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Jesus Christ someone tape my hands together - Prego Tests

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BunsOfAnarchy · 13/06/2017 07:55

Get me a straitjacket...I can't stop testing my pee because I've lost my mind.

In a nutshell;
-Been with hubby now 10years, married for 2
-Decided to start trying for a baby
-Never been on the pill, all hail the wonders of condoms
-I ovulated on the 4th June and baby danced on both 4th and 5th
-Im taking STUPID tests every single day (cheapo amazon and SD)
-all were negative but of course I'm testing TOO EARLY
-and breathe...

I need some direction ladies. Why am I feeling so intensely crazy? I can't even wait another 5 days till period is due. Okay so I feel some weird symptoms, like a period pain type of niggling pain every night, a silly tonne of flatulence and hysteria. I just can't stop testing.

I even had a very vivid and incredibly real dream this morning that 2 lines appeared. So I tested but still a BFN.

How can I stop myself from testing every day? Has anyone else been a mad woman and done this?

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Pinkemi · 16/10/2017 14:13

Congrats Cookie! Happy for you.. (if very jealous.)

Yesterday I have a full on weepy fest.. sobbed for about 20mins for like no reason at all.

My bbt also dropped again this morning.. so I am basically waiting for AF to start. :(

Seriously bored of this now.

chewbacca83 · 16/10/2017 16:31

Congrats Cookie that's great news. Keep us updated. Who knows what a going on with with body haha. I'm probably just spotting because I have no other symptoms.

Cookie1831 · 17/10/2017 08:12

Thanks girls couldn't hold out so confirmed on digital last night was 1-2 hoping to hold out to Friday before I do another as am hoping to see a 2-3 as I didn't get that far the last 2 times. Fingers crossed for you two spotters that it is something good, aw pink it is so crap hope you feel better for having a good cry Flowers

chewbacca83 · 17/10/2017 09:52

Fingers crossed for you cookie. I'm full on AT now so that's 2nd month in a row. I'm thinking my cycle has shortened to 3 weeks. Which If I'm searching for a positive means I don't have to wait so long between fertile days...annoying as hell though.

JemDoughnut · 17/10/2017 22:15

@Pinkemi Sad Flowers Looks like me and you are taking turns being down in the dumps! Get what you mean about being bored with this. I went into this knowing it would take a while and still I'm alreasy fed up! Sometimes I feel like I'm just waiting for the opportunity to be disappointed again! (I am actually feeling better, I swear!)

It's got to our turns next, for sure.

Thanks @Cookie1831, maybe a bit of your luck will make a difference. Smile

Had no other blood other than that one instance, but I have got gradually achier in the womb area since. Sorry if I go into too much detail, but it''s not really cramping, more like the heavy sensation after a day or so of full-on bleeding. And a bit of pressure, as though I've bloated and my trousers are tight, but I haven't and they're not. Does that make sense?

I don't really get pre-menstrual cramps, most of the pain I get is once I'm in full flow, so it could be a sign, but then I'd never gotten sore breasts until last month either. If it's PMS then it's either early, or I've got another week of this...

Pinkemi · 18/10/2017 09:49

day 35.. and AF arrived in full force this morning. I knew it was coming because I had so many signs.. but actually seeing it here just made me sob. My other half found me in the bathroom.

onto month 7 we go... :(

I know i shouldnt.. but really feeling like a failure right now.

JemDoughnut · 18/10/2017 13:54

You're right, you shouldn't, and you're not.

You've been given disappointing news at a time when you're emotionally sensitive,. Give yourself a break, grab that stereotypical bar of chocolate, and have your other half take care of you.

They say it can take the average couple up to a year to conceive, right? Well it sucks to not be one of the lucky ones that it happens for straightaway, but if it's going to take a year then you're halfway there, and if it happens before then it's an early bonus!

Can you tell that providing words of encouragement is not one of my stronger skills?

Temp dipped yesterday morning but I thought, one temp, whatevs, it'll go back up tomorrow. Tomorrow is here and it only went back up by 0.1, to what my temp was mostly at before ovulating. So I've wasted my lunch break Googling '2 day implantation dip' and 'temp drop still pregnant' so I can stay in denial a little longer. Grin

Cookie1831 · 18/10/2017 15:42

Ah pink my lovely am so sorry, it is so so shit and it isn't fair at all but like jem said with her very good words of encouragement actually, hopefully you are now statistically more likely to falling pregnant in the next few months. Give yourself time to have a really good cry and hen do something you couldn't have done if preggo (mine usually involves wine and soft cheese). I don't know you but you all seem so lovely that bloody stork better have some absolutely amazing babies lined up for you xxx

JemDoughnut · 19/10/2017 13:59

Temp went back up by another 0.2, not as high as it was but above the coverline.

Other than that I don't know what's going on. All sorts of random pains coming and going, some pretty PMS-like unfortunately. And the worst lower back pain...the combination is making it impossible to sit comfortably at my desk. Part of me is expecting to see AF by the end of the day.

Pinkemi · 19/10/2017 16:07

@JemDoughnut thanks for the words of encouragement. it’s difficult because in reality I know full well that it “can” take up to a year… but there is the stubborn part of me which is fighting this and basically going.. WHY NOT NOW?! I WANT IT NOW! I need to learn the power of patience.. and having faith that my body will eventually do as it is told. Someone told me the other day that if you surround yourself with negative thinking (like I’m never going to get pregnant or maybe my body is barren) then we are actually self-sabotaging ourselves. The body wont grow something in the womb if it feels threatened. So now im thinking.. great.. I’m screwed! Haha

@ Cookie1831 Oh don’t worry! I have the biggest glass of white wine possible last night in a moment of “screw it! I’m having wine!” haha

I have just booked myself in for a reflexology session on Saturday. I am a little nervous as can be funny about people touching my feet.. but Im not as scared of it as I am of needles.. which is why I thought about this over acupuncture.

I then have another session booked on Tuesday at a different place to see if they have any options for me too. (If im not careful, most of my wages will be going on holistic treatments to boost fertility!!)

Not to put a downer on things @JemDoughnut but I don’t want you falling into the same trap as I did this month. I had lots of different symptoms such as weird cramps a few days before expected period due date.. my lower back was killing me for about 4 days. Me being me… I assumed it was pregnant related.. If it wasn’t for my BBT just dropping.. I would have felt even more upset about my cycle starting. I guess my BBT kinda warned me…

Saying that It depends where you are in your cycle? When is your period due?

Cookie1831 · 19/10/2017 18:26

Was it one of those glasses that can fit a whole bottle Winkx

JemDoughnut · 19/10/2017 18:44

No worries, its not a downer. You're right. Especially as I took it harder than I previously have last time. I'm not getting my hopes up too high, honest.

I'm 10DPO so yeah, AF isn't that far away.

I read on another thread that it's the same hormones that cause both early pregnancy symptoms and PMS. So if it's not my month and it is just PMS, then I'm taking it as consolation that at least my hormones must be doing something. Grin

chewbacca83 · 20/10/2017 12:20

cookie how are you feeling? Any early pregnancy symptoms?

chewbacca83 · 20/10/2017 12:20

cookie how are you feeling? Any early pregnancy symptoms?

Cookie1831 · 20/10/2017 14:52

Am good thanks did a digital and got 2-3 this morning I was so worried it would go back to not pregnant like last time so feeling a bit more confident and booked a midwife appt for when I will be 7 weeks. Boobs a bit sore and not sure if I am imagining some fleeting Nausea or not but eating as normal (plus some)
How are you all doing? Hope you are planning to drink my share of the wine for me xx

Cookie1831 · 21/10/2017 07:04

jem did the bitch, I mean witch arrive?x

JemDoughnut · 21/10/2017 07:47

Not yet. Had the same pains and sensations most of yesterday and it's still there this morning. But then my temp dropped a little again this morning.

Not gonna lie, I told myself I'd wait until I was late, but I'm itching to test.

Cookie1831 · 21/10/2017 08:04

Well we aren't renowned for our will power on this thread are we?! I managed not to test again today (I may have done 7 so far but just feeling quite anxiousBlush)x

JemDoughnut · 22/10/2017 08:01

I think you're allowed to do reassurance tests. Especially as you know you've got something to look for. :)

It's still a little early but I managed to hold out until this morning. FRER says no. Bought a pack of two so made a deal with myself that I could do one early, but I've got to try and save the second one until Saturday. If AF hasn't arrived by then.

Cookie1831 · 25/10/2017 15:34

How is everybody doing? This thread has gone so quiet hope you all ok x

MamOfFrankie · 25/10/2017 21:32

I'm still hanging about cookie but haven't been posting because I have nothing to report - unfortunately!

2 days dpo, so just starting 2WW on cycle #3. How you getting on?

JemDoughnut · 25/10/2017 23:34

Same on the no news front! Same niggles down below but no flow.

I've kept that deal with myself so far and haven't done that second test.

Mostly feeling like it's just a late period/long cycle.

Cookie1831 · 26/10/2017 09:53

Well keep us posted even if it is no news hopefully we can distract you through the dreaded 2WW, what CD does that make you jem?xx

JemDoughnut · 26/10/2017 13:29

Today is CD35. But my last cycle was 43 days, and luteal phase was 17 days. Today is 17DPO.

I mean this is all in theory. It could all be bollocks, I might not even be ovulating, but my charts tend to make it look like I might do. I kind of have to do things on that basis and try and be optimistic about it.

Pinkemi · 26/10/2017 17:03

I'm still lurking.. but I am trying my hardest not to stress too much over tracking etc as I'm fed up enough as it is!

Have my second reflexology session next week.. which is good. Dont even know what CD im on.. I "think" its 9? trying not to be so on the ball with it and just DTD every other day, haha