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!

@Flowerbudd I'm so irrational that I'm panicking I don't have the sore boobs everyone else has! I do have waves of nausea which is reassuring when it comes. The only time feeling sick is good!
So glad you're doing well! Really excited to hear how your journey goes xx

@AMS19 aw thank you! Thats funny you say that about the sore boobs though as Im worrying as I have no sickness and can eat pretty much everything i see 😂 xx

@Flowerbudd awesome thank you :) here's hoping it happens tonight! xx

@MintGreenLife sounds like ovulation pains to me! I had it on my right hand side yesterday, it felt like period cramps but just above my hip bone kinda. As for OPKs, unless it's a completely false alarm, I think the first OPK peak is the one to base it on. So i.e. I think you're likely to be ovulating today and not starting over with another 12-36h wait from your most recent peak.

@Juno231 thanks :) I was worrying thinking we would have to keep up DTD for a few more days, think that would have been a bit of a tall order after 3 days in a row! How long do your ovulation pains last? May try and get OH to DTD again tonight (unlikely!) just in case, and then pray I get my temp rise tomorrow so I can chill out for the weekend ha x

Hi All,
Just been sent the link to this thread by @Juno231 (thank you!☺️).
Still on the pill at the moment (3 weeks left!) But after advice for when I do come off.
I've been adviced that Vitamin D and folic acid is a good start and to try and track ovulation? Does anyone use an app for this? If so which ones do you use?
I'm naturally all over the place with my cycle. Has anyone got experience in this and TTC whilst dealing with it.
We've decided that for the first 6 months were going to take the NTNP route so we're not stressing from the off. Anyone else trying this?
Xx

@dechie I'm definitely not doing the 'NTNP' method 😂

Yes to vitamin d and folic acid ☺️ App wise I like Premom for OPKs and Fertility Friend for BBT, but then if you're not actively trying then imagine you probably won't be chatting BBT or using OPKs. The others may have better sugguestions for apps for generally tracking your cycle.

My cycle is very all over the place, but I think that's because of coming off the pill. I've been off almost 8 months now and I'm still struggling with my cycle. I would say consider a prenatal multi bit as the pill is meant to deplete vital nutrients that are important to your cycle and TTC. However I did take one for the first few months but then stopped as it was getting too expensive (the one I took was £40 a bottle!). Hope that helps ☺️ Xx

Meant prenatal multi vitamin!

@MintGreenLife definitely helps thank you!
What does BBT stand for?
I'll take a look at prenatal vitamins too.
Thank you ☺️
Xx

@dechie it's basal body temperature x

@mintgreenlife thank you! 😘

I’ve given up again. My RHR has dropped to the lowest it’s ever been today! It doesn’t normally drop before AF so I don’t know what to think about it. I guess I will just have to see if it goes back up tomorrow?!

I am trying to find positives in not falling this month just to prepare myself for AF to arrive. The main one is I will be eligible for the firms maternity pay if I waited another month 😂

@Sperr my RHR isn’t playing ball at the moment either, it’s flat as a pancake!

I’ve been fairly quiet on here, I’m feeling fairly negative about the whole TTC thing, I know 5 months post pill isn’t long in the grand scheme of things but I’m feeling like there must be something wrong, I’m heading into fertile week so I should be feeling abit more upbeat about it 😕

@ChinChilly I feel you! I can’t even get a peak OPK (plus I’m now back in the office so can’t do them all the time now!) so I actually have to DTD every other day for the whole month!! Luckily my OH has a high sex drive and lock down means there is literally nothing else to do 😂. I would be grateful to get my AF this weekend just so I have a 28 day cycle 😂😂😂. I have no idea what’s going on down there. I’m 85% sure I’ve ovulated since I have no EWCM anymore and my sex drive has dropped right off but I can’t risk not doing it just in case

@dechie Welcome! You'll learn loads from us on this thread 😊 we certainly cover a range of random post pill outcomes including some successful pregnancies which is lovely 🥳

@chinchilly I know 5 months feels like a long time but you're still within the normal time frame for conceiving without issues 😊 it's exciting that you're coming into your fertile week! You never know this month could be your month!

@sperr I don't know much about RHR, could it just be an anomaly? How many DPO are you?

@ChinChilly @Sperr sorry you girls are feeling down ❤ it is such a tough long journey and absolutely draining. It isnt if it happens it is when. I know it feels impossible now but every month past pill is a month you are getting totally clean of the hormones. I've got everything crossed for you both xxx

@Kay00 thank you! Here's hoping! I can't know any less right now! 🤣🤣 Xx

@Sperr I feel for you DTD every other day for the whole month 😂 I’m back in the office half the week so I totally get it makes doing OPKs difficult! My OH has a high sex drive so there’s no complaints from him anyway, fingers crossed you’ve ovulated!

Thanks @Kay00 I think I’m just feeling frustrated because I get positive OPKs around CD14-17, we DTD at the right time and my cycles are regular so I’m just feeling abit like WTF! I’m not holding out much hope for this cycle OH is on night shifts for 4 nights out of my FW, his shifts are long 12 hours shifts so the days that I am in the office and he is on nights we are literally just passing for 15 mins as I’m coming home he is leaving 🙁

@chinchilly 15 mins... hmmm, that does make things difficult!! Heres hoping your fertile week is ever so slightly delayed or early!

I have zero idea when my fertile week will be... im on CD5, just finished up with AF, so I could be waiting up to 4 weeks before I ovulate! 😫

OH isn't up for it this eve, but if ovulation was today then hopefully we are in with a fairly good shot as DTD O-1, -2 and -3.

I'm also not massively up for it as I'm so bloated. Bloating is unusual for me. Does anyone else get bloating on O day? X

@Kay00 I think it will just be one day that will be difficult but that day is the day before predicted ovulation 🙄 I think if I just take it that this cycle will be a write off I wont be disappointed!

Oh gosh I don’t know how you ladies deal with long cycles, must be a right pain!

@Kay00 I think 13 dpo.
@AMS19 thank you 😊. I’m thinking of just winging it completely from next month since I can’t see much from opks. Maybe less stress will help too!
@ChinChilly I’m basically bribing OH to do it tonight 😂. I just know I’m not fertile since I literally am not feeling it at all (when I have EMCM I could literally do it 3 times a day 😂) but SMEP says if you can’t get a peak OPK do it every other day until AF!

Think I'm out the cycle ladies :( had a stonking migraine last night which was very strange as haven't had one in aaaages. Spotting started mid afternoon in work, AF is early this month :( - only CD23 so putting that down as the cause of the migraine last night. I seem to have a short 8 day LP. Reset the stage for the next chapter, cycle 6 TTC. Baby dust to all ✨ this thread and previous versions have been a great support to me socially distanced hugs thank you ❤️❤️

@mrsmacmc so sorry to hear this. Feel free to message me if you want to chat about a short LP, although if this is your first short LP hopefully it won't be an on going issue x

@MintGreenLife thank you, checking back I've had 1 other cycle (funnily enough the one where I felt weird) and other cycles 10-12 LP. Had a blazing row with hubby last weekend which is why I've been laying low on the thread as had resigned myself to coming off TTC for a while. He was pushing to get us to go to GP to try and get the ball rolling with support if needed. I'm not in the right headspace to do that just yet as know they'll jump on we are 'old', I'm overweight and anxious. Don't particularly want folk rummaging around near her either (had a bad experience when I had a colposcopy 6 years ago) which freaked me. He even suggested in the heat of the moment that I go back on the 'bloody pill then'. I know his conception vitamins have run out and then he tried to deny it! Swear I'm going to have to fire it down his throat 😡