Day 5 was a really difficult day. I was so hopeful to see a line waking up and so gutted when I didn’t see one, despite how early in the process it was. I’m shocked and a little bit ashamed of how obsessively focused on testing I was yesterday— I realize now that I actually dehydrated myself to the point of headache in an attempt to maximize the hcg concentration for a late afternoon test. Awful and counterproductive. I also completely disassembled another test and took it apart piece by piece searching for a faint line. I was pretty much entirely unproductive and non functional and incapable of focusing on anything else.
My FRER test is still showing what I believe is the residual hcg from the trigger shot I took before transfer, which is very confusing and unreliable and also why I was told not to test so early. It looks identical to the one I took yesterday with no progression.
So I’m going to try to take that original advice and wait until the weekend, when there’s an official b...