Mid 30's TTC - you're my BESH mate you are..... <hic hic>

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OOOh - Hope this'll do! Emergency!

not too early for a cheeky one is it girls?

hello all. back at home now moping around. giving extreme a run for her money in the household attire department as dressed only in my knickers, crop top and thrombosis socks waiting for my big belly to calm down.

all seems to be getting better. have lost about 10 pound this week although still have a lot to go. (i put on 18 pounds in total - literally ballooned in the space of a week )

think i might've lost some real weight as well as have only been managing tiny meals and protein shakes as i get too full.

at least there is some silver lining there. maybe i'll even get my perfect manhattan bump.

mwahahahahahaha .....

Evening,

Survived day two with the inlaws - pub lunches always help.

Welcome back cheggers. Glad you are home.

ideal I'm with you on not testing for another fortnight.

As for the AIBU thread - don't get me started. [boiling blood emoticon] Much of that was definitely aimed at the buses and palace. I'm on/in both and they have been a great help.

I also have a look at the new topics to see if I can help. I put my tuppence worth in on all sorts of threads - not limited to TTC. I also accept that sometimes when you start a thread, other people might just not be interested. It's happened to me and I don't take offence.

In a tidying mood today

YAY for the return of chEGGers! I thought I was 'strickly dickly' until I read that description of your attire. Phwoooargh, eh?! Still, glad you are better and hope the weight loss goes well. Join me in a boring refreshing glass of sparkling fruit juice!

And welcome back from hols to trig. Saying you don't think you could handle one full time is the quickest way to get accidentally updiffed, you sly thing, you BTW, where are you from? I say 'sen' instead of self but not many people do. Or where you doing a generic comedy northerner thang? FB me where you's from, if you don't want to reveal it on here

Hey, d'yehs think that AIBU women is going to slap one of these new-fangled 'booze asbos' on the residents of the Gin Palace? Dudging by our top quality fighting skills, it's going to be like something cut out of Kill Bill for being to violent, if anyone tries

PS Should we all go over to that AIBU thread and start doing the whole bidniz and start randomly chatting? Hehehe...

Hey chEGGS!! welcome back! Glad to hear you are deflating....

scorps I'm from Lancashire...

Fret not ref AIBU bints. They are just jealous of our BESHIE status, and if they posted an original topic instead of one that appears further down on the list if they could be bothered scrolling, then perhaps they would receive more replies. There's only so many times we can all say 'we don't know if you are pregnant on account of our tarot cards being in the wash - try POAFS, it's the traditional method of finding out if you are pregnant or not. Generally speaking, if you are usually as regular as clockwork and suddenly you are a few days late, then yes, it is entirely possible.'

God I'm feeling menstrually tense this evening

trog you have the worst periods in the world - and their timing is atrocious!

PS

Ah shit, have just eaten COOKED soft goat's cheese, but it was unpasteurised. If I am updiffed, I shall worry 'bout this. Cooked is okay, right? See, I'm a proper mental. ski, I'll just take a blow to the head, cheers!

scorpette there ought to be a ttc hitchhiker's guide, just so we can all look at the big capital DON'T PANIC. Seriously, you shouldn't eat soft unpasteurised cheese when you're pregnant because you risk getting listeria and thus losing the baby. Unlike booze or drugs, it has no effect on any foetal devlopment. So you shouldn't regret eating it if you are pregnant.

Giving you a good kicking.

Yay!... ? But is cooked okay? I can't see why not.

PS I seem to have a jinx of getting weird health things befall me, so I might seem to worry unnecessarily to everyone some, but bitter experience has left me paranoid

Only one person in the world has ever had listeria - it's pathetically under-represented in the tally of foetus-inhibitors. Do not spare another worry in its direction. Listeria is killed by cooking anyway, but even if it wasn't you would have to eat cheese which is running off the plate and had been out for days having already been injected with listeria monocytogenes first to be at any risk. And it would have to have been the third Tuesday in July, no later than 2.46pm, and only if it was raining in Tripoli.

Feel any better now?

A little bit, but the listeria's making me feel really knackered and confused...

trig you'd better not go around spouting such left-wing nonsense on the pregnancy boards - won't somebody think of the children?

Tbh - most of us need worry more about our kids eating mud & getting tetatnus.

Cheggers I'm so glad you're on the mend again but for the love of god - how many of the little blighters implanted? We need to know!

Greetings oh pissed ones! Well, my life was complete when at a wedding on Saturday, mother of the (baby before wedding) bride asked me when we were going to get round to it. Luckily I was drunk and the swing punch missed......

Anyhoo, around that very moment the RTOD arrived. And i have a Question. When I have my Day 5 and Day 21 blood tests - the Day 21 will now fall on a Sunday - should I test on Day 22 or Day 19 instead? (I actually think that due to long cycles the Day 21 test may be rubbish in my case).

Tequila Sunrise, anyone?

Morning!

V. excited you're back Cheggs and feel it is esssential that you tell us how many you've got in the oven!

VAG, how long is your cycle usually? My doc counted back 10 days from my last cycle length to get the date to test my day21 bloods - that might give you a different date to get them tested?

(getting mine done tomorrow).

Or, you may be able to get them done at a local hospital rather than your gp, they generally have a blood testing place (that's where I'm getting mine done as GP can't fit me in) you just walk in and take a ticket. don't know if they're open on Sundays though.

Hey cossy - my cycles so far have been: 37, 49, 37, 42, 33 and 36 days. Argh! I think I'll go on the Monday and see what happens - and I go to a special clinic for the blood anyway as GP doesn't take. I quite like that - they're very efficient and open at 8am so I can get to work on time afterwards without having to make up reasons for going for multiple tests.

I'm right in thinking there's no such thing as TMI in the palace aren't I?

Well I am off to the docs (I might as well live there just now) this morning to see the nurse as I have a really rather painful huge bloody lump in my fanjo area. It's where the knicker elastic goes, right underneath so I can't see properly, but I think it's an ingrowing hair / saddle sore type thing and I currently can only wear loose knickers and can't ride my bike without being in agony. I think she may amputate my whole front bottom area. Franky at the moment that would be preferable.

VAG I think the Monday would be better than the Friday, but I think still too early, the doc I saw said that the period between ov and the RTOD doesn't change in length, so unless yours is very long I think you'd be getting tested before you ov'd, as you suspect too.

Cosmosis Could it be a Bartholin's cyst? I had this when I was 25 and I stormed in to the doctors office - not before screaming at my on/off boyfriend for giving me an STD. It's an infection of your "lubrication" glad on the outer lip. Antibiotics should clear it (if it is that) - and then have a few salt baths. Do not under any circumstances let them operate because they remove the whole gland and it can be tricky to heal/affect your SWI-life! I got it one year when I was skiing... I ordered room service (steak) and a few G&Ts. Drank the G&Ts and then straddled the bath and plunged he steak knife in. Problem solved and I very much enjoyed the mile long button lift in the morning!

Scorpette have you POTFS yet?

I agree - but I think I'll follow the instructions as given this time and may have to go back another month. Dr also suggested ov tests, which I found surprising as I assumed they've be considered "black magic" by a GP. So I may get some for this month. Any brand particularly recommended?

Sounds like an ingrown hair, cossy, they are blimmin' painful. Hope appt isn't too awful.

No, I've googled that and it's not near enough to my bits, it's right in the leg crease. According to TGO, you can see the hair under the skin

TGO was all for attempting home surgery on it yesterday but I was too chicken. Perhaps I should have attempted it again post G&T.

OK - since there's no such thing as TMI in the underpant department...

I woke up at 6am this morning feeling verily sick.... Ooh get me - morning sickness, I thought... but then have been shitting through the eye of a needle ever since! Wah - it's every 5 minutes - when will it stop??!