Anyone TTC Dec 2023…continued

[4LeafCloverBaby]

Our thread was full!! Will tag as many as I can remember.

@lowrilawson
@onetwoandthree
@babno3
@hol92
@dearDarcy
@butterfly391
@cazzy87
@jossiwood
@charlip33
@fantasticalcat
@kittyfantastica

Hi everyone, please may I ask you to take a look at this? Usually it is stark white but FMU today and I can see a line?

Hey @Cazzy87 @Lowrilawson @4LeafCloverBaby @KittyFantastica @Mummysparrow <3

Been reading the thread and all your comments today, hope you're all doing okay! xx

I'm on CD9 and been doing OPK once a day for the last 2 days, going to go up to twice a day today, lunchtime and evening; I've got the E@H ones and CB digital, so we'll see how it goes! Chatting to hubby and we might start DTD tonight anyway as my temp has just started to rise (I mean, it can't hurt right? haha) as he's going to be away again a lot over the next few months, so it would be reeeeally good if it happened this month 🙏

@CharliP33 that sounds like a really good plan! what day do you usually ovulate x

@CharliP33 hey 😊 yes start DTD every other night until you get your leak. Your temp will only rise once you’ve ovulated as it’s the corpus luteum (cyst) that releases the egg that also releases progesterone which elevated your temperature. Any rises in temperature during the follicular phase are kind of irrelevant. Good luck & keep us updated! 🤞🏼🍀

@Sunandsea13 I can definitely see something there 😊 What dpo are you?

@4LeafCloverBaby thank you! It is hard to know as I have PCOS but on an ultrasound last Monday they saw a corpus luteum so if I take the Sunday as ovulation then I think I am 9DPO. Hoping it sticks. The CB digital said NP but I know that can take longer so I’m going to do another one tomorrow morning

@CharliP33 Hi! i'm good thanks i'm CD17 and weirdly still no sign of ovulation so i'm worrying , test again this morning was barely a line still 😕
your plan sounds like a good plan to me!

@Sunandsea13 sounds good! 🤞🏼🍀

@Cazzy87 how long are your cycles usually hun?

@4LeafCloverBaby this is only my 4th cycle since coming off the pill, i've had 28, 40 and then 29 and i've been on the pill so long i cant remember what they were before!

Crossing all my fingers and toes for you @CharliP33! Definitely doesn't hurt to DTD every other day and cover all the bases. If no joy this month, I think that's what we will do next month. We've done smep the last two cycles (kind of) and also just any extra days we want to as usual. We usually end up doing five in a row as I get randier before ovulation 🤣. It's a good indicator, I guess! It's exhausting though, so will try every other day next time.

Good luck with the strips and digital! Hopefully that should cover all the bases for you and get you some nice results. Excited to see your progress!

I'm DPO7 and driving myself mad with the wait. I've no symptoms at all and I can feel my brain straining to feel just ANYTHING. I've had weird dreams the last two nights and I have to keep telling myself it means nothing. I felt absolutely nothing until DPO9/10 last month and I think it will be even longer than that this month if there is any m thing to feel as I ovulated a bit later.

I've been wondering if ovulating later will mean implantation might take a bit longer, or whether a positive test would take longer to be detected. Either way, I'm not testing until 12th at the earliest.

@Cazzy87 my cycles were 32 days & the latest I ovulated was CD21 so there is definitely still time for ovulation if you are having a long cycle 😊 x

I know the feeling @KittyFantastica I hate the wait so much! I'm only 4dpo but have had a lot of symptoms but I know it's just progesterone rise! X

Oh yes I can definitely see something!

thanks @4LeafCloverBaby i hope there is, just wish my cycles would be more regular!

@Lowrilawson I'm unsure, I've never tested properly, but my apps seem to think around day 15, but I always feel like that's too late, and the one time I tested, i think it was 12/13, so want to regularly keep an eye on it for a few months, so I can get a better idea x

@CharliP33 that's fair, I've tested every day from CD10 to when i usually ovulate and the day after this time round to understand my cycle better xx

@4LeafCloverBaby Yeah I think we will :) and ahh fair enough - my temp starts rising quite early in my cycle usually, a few days after my period, and kind of stedily increases, so I suppose I'll just have to see what the tests say! - here's last month's chart (the ovulation prediction on here is wrong IMO, it's just what the app says) and what's happened this month so far too x

@Cazzy87 Ahh.. what time in the day are you testing? It's definitely better to test later on in the day from what I've read, as the hormone increases as the day goes on, so maybe you'll see something later in the day? I'm testing at lunchtime and 8pm ish x

@KittyFantastica Oh thank you so much lovely - yeah I'm hoping I'll feel a little bit more clued up after this cycle!

Yeah I'm the same haha - it's deffo a good indicator!

Aw, I'm thinking about you! Deffo crossing everything for you too - I (and I imagine most of us in here) really know what it's like to want it so badly!!

Yeah I think for your own sanity, it's good to have a date in mind, and it's a goal to work towards. Good luck! xx

@CharliP33 ive tested both morning and evening and still the same 💁so no idea! i'll keep testing once a day in the hope that the line will get darker at some point this week!

@Cazzy87 Ah yes I'd just keep trying, I'm sure it will happen! It seems like your cycles are still regulating after coming off the pill - mine took a while to settle down too, but now they're pretty regular and predictable within a couple of days, so I'm sure yours will do the same :) xx

@CharliP33 i think so or at least i hope that's what it is! thanks :) how long and what type of pill were you on? i was on cerazette for 9 years last one was 7th september 2023 and then took 6 weeks for my 1st period to come... i have a daughter already though so 1 good thing is i know i can get pregnant its just with her we never really tried or timed anything! yet this time im with a new partner and we cant wait to have our own 1st baby together!

Hi @CharliP33 thanks for your message. Yes it’s been a whirlwind but we’re out the other side thank goodness. So we dtd the night before my temp drop, the day of the temp drop and the night of my static smiley. Hoping we’ve done enough but it took us 2 years to conceive first time round and I’m 39 so feel like I’m running out of time, but we’ll keep trying!

@4LeafCloverBaby how have you been feeling? x

@Lowrilawson not too bad thanks hun. No sickness yet 🤞🏼 but I get a weird feeling like if I haven’t eaten in ages & I start to feel a bit shakey & weak…but I get it whether I’m hungry or not…so thats a big annoying. Sore boobs still & quite bloated. I currently look about 5 months pregnant lol. How are you hanging in there with the tww?