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Stopping mini pill question... advice please

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SleepyJess · 10/01/2006 11:55

This is advice for my friend. (It really is! Anyone who knows anything about me knows I am seriously not in the market for more babies!! )

My friend has been on the mini pill for a few years and has been using it successfully. Nearly two weeks ago she stopped, mid- packet, in order to try for a baby.

No period has arrived and there has been lots of sex! What do you think the likelyhood of pregnancy is? She has a very dodgy stomach and feels 'weird' although this may be nerves/excitement re the possibility of being pregnant (she has waited a long time for the right time to so this!)

I know lots about conception but know next to nothing about the mini pill and can't anything helpful on the net except that pregnancy is 'possible' immediately after stopping pill.

SJ x

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SleepyJess · 10/01/2006 12:09

Anyone with mini pill experience please?

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mummytosteven · 10/01/2006 13:00

well given that you can get PG if you take mini-pill more than 3 hours later than usual time, I imagine it is likely to go out of your body veeeery quickly, and it is quite possibly she is already PG. fingers crossed.

Aloha · 10/01/2006 13:01

Well it's perfectly possible, but there may also be no period because her cycle is returning to a natural one (the period on the pill is not a true period).

mummytosteven · 10/01/2006 13:03

isn't that just the case for combined pill rather than mini-pill Aloha? As I understand it the combined pill completely replaces your cycle with an artificial one and you don't ovulate, where as the mini-pill just is liable to mess it up a bit, and most women ovulate on it.

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SleepyJess · 10/01/2006 13:08

Yes this is where my confusion lies too. i understand what the pill does to stop you conceieving but the mini pill actually allowed you to ovulate so I understand

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SleepyJess · 10/01/2006 13:17

If she is not pg, do you think she would have come on immediately after stopping taking them? (Or would this only be with a standard pill..)

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mummytosteven · 10/01/2006 13:17

That would only be with standard pill, SJ.

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SleepyJess · 10/01/2006 13:20

So when should she test do you think? (She is texting me madly.. offsick from work with nausea (!) and no pc at home. Sorry for all the Qs)

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mummytosteven · 10/01/2006 13:22

I think it's too early to test now. I would wait at least two weeks after she stopped pill, and even then go for a First Response early test. other problem of course is that she might not have ovulated this cycle (as mini-pill can mean with some people that they don't ovulate at all/or don't ovulate all cycles), in which case this cycle would be a bit of a non-starter for TTC. The nausea could just be a tummy bug that's doing the rounds...

mygirllolipop · 10/01/2006 13:28

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SleepyJess · 10/01/2006 13:37

Think it stops ov is some cases.

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gingernut · 10/01/2006 13:42

Yes, it stops ov in some cases, particularly if you've been using it for some time IIRC. So she could be pg but I think it is a bit early to test since conception could have occurred at the earliest less than 2 weeks ago. If she waits a week or so AF may arrive in which case she's saved herself the cost of a test.

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SleepyJess · 10/01/2006 13:44

Thank you girls

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