Cycles after coming off pill- reassurance please!

I use flo and it’s good 🙂

I have Ovia but will give flo a go! 😊

Thanks ladies!

My cycles were okay after coming off microgynon but I miscarried a few months later and it completely messed up my cycles. I went for acupuncture and within a few weeks I was ovulating mid-cycle and consistently 28 days between periods.

You may not be referred to fertility till after a year you have been trying but your GP will still do hormonal tests so you can at least know if your levels are ok my GP also did a scan this was before I was referred, so I would just ask your GP if they will just do a hormonal screen I.e FSH,LH, oestrogen, progesterone , testosterone and prolactin.
When I was referred to fertility they did lots more bloods but those are your basic ones to check and if it will help at all might be worth asking. Xx

Hey!

I was on Yasmin for 10 years and came off in January. Had my withdrawal bleed but then nothing until March, then June, then August and despite me pushing for blood and hormone tests from the doctor (especially as I'm a type one diabetic, so helps to plan things carefully) they assured me it was normal and could take up to a year to even out.

It's only after one year they do exploratory tests and even then you have to sort of know when to go for them (as it's ovulation time). They didn't quite grasp the fact that it was distressing for me as a healthy woman has 12 opportunities a year to conceive but I only had 5-6?

Someone told me that Manganese (from Holland and Barrett) inadvertently helped them with fertility, and low and behold that was the month I fell pregnant (I MC very early on but still I know I could get pregnant!!) I take one tablet every other day/ 3 days and make my partner take one and then when you fall pregnant stop....

Also I started taking lots of omega3 and vitamin D so perhaps this helped too?

So there's definitely hope... I ovulate every month now and a period isn't as awful, as I'm grateful my body is getting back to normal. My cycles are on average longer (45 days?) but always improving.

Private tests and scans can be done but cost a lot... keep GPS to their word of 1 year!

The pill is a very strong hormone and if I'd have known the true effects on my body as a young girl I'd have stopped taking it much much sooner and used alternative contraceptive methods!! X

@Kate8989 I think just try and relax about it don’t get too stressed I know easier said then done but if you suffer from anxiety anyway there is no point making your self unhappy/ stressed about it just know it’s normal your cycles being off and it takes time lots of people have the same thing after the pill.
I have my fingers crossed for you xx

I do feel ovulation strips early pregnancy testing all of that just made me obsessive so now I have decided no more early pregnancy testing no ovulation strips etc just track my cycles have sex on a regular basis and if my period is late by a week then do a pregnancy test save myself from feeling miserable 🙂.

@Kate8989 I’m ok it was really hard the first week but now I’m starting my new cycle I feel hopeful 🙂, and apparently my fertility nurse told me after an MC your more fertile for some reason so that’s something.

I tried Angus cactus and it did nothing I tried all sorts of vitamins but to be honest I think those things are a load of crap make sure your eating healthy, exercise make sure your getting sleep etc and your periods will regulate and if they don’t get hormone tests done don’t waist your money on all those things and if your low in anything your doctor can tell you what to take, only thing you need to be taking is folic acid I use pregnacare it has some added vitamins but I mainly use it for the folic acid.
I tried ovulation strips also and again crap I told fertility I was using them and they told me to stop they are based on a standard women’s hormones if your a bit different and then that it want pick it up waste of money.
honestly hun save yourself the stress of doing those tests! Use an app and track your cycles and soon they will regulate and you can work out when you ovulate your cycles are all over the place due to being on the pill it’s normal for them to be irregular after just have sex don’t stress and honestly things will get better, I felt the same trying to rush it etc and it didn’t work but make me miserable. Xxx

I don’t think they were anything special just like Tesco own conception vitamins or something just one a day with main meal! Try not to stress too much I think these things take time, I am currently pregnant with no 2 and it took my periods a good 7months to readjust again after finishing breastfeeding and took a few months to conceive this time rather than after coming off the pill, hopefully you should just regulate and be absolutely fine, first time we didn’t use any ovulation strips or anything I tried to use some this time to try help pinpoint when I was ovulating (bought cheap internet ones) but to be honest I found them more confusing and stressful than anything else, I actually found like other posters said getting to know your body and when you think you are ovulating, we actually fell pregnant after stopping all the faffing and just having a lot of sex and trying to enjoy trying without to much stress (I know easier said than done) but you are fairly early on in the process and am sure you will be fine and fingers crossed you with be successful in no time!

I came of the same pill after getting married in March 2016 had been on it for 10years. I had withdrawal bleed like you then had two long cycles like between 38-45 days that go, I read that taking the conception vitamins help to regulate things somewhere so took them for a month and low and behold the third period arrived at about 28 days. I have no idea if that helped or would have done it anyways but it made me feel better knowing I was doing something to try and help at least! We then decided to try and conceive half way fourth cycle and two weeks later found out I was pregnant I think the vitamins really helped! Maybe worth ago but it is fine and your body will adjust 😊 good luck

Well the advanced one seemed to work well for me for a start, 1st cycle it said 6 highs but no peak (which is apparently quite common 1st cycle using it) then next 2 cycles it gave me 3/4 highs then 2 peaks and a high again but the last 3 cycles it's just given me highs and tells me to keep testing for almost 20 days, which costs a small fortune so i'm not 100% convinced it's completely reliable.

Yes i think it was about £80 and the refill sticks are expensive too. Tbh i'm not sure i would bother with it again.
My ovulation pains just felt a bit like period cramps but also was getting like sharp twinges in what i assume is my left ovary.
Yes i think you should maybe do a pregnancy test Kate8989
I actually wish i had come off the pill a lot sooner and given my body a year or so the settle down before starting ttc

My cycles were 62,39 and 38 however the 38 was longer due to a miscarriage so it would of been 30 days I had 9 months of no period post pill however that was due to very low weight and excessive exercise. X

Some women get pain when they ovulate also cramps and spotting post implantation have you done a pregnancy test?. X

I came off pill (on it for 2 years with breaks) end of Sep, 1st cycle was 31 days then just finished my second cycle and it’s lowered to 28 days. Hoping my third cycle will stay the same at 28 days :/

Same here Merrz! I was sure my first cycle I ovulated and I thought 'Great! - that's reassuring' I had cm and was cd 15! but since then nothing!

Hi, liking this thread! I came off the pill in March after almost 13 years with no break at all. I had usual withdrawl bleed then cycles have been 38days, 37, 33, 30, 30, 30, 32, According to cb advanced fertility monitor i ovulated in my 1st 2 30 day cycles as in it detected LH surge but haven't since
But this cycle is the 1st i have felt as if i actually ovulated, ovulation pain, lots of cm and feeling a bit frisky around cycle day15/16 so my gut instinct tells me this is the 1st cycle i have actually ovulated since coming off the pill 8 months ago