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 I had to, it was making me feel so sick to the point I kept heaving, I keep meaning to go to boots and pick up some preconception, all rolled into one tablet thingy because some people have mentioned they found they got on better with it that way..but I just haven’t had chance, I know it is SUPER important i get some form of folic acid in so I really do need to go tomorrow.

@AMS19 also bright glowing yellow wee? Hilarious 😂😂 how does these odd side effects happen 😂

@ams19 😂😂😂 no one has ever mentioned the luminous yellow wee... I was worried it was just me!

@ChinChilly @Kay00 ha there is no missing it! It literally glows! 👀

@Kay00 @AMS19 I feel like I need to try it, and see if I can experience this wee 😂

@Kay00 @AMS19 @ChinChilly I get right yellow pee just from my b-Vit complex! It's caused by your body excreting the extra vitamins it doesn't need x

Meant bright yellow pee 🤦🏻‍♀️

Think they yellow wee is due to vit B!

Thanks for the commiserations girls, I was actually okay with it cause I'd eased myself into it with the BFNs.

Should have OHs SA results either today or tomorrow so that's what I'm focusing on now!

Good luck @Juno231 🤞

@Juno231 good luck!

@MintGreenLife @AMS19 @Kay00 I feel like I need to try this to see the luminous wee 😂😂

@Juno231 fingers crossed for OH SA results! 🤞🏼

Ladies how sharply does BBT need to rise to confirm ovulation? Mine is higher but only slightly (my normal temp is high anyway so too much higher and I'll actually have a temperature). But there wasn't a huge spike like your lovely charts, am I out or still in with a chance?

@AMS19 Its hard to say because you have such high temperatures normally (i'm such a cold person, my temps average about 36.2 lol) but it looking very positive.

Try putting in a temperature of about 36.85 on tomorrow's date and see if FF gives you the cross hairs?

@ams19 doesn't need to be sharp at all, just needs to be higher than the previous 6 temps. Your chart is looking really good so far, I reckon tomorrow's temp will confirm ovulation happened on Monday :)

Ahh thanks @Juno231 let's hope so!! I tried putting it in @Kay00 and it added a line? so 🤞🤞 i would expecting a huge jump so felt so deflated yesterday

@Juno231 hope the results come back OK :)

@AMS19 your chart is looking good, hopefully you get another high temp tomorrow, but guessing with the positive OPKs and temp increase you have ovulated :)

I'm CD15 now and now much is happening, Feel a little disappointed if I'm honest, and have been chatting to someone else with a lower TSH than mine (but still higher than the ideal for TTC) and starting to feel like maybe it will be more of an issue than I was hoping. I guess I'll just carry on for now, get it retested privately in a month or so and then maybe approach the GP again to see what can be done x

Same today I got solid cross hairs today and predicted my ovulation on Saturday

My RHR has gone from 63 on Saturday and steadily increased and now up to 68 today. Fingers crossed I’m in my first proper tww

@Moocher90 and @AMS19 its looking good for you both - sit back and enjoy your TWW!

@MintGreenLife don't loose hope yet, you're only on CD15, it could happen any day. A good idea to plan to re-test privately again. I'm wondering about my thyroid too (although I have not wanted to admit it) as my temps are pretty low generally and I suffered with an odd illness about a year ago that involved a lot of pins and needles in my hands, feet and randomly my mid-back. My thyroid came up as a potential source of issue then but we never investigated it.

I had a temperature of 36.29 this morning, so hoping I get the cross hairs if I get another half decent temperature tomorrow, but my temps are still not very high and my cross hairs would only be dotted...

@Kay00 fingers crossed you get a nice bigger temp rise tomorrow ☺️ Thanks, I'm just comparing to last cycle when I started to get EWCM on Cd16 and then ovulated CD25. With the AC and everything else I'm doing I thought this cycle might be better but I guess it's early days and I'm just being impatient.

Don't worry about your thyroid, however I would sugguest getting retested, as it's better to know and then you can do something about it. A high TSH level is linked to increased risk of miscarriage, and while that doesn't mean that will happen if you have high TSH, it does mean if you know about it in advance you'll get extra checks and care, and potentially treatment to control it to keep baby safe ☺️

I don't want to scare you, but I had something similar late last year - I had a few months of having issues with my hands and feet going numb and sometimes my arms too. I had a blood test at the time and it came back normal, but I do wonder now if my thyroid was on the high side then. Could you ask to see the results from that test? I too have low temps - which average around 36.10 and go into the high 35s. Do you have any symptoms related to hypo at all? For example I'm cold all the time and I need a lot of sleep - around 8/9 hours a night otherwise I feel exhausted, and given the chance on weekends I'll sleep 10-11 hours a night. All my life I thought that was just me and what I was like, but now I understand it's linked to my thyroid. Like I said, don't want to worry you, but it's far better to be informed and then you can do something about it, and your TSH may very well be perfect and then you won't have anything to worry about ☺️ X

@kay00 I find it odd you haven't had a positive OPK yet though... Fingers crossed temps say otherwise though!

@MintGreenLife also bear in mind you having EWCM for 9 days in a row isn't something to want to have this cycle as well - hopefully when it comes it'll be just a few days before ovulation so you still have time to ovulate before CD25 :)

@Juno231 well that's very true. Just patiently (or not so patiently) waiting over here for something to happen! x

@Juno231 I think that's partly because I get a very brief LH peak and I am not very consistent in testing I also regularly need to pee every half an hour to an hour, which I think dilutes my urine.

@MintGreenLife hmm... I think maybe I will start looking into this thyroid then. I am pretty cold all the time, but I quite like being cold (I hate being too warm) and I like my sleep but when have lived off 5 hours sleep for years (glad-fully getting a decent 6-8 hours every night now). Its interesting how you were getting numb hands/feet/arms... its an unusual symptom isn't it. I'll go back to my doctor on this one I think.

@MintGreenLife don't lose faith!! You are making progress and on the up now I think. You're doing everything you can. And definitely get all the tests you can, even if nothing else to put your mind at rest.

@Moocher90 that is exciting! How long are you going to wait to test?

@Kay00 keeping everything crossed for you! My temps are ridiculous high. My resting heart rate is also so high! 73bpm. I'm not massively unfit, exercise 4/5 times a week, so it is annoying im so unhealthy. No idea why my temp and rhr is so bad, maybe something for me to look into.

I'm back in the office today and tomorrow. So odd being back in a huge office with only 3 other people

@AMS19 if going by my spotting/first bleed since coming off the pill it’s two weeks on Saturday 7th November. Think I’m going to monitor my temps over the next few days and see if they increase and then try and hold out for as long as possible. I do have a frer but not sure how I might feel if I do it and it’s a BFN. What about you? X