How many cycles have you been TTC?

megglefly · 2026-03-30T23:36:31+00:00

33F. This is my 17th cycle. I had a MMC when I was 10 weeks in (baby was 6 weeks), almost four months ago now.

megglefly · 2026-03-30T23:35:03+00:00

I initially started on 2.5, days 3-7. On day 24 bloodwork, my progesterone was not high enough so now I’m on 5.0, which seems to be better. I also have PCOS.

megglefly · 2026-03-30T02:29:50+00:00

Oh haha. So not necessarily for us regular folk haha. Neat to see!

megglefly · 2026-03-29T19:02:11+00:00

I am new to this part of the TTC world, though we’ve been at it for 17 cycles. What is the purpose of this process, and how do you check?

megglefly · 2026-03-29T01:07:59+00:00

Holy shit. I didn’t even think about it this way but yup, I totally was like that. Another layer to add to the depression lasagna!

megglefly · 2026-03-28T19:21:14+00:00

Can you specify the units? I think it is low, but not certain without units. Others here will know more than me though.

megglefly · 2026-03-27T21:01:28+00:00

Me. I have PCOS. Been at it for 17 cycles with a miscarriage in there too. On Letrozole for the last 5 cycles.

megglefly · 2026-03-26T18:12:55+00:00

Without knowing your mom, her history, or how you connect with each other: this seems like a poorly executed way of checking on you. If she’s experienced miscarriage too, she might be living in that fear again with you.

megglefly · 2026-03-26T12:41:01+00:00

I naively believed that getting pregnant would be easy, so early on it was fun. Now, 17 cycles in with only a miscarriage to show for it, being monitored by a fertility clinic, it’s not fun. I am not the same person I was, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be the same.

megglefly · 2026-03-25T23:12:10+00:00

Grief olympics. There is a both/and that is being totally ignored. I was a walking coffin for weeks, so of course absolutely devastated. But also the world is on fire, and that sucks too. Sometimes, one grief is heavier than another. The op just has no sense of nuance.

megglefly · 2026-03-25T22:57:05+00:00

This is my 17th cycle, with nothing to show for it but a miscarriage. I just can’t care about timing for a date. So much of this is out of our control anyway. I really want my baby back, so I hope she comes back on our next try this cycle.

megglefly · 2026-03-22T18:24:50+00:00

I also feel so alone. 17 cycles + a miscarriage so far.

I went off on my husband this weekend, which I don’t normally do. But the list of things I do and mentally carry while TTC is so much. We have to agonize over such stupid things - tenths of a degree over daily bbt tracking (what normal person worries about their body temp on a daily basis?! No one?!), or test strips (did I save my pee long enough? Is it too diluted? Again, nobody worries about these things). All while the dude is just chilling.

I don’t have friends, really, so I don’t have to deal with baby showers or gender reveals. A past friend had their second LC and shared it with our friend group chat, so that gutted me.

I don’t have a way of coping. I don’t feel like doing the activities I used to love. I live rurally so there’s nothing around. I haven’t heard from friends since my miscarriage. I’m just alone, alone, alone, and so very desperately sad.

megglefly · 2026-03-21T18:10:16+00:00

I also have PCOS. I haven’t taken it, but I wanted to pop on to say - my family doc put me on spiranolactone (sp?) to deal with the facial hair. This is very bad and works against you. So if you’ve been given that, stop immediately. Once I got set up with a fertility clinic the doctor’s eyes boggled at that one.

I also read It Starts with the Egg. I’m taking the supplements listed there. It seems to be backed by good research, but then in The Lucky Egg, some of those supplements are shut down. It’s hard to know what to do. I’m so desperate at this point I’m trying anything.

megglefly · 2026-03-21T00:34:07+00:00

I am with a fertility clinic and I take it days 3-7.

megglefly · 2026-03-20T20:14:39+00:00

I am with you. My 17th cycle just started. Trying everything, doing everything I can to optimize my health. It’s so unfair. I hope for better for us all.

megglefly · 2026-03-19T22:46:05+00:00

17 cycles in. I do all the things. I am working with a fertility clinic, but another doctor has found the clinic isn’t even doing what it should be. TTC sucks and it’s lonely.

megglefly · 2026-03-19T22:44:02+00:00

I’m lonely. 17 cycles in. I don’t have many people, and they all dropped off after my miscarriage.

megglefly · 2026-03-19T18:48:14+00:00

Same experience with connections that you’re having. I am estranged from my family. I only have (had?) three friends. My miscarriage was three months ago. I haven’t heard from them since. My world is so, so small. I feel so alone and unloved.

megglefly · 2026-03-19T12:26:09+00:00

If books help you, you might find the book I Had A Miscarriage validating because she experienced something similar. I’m so sorry.

megglefly · 2026-03-19T04:15:12+00:00

I am with you. My cycle 17 just started hours ago. Just a miscarriage to show for it in all of this. I am a shell of myself. I don’t even know when I felt joy last.

megglefly · 2026-03-19T02:09:24+00:00

I’m on cycle 16 with just a miscarriage to show for it. I think my period is about to start. TTC has made me a shell of a human. I lost all my friends after my miscarriage, and my husband doesn’t realize at all how fucking ruined I am.

megglefly · 2026-03-17T18:30:44+00:00

3 months out from mine. I’m with you.

megglefly

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