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!

Hi @Springflower3, I stopped taking Cerazette on 14th March and still nothing, you're in good company as there is a few of us in the same boat.

Hope things start moving along quickly for you.

Thank you ladies!!!

You aren’t to far in front @feliznavidad2.... are you trying to track your cycle or just winging it?? @Juno231 all the best with your surgery... and you will get back at the TTC soon 😬

My friend has just went in to labour, she got pregnant within 6 weeks of stopping pill so I’m feeling..... jealous! And I hate myself for it!!!

@Springflower3 ah we totally get it! My friend's baby is nearly 6 months old and she started TTC a few months after me lol. I'm getting lapped so bad!

Oh @Juno231 how long have you been trying? I know you have maybe said previously so I apologise 🙈🙈

I just feel so empty at this point cause as I tell DP we are in no mans land right now.... off the pill and awaiting af which could be a week away or months away! How do women stay sane in all this?? 🤣🤣 xx

Just popping my head in to check in gals, and what a week?! Congratulations @Sperr @Emmgrem and @Nellieee on the THREE BFP's!!! Hope it's catching!!!!

Just wanted to throw this link at you @Lovebug06 and anyone else feeling a covid vaccine conundrum... it's a bit short notice as it's tonight, but think it might be useful, it's a session with some maternal medicine / reproductive immunology experts, plus a Q&A. They've said last week now that even if you're pregnant you're allowed the vaccine, never mind if you're TTC. Just incase some extra info helps a few folk.

parliament-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VjcFepBpRDCCZd0uTs5aAw

@Springflower3 I'm on cycle 17 so I'm definitely bringing the average up on this thread ha!

@Juno231 are you ovulating n all? You are a stronger person than me... I would have threw my head up 🙈🙈

@Springflower3 welcome! The maximum gap from coming off pill to AF in this group was 145 days (!) but most are much much shorter. Are you temping and using OPKs?

My update - back to spotting at ?7DPO. This would make 3 cycles at over 45 days long, with not-certain ovulations, and spotting from ?5DPO. I'm not sure if its possible one of the vitamins I'm taking is making this happen? Currently on Myo-Inositol and Vitamin B complex in an attempt to regulate cycle. Anyone with any info, let me know :)

@Juno231 best of luck with your procedures!

Thank you @TheDaydreamBelievers

Oh my! That’s a long long time! I hope the person has had a happy ending??
I am using opk, have been for about 2 weeks and I’m getting smiley faces for 11 days 🙄🙄 I’ve moved to easy@home opk but I just get low 0.18 is my average and that’s if I dehydrate myself!

Are you tracking anything? Which pill were you on? I am tempted to get ovesense but I think it’s a bit much when I’m not even a month off the pill!! Xx

@Springflower3 I do BBT and OPKs.

My summary: I was on microgynon for 12 years, had 141 days until period came back, conceived the next cycle (2 cycles and approx 6mo after coming off the pill), but sadly miscarried at 12 weeks. So I'm back TTC. My cycles are very long and irregular unfortunately. I've had some testing for late-ish miscarriage, which was all clear; initial bloods for irregular cycles all clear; now awaiting the fertility clinics.

@TheDaydreamBelievers I am so sorry you have had a shit time and here is me complaining after a few weeks!!!
Did you have any symptoms during the time you were waiting on period?
I really hope you get an answer for what is going on, have you been able to identify if your ovulating??

I was on the mini pill before and came off, had a period within 6 weeks and then conceived my son on cycle 4..... this time it just feels different and I wasn’t even on the pill for as long! I suppose I shouldn’t judge this time on the last! Xx

@Springflower3 honestly Id be very cautious about symptom spotting in general! Coming off the pill is a hormonal storm till it settles so you may get any symptoms at all! Then each cycle everyone goes mad spotting in the 2WW but unfortunately symptoms are the exact same moving towards period as they tend to be in early pregnancy! So its impossible to tell a lot of the time.

Please may I join the garden party?!

First month off just gone. Waiting for AF now. Can't wait to see what the hell my cycle turns out like after 15 years on the pill.

@TheDaydreamBelievers you are so right! With my son I was pretty sure I had ewcm literally a day before I got bfp! So ye know it’s shit 🤣🤣
I’m glad I have found this thread to vent in and get good advice! @CaptainGT you will be in good hands here!!

Hi gang! Long-time! Have been following you all, but posting less as trying to distract myself from TTC.

10dpo and no symptoms and convinced myself I'm out this month as CM going dry, but thought I'd POAS for the hell of it because, well, not really sure actually - Bored at work I think haha!!

Anyway, this is an afternoon wee on a cheapie one-step and I have now given myself a headache for the rest of the afternoon wondering if it's a line or an evap! Hubbie thinks I'm going mad and has banned me from POAS again until I'm actually late. Don't know how I'll hold out until friday!

What do you all think??

And welcome @CaptainGT and @Springflower3 you're in good company with these lovely ladies!

@abi555 hello!

I didn’t even have to click on that pic to see it... I would defo say that’s a line!!!! 😬😬

@abi555 omg that's not even faint! and on a cheapie with afternoon wee?? Sod OH and get a FRER - you'd get a strong line on that in comparison! Lol what is it with men and not understanding how pregnancy tests work!!

Thank you!! @Juno231 and @Springflower3

Thought I was seeing things as OH is refusing to acknowledge/get excited! We now have a weird situation where I'm excited and he's refusing to entertain the thought! aaaaaaah, think I'll go and buy a FRER anyway and then if there is a stronger line he will have to believe it!

Eeeeeek, so exciting!

And typical that I get a line the month I have had the booziest weekend with friends at BBQ's haha! Every other month I've been (relatively!) good in the TWW..

@abi555 OMG I def see a line! Please go and get a FRER!! Also don't worry about the booze, a few of my friends who got preg were still boozing at 6+ weeks because they didn't know they were preg! So excited for you!! ❤️

@abi555 that's a definite line I see. Like others I didnt have to open the picture. My DH was the same when we conceived before, thinking it didnt count if faint. The crisp lines of a FRER tend to be more easily believed!

@MissC07 @TheDaydreamBelievers thanks!! so reassuring to hear you see it too!

I have amazon primed a FRER so that will arrive before lunch. Does anyone know if I can save a FMU and use it several hours later... they don't 'go off' do they?... What a weird question!

Well... when you do a urine sample for dr it isn’t test until later that day? So I assume you can test it any day? @abi555

Girls could anyone look at this, have I reason to hope or is it a case of we always have LH in our system and this is my normal levels??

Ps @abi555 I meant any time 🤦‍♀️ Of the day after taking it in the morning xx

@abi555 it keeps a few hours!

@Springflower3 its hard to say - some of us have a very short sharp peak (so blank, blank, blank, almost positive, positive, blank) and some a slow rise

Is it possible to be this slow? 🤣🤣 @TheDaydreamBelievers

I am so bloated right now I feel I am about to burst! Plus I’m sick of sore boobs! I defo feel I was misinformed when I signed up to the pill 🤣🤣