Post Pill Party - The Ceilidh

[TheDaydreamBelievers]

As the Post Pill Party Mosh Pit dies down... sweaty and bewildered, the ladies head to the bar to freshen up. Suddenly, a fiddler bursts onto the stage, beginning a merry tune. Everybody swings into an energetic Ceilidh!

Our heads are spinning, our bodies are knackered but we arent giving up dancing when the music is this catchy!

This is the 8th post pill party thread for women whose bodies don't know the correct dance steps after hormonal contraception. Raise a dram to combating delayed ovulation, flabberghasting follicular phases, loopy luteal phases, bizzare temp charts and OPKs whiter than a Scotsman's bum!

@ChinChilly sorry if it’s an indent maybe give it few more days and test again if AF doesn’t show up xx

I had another temp rise today so fingers crossed as long as next two are higher then I should get dotted crosshairs and hopefully means atleast I ovulated!

@Flowers222 thanks for sharing your experience with it. That makes me feel better. I’m going to have another blood test this evening so will see what that comes back with and then I’m talking to my GP again next Tuesday.

@ChinChilly I really hope it’s not an indent and you’ve just had a later implantation.

@LauraT94 I agree that your temps look absolutely fine! Even if they didn't it's too early for it to mean anything.

@ChinChilly I think there's a chance you're only 10DPO today tbh! Fingers crossed that's it and that the line gets stronger !

@Moocher90 keeping everything crossed you’ve ovulated! I’m going to leave it until the weekend it AF hasn’t shown up I’ll test.

@Tillybabs thank you! Good luck with your blood tests.

@Juno231 Yeah, I can see what you mean about only being 10dpo, tbh if I am I haven’t got very good coverage DTD wise anyway! We’ll see what happens over the next few days I suppose

@ChinChilly pfft O-3 and O-4 is definitely enough to get preggers!

@Juno231 I’m going to try wait it out until the weekend if AF doesn’t arrive

@ChinChilly fingers crossed for you!!

I’m back again after AF! Ready for BD to start again tonight - OH is rearing to go 😂😂. I’ve been taking soy isoflavones so let’s see if that can shorten my cycle! I also started taking vitamin D as a saw that most darker coloured skinned people are deficient in this (I’m mixed race). OH is also taking maca now as well as I read it’s very good for the swimmers and actually increases male sex drive not that he needs that (but that would explain why he keeps asking me when the BDing is going to start again 😂😂😂)

@sperr even white people are deficient so with darker skin you should def be on it! Btw take the maca yourself too, it's meant to be really good for you. I've got some arriving this week that both OH and I will start taking :)

@Sperr I’m super pale and my last blood test showed I had pretty much no vitamin D, so low that my doctor put me on a ridiculously high dose for the next 7 weeks

@Juno231 you're right, sorry! Just got caught up with what I think they 'should be' but actually they're fine temps! I promise not to obsess about it again haha, at least until I'm closer to 10dpo 😂

@ChinChilly fingers crossed AF stays away!

@Moocher90 yay for temp rise! Hope it continues and confirms O for you.

@Sperr ooh I might look into maca, my OH could definitely do with a higher sex drive haha!

@LauraT94 ha we're all the same really - I can be so rational about other people's charts and then I see mine and despair lol.

@Juno231 speaking of, whats yours doing? Did temps confirm O?

Hi guys, have been very under the radar the last few days. Missed so many messages think I'll just have to catch up with all the updates from here on. Fertile week here but OH is doing 16 hour days and just stopping to sleep and eat so got coverage in for the weekend but missing the best days yesterday and today. Still some hope but peak test this morning and sharps O cramps this morning so think we only got -3 and -2 at the weekend. First month trying the CB advanced too and think I've been stopping DTD too early each cycle which hopefully I can amend in future months.

@Juno231 @ChinChilly funnily I had read black people need more vitamin d because of Covid and I had tried to get some when this first came out last year and it was literally sold out everywhere so I kinda gave up and thought I’ll take my chances 😂. I might take a couple of tablets to super dose up now!

@LauraT94 I asked him if he feels any different and he keeps saying no but he’s been asking for the past 3 days while I’ve been waiting for AF to finish if we can do it 😂

@Sperr I have definitely seen online that people will darker skin tend to have more trouble with vitamin D I think its something to do with the way the skin absorbs it? Well my GP gave me a dose of 40,000 iu and i think the most you can get in the shops is 4000 iu. Reminds me i need to go and collect the rest of them from the pharmacy...why is it they never have to full prescription at the time

@LauraT94 I'm 2DPO I think so no crosshairs yet. Realised today that I got my peak on CD13 and not CD12 like I thought, I must have been rather confused this weekend. The last to 2 temps are higher than the previous six but not by much, def a slow rise this time. I think it's cause y FP temps were unusually high this cycle, so there's less room for increase perhaps!

@Juno231 ooh yes I do remember you saying about high FP temps. I think that's why I struggled to see my Ovulation last cycle after my MC as my FP temps were still pretty high! So it's good you caught that positive OPK.

@Sperr haha that's so funny 😂 mine was relieved after I ovulated and said he hopes that's the last TTC sex we have to have for a while haha!

Anyone get cramps like AF after ovulation?? I’m getting AF style cramps in the lower abdomen and wasn’t sure if it was normal after ovulation as I don’t think I have ever ovulated before....

@Moocher90 I don't always notice them but some months can feel them really sharply, more a localized stabbing pain than the usual month end general ache.

@ChinChilly oh god- I might take like 5 of mine then 😂

@LauraT94 I have to remind him to call down because I don’t ovulate until CD 20 really so we’ve got to save energy.

@sperr I don’t think taking a big dose is recommended unless you’re actually deficient I think too much can lead to having too much calcium or something like that? I can’t see a one off boost doing too much harm though, just like spending 2 weeks abroad ( ahh holidays 😢) I’m not too sure...i actually felt abit scared taking my mege dose 😂😂

Hi ladies! Talking of Vitamin D: I am seriously missing the weekend sunshine, it was so amazing to just stand with the sun on my face! Hopefully spring is just around the corner!

@ChinChilly I see something on that test too... give it a few more day. Fingers and toes crossed for you!

My OPKs went back down to 25% today after my peak of 100% yesterday, so i'm hoping ovulation happens today. Not sure whether to DTD today as well just in case, but we DTD yesterday, Sun, Sat and Friday!

@Gracie2021 Looks like your covered too! Well done!

Ooh, I just remembered... I keep meaning to mention. So I was midway through this long cycle, which was looking like it was going to be annoulatory again (as i'm sure you all heard me moaning about lol), when I noticed I was running low on my Seven Seas Pre-natal. So I thought I would try Conceive + as I read they can help with body regulation. I started C+ on CD36, and on CD37 my Luteal Hormone surge started (with 75% on my OPK, and I got my peak on CD39... coincidence... maybe??

@Kay00 ohh I’ve heard good things about conceive plus too! Maybe I’ll try them next week. Hope your temps confirm ovulation over the next few days.

@ChinChilly eek I see something too! I really hope this is it for you. Waiting til the weekend might kill me though lol.

@Sperr @Juno231 and @ChinChilly I also decided to jump on this vitamin d train with everyone else!

So I finally worked up the courage to ask for my blood test numbers and surprise surprise I have raised TSH. Why do we pretty much all have this? It must be linked to the pill surely? 3.61. What does everyone try to do naturally to lower this as they won’t medicate or anything. @Moocher90 I know you’ve got this too. Also yay for your temp rise!

@Kay00 I’ve got a feeling its an indent. Hoping the C+ is working for you! 🤞🏼

@Cams50 it is really wierd that we’ve pretty much all got/had raised TSH. I haven’t really done anything and mine has lowered abit..I’m wondering if getting my vitamin D levels up will help as there does seem to be a link according to DR Google

@chinchilly well, it's interesting that you have had two indents... are they two tests from the same batch? Maybe buy a frer from a pharmacy to try this weekend so you know it's from a different batch?