How long for the pill to leave your system?

[Cas90]

I want to start trying for a baby, how long does it take for the contraceptive pill to leave your system? How do I work out when I'm most likely to get pregnant in the month. Thanks x

Hi @Cas90 it varies, I know girls who've took 6 months to get their cycle back to normal, whereas I managed to conceive the month after coming off the pill. Good luck!

Hey .. in reply to this question my dr said it can be up until a year I'm 8 months without the pill and still not pregnant yet 😔 x

Forgot to add also not having regular periods there all over the place atm x

My consultant told me that when you stop the pill it leaves your system immediately. She said it can take a few months for your body to fall back into its own natural cycle but the hormones etc associated with the pill are gone straight away.

Thanks everyone, sounds like there's no really answer, could be a month could be a year! Xx

The pill itself won't stay in your body (hence why you can get pregnant if you miss one) but it might take your body a whole to get back to normal. There's apps that will work out when you ovulate and can tell you when youre most likely to fall pregnant. I came off the pill and didn't even have 1 proper period I got pregnant literally immediately.

For me, it was immediate. I came off the pill, 28 days later I had a period and the next month I got pregnant. I was very lucky. I don't know anyone else who can say that.

As for when you'll get pregnant- you can only get pregnant when ovulating, so when the egg is released from your ovary and the 12-24 hours following that. You ovulate on average 14 days BEFORE your period. So if you have a 28 day cycle you will usually ovulate on day 14, where day 1 is the first day of your period.

You can work out when you ovulate a number of ways, the easiest is by cervical mucus- days 1-5 or so will be blood (your period) then snot like, then watery, then like egg white, where if you get it on your fingers its stringy and stretches between them. Egg white cervical mucus usually means you are about to ovulate and lasts about 3 days. Then it's snotty again, before it goes a bit grey and glue like then you dry up, then your period starts. To test cervical mucus you need to get it from the source (i.e. up your foof, not on your knickers).

You can also use basal body temperature and ovulation predictor tests to predict ovulation. I found cervical mucus by far the easiest and most stress free way.

Making babies gets you really I touch with your body!

Wankstain (lolling 😂), Why does CM have to be examined at source? Why does it make a difference if you check it on your knickers?

I stopped taking the pill in November by December I was pregnant sadly ended in a MC. Nice to know my body is working though! Trying again this month but some people can take up to 8 months x

Stopped taking the pill last May. Started TTC in July (allowed a month so that I had a 'natural' cycle first). I'm 7 months pregnant now so it worked first try DH convinced he has superman swimmers...

sally52014 because unless it happens to be right at the point of it being deposited on your knickers it dries and the consistency changes quite dramatically and quickly and it can be difficult to tell the difference between non-fertile and fertile mucus. I'm not saying you have to put fingers up your foof, on the loo roll will do if you are squeamish.