TTC 35+ Thread 5 Cougar and Silver Fox Club

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Does everyone here take Q10? I don't! I just take vit D (with calcium), B complex and folic acid!

@selina37 yes I take CoQ10 (ubiquinol), it's supposed to be good for egg quality if you are 35+. I can't tell you if it makes any difference though as I've been taking it for 5 months and I'm not pregnant yet 😄

@selina37 I take coq10 but have only started a month ago. I’m 38 not far off 39 so feel it may help! And yes we are total cycle twins... although I hope you are a tad less crazy than me in the 2ww 🤪

Re the coq10 I couldn’t be sure as my ex h had major sperm issues but prior to me taking q10 there was no hint of a pregnancy for 2 years... once I started it the 3rd year of ttc I fell twice mc once and 4 months later got pg with my beautiful ds who is a very happy little 5 yr old now 🥰

@Loladoodle ohh that's interesting maybe I should start then 🤔
I had a crazy patch of poas loads but I prefer to tell myself there's still a possibility until AF arrives, I find the whole negative thing a let down 😫

@Loladoodle and @Kitekat81 what ones do you take?

@selina37 I take these ones:

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00LFVDK1E?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share&tag=mumsnetforu03-21

@Loladoodle how many mg are you taking? I'm taking 200mg a day but thinking of increasing to 400mg

I had never heard of coq10 before, thank you for the recommendation! I have just ordered some 😁

I’m taking Natures Best 200mg. I have dp taking it as well so it does work out expensive. I’m not going to up the dose for a few months until I see if there’s been any benefit. DP is young fit and healthy but he is taking well man and coq10 to try and aid the process- and tbh to probably over compensate for the fact I am old, less fit and less healthy than he is! 👵😳

Ooh @Loladoodle how old is your dp? Mine is 43, I've got him on wellman and tried to get him to take coq10 as well but he wasn't keen, which I was partly relieved about because I didn't really fancy paying double for us both to take it! His semen analysis came back "normal" so hopefully we're all ok on his side, he has a pretty healthy lifestyle 🤞

I take the same brand as you @Kitekat81 was hoping there'd be a Black Friday deal on it - not really

Meant to start smep tonight but DH is snoring away

Out of interest do you take all your supplement at the same time or do you stagger them through the day? I'm getting quite a collection now and wondering if I should avoid taking them all at once? 🙈

@Kitekat81dp is 31 he hasn’t been for any tests we decided we wouldn’t do that. I had such a stressful time ttc with my ex h with all the testing etc. I didn’t want to go through that all again and we both feel there’s no point getting tested as we aren’t considering ivf we are just hoping it happens for us but will accept if it doesn’t.

I ordered different q10 tablets last night as noticed Holland and Barrett had a good deal on theirs £32 for 60 200mg I paid. That’s half price than what they usually cost. Will give them a whirl!

@SS123456 I take mine all in one go but I think I read it's better to stagger so body can absorb

@SS123456 @whatever1980 yeh I've been thinking about that myself. I currently take 8 tablets a day and may be increasing to 11 😳 I take them all in one go but it does seem a bit mad to get your body to try and absorb them all at the same time.

@Loladoodle that sounds like a good deal, I will check them out!

Since I've started taking supplements I get twinges in my right ovary definitely didn't before around now CD9 and I'm not sure whether that is a good thing or bad thing or something caused by the supplements

@whatever1980 could be signs of a stronger ovulation 🤞

Hi all.
I haven't posted onhere in quite some time.
I've ttc since June. I have 3 children. Have previous suffered 4 miscarriages.
Anyway in September I decided it was taking over my life so I was going to stop tracking and stop trying abd if it happened then great.
A couple of weeks a go I was due on, in the morning I had terrible period cramps the worst I've had. I thought to myself this is going to be a terrible period.

Later that night the pains had completely dissapeared and NO AF. I went for wee and something told me to grab a test out of the cupboard.

To my shock it pinged up bfp straight away. Im still in shock. We only dtd twice that month.
It just shows if you relax it can happen.
I know there was a thread following on from this one for bfp but I can't remember the name?
I keeping my fingers crossed for a sticky bean this time.
Just wanted to come kn abd say hi abd spread some positivity. 🤗🤗

Hi everyone,

New here, signed up as starting to feel pretty lonely and down due to lack of success. I’m 36, OH is 26 (cougar, I know ) and we’ve been trying for about 8 months. I’m already worried I’ve left it too late, life didn’t get me to a point where kids were an option until now, and feel pretty worried that with my lovely fella being so much younger it’s on me. I thought it had worked this month, I was feeling sick, heartburn, headache, stomach felt ‘different’, mood swings, backache, even had spotting which I thought was IB, I just felt pregnant... then on Wed, two days late, I had a huge cramp... and my period came. Gutted doesn’t cover it. I’ve made an appt with my gp on Thursday to see if everything’s in working order, but I’m dreading something being wrong. I know I’m only at the start of this potentially long journey but if you could keep your fingers crossed for me I’d appreciate it!

Thanks for reading my babble

@Scotti84c
You have not left it too late at all!!! Dont stress over it and see what doc says. You will get there 🙏 xxx

Hi @Hayleywoody82 congratulations!!! That's brilliant news! We're over on old ovaries new lines though I'm mostly babbling away on August Due Dates 21, I would link to them but I have no idea how...x

@Sleeeeeepy oh thankyou I will have a look now xx

@Sleeeeeepy icant seem to find it xx

@Hayleywoody82 congratulations! That's great news 🎉

Welcome @Scotti84 ! I've just turned 39 and have also been trying for 8 months. I know exactly how you feel, it feels like such a long time. Once you've made this momentous decision that you are ready to start a family, it seems so cruel that it's complete chance whether you will be pregnant in the first month or will have to wait months and months and months... I keep trying to be positive and tell myself that 80% of women get pregnant within a year, so I've got plenty of time between now and next April to be one of them, and so have you! That's great that you've got the ball rolling with your GP, it's nerve-wracking but at least you can feel like you are taking positive action. I'm sure it's more likely that they will find that everything is fine than that it's not. I was really nervous about mine but they all came back "normal" which was really reassuring. And if they do come back with something then at least you will know and they can help you to do something about it, knowledge is power x