February testing thread 2019

[soffphie]

How long is your cycle Sophie?

The reason I ask is that day 21 is helpful if you have an avg 28 day cycle. It could be that it was still on the rise which obviously you won't know unless you had it tested days in a row. From what I've read online women have conceived with progesterone of less than 30.
Then there's levels required for sustaining the pregnancy and women who have a low level at this point would then experience miscarriage.

Totally understand the impact on your mental health. This TTC journey is an absolute mind f*ck!!! I can understand why it causes so many arguements between couples/friends/family. It might be good to implement some of your strategies to help cope with any symptoms to avoid any worsening?

Sending hugs, we get it. xx

Thank you Syney means a lot!!
They dont seem to intend to carry on taking it bloods? just impression i got.. I suppose all i can do is book an appointment with doctors and see what they say! I think i have ovulated, otherwise everything ive ever know.. temps are just all wrong! and would seem crazy theres just no way ive taken temps any differently ever like.. they are what they are...

i mean i found this... (am i wishful thinking!?)

• women in the middle of their menstrual cycle: 5 to 20 ng/mL
• pregnant women in their first trimester: 11.2 to 90 ng/mL
• pregnant women in their second trimester: 25.6 to 89.4 ng/mL
• pregnant women in their third trimester: 48.4 to 42.5 ng/mL
  
  

 

[Sydney]

Thank you Syney means a lot!!
They dont seem to intend to carry on taking it bloods? just impression i got.. I suppose all i can do is book an appointment with doctors and see what they say! I think i have ovulated, otherwise everything ive ever know.. temps are just all wrong! and would seem crazy theres just no way ive taken temps any differently ever like.. they are what they are...

i mean i found this... (am i wishful thinking!?)

• women in the middle of their menstrual cycle: 5 to 20 ng/mL
• pregnant women in their first trimester: 11.2 to 90 ng/mL
• pregnant women in their second trimester: 25.6 to 89.4 ng/mL
• pregnant women in their third trimester: 48.4 to 42.5 ng/mL
  

No most gp's won't take your progesterone on multiple days, which is why sometimes going for a typical day 21 test isn't helpful for someone who has a much longer cycle.

Re the information above - that is in ng/mL - my result is nmol/L so the ranges are different. So depends how yours has been done. The following is taken from here:

Progesterone level calculator

Follicular phase – 1-1.5 ng/ml – 3.2-4.8 nmol/l
Luteal phase – 2-28 ng/ml – 6.4-89 nmol/l

 

[soffphie]

No most gp's won't take your progesterone on multiple days, which is why sometimes going for a typical day 21 test isn't helpful for someone who has a much longer cycle.

Re the information above - that is in ng/mL - my result is nmol/L so the ranges are different. So depends how yours has been done. The following is taken from here:

Progesterone level calculator

Follicular phase – 1-1.5 ng/ml – 3.2-4.8 nmol/l
Luteal phase – 2-28 ng/ml – 6.4-89 nmol/l

Crap youre right.. mine is in nml/L and i got 20. what do you think?

 

[soffphie]

No most gp's won't take your progesterone on multiple days, which is why sometimes going for a typical day 21 test isn't helpful for someone who has a much longer cycle.

Re the information above - that is in ng/mL - my result is nmol/L so the ranges are different. So depends how yours has been done. The following is taken from here:

Progesterone level calculator

Follicular phase – 1-1.5 ng/ml – 3.2-4.8 nmol/l
Luteal phase – 2-28 ng/ml – 6.4-89 nmol/l

Am i wrong that on that site it says luteal phase can be 6.4+ to be normal / ovulation occured? So confused..! So so sooo confused! Ganna have to try gp again tomorrow or atleast ask for a call back.
If i have ovulated why it so low? Isnt this going to have a negative impact and stop implantation even if i ever do catch? Does it mean ill miscarry?

I mean i went from 1 (at 2-5) to 20 day 21..

Hate this! So ironic i really thought what a waste of time this day 21 blood tests are as look @ my charts look @ my temps .. incase you didnt see heres my chart so far for this very cycle..

 

[soffphie]

No most gp's won't take your progesterone on multiple days, which is why sometimes going for a typical day 21 test isn't helpful for someone who has a much longer cycle.

Re the information above - that is in ng/mL - my result is nmol/L so the ranges are different. So depends how yours has been done. The following is taken from here:

Progesterone level calculator

Follicular phase – 1-1.5 ng/ml – 3.2-4.8 nmol/l
Luteal phase – 2-28 ng/ml – 6.4-89 nmol/l

Im an idiot.. lol sorry for 3 replies. Mine is 20 nmol/L

 

[Vintageling]

Congratulations GG
I'm so sorry everyone's having such a rough month.
I'm 10dpo today and my friend is convinced I'm pregnant and trying to convince me to test early but I'm waiting.
I have a really weird feeling this cycle best way to explain it is you know the pressure you have when you have a hot water bottle on your tummy I have that and where that pressure ends I have a dull ache nothing like cramps right along and the ache goes up my sides. I feel abit sick today aswell I know I feel sick every morning anyway but this didn't start till this evening struggling to stomach my juice that I'm normally fine with so fingers crossed but not getting my hopes up

 

[_GG_]

Congratulations GG
I'm so sorry everyone's having such a rough month.
I'm 10dpo today and my friend is convinced I'm pregnant and trying to convince me to test early but I'm waiting.
I have a really weird feeling this cycle best way to explain it is you know the pressure you have when you have a hot water bottle on your tummy I have that and where that pressure ends I have a dull ache nothing like cramps right along and the ache goes up my sides. I feel abit sick today aswell I know I feel sick every morning anyway but this didn't start till this evening struggling to stomach my juice that I'm normally fine with so fingers crossed but not getting my hopes up

Ahhhh, you get really weird non cramp like crampy/tuggy/full sensations when you're in the first trimester pretty much from testing time onwards. Was like it with Kieran and am starting to feel it on and off again now along with the boob ache. I have had boob ache before af every cycle since Kieran but it is slightly different again now...can't describe it but it is.

It's too early for actual morning sickness but the hormones now can cause weird nausea like feelings. Again, not a normal feeling sick feeling but something very similar.

That's been me...we are all different and conception is a weird ass thing to go through. Each of mine I've had slightly different feelings. This one, just the boobs and tummy with a teeny bit of "offness" feeling, others I've had heartburn before a bfp, loads of belching, runny poos....always a bit different.

I have everything crossed for you that this is your cycle xxx

 

[Vintageling]

Ahhhh, you get really weird non cramp like crampy/tuggy/full sensations when you're in the first trimester pretty much from testing time onwards. Was like it with Kieran and am starting to feel it on and off again now along with the boob ache. I have had boob ache before af every cycle since Kieran but it is slightly different again now...can't describe it but it is.

It's too early for actual morning sickness but the hormones now can cause weird nausea like feelings. Again, not a normal feeling sick feeling but something very similar.

That's been me...we are all different and conception is a weird ass thing to go through. Each of mine I've had slightly different feelings. This one, just the boobs and tummy with a teeny bit of "offness" feeling, others I've had heartburn before a bfp, loads of belching, runny poos....always a bit different.

I have everything crossed for you that this is your cycle xxx

Yea I don't feel like I'm going to like but just feels like I've got abit of an unsettled tummy that's why I'm finding it hard to stomach the juice because I'm such a whimp when it comes to feeling off because I hate puking so I do everything I can not to puke because it always makes me feel worse. My fibro has actually been really good the past 2 days and I've been having hell with it since Christmas and I know that friends with fibro said it just sort of vanished when they got pregnant. It ultimately comes back but they all felt great while pregnant. I should be exhausted and hurting because I'm at my friends house at the moment her uncles really poorly so I've been staying to look after her kids

 

[SugaryIris]

Yea I don't feel like I'm going to like but just feels like I've got abit of an unsettled tummy that's why I'm finding it hard to stomach the juice because I'm such a whimp when it comes to feeling off because I hate puking so I do everything I can not to puke because it always makes me feel worse. My fibro has actually been really good the past 2 days and I've been having hell with it since Christmas and I know that friends with fibro said it just sort of vanished when they got pregnant. It ultimately comes back but they all felt great while pregnant. I should be exhausted and hurting because I'm at my friends house at the moment her uncles really poorly so I've been staying to look after her kids

Sounds promising, you’re doing so well to hold out on testing! I can’t help but poas! Xx

 

[Vintageling]

Sounds promising, you’re doing so well to hold out on testing! I can’t help but poas! Xx

I've seen that many negitives now hun I just can't stand it so I wait till AF is late to test because it breaks my heart every time the only times I test a little early now is say I'm going to an event or something and I want to have a couple of drinks but that's very rare. Still have all the same this morning really hoping it's our cycle

 

[Snuddles]

I am 7DPO i think. Determined not to test, never mind seeing the BFN..it is a killer spending that much money. I plan to test 16th Feb.

 

[Vintageling]

Yea I know what you mean snuddles.
I should be testing Monday if AF doesn't arrive

 

[SockVortex]

AF arrived this morning so I’ve been bent over a hot water bottle and crying at my desk. Thankfully my lovely work-family have looked after me until the second lot of painkillers kick in.

Onto month three *sigh*.

 

[Lollypop79]

AF arrived this morning so I’ve been bent over a hot water bottle and crying at my desk. Thankfully my lovely work-family have looked after me until the second lot of painkillers kick in.

Onto month three *sigh*.

Aww sorry sock xx

 

[SugaryIris]

AF arrived this morning so I’ve been bent over a hot water bottle and crying at my desk. Thankfully my lovely work-family have looked after me until the second lot of painkillers kick in.

Onto month three *sigh*.

This is me too! Af arrived and I’ve got a stinking cold so I’m sat at my work desk with lemsip and a hot water bottle.

2 people brought in babies today and one of the girls said ‘aren’t you trying yet?’ I snapped and said ‘yes for 2 years with 3 losses. I don’t know what came over me! I wouldn’t normally say something like that!

 

[SockVortex]

This is me too! Af arrived and I’ve got a stinking cold so I’m sat at my work desk with lemsip and a hot water bottle.

2 people brought in babies today and one of the girls said ‘aren’t you trying yet?’ I snapped and said ‘yes for 2 years with 3 losses. I don’t know what came over me! I wouldn’t normally say something like that!

Serves them right, Iris, if they phrased it that way.

 

[Vintageling]

Sending hugs sock and iris and to be fair good on you iris people shouldn't be asking they don't know what goes on in our private lives

 

[Sjf0709]

Cycle Day 33 - 13 DPO for me... AF due today but no sign yet. BFN on Wednesday so I assumed AF would be here by now (I usually get AF in a morning when I wake up) but no signs and being quite dry down there with a little CM... tempted to try to hold a wee in and test when I get home if AF still isn’t here but then again I’ve already had a BFN so why do I get deluded in the thinking I have some hope?!?

 

[Vintageling]

Cycle Day 33 - 13 DPO for me... AF due today but no sign yet. BFN on Wednesday so I assumed AF would be here by now (I usually get AF in a morning when I wake up) but no signs and being quite dry down there with a little CM... tempted to try to hold a wee in and test when I get home if AF still isn’t here but then again I’ve already had a BFN so why do I get deluded in the thinking I have some hope?!?

You still have hope hun your not out till the red lady sings so if AF hasn't come I'd totally test

 

[Sjf0709]

You still have hope hun your not out till the red lady sings so if AF hasn't come I'd totally test

Thanks... I’ll see how I feel later and how long I’ve been able to hold a wee in for haha