The BESH plumbing is blocked up. Where's a man with a big tool when you need one?

[FrankellyMyDearIDontGiveADamn]

Welcome to the BESH plumbing thread, where we have blocked pipes, dirty u-bends and leaks aplenty.

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Hmmm, this job is gonna cost a bit

I got told to start taking Vit D right away when I spoke to my fertility clinic to report my BFP. The nurse said at this time if year you should get plenty of Vit D from the sun (ha!) but that they are now advising women to take it as there has been a rise in cases of rickets.

I really should get back into the habit of taking pregnacare every day rather than just when I remember...

I've been to the nurse this morning - smear was a bit more scrapy than usual, and the implant stabbing was pretty damn painful too. I suspect it wasn't so bad last time as I was already dosed up with post-surgery painkillers! I am wrapped up on the sofa feeling sorry for myself with tea and chocolate fingers, and the highlights of yesterday's Tour stage. Later today is the team time trial, which is always fun to watch.

I made the mistake of watching a couple of stabbing videoes and ended up weeping a little bit. I don't wanna do stabbing

In the next couple of months, I think. First clinic appt is next week (group seminar thing), and a real just-us appt the following week. Hopefully that will give us a better timescale!

" I thought it had been a while since anyone looked up my foof"

Solen like a true BESH!

The stabbing really isn't that bad draf. I mean, it's not fun and sometimes it will hurt, but you develop your own knack after a few goes. My tips:

1. Get the vial out of the fridge half an hour before you intend to stab to allow it to warm up a bit (I set 2 reminders on my phone for this)

1. Use an ice cube to numb the skin first

"Solen" = Spoken

Sorry, Bugs, I'm in Cambridge. It would have been ace, though! HOTB and I will probably go into full on black humour mode to see us through it.

Thanks, Frank. I think the videos scared me because even gonal F pens have great long needles - I assumed they'd be like my friend's insulin pen with a titchy short needle.

The immunolgy guy I saw to test for NK cells recommends vit D3 for all his patients. So I've been on it since 2011.

draf I really didn't find the stabbing too bad. The first time you intentionally stick a needle through your own skin is odd, but mostly they don't hurt (although I will concede that Cetrotide stings like buggery).

bugs 6-8 months - that will roll around in no time.

I feel extremely pre-menstrual today. For me, that's confirmation that this cycle hasn't worked. I hope my period comes before I get to the clinic blood test next Monday. I am already sooooooo sick of the gunky pesseries. I can't wait to stop them.

euro I support your Negative Mental Attitude. Positivity is essential in helping you push through when hard things need doing, but when the hard things are done and only waiting remains, Positivity is the bitch that takes you to False Hope.

That said, I am having family ishoos and a major case of the grumps today so perhaps you should ignore me.

Ignore you? No way, I'm joining you. Grumping is the way forward.

Actually Euro - I take back what I said about not throwing the towel in - throw it wherever you like. Twink - I too have the grumps today. Sorry yours is about familia. Familia is not an easy beast to tame. My grumpage is just sheer bloody frustration spawned by stupidly going to have a look at the ante-natal fred of another conception fred I visit and finding that all the peeps I started out with are now popping out their baybees, which is lovely, but makes me feel cross at my body. Grump on . . .

Evening hags!

I HAVE BEEN FOR A RUN. It was only 2 miles, but the first time since I added devil's juice to my mix of hormones. As I was discussing with SB the real lemon is coming back. So apparently it is pill+devil's juice I really cannot do. I am still tired, headachy and quite grumpy a lot of the time. But sometimes the real me is still in the building. And SB is proving amazing. I am too fed up to do things like ring the clinic to make sure they haven't made a mistake with the first scan date and stuff. So he did it. And he cooked dinner yesterday and today.

On to grumpyness and seminars.

Euro I'll just quietly cross things. When I got diffed I was really pre-menstrual and then it never showed, just saying But feeling grumpy is fair enough.

Draf I second frank, stabbing is not as scary as it seems. It took me a while to get used to stabbing in the stomach, but I do it now without blinking, except when I've forgotten to take the devil's juice out on time. I find that DRing stings, stimming does not, ovitrelle does not, but the el cheapo alternative does sting. None of it hurts for long. You can do it.

As to the group sesh, we had one of those too. It was awkward and people avoiding each other's eyes a lot. In mine there were some panicked by stabbing - those of us having had too many IUIs thought they were panicking unnecessairly. And we had a coffee break, which SB and I used to escape as did a surprisingly large number of other couples. We prefer to do our question and answers privately...

As to vitamin D, we sat outside for lunch this afternoon. It was nice. :) I have been taking it in the same slapdash fashion as I take folic acid. Maybe I should be a bit better about it, now realy IVF is starting.

The positivity was a bit scary bugs. But I am glad you got someone to look at your foof soon. It would be sad to be neglected for too long.

FRANK you won a baybee!! HUGE congratulations. (See, good things happen when I disappear). Hope you have a very easy pregnancy and a baybee that sleeps all through the night at the end of it.

Ps... Whilst here should point out that the mad lady who thought you had to fanjo temp was me. Thanks Moll for reminding me

And good luck to everyone still waiting. TTC should just be called fucking waiting. No matter where you are in your cycle/tests/IVF of hat have you, you're always waiting for something

Ballcock, I meant 'or what have you'. Fuck all to do with hats

frank's amazing hat is what got her diffed. Fact :)

Hello BESH. I've just been to Glastonbury. I have had a bath now though so you needn't get the clothes pegs out.

Just wanted to offer my belated congrats to Frank and wish you a very dull and uneventful 40 weeks.

I reckon you're right Twinks

Fanks to Merks and Wren

I reckon after 3 bloody years of trying/waiting, I'm entitled to a sneeze birth and a baby that sleeps 12 hours at a time from day 1

frank I think after that you shouldn't even have to sneeze, you've put enough effort in already Like the idea of baby Frank falling out at the races as you're handing your money to the bookies