the curse of the late period

[wannaBeWhateverIWannaBe]

so every month you hope, you wonder, you think, "will this month be it?" and then on day 28 your period arrives to put you out of your misery, and to save you the 8 quid you might possibly have spent on a test otherwise.

but then every so often, once a year maybe, you pass that 28 day mark, then 29, then 30, and then you start to wonder, "maybe it really will be it this month!"

but you know you shouldn't buy a test, because you know that as soon as you do your period will be there. but hey it's only 8 quid so you buy one anyway.

and???

and then you spend 30mins staring convinced you see that little blue line. holding it up to the windows, the light etc

Save your money and buy 10 from ebay for about £2.50!!!!! That way you don't feel half as bad when your period starts within minutes of you peeing ona stick/in a pot

no i can't do those dip tests.

am three days late, and am resisting, resisting, resisting. because I know af will arrive ... soon.

But you have a test, right? Do you feel pre-menstrual? I have to say, you are displaying a huge amount of will power by not testing!!

oh yes, but I shall not test because I've been here before.

not pre-menstral. I always have sore boobs when af due, to the point of them hurting when turning over in bed etc, nothing this time, slightly tender but no soreness. extreme bloating, nothing else.

but I shall test on ... saturday.

fingers crossed for you

Saturday!!! What, so a week late?!?!?! I'd have chewed my fingers down to the bone by then.....

but the theory is that af will have arrived by then so I will have been put out of my misery earlier than Saturday .

and having missed a period in May of last year, and having been told by gp I was almost certainly pregnant even though tests were neg, I don't want to put myself through that again.

no-one said it would be easy though

I did the obligatory pg test on day 29 this month and was so sure it was negative that as the colour swept over the test window and started to fade I threw it in a drawer with disgust..same ritual as the last few months...no AF arrived though so on day 34 I succumbed to buying another..it was positive! When i got the other test out to prove to DP that it was negative....you guessed it...it was acually positive too!!

4 days late now.

am still resisting although it is becoming more difficult.

only three days till Saturday

you are being very sensible and brave...haave you been trying long?

and so my predictions have come true - af has arrived. and so that test lives to be used another day, one day

mumto3 we've been trying for two years. my dh has low sperm count so I know that realistically there's no chance of me actually falling pg, but it doesn't stop me hoping that maybe one day ... esp as we do have a ds who was conceived naturally although it did take just over a year to conceive him.

There's a big part of me that wants to go back on the pill to put it all behind me for once and for all, (in fact there's a thread on here somewhere about it), but there's another part of me that can't bring myself to do it.

I am very lucky though in that I have a ds, and although I would desparately love another baby, and I do sometimes post on here about my sadness at not being able to have another one, and the fact I know I should tell the family there aren't going to be any more, I know that it's better to be happy with the things I do have than be sad about the things I don't/can't have.