Ever since I started my period 16 years ago, my cycle has always been 28 days. I’ve been on and off birth control since I was 17 (I’m 28 now) and my cycle has never been affected. I could pretty much time my period down to the hour.
I came off the implant in December 2016 to start ttc. My cycles went straight back to being 28 days like clockwork as they always are. They continued to be so for 10 months. Then, in September, I didn’t ovulate until very late (usually ov smack bang on day 14) and so my period was late making my cycle 34 days. I figured it was just a one off. The next month, I ov’d early and my cycle was 26 days. Next month it was 31 days. Then last month, it was back to 28 days. Ov’d on day 14, af showed up exactly on time (Christmas Day, yay) It wasn’t a good period as it was mostly brown and flow was light but I had cramps for two days which has never happened to me before but just a little reminder to myself that my body hates me and clearly suffering on Christmas Day wasn’t enough lol.
Anyway, I thought since I was back to being clockwork last month that maybe the random cycle thing was over. I’ve stopped doing opks because they were causing me way too much stress so I decided to just listen to my body. I know I’m ovulating based on blood tests so it was just a case of checking for fertile cm (which for me starts around cd10, 4 days before I ovulate)
On cd9, I had watery cm literally gush out unexpectedly and the same happened the next day so I thought fw must have started. If my cycles were being normal again, I’m due to ov tomorrow so that made sense. Then I was having period type cramps on cd10 and 11 which although is different to any ov pain I’ve had before, it must have been ovulation because I’m not on my period. My boobs have been slightly sore all week but since yesterday they’ve been extra sore (just when being squeezed/not wearing a bra and my nipples did not react kindly to the cold outside yesterday!) My sore boobs normally start a week before af which is how I know she’s on her way but I’m only cd13 today. The only explanation is that I ovulated on cd10/11 and for some reason my boobs just decided they felt like being a pain for me for two weeks instead of one. But if I ov’d on cd10/11, that will make this cycle only 24/25 days instead of 28.
I’m just confused as to why this is happening. I’m not doing anything different than I have been since having my implant removed over a year ago. I know periods can change with age but is it perfectly normal for them to be completely fine for ten months coming off birth control and then just go totally mental, settle down back to normal for a month and then go back to being mental? I just can’t think of a reason for it and it’s making ttc way harder than it already is.