How long did it take for you to get pregnant

Hello everyone I am 38 years old and currently trying for my 3rd and last kid.. I got my bc out back in Sept after my honeymoon and started trying for a baby while I did not get my period back until November soo It has been 8 to 10 months of trying so far is you count the time with no period.... It gets soo exhausting 😩

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It’s been 2 years since I wanted to start trying so this whole time I’ve been improving my diet and taking supplements to improve egg quality and building up my iron and vitamin d levels. but my husband was diagnosed with cancer so we decided to get through his surgery first only for them to then decide he also needed radiation, so we tried quickly in between but had a miscarriage so then we had to wait again to finish radiation and several more months to make fresh sperm and then just when it was finally time to try again i stopped ovulating. At cycle day 70 I had some testing done and was diagnosed with pcos. And at cycle day 80 I finally got a peak opk, was able to time sex right and got a positive test 10 days later. I’m 6 weeks pregnant now🤞but I don’t know whether to say we’ve been trying for two years? or 5 months? Or 3 cycles? Or that we got pregnant on the first try because all of those are weirdly true 😵‍💫

Oh wow that is such a long painful process 😢 I am sorry you had to go through that

It was a saga for sure and many times I wondered if we’d ever get pregnant again but now that we kind of did first(ish) try I also feel a bit silly for having worried. If only we could just know at the outset how long it would take we could save ourselves a lot of worry. I hope you get your period more regular and get your baby soon ❤️

how did you time sex? How old were you?

I was terrified of trying for #2 because I was diagnosed with Thyca and the husband has some issues. Now we are 38..

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Tests

So I had a blood test at the drs bc I keep getting positive tests when the blood test was negative what could this mean? Hubby says the tests are negative and said he can’t see anything. Negative image down below.

Am I pregnant?

I lightly spotted almost 5 days ago, which is not common for me before my period.
My period was supposed to come today. I should have tested in the morning but its 5:30pm.
Is there a second line??

Anyone have this happen before?

We were not trying to conceive, used protection and had sex on week 2 of my cycle (accidentally on my peak ovulation day). Week 3 we had Flu A. Week 4 my period did not come (it’s very regular). I tested and it was negative (2 different brands).
What should have been week 2 of my next cycle (now 6 weeks post last period), I had light red/ pink spotting for one day when I wiped. The following week, I tested again, still negative, but this time almost all the dye was in the negative space, which I’ve never seen happen before. The area where it shows one horizontal line for negative and a plus sign for positive, the horizontal line was super faded at the 3 minute mark, and the negative vertical line in the next window was VERY dark. Now I’m on week 8 of all this, period did not show up yesterday. Nothing in my life has changed (no additional stress, no other illness, no changes in diet or exercise, etc).

Has anyone gone through this and NOT been pregnant? I’m super nervous as we thought we were done having kids.

PS. I know I should go get a blood test, does anyone know if urgent care will do that? I’m past being convinced by a pee test.