Still no news from me. I'm 14DPO today but still only 11dp3dt. AF "should" be due tomorrow and I have smallish AF type cramps. They are there but not like normal if that makes sense? I tested this morning lol And as I expected it was a BFP thanks to Pregnyl. The test will be if it stays there or disapears over the next 4 days.
Bec - Wow mord testing. That is a bummer you have to wait for a month until the results are in. Are YOU happy with all that?
Rhichichi - I would do the clomid anyway to keep your cycle regular but it is totaly up to you. And all I can offer you is some virtual GBH.
Miss Kris - What a disapointment you didn't O on clomid. Have you heard anymore on what you need to do now? You naturally ovulate in one ovary at a time. They alternate each month.
Just had a quick read over the last few posts. It looks like we are all in need of some good news. ASAP!!!! Fingers crossed the next few weeks are better for us ALL than the past few weeks. I probably shouldnt post because I am feeling sh+tty and disappointed So sorry for the self-indulgent rant ahead. I think I had pretty much talked myself into thinking the clomid was going to work first time around. Even over the past few days, everything seemed to lead to that conclusion. I know I ovulated (bad pain, +OPK test), I BD'ed like crazy at the right time, I had some light cramping seven days after O'ing (told myself that was implantation), been feeling tired, slightly queasy, my boobs are aching, etc, etc, etc. BUT THEN...I woke up this morning and I felt sooo "period-y". My face has broken out in pimples (REALLY attractive in a 39 year old professional!). I have had slight cramping (kind of pre-AF cramp cramps), I am sh+tty (PMS) and, to confirm it all, tonight I did an Early Response HPT and Big Fat Negative To make it worse, it is only 9 or 10 days since I ovulated so that means I have a short luteal phase apparently. Great. Dammit.
Sorry. I must sound so pathetic for those of you who have been on the clomid so much longer than me. I know this is just the first time for me and I have only got a slight chance of it working given my age. But I guess I had my hopes higher than I cared to admit. I just needed to vent. Unfortunately DH isnt giving me much support because, apparently, he "knew it wouldnt work the first time". Wish he'd told me! lol. Oh well, enough of the tantrum. SORRY!!!!!!
Anyhoo....like I said, time for some good news from someone!
Take Care all
n2l x
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Im so confused! The doc is meant to be giving me a call back en of this week with some instructions on what to do, ie, go ahead with clomid tablets or wait and see if i ovulate?? I can't use the OPKs because i can never bloody get a + even though i did ovulate when using them!! Yesterday and today i have had some strong stabbing pains in my right ovary!! So not sure whats going on there?? Maybe i will ovulate this side?? I cant bloody tell and i really dont want another blood test cos my bruise is still there from my last one!! Lol! Its a doozy of one!
Hi Everyone
Well lots has been happening but I will only do persies on this page so sorry if I miss anyone.
Kris - maybe they did your BT too early and you are only just O'ing now. Keep DTD and hopefully you will get lucky.
n2l - feel free to have a tantrum, we all need to sometime, and I agree that we need some good news in here too.
Porsche - I don't know how you are doing it, the week must be going soooo slowly, hopefully it ends in good news.
Rhi - Know what you mean about lurking and not posting, I do that too cause I can check the posts on my phone but it is too hard to post on there.
Bec - Try and avoid shakes and meal replacements cause they may work at the start but then you will put it all back on (+ more usually) when you start to eat properly again. I started my new diet yesterday so I will let you know if it works.
Liz - How did the appointment go?
Mel - How is everything going with you, how are the SE going? I think DTD every second day is probably a good way to go.
Hi to everyone else.
AFM - CD11 and day 2 of my new diet. Had my appointment with the Dr last Thursday and he thinks that I did O but the BT was done too early (as I suspected). So I have one more cycle of 100mg Clomid and then nothing and if I am not UTD by then he will look at surgery. Have to keep an eye on my temps to try and do BT at right time this cycle.
Shan
It seems like we are all having a crap week, if it helps, I believe there is a full moon just around the corner (or just passed, can't remember which?), so maybe that is why everyone is having a hard time!?
Kris - I agree with the others, you ovulate from either ovary, but it's completely random on which side you ovulate from in any one month, so you might ovulate on the right twice and not necessarily right then left and so on, as it's based on the egg, not the ovary. Also if you lose an ovary, you should still ovulate every month as the most dominant egg (which if you only have one ovary will always be on the same side) is the one that is released. It doesn't make any sense what the lady said, how can "it work on one side" but you didn't ovulate? Either you released an egg or you didn't!? Hope that the doc can shed some more light for you? Like Shan said, keep DTD anyway, just in case!
Bec & N2l - I think that we are all in the same boat with the diet! For any of you who also has PCOS, you will know though that anything that tastes good is on the naughty list or at least the avoid list and even if you exist on lettuce somehow you still manage to put on weight (well I do anyway). Also exercise is probably the most important part in managing PCOS, but if you are like me, then being a fatty (I call myself that with affection) makes you want to exercise even less! I just feel so uncomfortable, and everything seems to wobble way more than it should, so I become disheartened very quickly!!
n2l - I feel for you, I am trying not to, but I can't help but hope the first cycle will be my last. So if it doesn't work this month, I am sure that I will be in a very similar headspace!!! At least you ovulated, and that is a great step in the right direction I really hope that you get that BFP very soon!
Shan - How are you feeling? I know you are a day ahead of me, was wondering if you had any cramps or any feelings that you might be going to ovulate soon?
Porsche - Sounds like good symptoms... FX'd for you!!
AFM - It's weird, I don't know what to think. I am on CD10 and while I wouldn't say I still have AF (haven't REALLY had her since end of last week), but this incredibly light, brownish spotting is still happening. It's like at the very end of AF when the blood is older and the last few "dregs" are coming down and only really when I wipe. Anyways, not sure what that is about... As for the ovulating, I am feeling a bit crampy occasionally from the Clomid and still have the hot flushes. Did an OPK and have a faint, but obvious line, so just waiting for the line to get darker now!! Decided that DTD every 36 hours would be the way to go, that way I alternate between morning and night and it's often without being too often, IYKWIM? By the second and third cycles I may not be so enthusiastic...
Hi ladies!
Shan- I'm glad you o'd! Hopefully this month will be yours and you wont need the surgery. Is it a lap? Thanks for the advice on the diet. I don't plan on doing meal replacements, although my FS suggested I try them. I know how to eat well, in fact I do each quite well, but I know I don't exercise enough, so I'll work on that. Good luck with your diet, hope it works for you!
Kris- we're about the same in our cycles and I only ovulated Sunday/Monday. Hopefully you did and you can just wait and see
what happens this cycle. It's bloody annoying having to wait for dr to call back! I really hope you did just o and all is well.
Porsche- hugs and patience go out to you!! Any sgs?
Jules- I wondered if you were ok. I've been where you are and I know I just wanted to throw myself back into TTC and I'm not sure if I was ready. Life keeps on at you, but take time for yourself to deal with your loss, if you need it. I know I was very angry that I kept m/c and it has taken me some time to be ok that I felt like that. I HATED pregnant people, especially if they conceived at the same time at me and were having normal pg. All of this you know, I know, but also know that you can rant and rage and vent as much as you like here to us. humungous hugs to you. Feel free to lurk and not post as much as you like! As Porsche said, I don't reckon he'd know if you look the clomid, and it might make your cycle more predictable.
N2L- bugger AF showing up, how annoying. Talk to your FS about progestrone if you have a short luteul phase, it can be fixed. It's never easy, finding out you're not UTD this month, but each month is a new chance. I will admit it gets harder to remain positive! Darn DH's just don't get our impatience sometimes do they?!
How's everyone else going?
AFM: I'm glad I finally ovulated! So at least there is some hope for me this month. Porsche, to answer your question, I'm actually a bit peed off at having to wait even longer. I get the whole get fit thing, and I'm happy to do it, but I'm reluctant to stop taking clomid or gonal or whatever and then have to jump start things with the primulot stuff which I hate taking becasue the AF is so painful. My new FS was good, at least she has a plan, I guess I had just resigned myself to IVF being our best option. She did say if all this doesn't work, we can do IVF, but DS is already 4 (almost) and ready to start Kinder next year and I kind of wanted to be there for him during the Kinder year, not worrying about IVF cycles and meds. I guess I was just pinning my hopes of getting an immediate resolution.
My only issue with FS was her immediate assumption that I had never tried to lose weight. I am VERY overweight I know, but I have been trying to lose weight since I was 14, and I have had some success, but the weight just doesn't stay off. I've put in the hard work and seen little or no results. Frustrating!!!! Anyway, I'll work my butt off (hopefully literally!) and see how we go.
God, I ramble on. Sorry!
Bec IKWYM about the whole weight thing, I have bene overweight my whole life even when I was younger and played sport 3 days a week. Big hugs to you, and now at least your FS has a plan and you know where you stand. Anyway FX'd that you won't need to worry and you fall pg this cycle.
WBM, I'm not to sure about the later AF signs, it hasn't happened with me. That is a good sign that you have started to have a faint line on the OPT, hope you get a darker line and catch that egg DTD every 36 hrs.
Shan that is a good thing, that he thinks you o'd GL with this cycle, and with the new diet. What surgery is your FS looking at doing?
Kris, I know it sucks, all we seem to do is wait, and wait. Hopefully you have herd from your FS and he has let you know what is going on.
Porsche how are you going hun, hoping the waiting isn't taking it's toll on you and you aren't stressing too much. When do you do the blood test again?
N2L, don't worry too much about having a rant, we all deserve to have one from now and then. I was the same with my first cycle, I don't know why but I had it in the head that it was going to work first thing, and well as you know, it didn't. And don't worry about DH, it must be a man thing, my DH took a couple of cycles to start even begining to understand my emotional state and now I don't know what I would do without him. GL with your next cycle hun, and it does start to get easier.
Rhi it is good to hear from you again, and its all good to get it off your chest. Like Porsche said, its up to you if you want to take the clomid, and hey, it might just give you another BFP. FX'd with deciding what to do.
Hello to everyone else, hope you are doing well, and sorry to anyone I have missed.
AFM it has been one of the busiest weeks in quite a while. My FS app tues morning went great, he was very happy with the injections and in his own words "you have a ripper of an egg on your left ovary, that must be my ovary of the week". I also had 2 good eggs in my right ovary as well. Which I was really excited about as I had it in my head that the injections weren't going to work and I would have to have more of them. Anyway I had the trigger shot which OMG it hurt and then go home and DTD (sorry TMI) as I was fertile for the next 48 hrs. So hence the absence of my being on here as I have been busy . So now I have to wait again and do a POAS test in 2 weeks to see if it worked .
Anyway, I am going away down the Gold coast for the weekend with DH for our anniversary. So hope everyone has a great weekend and we get some BFP's on here soon. Babydust to everyone.
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: spelling :p
Porsche - I have taken your advice & got the script for Clomid so I took the first one last night. When do you officially know if you are pg? (properly pg IYKWIM?!)
N2l - *Hugs* I get my hopes up all the time but I think it is to try to stay positive rather than pessimistic also. It's a tough gig when you are secretly hoping that this will be the automatic 'fix' to your infertility issues. I know that is how I felt once put on Clomid, then when we didn't fall pg, I thought the laparoscopy would solve the issue (well it sort of did) but now we are looking down the barrell of IUI and for me I feel like we are so close but so far - IYKWIM? Anyway, didn't want to load you with my feeling, just an insight & letting you know that you are not alone. I (we) totally get it
Kris - Gawd I hate being at the mercy of some medical practitioner who doesn't give a damn about the emotions you are going through, just medical science results to determine what to do.....Gosh I am in a venting mood aren't I?! Anyway, it sounds like you are Oing late? I had minimal success with the OPK's too, so perhaps ditch them and tune into your body - sounds like you are doing that anyway. If you are up for it, keep DTDing you might catch that egg! I hope you can get some sort of direction soon. An u/s would be able to determine if you are about to O or have O'ed - just a thought.....
Shan - FX for you. GL with the 'new' diet. I soooo need to get back into it. Apart form having a few social events on the next few weeks, should try to lose more prior to starting IUI......
Mel - At first I would have assumed it was possible implantation 'bleeding' but since you mentioned no +OPK yet then it probably isn't.... I don't have spotting during my cycle, so I can't give you any advice, sorry. Best of luck catching that egg!
Bec - Thanks so much for your support, I know I have been a truly crappy virtual friend atm, but you understand/get it & I am glad I haven't offened you & hope I haven't offended anyone else.
I assume you are going to keep ttc in the meantime? Or are you going to take the pressure off a bit until you go back to the fs? I know how you feel about the weight being an immediate issue. My FS assumed that I had put on weight after DD, but no I actually am lighter in kg's & smaller in clothes so I know that weight is not the only factor for my secondary infertility issues.....it must be a common factor alot of the time, so that is maybe why they assume?? I understand the issues and heartache trying to lose weight. I actually think I self-sabotage sometimes but don't know why.... Anyway, you can only give it your all & if the weight doesn't budge, it doesn't budge. I read in another thread that a couple of the gals were doing IVF & used Calorie King as a guide to keep in check their food intake but also for low GI - they had PCOS. I think it was Butterfly Warrior (?) who said that she believed that the low GI helped improve her egg quality. Best of luck for this month.
Liz - Sounds like a very promising cycle. I wondered about the trigger shot if it hurt more than the other injections. The FS nurse assured me it isn't any different but I suspected otherwise! GL catching that egg. Do you have to DTD three days in a row? That is what we were told to do after the trigger shot.... Happy anniversary too. Hope you have a great time at the Gold Coast.
Better go, am at work and one of the managers keeps looking over at me typing away furiously! Pity I don't type so enthusiastically for work! lol
So sorry for the self-indulgent rant ahead. I think I had pretty much talked myself into thinking the clomid was going to work first time around. Even over the past few days, everything seemed to lead to that conclusion. I know I ovulated (bad pain, +OPK test), I BD'ed like crazy at the right time, I had some light cramping seven days after O'ing (told myself that was implantation), been feeling tired, slightly queasy, my boobs are aching, etc, etc, etc. BUT THEN...I woke up this morning and I felt sooo "period-y". My face has broken out in pimples (REALLY attractive in a 39 year old professional!). I have had slight cramping (kind of pre-AF cramp cramps), I am sh+tty (PMS) and, to confirm it all, tonight I did an Early Response HPT and Big Fat Negative 
about as I had it in my head that the injections weren't going to work and I would have to have more of them. Anyway I had the trigger shot which OMG it hurt and then go home and DTD (sorry TMI) as I was fertile for the next 48 hrs. So hence the absence of my being on here as I have been busy 
. So now I have to wait again 
and do a POAS test in 2 weeks to see if it worked 
.
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