some advice please?! update on doctors
just wondered if you can have 'cycles' without having af? sounds unlikely, but i know you can OV without af - so wondered if you could OV more than once without having af?
i want to know if its worth using ovulation tests to see if/when i ov - rather than waiting for this goddamn af! (sorry...getting a little narked with not having it!)
also - went to docs yesterday and she told me to NOT to take agnus castus anymore and that she was 'concerned' over my symptoms and that i should test every week till af.
anyone got any suggestions for POAS? i am currently using superdrug. is it worth getting something else? xxx
i want to know if its worth using ovulation tests to see if/when i ov - rather than waiting for this goddamn af! (sorry...getting a little narked with not having it!)
also - went to docs yesterday and she told me to NOT to take agnus castus anymore and that she was 'concerned' over my symptoms and that i should test every week till af.
anyone got any suggestions for POAS? i am currently using superdrug. is it worth getting something else? xxx
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i used asda ones with my DS but if your testing until af arrives then i wouldnt spend too much x
she doesnt think herbal or other types of medicene should be used when trying to conceive. just thought i would let people who are taking it, know.
bit annoyed, as i was hoping it would re-start af. x
i am not sure when/if i even did ov, so not sure really.
all i know is that i came off pill 30th nov, had withdrawal bleed etc and then nothing. no CM, nothing. lots of bd and now 'symptoms' - but quite a bit of cm over the last week.
doc suggested just waiting really. x
have you noticed any EWCM its clear and stretchy not like the usual creamy cm sorry tmi lol its not been that long for you really chick i would maybe just wait also since you are newly off the pill
CM is still creamy, i think - yellowy really, so not EWCM.
just wish i knew what my body was doing!!! thanks for advice xx
I know its a pain - I have been waiting for my AF since sept so lets hope yours isnt as long as me! I have been diagnosed with PCOS though but hoping that when I get my AF it will sort my cycles out and will be a bit more regular than 4 months +!!!! I took AC until a couple of weeks ago when I thought I was OV but not sure if I was or not but have stopped taking it now until after AF
I'm getting my blood test results hopefully this week - the wait is killing me! I will really be so happy the day AF turns up...especially as I have a CBFM waiting to be used (although I don't know if it will work for me at the moment if my cycles are going to carry on being so long!)
I do ov tests every day at the moment - I buy cheap ones off the internet. Although I'm finding them very confusing!! When I first started using them I always seemed to get a second line, but it was never as dark as the test line. And then I was sure that for a couple of days the line was a bit darker than normal (although still not as dark as the test line) and then it went faint again. The last two days there's been barely any second line at all, I really had to look closely to see it, so I really have no clue as to what's going on!!!
Did your dr say you could have blood tests or a scan to put your mind at rest, or do you have to wait a bit longer?
Sorry for my rambling message, this is just something that is on my mind ALL the time at the moment!!!! xx
where do you buy ov tests from? i am going to start testing every other day.
do you know if you get like a 'build' up - i.e. does the line gradually ger darker. i only ask, as i dont want to test EVERY day, maybe every 3 days or so, but dont want to miss it!
i can totally see that when people take AC, they relax. i am trying SO hard to relax, but its so hard - as i am sure you can imagine!
xx
I just wanted to let you know I stopped taking the pill on the 7th December and I still haven't had AF yet. But last week I did have all the things you're experiencing, cramps etc. and I got a positive OV on Saturday so maybe you're coming up to OV too.
I know it's a pain in the bum, but there are some people on here who haven't seen AF for coming up to 6 months - don't you just love the pill now?! lol
HappyMrsS - the day before I got my positive I got a faintish line, the next day I got a really strong line, then the next day nothing again. I always made sure I didn't drink anything for 2 hours and then tested. It also tells you not to use your first morning urine and instead test between 10am and 8pm. Not sure if that's a help?
I would say that you OVd when you had the stronger lines - you might have got your surge in the evening if you tested in the morning (if that makes any sense?)
With OV tests you need to take them every day, the LH surge which the tests detect only lasts a short time (around 12-48 hours, usually about 24 hours though) so if you don't take a test every day you could quite easily miss it.
Best of luck xx
Hi yummy_mummy_2be, thanks for your message. I usually test between 5pm and 7pm - basically as late as I can hold it for until dinner!!! I find it really hard not drinking or going to the loo for 3 hours before testing but I do usually manage it just! If that was my peak then AF should be here at the end of this week...fingers crossed! Obviously I'd prefer a BFP but can't see that happening! Also, if you're pregnant you get positive ovulation tests don't you?
xx
MrsKP and MrsS - thanks for the advice, just wondered if there's any point in me starting now, or just waiting...not sure what for! it will just annoy me if i waste a load of OV tests and in a week or so, AF comes! it so difficult to know where my body is, in terms of cycle etc!
this is going to sound like a silly Q - but those OV tests on ebay...the 'strip' ones. they say you ave to pee in a pot and put the strip in....can you just use it like a 'normal one' and pee ON it?!
And yes you have to pee in a pot cos you've got the hold the stick in the pee for min of 10 seconds. We now have a pee pot in the bathroom that I use lol
This TTC lark is soooo not sexy
LivvyS it's horrible not knowing where you are isn't it? I just wish there was some way of knowing if AF was coming in the next few weeks or not! I've been carrying on with the sticks but thinking maybe I should stop now and just wait and see if AF turns up because every day I force myself not to go to the loo or drink for three hours and it seems a bit pointless at the moment!! xx
i have to always clear away all signs of TTC when parents or friends come over (magazines, sanatogen tablets, ov tests, pg tests!!!!) the list is getting bigger!
mrsS - yes i agree, not peeing fr 3 hours or drinking, seems pontless if you dont know where you are in your cycle, which is why i am a bit reluctant.
i may just carry on with bd every other day or so and wait for af.
just dont feel like bd much at the mo...v, moody - maybe thats a good sign tho...!!!