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AF came yesterday morning

I am making an appointment to see my Doctor and hopefully get her to run some tests or refer me to a specialist. In the meantime I am going to change some things this cycle. I will begin temping, taking my vitamins everyday(i forget), drink more water( i hate it)work out more,making more qualtiy time and date nights for hubby and I. And of course alot more.

Good Luck to everyone testing soon. Stay positive and I keep all of you in my prayers.

Hello gals

Took some time off and got my head together. The big thing now is to try again. To eat better, exercise and sleep more. Thanks for your thoughts. It's nice feeling supported in this way by you all. I realised I have become more attentive to my son who is 4 in a few days. He's so excited because soon he will be almost 5. Kids say such cute things.

Does anyone watch scishow on YouTube? There reproduction series made me lol as in actually out loud. Lifted my spirits at a low time.

Typing on my phone so it's hard to flick back to previols comments but I have just caught up on the news. Sorry to hear you weren't happy on your holiday hopefully a mommy. I hope you can talk your man round to see your point
Of view. Who knows. You may have caught the boat this cycle. Twwtoo long any news on the tests outcome. Knowing what's going on at least gives you a direction to focus on. Knowle is power as they say. Let's hope for the best.

Lalou3tt3 to how can you tell if you don't ovulate that month. Is it via temping or opks? Sorry to hear that it may not have occurred for you this month. There are so many factors to consider with ttc . Sometimes I wonder how often I needed that condom in the first place.

To all those who had af show up Good luck for this month. So is anyone testing right now.

KressLove-Well AF is actually due on the 28th of November. I mean maybe it could be it, but I'm to the point where I'm not getting my hopes up at all. I took an opk just because last night and it was a super positive test, but of course DH wasn't around so I don't know I'm not counting on it. How are things with you?

twwtoolong-Let's think about the positive aspect of you going for these tests. You'll be able to finally what is going on and the steps that you need to take in order to move forward. Who knows, this could lead you to you getting you bfp. I'm glad that your DH is going to go with you and get himself checked out as well. I hope you aren't letting it consume and bother you because this is definitely something positive. I've definitely talked about my concerns to him, but I'm starting to feel and sound like a broken record.

Sophe28-How are things coming?

myfamily1st-I'm sorry to hear that AF showed. Hopefully you changing some things will definitely lead you to your positive.

Lucidity-I'm glad to see that you are doing ok, I know your not 100%, but I'm glad to see your doing ok. How are you feeling? Honestly I'm tired of talking to my DH and I think I'm just to the point where I don't want to talk about it anymore. I'm just going to focus on other things that I have going on in my life and go on from there. I think I'm just going to take it easy on the ttc part.

Lalou3tt3-How are things coming hun?

An update on me.

It's been so busy at work so I haven't really had a chance to come too much. However, I think I might take a break from the ttc because I feel like I'm the only one that wants this really bad. DH tells me that this is what he wants but I'm sorry actions speak totally louder than words and his actions is telling me other wise. I stopped using my opks and for some reason decided to take one last night and low and behold the test line was wayyyyyy darker than the ccontrol line. We did BD the other night, but like I said I'm not getting my hopes up on anything positive this month either. It's too much to see that negative line or it hurts way to much when AF comes. I'm not symptom checking anymore especially with any kind of cm because it never helped me before. I don't know having this mentality towards it will hopefully help from breaking me apart.

Hi All -
It's been a really busy week for me at work, which was good as it kept me disctracted before having to go in for the blood test part of my check up this morning.

@Lucidity - I was so happy to see your reply, I can not imagine how you are dealing with everything, but I glad to see you are really being positive about things moving forward.

@Sophe28 - thank you for the encouragement! It's true that knowledge is power, so here goes!!

@HopefullyAMommy - I think sometimes we just need a break mentally from the worry and the wonder of tcc. It can be so stressful on couples and I think we bare the brunt of that stress quite often. Maybe being a little more relaxed about it will just be when it happens. Otherwise, maybe a month off over the holidays and just take sometime for yourself and relax! That's going to be our plan if anything comes back, to just wait until the new year before seeing speacialists.

I don't have much to update other than I had my blood drawn this morning and have to go in for an ultrasound on Monday evening. It'll take a couple of weeks to get back the blood results. So we'll see what they have to say from there. I have a close friend who has really struggled with infertility, it's been 4 years of ttc, hormone injections, IVF, flying to different countries to see specialists then surgery and another surgery and she started with unexplained infertility for both her and her husband. So I have a good picture of what this road might look like and it's not always very simple. I actually am having dinner with her tonight, so hopefully she can provide some encouragement, if not insight as well.

The Dr. said we can keep trying while they are doing this battery of tests, so I should ovulate around Sunday/Monday. I am not using opk's this month, just thought I'd BBT for the sake of having that for the fertility specialist if they asked for it. We Bd'd the past two nights, so hopefully we can keep it up over the weekend. We have our party tomorrow night, which I am kinda excited about, but part of me wants to just be low key and rest! I'm sure it'll be fun once the house is cleaned and I've gotten all the cooking done tomorrow morning! lol

I'll keep you all posted as I get results!

Good luck ladies!

twwtoolong-I'm here positive for you and I hope they can at least give you a reason as to what exactly is going on. I hope you wouldn't have to go through that because I know this process is very rough and frustrating as it is. I have my fingers here crossed for you that you can hopefully catch your eggy this time around so you wouldn't have to be bothered with all these Dr appts. I'm wishing you luck girl.

That's exactly what I'm going to do though. I think just by taking a giant step back and focusing on other things I can finally make some kind of peace with my mind because sometimes I feel like I'm going to pull my hair out. I think I actually came to terms with myself this week and for some strange reason it wasn't that hard to do which actually surprised myself.

I do hope that everything works out for you though. I hope you have a great time at your party because I know you definitely need it. It will definitely keep your mind busy and off what is really bothering you. I've been enjoying glasses of wine lately and actually not focusing on the ttc part.

Have fun at the party and Good Luck!

twwtoolong - How are you? How was your party?

@HopefullyAMommy - Thank you for the words of encouragement. I have my ultrasound tomorrow, I am not sure if they will give me feedback right away, or if I will have to wait for the results. So maybe I'll have an update tomorrow night, but I am also prepared to have to wait.

I think it's sometimes a really good thing to just let it go and refocus for a little while. DH and I had a good talk before we really started trying just to make sure that we were on the same page and if the other needed to take a step back than that's ok, but it needs to be communicated. I also told him to give me a reality check if I was getting too focused on it! Take some time enjoy your wine, each other and the holidays!

@my1stfamily - Good Morning! The party was actually awesome- thank you for asking! We had a great time - i think in total we had about 32 or so people here at the peak! Everyone had a great time, including myself and DH - now for the dishes, I think there may be 3 dishwasher loads necessary in total!

Well ladies, from my temps it looks like I may have ovulated yesterday- hard to say, I usually temp at 4:45 am and I wasn't in bed until 3:45 am lastnight, so didn't temp until 7:10 this morning and it was up almost a full degree from yesterday. Fertility friend actually predicted that I ovulated Friday (had a small shift in temps on Thursday, but the one on countdowntopregnancy hasn't decided on a day yet. Either way, that is super early (cd 11 for fertilityfriend prediction) for me compared to previous months (cd 15). We weren't as diligent with our BDing this time around - given the party and a super busy week, we only got 2 times in on Wednesday and Thursday. So kinda in the the tww but am really not going to focus on symptoms or any of that stuff this time around. Given all the other things going on, I kinda figured this cycle might be a write off anyways.

Hope everyone has had a great weekend! Good luck to all the other two week waiters out there! Keep us posted on how you are doing!

@my1stfamily - I meant to ask in my last post whether you have decided to go see your doctor as well. It was a really weird step for me because it was really the first time I had to officially admit we were having trouble trying to concieve. I do think it'll be worth it - and hopefully we'll figure out what's happening! It's a tough step, but I am already glad that I am doing it! Hang in there!

twwtoolong- Hey there! Im glad you had a great time and a great way to take your mind off TTC. Yes, I have definitely decided to talk to my Primary Care Doctor and Endocronologist about my concerns. I had a total thyrodectomy 6 years ago. But apparently that didnt stop me form conceiving as I have a 6 year old and 2 year old. So Im thinking positve. My Endo doc has given me hormone tests and other blood work that deals with the reproducitve system about 2 months ago and all was well. But he is not a fertility doc so I just want to make sure we're not missing something. I see you and I are close in our cycle days. Today is CD8 for me. Good Luck to you hun