The mighty 2 week wait

Good luck for your blood test today Bonnie! I had brown spotting at the start of my first successful pregnancy too (after 2 MC's before that) and it freaked me out big time as well. My doc never gave me an explanation for it, but it turned out to be nothing to worry about. I get why you don't want to tell your other half, but sometimes sharing the load of the anxiety can help, and it's good to get all the support around you that you can muster - you deserve it!

Yay for the first appointment Laurz - how do you feel about it? Excited? Anxious? I bet it will feel good to start looking for answers after 2 years with no luck.

I have decided to change GP's (partly on the advice of my acupuncturist as she has suggest a few blood tests it would be good for me to get done as I've had 3 MC's now, and my current GP has refused to order them for me, even though I've asked her twice) and called the medical centre where my hubby is enrolled this morning. What is UP with health services in this country when you have to name drop to try and get enrolled with a GP?!? It was only when I said that my hubby was already enrolled there that she said she would make a special request to the doc to see if she would take on me and my 13 month old son as well - before I mentioned DH, the line was that "the books are closed". Still no guarantee that I can change doc's as this one might say no, but I figured I would try - I'm tired of my fertility not being taken seriously by my GP. I had two MC's while I was living in Auckland and my GP there was amazing at the time - had one MC since I've moved to Tauranga and my doc literally told me it was "due to a bad recipe" and that was that. Professional huh? Ok, end of rant. Hope everyone is hanging in there this week :-)

Here is my chart to stalk and be reassured I have no chance! Lol
https://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/318aca

Note that I bed share and breastfeed all night long, so my temps ARE very unstable. I disregarded a couple of the higher pre-O ones after the crosshairs went up just to look better. I didn't temp while away at the breastfeeding conference last weekend so hence the gaps there. The one BD we got in was barely a bd, and it was a good 36+ hours after I had O cramps.

Hope your appt went well Bonnie.
Rin, keep searching until you find a GP you are happy with. The current one sounds like they have a bit of a crappy attitude.
I'm cd5 here with today being last day of AF. Temps are up and down like a yoyo. In the low 36's to mid 36's. Is this normal to vary so much through menstruation? This is the first month I've temp'd throughout my period.

Edited by AJB.Hess - 06 October 2016 at 5:02pm

Hi girls. Well bloods not great but she said she's not worried. Monday they were 1937 and today Thursday they are only 3177. I'm devastated but trying to hold it together.

Edited by Bonnie7725 - 06 October 2016 at 5:32pm

Really? I thought it should be doubled by three days. My doc said she wasn't worried but combined with the brown spotting I feel heart broken. Thank you though. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Reading I have done says the higher the levels are, the longer it takes for it to double and above 2000 it can take 4+days to double.
I'm not a medical professional but your Doc is and with your hx of mc (correct me if I'm wrong...it's hard to keep track of everyone sometimes) if there was something really to be concerned about she would let you know?

Oh Bonnie, after that history and now the worry I can totally see why you're worried, but it really doesn't sound like bad news at this stage, please try not to be devastated at this point. Worry is fine and natural, but devastation will just drag you down. Xxx

Kiwii, everything I've read says an egg lives for a mere 12-24 hours absolute max after O, and I had O pain a solid 36+ hours before we bd (which also wasn't a great bd cos he was having trouble finishing, hence no other bd that week despite trying!!! He finished only barely in me....) so I really really don think there is a chance!! But it's ok, I had an amazing time with no cycle for sooooo many years, I can cope with her coming again this week. :)

As for symptoms, I was maaaajorly emotional and on the verge of tears or really grumpy all day Sunday which I decided must be PMS cos I'm not normally like that over so much of nothing! But otherwise no real symptoms. Some lotiony cm, some yellowy snotty cm, cervix firm and fairly closed though not tightly so. I've been running hot all afternoon/evening, stripping layers off while hubby turns the heatpump up! Haha. But anyway, I'm still sure AF will be here tomorrow, though FF reckons not till Saturday. :)

Fingers crossed for you anyway flying duster even if its only a miniscule chance.
Bonnie those numbers sound ok to me. Try not to worry although easier said than done...when do you get to have a scan?
As for me have copious amounts of ewcm this am which is unusual and as its only cd9 looks like I'm going to ov early again. At least the fertile cm is a good improvement will be jumping dp tonight for sure. Temps still havent settled which is really wierd so my hormones must be quite different this cycle. Here's hoping that makes a difference

I may have confused the 36 hours for the time the egg sits at the junction of the fallopian tube before going into the uterus.

Baby dust for this cycle tho :)

Edited by Kiwiimum - 07 October 2016 at 9:24am

How lucky are you to have your Nana still with you! I recently lost both of my remaining grandparents and wish we had started ttc earlier so they would have been able to meet a great grandchild. But alas, life had other plans.
Good luck for more bloods Bonnie x