TTC - anxious over early pregnancy possible symptoms?

[PrtyPsn]

Hi,
First time post so please be kind :)
Been TTC for 4 months now (though month 1 we missed my fertile window)
I'm around 5ish days from AF being due but wondering if I could be pregnant for a few reasons: I e been really struggling to sleep the past few nights and when I manage to I have really vivid dreams (the kind when you aren't sure if they have actually happened when you wake up) I've been peeing almost double what I normally would and every now and then I get a weird feeling in my stomach, in a similar place to where I have period pains but it's not pain, it's more like when you over extend a muscle, just a twinge then it's gone.
Was wondering if anyone had similar symptoms? Sorry to pour all this in here (you've probably heard it a million times before) but nobody knows we are TTC so I'm kinda on my own with this!
Thanks

Ah, sorry PrtyPsn I was looking at the first page of the thread by mistake! Fingers definitely still crossed then! Hang on in there till tomorrow :-) I'm going to try and make myself wait till Friday which will be Day 31.

Can lots of clear CM be a sign of conception? Sorry for tmi but I'm worried here. Iv just had a bloody baby.

Hahaha thanks sophia tomorrow will be CD30 for me :)
jo clear CM is usually a sign of ovulation

That's what I thought! But its been about ten days now! However since my baby my cycles are messed up. Periods irregular etc. I did a test yesterday and if was negative, and that's 30 days since the first days of my last period.

How old is baby jo it can take some time for your body to settle down again, could still be adjusting

OH got home early than expected so caved and tested - BFN :(
But I had only weed and hour or so before and it was an IC... feel like I'm finding excuses though so who knows? Guess we just see what tomorrow brings

Oh Prty! Bless you! It's so horrible and frustrating. Do one first thing when your wee is strong. It's so hard and we all get so impatient, the waiting is the worst! Got everything crossed for you xxx

prty! Don't give up hope, that first wee of the morning could be just the thing. Crossing everything for you for the morning x

DBAFD -2
Feeling low today, too despondent to test this morning, can't take another BFN right now.
Still no AF, still slight cramps and headachy but all could be stress. Another, huh, 'symptom' (feel cynical much?) is CM - don't really know what's going on with it. Internally I feel quite wet and like I'm producing a lot like when ovulating but when I wipe theres hardly any CM there (in comparison to how I feel) if that makes sense? What is there is clear to creamy and sticky do a degree by not like fertile/EWCM is.

Morning prty, sorry you're feeling low. All the chuffing waiting plus hormones are a right bastard hey? The CM change is definitely a legit symptom for some people (I just did a bit of research on your behalf) but then like you say it's easy to feel cynical about these things. I've been absolutely convinced I'm pg each time we've tried and I just feel daft when I'm not. It's like your body's tricking you OR it's getting you ready for pregnancy - either way, it's well annoying. Eat lots, keep checking in with us on here, don't take any shit at work and test when you feel ready xxx

(Takes the chocolate and moved into the room). Prty its awful waiting and not knowing. Fingers crossed af doesnt come. Dh and i have been trying since jan or feb(we got the timing wrong in jan so think feb first month). First month (feb) i cramped, i spotted one wk before af..all tge symptoms were there...then af came. Since then as regular as she can be af comes. Dh and i are hitting all the fertile windows and outside the window. Making us closer at mo but no sign yet. At present im on the waiting game countdown to sun or mon and at present very spotty. I havent hAd spots since i was a teenager... No cramps, breasts feel like normal just these spots and a terrible cold 1 week ago.... Makes you wonder why you bother with protection over the years if its this hard..

Big hugs Prty!

Well I have officially lost the ttc plot

So I had my trigger shot yesterday, which is an injection of hCG - ie the pregnancy hormone - to trigger the follicle to release that egg 36h later.

If you've had a trigger shot you shouldn't POAS early as the hCG can still be in your system and you can get a false positive.

So I'm obsessively dipping Internet cheapy OPKs to see how long the surge lasts and I decide to dip one of the Internet cheapy pregnancy tests just to have a practice to see what a BFP line might look like so I know what to look for!!! Who does a bloody BFP practice run??!!

Lol banana :) us lot bloody would! Bunch of mentalists! Really hope it all goes to plan and you get your baby. So, came, to the conclusion that its time for the docs, done our year (over) now, so they can't fob us off. Going to make an appointment, kinda almost don't want too if that makes any sense, ignorance is bliss? Anywho, hope you're all having a lovely day x

It seems to be test time for so many of you. Prty i'm so sorry you're feeling low, can totally understand not wanting to test, like Suzie said, ignorance is complete bliss! But then I found myself totally believing i'd conceived and the come down when af showed her ugly fat face was a horrible reality check. All the excitement and anticipation was sucked out of me. Sometimes reality is better, although very hard, you can at least get your head straight and move on. Thoughts are with you, good luck if you decide to test again, if not and af does arrive at least we have you hear for another month being a fellow symptom psycho! Xxxxx

Hi Rach, I'm on the same countdown as you. Due on Sun (I think). Nothing too dramatic symptom wise. Boobs heavy but not sore, twingey hips (but that could be the aftermath of a hilly walk the other day), dry mouth (but it's hot) bit bloaty but not major, occasional tummy cramps - all in all, plausible AF symptoms! You're right - why were we so careful for so long?!

banana I can totally see the appeal of testing for a false positive.... "aah, so that's what one looks like - good to know" Bonkers isn't it? Good luck mate!

Thanks annie don't really know what to think at the minute with symptoms etc. still cramping today. did work out that if I O on CD14/15 like I think then it could take up to 12 days to implant and then a further 2-4 days for HCG to be present enough to show positive which kinda takes us to today/tomorrow... or AF is just pissing me off and showing up whenever she feels like it!!
Nice to hear from you rach (replenishes chocolate stash) totally feeling the pain/frustration of all those years of condoms and pills!!
banana I'd do the same!! I was tempted to ask my pregnant friend to POAS just so I could see lol!!!
suzie good to hear you are approaching GP for help, hopefully they can give you some positive support, keep us posted how you get on.
I'm so worried about that pinky cos I do think in my head I think this is the month but I know it's dangerous to think that way.
Next test will be Saturday morning unless AF turns up

Hi, so embarrassed to admit I am a lurker. I have finally caved in. I really feel for you all, is that weird? I guess it is a bit. I am day 29 of a normally 35 day cycle, but I took my copper coil out on day 10. This was a bit mad, as we weren't going to start until September, but DH just said go for it, so I did.

Prty, I think I am going to test on Saturday too- your symptoms sound a bit like mine, but I have convinced myself I am but caved in and did a test on Tuesday ( I know I know)

It is number 3 for me, last and final. Reading these posts have totally got me back in the swing of things, i.e. totally insane ;-) Oh, and I am starting a new job next monday !!

Hi namaste nothing wrong with being a lurker :) symptoms are complete designed to make us insane haha! Don't think it's weird that you feel for us - just shows you belong here!

So I know you're all sick of me now but... DBAFD -3. Sigh.
Think this cycle is coming to an end, still cramping today and some very mild brownish beige smear on wiping this morning :/
Was gonna buy some cheapy tests from Asda last night but they had sold out!!! All they had were £10 CB ones! So literally everyone in my local area must be bloody pregnant

Prty brown beige discharge is a good sign! I'm rooting for you! Definitely not fed up with you! Come on prty's AF stay well away!!

A good sign? I assumed it's the very very early beginning of AF? :/

So so fed up this morning.

Was pretty much convinced I HAD to be PG - my stomach is bloated and weirdly shaped, my boobs have changed, I'm more emotional, I'm nauseous and just "felt" it - plus pretty much had what I thought was a textbook implantation bleed.

BFN last week, no AF and still BFN today.

Really thought it had happened

(Not sure I can admit after all this that it turns out I'm not PG, just fat)

Oh and it was a superdrug test as well, so about as sensitive as you can get.

Meh.

Aww bex that's crap to hear :( could it be that you've ovulated later than thought? Or (sorry) implant bleed was AF? I feel your frustration though - what are you supposed to do when there's no AF but all you get are BFN?

Thanks prty - feel better already being reminded I'm not the only one in this boat!

The implant bleed wasn't a bleed as such - just a strip of pinkish blood when I wiped the same as with my DD. but that was 17 days ago now!

The last week I've sort of been hoping for AF just to get out of this obsessive POAS mentality - at least it would be a weeks break without obsessing about TTC lol.

Just needed a rant this morning I think, I hate my body.

Hmm that does sound like spotting and logically an implantation bleed too.
Your body is an amazing thing - it can withstand a tremendous amount of pain, it keeps you alive every single day without you even having to think about it, it grows new life and sustains that life for as long as required, it's the product of millions of years of evolution and yeah, I hate mine too!!