TTC #8 A great adventure is about to begin…

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Meg78 said:
Had an internal scan recently and found out one ovary is completely dormant, 0 follicles, and the other only has 4, which is dire for my age 😞 not really sure if anything can be done to improve it
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I’m sorry to hear this 😔

Do you have a follow-up appointment to discuss your options/ next steps?

I’m too scared to get checked. Like you I was pregnant with my first fairly quickly but now struggling with baby #2.
 
call.me.coco said:
I’m sorry to hear this 😔

Do you have a follow-up appointment to discuss your options/ next steps?

I’m too scared to get checked. Like you I was pregnant with my first fairly quickly but now struggling with baby #2.
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Follow up appointment is scheduled for Thursday, I think NHS services will reject me due to BMI, but this hospital also offers private services, so I suspect I may be manoeuvred to that side instead. I’m aware I have a shorter literal phase and that will be down to lowered progesterone, my thyroid function has been sliding downward too so it tracks as they’re linked. The obvious answer to me would be to go on progesterone, but getting them to agree is the hard part! I’ll update on Thursday with what they say, in the meantime I’m hoping someone else has been here with a low follicle count and has advice or a success story 🤞🏻
 
I am feeling blue. My Husband is testing just below the healthy sperm range. He was fine we thought until the test, I had a pregnancy in March that tragically didn’t last. We have been referred for ivf.

According to my app, AF is due Friday. I have what could be pregnancy symptoms but I cannot allow myself to get excited. I just feel so disappointed. Watching every woman around you have babies (and multiple times) stings. It’s a hurt I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
 
Really sorry for what you're going through MidnightAura. The only comfort I can offer is to tell you that you're not alone, and that there's more of us out there than you realise. A lot of us here sought out this thread for similar reasons.

I relate a lot to the fear of getting hopeful, and for me it's even the fear of NOT getting hopeful, because if I give up on this, what chances do I have of ever conceiving? Be gentle and kind to yourself. This is the most difficult, heartbreaking journey to be on and the silence / invisibility of it can make it even harder than it already is. Holding out hope for you and for all of us here x
 
testingonetwothreefoiur said:
Really sorry for what you're going through MidnightAura. The only comfort I can offer is to tell you that you're not alone, and that there's more of us out there than you realise. A lot of us here sought out this thread for similar reasons.

I relate a lot to the fear of getting hopeful, and for me it's even the fear of NOT getting hopeful, because if I give up on this, what chances do I have of ever conceiving? Be gentle and kind to yourself. This is the most difficult, heartbreaking journey to be on and the silence / invisibility of it can make it even harder than it already is. Holding out hope for you and for all of us here x
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Thank you! And yes I totally feel that too, if I give up altogether I will always wonder what if.
My husband is more optimistic than I am. Which is good I guess.
And yes, absolutely mountains of hope for us all in here. x
 
I have tracked my period for nearly 3 years and it's crazy how different the apps predict ovulation date 🤔

Flo - October 13th
Premom - October 6th
Femometer - October 17th
 
Sunshine489 said:
I have tracked my period for nearly 3 years and it's crazy how different the apps predict ovulation date 🤔

Flo - October 13th
Premom - October 6th
Femometer - October 17th
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That’s wild! I kind of hoped the apps would ‘learn’ based on the data they’re being given but mine are certainly not learning anything from me whatsoever…
 
Can anyone advise on which app is the most reliable to tracking ovulation days? I use three apps currently to track my periods and they all come up with different peak days, are the sticks the most reliable way to track ovulation?
thanks
 
Charlotte1007 said:
Can anyone advise on which app is the most reliable to tracking ovulation days? I use three apps currently to track my periods and they all come up with different peak days, are the sticks the most reliable way to track ovulation?
thanks
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I use one called Ovia, I also did the clear blue ovulation tests one month and to be fair the dates with the smiley faces did match the ovulation window dates on Ovia. It's a free app and you can log all sorts of details on the calendar
 
My cycle is usually around 24/25 days, today is day 25 but my apps are predicting AF in about 6 days as they always seem to at day 30 despite me setting them to 25.
The top pics below, the large test I did this afternoon is within the 5 min time frame. It showed nothing. The small ones were this morning’s first wee and faint lines came up roughly within the 5 mins.
The pics below the large one was about 10/15 mins beyond time frame. I’ve had a suspected false positive after the time frame with these tests before. I’ve never had any kind of line before on the little ones.
What do we think please? Evap?
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Charlotte1007 said:
Can anyone advise on which app is the most reliable to tracking ovulation days? I use three apps currently to track my periods and they all come up with different peak days, are the sticks the most reliable way to track ovulation?
thanks
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I'm the same, use 3 apps and they all predict different so I've started using the ovulation tests
 
littlepup said:
My cycle is usually around 24/25 days, today is day 25 but my apps are predicting AF in about 6 days as they always seem to at day 30 despite me setting them to 25.
The top pics below, the large test I did this afternoon is within the 5 min time frame. It showed nothing. The small ones were this morning’s first wee and faint lines came up roughly within the 5 mins.
The pics below the large one was about 10/15 mins beyond time frame. I’ve had a suspected false positive after the time frame with these tests before. I’ve never had any kind of line before on the little ones.
What do we think please? Evap?
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some of them look like they have colour to them to me! Sending good vibes x
 
Hi ladies, I’ve been lurking for a while reading over the old threads and honestly the advice and good vibes you give to each other is amazing 🩷

I’m really new to all this. My partner and I haven’t used contraception at all this year and although I wasn’t tracking properly we would have definitely had sex multiple times in my fertile windows and it hit me over the summer that nothing has happened, not even a scare. I’m early 30s and have been pregnant beforeunfortunately due to an unsupportive partner in my 20s I terminated which I will regret forever so I know I could get pregnant at one point in my life. The past 2-3 months I’ve tracked using apps, no ovulation tests…yet. My AF is due next Monday and I’m scrutinising every little symptom. My periods are pretty regular but I’m now forgetting what’s a normal AF symptom for me 😂I’m a lot more tired and only walking a small distance gets me knackered and roasting just now and I’m feeling nauseous around dinner time each day but then I’m thinking it’s all in my head. The biggest mind duck is that pregnancy symptoms are so similar to AF. I’m sending love to all those who have been on this journey for a long time because my head is wrecked.
 
Because I’m really dumb, I trusted what PreMom and Flo were telling me about my ovulation window and started my ovulation tests late in my cycle. Looking at my thoroughly non-existent results despite both apps screaming at me to go have sex, I clearly ovulate way, way earlier in my cycle despite it being a 35-36 day length. I mostly feel annoyed at myself that I have no idea about my own body, that I didn’t follow instructions to test from the first day after the end of my period where I would have caught it, that it’s so outrageously complicated to me and that I’ve messed up our chances for another cycle. We’ve not even been trying that long and I’m feeling despondent and hopeless with it all already. Maybe I should stick to pet ownership…
 
ThisIsMyDragName said:
Because I’m really dumb, I trusted what PreMom and Flo were telling me about my ovulation window and started my ovulation tests late in my cycle. Looking at my thoroughly non-existent results despite both apps screaming at me to go have sex, I clearly ovulate way, way earlier in my cycle despite it being a 35-36 day length. I mostly feel annoyed at myself that I have no idea about my own body, that I didn’t follow instructions to test from the first day after the end of my period where I would have caught it, that it’s so outrageously complicated to me and that I’ve messed up our chances for another cycle. We’ve not even been trying that long and I’m feeling despondent and hopeless with it all already. Maybe I should stick to pet ownership…
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I think many of us have had a similar experience! I’ve made the same mistake! Now I usually start testing a day or two after my period ends, around the same time(ish) each day and then start testing twice (once in the afternoon and once in the evening) a few days after that. My cycle is still a little irregular, but I believe I ovulate roughly between day 11 and 13 and my peak is very short, so I think it would be easy to miss if I didn’t test more than once a day.

I started ignoring the apps completely and just using Premom to log all of my tests. Sending love!
 
aggytha said:
I think many of us have had a similar experience! I’ve made the same mistake! Now I usually start testing a day or two after my period ends, around the same time(ish) each day and then start testing twice (once in the afternoon and once in the evening) a few days after that. My cycle is still a little irregular, but I believe I ovulate roughly between day 11 and 13 and my peak is very short, so I think it would be easy to miss if I didn’t test more than once a day.

I started ignoring the apps completely and just using Premom to log all of my tests. Sending love!
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Thank you! I feel like I don’t have the right to have this strop as I have been actively trying to get pregnant for a minute, and many experience this for years with much more grace than I have shown so far. I just worried that I’m old, my periods started when I was very young, and I have no idea if my years of mirena use or my endometriosis (and maybe adenomyosis) have had any impact on me. I think I’m angry that women’s health still seems to be this totally mysterious thing that nobody really understands, of ant least I don’t even understand my own body, and certainly I never got properly taught about, even by fellow females! So misogynistic. Plus my husband has had to do nothing whatsoever for any of this journey, except have sex with me. What a hardship 🤣🤣. It’s not that he isn’t supportive, but he doesn’t get it, and why would he, I guess!
 
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