Ttc#1 Thread 7. 'I've sneezed twice, dtd, drank 2 glasses of juice, ate some cheese and I want a cuddle, Ovia am in pregnant yet?' TMI alert throughout.

[StarkyTheDirewolf]

Thread 7! 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!

We do not judge, we enjoy TMI, we i encourage waiting to poas nobody listens and all the grossness you can find from a group of intelligent, articulate ladies fart stories make us laugh

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

Miley I found loads of chocolate and Ben and jerrys in asda and bought it and now me and DH are ending our date night being fat bastards in bed tomorrow is a new day, I'll be healthy tomorrow

I've got giant milky bar buttons and a double decker! I am happy!

miley iui is intrauterine insemination - loads less invasive than ivf but much less successful... Hence current plan of action.
Just spoke to lovely lady in us from sperm bank - may well use them, less chance of halfsibling issue perhaps? Have to decide this weekend.... Took me ages to find first donor...

Thanks Co5mo yes, I had to take the anti-emetic at the same time as the codeine, but nothing else was touching it. Or at least, nothing else they could prescribe in pregnancy.
About 2 years ago I was getting loads of migraines again and realised one day I was taking a ton of codeine. So went cold turkey and spent two days in bed with the worst headache and nausea of my life. I've been a lot more careful ever since.

I was on hospital grade co-codamol last week (after the morphine floating), and when I saw the nurse on Friday I begged for something else. No pain, but I felt so sick, and I couldn't stay awake. So I'm on the over the counter stuff, alternated with paracetamol.

I swear the constipation was worse than childbirth

It was on thread 6. The posters name is still there along with "message removed by mn hq for breaching community guidelines" or something. Their name was Chris something.

Just had a look, honestly got no idea who that was or what they put! I've only reported two comments from our threads, one was the witch doctor and one was some random who posted on loads of threads offering prescription drugs from an Internet site. I think that was like waaaaay back on thread 1 or 2.I wonder what "chris" said!? Intrigued!

Mt other good news from today, other than that I've got a double decker, is that I am officially signed off and discharged from my cbt! Woohoo!

Soooo thought I was on first day of 2ww, just been to the toilet and quite a lot of EWCM was there! Wtf?! Looks like DH will be getting jumped on any minute..

Starky congrats! Were you doing CBT only or meds as well? I have been off my anxiety meds for a year now
Ladies I have an app called headspace. For meditation but easy meditation. You can try it for free. There is a pregnancy pack now

Indi I am about to jump mine
I am all preseeded up

That's great news starky. I did CBT a few years ago. I found a few of the techniques quite effective. How did you find it?

Great news starky, and nice to hear about your recovery too evergreen. Anxiety is fucking awful!

I just did cbt, I've been off meds for probably 3 years now, I needed a refresher course of cbt! My anxiety was getting silly and I developed ocd on the back of it! But it's all under control now, and honestly, I think ttc helped! Losing control of my body (if you know what I mean) and trying to not focus on the control loss or rather, seeing that nothing catastrophic happens other than af! when I don't have the control! I'm probably waffling and not making much sense but I'm all happy and calm today!

No that makes sense starky. Not being afraid of the things that are out of my control, and accepting that things can't always be as I want and choose them and that's OK, is a big part of overcoming anxiety and panic attacks for me. You're doing good! 😊

It's been a journey for sure! I was a psychotic nightmare! Poor Dh, now I'm past it, I really feel for him! It was bloody awful though! I'm usually such a positive person and my anxiety literally took over my entire life!

I missed the witch doctor !!

Am supposed to dtd but got home from work and DH is in a pissy mood. Also just informed me he's away for work sun morn-mon night.... When I guess I will be ovulating. ... CD10 and negative OPK so far (really faint line tonight at 9.30pm) it's seeming a bit later than last month. I'm sure I got a positive at day 8-10...

Helloooo new thread!
Too tired for a proper catch up so just checking in.

Stats:
Elle
Age 34
TTC #1
Cycle 3
Day 21
No idea how many dpo, failing as a tracker and possibly only hindered by bloody Ovia!

I love the pregnancy test gallery! I seem to have developed a bit of a rota though with my pregnancy tweaks. So early my cycle I like watching pregnancy announcements on YouTube. Then as I profess it goes to the ttc videos where I quite like the live pregnancy testing of early dpo videos probably how I manage not to actually test myself as I'm doing g it vicariously through random Americans and then as I get closer to af day I enjoy the pregnancy test gallery more!

I did an opk yesterday and today and got two almost positives. Seems odd because im only cd9, will continue onwards and see what happens there but I really hope I haven't managed to get a faulty batch! I'm going to have to buy another set of a different brand and do two each time! I'm a pg test refuser but an opk addict!

starky that is excellent!

I didn't think anxiety was as common. I suffer, too. Have done since I was 7 when I was hospitalised with anorexia had a relapse about 4 years ago I was in therapy for a while and am now able to manage it on my own. I guess I'll have it for the rest of my life but as soon as I trigger I know how to control. OH came to some sessions to learn how he could cope I'll give you a clue, it wasn't by saying 'calm down"

starky obviously not about your opks. Didn't you get 2 positives last month? Very weird! Hope it is right though, then you will have a chance of getting off at the Feb stop

Well done Starky! That's great news!! I finished my cbt refresher in July - ocd and anxiety here too.

So feeling a bit nauseous this morning, but still bfn. Could be because I had McDonald's for dinner. (Which normally is a disgustingly unhealthy but sugary treat, and last night just tasted gross. Dh offered me Chinese instead, which I normally love, but I couldn't face it).

imp i am envious of your maccy dee - sorry it did not go down well. The love of my life (my nephew) made me promise not to frequent the golden arches anymore as he hates them - i have not been for about a year...

Starky I agree that this TTC business is helping out. It is giving me perspective on what is important and what I can try hard to ignore.

So I am 1dpo today with a couple of positive notes. I have to temp a couple more days but I am pretty sure I ovulated yesterday and I planned and executed my dtd perfectly.
I ovulated CD14, which in my book is bang on time.

So small wins! At least I ovulated this cycle!!

This cycle I am off sugar and coffee completely, but have wine when if AF comes and I had 1 pint last weekend gimme a break and my temps have been a lot more constant.

I will temp and chart a couple more cycles and then I think maybe I will just do OPKs and sperm meets egg plan.

EXHAUSTED and so is DP

I have to call the GP on Monday for test results about my painful dtd so we shall see if everything is normal down there.

I have a horrible itchy lulu slight thrush and a runny nose today so I'm in a really shitty fettle. Never had thrush before so I'm not thrilled at all blaming that new overly scented soap and glory bubble bath

I only get to go to mcdonalds when I have my little niece or am severely hungover otherwise I just feel so guilty

Good luck evergreen! Just be careful when you do no sugar that you are getting some carbs in as they help to regulate hormone production. No evidence for low sugar helping to conceive. But low sugar is good as long as enough complex carbs there.

I have also done CBT! 3-4 years ago. I found it helpful but tiring. Most of my stress is work related now need to do more to manage it. Have headspace app but not using it enough!