Post Pill TTC Party

[TheDaydreamBelievers]

Come one, come all ! A thread for those TTC after coming off hormonal contraceptive pills.

Discussions typically include:

• Baffling temp charts
• Absent or oddly timed EWCM
• Whacky cycle lengths
• AF gone AWOL (current high score is 141 days post pill)

@AMS19 I drink about 4 litres a day and you are supposed to hold for 2 hours for opks and I never managed more than an hour 🤣 I am always peeing. I am going to be terrible when pregnant. May as well get a catheter 😂😂

@Trying4one yes thank goodness for wfh or I would never be at my desk! Maybe I'll just make the bathroom my new office 🤣🤣

@AMS19 @Trying4one I find my pee is more diluted in the morning because of not drinking anything overnight, so I pee first thing and then I manage to hold on until 11-12ish but I don't drink much during that time to try and help. Then I just make sure I drink lots in the afternoon :)

@AMS19 oh definitely. I am WFH for the foreseeable future and the bathroom is across the landing. Though if I was at the office at least I would have got a lot of steps in 🤣🤣🤣

@MintGreenLife I wake up for the loo on the night and always drink when I wake up. I get headaches if I don't drink for awhile 🤦 it is pain as I generally always worry about needing a pee on long journeys

@kay00 haha I have like 3 litres a day! hooow are you surviving on just a pint a day! I have that before lunch tbh. I do get headaches the second I'm a bit dehydrated though so I do feel the impact sharpish.

I'm totally the same @Juno231 and @Trying4one
My bladder stresses me out. But if I don't drink loads ot water I'm either fast asleep or my head kills! But if I have meetings with work or long journeys, or stay at someone's house i get so worried as I have to constantly pee! I always get up in the night, it is so annoying because I'm always tired. I really dont know how this will work when pregnant 😬

@AMS19 ah I don't have the peeing problem but then I've had a urologist tell me I had really strong muscles down there so maybe that's why 😂

@AMS19 as in sometimes if I'm not paying attention I'll stop peeing mid stream and leave the loo only to realise a few minutes later I didn't finish so have to go back...

@AMS19 I've always used normal lube as I was prone to cystitis and the gp suggested it initially but then realised obviously they're not sperm friendly! Aside from it costing tons I just bought the tube (applicators aren't for me!) and used it as normal. Didn't feel any different but was good to know it was helping.
With ewcm, never got anything during the pill, like @MintGreenLife said your pill suppresses all of that so I think the fact I noticed it this month gave me hope my body was back to normal!

@Trying4one I'm the same, I always wake up to pee in the night and have a glass of water by my bed. That's why I set an alarm to do my BBT at 4.30am as it's a good time for me to pee and have a drink ha.

@Juno231@AMS19 I'm glad it's not just me with these problems, makes me feel like an old lady! When I drive back to see my family which is about three hours I swear I pee about three times in the 15 minutes before I leave the house just to be extra safe, and then I force myself not to drink anything for at least the first hour of the drive so that I don't have to stop on the way ha.

That's interesting you say that @juno231 as when I was having tests because of recurrent cystitis they found I wasn't emptying my bladder properly when I was peeing.

@MrsBtobe2020 I use preseed from time to time, although it's obviously not helped yet ha x

Just been catching up, spent all day on a zoom
Training course 😴

Huge congratulations @MrsBtobe2020 was hoping onenof us would have some good news soon!

I am the same with the water @AMS19 & @Trying4one @Juno231. if I dont drink enough i get terrible headaches although I think they must think there’s something wrong with me at work I’m always peeing 😂

@MintGreenLife good luck with your tests tomorrow!

Thanks @Sarahp2308 :)

Forgot to tell you all - I had a text from the GP earlier saying they've now decided they won't refer me for a scan unless blood results show signs of PCOS. Kind of annoying as was thinking even if it's not PCOS a scan would be good to rule anything else out x

Hmmm... I pee every hour pretty much and I don't drink a lot... I dread to think what I would be like if I drank as much as you ladies!! I know I'm dehydrated most of the time but I don't get headaches very often and annoyingly I don't get thirsty (not sure why..?) So I have to remember to drink.

I know my bladder empties because I've had that tested but I also know one of my kidneys is about half the size it should be... maybe that has something to do with it??

Either way I have had a pint of water now so I'm ready for my 6pm run!

@MintGreenLife oh no, thats rubbish!

Oh gosh @MintGreenLife that is annoying

@MintGreenLife I do that as well. Got to make the bladder is as empty as possible before going out. A drive to my sister is 3 hours and only the first hour is on the motorway and the rest is country roads. I plan my pee stops and avoid drinking too much unless I know there is a pee stop with 20 minutes 🤣🤣
@Sarahp2308 who thinks all day zoom training is a good idea?! I have done a 2 hour one before and I lost the will to live an hour in.

@Trying4one I was asking myself the same thing!! Our IT at work has decided to block zoom now so I had to do it all from my phone...head is banging now

@CharWils hey :) I'm not brilliant with Femometer charts to be honest. Looks to me like you've not had a positive OPK on any of your cycles so far? Also I'm sure the charts are right and you have ovulated, but your pre-O temps are above the cover line a lot too, so makes it tricky. I would say it's not going to be clear whether you've ovulated or not until you can add a few more temps to your latest chart, so would carry on DTD if i were you. I've made this mistake in the past and have stopped DTD when I thought I had ovulated by I actually hadn't xx

@Kay00 @Sarahp2308 pretty annoying. Here's hoping my bloods are OK and they can rule PCOS out that way...but I still don't see how they are going to be much use taken on a random day!

@Juno231 I'm sat here with a 'detox' face mask on in hope it helps my skin, can't believe how bad it's got in such a short space of time! It's like my body was waiting for the wedding to pass to break out urgh x

@Sarahp2308 I don't think we can use zoom either as it isn't very secure so have to use 8x8 or teams. But we actually can't have too many people with their webcams on because it takes to much bandwidth and causes it to crash 🤣 fine with me as I don't always have make up on.

@Trying4one yeah that’s why they’ve stopped it for us, yep that happens to us aswell I’m more than happy to knock my camera off 😂

@MintGreenLife really frustrating! Bur hopefully the bloods will help. I actually have a gyno apt booked for end of Nov. It is for suspected vaginismus so nothing to do with trying for a baby. But I know I'll end up waving my BBT charts in their face when I get there 😂😂

@AMS19 haha, if you get the opportunity then why not! Although you never know, you might not need to. Totally had to google vaginismus - that doesn't sound nice for you, does it make DTD tricky? x

Hi all I messaged in here a few days ago about blood streaked ewcm, sadly wasn't ovulation spotting. Currently Cd28 and still awaiting ovulation xx