Kiss my hiney Phantom Symptoms

adamstodrake · July 2011

I mean really, first 2ww and this is a total mind f***k. It's like my symptoms with DS all over again, which would be great except for my dismal temps. Blech. How do you guys ignore all this?

notquiteblushing · July 2011

I haven't been there yet but as they say, it's not over until the fat lady sings. Good luck!

amanda079 · July 2011

Hi! I'm 9DPO today as well... and you're right - the 2WW blows. This is our 3rd cycle, and it hasn't gotten any better for me...lol. I'm starting to get a feel for these new "symptoms", which for the past 2mths have gotten my hopes up. Hang in there! Best of luck to you!

BigIsland07 · July 2011

My favorite coping mechanism is to freak out. haha. Helpful? I'm at 12 DPO and waiting waiting waiting to test! Good luck!

adamstodrake · July 2011

notquiteblushing:
I haven't been there yet but as they say, it's not over until the fat lady sings. Good luck!

Thanks :0) I need to keep that mind.

adamstodrake · July 2011

amanda079:
Hi! I'm 9DPO today as well... and you're right - the 2WW blows. This is our 3rd cycle, and it hasn't gotten any better for me...lol. I'm starting to get a feel for these new "symptoms", which for the past 2mths have gotten my hopes up. Hang in there! Best of luck to you!

Since last month we TTA I didn't even think about symptoms, wish I had now. Good luck to you as well!

adamstodrake · July 2011

BigIsland07:
My favorite coping mechanism is to freak out. haha. Helpful? I'm at 12 DPO and waiting waiting waiting to test! Good luck!

Hmmm... freaking out. I like it! Lol. Good luck to you!

Laouli · July 2011

UUgg this is my first 2ww as well and I am 7dpo! I knowI need to wait to test and it would be silly to test now... In the meantime I am just charting every little thing just so I know... and a lot of this stuff I know normally happens to me a week before AF.. so I am trying desperately not to overthink it!

gberg1331 · July 2011

BigIsland07:

My favorite coping mechanism is to freak out.

hahahaaha! this.

advb0921 · July 2011

This is our 2nd month TTC and the 2ww sucks...the "symptoms" really got my hopes up but I am going to try to relax this cycle and not overthink too much...even though its all i can think about

good luck!

mel66 · July 2011

Laouli:
UUgg this is my first 2ww as well and I am 7dpo! I knowI need to wait to test and it would be silly to test now... In the meantime I am just charting every little thing just so I know... and a lot of this stuff I know normally happens to me a week before AF.. so I am trying desperately not to overthink it!

I'm in my first 2WW as well - and it blows chunks! I think my body is going crazy or there is really something brewing. But I'm trying not to get my hopes up just yet. I'm only 8DPO and going to try and hold off until Monday to test.

I'm also charting every little thing that I'm noticing in my body right now - so that I can keep the best track of it.

brobbins2 · July 2011

There are no two ways about it, the 2ww stink. I try to keep myself busy, but end up obsessing a fair amount.

+BaileyM+ · July 2011

adamstodrake:
It's like my symptoms with DS all over again, which would be great except for my dismal temps. Blech.

THIS, exactly. We weren't even trying this cycle, but because we'd agreed to start trying in August I started thinking/obsessing about it... and then we were lax about BC at the beginning of the cycle (probably because we'd both agreed August was the right time to start trying for another and hey, we were on vacation and it was ALMOST August, right?)... and I think from EWCM and a little bit of ovulation spotting with cramps that I O'ed a few days early, so our early-cycle no-BC was more dangerous than I'd thought...

And I swear from the very moment the "What if?" crossed my mind, I've felt EVERY single symptom that meant I was pregnant last time around. The weird very-low cramping and twinging under my pubic bone, the sore boobs, waking up in the middle of the night, etc. Haven't felt any of these things since March '09. Last time we weren't actively trying either so I noted the symptoms only in hindsight and know they weren't phantom. Like, I was actually telling my DH back then during the 2WW "I have the oddest cramping" and wondering why my boobs looked different, and I didn't guess I might be pregnant.

But this time they're totally phantom, I'm sure. GAH. You have my sympathies.