Totally there with you. My 5d transfer was also 14th June. It’s my second transfer, 4th time on progesterone for a TWW.
Yes, if you haven’t used them before the side effects from the progesterone (and oestrogen if you are on that) can be a big shock as it does all the same things to you that early pregnancy can do, up to and including nausea and dizziness, sore breast, darkened nipples, headaches, bloating, bathroom issues, cramping, loose joints, aches and pains… the list is long. I don’t think there’s any guaranteed way from symptom spotting to tell if it’s worked because all the signs are the same.
Also, from my perspective, I can guarantee that I’ve had exactly the same symptoms, BFP or BFN.
Nowadays I think of TTC on medicated IVF transfer cycles as a completely different thing from TTC on a natural cycle, so reading boards where people are not doing IVF can really confuse you because you are going ‘but that’s ME!’, sometimes before you even have the transfer.
What I learned about the TTW on my unsuccessful transfer cycle last month was that I was sure that testing everyday would be fun or would set me up for the disappointment on OTD, but actually it felt like added sadness and stress, and I was still hoping against hope on OTD even though I totally know I was out and it was impossible.
So this is what I learned about myself. You may be very different, but here goes… Until you test, you are Schrödinger’s cat. You are alive and dead, pregnant or not pregnant. Sometimes it will feel like the hope is painful, sometimes you will
wonder whether looking back on the hope you had these two weeks will hurt later. You have gone so far for this chance.
But having that hope stripped away day by day hurts too, like slooowly peeling duct tape off your skin. And you will still keep that hard core of hope right up until the answer is ‘no’.
If you do get a BFP so early, you will spend all the days up to OTD obsessively testing and desperately trying to work out if the line is the same, or thinner or thicker or what. And that will also hurt terribly.
But if you don’t have that then you exist in a place which is not exactly peaceful, but is a limbo where anything could be possible. And whatever the answer is on OTD, you will be two weeks closer to moving on to your next step, not stuck in some terrible loop of testing and retesting and stressing.
But, as I said, that’s me. You do you.