For anyone TTC or thinking about TTC with Soy Isoflavones

[Disneylandkilledmychildhood]

I will be starting soy isoflavones tomorrow, cd 3.

This will be my 11th cycle TTC, with two chemical pregnancies/ early miscarriages @ about 5weeks so far this year already.

I've read up quite a lot on SI, and just at the point now where I'm thinking, what the hell, I'll give it a go!

Anybody else TTC with soy isoflavones?

Yay for your little soy bean soap!

8dpo here and no symptoms to spot at all! At least I'm feeling more sane than last cycle when I had every symptom going!

So I think I may have got a BFP this morning!!!! Got a very faint line on an IC, so went out to grab a FRER and there is a definite line!!! Only 11dpo so still very early days, but it's the first line I have had in over 16 months!!! Cannot believe it, I am still in shock, but I am now going to be a huge advocate of soy from now on!
I only took 100mg cd4-8 as I was worried about messing with my cycle too much, but it must have just given the egg that bit more it needed. Had no pg symptoms, everything was just the same as if AF was on her way, we did dtd 3 days in a row after getting +ve opk, but the only thing I really did differently this month was the soy!

Oooh congrats Ginger, please post a pic of your fab bfp!

Gingerbread that's marvellous news. Congratulations

Yay Congratulations Ginger

Yay gingerbread!
I took 100mg soy days 4&5 & 150mg days 6&7. I really, really hope it works for me too!!

Omg Ginger you are giving me hope here. If I get a BFP I am going to be screaming it from the rooftops after 18 months trying.

Congratulations Ginger!

Congratulations Ginger!

I've took the plunge & necked the SI's: 160mg until tomorrow then 200mg last 2 days. Fingers crossed I finally OV after 3 long months & we can get cracking!

So took my last dose of 80mg this morning. I decided to keep it consistently low as I'm regular and just scared I could fuck up OV by meddling.

I have some mad non-pregnant thinking. DP and I had sex this morning as we were both awake and toddler wasn't! But instead if thinking yay!! Possible baby making sex, I was annoyed as now I can't analyse my cervical mucus because of his leftovers lol.

I am deranged and I'm so far down this road now I forget that sex actually plays a slightly more important part in the process than vitamins, thermometers and opks!!

Here you go Loopy!
I'm getting very faint lines on ICs but did get another positive on a FRER this morning so hopefully I am actually pg!
New it was cycle 18 for me, over 16 months, I honestly never ever thought it would happen. I really really hope the soy works for you too, and all you other ladies!
For what it's worth I also took some maca capsules for a bit, but stopped after a week as I felt I was taking too many pills! Also took EPO til ov, drank Raspberry Leaf Tea till ov, took Seven Seas trying for a baby, vitC, magnesium and B50 complex. I also spent a fortune on more supplements and vitamins and booked an appt to see a private fertility specialist thereby invoking the law of sod!!
Haha New I was just the same! Got so involved with opks and supplements thinking I was missing the winning combination, you forget you need to dtd as well!

New, I really hope the soy works for you.

Ginger, I didn't realise that you can get macca in capsules. I use it in powdered form added to porridge or yoghurt but it smells vile, I might look out for the capsules.

Spinning I was also using the powder, which is vile as you say, until someone on another thread told me you can get them in capsules! We had been eating that horrid stuff on our cereal every morning! You can get the tablets from H&B.

Thanks Ginger, I shall get some this week. It has to be preferable than ruining my porridge with it I think the benefits are good for an oldie like me

Thank you

Love the BFPs especially when you've been trying for sooooooo long, must have been super frustrating for you. When TTC dc#1, it took 21 months & I hadn't used opks or soy, I was distinctly lacking in knowledge back then!

I also invoked the law of sod back then by being referred to a fertility clinic - then fell pregnant

Congrats again Ginger, lovely news

Well this cycle is definitely different but I have no idea if it will work out to be in a good way.

Normally I get EWCM cd8, well so far this cycle I've only had watery, and loads of it. I am doing opks every evening so should see a positive around cd10/11 if I'm going to ovulate when I normally do. If I don't see a positive I know I'm going to panic wildly.

Talk me down people.

Come down new!! Watery is a good indication of ewcm to follow I think. Keep opk'ing and keep dtd!

I'm feeling so different to usual this cycle. My temps are still good, so it looks like I did ovulate early. And now I have none of the usual post ov / pre AF symptoms. No cramps, no sore boobies, no sore boobies and thank god no constipation! My mood also feels quite stable! I'm assuming it's the soy, but can't work out if a lack of symptoms is a good thing or a worrying indicator of low progesterone. Time will tell.

New try not to panic! And try not to worry, I'm sure you will ov soon, I doubt the soy will have had much affect on your ov patterns on the low dose you took, but hopefully it will be enough to give the egg a good kick up the bum!
Frolic fingers crossed for you! How long til POAS day??

I don't really know gingerbread! Ag not due until 20th but soy seems to have bought my ov forward so who knows when I'm due. I think I'm about 9/10 dpo now. I'm not feeling the urge to test at the moment as I don't even have a whiff of a symptom, let alone a promising one!

How are you feeling?

Af not ag!

10dpo you say Frolic???
I am a complete bag of nerves! Having to stop myself googling things like ectopic pregnancies. I am feeling crampy, which I remember from DD is totally normal, feel a bit yucky today but not sure if I am just imagining it. Trying not to get my hopes up too much but also wondering when to tell the family....just hoping the next 12 weeks go smoothly!

I hope they go smoothly for you too.

I don't even have a whiff of a symptom so will try to hold off until the weekend at least. I have a very busy day at work tomorrow and a BFP or BFN would prob distract me. And I don't have a frer. Af was 5 days late last month and all the bfn's were horrible, so going to avoid that if I can.

I am spending tonight (our 13 year anniversary) googling pregnant bbt charts and not having symptoms being a symptom

Happy Anniversary Frolic . Nothing better then whiling away the time googling a good pregnancy symptom, or non-symptom!!! Every month I google the same bloody things whilst in the 2ww. It's like I have cycle amnesia.

Well I got some EWCM this evening, opk, total negative, will see what tomorrow has in store. Having a pre ovulation acupuncture session in the afternoon so I'm throwing absolutely everything at it!!

SI update, 2 days in: no side effects so far, CM finally dried up & temperature dropped to an acceptable pre-OV 97.05f.

Prior to this had up & down temps (97 something one day, 98 the next) & constant cm.

Currently on CD75.

Excited to take temp tomorrow!

Good luck N1kill.

Well I'm still shitting bricks re. OV. I have a cold which doesn't help, trying desperately hard not to take any remedies bar sore throat pastilles as I know a lot of them dry up mucus.

Just wish I could go back to the days of copious EWCM. Always felt like I knew what was going on then. I'm just going to hope for a positive opk at some point. If not then I guess a temp rise.