Official Trying to Conceive - Thread 11

jazz25_2

It's hard not symptom spotting I'm doing it loads this month. I'm 4 days late done a hpt last we'd and was negative. Feeling odd so everything I'm feeling I'm go googling. This forum is great I feel I'm not alone and not mad lol

a_fresh_start

Hi please can I be updated to cd1 please.

For an entire week, I felt like i had early pregnancy symptoms, and i googled like crazy, but over the past few days (and obviously when AF started with a vengeance today!) I have come to the realisation that all the symptoms were real,but it was just my body getting used to being off the pill and making its own hormones (and not pregnancy hormones!).

This month was my first try, and I have learned many things, I no w had a 26day cycle, so only 1 day longer than my first cycle off the pill. And am pleased to count back exactly 14 days from that horrible ovulation pain on cd12 that I had speculated about. But mostly I learned that I do my head in speculating, and am going to track things properly this cycle!!!

blueneleh

jazz25 wrote: »

It's hard not symptom spotting I'm doing it loads this month. I'm 4 days late done a hpt last we'd and was negative. Feeling odd so everything I'm feeling I'm go googling. This forum is great I feel I'm not alone and not mad lol

Wow 4 days late and you haven't done a hpt since the weekend?? You have nerves of steel
I think I'd have done one every day since missed AF!!
Sounds promising

cherrylips30

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
At least I know i'm not alone - the silly thing is, because my APP said i'd ovulated on Sunday, even though I've not had that indication from the OPKS! Coupled with the fact we DTD on Sunday, because I have felt so crappy for the last 3 days now, I think I'm super aware of what my body's doing. I've not been on any contraception since 2009, and have just been careful, which has given me the irrational belief that I'm infertile!
Why do our minds go into such overdrive?!?!?

I'm not expecting to be so lucky in the first month of trying, especially given everything else that I perceive to be a problem.. so if AF arrives in 2 weeks, yes I'll be horrendously disappointed, but it's still only cycle one. My GP did advise to only give it 6 months and that'll fly by... I'm a big believer in everything happening for a reason, we rarely know what the reason is at the time, but eventually I believe we do.

I'm glad that there are so many of us at the start of our journey and sad that there are still people here who so desperately deserve to move to the next step - I'm sure we'll all get there one day xx

I've seen the heartbreak of 6 years waiting to catch naturally, followed by a successful IVF birth, following 4 failed attempts, followed by the adoption of a 6 month old to complete a family - sometimes, if it's meant to be, life will find a way. If one couple can go through all that -and more - i'll happily wait my turn.

Keep trying ladies, baby dust to each & every one of you xx

slowlyfading

Thanks for the commiserations ladies - at least you understand!

Bobley

I'm also shamelessly ss! I'm 5dpo and thinking everything is a 'sign' doesn't help I've had a cold so my body is not feeling great anyway, God it's only our first cycle ttc, I can see myself getting very obsessed if this doesn't happen soon!

Congratulations weesmiler, stay positive this is fab news.

cherrylips30

Not wishing to incite a riot - maybe we should change the name to symptom spotters anonymous :-)

WizzyPop

Still, no sign of AF here, tested on Monday and got a BFN not sure if its pill withdrawal or too early to show on a test, vouched to other half if still no AF on the 15th will test again.

Ive been stressed by lots of things recently so not sure if this is also affecting things. hugs and baby dust to all those sympton spotting and tucking into alcohol and chocolate.

jazz25_2

blueneleh wrote: »

Wow 4 days late and you haven't done a hpt since the weekend?? You have nerves of steel
I think I'd have done one every day since missed AF!!
Sounds promising

If I had some I would plus start work at half 5 in morn and want to do the fmu so aiming for sat plus part of me is like well until after comes or I do a test there's hope. I don't want to see again a bfn

Cath_Ster

When was your AF due WizzyPop? Fingers crossed it's just been too early!

Fingers crossed for you jazz. You are definitely disciplined!! I've failed and done my second hpt already - oops! AF was only due today so don't know why I wasted the money!

How long I can hold out til I do the second one I bought today I don't know haha

Cherrylips I was awful at symptom spotting the first month but I have calmed down since then! I still do it but not as obsessively as I did to begin with.

Sorry for CD1 a fresh start