One-tubers TTC again....

[boodleboot]

right then,

DH has decided that after two regular cycles post EP we can try again....was very excited about that prospect until it hit me like a thunderbolt....i only have ONE TUBE NOW....of course i knew this but now i really KNOW this IYSWIM and now feel a peculiar mix of and of course and at the whole situation we find ourselves in....

I want to be positive that it will happen and won't require assisted conception but am really nervous and scared it is going to take forever....or not happen at all....{trying not to think like that....}

calling all one-tubers for a bit of handholding and good old MN support......lets go through it together....

aww hun, i feel your pain with that one

at work i returned to work in may after my MMC at twelve week scan to find one of my colleagues due on exactly the same day as me.....she had baby Willow on the 17th of this month. It was really hard but ultimately rewarding to know that whilst there wasn't going to be MY baby born then there was actually going to be a new life...if you can get over it then please go...suck it up sweetie and go be a great friend. You will feel soooo much better about yourself if you do.

you can come and rant to us on here about it and how and you were....

thanks for the temping info....so if i take my temp everyday up to ovulation and it is 36.4 then ovulation it goes up to 36.7 will it stay at 36.7 until AF comes and it drops back to 36.4?

will it be 2ww of raised temps before a dip for AF....

i may give it a go if not succesful this month....

Another onetuber here, not currently ttc as am feeding 8wk old son . Also have 2.9yr DD, so there is nothing to fear about being tubularly challenged!

Thanks lion good to know it can work out, at the moment it doesn't feel like it though for me after nearly 2 years of trying and 6 months since EP... sorry, just feeling a bit down

boodle yuor temp should stay high throughout the lutal phase, mine tends to drop a little as I approach AF (2-3 days before). Hopefully you won't need all this info though

oh GWC chin up chick. it will happen.....gotta be positive......a new month = a new chance to conceive.....forget the previous month, its gone forever....

i am feeling like i should start taking folic acid again now....get my body prepared....

i am bit confused as last night and this morning i have had like a second wave of EWCM....most bizarre.....i don't feel like it is OV as i am sure i have already ov'd...

anyone else ever have that?

Hi guys, I'm not TTC but thought I'd add my success story to hopefully give some hope!

I had my right ovary and tube removed because of a huge ovarian cyst. I had a contraceptive implant at the time too.

I had the implant removed in the September as I wanted to TTC my 3rd child.

I was pregnant in the December! Ds2 is now 14 months old.

I just wanted to share so you know it can still happen, my consultant said I was lucky to have fallen that quickly, especially so soon after the implant, Good luck ladies, I wish you all the best. x

woop woop izzy that really does give me hope.....hopefully i wil fall as quick as that....what a christmas pressie that would be eh

Hello Ladies. Another one here. I had an ectopic pregnancy in September at 7 weeks and my left tube removed. We had a beautiful DS (nearly 2) and had been trying for a year before we conceived as I am 40 next year so we didn't want to hang around. We are so elated and then so devastated. We are TTC this month (although don't feel like it worked) and feel very freaked out by my age and the fact it took us a year to get to the EP.....hoping for everyone else and love it if you could maybe hope for me too. Like another poster a good friend of mine is pregnant and is due the same week I would have been due. She has been very thoughtful in telling me first after her family and I am of course very happy for her but it is hard isn't it not to get a bit 'what would have been' about things. good luck to everyone x

Hello all. scrum welcome to the thread, and I hope you'll be successful very soon. It must be hard to have someone so close have a due date similar to what might have been.

boodle have you really not tested yet? Your willpower is too good if that's the case.

My stitches are still annoying me - though I did pull a 2 inch piece out of my belly button the other morning. Nice!

Well, AF was due on Friday but still no sign. I'm thinking I was a bit premature in hoping they were all settled after surgery. I hope they're not going to be too irregular.

i have been testing and am convinced there is the faintest of faintest of faintest lines but only in some lights....

I am 11DPO by my calculations today but still 7days til my AF is due so really do think that i am just being ridiculous to even go there entertaining any notions in even the remotest sense....

what do we think of Evaporation lines? anyone experienced these on a test?

or is a line a line?

welcome scrumdiddly.....join us for the ride.
xx

Thank you your welcome! Just to let you all know that I am in Australia so will be posting at odd times and not insomniac! Boodle, testing early is SUCH a dilema isn't it. And impossible to be strict with oneself. I bought some tests today (7 days before due) and PROMISED myself I wouldn't waste one and....yep you've guessed it I sucumbed (negative but prob too early anyway even for an early predictor)...I am usually quite sane and rational but this TTC malarky makes you go a bit irrational lala....lots of love x

or even thank you for your welcome....x

i realise that i sound preposterous to even consider taht i would fall on the first cycle of trying post EP but i can't help it....boobs feel tingly and have had sharp stabbing pain this morning - i am 12DPO today and wonder if this could be an implantation pain....i wish my womb had a window so i could see whats goin on in there

i have been testing on internet cheapies as i have about a squillion of them and am still convinced there is the faint line in some lights but this could totally be the evap line they talk about.....

still can't help thinking......

hows everyone else this morning?

Morning boodle. You think you're crazy? I just POAS for the 2nd time this week - even though we have been 100% careful this month. I start the 3 minute wait by panicking that I better not be, as I still have another month before I should TTC, then by the time the negative result comes up I'm really, really disappointed! I promise I'm a fairly normal person usually!

How long til AF is due? Hopefully those lines will get stronger and stronger til there's no doubt!

that is so funny apple - exactly what i was like last month even tho realistically there was zilch chance that i would have fallen pregnant....

I have been consistently POAS for the last three days waiting for this line i think i can see to get more clear.....nothing so far...

if i am not preg this month then i have lost faith in my ability to tell when something so lifechanging is happening in my own body...i really feel pregnant....my boobs are huge and really tingly. Still having crampy feelings that are quite noticeable....

Am applying for a new job in the hope that it distracts me from TTC and also hoping that it causes the bus effect.....

ladies,

just adding a good news story. My sister is a one tuber and has two lovely boys.

Thanks slimyak - good news stories are always welcome!

boodle I really have my fingers crossed for you. It's strange not knowing what's going on in your own body. I find it really odd relying on a stick to tell me what's happening!

Well, AF arrived for me today. I'm pleased I can get on with this cycle now, and then it's time to get on with TTC!

Gosh the the months DRAG by when you are TTC don't they. I POAS (early ones) three days in a row "just to rule it out" & have VOWED not to buy anymore this month as am sure am not & about to open bottle of wine & drink half of it (I'm in Oz so its evening & not raving alco at 8am ; ) to prove to myself that I don't actually still hope that I could be pregnant & that I peed on the sticks too early! Wish I could fast forward a few weeks so we could start trying again. Outwardly to my friends here (have only been here for 2 years so not really deep or close friends) I am all 'what will be will be if we only have one child then we are blessed and we will have a wonderful life and make the most of all the opportunities only one child affords us' but inside I am mad looney 'give me one more baby PLEASE'.....I don't think it helps that the due date for my ectopic pregnancy would have been my 40th birthday and somehow that seemed so perfect and so 'under the wire' that I feel like it has all turned to shit now and I have 'lost' my chance. Will give myself stern talking to & be much more positive next week...in the meantime transfering my positivity to you all xx

still nothing certain to share from me....stil getting very very faint lines on early sticks but not darkening in colour or anything yet....boobs really heavy and dog tired and covered in spots with extra greasy hair so really looking a treat this week...

this last week as gone very very slowly for me....prob cos i have been POAS and scrutinising every stick for 20mins....kinda makes the time drag eh....

i am getting a bit despondent now too that AF date is approaching, due on tues and i am always right on the money timewise...sort of feeling like there is no way i could have got pregnant first time trying after EP....its just too fantastical to consider now i think....

AF for me...hey ho, back to the drawing board - at least can have a few drinks over christmas I guess she says looking on the brightside...good luck to everyone else this month x

scrum - don't go anywhere tho....i am more certain that this is not my month. CLearblue Digi said very clearly not pregnant this morning and you would think that it would be able to detect one day early....internet cheapies can not be relied on clearly...i have one more CB Digi and will try that if AF not arrived tomorr but i just don't thinkk it will be +ve...

appleton how are you?

scrum - I hope your positivity comes back soon. I'm sure when ov date approaches it will! It's just the first few days of dealing with the next cycle. So depressing!

boodle I'm OK, thanks for asking! If it helps, I'm sure a got a negative on a Clearblue digi a few days before getting a positive with a Tescos cheapie. It does sound like you have lots of promising symptoms, so I'm keeping everything crossed for you. If it's not your month just remember it was only cycle 1 of this attempt, though I'm sure with all you've been through this year it feels alot longer!

I had my follow-up appointment at hospital today. I felt a bit anxious going back to the hospital, which wasn't helped by the fact that they lost my notes for an hour and a half!

When I was finally seen, the registrar said I was fine to start trying again whenever I wanted - I thought I had to leave it another cycle but he said not. So, looks like I'm now officially TTC!

apple it is so great that you are finally TTC for real again....brilliant news. I am still not pregnant....even the cheapies really don't look like there is a line there anymore.....i have no idea what is going on with my body clearly as i would have laid money on the fact that i was preggers but hey ho....feeling bit down and gloomy today.

Thrush is vile today aswell which really doesn't help my mood....also AF is bound to make an appearance today as i am usually bang on 28 days so as clearly not pregnant she must be getting ready to knock on the door....

Hi Ladies. Not going anyway and will be cheerleading for all of you I promise. Boodle, I may have misread this but please please don't think you would make me feel better by not being pregnant yourself. I honestly would LOVE anyone in my situation to become pregnant quickly as I know how shite it is not to be...seriously, HUGE good karma to everyone on this thread. Just hope we get some back before May next year. Stupid I know but am hungup on my big FOUR O!...feel young but feel my poor old one tubed body is feeling somewhat older...appleton..thank you so much for your kind words and am excited that you can feel like you can try again...good luck and all positive vibes from this side of the world...xx

Just dropping in to offer some support and positive vibes to all the one-tubers out there.

I had my right ovary removed in 2004 due to a large ovarian cyst. We went on to ttc (with some assistance from a digital thermometer), and within two months of trying we were pg. Unfortunately we lost that baby at 10+2 (MMC), but then went on to conceive our DS after 4 months of trying, again while temping and charting using good old FF. DS was born two days before my 35th birthday. I am now 20wks pg with our second (20 week scan this afternoon, woohoo!), and this time (again temping and charting) we hit the jackpot the first month of trying. I will be 39 (there or thereabouts) when this one arrives - due date is four days before my birthday!

Don't give up - one-tubedness is not a handicap as long as you are still OVing.

Positive baby vibes coming in your collective direction!

meant to say not going anywhere...am not blessed with the first time grammar fairy dust in this thread....