Period late - frustrated!

[blankee]

Here to vent as I’m super grumpy.

My period is 5 days late now, but I had a negative (pink dye) test 2 days ago and I am feeling quite premenstrual. My cycle is really reliable at 29 days with an occasional variation up to 31 and I'm on day 34 now. TTC, but not actively last month for Reasons (just occasional days of unprotected sex) so while the potential is there it’s v unlikely.

Argh!!! I’m sure I’m not pregnant but I want to be and my body is torturing me with the possibility. So so sooooo annoying.

Also I want my damn period out of the way so we can get trying again next cycle.

Grr!

Occasional days of unprotected sex sounds like TTC to me, just a bit of a more relaxed way of it :)
Unfortunately you probably ovulated late this month, so there's no way of telling if you're already overdue or still early. Did you test?

I tested 2 days ago (negative). You’re probably right that it's either late ovulation or an unusually long cycle. So annoying! I’m regular as clockwork usually. My only problem was after my covid jab but it's been months and months since I had my booster so I’m sure it isn’t that.

I know what you mean about TTC but we literally DTD twice really early in my cycle and have then either been ill or too tired to do anything more! So I’m really doubtful we’ve got anywhere. Then again DS was conceived one month when we chilled out after a few months of properly trying on the regular, so who knows! (That’s the problem though, I just want to know!!!)

Oh you asked about ovulation testing - no, I’ve never got ob with them for some reason

I’m going through the same thing! I’m on cd 34 of a usual 29 day cycle… had 2 negative tests it’s driving me crazy! Xx

@blankee you wrote that you were ill - that can delay ovulation as well of course. If you're ill at a certain point in your cycle, your body will focus on fighting whatever is happening in your body and just delaying ovulation for the time being.