new cycle. Told hubby we were going to start DTD from that night and then she arrived!

kick - I'm pleased you've decided to climb aboard again and hope you fall quickly! I've got my hubby on the Wellman Conception tabs too :)

Winkle - glad she finally hit. Even if late, at least she is there :)

Yep - 4 weeks now. I don't care about being practical or anything. I've read the medical reports and there are some women who say their hba1c is below 6% and the medical journals actually say that a lower hba1c is JUST as unhealthy and just as likely to cause congenital defects under 6%.

And their cutoff from a health perspective is 8% and then only from only 9-10% do they see an increase in potential congenital defects.

So we decided that we find out on the 9 August what my next level is and anything under 8.5%, we're going for it :)

Only 28% of women who fell pregnant in the states with Diabetes did so under 7% so whatever...

Not feeling very positive today I can feel AF on its way. Sore boobs have also disappeared. I had a little cry this morning. Feel ok now. Waiting for the witch to arrive.

(hug) red keeping fx for you

red....feel just like you this morning.

Hi red, please don't get too down, you don't know that you would have different symptoms either way and things do come and go, youve not got her yet or had a bfn. I've had a little cry this morning too, af definatly late or later then last month and id started to think maybe I'd done the test too early as it was 5 days ago, I told myself it would be neg and I was expecting it but I guess I was just really hoping it wouldn't be,but ofcourse it was so I know I'm definatly out and yet the witch still hasn't arrived, I used epo this month and I'm worried if like winkle it seems to have lengthened mine? I hate this bloody rolorcoster!!

red sorry big hug being sent your way.

kitty sorry af isn't here yet. Hate it when she's late but it's a bfn.

Oh no kitty sorry she's late and still showing up with bfn. Rollercoaster is exactly how I feel right now. I used EPO too.... I wonder if mine's going to show up late. Spotting hasn't started yet. Waiting for it.

I have decided not to look at any more symptoms and just let nature take its course. I have accepted that AF will arrive this month. If it doesn't it will be a nice surprise. But for now its easier to accept its not happening this month and put my hopes into August basket.