I just feel I need to vent and get my frustrations out. Maybe there’s someone else that’s waiting in limbo like I am.
So I’m on cycle 12 of ttc number 4. Mc at 9 weeks back in January, and 2 chemicals since then.
Have had day 2 and day 21 bloods done with a fertility specialist Only last month, all great results. I’m 38 so time is against me.
My 3 children (from a previous relationship) were conceived easily within 3 cycles. I’m now with a new partner and am obviously older (he’s only 30 though). The tests we’ve had done with the fertility specialist include semen analysis for my partner, and we have our first appointment with her on Thursday to talk through results/next steps etc.
My cycles didn’t used to be all that regular. I started using opk’s to get an idea of what was going on and saw I was ovulating around cd22 and that I had a 13 day luteal phase. Which often made my cycles super long. So I started about 4/5 months ago taking soy isoflavones on days 3-7. It seemed to help regulate my ovulation and brought it forward to between day 13 and 16. Last month I had tests done so I didn’t take the soy as I didn’t want anything to possibly interfere with the results.
This cycle I started them again and as usual started testing with opk’s from cd10. But instead of seeing gradually darkening lines there was nothing, at all, I gave up testing altogether on cd20 something.
So here I am, now on cd33, no idea if or when I ovulated, no signs or symptoms of af, or unfortunately pregnancy.
I’ve no idea if af will be just really late this month, or if I’ll just go straight into a new cycle.
But I’m so fed up of seeing bfn’s now. I don’t even know why I’m testing when I don’t think I’ve even ovulated.
The only thing I can think that might have screwed with my cycle is that this cycle I started taking nature’s best strong start multi vitamin (as I’d ran out of my bog standard vit d one). I’ve read how pregnancies and various other bits can screw cycles so thinking that could be an explanation.
I’ve now stopped those, and got more of my vit d ones, so will just go back to taking folic acid and vit d, along with my ubiquinol.
Anyone else just in limbo waiting for af that may or may not arrive? Feel free to join me in this hell 😩