Post Pill Party – The Garden Soiree

[TheHotelCalifornia]

Tables laden with high-end afternoon tea, beautiful bouquets of fresh flowers, and a string quartet playing softly in the background…it’s the Post Pill Party Garden Soiree! The girls have swapped their checked shirts for pastel dresses and it’s time to sit back and relax after a stressful few weeks (months…years!!)

Welcome to the 10th (!) post pill party thread for women who have recently come off the pill. Whether you’re struggling with an insanely long cycle or an insanely short cycle, your luteal phase is crazy short, your temps are all over the place, or you’re just feeling like if you see one more day of a damn flashing smiley you’re going to throw it out the window…we’re here for you. Perch yourself daintily in a chair and join us!

Ladies already at the soiree:

@juno231
@Kay00
@Moocher90
@Emmgrem
@Nellieee
@TheHotelCalifornia
@ams19
@chinchilly
@sperr
@crabette
@LauraT94
@TheDaydreamBelivers
@cams50
@robyn101
@abi555
@tillybabs
@MissC07
@minipilling
@glow92
@FlyingGiraffe
@Elsie2021
@Gracie2021
@Flowers222
@MancMama39
@firsttimemumm321
@mrsmacmc
@MintGreenLife
@Ttcin2021
@Melissaq94
@AllyCat31

Please tag anyone I’ve missed!

@JT90 I think if you've gone low you may as well save the clear blue one for next month. Although I could be wrong as I'm not as clued up on opks as some are so the other ladies on here may think differently.

@Lovebug06 thank you xx I ditched my plans to go running and I will run a bath instead... and eat lots of chocolate

Hi everyone. My heavy withdrawal (?) bleeding from taking two pills stopped last week. A couple of days ago I started spotting very lightly and cramping. Cramps stopped today but still some spotting. My normal period is due around today but it's either really slow to start or super light so far. I'm CD28 / 17DPO. Took a pregnancy test two days ago and today, both BFN. Not sure if or when I will ovulate if my period doesn't kick in properly, might take some cheap OPKs later this week!

@Juno231 Tbh I just wanted to make sure I was at least ovulating, I honestly expected to wait the full 3 months for my periods to return, let alone ovulation. So for 8 weeks later for both to be happening that’s all I need to know for now. I don’t want to get caught up in BBT tracking quite yet, I think OPK’s will be helpful enough for now and maybe if I go through another 6 months and nothing seems to have caught then maybe I’ll try temping? I just think I’ll get too stressed too early else, and I want to have some fun with it. Don’t want to make my OH too concerned or not able to relax either! I’ll OPK next cycle too and see if my days peak on CD15 next month too! I would also absolutely pee on myself, haha. I’m not quite that A* quality yet! 😂

@Lovebug06 Yeah, I’ve also found the football is on too so I ain’t getting him away from the tele for a while yet! Haha. I’ll save it for my next cycle rather than just wasting it as the CB ones are a fair bit pricier!

@minipilling Are you waiting for your very first period post withdrawal bleed after stopping the pill?

@JT90 no, I stopped the pill in January, had a withdrawal bleed and periods been regular since then (up to now). Last period, I had a bit of a wobble about TTC and took two pills just before ovulation. Used my OPKs and got a peak, my DH gave me a pep talk and I didn't take any more pills and DTD during the peak. I had heavy withdrawal bleeding several days later, then it stopped for a bit, now I'm spotting (and this is when I would have had my next period if I hadn't taken any pills). So it seems like those two pills buggered up my cycle.

@Nellieee congratulations!! That’s great news

@Kay00 sorry about AF but as you said, roll on a 2022 baby, we got this! It will happen!

I got a BFN this morning 13dpo. Don’t know why I bothered because I can feel AF is coming. But AF symptoms sometimes can be pregnancy symptoms.

Today and yesterday I’ve felt sick. But now I know it’s definitely AF!

@JT90 as your line went dark and then light, you’ve had your surge and so will ovulate 24-36 hours after.

Don’t delete any low readings, keep them all. It’s good to see and teach your levels going up and down.

I too get ovulation cramps. Some months worse than others.

Morning ladies x

@Tillybabs Sorry about your BFP Roll on the 2022 babies indeed!

My body is confusing me. I feel like I have all the signs of ?ovulation (temps up, spotty chin, bigger boobs, EWCM) but OPKs are like "nah" . Oh well, will just DTD anyways!

Chart for fun

@JT90 oh yeah! I was the same, I started my period late at like 15 and they were really heavy so my mum put me on the pill, and I've been jumping on all sorts of contraception until coming off in 2020, never understanding the complications contraception has until were adults now and start asking questions! It's crazy! I would say if the pain is next to the hip I would know I was ovulating but if it's on my back or sharp in my belly it's just AF related or I need the toilet haha but maybe everyone's ovulation pain is different?

@Tillybabs I meant BFN - Doh! Sorry xx

@TheDaydreamBelievers Hmmm, it could be that you have ovulated but missed the peak OPK, or that you body has given ovulation a go, but not quite made it. I have had both happen to me multiple times! Temps over the next few days should confirm either way x

@Kay00 no worries lol I knew what you meant xx

@TheDaydreamBelievers hm although if you had ovulated I would have expected your fertile mucus to have dried up straight after?

@Nellieee congratulations on your BFP 💕

@Juno231 @Kay00 Yeah, I think I'm hoping I'm about to ovulate? Please body, CD33 is surely enough time to gear up into this.

I had bloods taken on CD 28 and all they show is that I haven't ovulated yet. No surprise here, GP.

@TheDaydreamBelievers My temp started to rise (from quite a low starting point) for 5 x days before I ovulated, so hopefully its about to happen for you xx

@TheDaydreamBelievers haha your GP must be a genius! Who would've thunk that you hadn't ovulated?!

Read a really sad post on reddit yesterday by a lady TTC in the UK whose ignorant GP told her she couldn't have fertility investigations until she had 2 years of no pregnancies?? I.e. she's been TTC 3 years and has had 2 CPs and each time he resets her 2 year wait. Madness!

@Juno231 Thats horrible!! Is that the rules in her area or is that a mis-informed GP? She could continue to have 1 x CP a year and never get the help she needs?!

@kay00 I guarantee it's a misinformed GP and she did seem a bit clueless, having never checked her local CCG policy or challenged him on it. I can't imagine twiddling my thumbs about it at the 3 year mark still!

That's bloody awful @Juno231 - our GP surgery receptionists are dragons, but once you get past them and into the castle (to continue the metaphor) the GPs are v helpful.

@TheDaydreamBelievers haha... why are all GP receptionists so mean? haha!

@Juno231 no, haha, I got fed up after 10 months and paid to go private. My body is rubbish and is going to need a little extra help, I might as well just crack on.

My OH has finally accepted that things are going quite so swimmingly, and I think is starting to think that he could be part of the problem so has agreed to start taking the Conceive Plus Male Motility tablets... yey! He might not have a problem, but these pills can't hurt!

@Juno231 that is awful! Poor woman.
@TheDaydreamBelievers doctors receptionists are the worst🤣 although the nurse I've seen to do with the bloods and stuff after the year mark is a misery. And rude..not the best person for people struggling to conceive to see!
@Kay00 it's good that your OH is going to take the vitamins. I mentioned these to my dh the other day weirdly, not actually got any of anything though but i agree, it won't hurt so why not?!
My DH has also only recently seemed to have realised its taking a long time and something might be wrong. It's weird but I think the women take all the stress on and the men kind of go along fine and then it must just hit them that actually... Its not happening and it also could be them.

@Tillybabs Yeah that’s what I thought, am I correct in thinking that although we didn’t DTD on the day of my high reading, we still may have caught it by doing it the night before?

I already feel like I’m starting to get to grips a little with my body post patch. When I first went on contraception I was 17 and so needing to know how my body worked was the last thing on my mind, at that age all I was focused on was not having babies! 🙈 It’s amazing how much I’ve realised my body suppressed everything whilst on contraception. I had absolutely nothing when I was protected apart from light cramps! Now only 8 weeks off it, I get sore boobs, cramps, ovulation cramps, tiredness, the lot!...Being a woman is fun. 🙄

@JT90 yep it’s all fun and games lol. I was fine the first new months and now get heavy periods and cramping. Plus I’ve developed a spotty chin and I never get spots!

Anyway it’s all for a good cause lol.

Yes there’s still a chance something could happen. Sperm can stay alive for up to 5 days I think it is. But they do say around ovulation time to do it every other day at least.

Are you using an app to track it all? I use Premom which is really good and helps you know when you peaked and your fertile window etc.

Morning ladies!

Just checking in and trying to catch up! Not alot going on here CD7 and I’m already struggling with the whole no tracking 😂 I like to be in control and know what’s going on so I’m finding it hard not to track!

@Juno231 that story is terrible!

@Nellieee congratulations 🎉

@Moocher90 I meant to ask about your blood test results, did the GF/DF help your thyroid levels?

@ChinChilly hehe, i know I would certainly struggle with not tracking but then perhaps I wouldn't have issues like this one...

So i'm either 12DPO or CD3, and i'm really not sure. I have had some spotting for the past few days, a tiny bit of clotting and 1 x wipe of fresh red blood, and now its all tailed off to nothing. This is in contrast to my 9 days of heavy bleeding at the end of my last cycle.

I have attached my chart and a spreadsheet (I love a spreadsheet lol). Its important for me to know because I started taking Soy Isoflavones last night (assuming I was CD2) but I really don't want to take it if I haven't started my new cycle yet!! I took a FRER yesterday at 11DPO before I took the Soy (just in case) and it was negative.

Ladies help! Am I just spotting in my LP or am I CD3 of a new cycle?!