morning ladies, hope you all managed a sleep in like me today...
mich - i usually ovulate around day 16-18, although the past 2 cycles have been dodgy so not sure what to expect this month. maybe i can get the FS to give me a quick scan on tues when i see her, see whats going on in there!
saffy - do you choose to go to blasties with your remaining embryos, or does the clinic prefer to freeze day 5? just wondering bc the clinic i am with prefer day 2 transfers, and froze the rest at day 2 as well. i wondered why they didnt try for blasties though as i had a few to play with. i guess its the whole 2 day vs 5 day debate. they do blasties if you ask, but i know that day 2 works for me anyway. hope you are keeping yourself occupied during the tww.
hi to everyone else, hope you have a great weekend.
Andie - No sleep in for me today - up early jogging - yay health kick!!
Minnie - C'mon AF! You must be so eager to start jabbing. I know i'll be the same at the end of this cycle
Saffy - your 2ww sounds intense Greedy spermies! It sounds like the lab is doing a science project with your egg, curious to see what the little mutant one does. Superpowers maybe? Have a great time at your high tea, sounds delightful and yummy!
Sunbeam - yes, DP's enthusiasm for jabbing me with needles is a little concerning I'm trying to rationalise reasons for the enthusiasm (other than sadism!!), like he's excited to be part of it all or he just likes winding me up - probably the latter!
no sleep in for me ! im impressed you were up early exercising mich !
saffy: very interesting with your embie ! i hope you are feeling ok, will you do a hpt or wait until your blood test ?
joeve: good luck with your juicing ! hope it is yum :-)
afm: well af arrived this morning, gosh it takes so long for me to wean off the progesterone ! i then went into a bit of a panic when i realised i can't see my clinic until mon and i would be day 3 then and i thought maybe they won't be happy with that as they usually start day 2, anyway sunbeam talked me down off the ledge (lol) and reassured me it would all be fine and there would be plenty of other things for me to panic about throughout this cycle (that's comforting haha)
Sunbeam - good work on the 2kg (of not poop or water ) Your body will be loving you for all those fruit and vegies!
Joeve - any sign of O yet? Please don't go MIA with mine!!
Saffy - I must have been in gloomsdale with you the last few days, it feels good to pack up and leave though! Gosh those meds are a mouthful, you poor thing.
Mich - Bummer about the speculum's, like Saffy said, it would have been embarrassing if he needed to go bigger!
Minnie - well, yay on AF arriving for once bring on the jabbing!
Andie - Bring on ovulation! Is that right?
AFM: I feel as though AF is coming, but no sore bb's. Just emotional and strange feelings like something is going on in there. And no, def not PG as we have been using condoms till i ovulate (which I don't think has happened yet) So I have no fricken idea what my body is doing. I hope it isn't AF because I have booked to see the nurses for 2 weeks after my FS appointment on Tuesday because if I take provera that is when I will be bleeding! Does anyone know what will happen if AF does show up? It will be too early to start the drugs and I can't rely on another cycle. So will I have to wait a couple of weeks and then take the provera? Hope not
Minnie and Tasha - so sorry you have stress about what day AF comes/ doesn't come! Every cycle is so important to us and even the thought of having to delay treatment for a whole cycle because of what day you're booked into see the specialist is not good for our fragile mental health!!
I'm so glad Sunbeam "talked you off the ledge" Minnie. She's a champ I really hope it's fine for you to start Monday. At my clinic, if your period starts after midday, you count the next day as day 1 anyway. So, even though yours started in the morning you're really only a few hours off (surely insignificant!!!)
Tasha - I don't know what will happen if AF shows up sorry Could it possibly be ovulation? Really hope AF stays away though... until you want her
Oh - and it was Andie with the speculum dramas Though once, they had to get a different speculum for me but I didn't ask if it was bigger or smaller!! Don't think I want to know!!! Ha ha ha
ok girls i have a back to basics question for you all (or for anyone who feels like answering)
af, what is she like for you ? is she heavy/light, pink/brown/red, do you have any clots ? big or small, how long does she last etc only share if you feel comfortable doing so, the reason im asking is because at the moment i have thrush (perfect timing for starting ivf not) so im not using tampons like i usually would and so im using pads and it has made me realise how little i actually bleed, i have never had heavy periods but im wondering if this it "too" light. i had an ultrasound this cycle and the lining was a good thickness so its got me wondering. also has she changed over the years ?
sunbeam: when you say you don't have any lining come out what do you actually mean by that, is it a colour your not seeing that indicates its lining ?
share away if you will
Last edited by minniemouse; February 12th, 2012 at 10:23 AM.
Minnie ok here goes my first day is usually light brown not much and mixed with cm. Day 2 it is red usually bright and has long stringy lining and sometimes darker red small clots less than 5cent piece. Day 3 is the same. Day 4 is back to bright red no lining or clots day 5 is intermitted bleeding bright red and then she is gone. Days 2 and 3 are heavy - think changing a super tampon every 2 hours and a pad as back up. After those days it's light and normal tampon no pad.
There you go! Hope that was helpful
mines all over the shop due to drugs, m/c, ivf etc, ie my last one ( just stopped pill) was light, brown and stringy, one before that was 4 days long, heavy and red for 1-2 days then pink/brown spotting, few before that were heavy red and about 8 days long
I'm glad you asked that Minnie. The AF I just had was lighter than usual and I was wondering what is "normal" too!!
I spotted brown for half a day before AF, then day 1 was medium flow of red blood (maybe soak a tampon 2-3 times per day) but no clots, day 2 and 3 were light bleeding red (wouldn't need to change tampon except for hygeine!), day 4 and 5 were just tinges of brown when wiping.
AF has definitely got lighter over the years -from distressingly heavy, to what i think is a bit on the light side???
hhhmmm interesting, joeve mine is nowhere near that heavy even on the heaviest days, usually i can easily pop a regular tampon in after a morning shower and often i don't need to change it until bedtime (around 11 pm), i think yours is more normal than mine !
i am getting little clots but they are only small
saffy: so yours in all over the place, has it only been that way since you had miscarriages ?
mich: is yours also different since your miscarriages ?
my luteal phase used to be normal until i started having miscarriages (which came first though, was i having m/c's because of my luteal phase or vice versa ?)
prior to ivf my cycles were quite heavy, clotty & dark red - with about 2-3 days of heavy flow, then 1-2 days of lighter flow, then a couple of extra days of brown spotting. all up it was lasting at least a week.
after starting ivf they are lighter, bright red & less clotty and dont last as long, which has me worried that maybe my body is winding down? having said that, the cycle just gone was heavier, clottier with some cramping too - back to how i remember them. i did notice some stringy stuff too, not cm - what i can only assume is lining? maybe bc i have taken a couple of months off ivf, my body is resetting itself.
i am a pad girl now anyway so it has been easier to monitor the 'flow' (wow - who knew i would be posting that on a chat site?!!) - what with all the scans, pessaries, transfers that go on down there - its nice to give the poor thing a break for one week out of the month!
minnie - i think its a good sign that your scan is showing a think lining. my sister, who is a year older than me, has light periods - lasting 2-3 days of hardly anything, and she got pregnant her first month of trying a few months ago. i know everyone is different, but the lighter flow doesnt necessarily have to be a bad thing. and yes, i am green with envy about my sister!
tasha - not sure about the timing of things re: your appts/af etc. it was frustrating enough for me when i had a 47 day cycle, i cant imagine how annoying it must be for you to wait so long in between cycles. i hope it comes at a convenient time for you.
Andie - Ha ha ha about giving "the poor thing" and break for a week!
Minnie - I don't think AF changed after the miscarriages (they were natural) but maybe the flow has reduced since the d&c I had with the lap? If so, perhaps it's a positive thing. I dunno, just one more thing to obsess about I guess!
Andie - i got to sleep in yesterday and today and a nanna nap too! I'm so lazy It's going to be a shock to the system when I have to start getting up for work regularly again! I had a spectrum type story too when I went for a Pap Smear once, I was about 28 and the woman was in the middle of doing the pap smear and pipes up "are you a virgin?" (as if I'd be having a Pap smear if I was!!!) I said "no, why?" she replies, "oh, well its very tight down here!" I was just lying there thinking, good to know, now can I just get the hell out of here!!!
Mich - Thanks for keeping our chart going so well. Good on you for being up jogging. I recon jogging in the heat up here would just about kill me so I'll stick to my swimming and late evening walks which WILL be starting again tomorrow . How's the x-trainer going?
Tasha - I'm a bit confused babe. Provera is taken for a week and then you start to bleed a day or so after you stop. Usually you'd see your FS and then the nurse so she can explain everything and then you'd give her a call the day AF shows up so you can go in and get your meds. Why is there a 2 week wait between seeing FS and the nurse?
Joeve - How was the juice? Even though i had finished my juice fast when I woke up yesterday it was the first thing I wanted so I think it's going to be my daily start each morning. I ate more regular food yesterday and my stomach was slightly bloated but much less than before the fast so I think my tummy really likes it. When's your next bt to see where your egg is at?
Saffy - High tea how very posh . Was it yum? I think metamucil is a good idea I still don't get how our metabolisms can slow down when we're eating more healthily. I hope your other little embie is doing well.
Minnie - I'm glad you are back in off your ledge . As you know my AF has been of concern to me for a few months. It had reduced from 5 to 3 days over the past 5 years or so but recently it has been as short as 24 hours and almost no need for a pad. I guess I always considered the dark clots to be bits of the lining and that is what I have not seen for a few months. Mine were never very big just sort of 1-2cm stringy bits. It used to start off red blood and little clots for the first 1 1/2 -2 days then to brown spotting for day 3. I did not really notice any change after my mc's except the first AF after D&Cs until last September when it got really short.
Sunbeam, I think when I see the nurses they will give me all the drugs that day and explain how to use them etc. So I will start jabbing that night. They told me that provera is for 10 days and then a bleed about 3 days after i stop - making it roughly 14 days. I will check with the FS on Tuesday, just in case
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Greedy spermies! It sounds like the lab is doing a science project with your egg, curious to see what the little mutant one does. Superpowers maybe?
Have a great time at your high tea, sounds delightful and yummy!
I'm trying to rationalise reasons for the enthusiasm (other than sadism!!), like he's excited to be part of it all or he just likes winding me up - probably the latter!
) Your body will be loving you for all those fruit and vegies!
It's going to be a shock to the system when I have to start getting up for work regularly again! I had a spectrum type story too when I went for a Pap Smear once, I was about 28 and the woman was in the middle of doing the pap smear and pipes up "are you a virgin?" (as if I'd be having a Pap smear if I was!!!) I said "no, why?" she replies, "oh, well its very tight down here!"
. How's the x-trainer going?
. As you know my AF has been of concern to me for a few months. It had reduced from 5 to 3 days over the past 5 years or so but recently it has been as short as 24 hours and almost no need for a pad. I guess I always considered the dark clots to be bits of the lining and that is what I have not seen for a few months. Mine were never very big just sort of 1-2cm stringy bits. It used to start off red blood and little clots for the first 1 1/2 -2 days then to brown spotting for day 3. I did not really notice any change after my mc's except the first AF after D&Cs until last September when it got really short.
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