Post Pill Party - The Ceilidh

Girls, I've been out of this for a while so sorry to just jump back in out of nowhere!
I'm having a shjt-show this month, had a 25day cycle last month with 8day LP which was disheartening... this month I'm already CD19 with zero signs of upcoming ovulation 😩 (OPK's twice a day). Has anyone experienced delayed ovulation after coming off the pill even a few months down the line? I took Cerelle for 8 years.

@sperr ha I think they can go to max 17 days? Today was 16DPO but if I got AF I guess that means I only made it to 15! I'm glad you got a full length LP this time ! Will you be testing any time soon?

@TheDaydreamBelievers hahahah oh dear is this what we've all descended into!

@Juno231 I didn’t even realise the LP could be more than 14 days 😂😂. I was yours 16 this cycle?

I’m 14dpo today so I feel like I’ve accomplished a normal cycle after last months disaster 😂. Glad to be back to normal and looking forward to AF so I can be back on the grapefruit 😂😂😂

@kay00 I'm def happy this time! I think if I had started getting BFPs at this point I'd be really worried about it having implanted late (and therefore being high risk for miscarriage) or that it had implanted in the wrong location.

@Juno231 erm... congratulations and commiserations in equal measure!

@LauraT94 Well as luck has it - AF showed up this afternoon! I'm so excited lol. And your chart is looking lovely! I'm due O on the 2nd or 3rd now as well so you can be my new cycle buddy this time . Assume our bodies play ball of course...

@TheDaydreamBelievers more waiting, such fun haha! Hope you're ok. My chart last cycle had SUCH a low BBT rise after ovulation 🤷🏼‍♀️ guessing as @Juno231 says it's due to lower progesterone... Not conducive to conceiving really but I'm guessing it's just our bodies healing after the MC.

@ChinChilly keeping my fingers crossed for a peak in time!!

@Juno231 I can't believe AF hasn't showed yet! Would obvs be fab if it didn't come and it was just a late BFP but I can see you had your temp drop today. At least as you say the timing works well with the HSG!

My AF is nearly gone now 🥳 passed relatively quickly and easily! Was a tad heavier than normal but no where near as bad as I was imagining and it was so good to be able to use my menstrual cup again. Now to start the count down to FW! I'm going to start doing one opk a day from tomorrow just because I'm A) terrified I'll miss an early O, and B) I miss peeing on sticks 😂 attaching my chart purely because the synchronicity of my BBT and my RHR is making me smile!

@Cams50 yeah agree with Kay that it's a shame they insisted on Day 21 and then didn't follow up! I still think I was so lucky to have a GP who told me to come in when I was 7DPO per my BBT chart lol.

@TheDaydreamBelievers gah that is a crappy one to interpret isn't it! Tbh potentially you did ovulate but had a weak progesterone response to follow? Wait and see is no fun when TTC...

@TheDaydreamBelievers Hopefully you're having a mid LP estrogen surge causing your temp to dip and you'll see it rise again tomorrow.

@Cams50 Interestingly when I was reading the NICE guidelines shared by @Moocher90 last night I'm sure it said that the 21 day test should indeed be done on day 21, and then every 7 days after until ovulation is detected or AF turns up. Seems like doctors are doing the first part, but not the follow up tests.

@TheDaydreamBelievers I see what you mean. Such a tricky one isn’t it. Your temps have definitely gone up since the dip but I suppose it’s not conclusive. I hate all the uncertainty and waiting and seeing. Hoping you have x

@Cams50 yeah his new job is much closer to home aswell! The problem with his night shifts are they are long shifts 5-5 so we never really had any time together. I was hoping I would get a peak today they are darker then yesterday but not quite there yet

@ChinChilly oh that’s good about his new job! Hopefully ovulation happens in the next day or two. Even if it’s the day or 2 after that then those days should cover you!

@Cams50 sounds like a right headache! Seems like things are moving in the right direction.

My OPKs still aren’t upto much! I’ve got today and tomorrow to get a peak before OH goes off on night shifts again, OH has a new job so these are the last night shifts woohoo.

@Juno231 it was meant to be a 21 day blood test but I only ovulated that day so maybe they test for everything but that must have shown as high for 21 as I hadn’t actually ovulated yet. No I didn’t ask for a number for progesterone but it wouldn’t be accurate for confirming ovulation as I hadn’t ovulated yet if you see what I mean. I’m 7dpo today so really it should have been today lol. So he basically said there’s no point doing more blood tests and just wait for the SA result and he’ll refer us. But I’m sure you need a day 3 blood test too to be referred even if my 21 day one kind of turned out to be that. I don’t think he knows much about fertility. The bloods need to be done within 3 months of the referral I think so I’m going to see what happens with this SA and then maybe ask for more bloods then. I wonder if I should lie about my cd21 because he was like it has to be day 21 regardless but I didn’t ovulate until then. But then he’d know from the gap between day 3 and 21...this is such a mind field!! As some of you other ladies were saying the experience you have is so dependent on the gp you get. Argh.

Yes I’ve heard so much about the HSG helping to make you more fertile that month so that’s great! Yeah it is strange to have an irregular cycle but presumably it’s just a one off 🤔

@cams50 that's unusual to test for LH at that point in the cycle I think! Did you ask for an actual number of progesterone? I would just because I keep seeing ladies getting told their numbers are normal when they're not. E.g. I'm on a fertility appointment thread atm and two of the women there have progesterone too low to be ovulating but were never told by their GPs...

What dpo are you today? Fingers crossed for no spotting/longer LP!

As for me - yeah on the assumption that AF shows up today it's worked very well from an HSG point of view. Def in with a shot this cycle and hopefully with increased fertility from the tubes being flushed out! It does worry me though that it's gone randomly wonky just when I thought it was going really well!

@ChinChilly @Kay00 hope ovulation is on its way for you both!

@TheDaydreamBelievers hoping ovulation had happened. What dpo are you?

@Juno231 oh that’s odd. I was really hoping it was some kind of implantation bleeding but I suppose the temp drop suggests otherwise. Hope it just hurries up and arrives now! At least the later it is the better it is for ovulation and dtd?

Not a lot to report here. 7dpo which is the day I started bleeding last cycle so super praying the b vits have worked and my lp lengthens. Or a bfp ideally 😂 but not holding my breath. No symptoms or anything. Still haven’t heard back about the SA for DH. I got my blood results back and LH etc showed that they were high enough for ovulation time but he said progesterone was a bit low. But I don’t know if that’s because I hadn’t actually ovulated yet so they hadn’t increased or are they even low for ovulation day. But either way I’m not surprised as that’s what’s linked to short lp and long bleeding/spotting. They don’t really seem to treat progesterone deficiency as much here as the USA. Like progesterone creams etc. They seem to give more clomid as my gp said the stronger the ovulation the more progesterone wil rise. Anyway that turned out to be a long post for not a lot to report 😂

@TheDaydreamBelievers share it again? Don't think I've seen it in a couple of days

@Kay00 I had alot of EWCM this morning so hopefully something is happening finally! Hopefully your temp is accurate and something is happening for you too!

@Juno231 it’s so wierd to be on here hoping for AF 😂

Morning girls!

Had a temp drop below the cover line but still no AF. Hopefully it arrives later today. It was so weird to lie in bed this morning excited about the drop and to go for that morning wee to see if AF had arrived 😅.

@ChinChilly your temp has come down nicely, so hopefully you'll get a peak OPK today/tomorrow and Ov tomorrow/next day?

My temp came down a bit today too... but... I took my temperature an hour and a half later than I usually do and I had already started waking up/talking/had picked up my phone... so it isn't to be trusted!