FRER shows a clear line 😭😭😭 I cant believe this. I’m sorry if this upsets anyone else, I just have no one else to tell about this right now as I want to wait until Monday to tell my husband (which is actually going to kill me and I need to find something to distract myself!)
I don’t know if this is helpful to anyone at all but I always liked seeing this type of comment so just wanted to share my experience.
I was on the pill for around around 14 years or so, microgynon to begin with, then I think dianette and then lastly yasmin (sorry if I’ve spelt any of those names wrong 🙈) I stopped taking it in February as we had originally planned on starting TTC in May after our holiday (that was obviously cancelled). We then put it off until October, and then brought it back to this month.
Since then I’ve had cycles of 34, 45, 39, 34 and 41. This cycle I’m CD43 so far.
I’m a vegetarian so I’ve been taking Superdrug vegetarian multi vitamin gummies for 2 years, and then on the 1st August I swapped to pregnacare pre conception to give my body a good few weeks to actually get the benefit. I decided 3 weeks ago or so that this was giving me brain fog and I didn’t feel good so I swapped to seven seas pre conception and I’ve been taking it since then.
I’m 31, average sort of weight, and I haven’t exercised since May or June. I’ve been wanting to start again but didn’t know if it was a good idea when TTC as I’ve read not to start doing something completely different. I walk a lot so I’ve been going for a walk every morning.
My diet is vegetarian. I eat a lot of bread and pasta, and eggs and cheese 🙈 I also try to eat fruit and vegetables most days but I know I’m not the best at it.
I’ve attached my cycle chart so you can see how that looks and when we DTD.
As for symptoms I tried to write them all off and justify them, but last week I was an actual crazy person. I was so irritated and fed up, and I broke down and cried at the weekend. I’ve felt much happier, calmer and normal this week though!
I also felt extremely bloated the day after ovulation (which I blamed on eating a chippie), but it lasted for 3-4 day’s and it was pretty bad bloating. I’ve also felt more gassy than usual.
My CM seems to have increased slightly and was slightly wetter too.
I had a few cramps in the first few days after ovulation, but not many since then apart from the odd few yesterday.
My skin also broke out two weeks ago, has since cleared up, but I’ve noticed I’ve a few around my mouth again today (which is where I usually get them around ovulation so I think they’re hormonal)
I’ve had no spotting so far.
I had a really sore back for 3 days last week where I had to keep trying to do stretches and sit with a water bottle on my back. (Blamed this on our kitchen chair)
I don’t feel any extra tiredness or nausea at the moment thankfully
My boobs have felt quite sore for a few days and kept me awake on Sunday night when I lay on my front. They don’t seem to hurt by themselves, but they hurt if I touch them.
I told myself I wasn’t going to test until 14 DPO, but I just really wanted to do on 11 DPO and I caved, which is when I got my first faint line on my cheapie at 5pm. Same again the morning of 12 DPO and same again this morning on 13 DPO. The photo I’ve attached is this afternoon at 13DPO.
Sorry, my cycle was pretty long so I can’t get it all into the screenshot, but we DTD the day after AF ended (this is cut off) and then I stopped charting after the last BD on my chart you can see as I stopped testing and only wrote down my ‘symptoms’
I didn’t check my BBT and had planned on starting to the next cycle!
Sorry if no one wants to hear this, but if it helps anyone at all then that’s great 😊
I’m a worrier in general so this has now ramped up while I cross all my fingers and pray this sticks. I hope everyone doesn’t mind, but I would like to stick around in this thread for a while ❤️