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

[FXSkip]

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....

Mouse - she means well, remember people who haven't been through this have no idea how heart-wrenching it is and she has no idea of your situ anyway. Well done for staying composed though.

Jam - well done! I think you can be forgiven for having a little celebration, your eggs will be fine. Who knows, maybe this is the spark that makes one grow.

Kwick - PMA, I have a good feeling about you! Xx

Skip - Ugh no no no. I hope you're still in xx

I'm out by the way, AF arrived this morning... some cramping but it went within 5 mins. This is looking really positive, seems my gluten free, milk free diet has solved many issues for me.

Ahhhh Sk1pper sorry about AF, you really are an inspiration for positivity. Shit situation and you take a lesson for it. Thank you for being uplifting.

Skip at the time I'm sure you meant well, I'm really wary and cautious about the wording I use now when talking about it. Especially after hearing so many stories here.

I've woken to a massive temp spike, more tummy ache and stabby vag pains - my ovaries are probably having a reawakening party including fireworks and mini pizzas. Roll on the weekend!!!!! hope everyone has a quick Thursday. X

mouse your chart sounds promising - can we have a peek?

jam that's amazing! Congratulations! And I would have done the same with the booze - that is not an opportunity to waste

Sorry skipper but glad to hear new diet has helped

hi binky

kitchen is finished, but some painting to finish in the dining room today/tomorrow.

unfortunately, the boiler and hob have decided not to work, so will be waiting in for engineers today .....

have had to rearrange meetings at work, which is not what i needed right now.

sob.... I want my house back !!! With functional heating and hotwater ! I can't even light the stove because of the painting ... and possible gas supply problem.

am due to ovulate this weekend. OH gets back tonight after finally moving out of his flat to move in here properly ! Honestly, I don't mind if it doesn't happen this month:
house stuff has been stressful, but i am now functional again.

I wimped out of testing yesterday, couldn't bring myself to do it and see it was negative, stupid I know - I'll force myself tonight. I'm shattered today, went to bed at 8pm last night but think I'm just tired as getting up early this week to look after my sisters chickens!!

mouse there's a lady I run with each week who every time asks me if I'm pregnant yet and that I should 'hurry up as I'm not getting any younger' I just don't reply anymore, don't know what she expects me to answer! She doesn't know we're trying, she's just started saying it as we got married a few months ago but I still think it's insensitive

Congratulations on the awards Jam!

Sorry for your AF sk1pper our bodies are cruel but good for you for your positivity

oh Hep house stuff is such a shitey stress - its supposed to be so exciting and fun but its just messy and horrible (like TTC HA HA HA).

Well chaps, AF turned up just before I left for work with a big bang, like a punched-in-the-gut crampy, full-on flood kind of bang. ffs. Had a big cry and DH came over and said simply 'lets just boink more' which made me cry even more.

Sk1pper sorry it wasn't your month either. Onwards and upwards though - another opportunity to be healthy and get our shit together before babies

Can I jump on here for a mini celebration - my first actually positive OPK. It's as dark as the test line on CD20 (late I know, will ignore that!). That has never happened to me. Not sure why it's a cause for celebration as it doubtless doesn't mean anything but it felt like an achievement anyway!

Oh no FXskip our messages crossed. So sorry that AF got you and in such an inconvenient and unapologetic way too! Glad that your DH is being sweet about it

Morning everyone

Sorry about AF Skip and Sk1pper

I'm sure your friend didn't mean anything harmful Mouse people just don't think before they speak sometimes.

Huge temp increase for me this morning although I suspect I may be coming down with something. I woke in the early hours feeling really sick and had to sit up and take some deep breaths before it went away what do we think?

Mouse - I had the weirdest image of your ovaries getting a delivery of party food, and sitting there with party hats and blowers.

Hep - I hope that despite the turmoil of your environment you are still BDing like a mad woman.

Skip - I'm sorry xx do you think we are like long lost twins. The same name and AF hit at precisely the same time. I am suspiscious, going back to interrogate my mother.

Music - more than worthy of celebration! This is the kind of stuff I love to read about, progress is progress so congratulations xx

MrsG - so the optimist in me says that you have a really fucking nice chart. The pessimist says that it's just due to a hormonal increase that you're feeling sick and you're temps increased - but this too can be a good sign! Fx

Thanks sk1pper I'm just having a bit of a down day. Hubby came home from work last night and blurted out that he thinks there is something wrong with his sperm. I has always had a bit of a yellowy tinge and quite thick but now we are TTC he is worried there is something wrong and that we won't conceive because of that. I don't really know what to do about it I don't want him to worry but after having a search of google it could be any number of things and could impact fertility. I sent him to the sexual health clinic last night to go hand in a pee sample to make sure it isn't an STI (although we have been together almost 5 years so would have had it a long time) then I'm just not sure where to go from there. Will a doctor send him for an SA if he thinks there is something wrong or would we still have to wait 12 months?

Hugs and skip and skipper so sorry AF got you both. Here's hoping for a double skip BFP next cycle

Haha at your ovary party mouse mine have been so grumbly too all week! No positive OPK still though - can't believe I got so flustered over that

Hep that sounds so stressful yes hope you are managing to DTD amongst the pipes

Miranda I know exactly how you feel, do it in your own good time

Hurrah for your + OPK music I love getting them too

Mrsg I'm no temper but that chart looks good to me fx

Kwick keep those toes warm remember your PMA mantra

BFP rain dance is on the cards.

Skip well fliperly flip. Sorry about AF. What a little bitch!!!!

Sk1pper now that's what I'm imagining too.
4.bp.blogspot.com/-jPBL0SD9I2g/T9ExQiAR0eI/AAAAAAAAA4A/7tpikqY9XfM/s1600/ovaries+7.png

Miranda tell her to F off lol

MrsG that is one sexy chart. I think this could be your month!!!

I don't think I'm gonna get my crosshairs as I didn't temp when I ov'ed. I'm almost tempted to put in a fake temp just so I get a line. Lol. Music here you go... oh and LSFX for you!!

Mouse - did you draw that?

Hahaha. Nooooo.
I searched ovary party on google

There is an image for everything on Google !!

I totally love that picture Mouse hahaha!

Missed your post about sperm mrsg if I were him I would speak to the GP and see what they say. If you are both still worried you can always pay for a private SA - ours was £100.

Thanks Jam I think its just one of those things, he's a worrier anyway so if there's anything he can think of that might be stopping us getting pregnant he will focus on it.

It doesn't help that he had an undescended testicle as a kid so had to have two operations on his bits before the age of 13 so he worries that has caused complications also!

BFN for me which I guessed it would be but its still disappointing, more so because DH was getting excited this time round... Oh well got to wait for AF to appear now, hope it's not a ridiculously long cycle now!

FX to everyone else still waiting 😊

Miranda - sorry to hear that lovely xx

AF cramping is back but not at all excruciating. Just did my second class of Yoga which was focussinng on the abdomen (lucky) and I think that has squashed the pain from progressing. Problem is OH was back late too and just wants to order Chinese, not the best day to ignore my healthy eating regime but I know there's no point arguing. And secretly I really want to eat something unhealthy.

How has everyone's days been? I feel like a lot of us were hit with AF recently, anyone coming up to test?

Have weirdest AF ever. Light for past two days bright red blood and no clots at all. I usually have heavy periods with clots. I just don't get it.

Sorry for everyone with AF.

We needs BFP soon!

Just settling in to the 2ww. I'm feeling really positive today. Have done just about everything I can do, waiting game now.

Sorry for everyone caught by AF.

London congrats on the award, well done

Thanks Sk1pper. I would love a Chinese right now haha, need to sort my diet out, I'm not eating healthily and skipping meals which is not going to help!

miw my AF was like that last month, really light and bright red then went to brown no idea why though it's usually really heavy

FX to you tenner hope it goes quickly for you 😊