Post Pill TTC - Rave on

Sorry for AWOL, v stressy at the mo as (hopefully!!) exchanging contracts on new house in next few days. My nerves are on overload, why do houses have to be so mega stressful in the UK?? We had our offer accepted 14 months ago now and it's been a rollercoaster ever since (thanks covid!)

Also, feeling you @Robyn101 and @Cams50 We got married in August - had to cancel all our big wedding plans and got married with just our immediate families (which I was sad about at the time not to see our friends, and now realise how lucky we were even to have our families there!) We moved all our big wedding plans to May and now looks like will have to cancel those again too - which means stressed about the money. I loved our micro-wedding in the end, and would be happy just to have that but we have paid all our deposits and would literally be throwing thousands of pounds away to just cancel the big reception. Arrrrgh. All such a mess. We have insurance, but they find any way to sneak out of paying!

Not a lot going on for me. Have had first AF since pill (yay!) and now waiting for FW. OPK's all stark white however, so I'm a bit at a loss as to when to expect it. Trying to time DTD but not sure when, and OH doesn't have the highest sex drive so trying to avoid pressuring him! Hoping if I just keep testing OPK's I'll catch something soon...

@Delilah221 welcome! All sounds normal to me. Lots of the ladies here have had intermittent cramping and spotting while waiting for first AF. I also experienced v dry skin and shed loads of hair loss when stopping pill.

@robyn101 - I think it'll be several days before you can test. Fingers crossed for you though, eeek exciting!

@ChinChilly welcome to the temping club! I very quickly became addicted to temps as it's so nice to watch your body making a chart and knowing it's doing something! I may just be weird though...

All of you are making me feel so guilty with your NY health kicks! Need to get my butt in gear and lose some weight!

@Mol234 - I think i'll give that a go. I've also downloaded an app called clue, to start attempting to track any sort of cycle. I don't really recall any periods/symptoms/cycles from before i went onto the pill so have nothing to compare too really.

@ChinChilly - Aww thank you! It feels like such a relief finding this site! Glad to hear that the brown spotting is normal. My worst thing is googling everything which is not good! :(
We recently got engaged so thankfully everyone is distracted by that news so we're able to keep the TTC under wraps for now haha.

I'm just so confused with it all! I'm also quite overweight, so trying to focus on eating healthy and stoping the drinking! (I gained over a stone last year over lockdown food/drink binges!) So worrying that my weight is effecting it too. Just trying to be patient.. easier said than done!

How are you all getting on?

@Mol234 I wish my RHR was that low 😂😂 I think as @Juno231 said you may not see much of a difference for another few days probably after implantation I would guess?

@Flowers222 yeah I know alot of people say too much tracking can make it stressful but I honestly think not knowing what was going on would drive me mad even more!

@Delilah221 Hi, you’re in the right place!! I had some brown spotting after cerazette on and off cramping until my first real period, I remeber thinking I was pregnant as I had every symptom going! Not sure about the dry skin but lots of us have had post pill acne!
My closet friend knows we are TTC, which is helpful as she took 12 months to get a BFP post cerazette. My mom has sniffed it out and just came out and asked me which I couldn’t lie she hasn’t really asked much though I think she gets the pressure and we are really close so she knows I’ll bring it up if I want to talk about it, my OH doesn’t really get it all he just nods his head 😂

@Juno231 @ChinChilly thanks both for sharing! Maybe I’m over thinking it, it’s not a huge change over the past 5 days, just slight. Weirdly my RHR doesn’t seem to have changed massively over the past month despite now being in my LP, however temp has risen massively! No idea what this means, will just see how the next week goes. I track mine on my iwatch, chart attached.

@Robyn101 I don’t know re testing tbh..! I reckon I would wait until 10DPO but I guess the later you test the more reliable. I think some people on this thread have tested at 9DPO and got BFPs though!!

@Delilah221 sorry about your bad experience! I was the same as you, I had loads of pregnancy symptoms but it was just my body regulating after the pill. I’d recommend starting to track your BBT and ovulation with OPKs. Hopefully things will start to settle down for you really soon!

Hi All,

Happy new year to you all! :) I am very new to this, and I am currently TTC baby No1. Took my last pill 4 weeks ago today!

I've been on hormonal contraception since i was 16, started on depo injection then onto the mini pill. I was on Carelle for years, then was prescribed Cerazette. After 2 weeks on that pill i cannot begin to describe how awful it made me feel! So decided to stop it all together.

We was wanting to start TTC in March this year, but after the horrid carezzette experience i stopped all together and quite glad i did!

I just wanted to join and speak to you all, as i sometimes feel like i'm just going crazy with all these sympotms!

So since coming off 4 weeks ago, I've had brown spotting (sorry TMI) and cramps here and there. And now I'm having odd days of cramps/spotting and then nothing. I can't keep up! I now have all of a sudden developed incredibly dry skin and dry scalp. Not sure if this is normal?!
I also had every pregnancy symptom under the sun about 2 weeks after stopping and got very excited, only to then realise that it's very common when coming off the pill!

Sorry for the long story! Just wanted some advice, and somewhere to talk about this stuff as none of my friends or family know we're TTC as we want to keep it private. So i can only speak to my OH which isn't too helpful as he has no idea about this stuff! (Neither do I TBH)

Anyway, thanks ladies! Any help/Advice/Support will be much appreciated !!

@Robyn101 I really hope it is a good sign for you and it is implantation bleeding 🤞

@ChinChilly exciting that you will be temping! it is so useful to know what is going on.

@firsttimemummy321 welcome! Sorry you are in limbo at the moment. I had faint lines for about 5 days last cycle before they went negative and I started bleeding, it turned out to be a chemical. The worst part was not knowing what was happening. I'm sorry if you are having a chemical but I really do hope it isn't!

@Mol234 I don’t really know! I’m trying not to read into anything so don’t really know when to do a proper test I’m going to try and stick it out for the full TWW. I’m predicted a period next Thursday so let’s see where I am (I’m
Gunna do it tomorrow arent I 😂)

Serious question though if it is implantation bleeding is there an optimum time before it will show on a test?

@Mol234 photos didnt upload 🙄 but yeah here is one of my cycles O day was on the 18th.

@firsttimemummy321 it’s from amazon I think it links up to the premom app!

@Juno231 I’m looking forward to seeing my charts 😬 I’ve already stuck it my mouth just to check it was working ofcourse 😂

@Mol234 those are my last 3 cycles the day I’ve highlighted is the day of ovulation the only real pattern I’ve noticed is that the drop for AF arriving

@Juno231 thank you :)
Pink dye tests (also had similar on a cb early) here's a variety of them but so faint so difficult to photograph 🙈
I'm not going mad though they are definitely there!
Thank you, I had a CP last year so expecting that but it's not getting darker or lighter.
Appreciate your honesty 💕

@ChinChilly where did you get that from? I think that brand links to an app I have :)

@Mol234 🤞🏻 for you I have no experience with my rhr, when do you take it?

@Robyn101 that’s super exciting! Def could be implantation bleeding... when are you planning to test?

@Moocher90 good for you on the spinning!! This cold weather makes me want to do nothing!!

5DPO over here. Temp rised a tiny bit again today but my RHR has dropped a bit - don’t think thats a good sign 😔 how do others RHR compare in the LP? This is my first time tracking in that phase so have nothing to compare to.

Let the BBT commence!

@Robyn101 sounds like it could be 🤞🏼

@Kay00 thank you. Yes sorry 🙈 on a few brands of pregnancy test, it's very odd!

@Robyn101 that does sound like it could be 🤞🏻

@firsttimemummy321 Welcome! When you say you have had a 'super squinty faint' do you mean on a pregnancy test??

Hi everyone :) please can I join? I came off the mini pill 5-6 weeks ago and no idea what's going on, no idea if I've ovulated, no bleed at all since stopping and had faint (super squinty faint) for a week now so just very confused by it all 🙈

I hope everyone's getting on ok! 🥰

@ChinChilly @Juno231 I didn’t even think it could be implantation I think I was just happy my body knew how to do something 😂

Don’t want to get my hopes up too much it was literally just after FMU berry pinkish and nothing at all since, not sure if you need more for an implantation bleed or not?

I’ll keep on waiting and try and stick out the full two weeks

CD28 here patiently waiting for AF to turn up and not ruin my streak of regular short cycles 😂.

@Juno231 I’m doing 100 squats a day! Legs are dying already. My OH is doing a 3000 burpee challenge in January. I hate burpees so I opted to do squats instead- if he gets good results I may reconsider in February 😂

Not* not boy😂