Well, whew! Thanks for your advice yesterday. Julie's note came just as I was about to spin into a hysterical fugue. So I calmed down, raced home after work (well if you consider 'racing' squidging along the two feet available during a traffic jam with as much gusto and engine-revving as possible), plopped down on the couch, and got jiggy with the progesterone bullet. And thanks to the rest of you too for convincing me that it wasn't really that big a deal. I don't think any real damage was done.
In the meantime, I actually had the nerve to take a HPT this morning. Normally I don't even bother with these instruments of the devil. I just wait for blood-test day because, after all, that's definitive. Why mess with the HPT's which are expensive and not necessarily reliable?
But you see, because there was so much confusion about whether my period really started this cycle, J. made me take a HPT a couple of weeks ago, just to be sure that I wasn't really pregnant, before she would authorize the IUI. Well, duh, I knew I wasn't, but I do what I'm told. I didn't have any at home, so I had to run to the store to buy one, and they only had boxes with two tests in them. Which left one test for me to stare at for the last few days. I peed on that stick this morning and it was negative, negative, negative.
The damn corporate hee-haws also put one "HPT TEST FOR FREE" in my box of OPK's, so yet another test is sitting on my shelf just waiting for me to whiz on it. I might do it this weekend. Blood test is on Monday.
I can't say I was particularly surprised by the negative this morning. I mean, I'm only 11 DPO, so it's too early, and you never know, and blah blah blah. But I don't feel pregnant. I don't even have the fake symptoms I some times get because of the progesterone. No overwhelming tiredness, no funny abdominal twinges, no breast soreness. I'm not even moody! Anymore than usual, that is.
So we'll see. But if I were you, or if you were me, I wouldn't get my hopes up.
I'm still going to keep my fingers crossed until Monday for you :)
xxoo
Posted by: Emily | October 08, 2004 at 03:49 PM
Please, just tell how it went! I'm still crossing everything for you!!
Posted by: ankaisa | October 11, 2004 at 01:38 PM
I'm just looking in for news. Hope you're OK, no matter what the results, am thinking of you.
Posted by: barren mare | October 11, 2004 at 05:00 PM
My period was delayed for almost 48 days.I was having some symptoms of pregnancy. I took 3 HPT all negative but finally it arrived on 12th Nov.My gynac says it is due to unovulation.
Wish u all the best..
I pray to god that all womens who desire should become monther b'caz its their natural right.
Posted by: ayushi | November 24, 2004 at 03:56 AM