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!

@ChillysT have you tested yet? That makes you 16dpo 👀

Ladies. I'm sat in hospital, waiting for my procedure... and I need to pee into a pot for a pregnancy test (just in case)... but I can't!!! Arghh!! 😆😆😆 im completely empty. I have been nil by mouth for nearly 4 hours! Why oh why!? I'm 99.99% sure I'm not pregnant, but they want to see it on a stick!

@Kay00 I hope you managed to pee!!

Well i was sure I ovulated over the weekend then today I had a big old blob of creamy ewcm so who knows! 🙄

@ChillysT so good to hear from someone who is experiencing the same. I don't feel like the Doctor ever got me ready for what the impact would be on my body.

Both my sisters had their little ones early so I'm definitely feeling like I've left it late, but also a positive that it is happening for women of all ages.

I have the occasional stomach cramp but nothing compared to what I had during my time on the pill. I am however sure I'm getting the mood swings and spots that go along with an AF

Hope all went well @Kay00 !

Lap was an ordeal lol! I ended up staying the night as I couldn't wee to pass the discharge test. Drank well over 6 litres of water yday but none of it made its way to my bladder, I just kept cascade vomiting it up 😅.

The consultant told me they found nothing and that they'd managed to damage my cervix a bit. She left and I cried a bit cause I was disappointed they found nothing. Ten minutes later I hear my name in the corridor repeatedly and then she comes back in to say I need to forget everything she said as she had me mixed up with another patient... So no damage to my cervix but I did have mild endometriosis on my left ovary which they removed.

She also said at our next appointment she'll get the ball rolling for the ivf application due to my age - in hindsight I think she was still thinking of the other patient!

Anyway, got discharged this morning and although I'm disabled and in pain I feel so much better than yesterday. That nausea and dizziness was disgusting and I was so exhausted I kept falling asleep at the drop of a hat!

@Juno231 that sounds absolutely horrendous! Hope you start to feel better over the next few days

@Juno231 that sounds awful!! Can't believe the consultant mixed up your results too!! Hope you are able to relax as much as possible at home now

@ChinChilly According to FF today I’m 15DPO today, I tested yesterday and it was a BFN. Came up stark one line so pretty sure that’s not changing and we only managed to DTD the night before my peak and not until after due to my OH being poorly. So knew it was a very slim chance anyway, will have to wait until AF shows now to start counting again for ovulation. FF expected today but no sign as of yet, hope she isn’t overly late as I’m on CD31 and was hoping to catch it in a ‘regular’ cycle this time round for my second AF.

@Kay00 Hope today went well, feel better soon.

@Stresshead129 I absolutely agree, I wasn’t told anything about coming off. Just about the effects of going on! Quite bad really. I definitely wouldn’t say you’ve left it late. I’m coming up 32 and a lot of my friends have only recently in the last year had their first, are just now expecting or haven’t started their TTC journey yet so it’s not late at all. 🙂 I think women are definitely starting to have babies later in life or that’s the way it seems from so many people I know! So I wouldn’t worry. Pretty much same as me, cramping and I had ovulation pain all day the day I tested and had my peak. But apart from that it’s just mainly tiredness and constant hunger!!

@ChillysT argh, that’s frustrating, sorry 😞

Next month I’m going back to the OPK’s I’ve found the whole not tracking and not knowing whats going on quite irritating

@ChinChilly It’s alright, because I’m still waiting for my cycles to regulate I’m still pretty relaxed about the whole thing as I know that part will take time. So atm if it happens whilst that’s all figuring itself out, it’s a bonus. 👍🏼

Have you been temping or anything or just left it all alone?

@juno231 oh wow, what an ordeal, sending you lots of hugs xx you'll need a little time to heal, I hope OH is looking after you xx

I didn't pee for a pregnancy test before my procedure in the end, so we went ahead on my assurances that I was very very unlikely to be pregnant 😅 gastroscopy went well but I need to re do my colonoscopy in a couple of week 😪 nothing to worry about, just weren't able to complete today.

@ChillysT ohhh ok, makes sense! I was temping and using OPKs, I had an early loss at just over 5 weeks at the beginning of March, tracked ovulation for the rest of march but thought a relaxed approach would help this cycle but I think I prefer tracking 🤣

@Juno231 you have been through the mill! That seems like such a crappy experience, and Im also not super impressed at the consultant.

@ChinChilly Yeah we are gonna time DTD around ovulation for most chance obviously, but whilst my body is still adjusting I don’t want to add too much pressure on either me or my OH atm so staying quite relaxed about it atm. Or trying to! So sorry to hear about your loss. ☹️ I hope you’re okay.

@ChillysT yeah if you start finding it stressful you can always take a step back, I occasionally disappear for a week or 2 when i find I’m letting it all consume me...Yeah it’s upsetting but its just one of those things, I’m a believer in everything happens for a reason sometimes it’s really difficult to understand what that reason could be but I’m sure one day it will become clear.

💐 @Juno231 hope you're doing ok and resting up ❤️

Oh god my appointment for my ‘pelvis and transvaginal’ scan just popped through the post, it’s only for next Tuesday, nothing like a bit of notice from the NHS, same days as my blood test....Tuesday is gonna be a fun day

@ChinChilly bloody hell, not give you a lot of time have they 😂 atleast bank hol Monday you can just chill to prepare! Good that you've got your scan app, have a good look under the hood.. fingers crossed it's all good news 🤞🏽

Hope everyone's doing okay!
I've got my second jab on Wednesday so I'm going to see if they say anything about ttc, if not I'll ask.. see what they say!

@MissM94 it looks like I’ll be spending bank holiday preparing my foof 😂😂 i know they don’t care but I’d be mortified! I was fully expecting to be waiting until July for a scan

@ChinChilly on the bright side it's quite a nice scan lol. As in it's not uncomfortable, there's usually mood lighting for privacy etc. Def the nicest foof procedure I've had!

@Juno231 nicest foof procedure 😂 that made me lol in the gym 😂 how you feeling now?

@ChinChilly 😂😂😂 I know exactly what you mean I've just had someone looking at my legs for vein surgery so I had to shave my legs and toes this morning! Them fuckers haven't been shaved for weeks 😂

@MissM94 omg my legs only get done when they start to look like OHs 😂 and as for the toes well they only get done when the flip flops come out 😂

@ChinChilly literally 😂😂 I'm really light haired so it's not really noticeable but no point doing them.. keep us warm in the cold evenings! 😂