Hi! I'm new to the forum and don't really understand all the abbreviations that are used, just a heads up!
Myself and my partner have been trying to conceive for about 16 months total: for a year a few years ago, and now for about four months (for various reasons we had to have a break from it). No luck during that time so far. The last couple of months I've picked up using the ovulation tests again, but not got a positive like I did before, maybe I didn't test the right time or I'd drunk too much fluids (very possible that this is the reason).
Anyway my app suggests day 18 was ovulation and today is day 23. This morning when I went to pee I wiped and there was a fair amount of blood on the paper. It was quite a light pink, not like my period blood. I've had thrush which is in the early days of being treated so it was very creamy looking I think due to this. I get thrush all the time and not bled due to treatment so I was really shocked and wondered if this could be implantation bleeding? Does the time line make sense? I get mixed messages about the timing from different internet sources.
The only other thing it could be is I've just started going to the gym, only second time last night. I read with strenuous exercise bleeding can happen. But I don't think I exerted myself unusually, I have done similar attempts at exercise in recent years without bleeding. And I don't bleed after sex like that and I'd expect that to be quite jabby on the same internal area! Thoughts? I'm just so hopeful but I've had my hopes up so many times before.