Ttc#1 Thread the 4th. TMI club of January 2016. No symptom too disgusting to share!

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

We're on the 4th thread! Oh come all ye symptom spotters! And a fertile new year!

Jam the test line needs to be as dark as or darker than the control line however at CD8 it's perfectly reasonable for your hormone levels to start increasing. Continue doing opk's either once or twice a day to monitor as you may find you ovulate a little earlier this month.

Hello everyone and happy new year!
Hope you had fun last night!

I'm 11dpo today and thinking of going out to get a test. No symptoms recently except bit of cramping and massive boobs, but that's prob just AF.
It's my birthday today so can't decide whether it a good idea to test or not - could make or break the day! I will probably cave...

Happy birthday Harriet! Do it!

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H a p p y N e w Y e a r G i r l i e s 🍾
I hope you all enjoyed bringing in the bells last night. Ours was very quiet, a glass of baileys to toast to the new year... OH just told me his resolution, to install a full new kitchen... Dunno where he is getting that idea as I'll be using all our money on baby stuff when the big BFP finally strolls around 😋.
Sorry to all the BFNs that made an appearance... New year new start! X

Happy birthday Harriet!!

Happy Birthday Harriet, I tested today at 11dpo but I think hope desperately it was too early as it was a clear BFN, either that or AF is on its way.
Can I ask how long you ladies have been TTC? I'm only on cycle1 and find it all confusing and a bit overwhelming, would love to hear your stories and success stories!

Hang in there indi! It happened for me first cycle off the pill, and mine was a clear bfn until around 12dpo I think it was.

Do you have any opks left? I did opks up until I got a BFP and they started showing a medium dark line, and that was my fist sign (in addition to cramps, burping and insomnia!)

Sorry to read about others having bfns and AF.

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I haven't been using OPKs this cycle shelb didn't have a clue what they were until 2 weeks ago I've been going off my CM and ovia app, I definitely had egg white around the time ovia said I was ovulating and we DTD quite a bit so I'm trying to stay positive. Deffo going to try to wait a couple of days until I test again unless AF wants to make an appearance but I have no symptoms for pregnancy or AF possibly getting irritated with DH about little things and wanting to punch him in the head

It's all really confusing Indi. I got my BFP in December, my first month of TTC, which I was really shocked by. I tested at about 11 dpo I think, although now certain.

At the outset I was adamant that I wasn't going to do OPKs, but I caved and actually found them helpful. Confusing at times as I never had a line as dark as the control line when I tested, but on the whole I found it helpful to have a stick to wee on to focus my mind on things and to at least give an indication of when we should be DTD

*not certain

Fingers crossed for lots more BFPs this month

Happy birthday harriet! 💟👑🎂🎁🎈🎊🎉 I hope you have a lovely day! Do a test! No harm in trying! If you're only 11 dpo it may still be too early anyway so I say go for it!

I've not tested, even though ovia is saying to! I'm going to wait and give it another week or so! My reckoning being, I'm not due af till the 12th 37 day average cycle so if I start now, that's basically two weeks of testing, and I'll spend a fortune on tests! So I'm going to hold off! I've got a few tests stashed away, but I'd rather wait as long as possible to see if I get my af symptoms next week sore swollen boobs, painful cramps, acne etc so I'm slightly more prepared! Plus, due to the weird nature of my okp's, dh's Christmas schedule and being apart for so much of my fertile week, I would be very surprised if I managed to catch! However, this month will hopefully be less manic, so I'm feeling positive about it!

indi Im on cycle 1 of officially ttc, we were going to wait till March, but Dh is thinking of doing a body building comp in May, so from basically mid Feb, his diet/training regime will be insane, plus he'll be taking supplements and will be tired, the dieting alone will probably affect his sex drive and sperm quality, as well as the saunas when hes cutting weight, so I convinced him to start now! We've been quite casual as far as he knows but I have a really long cycle (it can be as long as 6 weeks between periods for me, and my ovulation can be sporadic) will just keep my fingers crossed!

Happy birthday Harriet!

Thanks for your replies ladies, made me feel a lot better. If I don't get a bfp this week I'll know to get OPKs for this month and to really go at it like rabbits during fertile week haha!
Thank god for Mumsnet or I think I would go mad or DH would kill me for talking about it so much!
Good luck to your DH for the bodybuilding comp Starky, I can't imagine the dedication and determination you would need to compete. I hope we both get bfps soon!
Even though I havnt really got any symptoms I think my wee smells a bit different (sorry tmi) my nan always said that's how she would know she was pregnant so maybe I'm just going a bit crazy trying hard to find a symptom!

I don't know if he'll actually do it yet indi he's been preparing for it mentally for a while but now we're into January will see why happens. He's not done a comp for years but I've previously had bfs who have, and we agreed that dh would only ever do a max of 1 or 2 a year as it takes up sooo much time, energy and money. Depends completely on whether by March or so, he feels like he's in good enough shape. If I don't get a bfp by March I may seriously consider starting training with him again, not to compete the dramatic weight cut plays he'll with my cycle just to get I to shape again!

Hi ladies! I'm new so firstly Hi!! ☺☺ long story short: Stopped the POP on 12th December. Felt a little off in myself, not Ill but just different. Feel pregnant with my son within a week of coming off cerazette back in 2012.

Had a few bouts of mild nausea for no obvious reasons etc (I realise it would be super early days) but did a bunch of tests the few days before Xmas. Got 4 super faint positives (including one on the 27th - pic attached). Have really loose stool sorry!, had 2 lots on 2 different days of egg white CM with a small blood streaks through it. Also massively gone off coffee, it makes me gag! Which is odd as I usually drink too much!

Then yesterday tested with a First Response Early Result test with FMU and got a negative... confused!! 😨😨 any thoughts?!

Hi handbags! I can see the start of a faint line on that first pic?! I would test again tomorrow maybe? I'm not a pro at this TTC thing though so I'm sure someone here will be able to advise you xx

Yes Starky I seriously need to get back into the gym tomorrow, I'm a personal trainer so really in to my fitness no where near competing stage though but have completely let go over the last week and especially hard when family come to visit. Back to the health kick tomorrow, I feel horrible!

Sorry handbags just read it again and you mentioned the faint lines. I have seen on here that any line no matter how faint is a positive! Congratulations if it is!!! Xxx

Hi Handbag do you know what dpo you where when you got the really faint positive and when your AF is due.

Try another FRER tomorrow but it does sound like you've possibly had a chemical pregnancy. It's possible if you're testing very early (I had one first month off the pill) it's when the egg is fertilised and begins to implant but for some reason (usually an imperfection that means the blastocyst isn't viable) implantation doesn't complete and AF will happen as normal.

Hopefully this isn't the case and you just had a duff test today.

On the bright side after my chemical pregnancy in my first month trying I caught the very next month and am currently harbouring a pepper corn sized embryo.

Hi IndiX- yep I had a few faint lines but nothing from the FRER but I spoke to the midwife at our Dr's who said a positive is generally a positive but I just hate not knowing either way haha.

Hi Runner05... not sure as I wasn't charting. I have no idea how soon you can ovulate after stopping the pill. If I guessed at 48 hrs after I stopped the pill... that would make me 12DPO when I got the faint line pictured about but I got no line on the 30th. I'm having period style back cramps but nothing major aside from that!

And congrats on your peppercorn Runner05 ☺☺☺

Happy new year everyone. All the best for 2016.

Happy birthday harriet 🎂🎈

indi my DH and I have been trying seen end of August. My symptoms have been different every month just before AF arrives. We were just going to take it easy and see how it goes but I started doing opk' this cycle because I'm getting impatient waiting for the bfp!
I'm due to test in 3 days according to Ovia but AF due a week Sunday so might leave it till then since I don't really know what symptoms I will show if it is a bfp because when I think I am upduffed by symptom spotting AF shows her ugly head!

Hi littlebelle yeah I like to think I'll wait until I test if not a few days later than I'm meant to, but I can't help myself. The bfn is so disappointing though, how are you finding the OPKs? If I'm not preggo this cycle I'll deffo be purchasing some off Amazon ASAP!

Thanks so much for the birthday messages! I've had a nice relaxing day lying around. Popped out to tesco for a clearblue and it set off the alarms at the door - embarrassing!!!

And I got a BFN! Don't really mind as looking forward to trying properly this month. Now just want AF to hurry up and arrive!

Anyone else watching Sherlock later?

I've only ever seen one Sherlock... my OH loves it! Apparently I drove him made answering it all before it happened haha. Will watch it later though!! 😊

Sorry to hear about the bfn but you're not out until af!
Will be watching Sherlock! I didn't like the 3rd series as much as the other 2 but still really enjoy it!