TWW BUDDIES

[Tophy124]

Hi anyone else in the dreaded waiting weeks?

Im having a crazy cycle this month so I think I’m 6 DPO but could be 2 DPO as I had 2 LH surges on my Premom OPKs. Trying to not get my hopes up!

Symptoms: back ache, lower belly cramps with aching around upper thighs, sore and full breasts, fatigue.

Not due AF till next Sunday so I have a wait to go!

@KIWI2023 I'm good thanks. I have been having some cramps on my right side. Feels like ovulation but can't be as tests have been low since Tuesday morning.

I did have some very convincing cramps last month but it didn't come to anything so trying not to get my hopes up

@Emmamoo89 ive been having cramps since around 3dpo…really weird!! Are you only having them today? Fingers crossed for implantation cramps!

@KIWI2023 I waited till AF was due before testing last time because I wanted to be 100% positive but it's such a long time
To wait 😂

lol about your husband, mine would hate chatting rubbish with a bunch of other men! He won't even chat rubbish with me! Hahah

@Sootycat99 that does look like a really bad Evap line! I've seen a lot of that with those tests... if AF is here it looks like indeed a BFN but that's a cruel Evap line for sure, sorry 🙁

@Sootycat99 Ji! Just catching up on messages. So the FRER get recommended over and over again but I personally won’t use them or the clear blue (blue dye) ones as I’ve had nasty evaps on both! I had one on Premom last month too but suspect that was actually a CP as I had more than a few lines over a few days and then they stopped. With a stand alone test like you have I think it’s unfortunately more likely a really nasty Evap line! Did you wee directly on the test or dip? Apparently they aren’t designed to be peed on directly and they can get flooded

Hiya ladies.
Hope no one minds me jumping on?
Me and my wife (same sex) already have a 4 year old boy and we're trying to conceive baby number 2.
We use private donation and the use of a syringe. We're using the same donor as last time and are currently on month 4 TTC, we only receive one donation a month as the donor travels to us and lives a good 2.5 - 3 hours drive away.
We conceived our first on the 3rd month of trying.

Anyway, I ovulated on 28th February and had a donation on the same day, so I'm currently 12dpo and AF is due 15th/16th.
Been taking a few One Step strip tests and although I think I can see a line, I'm pretty sure I'm either seeing things or it's just an evap.

Can anyone tell me what they think about these tests please? Certain I'm going crazy 🤣
First pic is at 10dpo.
Second pic is 11dpo

@TwistedCherry Hi and welcome!! Can you take a photo slightly less blurry? When I click on it on my phone it’s coming up quite blurred (the whole photo). Happy to cast line eyes!!

@TwistedCherry Ignore me! I clicked on it and it stopped being blurry. So I couldn’t see anything but the longer I stare at the 2nd pic the more I feel like I can see something?! What does your partner think, or are you waiting to show them?

@Tophy124 yeah it's definitely the second pic that makes me think there's something there but I don't know whether it's just wishful thinking and my eyes are playing trick on me.
Yes, I have shown her, she's not entirely sure either way. She doesn't over analysis tests like I do 🙈

@Tophy124 the 'line' looks more apparent when I put a negative filter on it but I'm still hugely doubtful. I'm not sure how reliable these One Step tests are, never used them with my first.
I do have a home bargains test and a FRER in the drawer but really scared to use either in fear of it being a bfn.

Hi tophy124
Thank you for your reply and I think I trickled on it lol i have been having trouble with my urination due to other issue so my flow is quite slow but
It awful and weird . I've spent a Fortune on bloody tests. I dtd with partner on the 11th of February and 25th feb only, had a evap or faint bfp on frer on 3rd March , before and after that test I continued to get bfn , doctors tested bfn on 6th March, period started 7th March ( 2 weeks late) and then I got this nasty evap I will test and update in morning with different brand on the way. Really worried of ectopic mainly 😕

Here's the first test that I disregarded as evap . It's alot fainter than this one . you can hardly catch with camera but this one is hard to figure out.

Period is on and off has been spotting to Slightly moderate to spotting. To completely gone, to spotting and then gone. Cramps during the tww was unusual because it was more right sided pain on qnd off and not usual agnosing cramps all in 4 days. Usually goes pink spotting full blown period to brown spotting for 7 days. But I did see like 1 clot. If its chemical wouldn't I of got bfp before not after like this?? So confusing It's unreal😔😔

Below is the very first faint evap/ possible bfp. Was an actual line in person but camera didn't catch full line xxx

@TwistedCherry When is AF due? I’m really and for wasting tests so I’d be tempted to use the FRER for a second opinion incase they are more sensitive!! Don’t give up hope as lots of people don’t get a BFP until way after AF was due

@Sootycat99 yes so with my CP I tested BFP and then lines never progressed and my AF came a few days after. If this continues I’d definitely get in touch with a Dr so they can check if your HCG is rising and if it is hopefully for a scan to check things are all where they should be. A friend just had an ectopic and her HSG was skyrocketing and so they could use blood tests to help track. Fingers crossed he’s not that x

@TwistedCherry welcome. I can't see the lines on those but like @Tophy124 says it's early yet. I didn't even get a faint line until day after AF was due last time.

@Sootycat99 I can see all your lines but have never experienced a chemical myself but I would definitely get back in touch with docs to check xx

Took a test this morning and BFN!! I have a gut feeling I’m out for this month and that the weird OPKs meant I missed ovulation or that I didn’t actually ovulate and so my body kept trying to restart the process

@Tophy124 how many DPO are you again? X

@Tryingtoconceivenumber2 9dpo and cd 20 if I truly did ovulate on cd13th

@Tophy124 might be a bit early yet I didn't get a positive with my first until day after AF was due and that was faint. Fingers crossed for you x

@Tryingtoconceivenumber2 I don’t know if I can stomach waiting another week to get another BFN or AF to show up! I felt really hopeful at the start of the week but that has quickly faded

How are you doing?

@Tophy124 sorry to hear your feeling rubbish.

I am doing ok it's just going a bit slowly. I have some cramps on the right side which I'm 99% sure I ovulated from but I did have cramps on this same side last month after ovulating from the left and no BFP then so who knows.

I think we DTD as much as we could have around the right date so got my fingers crossed. Month 1 I didn't use OPKs and I'm fairly sure we missed the right date x

@Tophy124 hope you're ok. It feels like a forever wait... agree that 9dpo is still really early... sorry you've got more waiting to do 🤞🤞

Thank you @Tryingtoconceivenumber2 and @suz2285.

Im back to the funny tummy cramps again today, but maybe I just have wind and think I’m pregnant! Lol. My boobs aren’t quite so sore. Hopefully in a weeks time I will know!! Will try and stay busy this week if I can and am now out of tests which gets ride of the snap decisions to use them!

Had them since 5dpo. So uncomfortable

@Emmamoo89 how bizarre!! I’m trying to not get my hopes up but they feel weird!

@Emmamoo89 I am also getting these since 3/4DPO x

Hopefully these cramps are good news!