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could this be it? I just want to know!

hi all!

I've been stalking this site for a couple weeks but this is my first post, so I'll give a quick overview of my ttc experience so far. DH and I have been trying for a little over 3.5 years. I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue and an estrogen dominance, after a year of weekly doctors visits and special diets and handfuls of supplements every day we were burnt out, so we decided to take a break last November and December so we could come back and give it our all in January. unfortunately before I O'd in January we got in a pretty serious car accident, and almost 7 months later here I am finally freaking out over POAS!

I'm on my second month of using progesterone cream to assist in correcting my estrogen dominance, last month i was just thrilled to have reduced so much bloating and swelling that I could wear my old jeans, this month though, I got wiped out with pregnancy symptoms! I believe I ovulated on or around my birthday (7/26), we weren't really even trying this month as we had decided to give the progesterone a few months to get everything in order, but of course we had to BD a few times for my birthday :-) about a week later I was so fatigued I was sleeping for 12 hours, and ready to go back to bed 20 minutes after I woke up. I got nauseous, dizzy, gassy, the symptoms just started piling up and I just kept ignoring them. then suddenly my breasts hurt like crazy! this is not a normal AF symptom for me, so it really got my attention. suddenly I have aversions to some foods and cravings for other foods ( mostly craving fruits and veggies....and jalepenos for some weird reason, lol)

the weirdest symptom I have, is that when I'm not crying over some TV show or commercial, I'm so content and just calm....normally I'm a very anxious person especially about TTC but I just feel so...calm.

unfortunately, I haven't gotten my bfp yet. according to my fertility friend chart AF should have shown up today, or will be here tomorrow. I've been testing on the cheapy little tests I got off eBay, but half the time the control line doesn't show up right so I'm seriously doubting their BFN's. I have a test stick that's been sitting in a drawer for about a year but I'm just not ready to take it yet. if it's a BFN I won't want to go buy more of the expensive tests.

anyhoo, apparently I just wanted to vent to someone other than my poor DH he has been so wonderful and supportive, I'm just so strangely confident deep down that this is finally it, I don't want to subject myself to the repeated bfn's while I wait for either AF to rear her ugly head and knock me out, or my HCG to be high enough to show. my whole family has a history of not being able to get a positive urine test until about 12weeks, my aunt needed blood tests to confirm all 4 of her pregnancies...

I dunno, I'm just so....dazed by the chance this might be real..and the hope that I feel for the first time in so long....

what do you ladies think, am I just crazy? lol

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It sounds like you are pregnant. Good luck and keep us posted.

10 years ago


Thanks conleykr2!

I'm a bit more nervous today as when i woke up to potty at 3am I saw the softest hint of pink in my CM, and ended up laying in bed for an hour praying that it wasn't AF.

When i woke up this morning...nada. CM was totally white, about mid day though hints of brown were in it again (but still only showing up when i check the position of my cervix...which is still really high and different from when AF usually shows) So i'm hoping it's just because i keep poking at my cervix and maybe i'm upsetting it. Because the coloration lightens and disappears if i leave it alone for a few hours.

1-2 days late now (aside from todays weirdness) and AF is usually early and with a vengance...so definitely a weird month either way.

Did anyone else have spotting/discoloration the month you got your BFP?

10 years ago • Post starter


Hi there! Your symptoms do sound really promising. However, if you are doing progesterone supplementation then that will give you lots of pregnancy-type symptoms too. It can also lengthen your luteal phase if you had a short one.

Regarding the brown cm/spotting that is always my sign that AF is on its way. I ALWAYS spot for a few days before AF. And the one time I was pregnant (miscarriage 10weeks) I had absolutely no spotting until weeks later when there started to be issues. However, poking around at your cervix in early pregnancy can definitely cause spotting so I would wait and see if any comes out on toilet tissue or your underwear.

Good luck!!!

10 years ago


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