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07-23-2008, 09:27 AM
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Bulk pregnancy tests, anyone?
Well, it's official. DH (who, just three weeks ago, officially and legally became my husband!) and I are TCC. I am so excited that I can barely stand it, but I'm going to drive myself crazy. I am so worried it is going to take forever or just not happen, but also as impatient as I've ever been. I feel like a five year old who knows that my birthday is coming, but I have no clue when it will be here.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to buy home pregnancy tests in bulk...I've already taken one and decided I'm only allowed to take one every two weeks... (I didn't get my period after taking my last active pill and now it is three weeks later...) I'm trying to not talk to my friends and family about it TOO much because I want to try to avoid the zillion questions if it does take a long time and I want to keep my maybe-baby nuerosis under wraps the best I can... 
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#2
07-23-2008, 09:31 AM
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Dollar Tree offers them for $1 a pop. I used them a lot when we were going thru the tests/fertility crap.
The other option is online, I think its called "Pee on a stick" - they offer them in bulk. Most of these are pee in a cup and dip tests...and/or pee in a cup and use a dropper test. Both worked ok for me.
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07-23-2008, 10:38 AM
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WOOHOO Free!!! That is SO exciting - can't wait to see your post with the good news...
I have no advice about bulk tests - I spent a fortune on them while we were TTC. I kept telling myself I'd wait at least a week after being "late" but I never was a good one for patience... Good luck!!!! Karyn
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07-23-2008, 10:45 AM
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Wow! Thanks for writing back so fast. A buck a test? That's cool. I'll have to check into that. (We don't have a dollar store here...but we do have a $1.50 store. Apparently a buck doesn't buy much at all in AK! Even the McD's dollar menu is the $1.50 menu...)
I can't wait to give good news, too. It is weird...I keep having little flashbacks to when I was pregnant with my birthdaughter...I went to the bathroom every hour to check and see if I got my period, hoping and praying that it would come. Now it is the same action, but different hoping...
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07-23-2008, 04:53 PM
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Whoohoo - congratulations!! We bought our preg tests from Costco - a pack of 3 for $12. We only needed to use those 3 tests and if I hadn't have been so impatient I could have just used 1. hehe...
Pregnancy the second time around is so different. Best of luck!
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07-24-2008, 03:58 PM
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Yeah, I'm trying really hard not to be impatient. I almost took another test today, but my "rule" says I can't do another one until NEXT Friday! Eight more days...I'm going to drive myself crazy...
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07-24-2008, 04:07 PM
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Haha - yeah I tried to have those rules, but didn't have much success with that. Good thing it only took us one month of trying otherwise I think I would have literally gone crazy.
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07-25-2008, 12:55 PM
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Well, I failed. It sure sucks that I can't follow the rules that I set for myself. I took another test (even though it is still way to early) and of course, it was negative.
I sure do feel like something weird is going on. I have been hyper aware of my abdomen for the past two or three weeks. It could very well just be in my head or it could be some kind of response to going off the Pill. Silly me. I'll try to wait another week (when the timing might actually allow an accurate early test...) and then again the next week.
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07-25-2008, 01:54 PM
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Free - you sound so much like me. The tell tale sign for me before it was too early to test was my acute awareness of scents. We were at a party and there were these powdered donuts on the counter by where I was standing and they were the most offensive thing I had ever smelled. I kept saying "I have to be pregnant because there's something really wrong with me if I'm not".
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07-25-2008, 06:04 PM
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The thought that "I must be pregnant because..." keeps creeping into my head, but I'm worried that the real reason I'm feeling these things is because I want it so bad...But really, can psychosymatic symptoms wake a person up? Every single night for 2 and a half weeks? I can't wait until next week...
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07-28-2008, 07:06 AM
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I bought from one of those cheap pregnancy tests online sites. (I forget which one, just google.) They were less than a dollar each and I actually got free shipping.
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08-21-2008, 11:20 AM
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Early-Pregnancy-Tests.com
hands down...I researched and price searched and was a POAS a holic. If you are really "into it" I really suggest the Fertility monior (or you can buy the ovulation predictors too, so you can POAS all month long!)...the monitor is a lot, and it didn't work for me, but I know women that tried for years, got that bad boy and in two months they were pregnant. Their cycle was WAY different than they thought. Good Luck!
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08-26-2008, 11:45 AM
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Well, no good news yet, but that gives me a chance to use the advice y'all have been giving. Thanks...
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