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The Festive 2WW, anyone want to join me?

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VJayMerrilyOnHigh · 06/12/2008 16:30

Hello, are any of you hopefully testing around Christmas?.... I know a few who are . Come and join me in the symptom spotting festive fun and if it doesn't work out this time, at least when can have all the festive food and drink we want...so it's not all bad xxxxx

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VJayMerrilyOnHigh · 11/12/2008 18:01

I would tell you to get a grip 2many but I'm the same. The obsessing is slowly beginning, even though I promised myself it wouldn't aaaarrrrggggghhh!

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VJayMerrilyOnHigh · 11/12/2008 18:03

Oh and my DH says I'm pg because I'm turning into a nazzy b@*#h and I've done this everytime. Poor dh.

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VillageMum · 11/12/2008 18:39

2many and VJay, glad it's not just me obsessing then... The funny thing is that I felt nauseous pretty much constantly during my last two cycles, following my mc (when we deliberately steered clear of ttc and I KNEW I couldn't possibly be pg!) and now that we're ttc and I might actually be pg I feel hungry... maybe it's just due to all that physical activity?

How many days post ov are you both?

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VJayMerrilyOnHigh · 11/12/2008 18:56

I am DPO6, CD22. What is the earliest that symptoms start appearing?
What DPO are you vm

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olivo · 11/12/2008 19:58

hello everyone. I am pleased to report that FF has told me i am 7DPO and that i did probably ovulate when i thought i had! all that worrying for nothing! However, no symptoms for me so far.
stealth - I spent 10 happy years in Durham and still go back about once a year or so.

StealthPolarBear · 11/12/2008 20:07

Wow, where abouts?

StealthPolarBear · 11/12/2008 20:07

Glad you have ovulated btw - sorry I'm not very good with all the terminology etc

olivo · 11/12/2008 20:25

in the city mostly, and then bought a house in Fram. I have very happy ( and many slightly embarassing !)days of my student life there

olivo · 11/12/2008 20:25

in the city mostly, and then bought a house in Fram. I have very happy ( and many slightly embarassing !)days of my student life there . where are you?

olivo · 11/12/2008 20:26

ahem, 'scuse my lack of coherence! I meant many happy memories!

StealthPolarBear · 11/12/2008 20:26

me too - was a student from 97 to 2000 and now work near the hospital!

olivo · 11/12/2008 20:29

ah, just missed you - graduated in 96!
oops -sorry, all, for hijacking!
as you were!

VillageMum · 11/12/2008 21:43

No problem olivo; I wasn't a student at Durham but have happy memories of it too, using the uni archives on research (years and years ago now...) Great news about FF!

VJay, I'm 7 days PO. We shouldn't expect any symptoms really until implantation has finished, which normally only takes place somewhere between days 6-12 post ov and in most cases only after day 8 PO. It's only then that the bean begins to interact with the mother's body and hcg enters the bloodstream. So I know that all my symptom spotting so far is poppycock!

girlwithacurl · 12/12/2008 10:30

Vjay at you turning into crazy B*$&h... it do that every month though so who's to know!

I am due to test on christmas eve/christmas day... this could be a really bad thing as if bfn then christmas day, although good excuse to get drunk and wallow... alternativly could be the best christmas present ever. So question is, do I test on christmas day and risk it (assuming AF doesn't decide to come for the holidays that is!)?

StealthPolarBear · 12/12/2008 10:41

gwac, personally I would stay in blissful ignorance over Christmas

StealthPolarBear · 12/12/2008 10:42

Well actually that's a lie. That is what I would want to do but probbaly wouldn't be able to stop myself testing

VillageMum · 12/12/2008 11:01

girlwithacurl, if AF hasn't arrived by Xmas day then maybe just enjoy the feeling of knowing that it's increasingly likely that you are indeed pg... and then test Boxing Day!

tinselandglittercoveredwincies · 12/12/2008 12:00

Hello, please may I play too?

AF is due 23rd December, so I'm planning a Christmas Eve test if it's not arrived. If it's +ve, then . If -ve, then the booze can flow on Christmas day.

(waves and raises a glass of gfj to smileycat and villagemum)

VillageMum · 12/12/2008 13:23

Hello tinsel! I like your win/win approach. Let's hope the gfj did the trick for all of us... (my fridge is still full of the stuff!)

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VJayMerrilyOnHigh · 12/12/2008 13:47

Oh I hate symptom spotting, as vm says, all that I'm experiencing now is just poppycock, I love that word .

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VJayMerrilyOnHigh · 12/12/2008 13:48

poppycock
poppycock
poppycock

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VillageMum · 12/12/2008 13:51

Uh-oh - loving the word poppycock is a sure sign of being up the duff...

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VJayMerrilyOnHigh · 12/12/2008 13:56

I hope you are right , I think I have gone slightly mad!

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VillageMum · 12/12/2008 14:30

What's up? Are the symptoms loud and clear? or does it all feel a bit much?

Sunnydale · 12/12/2008 14:41

I am so NOT PG. I don't have a SINGLE symptom to spot. How can I not be PG after all that BD'ing? What else am I supposed to do??? Also, am sick of being told to "relax and it'll happen". I don't believe the current wisdom that if you're stressed / obsessed, you won't conceive. Cave women were stressed, too. Women have been stressed since time began, only now it's about work and then it was about being eaten by a bear. Besides, I was stressed last time I conceived the others and it happened easily. Am gonna have a glass of wine tonight regardless. Because I am NOT PG!
very sure all the rest of you are, though! Those symptoms sound mighty convincing to me!!