Stopped the pill Jan 2016 anyone else?

Nephew is 7 months, always smiling and loves bouncing up & down! Aw cute that he looks like you- does make you wonder what your own might look like doesnt it, although perhaps I'm jumping way ahead there!

I've not relly been tracking anything, didnt really have any plan when I stopped the pill, just see what happens. Must admit ive now become a lot more aware thats its not just as easy at dtd- much like you get taught at school!

Anyone had any developments?!

Cooincidently, i have a womens health screening on thursday which i booked a while back through work- be interesting to see how healthy etc I am!

Well my body is playing tricks, started spotting yesterday and got a positive opk this morning. Stopping has stopped!! Day 53 for me.

Eeek day 93 I got to 82 when TTC DS so I really feel your pain. Are you tracking your temps or just going with it?

Hey, hope everyones had a good weekend! Met my little nephew yesterday after not having sen him in a while.....too cute!!

tweetypie , aw i feel for you, damn you dream! But could it be a sign?!

belloftheball I'm with you on the tracking, be interesting to start....eventually!!

So Ive started taking pregnacare, looks like it has a good mix of supplements, cant do any harm eh!

Day 93, arghhhhh!!!

Was on the pill for 11 years! Always had irregular periods before so nervous to see if they've regulated

Thanks for sharing Twinklelittlestar, that's great it's got you drinking more water.

CD39 and still no AF. So impatient to start tracking...something!

Pads in the handbag on the ready and checking every time I go the toilet!

Any signs of symptoms anyone?

Hi everyone,

Can I join? I'm new and relaxed TTCing #1 this year.
Came off the pill (Jasmin) early Feb, had usual withdrawal bleed and been waiting for AF since (CD38 today).

Would be nice to share experiences during the wait!

Had some slight cramping last weekend but it just turned into a bad cold this week
Hopefully it hasn't offset hormones...

Second tweetypie's question about supplements

Hey Tweety, I did a bit of reading around things to help hormonal balance. I think the magnesium has definitely helped. I got 'natural calm, superior magnesium powder' off amazon and drink that every day in a pint of water. It's good because it also makes me drink more but I'm pretty sure that taking magnesium has been one of the most beneficial things I've done.

I also take 'trying for a baby' which ensures you get enough zinc and b vitamins (apparently good for balancing hormones)

I also read about using seeds to balance your hormones and have started taking 1tbsp of sesame seeds a day as they apparently block excess estrogens.

Thanks mummy2squish reasuring to know that there might be light at the end of the tunnel- will hold on in there and wait for af to turn up! After having spent all these years dreading the monthly ritual, I would love it right now!

That's very interesting twinklelittlestar thanks for sharing. Defintely going to have a look more closely at diet etc. I havent really had many symptoms since stopping the pill tbh, and do eat quite a healthy diet and exercise a fair bit but perhaps looking at some supplements cant do any harm! And I definitely need to drink more water! Caffeine though- thats dedication!

Anyone else made any/thinking of making any changes or taking supplements?

Sorry Tweetypie, I forgot to say that I'm just expecting AF not pregnant as we've been using condoms until after our holiday to give my cycle some time to get back to normal.

Update = no sign of AF at all. Kind of nerve wracking possibly starting AF at any point - I've taken to making sure I have a couple of tampons in my bag at all times just in case! How's everyone else doing?

Hi all,

I came off the pill in December and have since had 37 and 31 day cycles. I felt AWFUL for the first two months- cramps, migraines, mood swings and generally feeling 'rough'. I also had brown spotting right before my periods for a full week. I ended up doing a lot of research and found that all my symptoms were probably due to imbalanced hormones.

Since then I made a lot of changes to my diet and supplements and I'm sure it's made a massive difference. I had lots more ewcm this month, a strong positive ovulation test (on cd12 -so a much more regular time of the month putting me on track for a 28 day cycle at last) migraines and unwell feelings have disappeared and I feel generally 'happier'. Oh, and no brown spotting at all so far (cd24)

Incase anyone is interested, these are the changes I made

• drinking loads more water
• quit caffiene

These things seem to definitely have helped my cycles but if nothing else I'm feeling great. Good luck all

Just popping in to say when trying for my DS i went 89 days then 72, 48, 40 and then conceived, so hang in there! I feel your pain though!

I'm back on it again and have gone 66, 33, 38, and currently on day 50 so who knows what's going on!

I guess some of us just take longer to adjust,

Will keep everything crossed for you all!

Tweetypie I've been counting since my first withdrawal bleed after coming off the pill. Not sure if that's the right thing to do, over 90 days since I finished my last pack, gulp! Do we just carry on waiting?!

Its good to have somewhere to come and chat and hear what others are up to on the ttc journey 😀

Hi everyone,

I'm new! (This is my 1st post so please be kind).

I took my last pill on 31/01/16 (femodene). I've been on various pills for the last 7 years. I had my withdrawal bleed the day after and then had a very strange March with AF for the past 2 weeks (started off spotting for a week then progressed to heavy).

Hopefully it's just getting used to having to work everything without pills telling it what to do!

We're holding off ttc until next month anyway so fingers crossed AF will be normal next month

Do you count the first day after af as CD1? If so then I'm CD 23 & Ovia thinks I'm due my period this week so we'll see what happens. Feeling like a bloated whale so it might not be that wrong! It's only my first cycle after withdrawal bleed so it's pretty uncharted territory for me!

Hey everyone, well I'm on cd 45 and my af arrived a couple of hours ago! I'm kind of bummed I'm not pregnant but at the same time I'm glad my af has arrived so now I can start keeping track of everything! How is everyone anyway, apart from going insane because of the long cycles! Lol

I was day 67 before af came! Im having accupuncture on Friday to help with ovulation and fertility!

Hi everyone, just wondering how you are all getting on?? No change for me, day 87 no af booo! It is funny how you start overthinking thinks and start paying attention to every little niggle!! Xx

Hey tweetypie, I have as well. Though I'm positive of the date I ovulated as I had a dull pain on my left side, had an increase & then decrease in temp & had a very positive opk so it'll be interesting to see if the same happens next month. It really makes you wonder what the pill must do to your body!

Hi everyone, thought I'd join in with a similar experience. Ttc #1 after 13 years on the pill. I had no idea what would happen and how my body would react! My withdrawal bleed started on 12 Feb, I'm pretty sure I ovulated on cd13 (can't mistake that pain for anything else) but af arrived cd25.

In the meantime I have of course convinced myself that we managed to get pregnant, good timing, ecwm present, sore bobs, cramps and all sorts of other symptoms afterwards. I'm now thinking, Ok, I've allowed myself one cycle of craziness and symptom spotting, I also may have done a few pregnancy tests, will chill out now. I'm just happy that things are more or less back to normal.

One thing I would add for those using Ovia - be careful that you don't miss your fertile window. I used to be very regular so set my cycle length at 28 days. Even though my cycle (granted the first one off the pill) was 25 days long, the app still uses 28 day cycles to map out your upcoming ovulation date. So, if my next cycle was 28 days long, I should ovulate on the 19th of march, on another 25 day cycle it would be the 16th.
The fertile window is very different for those two dates!

Aaanyway, back to having a chilled out month of relaxed ttc...