Post Pill TTC - Rave on

[Juno231]

It’s that time again, the 6th 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:
@kay00
@Moocher90
@MintGreenLife
@Emmgrem
@Nellieee
@TheHotelCalifornia
@ams19
@chinchilly
@MancMama39
@sperr
@crabette
@charwils
@LauraT94
@TheDaydreamBelievers
@cams50
@robyn101
@abi555
@luna57
@tillybabs
@MissC07
@mrsmacmc

I learnt the other year that apparently they even have drive through weddings in Vegas?? Like you just sit in your car and get married through the window lol. Amazing.

3DPO and FF confirmed ovulation which is nice :) Just twiddling my thumbs during the TWW now! One thing that's annoying is that I lost nearly 1kg since the 1st of Jan but have regained it all with ovulation. Despite maintaining a caloric deficit, doing my 10k steps per day and drinking 3 litres of water a day to combat water retention. It's tricky being a woman! I just need to keep going but it can be so demotivating.

Chat for reference

@MintGreenLife baby and house update please 😁

@Mol234 @Cams50 nice that we are all so close in age, if someone would of asked me 10 years ago I would of said I’d have a baby before 30, looks like that isn’t gonna happen 😂

@Juno231 my weight fluctuates so much even when im doing things exactly the same. I’m guessing it’s part and parcel of being a woman.

@ChinChilly yeah, I guess I just forgot how much I hated it lol! My friend and I are doing weekly weigh ins and almost embarrassing to be back at last week's weight even though I know I've been good!

Added a squat challenge for sh*ts and giggles too. I'm on day 3 :) www.livestrong.com/article/13582767-the-30-day-squat-challenge/

@Juno231 I worked in childcare many years ago and as we were all women we and all wanted to lose weight we used to do weekly weigh ins and everybodies weight was so bouncy all the time some of the women used to get really upset because they had done everything they should and ended up putting weight on.

I can’t even squat I have the knees of an 80 year old 😂😂😂

@Juno231 Haha I saw that too! I don’t know what we’d do yet but I like the idea of a Vegas wedding because they can be done very quickly with zero planning 😂

So I’m 8DPO and had a little bit of pink when I wiped this morning but nothing since. No idea what’s going on 😂 but it’s the first even remote element of blood my body’s done since the end of my withdrawal bleed on 2nd September - so props to my body for demonstrating it still remembers how to do something I guess

@Robyn101 could be implantation at 8DPO 🤔

@Robyn101 not gonna lie I'd get really excited by that because that could 100% be implantation spotting. You being 8DPO makes it perfect timing as well.

@ChinChilly haha what have you done to your knees!

@Juno231 I fell over when I was a child and damaged the cartridge in my knees I’ve had problems with them ever since when I was a teenager they suggested key hole surgery on them but being a stupid teenager I wouldn’t do it. They kind of crunch & creek quite regularly, day to day it isn’t painful but squatting...I would probably get down and not be able to get back up 😂😂

@ChinChilly omg that's one heck of a fall. I think we have established that you're rather accident prone Thanks for saying that about the ladies in childcare weighing in - I'll need to remind myself of that when the scales don't cooperate.

@Juno231 so accident prone, I fell over going into the kitchen last week 😂 maybe my body was telling me to stay away from the fridge 😂 the weigh-ins used to cause so much upset we had to stop doing them, every Wednesday somebody would end up crying in the toilets because they only eaten carrots stick all week and still put on 2lbs (exaggerated but you get the drift) 😂😂

CD6 for me today and boy much going on. Will start to BD over the weekend just in case there’s a chance of earlier ovulation. OPKs at the mo are blank but my cm is at the tacky stage so all being well my body plays ball this month.

So put up my spin bike on Tuesday night and I done a spin session last night after work and I have done another this morning before work! Calorie counting and trying to drink at least 2 litres of water.

Not* not boy😂

CD28 here patiently waiting for AF to turn up and not ruin my streak of regular short cycles 😂.

@Juno231 I’m doing 100 squats a day! Legs are dying already. My OH is doing a 3000 burpee challenge in January. I hate burpees so I opted to do squats instead- if he gets good results I may reconsider in February 😂

@ChinChilly @Juno231 I didn’t even think it could be implantation I think I was just happy my body knew how to do something 😂

Don’t want to get my hopes up too much it was literally just after FMU berry pinkish and nothing at all since, not sure if you need more for an implantation bleed or not?

I’ll keep on waiting and try and stick out the full two weeks

Hi everyone :) please can I join? I came off the mini pill 5-6 weeks ago and no idea what's going on, no idea if I've ovulated, no bleed at all since stopping and had faint (super squinty faint) for a week now so just very confused by it all 🙈

I hope everyone's getting on ok! 🥰

@Robyn101 nope that could def count as IB!

@firsttimemummy321 Welcome! When you say you have had a 'super squinty faint' do you mean on a pregnancy test??

@Kay00 thank you. Yes sorry 🙈 on a few brands of pregnancy test, it's very odd!

@Robyn101 that does sound like it could be 🤞🏻

@Robyn101 sounds like it could be 🤞🏼

@kay00 ah I missed your post earlier! I'm sorry your temp dropped today :( What CD did you ovulate last cycle?

@sperr 3000 burpees??? That's like a 100 per day - I hate doing just 10 for godness sake. Is your OH some kind of machine? My OH spent a lot of last year doing his press ups and sit ups to the Flowers song by Moby. All they sing is something about Sally up and then Sally down and you're meant to do your reps in line with the lyrics which is super hard.

I'm on 60 squats today but the challenge takes it all the way up to 250 squats in a day by the end of it...

@Moocher90 ah well done on getting your exercise bike up and running! Is it parked in front of the tv?

@firsttimemummy321 welcome! That's weird about the faint lines for a week. Are you using blue dye tests or pink dye tests? If the former then it could just be dye run as the blue ones are notorious for it and if the latter maybe a CP? Not to be a party pooper it's just that a faint line that isn't increasing in strength tends not to be a positive sign I'm afraid :(

Let the BBT commence!

@Robyn101 that’s super exciting! Def could be implantation bleeding... when are you planning to test?

@Moocher90 good for you on the spinning!! This cold weather makes me want to do nothing!!

5DPO over here. Temp rised a tiny bit again today but my RHR has dropped a bit - don’t think thats a good sign 😔 how do others RHR compare in the LP? This is my first time tracking in that phase so have nothing to compare to.

@Juno231 thank you :)
Pink dye tests (also had similar on a cb early) here's a variety of them but so faint so difficult to photograph 🙈
I'm not going mad though they are definitely there!
Thank you, I had a CP last year so expecting that but it's not getting darker or lighter.
Appreciate your honesty 💕

@ChinChilly where did you get that from? I think that brand links to an app I have :)

@Mol234 🤞🏻 for you I have no experience with my rhr, when do you take it?

@Mol234 those are my last 3 cycles the day I’ve highlighted is the day of ovulation the only real pattern I’ve noticed is that the drop for AF arriving