2WW

[ANP2020]

Hello ladies!

I’ve been reading these threads (at all hours clearly!) I just wondered if anyone was currently in their 2WW and wanted to join me? It’s so long!! I’m ttc number 2, have a 4 year old son, fell first time with him luckily so certainly not expecting the same this time round. This is our first cycle. I’m only using an app not any ovulation sticks so not sure how many days po I am, but According to app fertile window ended yesterday. AF due 21st I only have 24/25 day cycles since coming off my pill.

Anywhoo no symptoms yet as too early! I’ve had ovulation cramps and a few nights of very intense dreams. I think the only symptoms I can remember pre bfp with my son was really really sore boobs, couldn’t bare a bra on!! And really tired.

Please people join me to symptom spot and keep each other company during the 2WW.

@pinkpirlie the acupuncture is so expensive! Mine is £60 for an hour and I’ve been wondering whether to go back. Likewise with the Q10, I was taking it for months but am now just sticking to vitamin d and folic acid. I was taking omega 3 too, but I eat loads of eggs so realized not sure what the point was. Sorry about the lack of weight loss, it’s really hard especially when you’re trying so hard.

We are around the same time in our cycle. I’m on day 25 and due AF this weekend or early next week too. I think I’m around 7 or 8dpo but not entirely sure as was not tracking, just going by ewcm. I had a bit of spotting yesterday so could be a good sign? Could also mean nothing haha. I’m not feeling too great, I think it’s adjusting back to the cold and to working and I have been very tired, with heart burn yesterday and have diarrhea (tmi sorry). I think I may have come down with a gastro bug or it is the change of bacteria from Thailand to the UK. Other than that, just sore boobs as normal this time of cycle.

I feel okay now about this all, I can’t be bothered over thinking things anymore and getting my hopes up. I find myself googling “symptoms” then stop and think what’s the point - most of them could mean either. I enjoyed not tracking this cycle, the acupuncturist also told me not to as you often get the peak to late and just dtd every other day from say day 11.

I hope you’re all doing well? @ANP2020 and @Shaker21 and I hope your test has progressed @Hjudge56

hi guys my Nan has deteriorated very fast and is now actively dying! It’s been very emotional! I’ve cried alot. My dad left when I was born so my Nan moved in and they both brought me up so it’s like losing a best friend.

this morning is cycle day 24 and AF has arrived!! 4 days early??? I’m guessing due to the stress! So AF has even beaten the blood test results. I’ll let you know when they are back x

@ANP2020 So sorry to read this. Hope you’re as okay as can be and sending my love. Look after yourself at such a difficult time ❤️❤️

Look after yourself @ANP2020 ❤️ Xx

Hey guys...

Sorry to hear about your nan @ANP2020 and that AF has arrived. Take care of yourself at such a difficult time and sending love to you ❤️

How are your tests looking now @Hjudge56?

Keeping my fingers crossed for you @Annapolis35 that AF doesn't arrive 🤞🏻 I am the same where I have given up on various tablets and just do folic acid, vitamin d and the calcium now since my blood test.

I am 1DPO today so officially in TWW again. I have got blood tests booked for next Monday morning to retest my estrogen to see what that's doing from the low estrogen results from before. So shall wait and see what they say. Referral to fertility clinic should be being done around now, I don't know where the GP is at with it now. So yeah just going with it. This time of year gets busy and in a way is a nice distraction now and have given up with the disappointment of it every month now and the googling of everything...am just fully going with it now.

X

@Shaker21 so I woke up to this on a digital this morning! But my cheapie hasn’t progressed in vividness since yesterday morning. I have an FRER on the way via Amazon so I’ve saved my FMU for that. Just worried as I am 2-3 days late for AF and am about 14DPO so shouldn’t that line be darker? Again, the camera isn’t picking up colour on that line but I promise it’s light pink!

Sorry images here!

@Hjudge56 well I'd say the fact it is showing on a digital then that's amazing!! 👏🏻👏🏻😁 and I would say not to worry too much and I really hope it sticks! I am sure you will have a line on a FRER for sure! You may have just implanted late in your cycle so wouldn't worry how dark the line is just yet 😁 congratulations 💕

@Shaker21 thank you.. digital has definitely made me feel less insane! These faint lines really play with us! I’m very sure I implanted Sunday evening. I had cramps all day then light pink blood on one wipe after weeing about 9pm. Then I woke up to brown discharge Monday morning and nothing since so only a couple days ago.. hoping hcg wouldn’t have built up enough yet?!

@ANP2020 so sorry to hear about your Nan. Look after yourself 💜

@Hjudge56 when I had the CP I got positive on two FRERs but the digital, which I did the next day, said "Not Pregnant". It is much less sensitive. Fingers crossed.

@Annapolis35 will respond later. Just got to work :)

Congratulations @Hjudge56!! chuffed for you after a long road and shows there is hope. I hope everything goes well and please keep us updated!! Good to finally get a BFP on this thread

@Annapolis35 thank you.. hopefully a sticky bean! Will do an FRER once it arrives!

I was always under the impression if there wasn’t a faint line by 10-11DPO then I was out of the game but it took me being 2 days late and 13/14DPO to get just a slight faint line which is good information to share I think! Also shows cheapies are deceiving on the faint line front as I’m surprised the digital picked it up when implantation only occurred two days ago! Basically you’re truly not out till AF shows!

Think I am convinced now :)! Although my camera is still refusing to show the pinkness in the lines haha!

It’s really good news! I think my period may have come on early too, on day 25. So strange but jet lag may have messed up everything. I thought I was about 7 or 8dpo but apparently not and must have ov earlier

Hi girls!

@Hjudge56 how are you getting on? Are your tests still getting darker? How are you feeling?

@ANP2020 Hope you are doing ok 💕

@Annapolis35 how are things? Did AF arrive early?

@pinkpirlie how are things? Where are you in your cycle at the moment?

I had another blood test beginning of this week to recheck my estrogen that had come back low on day 3 tests however the estrogen and progesterone came back absolutely perfect which is great but still frustrating that it's not happening 🤔 I am 10DPO today and AF due on Sunday x

Hi girls!

@Hjudge56how are you getting on? Are your tests still getting darker? How are you feeling?

@ANP2020Hope you are doing ok 💕

@Annapolis35how are things? Did AF arrive early?

@pinkpirliehow are things? Where are you in your cycle at the moment?

I had another blood test beginning of this week to recheck my estrogen that had come back low on day 3 tests however the estrogen and progesterone came back absolutely perfect which is great but still frustrating that it's not happening 🤔 I am 10DPO and AF due Sunday x

@Shaker21 Good news about the tests and glad they got back to normal levels. But it is still deeply frustrating that it’s not happening when you know everything’s working as it should be. How are you feeling at 10dpo?

yes my AF did arrive several days early last month. I suspect just a wonky cycle that was probably messed up due to traveling. I had estimated totally wrong based on ewcm! Ah well, we still dtd around the right time but didn’t catch. I’m a bit meh about it all now, it’ll happen when it’s meant to and I can’t be bothered thinking about it anymore.

I’m on CD 10 at the mo and we have started dtd every other day, gonna continue that until maybe day 22. We can’t do anymore really because of our work schedules. I am also getting a progesterone test this month, so I am tracking as my ovulation varies from month to month. Bit nervous about that!

hope the rest of you are all doing well and @Hjudge56 that you’re pregnancy is going well! Hope you are feeling ok.

@Annapolis35

Tbh already feeling like AF will arrive, slight lower back ache yesterday and thought I felt a bit of typical AF aching this morning, boobs have eased off soreness too so waiting for it to arrive now.

I am also feeling the same, kind of feel like I've given up and feeling meh about it. I'm not going to be tracking now all tests and stuff are done. Just will do the same as you and BD every other day through day 10 to 20 and just try and enjoy the run up to Xmas now.

hopefully your cycle was just a bit different because of traveling and will be back to how it was this time 🤞🏻

@Shaker21 you never know until AF arrives so I have my fingers crossed it doesn’t show. Yeah I didn’t track last month and just enjoyed myself and I wouldn’t do it again, but I just have to for the blood test this month. From next month we will go back to just dtd every other day from end of period to roughly day 22 and that should cover all bases!

Yes do enjoy the run up to Xmas and forget about it all for a while, last month was really good for me mentally to just unwind completely and just dtd whenever we felt like it. I wonder if I ovulated early just because I relaxed properly!

I have another acupuncture session on Friday. I’m quietly skeptical over whether it’s doing anything really - I haven’t got a clue and it just seems a bit odd to me, but going with the flow really and seeing what comes of it. Only had one session so far and going to go twice a month (as can’t afford anymore!) so will see and if I feel like it’s not doing anything I’ll stop.

Hey everyone

Sorry been awol, things hectic at the moment.
My AF came on-time at 28 days, as I expected as I very much felt like it was on its way.
I'm now CD6. So will start BDing soon. Going to try to EOD but I do find it hard to do it on command rather than when I feel like I actually want to.

My diet is going well, I think I will soon be under 100kg, which was my first milestone. Then it's another 12kg to go.

I have 8 months to do it before 40. So with waiting lists really needs to be quicker. I'm so annoyed at myself as it has been a year since I saw the fertility doctor and I have essentially lost nothing. Well I lost half what I needed, then gained it back and then some, now I'm back to where I was 12 months ago with hardly any time left.

@Hjudge56 how are you and the bean? I hope things are progressing well.

@Annapolis35 sorry AF came early, but sounds like you had a fab holiday and the rest and relaxation you needed.

@Shaker21 that feeling of just knowing AF is on the way... I know there is still some hope until AF arrives but it is so hard every month when you don't catch.

I'm going to message the accupuncturist today and get things set in motion for the new year. Hopefully she won't be extortionate!

Are others still doing that?

Good luck this cycle everyone 💜

@pinkpirlie hey! Me and the bean are okay! I am 5+5 today.. I’ve got a private scab on Sunday which will be at 6+1 as I’ve had a few cramps (only mild) but I keep worrying so just want to make sure all okay! Antenatal appointment is on Tuesday too so hopefully after all that I’ll feel better!

how are you?

@Shaker21 all good my end! Yes I’ve been doing a cheapie every morning (still POAS addict even after a BFP!!) and they have been due stealers every morning! Just keep worrying which I need to control. If I’m having ‘too many’ symptoms, I worry and if I’m not feeling anything I worry 😂 but I’m guessing that’s normal!! How are you today?

@Hjudge56 I am glad you are doing ok and so is bean! I don't think the worry ever goes away, you have all the worry and stress trying to conceive and then it just seems to carry on so I've heard! Hopefully once you have had the early scan and everything is ok then you can relax a bit and try and enjoy it.

@Annapolis35 I am very intrigued to see how you get on with the acupuncture!

@pinkpirlie I am obviously keeping everything crossed that AF doesn't arrive but think i am just so use to it not happening now and for AF to arrive that it just feels like that is what is going to happen. It could prove me wrong so we shall wait and see.

@Shaker21 exactly! I think you expect to just release the anxiety but then you worry if bean is okay, then as a mother you worry if baby is okay haha!

where abouts are you in your cycle?

Hello everyone

sorry I’ve been quiet my Nan sadly passed on the 16/11/22 so it’s been quite a whirlwind since then. I did all the end of life care as I’m a nurse and we had her at home and it was peaceful and she was surrounded by family.

@Annapolis35 my AF also arrived 4 days early!! I think mine was the stress it arrived the day she was told she was dying, I really didn’t believe that much in the power of hormones and stress but it clearly impacted me as I’ve had 28 day cycles since March.

I’ve also started acupuncture i had one session this week! Really interesting so we’d timed it for the first session so I was at the beginning of my cycle but obviously I no longer was due to AF early arrival.

She did some electroacupuncture so I had some little electrical currents running through! She did my feet, lower legs and ankles and also some in my tummy. She then placed some in my head due to the loss of my nan.

To be fair I’ve felt more balanced with my emotions since that day and my anxiety which had been spiralling up until that morning has stopped. I had a tiny bit of pink cm that night (only cycle day 8 so too early for ovulation) so I don’t know wether that was coincidence or something else. I plan to go every week and see what happens. I pay into a hospital fund monthly and this covers 1/2 of any acupuncture costs so helps a bit!

@Shaker21 thats good news on your blood test! Any symptoms or anything! Not long till Sunday- u just going to hold out until AF arrives?

I had the results of my day 21 blood tests it was 21.7 mmols so the doctor said he couldn’t definitely confirm it it needs to be over 30 but he couldn’t say it hadn’t happened either! So advised me to re test, I think I’ll do that next month I don’t imagine I’ll achieve anything this month.

going to start trying again tonight just every other day as I’m CD 10 now but I think it’s all quite unlikely due to everything that’s been going on. My Nan as she was passing told me her favourite girls name which we actually both quite like so it’s made us want it more.

I’ve also added ubiquinol in now at the advice of the acupuncturist and increased my myo insitol intake so we’ll see if that helps.

@pinkpirlie congrats on the weightloss that’s great! I know it’s easy to look back and think why didn’t I just stick to it or why did I put it back on! But just look to now your doing it and ur losing it!!

@Hjudge56 so glad to see everything going ok so far!! X