Post Pill TTC - Still Partying

[MintGreenLife]

No idea how we managed to smash through 1,000 messages (40% of them are probably me anyway, ha!) in such a short space of time, but a new thread is needed for the post pill TTC party, so here it is...

Tag anyone I've forgotten please, and new party-goers always welcome :)

@juno231
@kay00
@flowerkm
@pumpkineverything
@ams19
@sarahp2308
@cams50
@sperr
@moocher90
@lisalx

Hi @Maria1990

My period came back a month after coming off the pill, although I never had a withdrawal bleed.

Personally I would just get some cheap opks from amazon and start testing straight away, even if they don't know your period dates etc if you get a positive you should have a closer idea of ovulation date, especially if you track your temp aswell.

@ChinChilly ha I totally got your moniker confused with @charwils for a split second - that must be it! Let's get dieting in that case! Problem is, my scales are in storage so I might have to go in blind for now.

@Sperr You need a basal thermometer. Mine was under a tenner from amazon - the femometer variety. Fertility Friend is the best app for it. I personally love it as a tracking tool, it's taken so much pressure off of the OPKs as I was always wondering if it really was a peak or if I had missed it already or what if I stopped testing too soon and would have a second peak etc... this takes the guesswork out of it for me anyway. Then again my charts have been pretty straightforward so far!

@Juno231 thanks! I’m already on cycle day 3, is it too late to start? I’ve read a lot about them beeping... is that annoying? I think I might already have a thermometer which only beeps once when it’s taken the temp so I might use that!

@Juno231 😂😂 my scales are hiding under the bathroom cabinet until the weekend, I’ll be good all week and see if there is any movement by the weekend.

CD13 OPKs are stark white, EWCM last night must of just been a fluke 🤔

@Sperr I hide under the duvet with mine and it is fine then, pretty quiet. I also have the Fermometer one. Starting now would be fine, I'm CD6 and nothing happening. You have long enough to get a base line before any potential ovulation rise

Hi @Maria1990 mine came back after about a month and have been pretty regular since, I agree with @CharWils I would get some cheapie ovulation sticks from amazon or savers do 5 for £1 i think they are called clear & simple, its so different for everyone so it’s hard to tell when you might ovulate

@Maria1990 - 141 days for me, I'm the longest I've read. Most people who dont get period back to normal immediately seems to get 30-50 days. I started preg testing every 2 weeks during that 141 day window.

Cycle 2 was also abnormal - 49 days long but then BFP so it didnt impact on the result too much

thanks @Kay00 - what cycle day are you on now? I'm going to try taking b vits and pausing to try and encourage ovulation then. Will do :) here's hoping this combo works for me!

Thanks @CharWils I'm going round and round in my head about what to do, sure we will work it out at some point...

@TheDaydreamBelievers wow 141 days you must have been going crazy! Glad you got a BFP in the end though.

@MintGreenLife many house purchase sympathies, I have only done it once but it was so stressful.

@Maria1990 mine came back after a month but it's taking longer for the second one. Most of the stuff you read suggests it should be 'back to normal' in 3 months but not quite sure what 'normal' is supposed to mean!

@mintgreenlife im on CD28 and my 2nd attempt at ovulation... my cervix has been high and soft again today so we DTD 😇 i used pre-seed today though (just for fun and who knows... it might work)! Im not expecting my temp rise for a day of two but 🤞🤞 sooo hoping it happens!

Yay, here's hoping ovulation was today for you, or in the next day or two! We've been using preseed here and there, but then I couldn't tell you if it's worked or not given my luteal phase length probably means 0% chance of actually conceiving 🤦🏻‍♀️

@AMS19 thanks! I just thought I’d test Mine and I defs need a new one. It took so long to get the temperature and beeps so loud 😂.

Did I see someone here saying you can use your heart rate too? I wear a Fitbit anyways so I might look into that

@Sperr That might have been me, i mentioned HR, if Im honest I tracked it by accident, I didn't realise until after i ovulated that it rose for 3 days, third day being the highest which was the day i got my peak OPK then straight back down to normal :) best of luck, it is interesting, no idea how reliable it is but for me, it seemed to work :)

@Sperr I track RHR (kind off) mine always starts going up before ovulation then levels out until AF turns up

Talking of RHR looks like ovulation may be any day now for me! Best get POAS 😂

@chinchilly ooh yes, that's a good peak! Time to start DTD!

I had a peak in the opposite direction today... either an implantation dip... or... more likely... I haven't ovulated yet and this is my pre-temperature rise dip lol 😅

@sperr mine takes over a minute to take the reading, I think that's normal for accuracy? The beeps never bothered me and OH has not once woken up from it lol. RHR is a bit of a wild west I think - it's half decent as an AF/BFP predictor but really unreliable for ovulation tracking I find.

@kay00 gosh your chart really messes with you doesn't it!

My chart is less pretty this cycle actually, in terms of post O temp rise being relatively low still. Had a dip today at 6DPO so hoping it will ramp up tomorrow.

Ahh ladies you’re the best, thank you so much @Kay00, @Flowerbudd, @Juno231, @Ams19 for reassuring me so much yesterday! I felt so much better after seeing your replies so thank you 😊 Fingers crossed we did enough! So I’m either 6 or 7 DPO now, obsessing over every tiny twinge haha the TWW is no joke!! Not sure how to keep myself occupied! It was our wedding anniversary yesterday which was so lovely, we just stayed in and ate yummy food ha but it was lush. Just need to try and not think about it I guess! Keeping everything crossed, I know the odds are still against us though.

How is everyone else doing? @mintgreenlife good to hear from you lovely, we missed you! Sounds like you’ve got a lot on your plate at the moment, bless you. Fingers crossed all works out with the house, it sounds like the 2nd one is a very close 2nd so that’s good! We’re still renting as we live in an expensive area haha, buying a house is next on the list hopefully but we’re happy renting for now. We have a lovely little house and we’ve gone to a lot of effort to make it nice and cosy since moving in so happy to stay here for a while.

@Kay00 ahhh are you thinking you didn’t ovulate on the 13th then?? It’s so confusing isn’t it! But yes what if today is an implantation dip!? Excitement!! You, me and @Juno231 seem to be very in sync with our cycles don’t we! Have you ladies been symptom spotting at all?

@Kay00 DTD last night was going to give it a rest tonight but I’m guessing maybe not 😂 your chart looks interesting, fingers crossed for implantation dip!

@Juno231 RHR is abit of an odd one, I don’t temp and don’t think it would work for me I get up atleast once for the loo in the night and I toss and turn alot so RHR and POAS is all I’ve got 😂 I wear my fit bit all the time, apart from when it is charging so I’m hoping its pretty accurate 🤔

@TheHotelCalifornia ah I hadn't even realised we were cycle buddies again! No symptom spotting on my side - I tend to ignore it all unless it's something brand new like that nosebleed last cycle lol. Probably because I've had them all by now and know they still didn't result in a BFP? 😅

Here's my chart just for reference!

I think I need to get this app everyone has! The charts look so cool 😂. So just checking your temp will rise after you ovulate and will dip if you implant but then will go up again if you’re pregnant?

@Juno231 to be fair I get up before my OH and this morning I was being lazy and snoozed my alarm like 5 times and it didn’t even seem to bother him at all.

He’s annoyingly booked in our carpets to be cleaned and it’s soooo loud while I’m working from home. I can barely think!! But I am looking forward to clean carpets! We had so much building work done to our house pre lock down and the builders definitely didn’t take their shoes off 😂😂

@sperr a lot of the time you'll have a temp dip on the day of ovulation but it's not a must. After ovulation the rule is that you have 3 consecutive high temps that are higher than the previous 6 in order to identify a temp shift. There's technically no such thing as an implantation dip - but it's common to have a dip around 5-8DPO due to a secondary oestrogen surge. These can be seen in both BFN and BFP charts but are more common in BFP charts :)

The app is Fertility Friend!

Jealous of your clean carpets - we'll need to get professionals in once this tenant moves out I think!

@sperr what I like about FF is that you can look at other people's charts too! There's a function called "charts like mine" and pulls up a load of them and shows you if they ended up in BFNs or BFPs. You can search by age, post pill and all these criteria. Saying that, perhaps that's only available through the paid version... hm.

Hi ladies ☺️ I have been lurking for about a week now and finally have the courage to say hello! We are TTC our first baby. I have just come off microgynon after having been on it for just over a decade 😔. I took my last pill on 6th September and had my normal withdrawal bleed starting 11th. I’ve been waiting since for my first period and nothing 😭 I am so frustrated as just want to get it out the way so I can track my cycle. Had a few sharp pains last week along with sensitive nipples and the constant need to wee. At first I thought maybe I was pregnant as we have been having unprotected sex but after reading here I think maybe this could have been me ovulating? What do you think? I haven’t tested yet as I am almost certain I was probably just ovulating and trying to hold out for another week to see if AF comes. Xx