Obsessive testers welcome!

[MiaKay]

Hello ladies!
No matter how early it is, no matter how many symptoms you have or don't have drop your tests below and let us make a testing group and be each other's eyes.

I will test on Monday, which is the day AF is to arrive (... unless I'm just too curious and test during the weekend).

Baby dust to all of you!

I clearly have no shame. Or any real reason to test given I was CD17 and am yet to have signs of ovulation this cycle, but here’s a nice negative test to spot imaginary lines on 🤣

Thank you @Shansmith1412 😊 of course I will keep you posted.

They are really well thanks, both at school & I will be busy with work shortly!

Keep me posted on how you get on during the dreaded tww, hopefully this cycle it's worth it! 🤍

@curliegirlie love it🤣 how come you haven't ovulated yet? Do you have a longer cycle?

@allthingssparkly what's your job? I'm working from home today andy mind is running away with itself while DH is at work 🥲

I'll definitely keep you up to date although I might have to get some FRER ready for the middle of next week if I can't hold off🙈

@Shansmith1412 no idea…I had a surprise pregnancy in early March…which turned into an early MC. Then the cycle immediately following was 30 days, but I only ordered my OPKs quite late on, so I don’t know if I ovulated that cycle. This one I’ve been testing since CD10 and no sniff of a positive yet. But my cycles are occasionally longer (when I conceived DD2 I actually ovulated on CD25), but just going slightly crazy at the idea of having another week to go before ovulation (if I do!), let alone the TWW! I’d run out of OPKs so just went a bit mad and peed on a pregnancy test instead 🤪 Just in case my cycle was properly messed up…

Hello ladies, i think my place is here 🤣 i am confident i am going mad, i wasn't as bad as this when we were ttc our 1st!🤦‍♀️ AF is due on Saturday and hope it does not show!

I work as a teaching assistant, what about you @Shansmith1412?

I'm feeling super bloated this afternoon 😳

On the topic of FRER I need to order some pregnancy tests, I may get some of the easy at ones from Amazon to start with. Don't want to spend loads on a test and it turns out to be a BFN 🤣

@curliegirlie sorry to hear about your MC. I don't know how you cope with longer cycles 🙈. I guess this thread is all about peeing on sticks to make us feels better whether they came back negative or not😅 its a true addiction I'd never thought I'd have 🤣 do you usually track with opks or was that just a one off?

@Kitty901 joing the crew! We welcome you😁 hopefully she's a no show for you!

@allthingssparkly I'm a secretary at my local children's hospital 😁
Maybe bloating is a sign?!? You are on the days of implantation but I haven't read if bloating is a symptom but everyone is different. I splurged on the expensive FRER's over the last month and I wish I didn't since I didn't know my cycle 🙈
You should take a trip to home bargains and get the cheap early responses for 99p or they have CB early response pack of 2 for 4.99 😁

@Shansmith1412 this is my first “proper” month trying this time round - the shortlived pregnancy was an accident, and I started with OPKs a bit late the following cycle. I used them previously when TTC DD1&2 and found them to work ok, but looking back over Fertility Friend, I tended to ovulate around CD16 so it was slightly frustrating to have that whistle past this month without anything even approaching positive. This evenings one was 0.33, so I’m tentatively hoping this will continue to climb so I’ll ovulate in the next couple of days. I would LOVE to have a straightforward, predictable cycle!

I have read that bloating can be a sign of implantation, so it's possible @Shansmith1412 😊

Ahh I will have a look in HB never even thought to look there for pregnancy tests.

Hoping this cycle is the one 🤞 my temps are staying up which is good 😊

@curliegirlie you'll have to keep us updated over the next few days to see if you do ovulate! We'd love to hear it 😁

@allthingssparkly how do you check your temps? I don't know if that would be too late for me to start? I wouldn't know where to start tbh 🙈

How are we doing today ladies?!

2dpo today and trying so hard not to symptom spot 🙈 I know I won't have any symptoms yet but I just can't resist! X

I am 7dpo and time is just not passing! I just can't focus on anything although i am meant to work! 🤣 i just want time to fly. I remind myself that with my previous pregnancy, i never had any symptoms but losing hope due to short LP this time round.

@Kitty901 I'm literally in the same boat🙈 I should be doing work and all I keep doing is coming up with random questions in my head that I feel the need to Google. If you look at my history it's absolutely shocking😬
You're a lot more closer to testing than me as I've got to wait till next week 🥲
Are you testing early or waiting till af is due?

I will probably test on Friday, AF due on Saturday. Really wish i get a positive as it is hubby's bday this week and that would be the best gift!❤ it is so hard this waiting game!
Haha i am same as you! X

@Shansmith1412 BBT is good because it basically tells you exactly when you have ovulated whereas OPK's indicate that you are approaching ovulation.

I got my thermometer from Amazon it's an easy at home one, you take your temp every morning before you have got out of bed and record it in the pre mom (BBT) section.

If your pregnant once you get towards the end of your cycle the temps will stay elevated if you've not concieved your temps will drop and stay low, this will be a sign your period is coming.

If you don't concieve this cycle try it from the next, you need to temp at the beginning of your cycle when your period has ended.

I'm no expert but that's my understanding.

@Kitty901 that would be the best gift ever🥺 I really hope you are, I would love to hear about his reaction! X

@allthingssparkly brilliant, if I've got conceived this cycle I'll order one straight away 😄
What have your symptoms been like today?

@Shansmith1412 thank you, i am literally praying and hope it is your cycle too and everyone else's on here x❤

@Shansmith1412 I have felt extremely tired this afternoon, even one of my colleagues at work commented when I was saying how fatigued I felt, she said your not pregnant are you! 😬😬

I did have a little bit of abdo pain/cramps at work too but again it was super mild and lasted a very short length of time.

Not ovulating yet I don’t think (tests were getting stronger but now lighter again) but because I obviously have a POAS problem I did a FRER and can possibly spot a proper squinter of a line. It’s got to be an evap though, hasn’t it?! (CD19 now)

@curliegirlie i had big issues with frer last month, i googled it after and realised that a lot of people get second pink lines lately. Are yours from Amazon? Asking because i had two pack, one from Amazon and one from the chemist, the Amazon ones gave me lines and the other ones nothing. Wonder if it is related.

Yep from Amazon. I just think it’s line eyes tbh, I’m so pissed off with this cycle!

I can't see anything on your FRER @curliegirlie are you still opk testing? X

@allthingssparkly not surprised, looks like uploading them killed the quality of the photos, but it doesn’t matter, wouldn’t make sense for them to be positive. Nothing really to report on OPKs this morning….

Keep testing once or twice a day with your OPK's @curliegirlie and hopefully you get your peak soon! 🤞

@curliegirlie I think it may be an evap line. I bought a few from Amazon and nearly every single one gave me evap lines. Definitely keep opk testing to find your peak!

How are you @allthingssparkly ? It's looking pretty promising for you 😃