I can’t be bothered to post my chart on there for people to just comment “omg keep testing”. I should update my mood on the app to angry though…. /vent.
might still be too early but I don’t think it’s a goer this month sadly but we live in hope
Yes, it’s like a constant battle. Hopefully you will get back to shorter cycles, I just try to tell myself that we never really know what’s going on inside our bodies, random things like seasons changing or diet can affect cycles…It's so hard isn't it. Sometimes feels like our bodies are against us regardless of what we are trying to achieve. I bought some opks the other day so hoping to start them to see wtf is going on and to make sure I actually ovulate. This group is so helpful and I am at the start of my TTC journey so can't complain too much. I am just feeling sorry for myself today and need to move on
Thought I’d pop on here as I’ve been struggling with painful and heavy periods for 11 years now and after a lot of fighting to be heard I’ve received two upsetting diagnosis’. They believe I have adenomyosis and PCOS without the ovarian cysts. I was told today that my testosterone and prolactin levels are unusually heightened. I’m 22 and have been in a long term relationship for over 5 years now and we plan on TTC in a year or so. Ever since been told I have these conditions I feel as though my world is crumbling. All I’ve ever wanted is to have a family and I feel like the odds are against me. Scans show that my ovaries are in good health (supposedly?) but my uterus wall is inflamed/thickened/irregular in size and shape. Alongside the messed up PCOS hormones I worry that I won’t conceive. I know it’s early and nothing is certain but I’m devastated. The doctors seem to give me false hope and ignore the fact that I’m battling two conditions. Anyone I speak to just says there’s other options out there for when we start trying (I assume they’re referring to ivf which isn’t too helpful for those with adenomyosis affecting the uterus) which doesn’t make me feel any better - why is this happening to me?!
My partner is supportive but he just tells me not to stress and we’ll work things out. But what if we can’t?! Any words of advice would be much appreciated as I know you must all relate to these feelings in some way
10dpo I got a very faint positive and then a strong positive at 11po
Husband is back from London tonight so should be good to BD this week as much as necessary. I’m considering not tracking LH after ovulation - thoughts?
I was really down last month. I wonder whether it’s going to happen naturally or if for some reason it won’t and we’re just wasting time?? I did enquire with a fertility clinic and had a callback from them but I need to speak to my husband before we go ahead with anything as we’d be paying ourselves. I am not a patient person at the best of times and this is really hard for me!I’m conscious that we are edging closer to the point we said we would go for IVFI don’t even know what cycle I’m on now but it’s about 7 or 8, 3 DPO today and I feel like I’m gonna need another month off if this isn’t it. It wears me down so much.
I didn’t want to say just incase yours was actually a BFP I didn’t want to worry you but I’ve had that little faint line at the bottom before and got AF the same dayDo you use opks or track bbt?
Update to my last post: I took another test this morning and BFN!!!! Can't believe that faint line played tricks on me! Gutted
I’m so sorry to hear of your loss
Oh I know! I had listened to the podcast that I posted at the start of the thread before I read it fully though and she did say that it’s a lot so I skimmed over bits (especially all the research blah blah) and focused mainly only the bits where it tells you what to do depending on where you are with TTC. I did switch all my cleaning products and laundry stuff to plant based but i think it made same of my clothes bobbly so I’m back on Persil and FairyI take the Proceive 400mcg as well, my GP advised that because I'm a little overweight (not loads just over the threshold) I may have to double it (aka 800mcg) but I am on ahealth kick
I read it starts with an egg ages ago but it was too much for me, it started talking about the ink on receipts being a cause of infertility or something and I started overthinking and not touching them and it was driving me nuts!!
Welcome loveHi guys!
Long time lurker here! Finally thought I would join as we are in the early days of our TTC journey. It’s only the 2nd cycle really, 1st cycle we could have tried harder (we had a lot on that month)
I am using the easy@home OPK’s so have a couple of questions…
1. Do you stop testing once you’ve had your peak?
2. When is the best time to DTD? On the peak day itself or after? or is it best to just regularly do it 2/3 days throughout the cycle?
I am currently only around 4/5dpo, had my high/peak 15/16th of June but feel terrible! I must have picked up some sort of bug which is not helping my symptom spotting. I have on and off stomach cramps and twinges as well as on and off bouts of nausea and headaches! The timing couldn’t be worse!
anyway looking forward to the advice and going through this crazy journey hopefully resulting in BFP! We are newly married and has to postpone our wedding throughout covid therefore feeling like we couldn’t try for a family so now we are more than ready
