Ttc#1 Thread 6. Flying through threads! The bus is going 100 mph and only stopping to drop off at the grads thread! Symptom spotting & TMI alert throughout.

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Thread 6! Wowzers! Welcome one and all! Group of weirdos, wee hoarders, covert opk or okp, depending on what your autocorrect decides addicts with a side business in cm management!

Post your stats and add your dates. We have a register thanks to kat, a resident piss stick queen runner, loaaaaaads of bfp'ers who keep us positive! We don't have rules, we love a good symptom spot, we try to stay grounded and not be hysterical sometimes we manage it aswell

But on the whole, we're a good bunch, especially bunch who is literally, a bunch. bunch

Girls need help deciding what this is xxx

snow hold out till 13/14 dpo voice of reason you are much more likely to get an accurate result!

I don't see anything sorry lauren how many dpo are you? Can you do a close up? runner is the test expert though.

It's properly snowing here, big fluffy snow, my dsis will be be dire herself with joy!

Be dire =beside

stark thought it was but eyes were playing tricks on me lol xx

I just had the same speech off my mother lol. I'm 37 and she still tells me off 😄 So I'll wait til Thursday. I've got nothing. And I mean nothing. Mild cramps for the last 2-3 days. The odd sharp pokey cramp yesterday. I'm just hot. Nothing like last month where I had everything. Hard to imagine there's anything going on downstairs so I'm not getting worked up.

Clear Blue sticks showed peak fertility today, we dtd yesterday and the day before so I am thinking once more either this evening or tomorrow morning should give us a good shot.

Now I'm wasting time googling what to do and eat to improve chances of implantation but it seems difficult to get really solid information. I've read that keeping warm is important, drinking lots of water, and, oddly enough, drinking pineapple juice ...? Any other tips? I'm currently going to the gym twice a week, would it make sense to go more often / switch to cardio?

Part of me thinks it's not going to work anyway because I might have low progesterone levels (blood test next Wednesday) and I already bought the testing sticks for next month, but another part thinks I might as well still try to provide the optimal conditions. ('What if I exercised and ate a healthy balanced diet for nothing ...!')

PS: I'm really grateful for this forum and this thread because it allows me to vent and worry and share experiences. Thank you all

lauren Those thin ic's are the devils work! You end up with "line eyes" I've ordered the thicker ones for this cycle but it's why I had to be very firm with myself about doing tests, it messes with your head!

Think i'm going to do that soon as well xx i'm not due af until 28th but think i was over thinking lol as had spotting for past 4 days now

cthulhoo i think it needs to be fresh pineapple - including the core. For 5 days after dtd you eat a fifth of a fresh pineapple. Other foods that are supposed to be fertility boosting: walnuts, eggs, avocado, cayenne pepper (especially before and after dtd), salmon, sweet potato, brown rice, nuts and seeds, beans and lentils, dairy, oats, dark leafy greens,

Had a busy few days at work and haven't checked the forum, a new thread and 300 posts already!!

Sorry to all AF arrivals, November baby's seem like good timing to me though!

Ttc#1 cycle1 (still) due AF on the 26th, no symptoms since pelvic pain on the left around the time I was supposed to ovulate)

not tracking or doing OPKs, temps or having sex at the 'right time' just having sex when the mood takes us and no longer using protection, trying to stay cool about the whole thing and failing

All you Tudor lovers does anyone watch reign? It's cheesy but excellent

2nd opk of the day and I do believe it's a positive. How long after its positive do you ovulate? Or is it happening now? I'm so confused.

Holly, I was paranoid with OPKs last month and got very excited by any faint line. Mine seemed quite strong, then went fainter a few days later, stronger again etc. It was a bit random. But when it was dark, it was very dark lol- I've posted a photo of what the positive looked like. It's pretty obvious when it's there so keep testing!

Struggling to resist the urge to test now! I'm only 8dpo. Urgh, why does it draaaaaggggg?!

And here's a picture. Feeling a little bit proud.

That is a positive miley some say 12-24 hours, other things I've read say up to 36 hours. I'd just dtd today and tomorrow and continue to chart your okp's! Hurrah!

jam don't test, literally no point. Wait until at least 10 dpo,

I am the voice of not testing! After 13 dpo test at will, but genuinely, before 12/13/14 dpo your chances of having an accurate result are small and it only serves to mess with your head. Every squinty evap is a mind fuck! Step away from the pregnancy tests!

And I can attest to bodies doing 2 fucked up things, I had 2 lh surges last month a week/10 days apart, and then from the 2nd surge to af arriving it was 16 days! It was hell! this month I am being calm and positive!

And to pop cherry on top of the cake, because my cycle is so long, I don't actually get a fertile week in January at all, this month I just get af, my last fertile week was the middle of December, my next one is the beginning of February!

Miley, that's looking good! Get busy!!

Starky, that sucks. Why is nothing ever easy? It would be so much simpler if we had a clear indicator once a month for when we were ready, DTD a few times to fertilise, get knocked up and show symptoms within a week. If it didn't work, repeat the same process in the next month.
How do animals do it without Mumsnet and OPKs? Do they check their CM?!

I'm staying away from the sticks! They are in our room, not the loo any more so less of an incentive. I want to hold off until next Friday. Less than a week. Not too bad. Except it's like the longest expanse of time ever to pass and long enough for God to make the universe even.

jam I am glad to hear that someone else's opks did that. mine are driving me nuts!
Dark then light, then dark again!
Still no positive for me though this month. Looking like a 40+ day cycle again I reckon :(
Going to ask for some bloods to rule out PCOS. No other signs of it and I expect it is simply my pill that has done it. Doesn't stop me being impatient though!

My dsis wants me to go get checked for pcos first between my beard, ridiculously heavy af and 40 day cycles I'm inclined to think it's a possibility. And having just Googled pcos, I also have the dark patches of skin velvety too. I never knew that was a symptom. Well, ain't that a ball ache! Bugger.

Will still give it 6 months I reckon, see what happens...

starky may be worth getting some bloods done at some point.

Feeling a bit depressed tonight af due tomorrow ish and convinced myself earlier I was preggers, tingly boobs and feeling a bit sickish, done yet another test and bfn :-( this has not been a good month emotionally.....

Hey ladies
Had to do a big catch up from last 2 days.
Forgot everything I wanted to reply to from previous posts. Obv not that important.
Choc maybe u r ovulating if get dtd just in case. None of this protection malarkey, defeats the object somewhat. And what's the problem if u are just pregnant nothing will happen will it?

I'm a bit worried my AF is too short to be viable. They last around a day, max 2. And there isn't a lot of blood. It's a bit brown and mucus and then a bit red for a few hrs then a bit brown again. I only needed 2 tampons (and one was as at work and cba to keep going to loo just in case it got worse). Does this mean something? Like I can't support a pregnancy as my lining isn't good enough? Should I be worried?

First I said as much to Dh a few days ago. He agrees. I'll give it till June or so, and then if we've had no luck, ill go to the doctors I reckon. No harm in checking it out I suppose, and better earlier than later in terms of fertility. We could never afford private so will have to put my faith in the nhs, or backstreet drug dealers peddling clomid

Awww ally much love and positive thoughts, it's horrible when you're body makes you think one thing whilst doing another. Thinking of you

I think you're worrying unnecessarily kat but maybe worth getting checked out. Sorry, the dog is sitting on my chin and being demanding!