Emotional exhaustion 9dp5dt

[LadybirdLulu]

Hi everyone. This is my first embryo transfer. I was getting so excited because I had breast soreness and cramping until today. Now I have woken to find the breast soreness gone and I'm worried things haven't worked out. This process is so emotionally and physically exhausting.

[Rainbowretrieval]

Hi lulu. This time is the absolute worst time and try not to assume the way the symptoms show as pointing to one outcome or another until you know for sure. And don’t waste your money on tests until your OTD. I was pregnant (since miscarried sadly) and I had sore chest but think that was actually the medication anyway. I didn’t show as pregnant until my actual OTD so I probably wasted about £30 on tests checking too early

[LadybirdLulu in reply to Rainbowretrieval]

Oh thanks for the advice and for giving me a little hope. I'm so sorry to hear about your miscarriage and am so moved by your ability to stay positive in the face of such heartache. I can see from your posts that you are a great source of comfort to all the women on this website so thank you on behalf of all of us for your amazing contributions. Keeping my fingers crossed for you for the future.

[Rainbowretrieval in reply to LadybirdLulu]

Thank you so much for your kind words, I have a few tears here x really does mean a lot. Looks like my suspected miscarriage is probably an ectopic, still undiagnosed, so worse than we thought unfortunately, but we’ll get through it x

[minnesota_girl]

Hi there, I have always had positive transfers (my issue is longer term success )but I've never had sore breasts at time of OTD - I'd suspect that was earlier meds! You don't know until you take the test - it's an incredibly nerve-wracking time! 💕💕💕💕💕 You're doing great at 9dpt!! When's your OTD?

[LadybirdLulu]

I just had so many symptoms. Cramps, breast pain, flatulence, constipation, and now everything has disappeared between yesterday and this morning. My OTD is on 14 February. Those 5 days seem so far away though. Thank you for the sprinkling of hope! I will try to hold it together as best as I can til then.

[W031]

hi Lulu,

I am with you, I am 6PT9DT… on day 6 in the evening I started spotting, thought it was implantation bleeding and then day 7 it happened more and more. Called the clinic and they upped my pessaries to three a day. It stopped the bleeding but I found all my hope had gone. My boobs stopped being sore as well. Oddly, as of last night, the sore boobs are back but I was still testing negative yesterday. It’s the biggest emotional rollercoaster to exist. I have promised myself now not to test until OTD (which is Saturday 11th). Stay strong, have hope.

It’s difficult as you never really see stories on people testing positive late. But I promise you it happens, the OTD is there for a reason. Also try not to get caught up on symptoms as some women have none at all and really it could be your body adjusting to the meds. (Says me who is also making assumption on all the symptoms 😅).

You’ve got this 💪🏼

[LadybirdLulu]

Fingers crossed for you! Hey I am so confused about the OTD date? I see yours is in 2 days - do you know why we would have different dates? I did ICSI and the 1 embryo we managed to produce was a little slow at developing so no quite a blastocyst on the day of transfer. Might this be why?

[W031 in reply to LadybirdLulu]

we did FET IVF and 1 x 6 day old Embryo. So possibly where ours were a little more developed, they do less days. To be fair, I thought it was supposed to be 14 days regardless but clinic have said 11 days because the embryo is already 6 days old. I think if the embryo was 5, then it would be 12 days. Either way, I will wait it out until 14 days just to be sure! Some of these embryos can do things later than expected.