Morning all.
Jbrd, glad to hear everything has settled down.
Calibee, sorry about the naughty OPK ! I am sure you're not the first woman to have done that.
Remnant mentioned that an opk can be used as a preg test, but the opk would have to be blazingly positive to show a pregnancy. Like you, I have faint opks anytime in the month - most people do have traces of LH in their system at all times.
I know it is disappointing. I think my month will end on a negative too. I'm not even bothering with a test today (at 9 dpo, and I usually do) because my temperature dropped quite a bit this morning.
Sparkly, I had been keeping a lot of baby stuff and I eventually listed all of it on Ebay. I sold all of the cloth nappies (I had bought brand new ones when I was pregnant in 2011), all of the sweet,tiny little clothes,baby blankets,cot sheet sets and quilts, toys etc. The only things I haven't sold is the pram,stroller and car seat. I figured it was crazy to keep all those things,taking up space when I might not use them again, and there will always be more gorgeous baby stuff to buy.
notsoold - you sound really positive. I hope you don't have to wait too long.
At least if I get my AF this time I will get to use the CBFM I bought.I guess it didn't work to make me pregnant this month(like Jbrd ) because I didn't buy a brand new one
remnant, not sure about the clot thing. I think it is quite normal. I know that in Traditional Chinese Medicine it means something - but I don't know what, they talk in terms of too much heat, too cold etc and they remedy it with herbs and diet and acupuncture. My acupuncturist used to ask me if I had clots when I had AF. I did have a few, but don't anymore. I have been doing acupuncture for about 4 years, regularly, so that may be why. Acupuncture also cured the pain and cramping I had every month, I don't get it anymore. I suppose it could be coincidence, seeings I am older, but I think acupuncture is really good. And great for fertility and I used it before I had Charlie(though having said that, I still don't have a baby this time 
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After thinking/talking about progesterone yesterday, I thought I'd have a look at all the tests that were done last year on me. All of them, except AMH were really good. I got FSH of 11 (anything over 10 is high) but on the notes it said they considered it fine. Also my progesterone was 35 , and over here, 11 is the minimum (it's measured differently than in the UK). Of course everything varies from month to month, but after reading it I felt a bit better about my fertility, and just have to try to relax and accept that ttc at this age takes time. I think if you persevere for long enough, you will be rewarded. At least that's my philosophy.
Then I started thinking about how many women I know in RL who have conceived and had a baby over forty: my friend Janine had her last baby at 42, my friend Kris had hers at 41, my colleagues wife - one at 43 and one at 44, my friend's mother - a baby at 45, another colleagues SIL - a "menopause" baby at 47, my bookclub lady's niece had a baby at 42. I am sure there are more that I can't think of right now.
Keep the faith ladies, keep up the opk's, keep shagging, and one day, you too can have a lovely baby to take home