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Norethisterone and TTC?

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Lilypad15 · 22/09/2017 16:56

So I took a weeks worth of Norethisterone to delay my period as I was going away (started taking 16 August, AF was due 18th) dr said that once I stopped taking them, I would have my period about 2-3 days after and it would be slightly heavier than usual. Sure enough, 3 days later I had a heavy bleed and lighter bleeding/spotting for a few days after. I’m very regular but around my normal ov time, I had no cm which was odd as I usually get lots of watery cm (not doing opks religiously anymore, got fed up lol) thought nothing of it. Then on cd18 I started getting some ewcm, which I haven’t had any of in 10 months. It carried on into cd19 and so I got a few opks and it was a blazing positive. Still had ewcm on cd20 and got another strong positive in the afternoon then took another later in the evening but test line was slightly lighter than the control line so my surge was obviously over. Then cd21 my ewcm was gone. I’m on cd27 now and usually get af symptoms (spotting, cramps etc) as af comes cd28. No symptoms yet but I know that time between ovulation and af is usually 14 days so not too bothered. But I just wondered if this late ov/late af is due to taking the norethisterone and could the reappearance of ewcm also have something to do with it? My dr said my cycles would go back to normal once I stopped taking it and I’ve never had a problem coming off artificial hormones before. Has anyone else had their periods messed up from taking it? And if so how long did they take to go back to normal?

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Lilypad15 · 23/09/2017 00:28

Anyone? Anyone at all? Lol

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physicskate · 23/09/2017 07:16

It's a hormone. That and so many other things can delay ov. Af will be late by the same number of days you ov was late.

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