Anyone able to advise on conception/periods after cerazette?

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Hi, I haven't been on here since my ds1 (9) and ds2(7) were babies. I am now very happily re-married and dh and I decided to try for our first baby together. I came off cerazette (been on it years) 31st December 2015 so just over 3 weeks ago. I had horrendous period pains for about a week that finished last weekend, so bad I was bent double, no sign of any period. Friday night (tmi, sorry) I begun having alight bloody discharge, when going to the toilet. I thought ok so I'm not pregnant and this is the first period for years and was disappointed but relieved my body was doing what it was supposed to. However yesterday there was still no red blood, just pink sort of slimy mucous (sorry!) not a lot on a pad. Today it is similar. After ds1 I had one period and was pregnant, with ds1 no bleeding at all and was pregnant straight away. I don't know if this is a period or possibly implantation bleeding (although doubtful as had BFN yesterday) or withdrawal bleed?? I don't know if I should count Friday as 1st day of period or even if it is a period? I know any doctor will just say 'be patient' but I don't know what's going on! Any advice very welcome!

You will probably ovulate in the month before your first period. Not always, but it's likely.

I guess Iv answered my own question in the op! With ds2 I came off cerazette and didn't have a period and was pregnant straight away!

When would be the best time stop taking cerazette if you want to ttc? I was thinking about stopping in July so that my cycle can get back to normal. I am getting married in October and we plan to ttc straight away (we have been together 10 years). I am worried that if I stop in October it will take months for my periods to come back!

If your not having periods, you don't ovulate. Periods are natures way of disposing off the mucus lining & if you don't produce one you have no period. When I wanted to come of the pill (guess what..Cerazette) to get pregnant with my husband it didn't work, for ages. I went to my G.P & they said that you shouldn't be on Cerazette if you were planning to have a baby within the next few years. We had months & months of heartache, 2 miscarriages but finally fell pregnant with my now 2 year old daughter. I was lucky. My sister still hasn't had a full cycle or period since she started taking it. We rely on contraception when it suits us but don't think or ask about the long term affects that it may cause.

I forgot to explain that it took over a year for my periods to start after stopping Cerazette & 2 years for them to get to anywhere normal. Hope that answers the other questions.

Little I hear what you are saying but when u got pregnant with ds2 I definitely did not have any bleed after I came off cerazette and had positive test 4 weeks later. I had to have an early scan to determine due date. Iv has a google on other chat forums and there are others this has happened to.

Username gone, it wouldn't be a bad idea to come off and use other forms of contraception until your ready to ttc, as it seems a lot of people have struggled ttc off cerazette, not all, but a lot. No gp or midwife etc have ever told me cerazette is bad if you want to ttc.

I stopped Cerazette in March 2014 (I was 31) and had no withdrawal bleed or period or anything at all until for three months. I had some pinky spotting and then the most brutal ovulation pain first in early May and then finally had a period at the end of May. Then really long cycles (40-50days) and tbh I wasn't sure I was even ovulating. Fell pregnant at the end of September, so it took 3 months for my body to remember how to cycle, and then another 4-5 months of dedicated well timed sexy time before I got there. In fact we'd actually just got engaged and the month I fell were thinking about postponing until after the wedding... Ha!
I did really like cerazette from a convenience perspective, I had no bleeds at all, but I piled on the weight and although we aren't planning ttc for another year or so, I'm not sure I want to chance another long delay, I'll be 34 by then and really don't want to wait to re-regulate again if I can help it.

OP, yes I was ovulating, or at least LH urine tests came up when I started testing (maybe a couple of months after I came off the cerazette).

My issue was a short luteal phase. So not enough progesterone to sustain a pregnancy. And possibly, also not a good enough lining developed to catch one. the brown spotting gunk that came before my period did not look hospitable.

I am 100% certain cerazette upset my cycle - I had previously got pregnant easily at first try.

the other thing the gynaecologist did was help me know when I was spotting. LH tests from clearblue etc advise DTD before and on the day of the test. We scanned me and confirmed I would ovulate that evening, two days after I'd had a postivie morning LH test. So possibly we'd miss timed things over previous cycles, stopping DTD too early.

I went to my G.P & they said that you shouldn't be on Cerazette if you were planning to have a baby within the next few years.<

WOW. that is interesting. I was specifically looking for light / temporary contraception as we knew we would want to conceive soon. I had researched mini-pills as a good option. Discuss with GP. No such warning.

Oh how I wish I had know.

this kind of stuff makes me so angry. I will teach my daughters SO differently about their cycles, how to avoid pregnancy when they want to etc.

I told the doctor I wanted to TTC again quite soon when I got my cerazette prescription the second time (after having dc1), I remember the conversation as she wanted me to have the mirena coil instead, and she didn't say anything.

User, based on my experience I would stay on the pill until after the wedding/ honeymoon so that you aren't experiencing the withdrawal at the wedding (and you don't get accidentally pregnant too soon!).

I have been on Micronor (which I think is the same as cerazette) which the GP recommended to me as I was breastfeeding my daughter. My daughter will be 1 next week and so I stopped taking the pill at the end of December to TTC #2. So far no period (other than one very short bleed after sex which lasted an hour) and bfns. I was however using the clearblue ovulation kit which told me that I ovulated around 13th Jan.

I was a bit confused by what was going on but then researched the pill last night and it looks as though whilst on the mini pill you continue to ovulate but the pill changes the mucous lining so that sperm can't reach the egg and any fertilised egg would have problems implanting.

I was also not advised that this would have a negative effect on my fertility and wish I had stopped taking it earlier (if at all! To be honest never felt like DTD when I was breastfeeding anyway!!). We conceived DD the first month of trying so I'm very frustrated by this!!!