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

@Kay00 ugh I feel your pain. I’m CD18 and getting 0 on my OPKs. So frustrating. The latest I’ve ovulated is CD20 so it would want to hurry up. Hope it happens for you soon x

@TheDaydreamBelievers I’m so sorry 😞 it must be awful trying to start afresh with it still lingering like this. Hope it gets sorted for you quickly x

@ChinChilly 36.18 is perfectly normal! Mine tend to be 36.1-36.2 after AF. Exciting to get you first dot on your chart!

@TheDaydreamBelievers sorry you are still getting positives. Hopefully your tests will go negative ahead of your appointment and you can start trying again quickly! 🤞

Welcome @Ttcin2021

@Kay00 sorry ovulation hasn't happened yet, how frustrating! Not heard of soy iso before, what does it do?

7DPO today, chart islooking good but still not a lot going on symptom wise. Had some sharp twinges earlier for a few minutes which I'm hoping is something good. Trying not to overthink it though as it's still really early 🙈

Thanks all! We will get there I hope!

@Ttcin2021 temps vary woman to woman. One persons low temp will be anothers high. Personally, my routine temp is about 36.27 and high temps about 36.67. The lowest I've seen is 36.01 after MMC

@Flowers222 that's a lovely clear chart! Fingers crossed for you

@kay00 doesn't hurt to try the iso next cycle - you had great success with the B-complex!

@Cams50 hope your ovulation hurries up too!

I'm bored out of my mind already and am only 4DPO. Been thinking a lot about the fertility assessment next month as well - can't believe I'm still here TTC! My friends have literally fallen pregnant AND had their babies since I started lol.

@TheDaydreamBelievers sorry your still getting positive, must be tough 😔

@Kay00 thankyou! I didn’t really know what to expect and what was normal etc. I saw somewhere that low temps can be linked to thyroid function so made me wonder. Crappy you haven’t ovulated yet hopefully it happens soon.

@Flowers222 thanks, your chart looks good 🤞🏼

@Juno231 I know the feeling, I feel like we’ve been TTC for ages and everyone around me keeps getting pregnant. I feel like I’m just waiting around for the 1 year mark to go back to the doctor 🙄

@Ttcin2021 welcome 🙋🏼‍♀️ I have literally just started temping so can’t be of much help I’m afraid 😂

@Juno231 thanks I hope it hurries up! I feel like I’ve gone backwards this cycle which is frustrating - long period, delayed ovulation and probably a tiny lp knowing me 😂 the cycle before was amazing - shorter period, earlier ovulation and 12 day lol and I thought my cycles were finally sorting themselves out but nope. I get how you feel about the fertility doctor @Juno231 and @ChinChilly feel like I’m just waiting for the one year mark to get the ball rolling. As I’m cycle 9 I could have had a baby this month if I’d gotten pregnant the first month! Oh well I’m sure it’ll happen for us all when it’s meant to. I’m ordering a takeaway at the moment so the new year health kick isn’t going great 😅

Evening! Happy Friday everyone

@Cams50 I'm also failing on the new year health kick front...just had a load of M&S chocolates and a glass of red wine! Haven't been drinking much at all lately, but was craving a glass tonight. It's been a long week! What takeaway have you ordered? I hope you get your peak soon. I had a month like yours last month, after months of short lp's and late ovulations, it happened on CD13 and I also had a 12 day lp! I was wary it might be a one off so I guess I wont get my hopes up for this month!

@TheDaydreamBelievers I've not spoken to you before, but really hope you're doing ok. x

@ChinChilly My lowest has been 36.20 but as others have said, I think it varies...I still like looking up the charts on Fertility Friend and comparing mine though!

@Flowers222 your chart looks great!

I'm CD4 today and AF is almost finished I think and hope! This is cycle 6 for me now. A lot of friends the same age as me had managed to conceive by now...I'm 35 so could go to the doctors and get tests soon but feel like I might give it bit longer, as we had two of those months where we couldn't give it a good go (cystitis and food poisoning will do that for you!) Patiently waiting for CD8 to start dtd every other day...best warn the DH!

@Cams50 @FlyingGiraffe I’m not doing to well on the diet front....just eaten half of KFC, OH is a bad influence 😂

Also can you only get the charts like mine thing on FF if you pay the subscription?

Haha, thanks ladies... the silver lining of waiting for your Ov to happen is... the Wine! 🍷🍾 Happy Friday! (It has indeed been a long week @flyinggiraffe!)

@flowers222 your chart looks sweet 👌 Soy Isoflavones are 'natures clomid' apparently, they truck the body into producing more Estrogen and LH which should result in a stronger, earlier ovulation. It should only be taken for a few days at the beginning of a cycle (eg. days 3-7) and is only advised for women who have long unpredictable cycles (or it can seriously mess your cycles up).

@ChinChilly I've got the free version, but like looking in the chart gallery in the 'Community' section. You can filter it to show ovulation charts, pregnancy charts etc as well as filtering it further to show those with long cycles, short lps, low temps etc. I think you can only get the 'charts like mine' with the subscription though unfortunately.

@Kay00 Hope you've enjoyed the wine! Mine went down very well! Sounds like the soy isoflavones might be worth a try for you next month. Hope you ovulate soon first though! (and don't run out of opk's in the meantime!)

@FlyingGiraffe mmm chocolates and wine sounds amazing! I also had a glass of wine. I had a Thai takeaway. It was very yummy! By the sounds of it you’re only properly on cycle 4 ttc then so fingers crossed it won’t be long for you ☺️ X

@ChinChilly kfc sounds amazing!

@Kay00 I also indulged in a glass of wine. Thanks to the delayed ovulation lol! Good luck with the soy isoflavones. I’d be really interested to know how you find them. Hope they work well for you x

Ladies... I can confirm I enjoyed my wine 🍷 😌 and... half a bag of chocolate coins 😋

@flyinggiraffe im so over OPKs right now... I have peed on 3 x sticks a day for about 10 days and nothing 😑😑😑 my body is giving me a soft high open cervix and fertile CM... but no LH surge 🤷‍♀️

@cams50 I'll certainly keep the group updated with the Soy!

@FlyingGiraffe just found it...thank you! Now I’ve fallen down the hole of looking at other charts 😂😂

CD15 and i am pretty sure my CM is getting more watery so we DTD again tonight.

OPK was low today though so if it’s low tomorrow we’ll have tomorrow off. If it’s high we’ll do it again!

My plan was to DTD every other day and then every day once signs of O. What do you all tend to try and do?

I have looked into it and don’t think DTD every day should be a problem for DH sperm count but I don’t want to wear us both out before we even get to O!

@ChinChilly Haha, you're welcome! Glad it's not just me that falls down that hole!

@Cams50 That's what I figure too. Now my cycles are settling to something resembling 'normal' I feel happy to keep trying a bit longer. Glad the takeaway was good!

@Kay00 I'm sure you probably are already, but are you testing after holding for a few hours/not drinking too much? Mine are so much clearer if I do that. I bought the Clearblue advanced opk's though last month cos you use them first thing in the morning so I thought it'd be better than dehydrating myself!

@Elsie2021 sounds like you’ve got DTD covered! My FW always falls over OH night shifts which is annoying!

@FlyingGiraffe I’ve spent far too long looking at charts now 😂😂 I tend to use normal OPKs with FMU to be honest anyway then do another one later on in the day. I’m just addicted to POAS! I’m not ordering any OPKs until closer to FW otherwise I’ll be pissing on them by CD7 just for something to do 😂

@flyinggiraffe, those Clearblue advanced OPKs are quite appealing as I tend to get my strongest OPKs around 11am (my first urination after 4-6am), then its all down hill from there... no matter how much I hold on and how little I drink 😂

@elsie2021 I think DTD every other day is a good plan ... its what I'm aiming for this month 🤞🤞🤞

Can anyone please help I am getting so stressed and upset with this. Came off pill sept 2020 tracked ovulation with opks dec and jan and I get stronger lines but have never had a peak and now freaking out thinking I don’t ovulate. it was similar last month too but I didn’t have the Premom app to take photos so my strongest lines are about cd15 just after when my apps say I’ll ovulate on cd14. I’ve never noticed any ewcm but yesterday I did have some cramps/twinges esp on lower left side a bit like period pains so I thought could be ov pains? Can I still be ovulating if these are my darkest lines?

@justwanttobemum I have a very similar story to you! I came off the pill august 2020. My OPKs are never a blazing positive and I always question if they even match the control. I also never notice an ewcm. This is a picture of probably my strongest positive OPK. I do get lower abdomen pains which I assume are ovulation pains but I can't be 100% certain because of my OPK results

@Elsie2021 we dtd every other day and an extra time on ovulation day if it otherwise was to land on an in between day. If you're worried about running out of steam I'd stick to every other day plus O as well as there's not meant to be any benefit to doing it every day I don't think?

@Kay00 so jealous of your wine. I had alcohol free beer last night just to feel like I was having something on a Friday night 😅

@justwanttobemum it is possible you're not ovulating yet - it's also possible you keep missing your peak. Are those all your opks BTW cause the one thing I'd say is that you're potentially testing too late? Your second wee of the day is probably your best bet at catching your peak and on some of these you haven't tested until the evening. I'd recommend giving bbt tracking a go next cycle though, it's the only way you'll know if you are ovulating or not.

Was looking at my charts this morning and realised this cycle I've got biggest difference between FP and LP temps I've ever had. I've gone from 36.10s to 36.70s in the space of 5 days pretty much. Quite the jump!

I wonder could the Agnus castus delay ovulation? I’m taking it to lengthen my lp but maybe it’s lengthening everything 🤷🏼‍♀️

@justwanttobemum and @ACNass I agree with @Juno231 about the temping. I felt exactly like you both. I wasn’t sure if I was ovulating or not. I think it can take a few cycles coming off the pill for ovulation and normal cycles to return but I feel so much more confidant that I’m ovulating since I’ve started temping. The temp rise confirms the OPKs.

@Juno231 eek that’s very exciting!! That looks so promising

@Juno231 Your chart looks promising!!!🤞