TTC symptoms slowing

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Hi all,

Myself and my husband have been trying to conceive for 8+months now without success. I’m 32yo and have regular cycles, with all being 32-33 days in the last six months.

I'm currently 11dpo this cycle (ovulated day 16) and have been testing since 7dpo with negative results. I have however between 6-10dpo had lots of symptoms including mild to moderate cramping, which peaked around 8/9dpo - which I hoped signalled implantation. I was approximately 10 days out from my expected period when the cramps started and I never cramp that early. Also around that time, my boobs started to ache and hurt, getting fuller. I have had this before but again, not this early in the cycle and never this painful - this felt different.

Today though, I’m very disheartened that they aren’t as tender or as full and I still have negative easy@home hCG test. I’ve had a couple of mild cramps today but that’s also eased off. I’m a worrier and I wanted to know if anyone else had experienced this decrease in symptoms and ended up testing positive 12dpo+, or am I clutching at straws and should chalk everything up to PMS?

thanks in advance for any reply’s 💕

I know how tough it is OP, the conception boards are really helpful and also means you aren't surrounded by stories of pregnancy too as they're full of everyone on the TTC journey

With my first I was TTC for 12 months.. this time 11 months with one MC, all three times I've actually been pregnant I've had no symptoms and thought AF was coming. The months I've not been pregnant I've had ALLLLL the symptoms!

I know the wait is so hard but honestly the only real answer is a positive test :( are you tracking ovulation? I will never know if this actually made a difference but I'm now 13 weeks and this was the first cycle we tried the fertilily fertility cup, I got it from Amazon, we were also both taking procieve

Best of luck, you're not out until AF arrives so keeping my fingers crossed for you xx