This was one of my favorite threads several months ago. Let’s bring it back this week!
What do you (or “your friend”) do that is likely above & beyond the regular POAS like it is going out of style crazy?
ETA: This thread has a general TW in that it may talk about baby names or hypothetical pregnancies. PLEASE still use discretion with sensitive topics & approrpiate TWs.
Re: GTKY: Does That Make Me Crazy- TTC Edition
I not only have googled different test sensitivities, I have dipped 3 different brands of HPTs at the same time.
“Countdowntopregnancy” website with symptoms by DPO is in my frequently visited sites.
Even though it is hocus-pocus, I like to put my legs up in the air following the sex.
i also religiously stalk FF's charts like mine to see charts with my intercourse pattern and shorter luteal phase that end in pregnancy charts.
I even ask my cats and the magic 8 ball if they think I'm pregnant multiple times a day towards the end of the tww. For the record, my cats this month say no.
Married: 2016
BFP #1 4/23/18, blighted ovum 5/29/18
BFP#2 7/14/18, DS 4/5/19
@jrm_14 I will sometimes put my legs in the air too, but only for like half a minute. I pretty much do almost a headstand. Pretty sure it's a yoga move. lol
I am obsessed with comparing pregnancy charts on FF to try to figure out if mine are like them and if I will get pregnant. I've even been doing it this cycle and I haven't even Od yet.
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!I convinced myself that this cycle will work for the stupidest reason. TW in spoiler - I mention my previous successful cycle and my ridiculous superstition.
Oh, and I took my trigger shot on St. Patrick's Day so it was totally a lucky sign, right? And the stirrup covers on my exam table had 4 leaf clovers on them so... I'm totally KTFU now.
I also Googled "hidden follicles IUI" because I totally had all these super secret eggs that the nurse couldn't find via ultrasound, right? And my e2 levels were a mere 88 the day before trigger but surely they boomed overnight and I had more than 1 follicle ovulate. Sure, L. Sure.
ETA: just realized you might do this b/c you don't want to see BFN's/worry about potential CP's. I totally get that, and I hope this wasn't insensitive! I apologize.
Married: 2016
BFP #1 4/23/18, blighted ovum 5/29/18
BFP#2 7/14/18, DS 4/5/19
Eta- also the good old fashioned - can dogs sense if you're ku, can they hear a heart beat. Because I'm Totes 2 weeks late even though AF 100% came.
I'm also always in denial that AF came until the new one comes, rinse, wash, repeat.
Also I dip both OPKs AND HPTs once I hit fertile week. "Just in case I can get more information from one or other other." When really I think it's just a POS addiction.
Also symptoms by DPO and EDD are also both in my top visited websites. Like... multiple times a day, with every little twinge. Plus the UK ectopic website. The total time I've read and reread that entire website is in the days at the this point and I could probably write a book.
2. google EVERY itch, hiccup, burp, strange smell, bad nights sleep, early fatigue on the treadmill and animal behaviors as SS...check!
3. Go to sites like countdowntopregnancy to post and vote , because I just love squinting at squinters...check!
4. begin poasing days before its possible for an embie to implant...check!
5. and occasionally poasing on cycles where I'm not even trying (because maybe I slipped up and got ktfu!)
6. Do every little thing that anyone has done just cause, hey, you never know (brazil nuts, pineapple core, pom juice, acupuncture, meditation, fertility yoga)
Anyway... this all sounds cray, but in truth I think all this activity keeps me from going LEGIT cray... its like babymaking busy work!!! You know what they say about idle hands! lololol
ps.. this banana man is SO extra!! lol
Semi related - I keep seeing everyhing as a sign I'll have twins next. 2 months ago, I was freaked the freak out by that. But now I kind of hope (don't tell anyone, IRL I'm in denial)...
yeah... its more for mental health... though pineapple core does have bromelain! But I already take a supplement with it so its probably just not needed LOL!
Me: 31
DH: 29, SA - Great
Married: June 12,2011
TTC #1: 1/2014
Diagnosis: Hypothalamic Amenorrhea
Treatment: Clomid: 50mg, 100mg, 150mg - not successful and not monitored
Menopur 75ml (upped to 112.5ml), Ovidrel, & IUI IUI #1 8/31/2015
9/15/2015: BFP HCG - 400, 9/17/2015: HCG - 827, 9/21/2015 - HCG 3,327!-Yesterday I gave myself a tarot card reading that totally showed I was going to get pregnant this cycle (except I have no idea what I'm doing AND I disregarded the first two readings which showed negative results, haha.)
-On my lunchtime walks everything has been so green and beautiful and I decided that was the universe showing me, personally, a sign of fertility for this month. Except, you know, IT'S SPRING and that's why everything is green.
-Every single rainbow I see is a sign just for me personally of course.
Also, @prpl11butterfly re: the twins thing, **TW loss mentioned** I keep feeling like I'm going to get pregnant with twins, since I had two miscarriages, like the universe paying me back. I 100% know it doesn't work that way but I swear I have convinced myself. end TW***
@galactickates I've been obsessively checking the December board since it was up!
@wishiwaspreggo DH thinks I'm crazy with how much POM juice I drink. I add it to everything! My water, my oj, my alcoholic drinks. I bought so much of it when it was on sale at Costco too. Our downstairs fridge is now just storage for POM juice.
ETA:
@maureenmce I love tarot cards! I might give myself a reading when I get home tonight
DS: March 2014
DD: May 2015
BFP: 12/24/17 CP: 1/2/18 @ 4w 3d
BFP: 1/26/18 CP: 2/2/18 @ 4w 4d
BFP: 5/16/18 MMC: 6/15/18 @ 7w 5d
BFP: 9/25/18! EDD: 6/9/19 TEAM GREEN
Also, now I really want to run to the grocery store and stock up on pom juice.
BFP #1: 9/12/2015
DD: 6/1/2016
BFP #2: 1/16/2018 MC 2/2/2018
I’ve done almost all of these things… @catlady2015 I even had a magic 8 ball app on my phone (for some reason unrelated to TTC) and I kept asking it if I was going to get KU month after month. One month it kept telling me NO so I got mad and deleted it off my phone. Screw you magic 8 ball!
The one thing I hadn’t heard of was the pineapple core. Coincidentally I bought a pineapple this weekend so it’s tots a sign I’m going to get KU this month! I mean come on, what are the odds of me buying a pineapple?! I never go grocery shopping. This is totally my body craving what it needs to get KU!
Married: 8/2015
TTC #1: 4/2017
Testing: HSG, U/S, BW, and DH's SA all normal
DX: Unexplained
8/2018: Clomid + TI = BFN
9/2018: Clomid + TI + Progesterone = BFN
11/2018: Clomid + IUI + Progesterone = BFN
12/2018: Letrozole + IUI + Progesterone \\ Cancelled due to cyst
1/2019: Letrozole + IUI + Progesterone = BFP! \\ EDD Sept 30th, 2019
10/7/2019: Healthy baby boy!
TTC #2: 12/2020
2/2021: Letrozole + TI = BFN
3/2021: Letrozole + TI = BFN
4/2021: Surprise! Natural BFP! \\ EDD Jan 6th, 2022 \\ Chemical, betas not rising
8/2021: Letrozole + IUI + Progesterone = BFN
9/2021: Letrozole + IUI + Progesterone = BFN
10/2021: Letrozole + IUI + Progesterone = BFN
11/2021: Letrozole + IUI + Progesterone = BFP! \\ EDD July 29th, 2022
@galactickates I saw a rainbow the day after I started this cycle. SIGN. I tried to get a picture, but then it went away. So, rationally, I cried.
I laughed so hard I choked on my decaf!! lololol
OMG! I didn't even mention the tarot cards because I thought: no way anyone else has done this... I JUST did it on Saturday for next cycle!!! the celtic cross told me NOTHING!!! lololol
I feel like I can do a reading on someone else, but I have never been able to do one for myself. I think its because OBVIOUSLY I'm hella interpreting! lol
Everytime I see cardinals, I think of my aunt. She sends them to me, ever since her passing. A couple of weeks ago, 2 males fly across my path while driving home. Twins. She was also a big CB radio fan. Her name handle (similar to SN) was Tiny Bubbles. Everytime we wash dishes by hand and the tittle bubbles pop up and float out of the bottle, I think of her. The other night, 2 conjoined bubbles float up and hover over me and DH. Just 2. No more, no less. 2 bubbles. Twins.
@prpl11butterfly Lol! That was one of my thoughts last night when I was severely cramping. I googled "heavy cramping 2dpiui" and all kinds of things popped up about twins. Then I started googling if people can feel an egg dividing. It was ridic. Then I freaked out about that. And the cycle repeated itself of thoughts of things that require a tw.
@catlady2015 What do cats know anyway???
@dragonette505 omg I remember cleo commercials lolol
@jrm_14 I was just thinking about the onesie you found
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN
Married: 4/5/13
"You know that place between sleep and awake,
that place where you can still remember dreaming?
That's where I will always love you.
That's where I'll be waiting."
~Peter Pan
*TW*
BFP #2: 10/29/17 MMC dx @ 9 weeks
BFP #3: 2/2/18 MC 2/7/18
BFP #4: 3/2/18 MC 3/9/18
RPL testing and hysteroscopy: all normal
BFP #5: 4/1/18 MMC dx @ 14 weeks ----> genetically normal girl
Hysteroscopy to remove scar tissue 9/28
BFP #6 11/5/18 EDD 7/20/19 Rainbow baby girl born 7/23/19
BFP #7 12/8/2021 EDD 8/22/2022
Gies, I just poas, a digital one. So that I could see it say Pregnant (even though it's the hcg shot) so I could go Take that test, take that!
Lol @coco2787 Did you remarry your first husband? I want her name and number, stat! I wanna ask her if I'm ku with twins.
My 7 Year Journey ***Tw in spoiler***
IVF #1 - September 2018; Follistim, Menopur, Cetrotide & Lupron/HCG combo trigger; PGS; ICSI
Back on Levothyroxine
FET #1 - October 2018; cancelled, all PGS aneuploid
FET #1 - November 30th, transferred anyway
Wondfo BFP 5dp5dt, CB Digi 6dpt,
1st Beta on 7dpt 93
2nd Beta on 10dpt 510!
TTC #1 since 2011. Tried for 5 years before we knew there was a one year rule.
Diag w/MS 2016; w/PCOS & IF 2017
New RE 2018; PCOS diagnosis taken away, IF due to ovary adhesions, but prev. RE insists PCOS IF
IUI
IUI #1 July 2017 w/100mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #2 October 2017 w/50mg Clo+trigger; BFN; benched w/big cysts
IUI #3 February 2018 w/5mg Femara+trigger; low P
BFP February; mc March; Subclinical hypothyroid started Levothyroxine
IUI #4 March 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Medicated cycle & TI April 2018 w/7.5mg Femara+trigger; BFN
Tried several cycles on our own; all BFN