Ovulation Induction Cycle #2, but life has taken a turn, and now to get through the cycle with the best chances but minimal costs, I'm having to go against what my doctor's are saying, do research myself, and take a MASSIVE risk in the process. Will...
There's a conspiracy theory about First Response tests at the moment. Some believe that they are now showing more 'faint lines' and indents on purpose, knowing that many women will go back and buy more to test again if they see what they think is a faint line. A money hungry, cruel idea that plays on the insecurities and fears of possibly pregnant women.
I don't believe in this conspiracy at all. I have been using first response my whole adult life, and never have I had even the faintest line until I was pregnant with my son. Even when I've had possibly positives on other tests, internet cheapies and clear blue, I've checked on first response and it's been negative... and then been backed up by blood tests.
That is, until now.
I don't even know if it's visible on pictures, but I'll try to include some of the images here, but of course, I had lines due to my half-hearted trigger shot. But the lines seemed to fade to just about nothing by 5-6dpo, like maybe there was still something there, but only if you really squinted. But then 7dpo, after some funky implantation symptoms, the faintest of lines appeared about 12 hours later.
The morning of 7dpo, I got up to got to the toilet (and here's a TMI warning, skip this paragraph if you don't want to hear some gross stuff). I just peed, nothing else, and when I went to wipe and flush, there was this tiny little thing in the toilet. It was like a mini mucous plug, a little ball of mucous and red/pink blood, but tiny, about half the size of an iPhone home button, a kids pinkie fingernail. Half a centimetre across. And I wasn't sure what it was, I wasn't entirely sure how I even managed to spot it, but a part of me thought "What if this is my implantation bleeding?"
And honestly, I think it was.
Late that night, I got my first maybe positive. But it was so faint, I couldn't tell.
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Then, 8dpo, there was still something there. A line that wasn't a line, but wasn't completely negative either. I wasn't sure if it was just the last remnants of the hCG shot hovering in my system somehow, but it wasn't going away, and I was testing like a POAS addict.
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8dpo Morning
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8dpo Arvo
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8dpo Night became more obvious... But still not quite.
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I tested way too much, and way too often. I tried to hold my pee 4 hours each time, and was testing constantly throughout the day. I was sure there was something there, yet it was constantly a not quite positive, not quite negative line. Patience went out the window. I got so excited, but so nervous, and having had a 10 day luteal phase in the past, every trip to the toilet was fear that my period would finally show.
It was a long, nervous, anxious, excited wait for the line to either get darker or disappear.
