Morning ladies! Gosh, I've got some catching up to do on here! No big news from me, CD22, 4dpo. As we are trying to symptom spot, and just in case they are real ones, here are the new things that I am feeling for the first time this cycle:
-Intermittent headaches (sometime they only last 10 mins)
-Extreme tiredness (nearly fell asleep at my desk yesterday) - but this could be down to the weather, feel the need to hibernate and think I'll be a hamster in my next life!
-Sharp, quick pains in the middle of lower ab
-Back pains
...or perhaps I am just falling apart!!
Welcome Lizziemum - Sorry for your loss and that you feel down. Whilst I cannot begin to imagine what you have been through, I do know that all the warmth and support from the ladies on here pushes me back up when I'm low so I hope we can do the same for you.
Jess - sorry about AF How sad and frustrating for you re all those irregular cycles, I wonder why. I agree with the others, and we all know how hard it is but maybe you need to take up yoga or something that will force you to relax. It must be something that has changed your pattern and doing something like that wouldn't do you any harm even if the stress is not the cause. Good luk with the temping, it will show you patterns and then you will have something to show your gp which should help pinpoint at what part in your cycle things are going hay-wire - if you don't get your BFP soon. 14 day LP sounds good.
Really Ready.. hope you'll be having a busy weekend My first cycle of temping, I started mid-way through the cycle and I found it worthwhile. Besides, the interesting bits are from about now in your cycle anyway! You'll need 6 temps before you can draw a coverline and as you only started on CD10 and you will OV soon, you might not be able to get it right this cycle but you should still be able to see the pattern of lows and highs between pre ov an post ov temps. So yes, you should see a shift. The thermal shift is evidenced by 3 temps above the coverline usually. Do all the other tempers agree?
Welcome Peppapog nice to have you with us, you are coming up to that active time go for it and best of luck for another quick conception.
Hi 1n2s - I think you are in good company as far as the date of OV changing each month is concerned, my personal advice if you don't want to temp is to pay particular attention to your CM as the OPKs can be misleading. If you BD whenever you have creamy or EMCM (and particularly the latter), you should be close to OV. Hope AF does not turn up, fingers crossed. I met RachelRose on here and we discovered that we both lived in the same city and have met up a few times, it's great! Who else can you talk to about BD and CM whilst having lunch?!
Oh Cityangel I'm sorry AF turned up but hey, it's great to chat to you again . I'm going to start a new thread after this on things to do in the 2ww, see you on there? I know your ideas are inspired! If we can help with the charting, givs us a shout. Thank you for your good vibes for the 4th (hoping, praying...!)
Hello Bodkin - PMSL re joggers, I was just not given the body for jogging! Love your list of things to do during 2WW! Hope you'll join the thread I am about to create on that!
Hi Minshu - A drop can indicate OV yes but some don't get a drop then. You could also get an implantation drop if you are lucky from about 6dpo (is that right ladies?) but again some don't get that either. So, you might get drop before AF which is not due to AF and could be a good thing! Oh the joys of second guessing our bodies! Glad to hear you pinpointed OV and that all the other "bits" tied in too!
Phew! hello to all of you who I haven't mentioned by name. Babydust and happy Friday to all!