Where there’s a Yam, there’s a way

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Thread numero four-o.

A safe place for those of you who have been trying to conceive for 6+ months and even yams aren’t helping. Come and have a good ol’ bitch and a moan without judgement.

The Yam Commandments are as follows;

• Thou shall not arrive one day and post BFP next day

• Thou shall not give advice to others 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

And most importantly...

• Thou shall not symptom spot during the two week wait and must be prepared for a telling off if they do so.

Welcome and welcome. We’re all very nice and friendly despite being horrible bitter old cows ☺️

Welcome back @Justwaitingforaline. Congratulations on your wedding.

I've had an interesting morning reading about human pregnancy factors. What it boils down to is that a certain percentage of the population will get pregnancy symptoms before implantation. I might reign back on mocking people who have veiny hands at 3dpo.

Congrats @justwaiting sounds like you’re properly relaxing which is great!

Congrats @Justwaitingforaline happy honeymoon

Hope it's okay to be here. Have been ttc since last Feb with 2 mc in between so still here trying. This cycle is the 1st full cycle since the last mc (it's been a complete shitfest for the last two months) but hopefully it's okay to join still. I'm 0% hopeful right now but we'll try again anyway

I got my blood work results back today. Could you lovely ladies cast your expert eyes over these results:

FSH 7.3
LH 3.5
ESTRADIOL 143
TESTOSTERONE 1.2
PROLACTIN 151

Sorry @LookingAtTheStars89 I have no idea but really hope they are great results. I'm burying my head in sand and not heading to the gp yet.

Welcome @UnicornsandRainbows1, sorry for your losses, its so hard x

Assuming these are day 3 tests, looking An FSH level of less that 9 is ideal. Levels of LH should be between 3-10. Estradiol level is a bit high, less than 80 is idea but up to 100 is normal. Testosterone should be between .7- 3.6 aaaaand prolactin is ideally less than 24 so you have quite an elevated level there too. Did they offer you an appointment to discuss? This is a great website to look at levels : www.fertilityplus.com/faq/hormonelevels.html

@Justwaitingforaline. I Just phoned the surgery back in a flap lol and she said that the measurements in the UK are different and anything below 500 u/l for prolactin is normal and between72 – 529 pmol/L for estradiol is normal.

Woah, different measurements for the same thing across seas? How weird! I was going off what my GP told me as she gave me the link to that site! Sorry if I worried you unnecessarily! It’s very annoying that there isn’t a blanket template

@Justwaitingforaline. How odd. I Just googled "normal estradiol levels nhs" and it came up with exactly what the surgery just told me - and breathe! Lol. Still not totally odd of the woods as I have to have a progesterone and cortisol yet, they couldn't do cortisol yesterday as it has to be done at 09.00am.

@Justwaitingforaline. And don't worry about worrying me - I would worry if there was nothing to worry about lol!

Ewcm today?! How long does semen hang around for? Not more than a day, surely? I am in my fw according to ff but based on recent 36-day cycles not for another week or so. I'm not sure if acupuncture 2 days ago would have brought ov forward by so much so soon!! I'm confused. Going to dtd tonight obvs.

Hope everyone is feeling ok. Even though i know there is no chance this month with little dtd and timing etc i poas and got a bfn...of sorts. Hate IC! There was a tiny indent where the 2nd line should come up and i have spent last half hr (stupidly) deciding if there its a line or not (theres not!!) I should know better.

@milk hate to give you false hope, but more than a handful of people I know bought mooncups and then got pregnant before they could use them!

milk I love my mooncup. My periods are so rubbish that I found tampons really uncomfortable because they were so dry (sorry lol) I could always feel them when I was walking about but I totally forget when my mooncup is in. Plus you can keep it in overnight without worrying you’re going to get TSS lol

June I wish that had been true for me 😂

@SoozC I think I read that the sperm survive longer in ewcm (up to 5 days) and keel over more readily in sticky/nonexistent cm.

Thanks Wonky, I meant (but didn't phrase very well), that I was uncertain if it was ewcm if semen hands around for a couple of days after dtd. I think it's ewcm, but we dtd two evenings ago so not sure if I can count it as ewcm. IYSWIM.

Anyway, dtd!

@SoozC.. are you asking if your suspected ewcm is in fact semen??? #confused!

Ewcm stays together in water, according to TCOYF

No, not doing OPKs... yet. Think they'll confuse me. Think I had ewcm earlier though so maybe I'm finally ov'ing with the help of Agnus Castus

Yes, Wonky, that's it! Don't you worry about the state of the educating system when a teacher can't even explain that simply enough?! I promise I'm better when teaching History or something, science never was my thing

Not going to do a science experiment but thanks for the tip! Will keep fingers crossed for ewcm. Dtd anyway. I was just wondering if acupuncture could affect ov so quickly? Definitely not doing opks or bbt, I just don't want to stress about it after the mc. I go through phases of doing them and not doing them. I'm just keeping an eye on cm (although I'm clearly not very good at it!).

Have you read TCOYF @SoozC ? Think she suggests kegels half an hour after DTD as sperm will have got through the cervix by then and you can get rid of the semen so monitoring cm the next day is clearer.

Thanks @Milknosugar1 trying not to get hopes up but DTD just in case