TTC 35+ thread 10

[Marvellouslymadmum]

We ran out of thread!! Will go back and try to tag everyone in here 🤦🏼‍♀️

@selina37 I’m just about in sync with you, I’m on Day 16 (3dpo). The dreaded TWW! 🤞

@selina37 pesky cycles! Always throwing a spanner in the works! Good luck for two week wait 🍀 and you @Misty84 🍀

11dpo and still not even the faintest line on a sensitive cheap test. Do you think I'm out this month?

13.6 days was the average when fertility friend analysed their pregnancy charts, with negatives before. Try again in a couple days x

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 ah that's interesting, thank you. I've been testing every day since about 3dpo 🙈 some days I've even done 2. I'm crazy I know!
I've never tested early in previous pregnancies so I've no idea what's normal for me. But then again I do know with DD I tested around the time AF was due and even then the line was really faint, so faint DH claimed to not be able to see it, I had to do a digital so he would believe it.
I'm just so inpatient, I hate this wait. I don't even think I am pregnant this month, I can hear my tummy gurgling like it does before AF comes, but still holding out hope that I might be wrong.

@Misty84
I think I am either 1 or 2 dpo so similar to you but not holding out much hope as my peak was a bit dodgy and my husband has been full of cold so hardly dtd 🙄
Smear test today whoop whoop! Anyone know how long results take ? X

@Magnum99 sodding TWW!! I agree 12 seems to be earliest form what I've read - depends on your LP mind. Can you find some things to distract yourself and keep busy the next few days to take your mind off it? It's so hard I know xx

@MgW1 mine said they'd take up to a month I think but they came through in 2 weeks! Xx

8dpo here and also feel it's not feeling likely this month, despite mega DTD. It's just such a pain but that will be nearly six months properly trying so next step is a gp appointment I guess. Friend is constantly talking about her incoming baby and finding it increasingly tough tbh, just want to ignore her which sounds awful! Good luck other TWW!

I had my results sent through on the app - my iron is a little low, but my thyroid and hormones are fine. Spoke to the GP today, as they didn't take my day 3 bloods (AMH, FSH etc) and she said they won't be because we don't qualify for any investigations as we had a miscarriage last year. So in my area in London the rules for funding are apparently if you have ever been pregnant you don't qualify for investigations, even if there was no live birth. She said to get my partner a private semen analysis and if there are any issues she can then put us on the list to be referred. Also if I don't get pregnant again two years after the miscarriage date, I can go back. The investigations aren't limited to IVF, I cannot have clomid or any testing :(

Luckily I have some savings, and the wait lists are apparently horrific, but its interesting. The hospital informed my GP of my miscarriage, but if I had early miscarriages or chemicals etc that I managed at home, I probably wouldn't tell them, knowing now that it would rule out any checks

Babes, thanks for a new thread!!

Can you please look at my chart and tell me wtf is going on please lol. This is my first time temping (consistently). Yesterday was my peak so today or tomorrow is ovulation? My bbt chart looks so wacky!!! Is this normal??

Also, hope everyone is having a positive-filled May!!

I'm in Canada so we had mother's Day this weekend... Always bitter sweet for me. But, keep on keeping on!!

@VixFromThe6ix I'm not a pro, but I'd say you're about to ovulate. Temp spikes day after ovulation and remains high for three days. Looking at my charts, I generally ovulate the day after my last positive opk, with a temp spike the following day

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 so I jumped the gun early with this post 😂
Do you ever temp throughout the day? I'm scared to temp tomorrow morning and the temperature isn't going up 😬
Is temping sometimes wrong?

@VixFromThe6ix ...or the perfect time! 😂

Doesn't work if you temp through the day, I've found I can't even sit up in bed, taking my temps one min apart in the morning and they're off.

It'll be fine! If you don't get a temp rise tomorrow it might come the next day - depends how long it take you to ovulate after a positive opk. Fingers crossed for you! 🤞

@VixFromThe6ix I second what @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 said! I also ovulate the day after my positive opk and temp rise is the day after that. Needs to be first thing, ideally at the same time or as close as possible, before you sit up or get up! Any movement causes your temp to increase therefore it’ll be inaccurate.

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7@Misty84 omg lol I get up to get the thermometer before I temp! 😂😂😂 Maybe I was doing it wrong all along.
And now my app told me it's important to DTD today, my parts are out of commission 😂😂😂😂 hope some swimmers stayed and are gonna be enough for bfp

@VixFromThe6ix oh yes, thermometer and phone to record it should be by the bed 😂 I leave mine on the bedside table so I can fumble around for it first thing half asleep

@A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 wow that's awful!! I can't believe they won't even do any investigations for you! I'd definitely be inclined to do the same and keep it to myself, I'm the opposite here and only one of my mc was registered and I now find that I should've registered them all as I would've been investigated for multiple losses by now! 🤦🏼‍♀️

@VixFromThe6ix your temp chart looks good, it should continue to rise for a few days now. But yes you have to stay still and take your temp before you even sit up - I'm usually laying face down and literally lift my head and put the thermometer in my mouth lol

@VixFromThe6ix
Hi how are you doing ? I rhink I got a peak day before you , are we holding out on the testing this time? It will kill me!!! X

@Marvellouslymadmum @A1b2c3d4e5f6g7 ok so I'll put it under my pillow and won't move or breathe with my mouth beforehand. I don't have a place for a table beside me, that's why I've been having to get up. Fingers crossed tomorrow temperature goes up.

@MgW1 hey love!! I'm between ok and good, lol. Trying to be positive this month. 😊 how are you??? Looks like we will find out around same time if it's BFP! I'm kind of hesitant to test early now because of the chemical last month. It was a crappy experience and it could have been avoided had I tested later. I think I'm going to wait... Maybe till day 12? How about you?? I think we need to wait and not test early lol
You know what doesn't help? Working from home !! hahaha toilet is right there and so are the tests 🤣

Well I had my smear and the nurse said I had a very healthy looking cervix , well what a relief 🤣 !!

@VixFromThe6ix
Well i am not too bad , i have hardly had any cervical mucus and i wondered if its because I have had a cold.
Iv bought femometer tests from amazon and they arent early tests so no point testing til at least 12 dpo so just trying not to think about it for now. I am not overly hopeful this month because my husband has also had a cold so dtd twice near ovulation but would have liked to have done it a bit more. Nevermind, how has it been for you? X

@MgW1 that's good! I was told mine was sideways and has a cyst on it 🥴

@Marvellouslymadmum
Oh really , does the cyst cause you any probs?