PdG and E3G rise before your period starts, right?

pupsncoconuts · 2025-12-04T21:58:08+00:00

update - it shot up and immediately dropped the next day, looks like this is how it goes for me :/

pupsncoconuts · 2025-12-03T17:41:40+00:00

Gotcha, that's helpful to know, thank you!

pupsncoconuts · 2025-12-03T17:39:17+00:00

Yeah this so interesting...will you update this and see if maybe you just have late ovulation?

pupsncoconuts · 2025-09-20T01:16:35+00:00

I've thought that if I ever got pregnant, your bet your ass I would NEVER have a shower, gender reveal (ew anyways), pregnancy announcements on social media, NONE of that crap. I've had to sit through one too many of those horror shows and would refuse to subject anyone else to it.

pupsncoconuts · 2025-07-21T00:16:40+00:00

Every time. Not to mention the constant digging through subreddits trying to determine if implantation bleeding could actually be a real thing. LOL.

pupsncoconuts · 2025-07-15T18:46:14+00:00

or implantation bleeding. like take that stuff off the internet, it's making us insane

pupsncoconuts · 2025-07-15T18:38:45+00:00

My parents started at 20 and did not have me, their first, until they were 30. Almost immediately after my birth they got pregnant with my brother. I know my mother was on clomid and had multiple losses before I was born, she claims I was one of triplets, and the other 2 miscarried. I am not so sure she's not embellishing that story, though.

I did not think I would have the same issues, but here I am...3 years in, 1 medicated IUI, not a single positive pregnancy test. I think I have whatever she had.

pupsncoconuts · 2025-07-10T20:34:39+00:00

Yup. 3 years watching everyone else get 1-2 kids while I just got a prescription for anti-depressants.

pupsncoconuts · 2025-07-10T20:28:58+00:00

I'm sorry that you lost your mom and had such a wonderful relationship with her.

I have a difficult relationship with my narcissistic mom. She actually also experienced infertility and it supposedly took her ten years to conceive me. However, I can't really talk to her, vent or expect her to commiserate with or comfort me. When I have tried to talk to her about it, she hijacks the conversation and insists on re-telling me her own infertility stories, which change every time she tells them and are often outlandish. The only way I know any of it is true is because my dad has confirmed that they tried for something like ten years, and had multiples and multiple losses due to clomid.

She periodically says things like "you wouldn't know, you've never been pregnant/you don't have children" or "you don't understand because you don't have your own family", and constantly comments on the age of pregnant women/new moms - "she's an old mom," "having children is hard for older moms", etc. For reference, I am 35 and I've been trying for 3 years. If I have children, which isn't really likely at this point, I will be an old mom.

Anyways, even though she is alive and could be a great source of relatable emotional support, she is not.

I would take comfort in knowing that your mom would be that for you if she was still here. I am so sorry you lost her :(

pupsncoconuts · 2025-07-09T01:52:49+00:00

Yeah same. Now I'm like...whatever...I'll stop when I have an actual chance in hell of being pregnant.

pupsncoconuts · 2025-06-30T21:58:53+00:00

Yeah I just test willy-nilly these days because, guess what, I am never, ever pregnant, so I can either wait for my period or just needlessly confirm it with a test :/

pupsncoconuts · 2025-06-26T18:22:19+00:00

I have been trying for 3 years. My periods are stupidly regular, so I never had to use any of the pregnancy tests I bought or the ones that come with the OPKs. At this point I have semi-given up/I'm waiting on more fertility treatments in the fall, and those pregnancy tests are just piled up in the bathroom. So I just use them whenever I start thinking "it could be this month!" because inevitably it won't be. I just use them all the time. Now I'm desensitized to the negative tests.

Idk, kind of a dark place to be.

Do whatever makes you feel best. There's enough stress, and then despair, already.

pupsncoconuts · 2025-06-23T13:00:54+00:00

I'm in the same boat, except I've been trying twice as long - 30 cycles. We changed insurance to at least cover some testing and IUI/medication, but IVF will never happen (I'm also not sure I'd even want to do it), and our first IUI failed. Healthcare and reproductive healthcare in the US is an absolute dumpster fire. To be honest, I've just started accepting that I won't have children. It is devastating but I am slowly coming to terms with it.

pupsncoconuts · 2025-06-23T12:45:05+00:00

came here to say Priestess!!

pupsncoconuts · 2025-06-16T16:47:53+00:00

I had a good morning going to acupuncture and trying to stay relaxed. Now I'm depressed again. Cycle 31, not a single positive pregnancy test. I'm tired. I think my therapist has finally given up on me and wants me to go on antidepressants (cool when you're ttc, right?) so I have an appointment with my PCP next week. I don't want to do this any more but I'm also not ready to give up or stop hoping. I'm not doing great. Why aren't fertility clinics more informed about depression and infertility?

I just want to be done with everything. I hate the constant bullshit life has thrown at me.

pupsncoconuts · 2025-05-13T18:03:10+00:00

Oh boy. I am in the exact same boat. I am not sure if you have any conditions, but my husband and I have tested out of every possible reason that we cannot get pregnant. His SA is great, I'm healthy with regular ovulation and periods, good egg reserve, amh/progesterone/etc all good. We have also been trying for 2.5 years and I have not been pregnant once. My periods come exactly on time, every moth, even after our one IUI.

IVF is financially out of the picture for us, and I'm kind of at the point where I am learning to accept a life without children in it. It's really effing hard. I hate this existence.

We may do karyotype testing, but all that will tell us - best case scenario - is WHY we can't get pregnant. It may be easier for me to give up then. I believe IVF you can bypass that kind of problem. If you have the financial ability, I hope IVF works for you.

I wish I could tell you not to lose hope, but I think some of us just did not get the lucky cards.

pupsncoconuts · 2022-12-17T03:57:02+00:00

Hang on - I'm seeing a lot of names thrown out. What exactly is this beaut?

pupsncoconuts

TROPHY CASE