9dp5dt & 10dp5dt felt like period was coming - but BFP at 11dp5dt

[Starlight91]

I just wanted to share in case this helps anyone! I know I’ve found forums extremely comforting on my IVF journey so far. I had my first IVF 5 day fresh embryo transfer recently and the symptoms very much came and went during the time between transfer and test. If I had symptoms I worried and if I didn’t…. I worried 😅 The progesterone also does not help ONE BIT. On 9dp5dt and 10dp5dt I started to feel cramps - not the twinges I’d been feeling before but much closer to pre-period cramps. They weren’t bad enough for me to take paracetamol but were definitely more of a heavy dull ache compared to the sharp pulls and butterflies I’d felt before. I was asked to take a pregnancy test by my clinic at 11dp5dt and I actually managed to hold out until then. I don’t think early positives would have given me any peace - I’d have worried they were the trigger shot being picked up. I got my positive at 11dp5dt even though I was convinced it would be negative. I still am early on so cautiously hoping everything continues smoothly. But hoping this helps anyone else over analysing symptoms like me, and perhaps starting to lose hope ahead of their test xx

That’s so great! I also had cramps and brown blood on day 10, positive the next morning day 11.
so many people insist IVF positives will come within a week of transfer but those are the obsessive testers that post on here. Probably many more like you and I.
all the best! When’s your scan? Xx

Congratulations on your positive @Renisenb! 🥰 It’s good to know I wasn’t the only who held out on testing! My scan is on 25th Feb, I’ll actually be 7 weeks 5 days by the first scan so I’m hoping the time goes quickly between now and then! When is yours? Xx

Thank you!
it feels like a long time from test to scan, don’t know how people cope til 12 weeks!
im now 15/16 weeks so had early and 12-week scan already xx