THE DINO CLUB #1

[Lila34830]

Follow up of the two following threads of TTC Baby number 1 🦕🦖

Morning!

Oh. Fingers crossed it’s not and could be implantation.

But re: luteal phase, I’ve read Vitamin B6 helps if there is a luteal phase defect. But before taking it, I would recommend discussing with your GP as obviously not everything on the internet is correct. You could also look at buying the proov progesterone tests off of Amazon, these allow you to test your progesterone levels over 4 days in your luteal phase and will say whether you’ve had a weak or strong ovulation, Wonfo also do some which I used last cycle. This would allow you to flag with your GP, as I think they only offer PDG test on CD21 but you could also ask for this too however they only typically use it to confirm your ovulating.

Thank you! I was trying to stay hopeful that it was implantation.. but spotting has got quite a bit heavier since I woke up. All brown but still feels start of AF. I've had a cold the last couple of days so overall feeling really down.

Yes thanks for the recommendation. I have never had a day 21 test so will look into the ones off Amazon before trying to book a GP appointment.

How are you getting on?

Morning girlies,

@KT199 how are you ? How many dpo ?

@HE93C was this on fmu girl ? I agree with @KT199 hcg only doubles every 48h. When is your period due ??
Try and not read into it too much...

@NoisyBee my friend had a luteal phase " defect " and it turned out to be a lack of vitamin D. Are you taking any ? Because this is easily fixable if it's that don't worry. Also, any LP between 10-14 days is a normal LP!

@littlebluu did AF arrive ??

Thanks for your message !

I'm taking lots of vitamins.. maybe too many if that's a thing haha. So maybe I need to prioritise.
I'm taking pregnacare for conception, boots folic acid with vitamin D, boots vitamin b complex, vitamin b6 and vitamin c.

Only started taking the pregnacare recently so maybe could be good tos re a full cycle with it. Had randox blood tests CD3 this cycle and all came back normal

@NoisyBee how long was your LP this cycle ? Xx

I’m good, I’m 7DPO today so getting to the itchy point 😂😂 my temps are going wild they’re just rising every day, I know they can’t really suggest anything pregnancy wise until AF is due but I’ve never seen my temps rise like this in all cycles I’ve tracked. So unsure if I could be coming down with something..

How are you?! Has your LH got darker this morning?

I'm 8dpo today so depending if AF starts full flow today or tomorrow as usually have spotting day before. It's usually 11 days ISH

@NoisyBee so not all is lost !
Could it be implantation if it was spotting ??
Or do you feel like AF is coming ?

I stopped pregnacare as they messed with my cycle, if you look on the side of the box too it also states it has been reported this can happen, after reading it I threw them in the bin as there’s lots of reviews from people online too about them. I just take individual supplements now for the stuff I’ve read is beneficial.

Oh interesting ! I didn't read that. I started taking them as I thought I could maybe just take one tablet and sack off the rest.. but I haven't done that haha. I also wanted coq10.. do you take that separately ?

Pretty sure it's not implantation just because it's got a bit heavier this morning and looks very similar to what my AF normally looks like :(

Yeah I do, the amount of COQ10 in pregnacare isn’t enough to make a difference either it’s such a tiny amount. I just get mine off of Amazon!

@HE93C eeeek it’s definitely still there! Maybe do one test with water to see if it looks the same? Praying for line progression for you xx

@KT199 oh that’s really interesting about the progesterone strips as I have wondered if I have low progesterone due to the chemicals. I’m currently 3dpo (usually a 14 day luteal phase) can it be anytime in the luteal phase do you know? Gonna look into it Xx

Hey girl! So you start them on 6/7DPO and test until 10DPO. I haven’t used the proov ones but from what I read after they’re more reliable, but they also want a baseline reading on CD 1. Which is why I used the wondfo, as they didn’t require that. But the proov ones will tell you if it’s a good/weak ovulation based on the levels whereas wondfo wont.

Maybe I'm wrong but I always thought taking separate vitamins instead of pregnacare would be better because of the small amount of vitamins in one pregnacare pill , I feel like it's cheaper and more effective to buy vit D/ folate / magnesium / b12 separately !

Yeah true ! I got pregnacare on black Friday deal on Amazon so was fairly cheap though. Do you just use high street branded vitamins or any specials ones in particular

@NoisyBee just high street ! What matters is the level in a pill more than anything.

Still waiting for my LH rise over here !
I usually peak on cd20/21 and I'm CD17. I had a reading of 0.5 yesterday but it's still low this morning so I guess I will peak mid week !

Yeah I tend to get mine off of Amazon, all of them. I tend to buy the Zipvit ones other than for folate (I bought methafolate as read that not everyone can digest folic acid) which I buy solgar. The COQ10 I made sure to purchase it in the ubiquinol form as I initially bought the wrong one. It’s recommended to take 300mg twice a day.

@KT199 that’s so cool, I’ll look into it- thanks for sharing! Xx

I'm over my little upset, thanks ladies for words.

I'm just seeing it as I'll enjoy Christmas now with our testing and counting tww. And just see how that goes and look at testing again in the new year.

I keep my fingers crossed for you all 🤞🤞🤞

Hey Dino's

Spotting has gotten heavier, 99% looks to me like the start of AF over implantation so I'm assuming that'll start properly tonight, definitely counting myself out this cycle.

Again, I'll be lurking and keeping an eye on here, and will be back when it's time to start over again. I only have 10 OPK tests left so I think next cycle will be the last time I track properly. The disappointment is getting on top of me way too much - we hopefully move into our new home in January tho so I'll have that to focus on 😊

Good luck to everyone 🤞🤞 I hope to check back and see many BFPs!

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Oh I’m sorry to read this @littlebluu 😟. How are you feeling? Xx

@KT199 Disappointed coz I really thought we were on point with tracking and covering DTD, and I honestly felt a weird intuition that this one stuck, obviously just kidding myself 😅
And I know it's only been 3 months but it starts calling to question if there are complications with me or DH reproduction etc and I really do think have the mental energy for all these different tests etc that we'd need to have 🙈

So all of these things swirling around in my head I think I've just disassociated most of today away.. 😆😆

Plus been watching One Born Every Minute and torturing myself 😆

Sorry had such a busy day yesterday I’ve only just caught up on these!

interesting about getting the vitamins separately not just Pregnacare ones. We are currently both taking the conception pregnacare men and women but if it turns out this isn’t a BFP month for us then may have to switch!

tested again this morning and the line is still there but still faint, my husband is asleep in bed so I can’t get to the draw I’ve put the others in to compare the progression 😂🤦🏽‍♀️ I haven’t told him anything yet just in case it is CP.

thinking of all you guys and praying for some BFPs and some spikes in LH xx