Evaporation lines?
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| Sun, 04-15-2007 - 7:39am |
I hate and despise them. I'm having flashbacks to all the years of infertility I suffered through. I hope you girls don't mind if I blow off some steam, but I'm starting to wonder what the heck?
I have three children, after 5 years of infertilty treatments, I adopted my first child, only to find out the DAY we found out about him I was pregnant, I remember not even taking a pregnancy test because my cramps were SOOOO bad that I was sure af was about to rear her head like she had the other seventy two months I had been trying. The first time in that long I didn't take a pg test the day af was due and sure enough, I was pregnant.
A couple of years later dh and I decided to let the chips fall where they may and try for another baby, well, I got pregnant first try! I remember taking an htp the day before AF was due and getting what looked like an evap line it was so faint, we then went to the beach but I was on an island and no where had pg tests, I didn't want my mother to know what was up so I waited til the trip was over at which time I was a week late, I took the test AT THE KMART ahahahha, and I was pregnant, but I do remember it didn't show up immediately like it did for my son.(but I was several days late on that one, assuming af was coming from the cramps and more wrapped up in the adoption.
So here I am, a month away from the big 40. We are NOT trying this time around, and if I am pregnant it is yet another miracle, but I'm going nuts here. DH and I had sex about ten or eleven days after af, this past friday would have been 28 days. So I am now on day 30. I have gone this long before but it has been a very long time, in fact my cycles if anything have been on the shorter side, more like 25 to 27 days.
We DID use a condom, however, he didn't put that condom on until the end, so isn't that really more like the withdrawl method? and the fact that it was so close to O time concerns me.
on cd 26-28 I began having an abundant amount of cm, to the point that I felt I needed a pantyliner, and most of it was very ewcm...yesterday it was milkier and with lack of better word almost snotty (sorry). So yesterday, cd 29, I was in the dollar general and saw the cheapo pg tests, so I picked up three, thought, what the heck. Came home that evening and took one. It was negative, with the exception of the fact that I could see an extremely faint line, and I could see that within the ten minutes, but I am not going to lie, it looked more like and evap... so faint that I couldn't discern if there is any color. So I decided to wait til FMU and took one this morning, again, at first glance it is completely negative, but yes there is that faint line that you just aren't sure if it has any color or not and that was there from the time the urine moved across the window.
Any normal human that had never been through the ups and downs of fertility and obsessive testing would look and tell me they were negative, but those of us that have studied these things know what I am talking about. The part that is irritating me, is, If it has to have evap lines, CAN"T IT WAIT til AFTER The ten minutes? and really, if I were preg, I am far enough into it now that shouldn't it have shown this morning more than a seemingly evap line?
I feel SOO crampy, that I feel like af is coming, but then the circumstances and being a couple of days late and all that ewcm way after O just has my brain playing tricks on me maybe? I feel ridiculous getting this obsessive all of a sudden, but feel better for being able to rant.

just wanted to say, I'm in similar boat...We used "withdrawal" this month, as we are not going to officially "try" until July, but I know there's still a chance, so being the POAS addict that I am, I, too, picked up some tests at Dollar tree and have repeatedly gotten that faint evapish-looking line, that, like you say, a "normal" person would say they see nothing...oh well. I feel like it should show more positively now, too, but my period is not due until tuesday...have also been having increased cm...weird..and crampy, too, but not as much as usual...well, hope we both have our mystery solved soon!
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Well, good luck to you, I'm a sucker and took YET another, and the mysterious line shows up within the time period, but I honestly just don't see how I could be. Heck I don't even think I want to be, but AF still isn't here, tomorrow morning will put me at cd31 The weird thing is my boobs are now sore and I've been nauseaus and had TONS of heart burn today. Things that rarely ever preceed AF.
I'd say I could be imagining it b/c I am ttc, but I'm NOT ttc and I don't feel there is much of a chance. But when you've had shorter cycles in recent mos, you did the withdrawl thing and then all these unusual sx..well, those evap lines really play with your head!
I feel like AF is about to be here, but sheesh, come on already if you're coming, or give me a pink line so I can let it sink in!
Good luck to you!
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