Magical March 2016 TWW

[lildudesez]

Is that an OPK or HPT? What brand?

Yes I know it's not a positive opk because it's a pregnancy test!
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[maidentomother]

Farmgirl, natural CM is far superior to PreSeed or anything similar so if you have plenty of fertile CM I definitely wouldn't use anything. It could indeed lower your chances of conception and blue.

Honeybug, I'm sorry. Clomid stays in your system about 6w so it's worth not taking anything next cycle. You will still have an increased chance of multiples relative to a natural cycle or Femara, but not quite as high as the cycle actually on Clomid. Taking Femara this cycle wouldn't counteract your odds of multiples, that lingering effect of Clomid would remain unchanged. You'd just have stronger, possibly earlier O and possibly improved egg quality - plus higher odds of pink. So if you will have unlimited Femara for future cycles I'd definitely take it this cycle. If however your dr will only give you a few cycles worth, I'd wait until next cycle to take it, in order to get the most out of the meds. I hope that made sense.

Signing, I'm sorry about the hard time you've been having, both physically and emotionally. But I'm thrilled to see you back here TTC and I so hope you caught the egg.

I'm definitely out; the cats woke me before the crack of dawn, AGAIN, and so I temped earlier than usual but there is no denying my huge temp drop. I'm expecting AF to arrive within a couple hours, likely before my usual temping time. At least I got a few hours warning this month. I think I will do both Clomid and a couple days of low dose FSH (Gonal-F) injections in hopes of getting more eggs from my left, lazy ovary. Hopefully I can get my HSG booked for April before O, to determine if my right tube was damaged by my ectopic 4 years ago.


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[Pbn3]

Is that an OPK or HPT? What brand?

Maiden I'm assuming its a hpt as lildudesez posted previously she was in 2ww. I thought on first glance the same thing initially about it being an opk lol

Whoops! Didn't see there were more posts lol!!

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[Pbn3]

So I rang my doc's office again and they confirmed its the amh results doc wants to see me about. They obviously werent back when I originally rang for results. Good news is my doc is now going to be in tomorrow so I see her at 11.30 for what I can only assume is bad news.

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[maidentomother]

Huge congrats lildudesez! How many DPO were you when you got that line? This was your first cycle TTC, right?

Pbn3, fx the news isn't bad.

[Pbn3]

Maiden I'm so bummed to see that temp drop sounds like a great plan for next cycle

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[Pbn3]

Does anyone else feel the way I do? I sometimes feel like I'm punishing myself staying active in these forums, the people I started with are now starting to deliver their babies and yet here I am still ttc and I can't help but think I'm going to get bad news tomorrow which is only amplifying my sadness. I am genuinely happy for every bfp that is posted and recieved the same warmth and happiness when I finally got mine, then sympathy and shared sadness when I lost it. I love being a part of this forum, the support is absolutely amazing and like nothing I could get or ask for IRL. I also love supporting everyone old and new in theirs and am a little guilty of feeling especially happy when I see a bfp from someone who has struggled or endured a loss in their journey. I am also very very happy and somewhat envious I'll admit for those who fall pregnant in one or two cycles - but we all want our baby so badly and to see a bfp from anyone regardless of how long they've been ttc is a godsend and offers the hope that maybe it will be my turn next. I'm letting all this out as I don't know how I'm going to cope tomorrow if/when I'm told my eggs quantity/quality are shit - pardon the french please - and I have no idea where to go from there. I'm trying so hard to think the worst so I don't burst into tears before my doc even opens her mouth but I feel so alone right now poor dh is being wonderful and has even said 'we could maybe look at seeing a FS but we'd have to investigate costs/time factor etc' I feel bad because he's only doing this for me and I think he only said that because I'm so upset. Anyway sorry for the spill, again its what I said I love about this site so I don't think I could leave here even if I thought I wanted to lol

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[1moregirl]

Maiden - I'm sooo bummed for you as well. I really thought it was going to happen for you this cycle, but I hope it will be next cycle. Xx

Pbn3 - I hope your news tomorrow isn't too bad Hun. I have heard of women with low AMH readings still getting pregnant with sticky babies my dear so don't go giving up hope just yet. My own reading was only 6.5 and normal is around 14 I think (althgh 14 would be for more youthful ladies). Whereabts in Australia are you? I'm in Melbourne. Sometimes I feel guilty for wanting one last baby sooo badly, espeically when I had my Mum here yesterday telling me how I could easily have died during my last miscarriage. Comments like that make me feel as though I am being guilty and selfish for wanting one last one. Does that even make sense? Anyway, I'm fully prepared this time so that if I do lose this one as well I won't be trying again since I've already been blessed with 3 beautiful and healthy children. I even had cold feet prior to the attempt and nearly completely backed out of it altogether as sometimes the thought of being pregnant and worried about miscarrying scares the hell out of me.

Anyway, good luck to those of you still in the 2WW and to those of you for whom AF has arrived, I pray and hope that next month will be your lucky BFP one. Tomorrow I'll be 6DPO so will be interesting to see what BBT I will get. I'm trying to stay busy and forget about it but it's soooo hard not to get a bit excited about a BFP.

[maidentomother]

It's definitely hard. I hate that I'll be 35 in a week snd still have no kids, I'm worried bc I used to conceive so ridiculously easily/quickly but haven't had even a hint of a BFP in 4 years, so now something must really be wrong. I'm very jealous of those with children already, and other swayers who have had 1-2 children since I joined the site. But I can't stop looking at baby pics either, and I love hearing about everyone's kids. It is a strange paradox.

I wouldn't jump to assuming bad news yet, though I know how that's almost impossible. Your AMH could be fine or even great and your dr may just want to go over options with you now that another piece of the puzzle has fallen into place. Even if your AMH is low, that isn't necessarily dire. I've seen so very many ladies with low or even undetectable AMH, and often other issues like high FSH, conceive naturally. It does often take a while, but I feel I see more happy endings than not.

Pbn3, can you tell me more about your situation? How many kids, how old you were when you conceived them, how quickly you conceived them, how old you are now, how many cycles TTC while charting and sure that BD was timed well, any other health issues you or DH have? Have you had an HSG and has DH had a SA? Can you share your exact hormone tesr results? I don't know that I'll be able to offer anything useful, but maybe others will have insights if I don't.

You are not alone, that's for sure. There are msny of us who feel similarly. I've been depressed since my loss 4 years ago and my depression is only getting worse due to my continued failure TTC and my worsening chronic pain/spinal condition (which pregnancy would help more than any treatment, ironically). It's awful and unfair having a biological deadline on fertility. Men have NO clue how fortunate they are.

[Pinklady35]

Hi everyone hope you can help me out again ive had two failed ivf transfers the most recent in feb. Period arrived 2nd 3rd March so I decided to try natural sway. Not given myself much time tho. I bought a testing kit on thursday and started trying it out on Friday 9/10 days into my cycle said low fertility and I took my temp in am and it was 38.6, I missed sat but temp was 36.7 and Sunday am it was 36.8. When I tested sunday am I was 36.8 and highly fertile apparently :/ very confused as fridAy was nill. Got it on late last night on the hope that the time would be enough before I ovulate to get pink there not blue. My temp this morning was 36.9 so do you think I should leave it now and see what happens? Because it's the smiley faces one and I'm at most fertile I can't test again for 48 hours so until tomorrow very annoying! To add on to the stress I decided to have a practise run on Friday night with husband to get rid of the blue faster swimmers. Worried now incase I do get pregnant and it blue. Didn't think it would happen this month due to ivf drugs etc. can anyone shed light on this weird fertile mon fertile situation x