I started my periods when I was 12. They have always been very regular 28 days. In the past, I’ve been on and off the pill a few times but my cycle never changed. My period always continued to be 28 days. I’m 28 years old now and I came off the implant in December last year as we decided to start ttc. Cycle came back straight away and settled into 28 days again immediately, ov’ing on CD14 like clockwork.
In August, I started taking Norethisterone as I was going away and af was due and I didn’t want it to ruin my time away. The doctor told me that it was basically the same as the pill and so I figured since I’ve never had any issue coming off the pill in the past (which I’d done around 4 or 5 times) I decided to use them. Came off them after a week, waited the three days they say it takes to have a withdrawal bleed and sure enough, I had a withdrawal bleed when I expected it.
However, in September, I didn’t ovulate until cd20 and after that I was 4 days late so had a 38 day cycle (from withdrawal bleed to real period) October I ov’d CD11 and had a 26 day cycle. This month, I ov’d on CD18 and so not expecting af until Tuesday making it a 32 day cycle. I can’t figure out any other reason for this other than it being the Norethisterone.
Have I really messed up here? I thought I’d be “safe” as I’ve never had any issues coming of any kind of hormones ever and I’m kind of a pro when it comes to getting on and off birth control lol in my whole 11 years of using contraception, my cycles have never been messed up by it. I know I’m ovulating as it was confirmed by blood tests but now I’m panicking that I’ve made ttc even harder for myself. Been ttc for a year with zero pregnancies and now I’m worried that taking the Norethisterone has effectively made me start back from square one. Has anyone else been in a similar position? As in, totally normal regular cycles, never affected by birth control either on it or off it, but then had issues after coming off Norethisterone?