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!

@MintGreenLife & @Juno231 exciting that you'll be testing this weekend!!

@MintGreenLife OH’s mom is GF, dominos do a good GF pizza apparently!!

@ChinChilly I hope so as I frigging love a Dominos and I'm trying to recall if I have even had one this year eek! I looked on their menu the other day and no gluten free option, but maybe if I call up I may be able to get a GF base :)

@MintGreenLife thats wierd, all of our local dominos do GF, maybe its a regional thing.. I’m fairly certain pizza hut do one too! I’m sure if you call they will be able to do it

Thanks @ChinChilly that would make my lockdown birthday ha x

@MintGreenLife just checked a menu we have lying around, it’s in the tinest print under the allergy blurb!

Yay, thanks so much @ChinChilly :) x

@MintGreenLife you’re welcome!! they do vegan cheese now too, if you wanted to carry on with ur DF aswell. I clearly eat too much dominos or study the menu too much 😂

@ChinChilly you're making my day :) I'm already counting down the days until next weekend, after a months of feeling somewhat deprived, I'm totally going to go all out, just in line with my diet as much as possible ha, but there are ways around these things, as you already know :D I decided to quit alcohol for a few weeks too, so am well and truly looking forward to prosecco and vino over my birthday weekend, after three weeks without x

@MintGreenLife I can imagine, I’m utterly hopeless at cutting things out of my diet, I tried to do dairy, I don’t think I lasted a day!
Sometimes it’s worth having an all out day and just having what you fancy, some of the alternatives aren’t very nice but it depends how strict you wanted to be with your GF DF diet I suppose

@MintGreenLife I recently had a DF pizza from Papa Johns who do vegan options and GF bases (made of butternut squash) and it was pretty good actually!

@ChinChilly I thought I would find it really hard, but actually once I got into the swing of things it wasn't so bad. It's the planning that's the main thing to make sure I don't end up eating something I shouldn't because there's nothing in etc. That's true, I think for now I want to remain as strict as poss as don't want to undo the hard work I've already put in, but we shall see ha.

@Kay00 thanks for the tip, and for the thermometer recommendation :)

@MintGreenLife that’s true, it would be ashame to undo that hard work plus if it is a permanent lifestyle change you may aswell test out the alternatives!

Ladies... whats going on !?

I'm on CD 12, and my apps are all predicting ovulation in about two weeks time, but yesterday and today my cervix has been high, soft and open (very soft and open yesterday), and my CM went from creamy/watery yesterday to watery this morning and now, loads (the most I ever had) EWCM!!

MY OPKs yesterday stayed at about 25% and this morning at 26%... so no surge yet? I'll test again later, about 6/7pm if I can hold myself for that long lol.

So should I:

a) forget it, nothing ever as exciting as ovulation happens this early in my cycle.
b) this could be the start of something exciting, keep testing
c) get DTD!

@Kay00 B and C!!!!

@ams19 Hehe thanks 😆

My chart for reference

@Kay00deffo b and c!!! Sounds promising!

Got a + opk this am (CB dig) after an 80% there cheapy last night, CD16 today, we've dtd the last 2 days but unlikely to go again tonight so hoping it's enough... either that or one more try tomorrow if temp hasn't shifted. I do feel like it's happening today though, really achey this afternoon and I always seem to have a hot flush when ov happens - can literally feel myself burning up.

Hopefully into the 2ww soon...

Any symptoms or signs @MintGreenLife @Juno231?

@Kay00 ohhh multiple choice, fun! I say B and C too, but don't throw everything at it as you'll then feel annoyed/worn out if your OPKs stay faint and BBT doesn't spike, but then you never know. DTD every other day I would say and keep an eye on things, then if you get your positive OPK you can ramp things up a little :)

@MancMama39 yay for O, sounds like you're DTD plenty.

No nothing to be honest. I've been quite hungry and a bit grouchy, but that could be just normal TWW symptoms - I swear someone told me you burn more calories in the second half of your cycle. I thought I felt some 'twinges' yesterday, but nothing today. Was really hot before bed last night too and my temp did go up a fair bit. I love how much we end up analysing every tiny thing, but yep, overall not feeling anything significant x

@kay00 B and C but don't be sad if the EWCM drags out a few days first! Even with my 28 ish day cycles I still sometimes manage 6 days of EWCM first.

@MancMama39 fingers crossed for today being O-day! No symptoms here, just had ovary twinges since 5DPO but that would be too early for anything real!

@mancmama39 oh yes! Exciting! Hopefully you'll be in your TWW from tomorrow!

Thanks ladies, I went with B and C... im testing and we DTD tonight just in case. I did an OPK just now and its negative but then I've had a wee once an hour since lunch time so I'm not sure how diluted it was 😅 either way I doubt I'm having my peak just yet... ill try not DTD tomorrow and wait for Sat morning 😇

Just doing my weekly shop online and ordered chocolate weetabix

@kay00 Definately B and C! You'll kick yourself if you don't and you could even miss your peak like I did! EWCM is a great sign ☺️ what a treat if you ovulate around day 14!! Can't relate ha hahah!!

@mintgreenlife @juno231 what day are you guys? 6 and 7? My temp dipped today to 36.42 so obviously I've spent the day obsessively looking at charts on FF 😂 it's gone 36.43, 36.54, 36.59 and today 36.42. it's still higher than it was pre ov but it's just weird cause taking BBT at 5am is working so much better but my temps are generally lower. I feel like I felt a strange pinching a few times today super low on my tummy to the below left of my belly button...who knows!!! Need to try not to think about it but gosh is it hard!

@mancmama39 hahaha the unofficial breakfast food of our thread!!

@ams19 how are you feeling lovely?

@mancmama39 yass! 🤟

@thehotelcalifornia ooh exciting 😁 hoping we're all having positive cycles!

@TheHotelCalifornia I’m 7DPO and I believe @Juno231 is 8DPO, nice that you’re not too far behind 😊

I know it’s easier said than done, but try not to worry too much about individual temps, although I totally obsess over charts and wonder what each single temp on mine means 😂

Glad to hear taking your temp earlier is working better, I’m the same - my post O temps seem generally lower than average, but that’s just because of taking it earlier. So far mine have been between 36.45 and 36.72. I took it one day at 7.30am just to see how much higher it was compared to taking it earlier and it was 36.8 and that was on a day where it was around 36.5. See, I totally obsess over individual temps too 😂 will you test do you think, or wait to see if AF shows? I’m kind of excited about my first testing experience 😂 xx

@MancMama39 fingers crossed you’ll be in your TWW soon!

I hope your not all disappointed with the chocolate Weetabix 😂😂