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!

I don’t know why I don’t get notifications but just seen this new thread. Sorry I’ve been awol so just catching up.

Hope you are all well xx

@MintGreenLife It was my 5th, I thought I’d got a pattern going and then I got thrown a curveball, I’ve been a bit stressed this month and my periods have always been sensitive to that kind of thing so I think it was that!! Annoying but reassured it’s here!

@musicaljojo great news on AF!

@chinchilly still got everything crossed for you 🤞

Thanks @AMS19 I just sat down to eat my roast dinner which took 2 bloody hours to cook! And I couldn’t even eat my 2 favourite parts, the roasties and the cauliflower cheese 😭 my OH said ‘what is wrong with you’ seriously I never leave a roastie!! 😂😂 FFS what is going on 😂😂

@ChinChilly the day I leave a roast potato is the day I reconsider if I even want a baby 😂😂

@AMS19 oh my gosh that really did make me laugh out loud 😂😂 I was devastated I was just staring at them like why can’t I eat you 😂😂

Evening all, apologies for the radio silence today - had my head in uni work as needed to catch up and the weather is awful.

Still no positive OPK test today, have slept the clock round Fri & Sat night. Feeling totally scunnered. Think a wee soak 🛁 is on the cards tonight.

@Kay00 hoping so, last months cycle was a couple of days longer than what it's been - maybe I'm going into hibernation mode 😂

@ChinChilly Not the roast potatoes!! I'd be more worried if it was the yorkie pud though!!

@mrsmacmc A soak in the bath sounds delightful!!

What’s weird with me is I feel hungry more often the last few days and belly has been rumbling at 6am in morning when I take my temp which usually doesn’t happen. Also feel so more bloated after eating anything.

@ChinChilly I would be devastated with the roasties too! One of my fav parts of roast dinner

Well ladies AF turned up this evening, CD26 2-3 days early for some reason 😕😕

Aww @ChinChilly I’m sorry to hear she turned up for you!! ☹️

@ChinChilly that is rubbish news. Really sorry 👎 fresh cycle and fresh opportunity x

Thanks @musicaljojo & @AMS19 she turned up last night after we DTD but seems to have disappeared this morning 😕😕 I’ve never had bleeding after sex before so who knows! My last AF was a wierd one so hoping this one isnt the same!

Keeping everything else crossed for the rest of you ladies

@ChinChilly hopefully it’s not AF and your still in the game!

@ChinChilly you're CD27, but how many DPO? what was the post DTD bleeding like?

Morning ladies, im 7DPO and all is quiet. I had a temp dip this morning which im hoping its just a estrogen surge rather than AF on the way... im taking lots of B12 and B6 in an effort to keep my LP 10 days+

@Kay00 yesterday was 11DPO so not a fantastic LP either 🙁 It was pinky brown, I used a tampon last night, there was some dark brown stuff on it this morning but it was no where near full (TMI) no fresh red blood, I am so done with my uterus 😂

Thanks @Moocher90 this is how my last AF went, really light and only last 4 days, if this one is the same I’m going to be worried by uterine lining isn’t thick enough!

@ChinChilly sorry to hear that! Hoping that if it is AF that you get a proper bleed and not this spotting light flow!

Morning ladies.

Out of interest, I just wanted to know how many cycles everyone has had since coming off the pill.

I know some of you are pregnant now so it would be good to know how many cycles it took.

I know we are all different but I’m just curious and hope you don’t mind me asking.

@Kay00 keeping my fingers crossed it goes back up tomorrow! How long was your LP on your last cycle?

@ChinChilly as long as your LP is 10 days or longer you shouldn't have any issues :)

@Tillybabs I'm 7 months off now and on cycle 6, still struggling with late ovulation and a short LP.

@MintGreenLife thank you, that’s made me feel abit bitter, my last AF was so light though, I’m hoping this one isn’t the same, never thought I would be wishing for heavier periods 😂

@Tillybabs I’ve been off the pill since June, I think I have just started my 4th cycle!

@ChinChilly mine are light too and I feel exactly the same! Seems to be common - light periods post pill x

@chinchilly yes, mine have been light post pill too... although period cramps have been maximum 😂

@mintgreenlife my last LP was 14 days, that was with the help of B Vits. Before then I had 10 days and 8 days.

@tillybabs this is my 4th cycle and I have been off the pill for 5 months (also suffering from long cycles and short LP) but I have only been trying for 2 x cycles. In my 2nd proper TWW now.

@MintGreenLife actually thinking back to the last time I stopped taking the pill, over 2 years ago, I think they were pretty light up until around 6 months then I had the most horrendous AF, I thought at the time it could of been a MMC as it was so heavy and painful