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hi,
i did another hpt today, during the day, it was a one-step. im pretty sure these are coming up negative. can only see a fainest line when looking at a slight angle. i still havent got my period. Still getting alot of CM, so i suppose i will just have to sit back and chill out to wait for the appoinment next week at the docs.
Its doing my head in now. Why cant the answers be simple...
georgette
Aww, sorry to hear that Georgette, but don't give up hope, you may be testing too early.
it was about now that I went and bought the clear blue digital ones (can be expensive though depending on where you get them) so that I could get a definite answer of yes or no rather than the maybe's that I'd been getting from another brand. They are only good once AF due date is passed though (sorry I don't remember where you are in your cycle). Good luck I hope it's just too early for you and you'll get a nice clear BFP soon!!
im five days overdue my AF. I did a test on the first day i was late, and got a negative/faint second line. I done another during the day today, it was negative/or even fainter than the one I done a few days prior. I dont feel like im gonna get my period, although i keep running to the tiolet thinking AF has caught me off guard, but to my confusion,nothing apart from alot off egg white CM. Im confused. I have looked up on the net, CM should not be this consistancy this time of my cycle surely?? Im waiting 4.5 mins befor reading the HPT'S as recommended adn then discarding them. I hope i am pregnant, because then it would save going through the IVF next month. If anyone wants to track my progress, i have posted in this forum befor. Also i have made my first log in the ttc journal.
Has anyone had any experiences, with the way HPT's are done, ie
1. morning v any time during the day
2. reading results at 5 mins v 10 minutes discard.
ETC.
sorry i sound desperate. TTC#1 for 5 - 6 years take its toll..... can you tell.
georgette
-first thing in the morning is best
-keep to the time limit written on the pack (some say longer than others)
-some brands my second line was always feint no matter how many DPO I was thus why I went to clear blue digital once AF was due cause it comes up with the words "Pregnant" or "Not pregnant" leaving little doubt
-some people take time for the HCG to build up in there system so don't get positive HPTs for ages after AF is due
- I always get ten tonne of CM in the early stages of pregnancy so that is a good sign from my perspective.
A doctors blood test is probably the most reliable as you probably know since I think I read you were booked in to get one next Tuesday. So frustrating when they can't get you in any early isn't it.
Anyway again best of luck especially given how long you've been TTC. Hope you get that miracle BFP and manage to not have to go through IVF.
A line is a line in my books :) If you're getting a faint line within the timeframe, then I'd say things are looking good! I only got a faint line at 12DPO.
Do you have other brands you can use?
And yep - first morning urine is the best, as the HCG is more concentrated then, even tho some tests say you can test any time of day.
Good luck! I have a feeling it's good news! :)
Georgette...I'm thinking a line is a line too...I also had increased CM when I got my first BFP ever...
Check the MIU measurement on the pregancy test...I got my first positive test with a test that was only 10 MIU...it was an incredibly sensitive test...alot of tests are more like 25 MIU or even 50 MIU...so you need a whole lot more of the HCG hormone in your urine for it to be identified as a BFP...
I got my really sensitive tests from lullaby conceptions...they were really inexpensive too...10 tests for $30!!! I'm happy to send one through to you...but it probably would take a few days to reach you...let me know if you want me to though...
I'm so sorry to hear your TTC journey has been so long...mine was 3 years and that was tough...I don't think you sound desperate at all...hang in there...and take care!
Wishing you all the very very best...
to be honest im not sure what the MIU is on these tests, i bought them off ebay very cheap, they did not come with instructions and only says ONE-STEP on the wrapper, they are small "dip stick". i have tryed looking it up on the net, but there are so many types of ONE STEP tests out there that i cant tell which one it is.
Still no AF today will be six days late. Thanks for all your support, i just dont know what to think at the momehnt. I still have no signs of getting AF.
TO MONNIE thanks for the offer of sending me a test. I would however feel terrible about excepting, as i live in england, its a long way to send it. But thank you so so much for the offer. Its nice to know that i have finally found a supportive forum. This forum has been a breath of fresh air. Its a shame there are not any forums as good as this set up in the UK.
thanks once again
georgette
I'd recommend getting a digital test as they leave nothing to doubt. I got a couple of faint positives with the dip kind but the second one done about a week after my AF was due came up fainter than the first one.... both took a while to come up but were within the recommended guidelines. I panicked and went and got the digital one which supposedly needed higher concentrations of HCG to show a positive and I got a BFP really quickly which calmed me down again.
I would also recommend not to get too excited until you get results from a blood test.
Georgette a line is a line - all my pgs have had faint lines - even when I was pg with DD and took another test at 7 weeks (just because) it was faint. And she is 5 now.
Hi thanks for you replies, im trying not to get excited, but we all know how hard that can be. CM is still the same no sign of AF. I have started taking clear blue folic acid, just incase. I have decided to leave testing again till thursday. However i havre started getting what i tthink is heartburn, cold/hot throat and chest. my sis says this may be a sign of pregnancy, also spots on my chest???
Any ways will keep you posted.
thanks again to you all...
georgette
Georgette,
I would now be going to your GP and getting a blood test for confirmation.
good luck I hope it is positive.......
Hi sorry i thought i had already added to this post about the toruble i had with GP. I rang them first thing monday morning. They cant see me till next tuesday, which is a right pain grrrrr. It doesnt help us lot TTC when they do that, bacause you just end up stressing and worrying whilst waiting around for appoinment. I dont know if anyone else is from the UK, but it is a nightmare to get an appoinment with most GP's. Here, you cant go to another GP practise, you have to wait for an appoinment. But next tuesday i shall be going in the morning.
Georgette
Georgette...wishing you all the very very best...it's looking promising...but I can understand you trying not to get too excited...I was like that too...
Take care chickie!
Hi georgette,
:crossfingers: that this is it. I also live in England and the tests I use are tesco own brand which are a lot cheaper than clearblue. When I was pregnant with Corey I had faint lines for a week that only I could see not my DH (but what does he know! hehe) and then they got darker and darker so hang in there.
I agree this site is just brilliant, the english ones are not that great and I find the women on here really funny and supportive. My husband is an aussie so I was told about this site by one of his relatives.
good luck
I used Lullaby conceptions, and gota very faint line.
In fact, with both pregnancies, even when i went to the dr, they were both very faint lines.
I found it easier to see the line at around the 10 min mark, (and they stayed the same afterwards, infact i still have DS one, and it is still a faintish line, so i don't really know why the say discard after 10 mins), but i was told with both, if it is a faint line, no matter really how faint, as long as it doesn't disappear, then you are pregnant.
Good luck.
Goodluck when you test!!!
Lisa.
Hi,
I testing first thing this morning and got another very faint positive result using a dip strip one step from the internet. So i went off to the supermarket and bought four more HPT's. I done one when i got back, with out holding bladder! and it was a big fat negative. Dh can see the second line on the one i done this morning, however it is very very faint.
So im gonna test again tmrw morning. Surely by now 9 days late for AF, they should be coming up more clearer than this. Im feeling so so so anxious. Feeling light headed now aswell, propably from the worry it is or isnt it????
grrrrr, i feel like im going mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Georgette
Its frustrating isn't, some brands are better than others etc. Just wait until tomorrow morning FMU and see how you go.
so..... i am now very very late for AF, like 10 days now i think. I dont two morw tests this morning, both different brands, they both have come up with super super faint lines. They are not evap lines because they show up well befor the tests have dryed. I dont seem to be having much luck with these HPT's. so i suppose all i can do is keep testing, plus i have docs on tuesday to have some blood tests. hopefull it wont take to long for the results of that..
anyways, i just gonna chill out and relax, not overdo anything just incase it is a BFP.
I have all my fingers and toes crossed here lol...
georgette
It sounds like your pregnant :pray:
I hope you are! I know how it feels to ttc forever ..
goodluck ....
LISA
Hi i thought i would keep all those who hd been watching this post updated. So i did two more tests this morning, both were "use your imagination lines". Then about 10 minutes ago Af started to show her face. I have brown CM with spots og red blood sorry tmi.
I feel terrible, i feel stupid, i feel desperate.....
I am so fed up, and then i had to brake the news to DH...
This ttc is so emotional. If only those who take having children for granted could understand how us lot really feel, when every string of hope, is cut away month after month...
DH says we still ave the IVF coming up, but it doesnt make me feel better none the less..
:(
Hey georgette, dont be convinced yet!
I had brown spotting too-- then after 3 days it stopped and I finally got my bfp :)
Hi Georgette,
First of all, I REALLY hope you're pregnant, and it does sound promising still.
But, if you aren't, you do NOT sound stupid, desperate or any of those thing at all. You're simply a woman who wants to get pregnant and it is very easy to get your hopes up. Don't EVER feel silly about this. I think we've all been there where we want something so bad that we let our minds play tricks on us.
Please let us know how you get on. I really hope you get a BFP, but if you don't, we're all here for you and wish you all the luck in the world for IVF.
I'm sorry! ((hugs))
hi girls...
well i had the brown spotting for a couple of day, it seems to have stopped since lastnight..
I have manages somehow to get a flu, i have runny nose, sore throat and terrible muscle ache. Feel a bit sick today aswell, i have my fingers crossed that AF will stay well away and that when i get results from BT its a BFP. will keep you all updated. i think im like 13 days late now???
Any ways
thanks for all your support.
georgette
georgette - i had brown spotting when i fell pg with the wee man and i too thought that AF was on her stinking way - also the flu like symptoms may be pg symptoms - a faint line is usually a +ve - good luck my dear and i hope that the BT re****s come back great!!
I will keep my fingers crossed for you.
Good luck.
GoodLuck when you test again or with your BT!
Hi all,
So i went to the docs today... i feel a bit upset because she wouldnt do BT, she say they dont do BT to confirm pregnancy???? But she did say that that fact that i have still not had my period and all these super duper faint lines are a positive sign for being PG. She told me to take it easy, test in about a week if still no AF, if i still have had no AF in 2 weeks from today that means i have missed 2 periods, then i need to go back to docs. I asked her how faint a line can be to still be a positive result, she says also that a line is a line, because of the variables with HPT'S sensitivity and variables in every womans HCG levels this can cause all this faint line trouble.
So doc says to take it easy, so that what im gonna do. SO i have another 2WW on my hands. However i am confused that she wouldnt do BT to confirm. As my sister said her doctor requested BT to confim PG with bother her boys.
So that it then, i just have to wait, i suppose 2 more weeks wont kill me lol.
georgette:pray:
sorry to jump this thread - i would be demanding a bT if anything to rule out an ectopic.
I cant believe some dr
Sorry this makes me rather cross, i have had an ectopic and when i thought i was pg last i went to my gp and asked for a bt and he said even if it is ectopic theres nothing we can do until it ruptures!!!No frigging way .........he might as well planned my funeral was i was there..........i got my BT and it was neg
Go back and demand it it is your right
You need to go to a different DR, this happened to me late last year and another few weeks of waiting is not mentally good for you either way. (Well it wasn't for me anyway!) I had 2 doctors refuse to do a BT - hello we are paying them and I think they need to give us answers!
I get mad about this because I felt helpless when it was me!
Fingers crossed that you get your BFP!!!
Hi girls,
So i took your advise, i rang back the dr surgery and they told me that the doc i saw was right not to give me bt, so still not sure i rang the hospital where i was having fertility treatment, they also said, no bt. I have decided to stay positive, because the doc did tell me that a line is a line. I feel fine at the moment, feel very light headed like im floating, with a walm sense of calmness inside, its very wierd. Im not going to stress anymore about it, im going to take it as it is, each day at it comes. Im going to take it easy on the pretence that I am PG. I still have absolutely no signs of AF coming, the brown CM went away yesterday complety. Me and DH have desided to go with what the preg tests seem to be suggesting and enjoy a bit of peace from the anxiety.
The doc also said to me, that its very common indeed for women on waiting list for ivf to fall pregnant naturally because they or we are not thinking about it. So hopefull all will go well and i am one of those.
If it all goes well i swear this is my lucky web site, everyone on here is so positive and supportive and im sure that helps with our stress and anxiety level with ttc.
So i want to say a big thank you to you all who have been following my progress.
This is the closest i have got in 6 years, so i am going to enjoy it a little bit and take what ever is thrown at me as it comes:)
Love and baby dust to you all xxx
P.S ( i couldnt help but go buy some more tests today, just to see whats happening durin gthe week)
Yours faithfully
georgette
i will keep you all updated, hopefull in the pregnancy threads very soon
It's a frustrating thing this TTC!
We are all thinking of you, and sending all our very best "Sticky vibes"
xx
Oh Georgette...so sorry to hear about your hassles with the Drs...you poor thing!
I think your attitude is amazing...what a wonderful example!
When I first got pregnant (and told everyone), people were really "concerned" that we were telling people so early...like you, we decided that this is the "furtherest" we had ever got in our TTC journey...and we were going to enjoy it...without thinking too much of the final outcome!
Well...I'm now 22 weeks pregnant...
Wishing you all the very very best in the next few weeks...
It's looking good, hey!!!
i'd also try a different GP - good luck pet - i hope that you really are pg and before you know it the first two months will be down and you'll be that much closer to bubs!!!