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 seeing your stockpile has just reminded me to take my daily tablets - thanks 😂

@Moocher90 have you tried taking one later on today? I'm CD15 today and mine are all saying low on premom and high on femometer. No real change over the last few days though - so frustrating.

@abi555 Congrats on exchanging on your house!! Hopefully all the packing over the next week will keep you busy so you don't think about POAS!

@MissC07

Done another opk about 30 mins or so ago and it’s was very faint

@Moocher90 Fingers crossed they'll be getting darker over the next day or so for you🤞

@Kay00 ha we can take turns, I wouldn't lump you with it forever!

@TheDaydreamBelievers oooh I like the thought of a mosh pit!

@abi555 congrats on exchanging!! What kind of home are you leaving /what have you bought?

@Moocher90 today's opk looks stuff is finally happening! Let's hope tomorrow or day after brings you a peak 🤞

@Kay00 @MissC07 @Juno231 thanks all!! We've bought a really cute old cottage - has the perfect little room to make a nursery!! (hopefully!)

Me and OH are so ecstatic as our previous purchase fell through a few months ago. Covid has made the house buying/moving situation v stressful!

We have legit been dancing around our kitchen tonight, singing at the top of our voices to reach for the stars and sharing a bottle of bubbles!! Haaaaappy times! :)

@TheDaydreamBelievers mosh pit!!!

@AMS19 haha me too! I bought like a 100 OPK's and 30 pregnancy tests on amazon the other day!

Hello was asked to join by @TheDaydreamBelievers!

I came off the pill in November and had a normal cycle straight away, ovulated on day 18 then period 2 weeks later.
Now however, I’m on cd36 and still no period and I’m not sure that I ovulated at all. Had a slight rise in LH on the 30th December but that was it, no peak. Feeling so fed up.

Hey @SalemsPot22! Have you kept using OPKs since then? My body seems to take a few attempts at ovulating each cycle. So I get a few ramping up of OPKs before the temps eventually agree I've ovulated! Means long cycles generally for me but there are other ladies on this thread who mostly have regulated cycles then have a random long one with late ovulation or which is annovulatory

I’ve had not even a hint of a line on opks for the last 2 weeks

@Juno231 Sorry to hear you're having a rough time. Hope your Grandparents and Mum are doing ok. x

@Kay00 That drawer is impressive! Mine are like @abi555 and dotted all around the house in different rooms! It's organised chaos! Congrats on the house @abi555 by the way! Enjoy the dancing and bubbles!

@Moocher90 looks like the line is starting to get darker. Fingers crossed you'll get a stronger line tomorrow!

@TheDaydreamBelievers Love the idea of a mosh pit! Haha!

@SalemsPot22 Welcome! I've been relatively lucky having quite regular cycles since coming off the pill (my problem is more spotting, light periods and short lp!) I'm sure some of the other girls will be able to help with advice, but try not to get too down. It's taken my body over seven months to start to settle after the pill.

CD11 for me today - got a flashing smiley today after 3 days of blanks. My cheap opks are still showing just a faint line so think it might be a few days yet. Hoping last month wasn't a one off and i'll peak somewhere around cd13/14 again! My Seven Seas vitamins arrived last night. I took the first one this morning and realised this evening I took 'Thursday's' - I definitely wasn't awake this morning!

@FlyingGiraffe I hope I ovulate soon! I’ve had some EWCM today so I hope my body gears up to ovulate in the coming days 🤞🏻

@moocher90 finally 🤞🤞🤞

@salemspot22 welcome!! Im also having a monster long cycle (CD32 here and no sign of ovulation). Annoyingly there isn't much we can do other that wait it out. Keep testing to build a picture.

As an interesting side note. I have read a few studies that seem to think there is a link between inflammation and a delayed ovulation. Im currently mid flare up of something inflammatory (usually effects joints, but my bowls are the focus this time) AND no ovulation... an interesting observation!

I hear you ladies about the Mosh Pit 🤟 ill set up the next bus with an moshing appropriate name 😈

@abi555 your new house sounds like a dream! And I love that you and DH were dancing and singing last night... super cute!

@juno231 still thinking of you xx hope all is ok xx ps. How's that chart looking? 👀

Actually I'm CD33 😭

Morning!!

Welcome @SalemsPot22 🙋🏼‍♀️

@abi555 Great news on the house! 🎉

@Moocher90 Sounds like ovulation is on it ways for you!

My chart is looking abit odd...I did my temp 2 hours later than normal and it came back as 36.84 so I used an adjustment thingy at it come back as 36.61, quite a temp spike. I had a crap night sleep last night, terrible headache I couldn’t shift and I work up in the middle of night shivering..odd 🤔

@chinchilly morning! Odd! Either you have just ovulated early... or you are ill and should discount this temp. The next two days worth of temps should hopefully tell xx hope your not feeling too rough after such an odd nights sleep xx

@Kay00 I think I’m ill, my sinuses seem to be playing up 😕 I get random flare ups of sinusitis so I’m guessing I’m having a flare up 🙄 any signs of ovulation for you yet?

@ChinChilly it sounds like you might be ill, especially with the shivers in the night. If your sinuses are playing up then I hope you feel better soon - lots of rest today!

@SalemsPot22 welcome! Things can go a bit all over the place when you first come off the pill. My first 2 cycles off the pill were around 40 days long, which was long enough, then the next couple were around 75 days long! Then each cycle got shorter until I got back to a more regular 35 days. It took me 9 months to get back to normality. Hopefully you won't take you nearly as long but sometimes it just takes a little while for things to settle down.

@ChinChilly oh dear! Does sound like you might be ill and that is what made your temp spike. Hope you feel better soon!

@Juno231 really sorry to hear what you are going through! Hope your grandparents and Mum have a speedy recovery x

Cd2 here and feeling a lot better about it now, ready to start again! Just waiting for af to go away.

I got a faint line on an opk this morning! Maybe I’m going to ovulate next week? What the hell is going on

Also a faint line on a cheap pregnancy dip test, but I don’t know if it came up in the five minute window as I wondered off!

@MissC07 & @Flowers222 I think your right I feel like I’ve been hit by a bus!

Huge blob of EWCM this morning, haven’t done a OPK yet but will this afternoon! With the EWCM I think I’ll have to power through my sinus issue in the interest of baby making 😂

@SalemsPot22 once the line gets darker I recommend you start testing 2-3 times a day, hold your wee for 3-4 hours if you can

I just had a cry this morning. AF 9 days late and still BFN. I have so many symptoms so I don’t know what’s happening- OH was convinced I was as well. I just wish it would come so we could start the next cycle. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do now.

@sperr I'm so sorry! Did you track with opks only or with bbt? Sounds like you didn't ovulate when you thought you did :( what a mind f**k

@Kay00 I'm sorry you've gotten to cd33 without a peak! I think you're on to something about the inflammation though. How long do your flare ups normally last? My temp dipped again today so I think AF is definitely coming tomorrow.

@ChinChilly fingers crossed it's not the rona! Def discard that temp if tomorrow's is back to normal.

@SalemsPot22 a faint line on a pregnancy test?! Will you retest?

Thanks for your thoughts and well wishes ladies! Mum and grandad are unwell but stable - I'm afraid granny passed away after midnight last night though. She was 82 so had a good life ❤️

I’ve done another two dip tests and they were both negative so I have no idea what’s going on. So frustrated with it all.

@Juno231 oh I’m so sorry 😔❤️ Hope you and your family are doing ok.

@ChinChilly hope you feel better!

@Kay00 very frustrating but maybe if you can sort the inflammation then you’ll start ovulation sooner? Didn’t your GP say they were going to run some more tests?

@Sperr sorry about the bfn 😞 it would be so hard not to be convinced you were pregnant that late after AF.