Will the GP see me?

[24GinDrinkingOnceTheKidsInBed]

It took 7 months to conceive DD, I was 22 and am fit and healthy. I’m 25 now and we’ve been trying for our second for 5 months, I’ve been tracking my ovulation and at first I was using the conventional dip sticks but seemed to never get a positive and I would give up thinking I missed my positive when I was a few days away from my period.

However I’m now using a digital test and have done everyday since the end of my period, I’m 10 days away from my period still with negative ovulation tests. I knew that having a short literal phase can contribute to difficulty getting pregnant, which gives me two days to ovulate.

If I don’t ovulate on the next 2 days and I’m within the 8 day literal phase window.. will the GP see me? I was told when trying for DD one that because I’m young and healthy they wouldn’t even consider seeing me until we had been trying for 24 months!

I don’t know if there are more accurate tests they can do to check fertility? I just want to know that there’s nothing wrong with my reproductive system I guess.

Also side note; I had a c section with my first and read a thread about women becoming infertile after a c section or having miscarriages. Not sure if there’s any science/statistics behind that but it’s still stuck in my head

@24GinDrinkingOnceTheKidsInBed
My experience is that gps don't always think that a short luteal phase is an issue. What are your cycles like, are they the same length as when you had your DD or have they changed at all?

I'm in a slightly similar situation to you although older (34), we conceived DS after 4 months, he is now 3. We've been TTC #2 for 8 months and no joy. I made an appointment with gp, but went more along the lines of my cycles have got shorter (used to be 25/27 now average is 22/23 days), she seemed to think I just needed to keep trying, I said I had been using opks and was getting a peak but not until CD16/17(my luteal phase is 5/6days which is tiny!) but she didn't seem worried about it, I did push her and managed to get bloods done but I'm still chasing results. She also made it sound like if we had been TTC over a year all they would do is bloods and check OH sperm as we already have a child.

Did you use opks first time round? I didn't do no idea if I had a short luteal phase before.

I didn’t use them first time around either.

And yes, like you my cycle has got shorter, used to be anywhere from 43-53 days. Now they are always 31days five or take a day every couple of months.

It sounds like you cycles used to be quite long but are now more of a normal length, but that's not necessary a good thing if your luteal phase is really short. I think it really depends on the gp how much notice they take but it could be worth getting an appointment I mean the worse they can say is wait it out longer. Might be worth seeing if there is gp at your practice who specialises in this kind of thing. Also worth emphasising the change in your cycles rather than anything else.

It could also be that now you know when you are ovulating you can time DTD better and you could get pregnant in the next couple of months.

In my experience, not yet. I’m 30 and my GP wanted me to have been trying for over a year before they’d see me. We tried for 8 months before I got pregnant this time and I thought it was never going to happen. My luteal window was also short, 7 days.

To be honest, although I hated reading it, it was the month that I stopped tracking that it happened. I’d tracked obsessively before that. And I wonder if that was contributing through stress...

Best of luck to you x