Hi everyone,
I am going a little bit crazy and I wonder if anyone can shed some light as I have been using this forum and reading others having queries answered!
DH and I have been TTC for a short time, but have not been using contraception for 7 years with no pregnancy. I am 37 yo and he is 38. We were not not using contraception with intention of pregnancy, more just because I wanted off hormonal contraception and we decided to leave it up to fate. We did have fertility testing in 2022 as it had been quite a few years with no pregnancy at that point although not directly TTC and they identified my egg count was slightly low for my age range but queried if my eggs were low quality given the lack of pregnancy.
We only started really TTC middle of last year. Once late last year I had a faint line on two tests ahead of AF, but then AF arrived and I assumed it was a chemical pregnancy. Otherwise there has been no indication of anything.
We decided to revisit fertility testing given it has been a few years and also given our age, as we are considering adopting also as we just suspected that conceiving wasn’t something we would be able to do.
Yesterday I attended for a scan for our fertility testing journey 1 day post period ending, and was told by the consultant that I had unusually thick lining in the uterus for my period to have finished and also that I had what appeared to be a small sac in the uterus (This would be 4 weeks 2 days if pregnant this month). The strange thing is, that due to circumstance I wasn’t able to TTC this month and so didn’t test ovulation. So timing wise I would have had to ovulate 6 days late which is very out of the ordinary for me as I generally ovulate around the same time each month. So when she said that I was very alarmed! Now my periods are always very light and this month was no different, except I didn’t get sore breasts or the agonising cramps I normally do. It just sortve arrived unannounced and I did have a little cramping but it was minimal. It arrived on time and lasted around 1 day.
The consultant advised that perhaps my period was not over and so that would explain the lining, but I have had no further bleeding. I did spot minimally late last night and today occasionally there is a pinkish colour but tiny spots and only happened twice which I don’t feel is enough to have thinned the lining. She also recommended I take a test, which I did yesterday and today. On 2/3 tests I can see what I think could be a line, but it doesn’t get picked up in photos and it is only visible in certain lighting - so now I’m wondering if I am hallucinating it!
If that was a period I would now be 3 days into a new cycle so suspect I would show on a test at this point, but I can’t get the image of that little sac out of my head! Did anyone else test positive later than this?
Consultant has advised to retest in 48 hours and then again in one week and if I think I can still see a faint line they will do bloods. But it just seems like wishful thinking to have only a faint, almost imaginary line at this point. Any advice?