feeling deflated

[Ikigai22]

just that, it's 15 DPO and not pregnant, again. Stopped pill in June 2022, got pregnant end of July but it was a chemical. Started trying again when cycle became normal but got covid in October. Had all kinds of fertility tests in November and hycosy in Feb 2023, taking all the right supplements, normal weight, eat super healthy but still not pregnant. Also turned 37 this month so feeling even worse as I thought I'd pregnant while I'm still 36. I thought it must've been covid for sometime, as it causes intense inflammation in the body and sperm damage. I even had chest pains, breathlessness and general tiredness up until January. But I thought we were over that by now. Partner also had SA and results are fine. Just so disheartened that I'm not pregnant yet. I've been doing the OPKs, fertility, pre-seed, all the right stuff :( any words of advice welcome but please be gentle. Thanks

I know it's hard when you don't get pregnant as fast as your thought you would.

Took me years to manage it and I was younger than you.

You're not a year into it yet. The stats all show that most healthy couples will get pregnant within a year. You're still in the range of normal. There's only a 20% chance you'll get pregnant each cycle even with all the best timing.

Your results are good which is helpful and I'm assuming your cycles are regular. It could just be nothing more than time. We had nothing wrong with us either.

One thing we did try that seemed to work was a supplement called proxeed. It's not cheap but we got pregnant on month 4 of using it twice.

thanks @Twizbe appreciate your message. I think I'm panicking because of my age. If I were younger, I'd feel I've more time and could relax a bit. But I can't really change it now. Thanks for the suggestion as well. I shall look into it. I do think covid changed many lives. After any viral illness with a fever, it takes 4-6 months for sperm to return to baseline levels. So it may be that. This is what happened with one of our friends. They got pregnant 6 months after they had covid. Last time I got pregnant, we were also six months after we got covid. But then we got it the second time and now recovering again. From Nov-Jan, I was so run down, maybe my body wasn't ready for pregnancy.

Are you using ovulation strips? I used them and got pregnant 🤰 really quickly.