Post IUI question

[G22]

Silly question but,

Does the feeling of needing to handle myself carefully go away? lol I can tell I'm moving a bit slower and taking it easy without meaning too. 

I have clearance from my doctor to run my race this weekend (its only 5 miles). But if I still feel like this, I may end up walking/jogging it. 

Does that go away or stick around for the entire 2ww?

[changedname]

It's hard because you always feel that if you get a bfn you will second guess why you did or didn't do something. I learned something from a girl on TB ages ago - just evaluate everything by the "no regrets" philosphy. If this doesn't work, will I regret having done xyz? Will I kick myself that I did it and feel like I messed up? If not, then go ahead and live your life normally.

You might remember when we first created the board and I said that I had stopped running a lot because my acupuncturist said not to during the 2ww. I stopped because if I had run and got a bfn, I would totally wondered if I would have got a bfp if I had rested more like he told me too. Does that make sense?

Good luck!! I hope this is it for you and the two weeks go by fast.

[G22]

I do remember that conversation. My thought process is I want to find the happy balance between living like normal and taking it easy. I'm not hardcore at running, and I'm completely fine with backing off. I like the no regrets attitude. I don't plan on even doing my normal activity level during this 2ww. I'll probably do more walking than usual to balance out the runs I don't do. I guess I feel if I have my doctors ok, I want to run this weekend. If she wasn't OK with it, or if it was closer to when I had the IUI, I definitely wouldn't jeopardize it.

Sorry that is probably a scatterbrained paragraph to try and follow.

[changedname]

I know what you mean. It is so hard because you have so much invested (time/hope/money) but at the same time, you don't want it to control your whole life.

[discogranny]

Looking back I have regrets about how much I have stopped/reduced, etc. during the last two years. The telling thing though is that I will go hardcore back into no drinking, no Advil, no strenuous exercise for the frozen embryo transfer, so I know that regrets of the "what ifs" associated with a BFN far outweigh the regrets I have about allowing TTC to completely take over my life when cycling.

[melindafelinda]

I've been like that every time I've managed to get pregnant. I'm like an insane person. I try not even to cough too much. (crazy)

And obviously none of my precautions have helped. So I've promised myself if I ever get pregnant again I'm going to just force myself to be normal.

I hope this one works out great for you and you are able to feel great and not limit yourself.

[jewel]

For mine, I really haven't done anything differently. I stayed on the table with my feet up for 15 minutes post IUI, but that was about it. The doctor recommend sex on the night of the IUI, so we always do. After the first few days, I usually forget that I even had an IUI. Logically, the sperm from the IUI probably won't live more than 12-24 hours inside your body, so after that, you either have a fertilized egg or you don't. The chance of implantation is then the same as its always been.

However, I don't ever exercise or really do anything more active than fabulous sex with my husband, so I don't have much to worry about. I'm trying to avoid things that are not pregnancy safe (booze, raw fish, etc), but I'm not absolute with it. I feel like IF is miserable enough, than half of every month doesn't need to suffer as well.

That said, I'm 0 for 2 on IUIs, so what do I know. Maybe do the opposite of what I said.

[degal99]

I've cut down on exercising. I'm pretty out of shape so, honestly, even moderate exercise gets my heart beating. And so, I thought I could just sit out and do some mild walking during the 2ww. Whether I need to do that I don't know. But, we'll see in 1.5 weeks.

[speyedr]

When I had my m/c in january my first thought was did I over do it? I lift weights a few times a week, cycle and do cardio at the gym. I know that it is unlikely the cause but it is really hard to think what if I hadn't done so much.

[Deleted]

I definitely don't think that you should risk it by cleaning the house. :-)