TTC in August Looking for a BFP

[libralady]

Hi,
Thought I'd start a thread for those of us looking for a BFP in August. I'm ttc #2. Have a DS of 3.3. I'm current on CD15 - OD day - with a bit of luck. Have been bd'ing like mad over my fertile days and will continue to do so for a few more days yet. Then it will just be the 2ww. Anyone else in situation?

Hi ladylush
No it wasn't me who hid the ov sticks in my car!
I only got my cheapy ones from eBay a few days ago but I'm not going to bother using them this month. I'll just resume after next af which is due around 31st August.

Hi all.

Looneytune, are you feeling any better? Cystitis is a killer. I used to suffer from chronic bouts of it, but it mysteriously disappeared after the birth of my first child 2 and a half years ago and I've never had it again! As a rule of thumb, if you suffer from it for more than 3 days, see your doctor as you may need anti-b's to clear it up. I sympathise...its very painful and makes you feel so unwell :-(

Well - I still haven't got my AF. Doctor can't fit me in until Monday so hopefully it will turn up before then (I say hopefully as I feel pre-menstrual, so I'd rather it just bloody well came sooner rather than later! My cycles have been so regular up until this month, so its all a bit baffling...maybe just stress, I dunno?)

Hope you're all well today x

Hello ladies

Poor looneytunes. I hate cystitis. But least once you get the antibiotics, you'll know that you'll be on the mend. Stress doesn't help!

I'm feeling much better today. I got the results from the hospital. The hormones have dropped by 50% to 195 units (pg tests pick up 25 units; a healthy pregnancy should have been at 50,000-60,000!), so we are on the way to a bfn ...

Round at a friend's house with ds1, following your advice about keeping busy, Bellie. Good luck with the operation.

Welcome Fairysnuff, Big Fat Positive (I had to be inducted too!) fingers crossed. (Get me, everyone, helping the newbies with the lingo!)

xxx

Love angel, good luck. Could still be good news?

Thanks Upsidedown - I am baffled, to be honest. I can only think that stress and obsessing about getting pregnant have held up my AF - I DO NOT feel pregnant in the slightest, infact, I have really bad PMT mood swings right now! I don't really understand all the abbreviations etc, but it sounds like your news is good news ...? Good luck xx

upsidedown - good news in terms of the drop in units. Does this mean that you will not need any intervention?

Sorry libralady - it was moodymoo hiding the ov sticks. I must read properly!

Upsidedowncake - glad it is happening naturally and that you are feeling a bit better today.

Thanks everyone, I'm much better than yesterday, how I got through yesterday I don't know. The worse part is picking up the mindees and taking them upstairs for naps - really hurt my sides Anyway, Dr given me tablets which are fine in pg JUST IN CASE (but I'm pretty sure I can rule that one out) and I've been to the shop for cranberry juice and bicarb of soda. Hopefully with that lot I'll be better in no time. Haven't read the label but if it says I can't drink even once feeling better, I'll be well annoyed if I do end up with my period this weekend!!!

Anyway, got to run, baby mindee is being picked up early so need to finish her diary and wash bottles etc.

LT x

So glad that they have identified it as a urine infection, Looney. sort of if you know what i mean Sorry that you're still feeling lousy.

Sorry Love angel about all the abbreviations. But yes it is good news of a sort that I am getting less pregnant by the day! Hope you get one or the other soon. Waiting is horrid.

And yes, I am really lucky that I won't need any intervention. Could you bear to share your story, Bellie, or would you rather not? A friend who is an obstetrician told me that most hospitals will whip your fallopian tube out just in case , but that the hospital I am at (St George's) pioneered this 'wait and see' method for people with really, really low amounts of hormone.

Thanks USDC, I feel much better, really I do. Think the 4 pints of water last night really helped! I'm now here with my pills, a glass of cranberry juice and a pint of water with bicarb of soda in - not sure I want to taste that one just yet!

I'm so pleased you don't need to have an operation, how awful that some people have their tubes removed JUST IN CASE

So glad to hear that you are feeling better LT - it sounds really strange to keep drinking so you keep peeing when it hurts so much, but it really does help!

Upsidedown, I don't mind sharing my story at all ! Hope it is not too long!

Got BFP In August. About week 5 I started getting really bad pains under my ribs - so bad that they would wake me up - and also pains in my lower back. I just put them down to lifting boxes as we had just moved house. Halfway though week five I started getting blood - bright red and some small clots. Went to GP and they said could be m/c but as I did not have sharp pains on one side it definately would not be ectopic .
Early Preg Unit refused to scan me until week 8 as if a m/c was going to happen there was nothing that they could do about it, and from my symptoms it was not ectopic.

Anyway keep on trying to get scan and they refused - for some reason it did not even occur to me to go private at all for a scan.

Got to week 8 - and my scan. Was scanned at 9am - they found it was ectopic and still living and my tube was huge as a result. At 10.30 I was under general and tube and baby removed. They couldn't save the tube as it had started to rupture.
Ended up with infection afterwards as had heavy bleeding for 5 weeks (huge clots the size of the palm of my hand sorry if TMI)

Had follow up with NHS surgeon in November - told that everything was OK and that the light bleeding that I was getting was normal as scarring was healing inside. Obviously this has continued and have now gone private - had intravaginal scans, ultrasounds and now booked iin for hysteroscopy and cauterisation of cervix in September.

Been a bit of a long journey, but am now feeling positive about the way future.

Hence my post when you thought that you were miscarrying about insisting on going to EPU - I would never let anyone wait like I had to . Didn't tell you my story at the time as didn't want to worry you unduly if you see what I mean.

God that feels better actually writing it down, although when I typed the bit about removing the baby I did shed a tear - but time is a healer and I think having some positive steps over the next month helps too.

Gosh Bellie,
Your story is a long and sad one but at least you can now see light at the end of the tunnel. Hope everything goes well and you soon get a BFP.
Take care
Love LLxx

Bellie - You say you shed a tear after writing that, I've just had to go upstairs so dh didn't see me and ask what's wrong. You poor poor thing. I'm so on your behalf, have you complained about the way you were treated? That's TERRIBLE. I just don't see why they refused scans, what harm is it to have a quick look?! Probably money but it's just disgusting. You sound like you've been very brave!!! {{{ hugs }}} I hope all goes well with what's coming up and fingers crossed you don't have to wait too much longer to get a BFP

Oh, and thanks, yes I felt a lot better.........till I tasted the water with bicarb of soda!!!! YUCK!! I'm trying to force it down but it's really not nice, would rather stick with the cranberry juice!

Bellie, That is so sad. I can't believe that the hospital treated you like that - I bet they would act differently if it was them it was happening to did you complain about it afterwards? I am glad that you are now thinking positivly about the future, hopefully it wont be too long before you get a bfp followed by a lovely healthy teeney weeney baby.
Looneytune - hope the antibiotics are starting to kick in by now, don't envy you having to drink cranberry juice - yuck. Boots and Asda sell a good cystitis cure called cystapurin which works and tastes ok if you drink it really fast, obviously no good for you now but worth bearing in mind for any future occurences.
Upsidedown- hope that everything gets back to not being pg really quickly so that you can get back to ttc (if that's what you are plannig to do), it is good that you do not need an op, but it's still crap that any of this happened in the first place!How r u feeling today?
Ladylush - ov tests are stil under the car seat, just waiting for the day to slowly roll around when I can sneak one out and get a smiley face )

Bellie. Thank you so much for sharing your story. I'm so sorry that you had such a horrible experience. The whole thing must have felt never-ending - it's good that you have positive stuff now.

It's awful that they refused to scan you till week 8. Have you felt able to feed back to the epu? It's great that by going private, you now feel more in control.

When is your hysteroscopy? Forgive me if you have said before.

Moody. Are you planning on peeing on stick in car?

Thanks girls, no I havn't managed to feedback to the epu, I know I should have done to make sure it doesn't happen again, but I just didn't want to go back through it until recently. Do you think that it would be too late to do anything now?

lol at moodymoo peeing in the car{wink]

Oh well day 28 tomorrow - testing day for me - not hopeful as have been bleeding continuously for the past 3 days but I still have a slight glimmer of hope until the morning!

oops that should be a !

Hi Bellie. I don't think it would be too late to feed back now but it could be painful for you. You could perhaps write it down.

Good luck for tomorrow. Fingers crossed for good news for you.

hmm not sure I could manage to pee on it in the car,only got a little tin can on wheels , would give my neighbours something to talk about though which would be funny .
Bellie - how weird is 'hope'? I counted myself out for this month following bad period pains , spotting and horrendous pmt (don't know what it is like to talk to dh - can only do short, snappy and shouting at the moment and what I thought was day 1 of my period - 5 days later and I am still waiting for it to arrive properly, getting really cheesed off - wish it would hurry up and get here so i can get back to ttc. don't usually have these problems so have had this little grain of hope growing that perhaps I was being too hasty, even though I know I am kidding myself.
I am sure that it isn't too late to write to the EPU and express your concerns at the way you were treated. It might help you in a theraputic? way to do it as well as you will feel like you have addressed it. When I saw the specialist consultant 4 months after i'd been in hospital she actually asked me if I had any issues with the way I had been treated and promised to review my scans to see if any errors were made in not picking up condition of my baby at earlier scan (which would have saved me having to go thru labour). I was really impressed with the way my concerns were dealt with and I am reassured that next time they will do everything they can for me.Let us know what you do x

Wow, Bellie that was such a sad story :-( I think you're indredibly brave for sharing.

LT - hope you're feeling better tonight? Let me tell you the weirdest thing - after posting earlier on that I had not had cystitis in 2 and a half yrs...I feel like I'm getting it tonight! How odd is that? I just had a slightly stingy wee and can feel it coming on. On the plus side, it means perhaps the achy feeling I've had in my tum isn't PMT at all but cystitis pain...which means I could be be preg...but I still refuse to get my hopes up until I see my doc on Monday. I am such a sa saddo, byt the way - i tested again this arvo and still BFN. That's 5 tests in 5 days. God, somebody stop me, I am fruit loop!

oohh moodymoo - could it be implantation bleed? Have you tested?

Loveangel - testing becomes addictive doesn't it? I hope that you are not getting cystitis - that would be awful - but maybe if you are would explain why you are feeling the way you are and not getting period?

I tested this morning - woke extra early after a dream of a BFP and guess what ? A BFN . Thing is that I don't feel pre-menstrual at all - no symptoms nothing.

Maybe this is the month that we all have phantom periods and are made to wait for ever

moodymoo - hope it's a good sign that a bfp might be on its way rather than a what the heck is going on with auntie

bellie - so sad to read your story. Angry too. Glad you can still be positive after all that has happened.

Was just wondering if anyone feels like having a rollcall re. cycle days. I found it helpful on previous ttc threads and it saves me having to remember. I'm CD6 so about 5 days til I go 4 it iyswim (practice in the mean time)

moodymoo - cheers for that, I may give that a go. I'm actually ok with the cranberry juice, it's the water with bicarb of soda in - REALLY YUCK!!! And yes, are you going to test? It could be implantation???

Bellie - I don't think it's too late to complain, I would definitely try if you feel up to it, may help? Oh and yes, I had one of the BFP dreams and the first thing I wanted to do when I woke up was to test - but I didn't.........I did later that day though!

Loveangel - oh no, how strange, hope I didn't pass the lurgy through cyber space! How you feeling today?

Ladylush - I'm CD27 so period should be here very soon. I must say i'm a bit confused, can you guys help me? This is first month I'm expecting a proper period because I was on the pill before. I thought I had a 28 cycle on the pill because you get 21 pills in a pack and have a week break. Well, my period would always start on a Sunday and according to my workings, this makes it a 29 day cycle. Am I right? The Dr told me that I can test from when I am late based on pill periods which means if it doesn't come on Sunday then I CAN test (but it could also be that my cycles become slightly longer). Oh I'm waffling now, don't suppose it really matters, I just wondered

LT your cycle might change once the pill is out of your system. When I came off it my period didn't come for 3 months but hopefully that won't happen to you. Over the years my cycle has become shorter - it's rarely 28 days, more frequently around 23.

Ladylush - CD6
Looneytune - CD27