Post Pill TTC – Party Harder

[TheHotelCalifornia]

Roll up, roll up, it’s time for a new thread for the ladies who are experiencing the highs and lows (mainly the lows…) of coming off the pill and TTC! Here you’ll find stories of delayed ovulation, crazy long follicular phases, crazy short follicular phases, light AFs, short luteal phases, long luteal phases, confusing temp charts and blindingly white OPKs, to name a few. This our 4th thread (I think!) and we've had a few ladies get their BFP recently which is so exciting! Join us, won’t you?

Welcome back:

@mintgreenlife
@juno231
@kay00
@sperr
@mrsmacmc
@chinchilly
@curcurbita
@tillybabs
@ams19
@moocher90
@trying4one
@flowerbudd
@pumpkineverything
@tatty1987
@mancmama39
@elsie2021
@danielle2012
@spencer22
@charwils
@ftm94
@lobster8
@musicaljojo

Apologies if I’ve forgotten anyone, please tag them!

@AMS19 Awh you're so sweet not wanting to make a song and dance of it to avoid upsetting others 💕 I really hope your lines get darker!! When wkkk you test again? Xx

@AMS19 just seen your testing strategy, sounds like a good one. I'd totally be the same as you! What kind of test did you get the BFP on? X

@AMS19 Aaaaaaaarghhh I'm so excited for your BFP! Everything crossed for you it's a sticky bean! So nice to get some positive news!! x

@MintGreenLife they are super faint at the moment. Definitely not a squinter, you can easily see them, but very very faint. I used 2 FRERs. If I get as far as Tuesday I'll use another FRER and a CB digital. Then if I make it past Tuesday, I'll just use ICs to monitor progression. But these are all big ifs right now and dont seem plausible at all

@crabette thank you so much!! Let's hope it sticks and you join me too! Xx

@AMS19 Well my temp dropped off a cliff today, 35.9 lol - and I'm still spotting, and feel bleurgh / crampy, so I'd say I'm 100% sure AF is arriving - but I know you said the same yesterday!

Seriously, if I get a heavy flow I honestly won't mind AF this month - feel like I've had PMS symptoms for a week and I'm over it already. I've never really spotted before, apart from actually during my period on super light days, so finding it super weird.

🙏🙏🙏 You have a wee sticky bean! And you get stronger lines on Tues. At least it's not a squinter and they are clear lines. What's an IC? 😳 I'm so bad with the Mumsnet acronyms x

@crabette mind fell of a cliff yesterday and recovered today so you never know. I was totally sure I was out when mine dropped so much! When is AF due??

IC - Internet cheapie. I'm gonna just order a pack of HCG strips to monitor line progression if u get to that stage

@ams19 if you are happy to do so (and when you are happy to fo so... perhaps Tuesday if all is looking good) then maybe you would share your journey?

@crabette sorry to hear about your temp drop and spotting... I have had spotting too this morning. Im hoping you're not out but I think I most likely I am after my cramps last night. Keeping my fingers crossed for you xxx

@AMS19 be sure to keep us up to date on your testing :)

@crabette sorry to hear about the temp drop, hope AF isn't too bad for you.

I'm CD26 now and my EWCM seems to have dried up?! No positive OPK or temp spike though so know I haven't ovulated. Feeling pretty crap about it to be honest. Going to do an OPK in about half an hour or so, but very doubtful it'll be anything other than a faint line, meh.

Hii Ladies, I’ve been lurking in the background CD6 AF seems to have gone, I would say thay was my most normal AF post pill so hopefully getting back to normal!

Congratulations @AMS19 keeping everything crossed for your line progression! Id be happy to even get a faint line at this point 😂

@MintGreenLife hopeing for a positive OPK for you!

@Kay00 @crabette keeping my fingers crossed your not out...we seriously need some more BFPs on this thread!

@ChinChilly great news on a normal AF ☺️ The only 'normal' one I've had in the 7 months off the pill was after a 55 day cycle 🤦🏻‍♀️

No positive OPK but they are getting darker and have just noticed some EWCM, so not sure what to think. Cervix is high but still hard. Trying to have a pep talk with myself to have faith that ovulation will happen and that technically it doesn't even matter if it's late, it's my LP that matters, and am praying that everything I'm taking to try and lengthen my LP will pay off 🤞🏼 It's a long shot, but need to get out of this negative headspace! X

@Kay00 I'm happy to share anyway even if it doesn't work out for me if it helps! I've been quite lucky in hindsight. I feel like it has been forever trying but it has only been 2 months
I stopped the pill on 13th September after 7 years. I was on the combined pill so had "periods" every month. I had my normal withdrawal bleed on 18th Sept. Was very light as usual. I started BBT tracking and taking pregnacare from this point. My BBT was all over the place and I did start doing OPKs but not until CD15. My OPKs were zero, to the point where I got error messages everytime I scanned them in to premom. Not even a hint of a line.

I had my first proper period 14th Oct, so a month from stopping the pill and 27 days from the withdrawal bleed.

Temps this cycle have been much more structured. Did OPKs from CD7 and continued getting errors/very low until CD12, peaked CD13, back to zero and error messages CD14. Only EWCM I had was CD9, I suspect from the EPO. I had none near ovulation at all. DTD loads during O time

Started feeling rough end of last week. I think I mentioned the time I drunk one glass of wine and felt so sick, then tried to use a sauna and pretty much passed out. So I got suspicious at that point.

Took my first test Wednesday, CD9, very stark negative. Temp dropped loads yesterday but decided to take a FRER later in the day (not basically rule out the 1% of doubt as I assumed i was out at this point) and got my first faint BFP. Then temp went back up today and another BFP. No progression at all between the 2 BFPs though.

Have attached both my charts if helpful

Xxx

@MintGreenLife fab you are starting to get some colour!! Let's hope it is nearly time. Hope husband is ready and waiting 😂 i have no doubt everything you've been doing will have definitely helped in some form!!

@chinchilly thank you! Still very early days but fingers crossed. Great you are done with AF and nearly ready to go again. When did you ovulate last cycle? When/if will you start OPKs?

@AMS19 congratulations! I’m so happy for you 🥰

Sorry I have been missing for a while! I got really down as my temps were awful this month. I was so ill at the start of the month as well and I thought I’ve really messed this up already 😂. I have genuinely no idea if and when I ovulated but I’m kinda going from my sex drive and my CM as I had loads of EW around CD12-14. My cervix has been super high and closed ever since then.

@AMS19 good of you to share your chart and your journey ☺️ No wonder you got your BFP with how much you've been DTD! Did I see twice a day around O?! Very impressive! I'm going to do another OPK around 4ish and hope it's a positive, not hopeful though 😂 Yesterday on Premom my lunch time OPK was 0.52 and then later in the afternoon fainter again. Today's was 0.6, which is the darkest I've had this cycle. My 'normal' is usually something around 0.20-0.40 so something could be happening, but then again I've had this sort of reading before and it's turned out to be nothing. Last cycle I had a positive out of nowhere and continued to get positives for another 2 days with ovulation on the third day of a positive x

Thanks so much @Sperr what DPO are you now?

@MintGreenLife yes twice on O day! Haha. The joys of working from home! Once at lunch after my peak and once at night for good measure! But as you can see after that we didn't for ages! I think we were both exhausted 😂😂

Those OPK readings sound super good!! 🤞🤞 for a peak!

@AMS19 that's good going! We're both working from home at the mo too, but with my irregular cycles we try and DTD every other day from around CD8, so not sure we'd manage more than once a day, especially after 7 months 😂 Last cycle we did manage to DTD all three days of my positive OPK and will try to do the same this time too 🤞🏼 X

@AMS19 I think around 8/9 dpo so could still be really early days. I just feel so nauseous and tired at the moment

@AMS19 OPK is back to faint 🤦🏻‍♀️ Here's hoping tomorrow is the day 😂🙄

@ams19 thanks for sharing, its do useful anf inspiring to see your journey!

@mintgreenlife... im thinking positive ovulation thoughts! Your cervix could go soft any moment so make sure you're checking (and peeing on those blooming sticks)!

@mintgreenlife ... I spoke to soon 🙄

@Kay00 haha awh thanks for being hopeful for me 🤞🏼 So annoying, who knows what's going on! Just pray it happens in the next few days as otherwise going to start having a melt down. So funny that I felt positive about my CD25 ovulation from last cycle, whereas for most people that would be dire, and thinking the same would happen again this cycle, but alas no 😢

@Kay00 did AF show up for you yet? X

@MintGreenLife bugger! I was really hopefully then. Hopefully won't be long

@Sperr super early. Got everything crossed for you!!!

@AMS19 thanks ☺️

Hi ladies! Wowweeeee just catching up, I feel like so much has happened!

Congratulations on your BFP @AMS19!! So so so exciting and thank you for sharing your story with us all 😊 Keeping everything crossed for you!! How are you feeling?

@crabette and @kay00 keeping everything crossed for you ladies!

@chinchilly good news on the ‘normal’ post-pill period!

@mintgreenlife so sorry you’ve had such a tough few days lovely. I think we all totally get it so please come here and share with us whenever you’re feeling blue. I too get hit with a wave of sadness when I see pregnancy announcements and honestly they are EVERYWHERE at the moment. It’s so weird because I honestly never noticed them before!! Or I did but it was just in a kind of ‘oh cool!’ kind of way! I can absolutely relate with the late ovulation and disappointment, it’s the worst ☹

I’m CD 19 today and nothing much to report. No high OPKs or EWCM. I thought I had a tiny bit this morning but I think I was just kidding myself haha! Feeling pretty sad that the agnus castus didn’t work as I’d hoped but like @mintgreenlife I’m reminding myself that I’m taking it to lengthen my luteal phase. I ovulated on CD31 last month so realllyyyyy hoping something happens before then. We’re DTD quite often and going to try for every day for the next week or so to try and cover all bases as my various apps are predicting fertile week from today/tomorrow onwards. DH is aware and v on board hahah so I feel very lucky for that!! The election has kept me occupied this week so I’m going to try and do more things in the evening (inside, obviously ha) to keep me busy so I’m not obsessing over it all!

For the ladies struggling with BBT I’ve seen really good results from setting my alarm at 5am, taking BBT then going back to sleep til 7 when I wake up properly. My temps are much more consistent compared to last month which I think is good. They are low though! I think the earlier you take it the lower it is! Attaching my chart with a comparison of last month and this month in case anyone is interested 😊

Sending love and baby dust to all xxxx