Short luteal phase

Round ligament pain for me felt like someone stabbing me with a hot knife in both sides to the right almost where my ovaries were but down closer to the middle. So in between the middle and top of my hip bones. I had it horribly and early on both times. It was excruciating to laugh or cough when having the pain, like my sides splitting.

I did also have dull cramping in early pregnancy and a girlfriend that is pregnant now said she was sure af was coming and she would miscarry because she had exactly af like cramps the whole first 12 weeks but she is now 30 weeks and going fine. So cramps are normal hon, I'm positive you will be fine!!

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8 weeks today and I had my follow up scan. Everything looks great and I've not had any spotting in weeks now, lets hope there isn't any more!

tree sorry havn't had tiome to read all answers but i thought i was ovulating from ff and very weak positive opks but i did blood tests with dr and some months i was ovulating some not - may combop b/f and LE diet too much for you to o normally for me i think it was le and stress ;-0

once i took clomid i got a 'proper' positve opk and was like ah i havn't seen one of those for a while - i kept assuming i'd missed the high point for a dark test if you see what i mean i think on refelction i wasn't o-ing. i was taking vitex and saw plamento which didn't help for me but i know vitex has helped others

good luck x

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8 weeks today and I had my follow up scan. Everything looks great and I've not had any spotting in weeks now, lets hope there isn't any more!

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Well done, so glad to hear it! The scans feel like forever apart when you are worried don't they?! Xx

This is somewhat off-topic, Meeks, but I remembered something you said about your chemicals not registering on FRERs. I may be experiencing the same strange poas phenomenon with Internet cheapies vs. the FRERs and I'm trying to figure out what's causing it. Before a month ago, every IC bfn was a solid white bfn. But this cycle, I tested with ICs in the middle of the cycle (to make sure the chemical was gone) and they showed a faint but visible shadow. My blood HGC was <2 at that point -- well below the level of even the most sensitive test. Now, at both 7 and 8dpo, I tested and got the same shadow, but the frer was a blank white bfn. I used First Response, supposedly the most sensitive test available, so I doubt the IC is simply showing a true bfp really, really early.

I wonder if ICs are picking up another hormone other than HGC? A hormone that lasts even beyond the time HGC returns to normal after a chemical pg... Is this consistent with your experiences too?

For me, the ic's have only shown positive at 8-10 dpo, and my temps confirmed those were in fact months I had been pg then had a chemical. Frer has only showed pos for 2 of my 5 chemicals, and only faint even then. I found out frer are 25miu where the ic's I buy are 10. My lines weren't shadows though (some ic batches are horrid for colourless shadows and some are great) my ic's tended to show colour lines, within the time frame, unless I forgot and left them somewhere and went back, which did happen on occasion. When I tested after af once or twice to check af was in fact af, rather than just breakthrough bleeding, the ic's were stark white again. So I don't know, maybe you had a bad batch? When I look back at my positive ic's for my chemicals I can still see colour in the lines, and the lines are solid, not faint on one side and darker on the other like an evap...