TTC 7/23

[sammysam]

This is a combined TTC thread for EVERYONE currently TTC. Whether you're a first timer, a many timer, or an old timer come on in and pass the time as we struggle through WTO and the dreaded TWW.

As this is a combined thread there will be talk of LC, losses, and IF struggles. If any of these are hard for you please just let us know in your first post and I'm sure the lovely ladies on here will be happy to add TWs to accommodate. 

Feel free to add a little intro to help us get to know you better;)

Please come join us!

Month/Cycle:

Timing:

CD/DPO:

Symptoms:

RRCS:

[sarahh]

Month/Cycle: 2/2

Timing: n/a

CD/DPO: CD 16. I think O is today or tomorrow

Symptoms: Holy cramps. The side effects I get on Femara are killing me. I thought last month may be a fluke but I'm having the same awful cramping this month which probably means the cramping and nausea after O that I had last month will probably happen again.

RRCS: Last month we only bd through O +1 so I think this month I am going to aim for a few days past that just in case. That means like 5 more days ugh.

[purple]

Sorry for my recent absence. We've been on holiday. We had a week in Bad Ragaz in Switzerland, a weekend in Zurich and a week on Lake Maggiore in Italy. It was excellent and did my so much good.

I am beyond thrilled that remi and Yogurt have left this board! I hope you have lovely, boring, successful pregnancies, ladies.

sammysam, I'm heartbroken for you, my poor friend. I love the song, thank you so much for sharing it. Please let me know if I can do anything. I am sending lots of love.

[sharebear]

Month/Cycle: A bajillion (year+, benched for a while, then some more trying), 3 after CP

Timing: n/a

CD/DPO: 16/ n/a

Symptoms: Hot flashes, mood swings, and a gurgly bloated stomach.

RRCS: I had a follow-up US this morning to see if the weekend made any impact. So on CD16, after doing 100 mg clomid CD 5-10, there are no follicles bigger than 10-11. So no trigger today . RE is stairstepping me up to 150 mg clomid for 5 days. However, with DH's work travel schedule, we are going to hold off on starting it for a couple days so we can have a target ovulation date for around when he is actually home. And hopefully in 10 ish days, we will have some follicles big enough for a trigger shot. This is super frustrating. I am such a sweaty rage monster these days.

[sammysam]

Sorry sharebear I hope the uptick in Clomid does the trick!

sarahh Hopefully the cramping and nausea won't be too bad. I always get nausea after O and I hate it.

purple Thank you for the kind words. I wish my body would just figure this stuff out earlier rather than waiting long enough for me to actually believe it's going to work out. I'm so glad you had a such a lovely trip. I'm very jealous! Hopefully I can get DD out of here with me for a few weeks in August!

[sammysam]

Playing just to play. I'm not sure what the plan is moving toward. Benched for at least 6 weeks right now anyways.

Month/Cycle: NA

Timing: NA

CD/DPO: NA

Symptoms: NA

RRCS: Trying to decide what we're going to do once we're not Benched anymore. I feel done and already told SO this. But I think I might just NTNP moving forward. I don't know. I'm sure I'll waffle back and forth until I finally make a decision. Right now I'm focusing on me and DD and hoping we have a house to move into by Christmas time.

[loorin]

Month/Cycle: 9/10 2 CPs this year

Timing: n/a

CD/DPO: 3

Symptoms: none

RRCS: 11 vials of blood this morning for testing with my RE. Hysteroscopy scheduled for Thursday. Semen analysis for my H today. We'll know what's up with the loorin clan soon.

[beenthere]

Hi I hope it's okay if I jump in.
Month/Cycle: 1/1

Timing: -4, -1

CD/DPO: CD 23/8DPO

Symptoms: none currently. My boobs might be a little tender but that's because my son pulled a titty twister on me yesterday. Ouch.

RRCS: this is our first cycle off birth control so I'm not expecting anything, we've never gotten pregnant on our first cycle trying before.

History: (MC mention)
TTC #1 from February 2015, got pregnant in April. DS1 born December 2015.
TTC#2 from July 2016, MC in June 2017, got pregnant in July 2017. DS #2 born March 2018. Unexpectedly got pregnant in May when DS was 6 weeks old and m/c.
Stopped birth control June 29th.

[purple]

Month/Cycle: Month 30. Cycle 8AL. 6 losses in two years.

Timing: N/A

CD/DPO: CD1

Symptoms: Cramps. Sore everything. Exhausted.

RRCS: I've had some time to think whilst we were away. This has been a difficult year so far, and it's been the third rough year in a row. With the loss in January, physical illness in January, February, March and April, bad depression months in May and June, it's been relentless. I've also been feeling increasingly despairing because this is the longest time without a pregnancy since 2014 (L was eight months old when we conceived Gracie Wren). My GP would refer me to a consultant after six months TTC, but I'm already under the care of the same consultant because of recurring miscarriage. And she diagnosed us with unexplained infertility just before we conceived L. So I don't think she would have anything new to say.

But I've been pregnant six times since 2014 and we only have one living child. And I've been ill so much this year that realistically, another pregnancy might have been another tragedy.

So I am trying to be thankful for time. Time for my body and mind to heal, so that when I do get pregnant again, there's a better chance for success. Trying. I don't say I'm managing every day!

[Radley]

Month/Cycle: 13/5AL

Timing: N/A

CD/DPO: 3/0

Symptoms: just blah blah blah. AF has been the worst to date. I have never had cramps and bleeding this bad. I hope the doctors figure out what’s going on quickly

RRCS: I have an appointment with a new place on the 2nd and we’re going to discuss doing an HSG test done. H and I have also discussed not going with IVF/surrogacy if the results aren’t good and adopting instead. We’ll just see what they say.

[sunny75]

Month/cycle: 7/8

Timing: n/a. Found out I'm only ovulating on the side with no tube this month so I'm basically benched waiting for next month 😬

CD: 17

RRCS:i was really disappointed last week after my follicle scan when we found out I'm only ovulating on my right side this month so I didn't do OPKs or anything. Well now I'm wishing I had because I'm trying to plan an out of town trip but I won't know when to excpext my next cycle to start and when I'll be going in for the baseline ultrasound. So basically I just made my life a lot more complicated. Sigh.

[radiantfate]

Month/Cycle: 19/19

Timing: -3, -2

CD/DPO: 5DPO

Symptoms: Sore boobs, weird dreams

RRCS: My FF pro membership is almost up (7 more days). I'm torn between renewing or just going with the free plan. I also feel moderately good about this cycle, so it may be a non-issue. Also, FF moved my crosshairs a few days later, but we're still in the "good" zone by hitting -2 so FX! I'm trying to hold out as long as possible to test.

[radiantfate]

Welcome beenthere!

[charliefox]

Month/Cycle: 23/6AL

Timing: -2, O

CD/DPO: 22/7

Symptoms: Just my monthly anxiety that is the worst at 7dpo, some super sore boobs, and a bit of nausea. Nothing out of the ordinary.

RRCS: Since this is our last cycle before IVF I have lots of daydreams that I somehow get a BFP, but I'm also being super realistic and assuming it won't. Knowing we have IVF coming up, I've been very zen this cycle - it's nice to have a plan.

[charliefox]

sarahh, sorry Femara messes you up.

purple, your trip sounds amazing and I am more than jealous!

Yuck, sharebear, sorry you have to be on so much clomid - has your doc discussed injectables yet?

sammysam, I giggled at your use of waffle. I said that the other day and H swore up and down it didn't mean what I thought it did. Obviously Google agreed with me but it makes me happy to see someone else use it! lol

loorin, I hope you get some answers soon.

Radley, I hate that you're still in pain with very little in the way of answers.

radiantfate, if you do decide to keep the FF upgrade just know that you can pause it when you get a BFP. I'm a big fan of FF VIP, but I always wait for a $25 deal.

[radiantfate]

charliefox yeah they actually are giving me the $25 deal, but this will be our last kid so I wouldn't even need it to continue after I get a BFP. I'll be within "testing range" by the end of the week though so maybe that'll help me decide. That's good to know though, thanks!

[beenthere]

radiantfate I would just go to the free version, if it doesn't happen this cycle maybe then you can choose?

[honda]

Month: 2

CD: 2

Although CD 1 sucked after a nice looking chart I'm just happy my body is back to normal. That 50+ day cycle after I stopped the pill had me pissed. This cycle was only 2 days longer than normal, so I'm happy with that.

[honda]

@scoutradely have you looked into adoption? I know some employers offer assistance with the cost, etc. My former employer did and they had a wonderful program to assist.

[sharebear]

Thanks charliefox I think that's next up once/if another clomid cycle or two fail. Womp womp.

[octoberrust]

Cycle/month: 13

Timing: n/a

CD/DPO: CD 9

Symptoms: n/a

RRCS: We are still waiting for the urologist specializing in fertility to call us for our consult. I think we are just going to call them ourselves today.
Instead of EOD I think we will try every 3 days, it seemed to make quite a difference for H’s SA.
I’ve also been trying to prepare myself that we may be one and done, so I’ve been crying a lot this week.

[sammysam]

octoberrust I will commiserate with you on being possibly OAD. As much as we would love another I'm just not sure it's in the cards for us. And if we do try again and it takes anywhere near what our two losses took to conceive then DD would be over 6 by the time we had a LO. And that's if I actually manage to get pregnant fairly soon and carry to term. I keep Googling blogs and articles about the positives of one child families. I'm not sure how I feel about anything right now.

[honda]

octoberrust I'm sorry

[octoberrust]

sarahh I’m sorry the Femara is giving you side effects

sharebear FX the increased clomid will do the trick

sammysam Continuing to send you hugs. Your song was beautiful, thank you for sharing it with us.

beenthere Welcome!

loorin I hope you are able to get some answers soon.

charliefox I’ve always just had the free version of ff. How do you get the vip for $25? Will I even need to worry about ff if we decide to do IVF?

[charliefox]

octoberrust, if you do IVF then FF is useless. FF often puts deals on facebook or twitter.

[charliefox]

XP from the IVF check-in...

Just got back from meeting with my IVF coordinator, retrieval is tentatively set for Sept 5. I was a mess after the meeting, cried on the way home. I am so angry, and nervous, and angry. H leaves on Monday and won't be back until a few days before my retrieval and it sucks balls. Ugh.

Anyone else have good news? Or just any news to distract me?

[sammysam]

charliefox I'm so so sorry you are having to go through this alone. Hopefully at least having a set date is adding a small amount of positivity to this. I can't imagine how hard it must be emotionally to know you have to go through all this on your own for the next couple of months.

[sharebear]

charliefox it sucks to deal with stuff on your own but YAY retrieval date! That is so exciting!

I have nothing exciting to cheer you up except that today was a 2-donut day. As in, I went to the bakery this morning and got two stuffed donuts (strawberries and cream and blueberries and cream). When in doubt, think of donuts! <3

[beenthere]

charliefox I'm glad you have a plan in place, I'm sorry it's not what you were hoping for though.



As for me... I'm 10dpo and I've been symptom spotting (sore boobs, extremely tired, hungry all the time) but I've been testing and it's been negative. I'm trying not to be disappointed but DH is about to leave and probably miss my FW for next month, then he'll only be home two weeks, and then he's gone for two months. :/ And then it'll be the holidays so we'll be busy and may not get it in. So I guess I'm just mopey even though I know it's silly to be

[sunny75]

charliefox, I'm sorry I can't imagine how tough that is. But at least you have a date fore the retrieval! It's nice to be able to do something after the long waiting game that is TTC.