March 2ww

[LacePrincess]

maiden - yuck strep! I'm sorry you feel so poorly. I hope you can get lots of rest today. Does honey not help?

[djmommy]

Oh Maiden I am so sorry. Praying for you to get better quickly.

[sc1411]

Maiden, hope you will get better soon.

[XXforhubby]

Maiden- that stinks! I hope you get well soon. Monday can't come soon enough! Too bad there isn't a walk in clinic or an urgent care facility so you could get diagnosed and antibiotics.

If you do get out of bed, make a pot of tea and put it in a thermos, if you have one, and keep it by your bed. That way you won't have to keep getting up to get hot liquids. DH always does that when he gets Strep. Unfortunately for him, the boys and I are carriers so we only get mild sore throats at best or postnasal drips, but everyone else gets Strep. I've learned to take our temps when we have mild throat irritation- if we have a temp we will get others sick.

Hang in there honey!!!


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[TaytumJ]

So sorry to see you're sick, Maiden! I was just going to say, you may have strep, as I always spike a temp, throat is so sore and it comes on quickly. I hope you get to feeling better soon and you make it to a doctor!

Xx: I'm starting to think I need to try acupuncture to start relaxing or balancing hormones. So frustrated right now! [emoji17]

Lace: Your chart looks awesome! Loving the upward motion!

Temp hasn't done much the past few days. Still some on and off right ovary pain which makes me think that either I haven't O'd yet, or I have and I have low progesterone, hence low temps after dip. I don't know, but both scenarios make me want to cry right now. Just so frustrated since we began TTC in October with four months anovulatory, last month a chemical, and now this frustrating cycle. Just...ugh.

Okay, pity party over. Gotta keep moving on!


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[XXforhubby]

TaytumJ- hugs! I'm so sorry you have to go through this! As someone who has been struggling to conceive, cycle 9 now, I feel no one should have to go through this!

It can take a bit after a chemical for your body to conceive. I feel the body needs a cycle to recover in order to restore fertility. When we were trying for DS2, it took two cycles after a chemical to conceive.

There is still hope! I am [emoji120]for you and sending blue dust your way! [emoji8][emoji92][emoji843][emoji170][emoji843][emoji94]


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[TaytumJ]

Thanks, XX! Trying not to be so hard on myself, but since none of this has been "normal" since going off BC I just feel lost. Of course then, I seem to find a million things to google online about it and when I'm done I'm convinced I have PCOS, endometriosis, or something else. I need to just let go of it all and leave it to a higher being.

Update on pity party: this was my 12:30 OPK today.

Maybe in a few days? All hope isn't lost?


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[maidentomother]

Lace, I found some lemon honey drops (hard candy with real honey soft center) also the same type of drops but with elderberry juice/extract, and those have been helping. I even regained my voice! I know menthol drops would be even better but I hate the flavour and there's only one brand here I tolerate, but I don't know where to buy it. Plus so much is closed on the weekends here, basically everything.

XX, there are NO walk in or urgent care facilities open on the weekend here. Maybe in Berlin or Munich? But not near me, I've looked and asked extensively. Just the emergency room but they won't deal with non life threatening cases. It is super annoying. So much being closed on the weekends, especially Sundays (which are like Christmas in the US, only gas stations and restaurants open), as well as the really limited Dr's hours (only open until noon on Wed and Fri) drive me nuts. Also even in big cities, most restaurants/kitchens close very early, like 9pm. It is by far the thing I hate most about living here. And I'm extra spoiled bc of my time living in Manhattan.

I have a tiny thermos and a tiny teapot that each hold like 1.5 cups of liquid, so not worth it. It's also very difficult to find glasses/mugs that aren't tiny, same with teapots and thermos. And cereal spoons don't exist here. They only have ginormous soup spoons and tiny sugar spoobs, nothing in between. Also the pillows and sheet sizes here are terrible. The former are too big (80x80cm) and the latter too small (they're actually duvet covers, true sheets being almost impossible to find, and they are much too wide and too short (on a 100x200cm mattress, the duvet cover is 135×170cm or something like that)). IDIOT GERMAN SIZING!

Taytum, I am 100% positive you haven't Oed yet. But that OPK looks promising, is it your darkest so far?

I have been even sicker today. My neck is super tense, swollen and achey. For most of the day I had one of the worst headaches ever. My whole forehead felt like it was being hammered and across my cheekbones was very tender due to sinus pressure, and I had migraine pressure behind both eyes. Yesterday I had a headache too (since I woke up sick/feverish I've had a permaheadache, it just varies in severity) and I took 400mg ibuprofen accidentally (DF brought it to me instead of aspirin) and I think that's why I was feeling better last evening. I forced down liquids and upped my opiates and that seemed to help, though it took a few hours. I even managed to eat a little, not happily.

I hope it's strep so that antibiotics will fix it! I can't imagine feeling like this for much longer. The exposure/manifestation time line for strep matches up with when I last went out. Thank you all SO much for the well wishes and listening to me vent! I don't get sick very often but when I do I usually get VERY sick.

[smarston3]

Oh Maiden, i'm so sorry you're so sick. wish there was something we could do..but, we can keep you company while you are laying in bed .

so, i've been using Wondfo OPK's with the green handles..haven't ever seen a + in two months. i'm concerned that maybe i have knock offs and they don't work. can anybody suggest another brand? going into RE tomorrow for BW/scan. today is day 12. took clomid 3-7. so, i was expecting to see an almost + today. any thoughts?

[sageviolet]

Sounds good, sc1411, hope you caught a blue one! I'm also swaying blue and o'ed about when you did with that lovely full moon. When are you planning to test?

Maiden, sorry to hear your sick. At least it sways girl, right? Get well soon! That's very interesting about the different sizes they have there for common items.

Lace, do your boys do dance or do you? I've got my dd started on classes, although we haven't been there for awhile due to snow.

djmommy and Taytum, I'm also doing acupuncture and recommend it!

Something different this cycle for the 2ww, my chest hasn't been as sore but my thighs are. It's like the skin is sensitive. I had this in puberty and I think around when ppaf started, so I know it's related to off balance hormones. Hopefully they're flowing better since the acupuncture and will go the right way soon. "The Infertility Cure" book says it takes at least 3 months. How long have you been getting acupuncture, XX?

Another oddity: My temp was exactly to the hundredths the same yesterday and today despite the time change.