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Chicks, Wow that is great. I am so happy that it is working for you. I know you will be next on the list of moms. Thanks for the words of encouragement Been There and Chicks. Today I have been having really bad cramps (12 Aleeves in 2 hrs.) and still spotting brownish/watery discharge. I will be really suprised if I don't start tomorrow. My temp went down .4 yesterday and another .1 today. DH should be home tomorrow nite or Sunday. I hate that I will be spending that time with AF but I am really looking forward to being with him. Maybe by then I will be feeling better, yucky today.

Hi girls! Sorry, I've been gone last day or so. chicks, I am SO HAPPY!!!!!!! for you! That is so awesome! I can't wait to hear what happens with you! Good luck and I'll be praying that this month will be yours! ~~~~~~~merlee, don't give up yet! chicks and Been There are right. Just wait it out and keep your hopes up because you never know. Many women get PG but feel like or have s/s like their going to start their af. That could be what your experiencing right now. Let me know how things are going. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for you! ~~~~~ Well, I tested yesterday and to my disappointment, got a bfn. But still no af and cramps feel like their lightening up and I don't feel like I have to start my af, but occasionally.(did I spell that right?) I don't know if that's a good thing or not!? But the one thing I do know is that something was and may still be up with me. I've never gotten cramping like that without starting my af! My mother in law said that it's probably still too early to tell. I hope she's right. I'm just going to wait this out and not even go near those stupid HPTs! Too expensive and disappointing right now! Something has gotta give sometime! I do have a few ??? Do you girls know 1. How long does implantation last? 2. Does hCG production start at the beginning of implantation or when it ends? 3. How many days after hCG production starts does it take to become detectable in urine and blood? Loads of ***BABY DUST*** to all of us!

Well AF showed today. My LP was only 11 days this time - not good. Oh, well, there is always next month. Anna, I don't know the answers to your questions for certain but I can take a stab at it. Implantation can occur anywhere from 5-14 days after O (not the whole time, but anywhere in that time frame). I don't know when hCG is produced, but it doubles every other day, I think. The blood test can usually pick up any amount, and the early hpt's pick it up about 20. Give it time, I'm so sure this is it for you! ~~~Baby~~Dust~~~

Hi ladies! Wow Merlee, I'm so sorry.. That stupid AF.. You have the right attitude though! Next month will be better.. I'll be praying hard for you.. Nothing is really new with me, I just came on to see how you ladies are! Anna, any sign of AF yet? I hope not.. I'll do my best to answer your questions too.. I agree about the price of the HPT's (trust me on that one..) so I now order them off E-bay. You can get 100 test strips for like $25.00. So, if you're a peestickaholic like me, it's a hell of a lot cheaper and they detect little amounts of HCG (these ones are 25 mIU) so they are like the ones that the doctor's offices use. That, I suggest to you for price wise.. Second of all, there are lots of ways to double check what HCG levels should be according to DPO. If you even type in to the search engine, "HCG levels during pregnancy", I'm sure you'll find a chart outlining the amounts there should be at what times and gives a range. Please remember though that these don't apply to everyone. Merlee is right on the money about the time it takes to implant. As soon as that happens, which should be just before or just when your period is due, then the HCG levels will start to rise. This is why doctors mostly tell you to wait until you're a week late to get the most accurate reading. But, go on to a website and have a look at the chart outlining the levels. Also, if any of you are fighting with OPK's and HPT's and what a positive/negative/error/evap looks like, go to www.peeonastick.com. I've found that to be extremely helpful in identifying what things look like in real life. It's a great site! Anyways darlin, Implantation I heard can take anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of days. So, the cramping can be caused from implantation.. I'm really feeling good things for you! I'd give it a couple of days and take another one. Give the levels a chance to rise. In the meantime, consider those test sticks off the internet.. I've never found them to give me an inaccurate result.. Anna, keep in touch girl! I'm dying to know whether this is the month for you.. Merlee, keep trying sweetie and I hope next month is for you! Take care!

merlee, I'm so sorry about your af! I was hoping this would be your month. But there's always next month! And eventually it's going to happen! When it does, I'm sure that all those months of trying will be forgotten. Good luck and my prayers and baby dust are being sent your way! chicks, how are you girl? Any other O'ing signs besides +++ OPK? Thanks, for the info. on the HPT and OPK off the net. Could you get me the site address to order them off of? If this isn't my month then I'm going to need them as I am, also, a peestickaholic! Haha! LOL! I have spent over $$60 this month on those darn things-too expensive! The only good thing is that if I had not bought the 2nd box of OPKs, then I wouldn't have known that I was O'ing. I got the +++ OPK the day I gave in and bought the box of them. So that was a good thing. Well, I'm rambling now. But anyway, no af and still occassional mild cramping off and on. There are, also, little things that are kinda odd, but I don't want to read too much into them because they could be anything. I'm still so unsure that it's making me scared I'm not. I've decided to go to my OB/GYN this week and have them check me and do a blood test. That way I can stop playing this guessing game. And I have checked the hCG levels on different sites, but some of them don't even start until the third week and that can still be low. Who knows! Thanks girls for the encouragement! Right now is the most difficult for me as it is the waiting period. I'll let you know whenever I find out. Keep me in your prayers this week! Oh, I don't know if this is a sign, but last night I dreamed that I gave birth to twins(no epidural and it didn't hurt too bad)! The first one out was a boy and the second was a girl! This is funny because I am so at risk for having twins that it's not funny!! My dad is a twin and my mother was PG with twins! Loads of love and **BABY DUST** to both of you! :)

Hi Anna! LOL! I'm a peestickaholic as well.. The first one is from E-bay - type in www.ebay.ca or .com and search for OPK or pregnancy tests and they will come up with a bunch of them, all from different sellers. Just make sure to look for the expiry date in the description. If there is none, then try to stay away from those because you can never be sure. I have ordered 50 pg tests and 25 OPK's from there. All very good. Another one is www.babyhopes.com, I think they have them on there as well. It's a heck of a lot cheaper than buying those ones in the store, and you can take a lot more of them.. ;-) Good luck with them! Let me know if you can find any.. Also, about the dream you had.. I heard that when women are PG, they have very vivid dreams.. Maybe this is your month! I'm hoping for you girl.. As for me, no other signs of O'ing.. So, I'm not sure if I geared up to O, hence the positive OPK (but now I'm doubting that).. I have not had EWCM, and I just started temping a month ago and I'm more confused by that then anything! There is absolutely zero consisitency with those. The day I thought I O'd, I woke up that morning and temp went to 36.58 from 36.23 the morning before. Then the next day, it was 36.52, then 36.52, then 36.50, then this morning was 36.35. I don't know what to make of any of this stuff. And, because I don't know when/if I will get a period, I don't know when I'm late so I can take a test, that's why I order them off the internet. Much cheaper! We should probably buy stock in the HPT market eh? LOL! But, be damned if my money will go anywhere near Clearblue again! ;-) Keep me updated and let us know when you test again!
Lots of love and baby dust to you! Merlee: How you doing today sweetie?

Hey there! Where's my girls today? How's everything with you guys? Hope to hear from you soon!
Take care!

Hi chicks and merlee! How are you girls doing? I hope well today! Ok, I got my blood drawn for the hCG level this morning and I will find out if I'm PG tomorrow or Thursday at the latest! I'm so nervous that it's going to be a bfn. I'm going to be soooo disappointed if it is. So I'm just preparing myself for the news of a bfn. Then if it's positive, I'll be utterly ecstatic! It was not a fun experience, though. First person who stuck me kept moving around the needle in my arm and pushing it in and out! Finally, when he pushed it kind of deep(or atleast it felt like it!!!), I had to tell him how much it hurt. Now I'm a big baby anyway, but as long as someone is there with me, I can hold still and relax my arm. Phlebotomists have always been able to get me first time, every time. I have a freakin huge vein in one of my arms! How could he miss it! He kept saying that I was too tense and he couldn't get around my muscle? but I think he was a poor sticker! And on top of all this, he was going to stick me in the same arm, same spot! I told him to do the other arm, but then started to feel sick to my stomach as I imagined him doing the same thing to my other arm, too. So another phlebotomist butterflied me in the other arm, smaller vein. She got me the first time and it barely hurt at all. Sorry, I just had to vent! In my proffession, I hate to hear about this stuff. But then to have to experience it...! I'd better stop...I'm getting myself frustrated over it now. chicks, thanks for the OPK/HPT info. I found baby hope when I was searching for something else. So I'll remember that for when I get that bfn from the md. And I had to laugh about the stock! My DH said the other day that we had stock in e.p.t. and if I stopped buying HPTs, we'd be millionares! Maybe we should consider stock in an HPT company! If all the rest of ttc women are anything like us, we'll make a bundle of money! Haha LOL! But anyway...what kind of OPKs are you using and are you comparing them as you use them? The ones I used never changed after I got the results, So I would keep them to compare them. When I got the dark ones two days in a row and really light ones the rest of the days, I knew they had to be the positives. As far as the temps, can't help you there! My schedule is so crazy that temps wouldn't work for me. There has to be a site that can explain all that stuff a little more, don't you think? Keep me updated girl! merlee, where did you go? How are you doing? Still dealing with the wretched af?! Hope your feeling better! Talk to you girls soon. Lotsa * BABY DUST* sprinkled your way!

Oh, almost forgot! When one of the phlebotomists saw that I was nervous, they must have thought that it was over the test results and I didn't want to be PG. Because they said " You know you do have other options but you have to make that decision". I could have fallen off my chair in disgust. I was mortified! But I told her that this was a good thing and I wanted to be PG! Just needed to vent that. Thanks! * baby dust*

Hey Anna! How's it going sweetie? You getting impatient yet? LOL! You're welcome (about the HPT's and OPK's).. I use the OPK sticks (also from e-bay) and the only positive I ever got was on August 11th. They seem to work pretty well I'd say. We'll see though next week if I don't get AF.. Aren't those guys awful that draw blood? I had it drawn once and the lady bruised me so bad, I had to wear a jacket to work during the heatwave to cover it. Yours sounds awful though! How dare she suggest such a thing to anyone even if you didn't want to have a baby. She should never be suggesting that. Dispicable.. How's the waiting going for the results or have you got them already? Hey, what'd ya think about the lady in the "VENT" post that wrote about the lady punching her stomach and calling the baby a f-ing little shit? If I had have been there, there's no telling what would have happened.. Some people.. I sometimes wonder if there's any hope at all for some people in this world.. I see you posted there, I did too. Sometimes you need a little forum like that eh? Merlee: Where'd you go darlin? Hope you're OK girl! Post back soon to say Hi.. Take care!

Hey chicks! How are things your way girl? Kinda impatient, but not as much as I thought I would be. I'm really anxious and nervous to find out my results! I, almost, don't even want to know! I'm just bracing myself for a disappointment. I'll be calling in the morning to find out. The results should be in by then. I probably be back on here tomorrow needing some hugs! ~~~~~ I read about the lady in vent! OMG, if I had been there, there's no telling what I would have said!! Women like that shouldn't even be allowed to have children! I can't stand to see parents who treat the little human life standing next to them (or inside of them) like their insignificant or unimportant. It just makes me so mad! I love kids so much and couldn't imagine treating any of them like that. Well...here's hoping that I get some good news tomorrow. I'll post you when I find out. Oh, with those OPKs, you may only have one positive one depending on when you catch the LH surge. I think I caught mine at the beginning. That's probably why I got a definite positive one day and the next one was almost as dark, but not quite as dark. You may have caught yours in the middle. But those things can be hard to decipher! Good luck! I hope you get your bfp this time! merlee, hey girl wherever you went to! Hope everythings ok and your doing alright! LOL to you :) Thanks and *baby dust* to my girls! Wish me luck :)

Need hugs now! BFN on the test! What a disappointment! I had to sit and cry for a minute. Even though I kept telling myself it would be negative, I kept hoping for that positive. But I do have an appt. in 1 1/2 weeks to see my md. I think this time he's going to put me on something-probably Clomid or something like that. He had said that if the Provera didn't do the trick, we would talk about moving on to fertility meds. Soooo......we'll see. I'm just really confused as to what's going on with my body!? It's so frustrating right now! Enough feeling sorry for myself-how are you girls? I hope ok today. I've gotta go to work, but I'll jump back on here later. LOL and *baby dust* your way! :)

Hey girls! I'm still here. DH has been home these last 3 days and has monopolized the computer (not to mention me). He left this morning so I will be back posting more later tonite (I have to get caught up). Just wanted to say I am still here and thanks for thinking of me.

Hi Anna! Sorry for your dissappointment... I'm sending you lots of <<<<<<HU
GS>>>>>>
Sorry it wasn't a BFP.. Still no AF though? That's still a good sign you know.. I am having some weird feelings that started 4 DPO.. My bb's have been hurting me and are progressing, not regressing like they used to. So, we'll see.. I know how you feel about saying that you're not going to get your hopes up and somehow you still do and always get disappointed. Sorry sweetie! I wish I could give you a real hug right now, but I'm sending you one through this post anyways.. Take care and try to smile at least once today! HUGS..

Hey Merlee! Good to hear from you! Everything OK with you? Glad to hear that hubby's been keeping you busy.. ;-) Glad you checked in! Happy to hear from you.. Take care and talk to you soon!

Hey everyone!! I've been chatting with Anna on another forum and I thought I'd pop in and say hey! My story short...Been ttc for 10 months. I'm on Provera for the 2nd time and also on Metformin...willl start Clomid as soon as af comes (50mg days 5-9). I really hope this will be the month, but I'm so used to bfn's that I kinda expect them now! =( Good luck to everyone and talk to you later!!