Thread 21 TTC #1 - The one where all our cycles went haywire but we DID NOT GIVE UP

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Calling all clomid-ers, OPK-ers, temp-ers and anyone else on the TTC Bus.

We are long past cervix prodding (in fact we know where it is at any given time just by closing our eyes) and we have ditched the Gregorian calendar in favour of the TTC Cycle Day calendar. We don't do baby dust, or baby-dancing, we just keep legs spread and fingers crossed (LSFX) We love a baby bomb from a prior bus-mate, but if we get told to 'just relax and enjoy it' ONE MORE TIME you will get a punch in the face. You get kwick-cake if you behave, and talked down from the ledge when you need it.

Hop on board, post your stats and prepare to be dazzled by the wealth of TTC knowledge we long-timeys have to share....

Musicgrrl. - im normally a 14 day luteal phase kind of woman. Ive had a few cycles with haywire temps and this one looked better until today so im hoping i wake up tomorrow and its up again. I have a little moment when i darent look at the thermometer

Ladies what CD do you start opking? I thought my cycles were 31 days long but my last 2 have been 33 days long. According to the instructions for a 33 day cycle you should start on CD 16 but that seems so late... should I start earlier anyway seeing as I'm new to this?

Here's some craziness for you... I have my pelvic scan on Tuesday. I've had some random dizzy spells over the past week or so & I've been imagining I'm one of the small number of women who are actually upduffed but get regular AFs. At my scan I'm picturing them telling me I'm preggers. Ridiculous!

Got this again today. The never ending dark OPK lol.

Star I would probably start around CD10-11, for 28 day cycles I think it's recommended to start at CD8. Totally up to you really.

Mouse that looks a bit lighter than yesterday's so maybe your surge has happened and it's just going down now!

Possibly right, when I'm home tomorrow wahhhhhh I'll take a nice pic of them all lined up in a row lol

Mouse so jealous of your dark OPKs! I never get anything very dark but fortunately temping shows that I do ovulate. Otherwise I think I'd go crazy!

Of course you have not insulted me sk1pper!!! I have a cunning plan that I will lose weight whilst pregnant

ej I am so sorry you are feeling down

Have a bit of a right side pain... think I may have overdone the pineapple!

starmist I see the cray-cray has got you good! Nevertheless I hope that your dream comes true.

mouse are you taking any meds? Mine is like that but it is because I still have the HCG trigger in my body.

Have to go to bed in a minute - my mum and I are getting up at 3am - very early flight tomorrow.

Nope kwick. CD10 OPK was as white as snow. I just take my prenatal vitamins. I've been doing a lot of walking the past 3 days so maybe my body is just taking its sweet time. This is cycle 2 off cerelle pill and cycle 1 was 50 days!! So I'm just hoping I'm at least ovulating. Today is CD15. I got my first positive on CD12.

Where are you off to kwik? Hope you have a nice time? Does your mum know that this is your tww?

Starmist ME TOO omg I'm so glad it's not just me! I'm having dizzy spells got headaches I can't stop yawning I'm emotional and this stupid idiot voice in my head is like ooooooh what's this???- and yet I had my period and a BFN actual insanity is setting in

Here is to our pelvic scans showing up waving secret babies we never knew were there

Keep at it mouse
Fx for higher temp tomorrow EJ

mouse on of my FC doctors said walking is very good for follicle growth - dont think it would delay ovulation.

music I am off to Denia near Alicante. My mum knows - she has been lifting all the cases, bless her! Without sounding like some very well to do person: we are visiting my flat - I used to live there and bought at the height of the market, just before the crisis hit - so rather than being able to sell I had to hang on for dear life. This week we are making some furniture changes so hopefully I can get a higher rental next summer

Morning ladies. Can any tempers have a look at my chart please? FF thinks I ovulated on Thursday since I had a temp increase but I still had a very strong OPK on Friday and got some ovulation pain on Friday evening.

Plus my temps have been all over the place this month so the increase on Thursday could have just been "normal"? I had hot flushes yesterday which were similar to last months 1dpo, I was boiling all day!

Sorry if this is TMI but I've had cystitis for about two weeks, I've been hoping it would just clear up as it has before but thinking I'm going to have to go to the docs tomorrow. Could that be messing with my temperature? I don't really feel unwell or anything...

mouse hang in there! You can get multiple surges remember, so you might by trying to ov now, but it might not happen for another few days iyswim?

Gah it's so easy to dole out the advice! My advice to myself would be: 'chill out, skip, you're only CD 28, you've had perfectly normal 38 days cycles before, stop peeing on sticks and get on with your life,' what am I doing? Peeing on all the sticks and feeling desolate, bitter and barren

Who's doing nice things today?

mrsg - what have you been taking for cystitis? Do you have some cystopurin? It's really really good and you can get it in boots or pharmacies, some larger supermarkets. Otherwise you need to drink an absolute ton of water to flush your system out and introducing some friendly bacteria will help fight it, yakult or something.

Sk1pper I've had some Asdas own brand cystitis relief sachets the past two days (sent hubby out for them and he said they were the same ingredients as more expensive branded stuff) but it doesn't seem to have helped. I've had it about two or three times in the past few years and it just tends to go away after a week but it hasn't this time.

Walking you say kwick? I love a good walk! Will bear this in mind

Fxskip we are at the in laws for the weekend, up in Yorkshire which is lovely. We're seeing DH s old best mate from school - it's his little boys 1st birthday (muchos babies to get through - actually feeling fine about it now and hoping I get a cuddle). Then we have Sunday tea with mil and fil, aunts uncles cousins. Will be lovely Sunday really. What are you up to? **

Mrsg I used to need antibiotics to clean up cystitis those sachets wouldn't sort it. Keep an eye on it and keep guzzling water.

MrsG - sounds like a bad case of it so you may need antibiotics. Try not to drink anything that will inflame it further like alcohol or coffee. Sorry, it absolutely sucks doesn't it?

Ugh someone please slap me. I am going completely overboard on the symptom spotting - its really unlike me.

My boobs hurt (normally get in the week pre-period) but much more than normal and feel fuller.
My nipples are so big and have all these weird bumps on them, even OH was asking me what they are. Who knows...
I've been getting sharp pains/cramping in my left side for a few days, almost like ovulation pain but really intermittent and random.
And normally by now I've started my five days of brown-spotting but there is nothing - not sure if this is a good sign or a bad sign.

Apart from the nipples, non of these symptoms seem right for pg...

Hmmm, what dpo are you, Sk1pper? Boobs and nipples sound like a good sign ;)

7dpo, I think my body is just playing tricks on me :(

skipper I have had that raised bumps on boobs thing before. I think it is caused by progesterone so could just be a normal cycle but could also be a BFP cycle. Not trying to dash your hopes! Just trying to manage expectations

Haven't heard from gee for a while. How is Clomid cycle no. 2 coming along?

music - that does help thank you, I've relaxed a bit now :)

Home from Rome this morning. Just did an OPK. It's white again. FX that I actually ovulated. Might have missed it though as we only DTD on Thursday. So if I ovulated last night I might have had geriatric swimmers lol. Gonna stick my OPKS all together later and decorate with washi see what the pattern looks like. I think I have a random light one amongst my dark.

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend. Loving all your symptom spotting too, FX it's a good sign.