Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Conception

When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

Original poster

Did you ovulate 1st month off pill?

30 replies

orchiddaisy · 03/06/2018 18:20

Just that really!
I have come off my pill 2 weeks ago. If I counted my withdrawal bleed like a proper period I am now on day 10 of my cycle. Thinking of doing an ovulation test from day 11-14 to see if I am ovulating this month, but it it unlikely until I have my first proper period, rather than the withdrawal bleed?

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
RobynC19 · 11/06/2018 08:30

So it obviously wasn't implantation bleeding as today after 8 days of high flashy faces on my clear blue fertility monitor I got a peak. Been so vieny the last few days I wonder if this is why. So we BD yesterday and I think will try tonight and tomorrow to cover all bases x

Did you ovulate 1st month off pill?
RobynC19 · 08/06/2018 07:40

So the blood yesterday was brown and mucusy (tmi) and had not over night and tiny bits of brown this morning could this be implantation bleeding or am I trying to see things I want to see x

RobynC19 · 07/06/2018 22:35

So I just went to the toilet and it looks like I have got my first true period it's been 17 days since my withdrawal bleed and 22 days since I stopped taking the pill. This might explain why I have had no positive ovulation tests. I'm hoping this is the start of regular periods, ovulation and a speedy ttc journey x

Original poster
orchiddaisy · 07/06/2018 18:35

Hi all,

Just an update- I got a smiley on my ovulation test. It's my first month off the pill so have only had a withdrawal bleed, not a natural period yet. Anyway it's day 14 of my cycle today so it's good. I'm not ttc yet, just trying to understand my cycle !

Is there a difference between a smiley and a flashing smiley?x

OP posts:
RobynC19 · 07/06/2018 11:19

I'm getting married in less than two months and I think I was just hoping it would happen round then so I guess the next two months are just bonus tries

RobynC19 · 07/06/2018 11:16

@Addy2 thanks I have put all the testing stuff away and tbf we have doing the Deed every day if not every other day any way so can't say we will have missed anything if it has happened

Addy2 · 07/06/2018 10:48

If you're dtd and have pulled the goalie, so to speak, you are properly trying. People managed for thousands of years prior to OPK tests.

Addy2 · 07/06/2018 10:46

@RobynC19, I seriously wouldn't go on for the whole OPK thing straight away, you'll just stress yourself out, which isn't helpful. Just dtd every 3 days or so and enjoy not having to remember a pill. Tell yourself it'll take a few months and if it doesn't you'll be pleasantly surprised.

RobynC19 · 07/06/2018 09:43

Feeling crap today I think just wanted it so much to not even be properly trying is a kick in the teeth

Addy2 · 07/06/2018 08:51

Oh, also my midwife told me that she sees lots of women who get pregnant pretty much immediately after stopping the pill. She said it seems to either happen straight away or take quite a few months.

RobynC19 · 07/06/2018 08:06

I think I'm going to stop testing had 5 days of flashing smiley faces now and my opk tests have even got a tiny bit darker I think I just have to admit I'm not gonna ovulate this month and will have to wait till my first natural period and try again then feeling really down tbh feel like years of birth control and messed up my body HmmCake

RobynC19 · 06/06/2018 07:52

Day 4 of the flashing smiley face I'm starting to think he looks a bit smug

Rosepetals11 · 05/06/2018 19:28

It took me 2.5 months to get my first period now I’m waiting on my second one and it’s 12 days late!! So annoying

Wellthisunexpected · 05/06/2018 19:03

Yes first time and no second time. Second time I ovulated in month 2.

RobynC19 · 05/06/2018 18:51

Thank you I will keep trying until my natural period, a peak or I run out of tests x

Fredthespider · 05/06/2018 18:06

@RobynC19 - I had 6 days of "high" before I got a peak first time, so I'd keep going for a while longer.

RobynC19 · 05/06/2018 16:36

I want that to happen to me x

BirthdayKake · 05/06/2018 14:14

Yes, pregnant within two weeks, twice

RobynC19 · 05/06/2018 14:13

Well this makes me feel like maybe I will ovulate CD 14 today so I guess still a few more days it could happen on and my ovulation monitor is saying high

CherryVicky29 · 05/06/2018 12:00

I ovulated two weeks after stopping my pill, conceived on cycle 3 🙂

Rose2887 · 05/06/2018 11:56

I came off mine, had a 3 day with drawl bleed straight away and was pregnant two weeks later! Pregnant within a month both times!!!!! Good luck :) x

RobynC19 · 05/06/2018 07:39

I would just like to know I have ovulated so I know my body is back on track I'm hoping to go back to my pre pill cycles quickly the thought of long cycles worries me

Addy2 · 05/06/2018 07:07

I never had a period or bleed after coming off mine. Just a positive pregnancy test, but took 7 weeks. So, your guess is as good as mine!

user1483387154 · 05/06/2018 07:07

Yes. I got pregnant 3 days after stopping

lapenguin · 05/06/2018 07:02

I'm not sure if I did, but there was only two weeks between the end of my withdrawal bleed and the start of my first period post pill. If you go by that I would have ovulated the day my withdrawal bleed! You may do or you may not, but even if you do it may not be when you think, some people have a five or six or more weeks long cycle after they come off the pill! To stress until that first af comes, but maybe test after a month and once a week until af comes after that? You don't need to have your period to ovulate!

Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.

Join Mumsnet Log In

This thread is closed and is no longer accepting replies. Click here to start a new thread.

Swipe left for the next trending thread