AF due 20/08 (thread 3)

[candycrush2298]

continuation from thread AF due 20/06 and AF due 20/07

@Kaybobx lol yay!! They look really nice. I cant decide which app is nicer the easy@home or femometer. The femometer gives a nice chart and it also lets you input loads like the texture of cm and cervix position it honestly has loads of information to input. But I like the strip pictures of the easy@home.

I think you will really like the easy@home ones. It takes about 7 minutes for all the dye to run but it's broad and really easy to read. Let me know what your thoughts are when you start using them think you will really like them xx the app even gives you a timer for the tests lol.

@candycrush2298 I'm just playing around with it now, i really like it 👌🏻 thanks for the recommendation 😊 my opk isn't high like last nights this morning so will keep testing now i have another 25 tests coming tomorrow haha! I love all the testing and tracking, its just the TWW that I can't cope with. Haha

@Kaybobx thats great have fun lol!! I also love it. The TWW is annoying because there is no reason to test but at the beginning of a cycle with OPKs its like everyday twice a day haha and you are guaranteed a second line 🤣🤣.

Just remember opks are generally higher later in the day than the morning because LH rises during the day.

@candycrush2298 it even more annoying when you think you see faint lines on the PG tests and its absolutely all in your head haha!!

Annoying thing about being back to work is i can't test at the same time everyday/evening. I won't be home until around 10.45pm this evening but when im not on that shift id be fast asleep by then lol. Does it matter what time you do opks in the evening?

@Kaybobx yes especially because those are the tests that really count the pg tests lol. That is where you 100% want to see a second line. Its all very annoying because you think you see it but you aren't too sure. Argh its hell lol!!

I think they say you supposed to test OPKs between 10am and 8pm. Not sure what happens when you test later probably nothing lol. You still early anyway and have loads of tests I would just test tonight after a good pee hold and you are off tomorrow anyway so dont think it will be anything bad lol

@candycrush2298 i definitely seen lines in both the cheapie and FRER last cycle 😂 i think it's turned me crazy and now i just imagine things haha.
I feel like i have ovulation cramps today just on my right side! What is going on?!
Im going to have to take some opks to work and do it somehow sneaking a pot to the loo haha!!

@Kaybobx lol its strange how both you me and @snapple21 had lines on our tests last cycle. I think this going to make us crazy this cycle. But hopefully this time the lines will get super dark and we won't be questioning it this time around.

What really??? Umm I think you are getting close then haha. My ovulation pain usually starts in my back and then pains during and after ovulation on one of my sides.

If you getting it this early I think its definitely a good idea to try sneak some tests with you to work hahahaha. Might be awkward but yeah if you getting pains lol I wouldn't want to miss it

@candycrush2298 we so need a lucky thread! None of us originals from the first one have had a BFP yet!! Come girls we can do it this month!

I'm going to wear my bumbag at work today. We sometimes where them as it has all our first aid stuff in if we have an emergency so I'll put a little pot and test in. Hopefully i dont pull it out with some gloves hahaha!! I'll attach my opk from last night. I know its not positive but its close to what my positives look like. I definitely feel somethings going on inside today. How strange!

@Kaybobx I know we have been together for three full threads now I think its about time we get those positives lol! This is it its going to be a positive thread. It just has to be. Someone deliver us a lorry of baby dust 🤣

Oooh thats a clever idea no one will think anything of that. And looking at your test it does look high. Added to what you are feeling hmmm sounds like O is coming sooner than expected. What does your CM look like?

@candycrush2298 i wish you could you buy baby dust on Amazon Prime 🤣🤣

I don't have much CM at all. Although i did check my CP after a shower and its super high, could barely reach it and its open! I think its waiting for some swimmers. Im going to start BD every other day now just incase.

@Kaybobx whahaha imagine if you could I would totally be buy it 🤣🤣🤣

Hmmm my cm has also been all weird I had ewcm last week but not much over the weekend but I know bd'ng messes with cm so its not that easy to track it. Ooooh really??? Now that is something if you cp is already super high and open sheesh what is going on here lol. Just keep testing those OPKs sounds like you are close lol.

@candycrush2298 I hope we all get a positive this month would be amazing to continue on the journey together

@snapple21 I completely agree!!! It seems we are already going through everything weird together like positives followed by AF. So lets hope the good omen will follow us into this month and we all get BFPs the same cycle so we can go through the pg journey together. I would love it 💜

@candycrush2298 absolutely have no idea whats going on! Our bodies are just crazy.
Will keep tracking and testing away haha!

@snapple21 yes it would be so good to continue our PG journey together.

Where do you guys live? Would be so good to all meet with our babies all the same age. Positive thinking 🤣🤣🤣

@Kaybobx yes our bodies do what they feel like doing regardless of what we want them to do 🤣🤣

I am hoping this is a good positive vibe, I almost always ovulate from my left side and this month is the first month in years that I am back ache on my right side and pain on my right side. Ooooooh. Fingers crossed the right side knows what its doing becuase the left side hasnt been doing a good job so far on this ttc journey whahahah.

Omg that would be amazing can you even imagine. It would probably be a trip for me to see you girls because I live in Scotland 😆

@candycrush2298 yup thats a fair trek indeed haha! 🤣 I'm in Derbyshire.

Ooooh hopefully thats a positive thing switching sides. I'm certain i ovulate from the right. When i had the scan a few months back it was the right one that was getting to size over the left too with more follicles in so makes sense.

Myself and hubby have started to eat abit better lately too so hopefully that helps. During lockdown all we did was eat rubbish and drink alcohol 🙈 back to working in a gym I'm not much of a good advocate haha

@Kaybobx whahaahaha ummmm yeah thats like a 5 hour drive. Whahaha!!

Oh really so your right side has more follicles in that is so interesting. I wonder I would think since I am generally more a left side pain girl I would guess theres more follicles there. But maybe this one coming out the right side is the "right" side LOL and is a good quality egg hahaha.

Thats really good. Well done on eating better!! Yeah I cant say the same we haven't been eating too well not like very badly everyday but theres been quite a bit of junk. I dont drink at all but hubby has a drink like maybe once every 2 weeks so we are OK on that front. But we definitely could make a better effort to eat better lol!!

I'm lancs so pretty spread out aren't we 😀

@candycrush2298 we went to Scotland last year and i was literally crying! Are we there yet, are we there yet? Hahaha!!

Its very interesting to know when you have a scan. I think from what i can remember, i had 6 follicles in my left and 9 in my right. The left side was growing to 24mm and my right 28mm. So my right is definitely the dominant one and i can definitely feel that too.

So i just had my consultation for acupuncture. Its alot of talking and working things out before actually getting the needles! Its only one session a week for the first 4 weeks which in itself im like whattt. I want one session and to be pregnant haha. Seems like a very long process. She seems to think that the male has more to do with the issues and his sleep and diet are a major factor. She can also do the acupuncture for him too which she thinks maybe better since all my tests come back clear and my BMI, periods and sleep are all fine. Going to discuss with hubby tomorrow as i need to go to work soon. Interesting though.

She also gave me this chart if it can help anyone as although we are doing everything we can, the male equally has to put the effort in.

@snapple21 yeah definitely all spread out LOL!!!

@Kaybobx wooah that is so interesting. About your follicles and the acupuncture. Yeah I read its an extremely lengthy process I read one woman did it for 18 months after 5years of infertility and she can't say if it was luck or the acupuncture. Will see if I can find the blog for you.

Wow I had no idea so much was on the man. According to the chart you have uploaded my husband is definitely an issue with driving so he is probably keeping the swimmers too warm as his job involves mass amounts of driving between jobs (he is an engineer)

@candycrush2298 gosh I've missed a lot! You have to BD tomorrow lol! I know one app is saying 3DPO so technically already done it but just to be on the safe side :P. I wonder why they say miss one day after ovulation so weird.

The femometer app also lets you add the LH strips? Do you not like it's version of it?

@Elakiya noooooo I don't have to and I am not going tooo lol!!! I just literally can't I am sore hahah it was a lot of sex and we were both so exhausted my vagina needs to recover as I am sure he does too🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 if I am 3dpo whoohoo I sort of did SMEP accept we didn't skip a day and if I am 1dpo then oh well we did enough to cover it. We literally are so exhausted think I am going to pass out so early tonight 😂. But please let me know how SMEP works for you if this month is unsuccessful we will try plan the every other day a little better as 3 days in a row is just too much and follow SMEP correctly. Also let me know how the seed cycling goes.

Yeah Femometer stretches my images regardless of how I crop it or zoom. Now I dont crop or anything and if it uploads skew I couldn't be bothered. As you can see from the attached it just doesn't look as neat and tidy lol

@mummyjojo19 did AF show up?

@Elakiya how far away from starting to test with opks? When will you start bd'ng?

@Kaybobx let us know what the opk looks like when you get a minute

@candycrush2298 Lol that looks pretty neat to me. I just take pictures and don't really care about how it looks on screen, its just to keep a record. Like you I do stick them into a diary. I'm saving it as I want to be able to share my journey with a couple of family members that have been really struggling with infertility. But to do that I need to be successful first.

We started BD-ing I have a cold and am a terrible mess but we missed yesterday so have to do today. Husbands been told the timers going on and he better hurry up because I am in no mood to BD lol! I've also started OPK's but my peak won't be for another week at least.