POAS Anon 👩‍🎓 University of the BFP: Students, Grads and PhDs! 👩🏽‍🎓 Thread 4

[GreenApplesYo]

@PowerOfFlowers
@positivitytree2020
@CardioQueen
@AMS19
@Dex1521
@DrS44
@jessi60
@Foxl2222
@bells20
@Greeneyedfairy

A new thread for 2021, with all the luck of the Irish 🍀💚

@DrS44 ya I stopped all the extra vits! Only things I’m taking now is pregnacare, and my usual vit c & d which I’ve taken for years!

I did read online that LP can take a bit of time to settle after coming off the pill! I’m not risking messing up my cycle again so will just let nature take it’s course! 😂

I’m 8 weeks tomorrow. Feel completely normal with no symptoms so of course I now worry all the time😬 had my booking in appt last week and basically fainted getting my bloods took. Wasn’t my finest moment! I’ve been busy working.. wards crazy at the minute and now on a run of nightshifts and waiting and second for the keys to our house so going to be busy sorting it out, getting a new kitchen etc so that will keep my occupied!

@AMS19 Glad to see your doing okay! ❤️❤️❤️ X

God sake only the second half of my message posted ! I started with ..

Hey girls hope your all doing okay. I wasn’t getting notifications until this new thread!! Please update me on anything I’ve missed and I haven’t just been ignoring you all ! Howling at the stork 🤣🤣 you know what though, that was the month I got pregnant hahah. Xx

Thanks @Emmgrem!

Defo FMU @Dex1521 - I woke up at half 4 this morning and contemplated whether it would count (a whole 4hrs 2 mins sleep according to Fitbit)! But couldn't get back to sleep so got up and tested.

I did test yesterday (mon) afternoon with an IC cause they arrived from Amazon but I wasn't expecting much was just a practice run and I thought there was a shadow but I didn't (actually for once) agonise over it as I thought no way. But turns out yes way :)

Fingers crossed for you all xxx

@Emmgrem I had no idea I was even in the TWW - thought I was just waiting for my uterus to shed its lining as dr said I hadn't ovulated.

I do F45 pretty much everyday and in the TWW I was going hard. I'm always challenging people in the cardio classes and sometimes would do back to back classes. And in the resistance classes I did my heaviest deadlift ever in the TWW. Obviously this is not ideal, don't do this!! But also don't panic. I think the TWW (and hopefully pregnancy that follows) is not the time to start breaking any records or pushing yourself harder, but if you're already fit and run etc, there's no reason you can't keep doing that.

I have toned it all back now (as soon as I found out) re: the weight lifting stuff. And the cardio classes I'm taking it easier mainly to keep my HR a bit lower and therefore not get quite as hot - it's summer here now so I don't want my body temp rocketing.

Ok so my temp went up slightly again this morning. Good sign? Who knows 😂 it was 11dpo last cycle that it shot right down

Off to POAS now I acc feel so nervous 😂

Forgot to post the graph lol

BFN 😕

I've also found out I've woke up with a Bartholin cyst in my vagina. I noticed something yesterday about the size of a pinhead but now it grown to about the size of a marble overnight (sorry for the tmi) and I've very painful lymph nodes in my groin so going to have to phone 111 I think and get it seen to at a walk-in centre. Not the day I was expecting tbh

I've inverted the picture. Did this last month on the indent line I got and it didn't show up but I feel like I can see something on this inverted picture of this months test 🤔 but now I don't know if I'm just kidding myself on. Both me and OH thought we could see something but weren't sure

Morning @Dex1521 I think I can see something on the inverted image but I'm so useless at these things 🤣 try again tomorrow morning but don't get disheartened whatever you do as it's still really early!

I've input most of my data into FF and I've got cross hairs🤞🏻 I'm not overly convinced I have ovulated though as my temps are still low 😭😭. Xxxx

@Dex1521 sorry about the cyst 😔that sounds sore and uncomfortable. Once when I was a student I wasn't careful enough with the veet and ended up with a swollen lump on my labia the size of a golf ball. It was the most painful awkward thing ever. I've never used hair removal cream since! Hope they can see you soon and get it sorted.

I actually thought I could see a line on your unaltered test too. I've got good line eyes. But didn't want to say anything as it's so faint. I can definitely see the 2nd line on the inverted one. But would call it as a BFN until you get a stronger line, as it's still at the could be anything stage?

@DrS44 your temps are still up above crosshairs and you've got solid crosshairs which is confirmed ovulation on ff so fingers crossed for you

@GreenApplesYo thanks. Just off the phone they've prescribed me antibiotics for now to see if it goes away as it came up so quickly so I hope it does as it's so uncomfortable to walk or sit down. Omg talking about veet I got it in my eye once when I was like 15 and didn't know what I was doing nearly blinded myself so haven't gone near the stuff since. Good old bar of soap and razor does the job 😂

Yeah I'm taking it as BFN as I think I can see something on both but like you say could be anything. Like last months indent. I just thought I was interesting last months indent didn't show on an inverted image but today's test did 🤔

@Dex1521 I can't see anything on the tests I'm afraid. It might just be that my eyes haven't woken up properly yet! but don't worry, charts looking good.. defo test again tomorrow (or this evening @GreenApplesYo style!)

@Dex1521 I had the brightness all the way down on my phone.. I've just turned it up normally and now can see something 😂😂 but can't tell if it has colour. Fingers crossed for you!! I had to google what that cyst was as hadn't heard of it, sounds really painful Gil lovely hope the antibiotics help!

@Foxl2222 That's encouraging what your GP said about 3 months being lucky to conceive. I wish there was a more accurate way to know- like I know they say a year is normal, but is it normal if everything is right (I.e. long LP, getting peak OPKs and temp rises, DTD at the right times, EWCM etc) I wonder..🤔

@DrS44 I can understand why you'd stop exercising so hard with the low progesterone thing. I'd definitely say you ovulated- solid crosshairs don't get given out lightly 😂 Plus I don't think it massively matters how high the temp goes, more just that there's a clear shift from your baseline. Some people have higher baselines than others.

@jessi60 Lovely to hear from you! Glad that recollection of the stork made you laugh 😆 You sound crazy busy, very exciting times with the house as well though, it's all falling into place for you! We're still desperately trying to sell ours!

@CardioQueen Thank you, that makes me feel so much better!! I mean I'm sure you're miles fitter than me but the fact you were still pushing hard and didn't know you were pregnant just shows you! I tend to run 5k three times a week and then do strength training or HIIT on the other days and just long walks at the weekend so I'm hoping it's ok aslong as I don't do anything new and crazy!

@Dex1521
Ahhh sorry it's not better news this morning. I think I can see a shadow on pic 1 but then I could see the same shadows on both our pics last month and they were similar to this. I think FRERs have quite strong indent lines anyway.
But you're only 10DPO, you might have only just implanted. See if you can wait until you miss AF now, or if that temp keeps rising it's surely a good sign!

My temps are at the highest they've been now.
I had a wobble about 4am last night as I could feel cramps and I know they started about 5dpo last month too, though boobs defo not as sore. I won't be happy until I still have a high temp at 9dpo! If that doesn't happen I don't think I'll test early..

Wow sorry for the essay 😂

@Dex1521 oh and I meant to say that cyst sounds painful! You poor thing, hope they see you quickly 😞

@Dex1521 I think I can see something very very faint on the original image. And I know sometimes the pictures don't do the lines justice.. but again, I would take it as a bfn and try again tomorrow. 🤞🤞🤞🙏☘️
Also I got my bfp in the afternoon xx

@Dex1521 Maybe take another one in a couple of days. I didn’t get mine until 10 days past what I should of 🤣 very strange.
Think I’ve had one of them cysts before but it just went away on its own, they bloody hurt though.

@Emmgrem Aw thanks, glad yous are all doing okay. Hopefully the house sells soon, think people are going abit crazy trying to avoid having to pay for stamp duty here!

About the fertility and conception time. Both my friends took around that time to conceive, both healthy with no issues. Took one of them ten months and the other just under a year, the one under a year was into all the ovulation testing etc! Guess you always just hear people saying how quick it happened don’t you. Which is not what you need! Xx

Thanks everyone yeah I feel like I can deffo see something but it could definitely just be an indent like last month. At least I don't feel too disappointed that's a positive I think and anyways if it doesn't happen this month I can have a drink on my birthday next week and tbh if I didn't my mum would definitely be questioning it 😂

We are in some Facebook group together where people give others free stuff and someone posted they had loads of knitting patterns for babies clothes if anyone wanted them and my mum has commented asking for them. Baring in mind 1. She can't knit 2. We don't know anyone who has children/expecting 3. She doesn't know we are ttc

However everytime I'm over she brings up babies and me having one and I just laugh it off. Maybe she does suspect something 😂

Morning!
I also turned my brightness up and I can see a very faint line @Dex1521 but as previously said, I wouldn't call it a bfp until you get a stronger one. 10dpo is still quite early. I would hold off testing again until the morning and also see how your temps go. Cyst sounds painful!! 😢

@Emmgrem temps looking good!! Hoping they stay high for you now. With the exercising, I was doing a Courtney Black challenge the week I had my bfp, and was going hard. I did one a few days after my bfp and my heart rate went crazy. My energy since then has been non existent so i haven't been able to do anything apart from going for a walk. I was also doing couch210k and hiits & strength training 4 times a week. I've just signed up to RWL (previously Results with Lucy) as they have good pregnancy workouts for the 3 trimesters. Need to start it soon.... 😬😬😬😬

@Emmgrem woahhhh that chart is looking nice 😍😍👏🏻👏🏻 ya I thought I would just do some low intensity stuff- even though I'm really missing going hard core 🤣

@Dex1521 Oohh sorry to hear about the cyst I didn't read that part I was too busy looking for lines 😅 hope you're okay!

Good to know about the temp shifts- I just wish it was more obvious! It has been cold the last few nights though so maybe that impacts it? Haha prob not!

@positivitytree2020 ya I've read that too! Yeah you're being sensible! How long are you off the pill now? So annoying my body is taking so long to adjust 🙄 it's really very inconsiderate of it I have plans 🤣 xx

@AMS19 @Foxl2222 that 22 week wait sounds exhausting 😭😭😭

Whoops I meant 12 🤣🤣 although I bet it feels like 22! 😅