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Just thought I'd come on here to vent... the two week wait is absolute torture!
I've completed one week, so I'm halfway there. My period is due next Tuesday or Wednesday...
Right after ovulation, I felt very optimistic as I felt a lot of cramping or something going on. I normally feel a bit of ovulation pain, but nothing like this. However, I haven't really felt anything since last Friday. NOTHING. No extra boob soreness, no tiredness... nothing. The only thing is (TMI ALERT!) that I've had a tiny bit of CM. I normally get the EW CM right before ovulation, and then I'm dry after that. I haven't been entirely dry. I also chart, and my temps are high, but that is normal for not being pregnant so it doesn't mean anything.
And I've turned into an over-analyzer!!!!
EEEEEEK!
At first I felt like this could be "it" for us, but now I feel like it's more 50/50!
I guess we will wait a week and see, but the wait is killing me!
Hang in there!
I know what you mean! :( The first couple times I tried so hard not to over analyze but of course silently I did. Each time my husband brings me back to reality.
Last month (cycle 4) was a hard one.
My TWW is coming up, so we'll see!
GL to you!
@LoveHappy we must be on identical cycles because you are I are right in sync.... and I'm doing the exact same thing... I have a little more CM than usual, and I keep THINKING that I'm feeling funny cramps and stuff, but I'm not sure if it's all in my head.
No other symptoms yet... fingers crossed for both of us!
I'm going thru the tww torture, too! You aren't alone! I have (TMI!!) sore nipples, CM (usually dry after ovulation), tired, slight nausea this morning and some cramps yesterday. AHHH!! It's nuts, isn't it? Good luck ladies!
im in my tww too, about 9 days left and it is going soooooo slow. i kinda keep analyzing things to, but then maybe i am notcing things more bc i want to notice things more. (TMI alert) although i did have cm when i am usually dry after O. Its our first month ttc so i highly douby this month will be our month. sending baby dust to all of us!
I have been charting since I came off the pill (to avoid conception for a few months before starting to TTC). I just looked back at some of my old charts and I DID have CM after ovulation. One month I had CM 4-5 days past ovulation, and another month I had CM 9 days after ovulation.
I guess I was hoping that the CM was an "early" sign, but I guess it is actually pretty normal for me.
Back to the waiting game! 
Me too! I'm on day 12 and felt nauseous today. Might just be a touch of the flu though??? I have to use my will power to not buy a test on the way home from work tonight and wait a few more days.
In the TWW as well...and yes it should be TTWW - Torturous Two Week Wait. I still have til next Saturday to wait. And trying to keep my mind off it...which is like darn impossible. Ugh...
baby dust to everyone.
TWW here as well! It's seriously the worst, and I'm with you in that I'm supposed to get my period next week sometime. The problem with me is that my cycle is about 40 days long...so it's just plain ridiculous. I knew exactly when I ovulated this time and hopefully things work out, but I feel absolutely nothing right now and am afraid that AF will arrive on time.
Good luck to everyone else! I hope this is one of our months!
Whoever invented the two week wait, should be shot!!!! lol Seriously, it IS the worst! Good luck to all of you also in the two week wait!! I'm only on Day 6po, so I have 8 more days to wait. Not sure if I'll be able to refrain from testing before that, though!!!
I came across this online and had to share:
The Two-Week Wait Activity List
14 Things To Do When 14 Days Seem Like Forever
by Lynn Steen
As any woman who is trying to get pregnant can tell you, the two weeks from ovulation to the due date for your next period are pure torture. You promise yourself you'll just wait it out, distract yourself with other activities and you won't even THINK about taking a pregnancy test until you're at least a day overdue. Then something happens - your breasts start hurting in a slightly different way than they did before, you get slightly nauseous, you have some spotting …Or nothing happens, but you find yourself waking up wishing you could go to sleep again so that it would be another day closer to knowing. You can't think, you can't sleep, you can't work, you start taking HPTs days before they are even possibly meaningful. You are deep in the abyss of THE TWO-WEEK WAIT!
In my opinion, it's no use advising women to stop obsessing, it's impossible. Instead, I give you a list of more productive ways to obsess. Please note, however, that there is a limit that each woman must define for herself, between indulging in some baby-daydreaming and going overboard. I've included some examples below:
1. Take a walk around your neighborhood and figure out what will be the best route for strolls with the baby. Find areas with nice sidewalks and easy curbs. Go ahead and daydream. But do NOT buy a stroller for the dog.
2. Clean out your closet to make room for the maternity stuff you'll be buying soon. Try on anything you haven't worn for six months. Yes, if you wish, you may put a pillow in your undies to see what will work as maternity wear. But taking a picture of yourself like that is going too far.
3. Start a journal. Write down everything you're feeling. It will be a great opening chapter for your child's baby book. If you can't put your feelings into words draw something, try to create a symbol that expresses the frustration you're feeling. Don't get that symbol tattooed on your ankle.
4. Plant a hope garden. Or a hope rosebush. Or a hope citrus tree. You want to grow something inside of you, well start by growing something outside of you. Nurture it. Feed it. Give it water. Talk to it. But do not send out birth announcements.
5. Get better at photography. Really learn how to work all the buttons and settings on your camera. Experiment! If you have a digital camera, get all the downloading and editing stuff worked out. You will be well-prepared once you have a baby, and will be able to get some great shots and get them emailed to your family before the child's graduation. Do not take photos of your cervical mucous, even if Toni Weschler begs you.
6. Make an appeal to the committee meeting going on inside you. Sperm, egg, uterus, corpus luteum, progesterone…they are in there either making a baby or not. Treat them like any other unruly committee you've ever addressed. Yes that's right, go ahead and talk to them. Put your hands on your stomach and tell them how much you respect them. Make your best argument in favor of a baby, and then let them decide. It's out of your hands. Addressing the committee within earshot of normal people is not recommended.
7. Paint your toenails. Imagine how difficult this will be when you are pregnant. Go shopping for the perfect pink and blue nailpolish in preparation for a celebration polish. Alternating colors on the day you find out you're pregnant, or a single color for the day you find out the baby's sex. Don't be tempted to paint a cycle day countdown on your big toes.
8. Make a cup of herbal tea. It is a nice ritual: boiling the water, adding the tea leaves, pouring into a nice china cup, adding some milk or sugar, sipping peacefully. Ahhhh. There's nothing that a nice cup of tea won't help. Yeah right. Well it does kill a little bit of time.
9. Swim laps. Think about the sperm and how they need to swim to your egg. Imagine that you are a sperm, the end of the pool is the egg, then GO, GO, GO! Don't wear a tail or anything. Just imagine it quietly.
10. Make lists. List who you will tell when you get pregnant and in what order. List all the chores you need to get done instead of obsessing about this. List all the healthy activities you intend to do this week. List all the girl and boy names you like. Lists are helpful for all sorts of things, most of all for passing time rather than actually doing something.
11. Create a fertility dance. Choose whatever music speaks to your soul and make up a dance routine as a prayer to the universe for the growth of an embryo. Move your hips, rotate your belly, let your arms flow… but close the curtains.
12. Prepare a folic acid feast. Cream of broccoli soup appetizer, followed by spinach lasagna, enriched whole grain garlic bread and frozen orange juice sorbet for dessert. Dedicate the meal to your baby-to-be. Just don't set a highchair at the table in his or her honor.
13. Delegate the burden of the two-week wait. Clearly someone has to worry constantly during this time, but does it have to be you? Divide the days up among your best friends and closest family. On their assigned day they are required to think,wonder, and worry all day about whether you are pregnant or not. At the end of the day they have to call or send you email describing how agonizing it was. Also they have to report to you if they had any "symptoms," such as sore breasts, excessive urination, nausea, bleeding, fatigue…You will be surprised how many people, male and female, have early pregnancy symptoms if they just look for them.
@Vitsippa: Oh my gosh-that is hilarious!! Thanks for posting. Hope you don't mind that I'm going to post this over in our infertility thread where a couple of us are in the TWW. This is just awesome. Thanks!
I resisted testing this morning. I was soooo tempted because it's the first day I *might* be able to tell... but I told myself that if I tested today and it was negative (very likely), I couldn't test again until early next week. And then I hopped out of bed and peed very quickly so I didn't have time to second guess myself! LOL!
BUT the bad news is that I'm not really having any symptoms like I was. No CM anymore... or very very little. Boob soreness is normal for PMS, as are any of the other symptoms that I am convincing myself to have. So I am a little less hopeful than I was earlier in the week.
how is everyone doing during the wait?? Uh not to much here, think i wil be getting my period this month though, im still a week out but im getting signs of my period :(
i have little bit of cramps and tiredness which is normal for me. have to be honest, kinda bummed. although i do have heartburn on and off for the last couples days but that could be due to the nervousness/anxiety of waiting.
@lovehappy- good job not testing!
@lovehappy- I resisted testing this morning too! I woke up over 2 hours early because I had to pee sooooo bad (which is very unusual for me... though I haven't have any more increased frequency throughout the day) and I resisted testing with all my might! I just kept thinking, I don't want to look at another BFN!
@stargal34, I'm pretty sure I'm getting my period this month as well, all the symptoms I thought I was getting seem to have stopped, so we'll see. Next week ladies, it's either BFP or AF!
So I didn't resist today... I tested and it was negative. I know it's still early, but I actually realized that testing (and seeing a negative) is a good thing for me. It is sort of breaking up the (huge) disappointment that I'm probably not pregnant into smaller pieces.
I don't have any of the symptoms I had last week, and I'm pretty sure I'm NOT pregnant. And seeing it on the test this morning, while knowing that there is still a small CHANCE, sort of lessened the blow. I don't think I'd be able to wait until next week and then handle when my period comes. That seems like a huge disappointment handed to me all at once. I'll probably test again on Monday, and if it is still negative, then that will lessen the blow a little more.
OH- and I woke up about 10 minutes earlier than I normally do and I had to pee so bad that I jumped out of bed without temping. Grrrr. My temp dropped a tiny bit yesterday, so I wanted to see if it dropped again today, because that is my normal pattern before I get my period. Oooopps. MUST temp tomorrow!
@lovehappy- you never know, you still could be! 
I'm hoping you are! what day did you test on? i was thinking about testing in a few days too, to wade off some of hte pressure/disapointment like you were saying. so i might still considering it...urgh serously why cnt it be a two day wait?!?!?!
Well I broke down and tested again today (even thought it's still very early) and it was negative. I know this doesn't mean I'm not pregnant but it still stinks. I get all these ideas in my head about fantastic ways that I could tell my family (like over Easter Dinner tomorrow and stuff)..... Still 5 days from my expected period..... ugh! So sick of waiting!
I'm on day 31 of a 30-35 day cycle...no idea if or when I O'd (never got a peak on a digital OPK) and doubt I am P (but last week was convinced I was due to lots of cramping every day). Tested Friday and yesterday and both were BFN. May test again tomorrow if I don't have AF. Already trying to put this month behind me....
@Erindesmar: Did you test today?? Any good news???
@prettylizy: 5 days out is still very early so you could definitely be pregnant. I did the same thing... thought about how I could tell my husband... but still got a negative test. Here's hoping... for both of us!!!
@stargal34: I agree... a 2 day wait would be much kinder! 
I still think that seeing a negative on a stick a few days out helps lessen the blow, rather than just waiting for AF. I think my hopes would be soooo high if I were just waiting for AF.
@Jenn23: Did you test at all yet??
I tested on Sunday... still negative. And I don't feel anything at all. But my temps are still high. They usually drop on Monday morning, and I get my period by Wednesday, but they were still high today. Although that could just mean that my temps will drop tomorrow/Wed and I'll get my period Thursday... but we'll see. In the meantime, I'll keep crossing my fingers and toes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ANYONE ELSE???? C'mon ladies in the TWW... we need some good news around here!!!!!!!!!
I agree we need some good news for all the TTC gals around here.
Someone anyone get pregnant this month. If I cant this month then someone else better!
@lovehappy- we're soooo close... my AF is due on Wednesday..... I'm really hoping she doesn't come this month!!!
I had really bad cramps on one side of my pelvis on Saturday night at dinner with my parents accompanied by (maybe TMI... sorry!) 'the scoots'. But no spotting, so I'm not sure if it was intestinal or uterine cramping. No extra soreness in my boobs but my nipples are sensitive. DH caught on to the symptoms and he's starting to hope this is it too.
Got another BFN this morning, so who knows. I've decided no more tests until the end of this week, that'll give AF a chance to come, and if she doesn't, then we'll go from there!
@panterapeach-- I'm trying really hard to graduate out of TTC this month! lol!
Good luck everyone! as an FYI, the only time I tested before AF was ~4 days before my period was due (11 DPO), got a negative, and only found out almost a full week later I was in fact preggers! (a few days after my period didn't show up). So early testing can easily be wrong - fingers crossed :)
I did test again today - BFN! All my PMS symptoms seem to be gone though... Will wait until Wednesday or Thursday to test again.
Good luck to everyone!!
i agree we need some good news around here! i havent tested and my period is due on thursday, but i feel like im gonna get it, i have some of the signs. urgh this is hard. 
im convinced this isnt my month.
.... AF is due tomorrow, and I just had some VERY light brownish spotting...
I'm pretty sure I'm out this month. Will let you all know tomorrow.
Ok I'm registered!! I have been following this group well... for exactly 2 weeks now. My story is that I was not TTC but we ran into a situation. We were on vaca with family when I was beginning to run out of my BC. The day we got back I left for a business trip for a wk. We have actually recently moved and my "woman doctor" is still back home. When I called for a re-fill she was out of office... long story short it took some time to get the BC and by that time I was advised to wait till my next period.
When I got home from my bus trip needless to say my husband and I "got it on" quite a bit. I really didnt think this was a risk since so many ppl say it takes 6 months of being off BC. (Background I have only been on BC for 5 months before this last month of not taking it)
All the sudden it has been in my head that this is it... I may be pregnant. I have always wanted kids and this is something that my husband and I plan to do but just not now. I started experiencing terrible headaichs (which I never get unless I have a fever) dizziness, and then the hiccups come... BAD. I google hiccups are... the firrst thing that pops up is "early symptom of pregnancy". I have yet to tell my Husband about all this just because Im scared myself and his fear will def not help mine. I started thinking this was all in my head. That the mind can play funny tricks on you until yesterday after lunch when i started feeling really sick and eventually threw up. I took a test this morning and it was negative. I think my husband suspects something bc I asked him to get me milk the other night (which I never drink) and then he asked me 4 times why..My period is also due on Thursday. Am I playing head games with myself? Has anyone else experienced hiccups?
After these past two weeks I feel like I have been on a roller coaster. From sobbing that I was pregnant to my older sister... to feeling some sort of disapointment this morning after the test. Regardless I need to have a conversation this evening with my husband and fill him in. More or less I just want to know. Needless to say my feelings on getting pregnant have drastically changed in just two short weeks.
PS I also wanted to reinforce that my husband was fully aware I wasnt on BC when we were doing the deed. I was just reading my post and I think that is an important piece of information
@nonoame: its so frustrating and hard to distiquish pregancy symptoms isnt it? I have seen people who had dead on pregancy symptoms and then dont end up being pregnant. its so frustrating ive expierenced it first hand too when i had so many symptoms but didnt end up pregnat..like last year (we werent trying ) i thought there might be a little bit of a possiblity bc my period was 2 weeks late and i threw up a couple times... but nope. You took a test two days out from your period right? I have heard of many women taking tests early like that and getting false negatives bc the hormone couldnt be detected yet... unfort, i guess you just have to wait. urgh, im waiting for thursday too, if it makes you feel any better (it sucks!!)
@prpettylizzy: Sorry to hear that :(
Thanks so much Stargal34... Yes Thursday feels like lightyears away. But I am kind of expecting to be late too... which makes me even more anxious. I hear the first time off BC it may take some time to get your period. I told myself I am just going to wait for it and if nothing happens by Sunday take another test. Thanks so much
i started spotting a little bit looks like im out for this month. bummed out.
Period started this morning :( boo!
hows everyone else doing?? We NEED good news on this thread!
@ stargak34 Im so sorry to hear that. Go do something special for yourself that you wouldnt usually do today. Maybe buy a new lipstick or get some new lingerie and start getting excited about your next opportunity to try!!
@nonoame: Sorry to hear about your confusion! I think you could probably take a test today or tomorrow morning to see if you are pregnant. My doc told me that you could actually be a little MORE fertile in the month coming off birth control, and I know a few people who have gotten pregnant immediately. And on the other hand, I know a few people who haven't gotten pregnant for months after coming off birth control. I'm sure it's even more frustrating, because periods can definitely be a little wacky right after coming off birth control, so it's hard to judge when you'll get it!
Did you have a conversation with your husband last night?? How did it go??
@prettylizy: How's it going for you? Any update?
@stargal34: Booooo! So sorry to hear your period started!!!
@Lovehappy We did... he said he had a feeling as I suspected he did. Right now I am feeling that Im not. I haven't had any symptoms yesterday or this morning. We both talked about just going off the pill after this wedding we have in early June. And Just" let it happen" if it will happen.
That is interesting that your doctor said some women are most fertile right off the pill. Did he say any reason for that?This might be TMI but my last 3 months on the pill weren't a pleasant one. I changed brands due to our move and it made me have my period for 2 wks out of the month. I thought my body would adjust to the brand but it didnt. I did miss a few pills the last month I was taking BC while we were on vaca with the fam (i take it in the PM and we were always eating or playing games and away from my purse) but it was at the end and I didnt think it was a big deal bc I was already on my period which was early yet again. So I dunno
I'm at the point where I would be ectatic if I was especially after talking about it with my husband. As of right now though I dont think the odds are in my favor.
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