Let's go back to a month ago, I was in the middle of my first AF since I ended BC.

I had been on Glow for about a week, and my fertile window was the next week.

So the next week DH and I BD two days before I O'd, and on the day of.

Soon after I was feeling nauseous, and I was extremely tired.

At about 5-6 DPO I was still feeling those things, had horrible backaches, headaches, and I was peeing at least every hour. I cramped they throughout the day almost every day.

At about 10 DPO I was feeling all of the above symptoms, and I started noticing weird cravings. (I can eat the same thing every day, so this was weird!)

I had people telling me daily that I just had this "glow", and that things seemed a little different about me. I had 2 people who had no idea I was TTC ask If I was pregnant. I was 90% sure I was pregnant.

I took a HPT almost every day between 8 DPO and 16 DPO. At about 12 DPO I got a faint line, but it didn't pop up right away. I was sure it was positive and it would get darker. Each day it was the same. Eventually I only got negatives.

Today - AF stil hasn't shown her face. I had EWCM about a week ago, and DH and I BD like 3 or 4 times since then.

MY POINT IS: a lot of posts on here focus on pregnancy symptoms. "I'm cramping and I'm nauseous, so I MUST be pregnant". I got caught in it too. I wanted to have a post on Glow that talks about the same things, but didn't end in pregnancy.

Honestly, I've no idea what's going on in my body right now and I've stopped buying HPTs because it's not worth it to be that upset every day (sometimes twice a day!) Hopefully somewhere out there is in the same situation and takes comfort in the fact that you're not alone! My first month TTC is [almost] over, but I understand the hurt, and I can now move on. I hope you can too! 😙😊💓