Yams, fertile feckers and what not to say.

[LimpLettice]

Part the third:

Welcome all anti-fertile fuckers! This is our clique for those trying longer than 6 cycles and are pretty fed up.

Here are our Fucked Off TTC Commandments

• Thou shall not arrive one day and post BFP next day
• Thou shall not give advice to other when TTC for one month only
• Thou shall not participate in one-up-manship and realise TTC is shit for everyone in different ways
• Thou shall allow posters to be fucked off with the world and everything in it at regular points in the month
• Thou shall not be offended by strong language
• Thou shall not tell everyone to eat yams
• Thou shall accept being called a muppet for testing at 7dpo at 9pm at night

Our spreadsheet which includes what supplements (and potatoes) we are trying in our journey to motherhood.

si1ver there’s not much difference in size between the two :/ I guess I’ll have to wait until af comes and see how it goes.

I literally haven’t even thought about anything this tww so far. I couldn’t even tell you what CD I’m on. I’m past caring now. Had a repeat blood test for my raised prolactin, it was still raised but I’m ovulating so don’t know why it’s high. I don’t think that it’s affecting my fertility though. I think I’m just going to chill now until I get my appointment from the fertility clinic. I just don’t see the point in stressing anymore. It’s clearly not going to happen and I’m so fed up of it consuming me. Anyone else at this point yet or are you all still persevering lol

Christmas is definitely extra pressure. I’ve had so many ad hoc deadlines this year, and that’s just another one to fucking stress about.

Fw here, static smiley yesterday am. So of course poor DP is tired and feeling the pressure and couldn’t finish the job last night. Going to give it another try this evening if I can keep my eyes open but we’ve dtd plenty this last week so not panicking quite so much.

I’m so sorry everyone’s been feeling the tears so much lately. My rages have settled a bit, I’m starting to be resigned I think. We’ve no intention of trying treatment Blondie, we don’t qualify for any help and I just can’t face it now.

Ooooh new thread!

I’m Boyle in tww but reckon we fucked it up this month as dtd on peak surge day according to opk and then didn’t manage it again until the third day afterwards
If af turns up this month I’m heading to the Drs. Though if we have a problem it’s more likely to be dh rather than me as I’ve been pregnant twice before in my 20s and not a shrivelled old crone like I am now

Fucked off to the max!

Boyle? *currently

Ffs

@Bubblegum89, I felt that way in September/October then got my bfp. I was all ready to look at adoption, got a pack from the council and had an evening look-around at a fertility clinic booked. I am trying to remain relaxed again now, even though I've no idea when I'll ovulate again or have af.

I've used a mooncup for a few years. I have the pink one (is the other one blue? It's too small anyway) and really like it. I find it easy to use although I know other people hate it. I think it's helped keep my periods light and short too.

Still lurking here! Marking my place on part 3 x

Aww limp bless you. I’m not eligible for any treatment on NHS either and sometimes the prospect of going through IVF terrifies me. The cost alone for something with such low success rates makes my skin crawl. Then there’s the injections and the crazy hormones and all that invasion of my personal bits lol how long have you been ttc for now?

sooz hugs I hope everything all goes back to normal body-wise soon. As if losing a pregnancy isn’t bad enough, everything goes out of whack and puts more stress on you. I’d started saving for what I think will inevitably be fertility treatment even though I’m not 100% sure I even want to do it. I just know I’m not going to get pregnant on my own. I’ve ready started researching surrogacy as an option as I’m convinced that my uterus isn’t a good environment anymore due to scar tissue. I’m just past caring now. Hope you’re being kind to yourself xx

Pregnacare TTC currently 3 for 2 in Superdrug. It’s bloody expensive though. And depressing that I’ll need that many months supply. Haven’t been very successful getting OH to regularly take his.

@justwaiting I thought you’re not supposed to take EPO. Hang on, I’m thinking about EPA fish oils. What’s EPO?!

Does a mooncup mean shorter periods in general? If so, I might be tempted to try! Mine seem to just go on and on... (usually 2 days heavy, two days medium, two days light, then another day of needing a liner just in case... A whole week!!). I feel that often we miss out on getting a head start with ttc because I'm still waiting for AF to fully disappear.

EPO is evening primrose oil and is thought to aid the production of ewcm.

lostintranslation mooncups don’t affect your period, they just hold the blood in the cup rather than absorb it. Means you can reuse it. My periods are crap so I just got one so I can see properly how much I actually bleed as I can’t really tell once it’s absorbed into a tampon

There is anecdotal evidence they shorten AF. I am pretty sure it has shortened mine. The blood comes out faster as it holds things open basically.

Cool. Was trying to work out the biology of how they could shorten a period, but that makes sense! Will try one, I think, and see how it goes. Thanks!

Lexi EPO is evening primrose oil! you only take it up to O but it, for me anyway, MASSIVELY increases EWCM.

Jumping on and sending a big wave to all on this emotional roller coaster 😊

grumpy do they?? I’ve never heard that before. Jesus, my periods are crap as it is, maybe it’s not a good idea lol

@Bubblegum89 at least you will know exactly how much flow there is, which is more important than the number of days (what my GP said). Since starting acupuncture the quality of my AF blood has improved - less clotty and nice medium thickness (sorry tmi - you cannot be squeamish with a mooncup!)

Thanks for the new thread.

Sooz and Squirrel

I'm now on cd 75! I've now had 13 days of nausea (normally feel like this from ovulation to AF) also getting a lot of cm had a few boob pains and slight cramps but not feeling the slightest bit pre menstral, so I got all excited and POAS BFN I should know better but I convince myself I'm pregnant every month. F#@* this nausea though, thought I was going to have to dash out of a meeting this morning to be sick and I don't even get a baby at the end just bloody AF! So unfair. And fertile fucker at work who knows how long we've been trying delighted in telling me she got pregnant first time, is busy basking in her pregnancy telling everyone how wonderful and miraculous everything about being pregnant is and telling me how I can't possibly understand, grrrr!

Oh that’s okay then grumpy at the minute I have fairly thin red bleeding for a couple of hours (sometimes with clots, sometimes not) then the rest is brown watery and occasionally sludgy stuff. And I’m not squeamish in the slightest lol I’m actually intrigued as wrong as that sounds 😂

Finally got my progesterone result neumerically! It was 40.5 and after a scout online it seems that anything over 30 shows natural Ovulation. DH is now even more convinced it’s ‘his’ issue.

Fellow Yammers! Would anyone be interested in a Facebook group? A secret one, obvs, but thought it might be nice to put faces to names and chat without having fertile feckers ramming their advice down our throats?

@Justwaitingforaline, glad to hear your numbers are okay but hoping your DH isn't blaming himself?

I’d love a secret FB group, no qualms with that at all!

He is indeed blaming himself, or at least preempting blaming himself which makes me really sad.

Had a sudden memory of a dream I had recently. We had (apparently accidentally) defrosted the top tier of our wedding cake and started eating it. The tier is being saved for the christening of our first child. Even though it's not true, the emotion linked to the dream is making me sad this evening

I'm up for a FB group. I demand the group picture is of a yam.