Come on 2024 BFPs let’s be having you!!!

[MrBigsCat]

39 years old
cycle 7 ttc

2024 is the year for my bfp I feel it, anyone else??

How old is your first?

my youngest is 8 so quite a gap!

@MrBigsCat he's 4, I had him just before I turned 39.

@againandagainand good luck hope to see your bfp on here soon 🤞🏻🤞🏻

Just started a thread with no traction, so writing here 😅
BFN today 2 days late with AF -

Today's symptoms are: Unusual pulling type pain on one side of lower abdomen (Friday 5th), On going nausea, shattered/exhausted, food aversions and dizziness, boobs feel a little fuller but not sore, crying a lot, random pain under armpit, and passing urine a lot - 4 times this AM! Some of these can be my period so I am not convinced, however the biggest thing is that if I have sex in the day or so before my due period I always come on my period during/post sex. That's not happened this month. 💪

@Angelselevenx so I had the Hycosy last cycle - some people say it’s rarer to conceive the cycle of the Hycosy as the dye they use for the procedure might affect implantation, so I’m really hoping the Hycosy can work its magic this cycle or next 🤞🤞🤞

Do you track ovulation @bulletproofcoffee ?

@bulletproofcoffee and bbt or CM?

Not yet, only 2nd cycle and I wanted to try without getting neurotic about it... as you can see that's going well 😂

@Teela86 Yes, both - First cycle doing it mind!

My BBT base was 36.5, dropped a bit then then was up from 29th, it's still above average tbf, 36.9-37.

CM didn't seem to match my apps dates (said OV on 23rd), whereas I had EWCM from 29th-31st.

Sounds like you ovulated later so you're probably around 7-9 dpo, so probably too soon to test.

@Teela86 Thank you! I am hoping a few more days :)

@hopingforapeainapod eek fingers crossed for you! Are you 5DPO now?

@Angelselevenx As I didn’t track this month it’s hard to be exactly sure but I think somewhere between 4-6DPO! I actually had a tiny tiny bit of spotting on Saturday (so CD17) which slightly threw me - not sure if just caused by ovulation - I assume far too early for implantation bleeding although my silly ttc brain always likes to get my hopes up!

I honestly just hate the TWW though - I’m fine for the first 2 weeks of the month and then for the last 2 I feel like I’m a completely different person. Always tell myself I’m not going to obsess and just see what happens but it never works!

Hi all,

Been casually TTC since the summer but I didn't have a period (PCOS) between Aug and Dec. Am due on 14th (my 39th birthday) and think I ovulated NYD so am about 9dpo.

This will be #2 but #1 for DP - my son is 7.

Had what I think is a squinters on E@H tests but dye has run on the clearest one, see attached.

OPK are showing close to positive which is how I realised I might be pregnant with DS in 2016 (weirdly enough this exact time in the year too!).

Symptoms are nausea, dizziness, cramping, headaches. Weirdly before I come on AF I usually get sore boobs which I don't have this time?

Sorry, attached.

@hopingforapeainapod oh interesting, could be related to ovulation, did you dtd that day? I'm the same, I started spotting on 8dpo a few cycles ago (which is why I think I have low progesterone) and got my hopes up to it being implantation.

Yep I feel you! I don't O til CD20 so it's like the first three weeks are boring/waiting for O/getting frustrated and then the last 11 days I'm just pathetic I waste so many tests and think that everything is related! Have you had anything symptom wise this month? Appreciate it's still early though!

I only ask because if you can pinpoint ovulation and then know your luteal phase, you know for sure when af is late.
for years I kept being late and then period starting but it was because I would ovulate a day or 2 differently each month and only worked this out after having 3 kids and using opks 😂

@MrBigsCat I've only recently discovered the whole luteal phase length doesn't really change fact it's a game changer!

@Angelselevenx no symptoms really but it’s hard to tell - I try not to symptom spot because whenever I have had promising symptoms (eg sore boobs) it’s always just been af! I have been feeling a bit under the weather last few days and so am exhausted / feeling quite tight-chested so it’s hard to look past that! Worried I have picked up Covid again or something…

Yes it’s annoying having longer cycles isn’t it because you feel like there’s so much more waiting around! And you have to test with OPKs for so much longer! I still am a bit confused because I’ve been told your luteal phase doesn’t change but I swear mine does - seems to vary between 14 and 17 days?!

Morning ladies, wondering if anyone has any advice or experience of FSH results on day 3 blood tests. Mine has come back as 8.00, the cut off for IVF in our area is 8.9, from what I can see I have the egg reserve of someone who is 38....im 30!!

OH has agreed to sperm testing but wants one more month to see if it happens, I don't think he has really took on board what I've said and is all "keep positive" when I want to punch him in the face hahah

@hopingforapeainapod I know, every month I find a new symptom to latch on to, this month I refuse as AF is due a couple of days before my 30th 😣 and then it's our fertility appointment so at least I've got that to look forward to.

How're you feeling today?

I agree! I'm going to try the clearblue digital ovulation tests this month and start CD15 and that'll give 4/5 days before ovulation. Mine does too, although my O can change between CD19/20/21 and then I'll have 11 days of LP however I do spot early so I never know whether to class that as period or spotting, so confusing!

@riverlodge90 I don't unfortunately sorry lovely. Do you take any supplements? I have seen people have increased their AMH before.

These are my hertility results, so mine sits at just above 4 but my AMH is in the higher range, this was from back in August though so who knows what they're like now.

Hahaha good luck with your OH doing the SA, my OH found it traumatic 😂😂

@riverlodge90 my OH had a sperm analysis done at hospital but we have been using exseed for home sperm testing to track how sperm are returning after he stopped TRT.

In other news ... 8dpo today, may have had some prickly feelings in my uterus last night but honestly I probably imagined it, no other symptoms really. With my first only real symptoms were nipple related and nothing gone weird with them yet!

How's everyone else doing today?

@Teela86 interesting! What is exseed? Is it worth doing or waiting for private test?

@Angelselevenx
Those results look really well displayed and explained who is helpful! I've had to google everything. My LH is also low at 4.4, which apparently also indicates low egg reserve.

What does the AMH in the red mean on your results? Is that a positive thing that it is high or negative?

Also my TSH was 2.88 which is above recommended 2.5 for TTC, it was 3.5 in September so lower but still not great.

I've started back on supplements last month, I did take them at start of last year but they made my cycles all over the place.

I take well woman active iron, as have low iron. Their women's multi vit which has the folic acid in. Omega 3 with DHEA, and i take idiode supplements and I've just ordered some more COq10, I was taking 50mg but think I need to ramp it up to 300mg based on google.

@Angelselevenx

This is the results;
FSH 8
LH 4.4
Testosterone - < 0.2
Prolactin - 221
TSH 2.88
SHBG - 45