The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Conceive when its just not happening (12m+)

Primmer

Part Mouse - good luck with your scan today

TCD - hope your appointment goes well and you feel better afterwards when you know what the plan of action is.

TeamLowe

Good luck with your scan Part Mouse
TCD I hope this evening gives you hope x

Birdie85

Hello ladies! :wave: I didn't get online last week so have just caught up Posted on the other thread but I'm so freaking giddy for BZ!

Nice to hear you and your DH are giving things another go QQ.

Hope the scan goes well Part Mouse.

Will be thinking of you this afternoon TCD, hope you don't go too mad waiting for 5pm to roll round (I know that after a week off work I can't wait for 5pm to come so I can go home again! )

lucyloo77

Really hope your scan goes well partmouse.

I'm busy waiting for AF to arrive. Could be today or certainly any day now. Then I can phone the clinic, have my baseline scan and start my Gonal F. Why is it that AF is stubbornly not showing up on the one time I want it to hurry up and start???! Just really want to crack on now.

Part_Mouse

cd 13 and scan shows only a thickend womb lining. Got till fri to grow a dominant folicle but not looking good.

time2deal

PM - apologies for more questions, but is this part of an IVF/IUI cycle?

Sounds very stressful. Hopefully something will appear by Friday. When they gave me the orvitelle as part of IVF 36 hours before EC it massively boosted the follicles that were there, so they can force them to grow. Fingers crossed.

time2deal

BZ - how are you feeling today? Any symptoms or different feeling?

From memory I think, like me, this is your first BFP - does it feel like you thought it would? I'm preparing myself for IVF in August/Sept, so just trying to imagine how it may feel!

Part_Mouse

T2d no IVF or iui ATM for me. I don't ov at all on my own. And after 5 years of no contraception it gets harder to see a bfp. Really hoped things were going to move on this month.

Sorry for the moan.

Xx

bigzippy

time2deal wrote: »

BZ - how are you feeling today? Any symptoms or different feeling?

From memory I think, like me, this is your first BFP - does it feel like you thought it would? I'm preparing myself for IVF in August/Sept, so just trying to imagine how it may feel!

Yep first ever BFP! :shocked::j:shocked:

List of SS:
*My hair didn't go really greasy like it does towards the end of LP
*My joints have been looser lately (usually are towards the end of LP but not this bad normally - over the weekend alone my hip went twice, knee once, and wrists and ankles dodgy)
*My boobs are swollen, sore and lumpy (but not necessarily more so than I've ever had without a BFP, but for longer)
*DH thinks my skin feels different
*I think my pee smells different (:o) but that could be the Pregnacare I'm now on
*I feel nauseous increasingly often (but I do get nauseous with high levels of progesterone)
*want to eat every 2ish hours, but never sure what, and only really fancying small amounts of savoury foods and gone off chocolate! :shocked:
*I have muscle strain type pains on the insides of my hips, in a V type shape, with craps that make my worry I'm gonna start spotting
*increased blood flow to that area making me a little more frisky
*I feel a bit more run down and hot and cold
*very thirsty for water, but need a pee v frequently
*struggling to sleep properly (waking up for noises I normally wouldn't notice) but absolutely knackered

I think when you're ttc you're focusing so much on getting to the next stage: ov/af/the illusive BFP. I was in shock about getting the BFP, especially as you try to quieten Hope with reasons as to why it won't happen. Those reasons are coming back to make me doubt the viability of this BFP. At the moment I'm fluctuating between giddy/excited/scared of it going wrong/being a dream/ectopic/chemical mc etc.

I'm paranoid about ectopics (even though I think there would probably be signs of that around now) because of my dodgy tubes. I/we both want to check that everything is where it should be and preferably see the heartbeat before we tell family - which I think we'll be forced to do by the end of the month because they'll be bound to ask about the outcome of the appointment on the 27th that they know I have with the FS (I've decided to keep this appt as she's also my gynae and I want to ask her about continuing Metformin and what to do about my endometriosis post-birth (presuming I get that far)). I don't want to lie or mislead anyone, so I'm hoping we'll feel confident enough to tell them about the pg by then (I still can't actually say the P word!).

We're hoping to get the GP to refer us for a viability scan when we see him on Thursday. If no joy with him then I'll contact the FS specialist and ask them. If they don't want to do it then I think we'll pay privately around 6-7weeks for reassurance of the heartbeat and location of implantation.

Right now I'm focusing on enjoying it for however long it lasts (at least now we know that it is possible naturally, I really really thought it wasn't for the last almost year). The first milestone I feel like I'll get comfort from reaching is 6wks. I think I'm more scared of a chemical pg than I am early MC

I feel like if we talk about it too loudly or directly, we'll scare it away I also feel like we've got LOADS to do to prepare and not enough time to do it all and want to crack on with it, but I also want to be sensible, rest up, and not take things too quickly. Catch 22

Did I answer your question(s)? Or just ramble on with myself?

P.s. I don't want to go on the 12wk thread cos I don't think focusing on it all the time, especially with the fears etc that usually bring people to post (rightly so, not knocking it), will help me. I will answer anything directly asked on here, but I don't want to keep posting spontaneously and/or risk upsetting anyone

P.p.s. Does anyone know if they'll remove a tooth while I'm pg? I should've had it out before, but I was putting it off and now I can't have the good painkillers

bigzippy

Part_Mouse wrote: »

cd 13 and scan shows only a thickend womb lining. Got till fri to grow a dominant folicle but not looking good.

Hope things turn around fast :cool: