How do you deal with AF when TTC?

[m00ngirl]

I'm due on AF next week after 7 cycles of TTC for first time and absolutely dreading it tbh. Can feel I'm not pregnant and know it is coming.

I'm finding it really hard to deal with the huge disappointment month after month after month. It doesn't help that I have extremely painful periods and it makes going to work and carrying on with everything very difficult. I feel like I'm fighting my own body.

I know many of you have been doing this much longer than me so any tips on how to cope with when AF comes would really help... Thanks 🙏

I know it’s hard. I’ve been TTC for years and years and there’s always some level of disappointment even if it is expected. The first day is usually the hardest but then just shift all your energy onto being able to start a new cycle. Are your cycles regular?

@TTCbaby1soph sorry to hear your journey is dragging on for years! I will try that - I have been ramping up efforts with every failed month. This month I'll be going to the GP. Depressing as fuck.

@TTCbaby1soph and my cycles are fairly regular (are yours?) except during TTC I've had two cycles when I was two weeks late. Two whole weeks! Which obviously got my hopes up loads! and was an even harder fall when brutally painful AF came. I wasn't obsessively testing at the time so do wonder but did have a BFN both times. Think cycle was thrown off once was because I'd had Covid that month and another because I was travelling across multiple time zones. Fml.