Post Pill TTC - Party Hard with a Vengeance

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It’s that time again, the 5th post-pill thread of 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. Join us, won’t you? We're a lovely bunch and we'd love to help you make sense of post-pill life if we can!

Welcome back:

@mintgreenlife
@juno231
@kay00
@sperr
@mrsmacmc
@chinchilly
@curcurbita
@tillybabs
@ams19
@moocher90
@trying4one
@flowerbudd
@pumpkineverything
@tatty1987
@mancmama39
@elsie2021
@danielle2012
@spencer22
@charwils
@ftm94
@lobster8
@musicaljojo
@laurat94
@crabette
@moocher90
@cams50
@thedaydreambelievers
@K80AWE
@emmgrem
@MissC07
@MOL234

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

@ChinChilly sorry, you messaged as I was typing. Hope not. Some people have said the tablets make them more regular, but apparently there is no scientific evidence of it affecting you one way or another. You could have just missed a peak?

@Nellieee 12DPO and had another bfn this morning so just waiting for AF to arrive tomorrow 🤷‍♀️. My chart and rhr look bloody good though so I was definitely hopeful!

@MintGreenLife how's the house purchase going? Do you have a planned completion date?

@Juno231 god, your chart is really taking you in a journey. So so hope it's a slow BFP! 🤞

Looks as though I've definitely ovulated as crosshairs popped on today which is love to know things are ticking along. Now the waiting game starts... 👀

*good to know 🤦‍♀️

@Nellieee awesome temp shift! Now for the agonising TWW 😅.

@Luna57 got my fingers crossed for Christmas Eve testing for you!

@abi555 @Kay00 @Nellieee @AMS19 @ChinChilly @Juno231 @Luna57 thanks for all the well wishes (hope I didn't miss anyone!). Bleeding has stopped and all other symptoms are going strong! Lines on ICs are still strong too. Tuesday's scan is now cancelled as NHS rang up yesterday to offer my early dating scan on Thursday (Christmas Eve!) so just a few more days to wait to see what's happening in there!!

@Juno231 sorry it was another BFN this morning, are you sure your ICs are the sensitive ones? Your chart is a serious mega troll if this isn't a BFP in the making!! Sending you lots of positive thoughts and well wishes - I know it can't be easy seeing that on your chart and getting BFNs x

@nellieee great looking chart! Good luck in your TWW!

@juno231 I don't want to give false hope but could 11DPO be implantation? You have had a temp and rhr rise after that? Any other possible symptoms?

@laurat94 what an exciting day for your dating scan!!

@Juno231 sorry you seem to be having another troll chart, it actually looks great doesn’t it! The house situation is a bit of a joke to be honest. We were told by our solicitor that completion before Christmas would be possible, only to discover on Friday they hadn’t even sent us the contracts for our sale which needed to be signed and witnessed and returned by post 🤦🏻‍♀️ There’s also some drama going on with our enquires, our silicons have gone back 3 times now with really vague questions and the sellers solicitor keeps saying they don’t understand the questions. We’ve been going round and round in circles for a week now. So we won’t be moving before Christmas that’s for sure, which is a shame as we sold our sofa and are surrounded by boxes 😅 how are your renovations going? Xx

Good luck @LauraT94 sounds like exactly what I had and baby just snuggling in! Will keep everything crossed for you xx

@Nellieee I’ve seen a few people post on here that they had regular cycles before starting them then there cycles went haywire, probably just a coincidence! I’ve been testing fairy regular so I’m not sure if I’ve missed it, I’ve had some more EWCM today so it seems as though my body is trying to do something!

@LauraT94 ahh a scan on xmas eve, how lovely! ❤️

@MintGreenLife oh no! What a mess! That's super quick overall though, I assumed you were still a couple of months away from completion! I hope everything else goes smoothly - I bet you can't wait to decorate a nursery in the new house!

@LauraT94 oh yes I knew you'd be fine ❤️ your Christmas eve scan will be so exciting!

@MintGreenLife my side boobs hurt and I woke up at 3am cause I was boiling alive so I really hoped this was it! Your symptoms gave mine hope 🤣

@Juno231 thanks, really hoping it all gets wrapped up by mid January at the latest. It’s been over 4 months since we accepted the offer on our house, so think if it’s not sorted by a week or two into Jan we may consider going ahead with the sale and relocating and renting while we wait for our purchase to go through, as that’s what’s holding things up.

Well you never know, as you say those were early symptoms for me ☺️ I still very much have the sore boobs! Xx

@mintgreenlife its lovely to hear from you! Sounds like your solicitor is a little sluggish, I'd get on the phone and tell them to give your case some additional attention or you'll find another solicitor! Hopefully there isn't a great deal of work left to do and you get your completion date soon xxx

Im a little grumpy this evening as the new lock down rules mean I can't visit my family in Wales (planned to meet outside and do a gift exchange tomorrow)... now I won't see them for months and im really missing my mum 😭

On the plus side I discovered botanical ciders in Waitrose today, so im drowning my sorrows in style 😆

@Kay00 I feel you. I'm in tier 4 now and so are my family so just had to cancel everyone coming to us for Christmas! Luckily could cancel the mammoth food order but so sad it will just be me and my husband! Strange year 2020...

@AMS19 I'm in Tier 4 too, we also had to cancel my parents and brother coming to ours for Xmas day. It's all just crap.
Although I kept the food order lol, I'll probably still be eating pigs in blankets at Easter! Sending happy vibes to everyone caught up in this xmas sh*t show

@AMS19 @MissC07 we’re still tier 3 at the moment, thank god I haven’t even finished xmas shopping! I think we will definitely be tier 4 next though the midlands numbers are going up again 🙄

@missC07 oh don't worry I still kept a LOT of food. But not enough for 8 people for 3 days plus extras which is what we did have. Thank god I could ammend the order up to tomorrow night..

@ChinChilly thats rubbish but at least you can see family Christmas day ❤❤❤

@AMS19 good that you could amend your order! I’m only seeing my parents, they only live a 5 minute drive away, won’t be seeing my grandparents it’s not worth the risk! I’m hopeful we are on the home stretch now and it will only be a few more months but who knows really, I feel terrible for everybody on tier 4 it was literally just dropped on people last night, no time to prepare! And for those men who do their xmas shopping on xmas eve...😳

@chinchilly yeah all my family due to come to us now have to rush out and by Christmas food 😂😂 ahh well. We will still a Christmas day at some point, just probably could be nearer spring!

@AMS19 yeah I think that is what we will do, my grandad has an outpatient appointment at the hospital next week and apparently if you are over 80 with an outpatient appointment they vaccinate you will you are there so hopefully they’ll stab him with it while he’s there 😂😂

Not sure if it is something to do with these seven seas tablets but I’ve had wayyyy more EWCM than normal, no peak OPK yet but they have finally starting getting abit darker CD16 now and I’ve normally had a peak by now. 🤔

@ChinChilly I'm not sure what my TSH level was exactly except that it was above normal. I was struggling to live normally with the symptoms I was experiencing at that point, so I guess I didn't care, I just wanted something done. I was 22 and I guess naively thought that they'd stick me on meds and it'll be sorted haha! Wish I had asked more at the time. It sucks but you've got to keep 'reminding' the docs that it is a concern to you.

Sorry to hear a lot of your Christmas plans have been scrapped! Someone mentioned a while back about a postponed Christmas celebration to be held on the 25th June and now that is really sounding like a brilliant plan!

@KGH5121 oh gosh sorry your symptoms were that bad 😕 I don’t seem to have any symptoms so that made them even less concerned, I’m hoping it was just a fluctuation, I’m planning to clean up my diet in the new yeat but they won’t retest me until its been 12 months which wont be until may/june time so I may have a private test done in March and see if anything has changed. I get the NHS has to prioritise their services but bloody hell it really is an uphill battle with them at times

It's so sad about the Christmas plans up in the air. I know it's just a day, but the reality is it's more than that. It's about family being together, especially after the year we've had. My dad lives alone three hours away, as does my mum/brother in a different direction. It's the only thing they've been looking forward to.

@ChinChilly we're Midlands too, and I'm sure tier 4 will be around the corner 😞

Ps @ChinChilly sounds as though ovulation day is imminent!! Get in your OH! 🍆

@Nellieee thats so sad 😞 it must be so difficult I’m incredibly lucky that all my family are local so a wave at the end of the drive is do-able! It is so much more than xmas day, it’s people’s mental health too! I predict tier 4 just after new year 😕

OH last night shift was last night so 🍆 is a go go 😂