TTC #1 coming off the pill in December - anyone else in the same boat?!

[shelbTa]

Hi,

I am going to be coming off the pill after ten years plus on it after my pack finishes in December. Excited but also terrified about what my body is going to do once I'm without all the hormones!

Anyone else doing the same roughly the same time?

Shelb x

(Hope this goes through struggling to post)

There appear to be a fair few of us wanting to bring TTC forward! I really need to work on my OH!

Runner - are you feeling any better?

Purple - are you off for a sunshine holiday to escape this miserable weather?!

Sarah - thats brilliant that you can just order a bigger dress and they can then alter it to fit. I'm hoping we'll get married either when I'm pregnant or shortly after, so its good to know. Are you getting married in this country (am assuming we are all in the UK!)

Deborah you may want to start a thread to see if anyone else has been in your situation and had a quick fall, or ask the god of Google? I was only on Cerezette for a few months after 10 years on Yasmin. Cerezette was awful for and I've been off it for 6 months. Only started TTC this month but DH pretty much hid from me when I was in my fertile window. I very much doubt I'll be getting a bfp this month for that reason.

As it can take a while for our cycles to go back to normal after years on the pill it can be a good idea to come off the pill in advance. Mine still haven't gone back to normal. I've had 16 days cycles and 33 day cycles, currently on cd 27 so we'll see what this month holds.

I think we're all in the same boat wanting to get bfps our first months of TTC. I'm still holding out for a November bfp but I'd be surprised if I got a 2015 bfp. Both our parents had fertility issues but I remain hopeful. Just need to get DH a bit less freaked out and more in the mood hehe.

Purple do you have room in your case for extras?! A break from work would be soo nice! I'm so jealous of my teacher friends this week!!

Runner I can't believe what bad luck that was! You poor thing! Although...at least it happening before conception means you can still take all those nice painkillers I guess! Take it easy and get that body rested and strong for carrying a little bump!

Ah so you guys do have stockpiles!! I never thought of doing that! I'm gonna go with first response as they seem to be the most accurate for early results.. And technically my cycle could do anything this month as it's the first month off the pill! (yasmin/Lucette deborah so I don't know much about cerazette reactions)

I found this site about supplements and nutrients that can help coming off the pill symptoms /conceiving. Interesting stuff about maca goingoffthepill.org/going-off-the-pill-side-effects/

I half think I'm being ridiculous thinking I might get a positive...would almost like to test without telling the OH in case he thinks I'm seriously losing the plot.. But if it's good news I want him to be part of the moment!!! Oh the not knowing!!!!!

...plus...if it's a no I can start popping some pills to manage these headaches!! I'm being over cautious and not even taking paracetamol!

Ni4444 I'm the same, first month off the pill, no real period yet but desperate to test just in case! I'm going to do one when the cheapy ones arrive tomorrow just on the off chance...! (Apparently they're just as good as the first response ones because they test for the same concentration of hormone, according to others on here - and I think I've got 10 for about £5.)

Its highly unlikely I'd catch so soon though so I'm actually hoping for a period just so I can start to monitor my cycle. I don't like not knowing what's going on in there!

I saw my mum today and blurted out that I'd stopped taking the pill! I've sworn her to secrecy though because OH doesn't want us to tell anyone. I wasn't going to say anything but I was desperate to talk about it with someone!!

Then we spent a happy hour shopping for a present for my friends 1 year old daughter...daring to dream it might be me one day!

Evening all

Thanks Runner I do hope I am pregnant by the wedding!

Hi pinklily yes I am in England, West Midlands. We are getting married in the Cotswolds, hopefully the weather will be ice for us as we are having an outdoor ceremony. The ladies doing my dress were so great with my dress it was her suggestion to get it bigger just incase. Have you made any wedding plans yet?

Sarah x

Sarah - we aren't even engaged yet unfortunately, but we had said we wanted to be engaged before announcing a pregnancy, so he best hurry up with a ring! For various reasons, once we get engaged we will get married pretty quickly (not really one for a massive wedding - I hate being the centre of attention), so its possible if he gets himself in gear (and depending how long it take for us to get pregnant), that we may get married before a baby actually arrives. We'll wait and see!

Miss - did you say you got the tests on Amazon? Which ones were they?

I've very happy today as AF finally arrived on CD 37. I was getting worried that it was going to take ages. I don't think i've ever been so happy to get my period. Give it a few months and I'll be dreading it!

Ni thanks for that site it is really useful. I have been doing lots of reading up on the falling after cerezette and there is s huge range do I think it is the same as. It being on it - you fall when Mother Nature decides to let you. Xx

Morning all, how are you today?

I'm still off work and sitting around feeling a bit sorry for myself. I do have my laptop at home though so I might log in and show willing later.

So the witch has left the building here and I'm suddenly very nervous. After being so impatient to get started I'm now bricking it slightly still couldn't start on a better day, it's two years today since OH and I met

Oh Runner that sound alike the perfect reason to get romantic hehe. Is your back and knee up to it though? I hope your feeling a little better, hot water bottles on the sore spots? Nervous adds to part of the fun. I've found it makes dtd feel like the early days as I'm nervous again- though for different reasons. I hope your whiplash doesn't hold
You back from ttc this month. Fx for you.

I've been a bit "emotionally ubstable" according to DH the last few days. I take that to mean I've been a snappy bitch ha. AF due any day from today until the 5th, going off previous cycles. Moods would suggest soon.

I'm trying to prepare myself not to be too disappointed with the arrival of AF as although we started trying this month, DH has been bouncing about with his keenness and we almost entirely avoided dtd over the fertile period. Nm eh! There's always next month.

Anyone have plans for Halloween? I'm pumpkin carving today so the local kids know we're TorT friendly.

Lol Bunch how lovely of your OH to point out how emotional you are, I hope you gave him a clip round the ear
Are you going to test or wait a while? I honestly don't know how you can hold yourself back, I'm quite sure that at the end of Nov I'll be peeing on everything!!!

No plans for Halloween here. The kids are with their mum and we live on the third floor of a secure entrance apartment building so the chances of TorTers is minimal.

He got a verbal clip that's for sure Runner.

Weeeeelllll..... I have poas twice but a week ago. I've told myself not to do it again until the 5th but I don't feel pregnant. Headaches have gone, I only get dizzy when hungry now so all my "symptoms" I was imagining 2 weeks ago were just imagined. I doubt I'll need to poas stick again this cycle for that reason.

Hmm... Well if you're not due until the fifth then poas a week ago would have been far to early so you're not out until the witch tears her ugly head.
Maybe wait and see, if you get to the fifth with nothing then I'd test again

*rears... That auto correct sounded a bit wrong

Ouch, AF can be painful enough without any tearing!!

Yeah but I ovulated really early this month and it had been two weeks since then when I tested. My cycle is all over the place so I could be due on today or as late as the 5th. It has been as short as 16 days in August too. But yeah, I'm wearing until the 5th now.

Hi bunch hi runner!

Ah you guys are full onto TTC mode now hey! Runner on the two years.

Bunch - fingers cross AF doesn't show up. I'm guna try and be like you though as in assume it won't happen first month but would be a nice surprise / massive scary shock!!!.

14 days left on pill for me now!! Eeekkk!

X

Eee Shelb not long now it would be nice if we were all lucky and caught in the first couple of months but like you, I'm assuming it will take a while.
Let's just hope we're all pleasantly surprised.

It's nearly November, please tell me I'm not the only sado who has already started nearly finished the Christmas shopping?

Hi all

Pinklily - start dropping those hints, its always when you least expect it. I had given up dropping hints and then out of the blue he popped the question :)

Runner - I have nearly finished my Christmas shopping and am half way through writing out my cards lol!! December is a very busy month for me as I am a waitress and I do not have any energy for battling the shops haha!!

AF has just left for this cycle might start trying this month........:)

Best of luck to you all xx

Runner - I love Christmas! Not bought anything as yet but will do come payday. What do you do for Christmas?

Can I run something by the group - I'm on the pill (obvs) but I'm still tracking stuff using ovia, just for kicks. Recently I've found that during the time when it shows I should be ovulating, I get a really bad pain in my groin, only on one side, and get really nauseas. I can't be ovulating on the pill, can I?? I've googled it to the point of insanity.

X

Hi Shelba

What pill are you on and do you have a break every month to bleed or not?

xx

Hi Sarah,

I'm on Marvelon, and yes have a break for seven days every 21 days

X

I don't think you would still ovulate on that as it prevents you from ovulating by tricking the body to think you have already ovulated so you can bleed every month. It may be that you still feel ov pain as your body is going through the motions but not actually doing it, if that makes any sense lol!!

Maybe check with your doctor to be sure or monitor cm to see if you get egg white type cm.

Hope this helps xx

Thanks Sarah. It's very strange! can't wait to come off pill now to see what my body actually does.

X

shelb I got ovulation pains every few months whilst on the pill.
It can still happen, the pill is supposed to a) stop you ovulation and b) thicken your ?cervix to stop the swimmers getting through both independently stop you getting pregnant so it's not an issue if you still ovulate.

I have only got the babies of the family bought for Christmas. Though I know what I've to buy for most of other people. I still need to order Christmas cards, which involves getting a photo of the dog first...

The kitchen is currently taking all my Christmas prep talk. I'm building cupboard carcasses as we speak!

Hi Shelb read the instructions on your pill. My pill used to break for a bleed and the instructions say that it should stop ovulation but it doesn't for everyone. For some people it prevents implantation and sperms getting to the egg. Based on cm I think I ovulated on the pill every couple of months so if your pill is similar then it's possible.

Oh, and Christmas I'm running around a lot! I do Christmas with my mum Christmas Eve, Christmas Day we have my partners kids for the day, then Boxing Day we spend with my partners dad and brother. I then take my mum out again after Boxing Day.
what are you up to?

sarah you are crazy organised even by my standards

Hi all

Sarah - I dropped a lot of hints a while ago, but then thought I might be pushing the point a bit much, so have backed off a little - I know he wants us to be engaged, its just all money money money at the minute, and its all going out to house, holiday etc!

I've been a bit more forward thinking about Christmas this year, to try and spread the costs, so I've done a fair bit of the shopping already. I'm not usually this prepared in October though!

Shelb - are you putting in all the info Ovia asks for? I lost the will to live when the app asked me to record what food I'd had that day, drinks etc! Would like to preserve with it though so will give it another go.