8dpo Symptoms

[Babiesforme]

Hello! Currently 8dpo and had cramping and backache 5 and 6 dpo and it started to stop on 7dpo. I'm getting the odd tingle in my boobs and down there but nothing long lasting. I think I've been a bit more tired but I'm often tired lol! I don't bbt, but I keep an eye on my resting heart rate which doesn't normally drop till my period starts. But it's dropped today and yesterday. Have been having white cm amd feeling very wet. Pdg dipped at 6dpo but back up for the last 2 days. Do you think I'm out??

I always say we aren't out until AF shows. Fingers crossed 😁

@Babiesforme it all sounds really positive! Keep us updated and I have my fingers crossed for you.

Can I ask how you track your heart rate? Is it with a fitness watch?

Thank you both 😊 I keep feeling hopeful and then questioning it all. My boobs have been tender and tingly on and off ro the last couple of days. But only inside if that makes sense not sore to touch really. One boob seems bigger than the other more than usual. Cm seems to be drying up though, but I noticed a yellow tinge 🤔
@ABLOSSOM I use a Fitbit Inspire HR. Initially bought it years ago to monitor my sleep and stats when exercising.
How are you both getting on with ttc?

I'm now (tomorrow/today..it's gone midnight) 7dpo and feeling some familiar symptoms, I've had positives then chemical pregnancies 4 times since trying again after a 12 week loss in Feb. I'm hopeful but cautious every month now. I did a test but it's blank cos too early but I'm a bit of a pee on a stick addict haha. I have a disc disease in my back and it is more sore than normal and my boobs are really tender again. I'm keeping fingers crossed for all of us 😁

This was this mornings test and tonight's test... I feel insane as I was sure this morning I could see something but told myself I had line eyes but still feel like there was something there. This evenings not so much... Though it is still v early and I'd drunk a load of squash lol

@DarkCrystal85 so sorry to hear about your loss. I have everything crossed for you! I'm trying to hold off as much as I can!

@DarkCrystal85 I can definitely see something in the top test 😄 I hope it sticks!

@DarkCrystal85 Yes there's definitely something there on the top one. Fingers crossed it's the beginning of your bfp! Sorry to hear about your chemicals x
Bfn for me this morning 😔 My boobs were so tender in the early hrs I couldn't sleep. Starting to feel it again and have only been up for about an hr. I really hope this is my month

Well done for holding off @ABLOSSOM Wish I had your willpower! Had a runny nose for a bit early this morning too and I've read a cold or runny nose can be a sign 🙈

Aw thankyou @Babiesforme and really hope its your month too, the symptoms sound promising 🙏 my boobs are very achy too and I've had a bad cold and possible chest and ear infection for 4 days now, I should see GP but they'd only prescribe me antibiotics which I'm dubious of taking before knowing if I am or not. Apparently having a cold or anything our bodies try fighting off is good as it stops our bodies trying to fight off pregnancy... aren't our bodies fab eh haha... @ABLOSSOM I really hope it is and sticks and stays put and thankyou, it's been a rough year but hopefully will get my little rainbow soon 🌈

Thanks love @DarkCrystal85 Just had a rant to my sis. My boobs are hurting, I'm knackered and clearly cranky lol. I think it's the anxiety of it all. Sorry that you're feeling poorly but yeah I've read that can happen in early pregnancy. I think if you do feel top crappy ask the GP to do a blood test to confirm before giving you any meds?
How are you today @ABLOSSOM

@Babiesforme I really hope you get your BFP! I'm constantly checking if every symptom is a sign of early pregnancy 🙈 I feel like my boobs would be the biggest indicator and because they're normal at the minute I'm convincing myself I'm out.

I feel pretty ok. Woke up with a slight headache the last few days and had the odd twinge but everything else is fine. Comparing to my notes last cycle it was the same too so not got much hope!

When are you planning on testing?

Thank you @ABLOSSOM 😊 We're not out till af shows so hopefully she doesn't! 🤞🏽 Also I've seen lots of posts where women have no symptoms at all and get a bfp. Don't lose hope, I always try to keep myself busy, catching up with friends or something so I can't think, Google or test too much lol! I might try and hold off for a couple of days, the bfn brought me down today but I don't have much willpower so we'll see! How many dpo are you? Have you tested at all?

@Babiesforme I tested this morning 10DPO and BFN! ☹️

It's still early hun. I'm really hopeful for you both. Maybe test again in a couple of days or wait till af is due? @ABLOSSOM
@DarkCrystal85 How are you getting on?

I need to get this out somewhere, because I don’t want to talk to DH yet, get his hopes up and then AF arrives on Sunday.
We decided to actively TTC from now on quite spontaneously this cycle, one day after predicted ovulation (Clue app). I pretty much was sure that wouldn’t work as I am over 35 and you just can’t get that lucky at my age 😜
AF is predicted to start on Sunday. I tend to spot for two days before.

Last Saturday I got a bit of a cold sore / inflamed upper lip. Put it off as allergies. Felt very tired since and had swollen lymph nodes since Sunday. So maybe a cold incoming. There were occasional uterine twinges/cramps but I thought it was bloating and gas. Plenty of bloat, even joking with DH that I look pregnant and that happened quickly.
Monday and yesterday I felt sickly. Bit of a runny nose and sinus headache and dead tired. Felt hot, but no fever. Strangely totally fine today.
i also had trouble falling asleep and vivid dreams recently. I do struggle with falling asleep normally as well, but just occasionally.

Today I had two tiny brown spots when wiping. Now I am slowly thinking this could actually be implantation bleeding, as I might be 9 DPO if the ovulation was predicted a day too early? Am I reading too much into this? Some of the stuff I had during the last week turns up in one of the “unusual early pregnancy/implantation symptoms” threads here. I really think I am just getting too excited… but I hope not.

@Skymningen Those do sound like positive symptoms. It's hard not to symptoms spot when your body is throwing so much out at you? Only a few more days till af or hopefully not! I'm the same and haven't said anything to DH yet and won't till I see that bfp I think

Aww @ABLOSSOM it's still very early, to repeat the above but I know how disheartening it can feel. I'm hoping we all get the results we want 😁

@Skymningen as above it's still early days and there's every chance you could be, I only speak to my wife about things cos she carried our first 2 pregnancies, a little boy who we sadly lost too early and a girl who is now 4 so it's more I speak to do comparisons haha, though she doesn't really remember much now and says it's all a blur 😂 I was pregnant until I lost at 12 weeks in Feb and even I have memory issues remembering how I actually felt before I got my positives, I didn't get them till day 12 onwards and even then they remained quite faint until I was 2 days late.

@Babiesforme I'm doing ok, still have line eyes with my tests but I think it's just the indent of where the colour would go... I'm terrible for standing and staring at them till I can't see anymore and I am only 8/9 dpo so I know it's still very soon. Also know that even when I do get positives I am prone to chemical pregnancies so don't count myself in till I'm wayyyy past being late now. Once I get a line it's the progression I need to see as my chemicals tend to remain pretty faint. Boobs are still very sore and getting the odd twinge but this feels like a monthly occurrence to me now 🥴 and I'm being beaten up by this awful cold, which my wife and daughter now have too 😬 so we are all feeling sorry for ourselves in this household haha. I'm gonna have a nice warm bath and watch some good conspiracy YouTube vids on my phone haha
How are you getting on? Still suffering with the sore boobs?

Like this... 🤔😂🥴
It's like a star... If you look at it it disappears but when you look away you see it. It's still actually 'developing' but I told myself the test must have had a mark on so I've done another from same pot of pee 😂

Seeing things 😂

@Babiesforme that's my plan - I think I'm going to wait as I've had some light period cramps today so think AF is on way.... when do you plan to test?

@Skymningen it all sounds really positive please keep us updated! When do you plan to test? Random but when you say vivid dreams what do you mean? I've had some dreams I've woke up thinking about but not sure if I'm trying to convince myself they were vivid as I know people have said it (can't even remember what the dreams were!)

@DarkCrystal85 I don't know if I can see anything but I don't know if I'm just trying to be cautious cause I would hate to have my hopes up ☹️ you're still really early and have time! I'm trying to hold out until AF appears or doesn't but it's so much easier said than done 🤣

I definitely remember having the freakiest vivid dreams when I was pregnant, that was one of the things I do remember haha.

I know, I'm my own worst enemy, it's faded since I did the test alot. I'm cautious anyway like I never feel too upset if I see no lines just a tad like eh when there's a strange shadow, that's why I did another haha. This below is the other 🥴 I am definitely a pee on a stick addict, I usually just do 1 a night (even when pregnant my night time tests were always darker... Probably cos I have ADHD and forget to pee and forget to drink 🙈) I'll keep testing nightly, as I say it wasn't till day 12 I got an obvious faint line last time and a dark line once 2 days late but I like to prepare myself if I have another chemical too as it pushes my ovulation the following cycle back and we have a donor so it helps plan things better and pre warn that it's probably not going to be day 14 as usual. You have more will power than mee haha, fingers crossed for all 😁

@DarkCrystal85 Yep boobs are still going! They've both swollen much to DH's delight 🙄 My nipples are still fine but my boobs hurt and it goes into my armpits and upper arms a bit. If it's because I'm preg then long may it continue lol. I'm tired and my appetite is a bit weird but I think I'm just feeling a bit blah mentally and that's why. I totally get why you're cautious, I would be too x It is still early days for you. I see what you mean about your tests and I think I'm staring at it too much lol. Maybe leave the testing for another couple of days?
@ABLOSSOM I'm going to try my hardest not to test till the weekend now. Need to give myself a bit of a break I think
Never thought ttc would be this hard or stressful! Roll on the bfp's 🤞🏽

My boobs are exactly the same haha. And big blue veins going down them which they haven't since December but yes the feeling of soreness into the armpits, I took bra off but honestly think I was more comfortable with it on 😂
I know it's a buggar when staring it's not a line but it's not not a line 🙈

Yeah I'm sleeping in a sports bra tonight can't be arsed taking it off as they hurt enough as it is. No relief in any position. Can you tell I'm grumpy! 🤣🤣 We'll just have to live in our bras for now! Is it mad that I keep talking to my belly hoping there's a little baby in there. Good lord I think I'm going to cry now! Ffs! 🙈 Time to try and sleep - again lol

Haha I have said to my stomach 'if there's anybody in there please stick and please stay' 🙈 aw bless you, nobody prepared us for how absolutely insane and hard this journey will actually be. In my friends and family group a female just has to look at a bloke and gets pregnant and carries to full term no issues. I am terrified of when I am pregnant cos I've been there and so scared of loss again so I am going to be sooo bloody anxious (even though I know it's worse to be stressed on pregnancy 🥴). Would be fab if this entire thread gets their positives this cycle 😁

Yea my boobs are so sore, I had a bath so didn't wanna put a sports bra on before pyjamas but ooof man, I shouldn't be having a growth spurt as I've eaten less while being poorly lol.

Grumpy is normal for this time of night when it feels like red hot pokers are on ya boobs, I was ok now am grumpy cos my cat just meowed to come in and decided to bring a mouse in and plonked it right in front of the oven so I've spent last half hour trying to get a mouse out from under the oven with a stick 😭 managed to take it out like you would a spider under a big tub 🥴 so I feel wide awake now haha. I'm dying to pee on another stick... I won't. I made myself pee in the loo with no sticks available 😂😂