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!

Just chucking a line in to say I’m still here, reading through all your threads but just nothing to catch up on my end...Waiting for AF2 post patch and she still hasn’t turned up, despite all the typical signs. Sigh. The last time was a 42 day cycle and I’ve hit CD40 today, so bit frustrating. Especially with the cramping and fatigue I had experienced a week ago. Can’t do anything other than wait it out though and trying to just let it be. As annoying as it is!

Congratulations @Flowers222, what wonderful news to see! That’s a strong line so congratulations to you!

Sending lots of love to those who are frustrated this month, there’s still 3 weeks left of May though so plenty of time for good news to pop it’s head out from under the rocks. Fingers crossed for you all!

I’ve stayed away from any OPK’s for a while now. I just don’t know when to even start them now with AF keeping me guessing when she may show, so just trying to be relaxed and stay chill. What will be will be!

Hope you’re all having a good Friday night.

@mrsmacmc thank you! Yes it’s very annoying. Hope the scan results all come back ok. Why do families make comments like that!! I know they mean well and don’t realise but now I’ve been through this I will not make a baby comment ever!!

@ChillysT hope AF arrives soon! Unless you’re in with a chance of a bfp?!

@Flowers222 congratulations! You have strong lines there 😃

@Kay00 thanks for the update on your fertility appointment. I have mine on the 21st and guessing it will be similar. They are supposed to send me another letter 14 days before my appointment but I haven’t received anything yet so don’t know if it’s online.

I’ve emailed them to chase up.

Nothing new here. Im in the TWW at the moment.

@tillybabs I would assume online, my clinic gave me a link, I joined a room and then the consultant joined, all very easy.

I'm in my TWW too... im utterly amazed that my body ovulated on CD18. I think it usually tries to ovulate around that time but fails, maybe these conceive plus ovulation support tablets pushed my egg over the edge (literally 😆)

Chart

@Kay00 haha yes I guess they did! That’s good that they are doing what they are meant to be doing which is help with ovulation.

As for TWW I’m not holding out much hope. We dtd but it was a bit of a struggle this month. It’s starting to feel robotic.

@Kay00 that’s great news about the ovulation support tabs seeming like they have worked.

I’m still waiting impatiently for AF to arrive! I got a £150 google play voucher with my new phone soo i think I’m going to treat myself to FF premium seen as I’m going back into full on physco tracking next cycle 😂😂

@Kay00 that chart!! FF has never given me that luteal line/triphasic chart thing. Amazing 🤞🏻 Do you take the conceive plus fertility support as well as ovulation support? I may try this.

Oh wait think you need FF premium to get that line. Maybe I’ll join in getting that @ChinChilly

@Cams50 I think it is a premium thing, i only get the cross hairs normally, I really want to add mr RHR aswell 😂 small things aye!

@ChinChilly yesterday I said I was taking a step back from supplements, tracking etc and today I’m like I think I need more vitamins and more detailed tracking 😂

@Cams50 I did this cycle of not tracking and I have to admit it has not helped, I don’t know when I’m at, I don’t really know when AF is due just that it’s some time between now and Monday! Not tracking does work for some people but for me I think if I’m tracking I’m doing something about it.

Hi all, like a few of you I’ve been a bit AWOL on here the last month or so. Just needed to take a step back and mind myself for a bit. This stuff is great Craic isn’t it (can you sense the sarcasm)!

Just been catching up through the various updates here. @Juno231 so glad you have the lap behind you now. Hope you’re recovering well and not too sore.

Sounds like tons of you are making the progress on tests and referrals and support. Even though it’s all a bit daunting, hoping it’s productive and helping everyone feel as if they’re taking steps forward towards a positive. And to all the new faces, a very belated hi and welcome from me.

@Kay00 yay for the early ovulation. Hopefully a sign of things to come although with that lovely chart maybe it’ll be a moot point 🤞

@ChinChilly @MissM94 @mrsmacmc @juno can’t believe the insensitive things people do say. Hope you’re all doing ok. Wish people had a bit more sensitivity about these things.

@Flowers222 big congrats and hope you’re feeling well. Best of luck with everything xx

@TheDaydreamBelievers I’d say it’s so lovely having therapy as a space to chat through all of this. I nearly think the hardest part of it all is the sense of isolation. Really hope it’s helping you x

@Cams50 @chinchilly I’m a data addict. I give up tracking anything for the first 10-12 days of the cycle but other than though feel way more in control knowing what’s happening. Hats off to those who have the willpower to drop it all.

Nothing earth shattering here, started acupuncture a few weeks back and it’s been a godsend. It’s the most relaxing hour of my week and if it did nothing for fertility I’d keep going as a treat to me. Also had bloods run by the doc, all back as normal so getting referred for fertility support/testing now. Feels good to have the contingency plan in progress. Otherwise all quiet this side. Surrounded by a few announcements this month but that’s life isn’t it.

@ChinChilly yeah like there’s so much uncertainty and ‘waiting and seeing’ in this ttc stuff that having some idea of what’s going on is easier I think.

@Gracie2021 I’ve heard such good things about acupuncture! Maybe I should try it. Glad you like it. And I’m in the same boat with trying to take a step back. Hope you’re doing ok x

@Gracie2021 I think sometimes people don't know what to say so they just say what they think is the right thing to say. I have dropped it all this month but once AF arrives I'm tracking again! As @Cams50 said really it's the only thing with TTC you can be in control with. I don't really like not knowing where I'm at in my cycle either.

Sorry its late but congratulations @Flowers222 thats great news!

I'm CD7 today, finally had my first AF after 49 days, finished on Friday. Literally DTD as soon as it finished 😂 (I know it's too early to actually get pregnant but it had been a while and I just wanted to be actually TTC)

@ChillysT @Tillybabs @Gracie2021 @Kat668 thank you ladies! I still don't completely believe it. AF is due tomorrow so I think I will relax a little more when she is officially late. Decided to step away from the tests now after I did one today and it was the same as yesterday so immediately panicked it was another chemical. It's not helping my anxiety.

@Kat668 at 49 days that was a monster cycle! Glad AF has gone and good to start again!

@Gracie2021 I've heard a lot of good things about acupuncture! Good all your results came back normal and the referral process has started.

@Cams50 I don’t think it is sadly, I did a PT at 15DPO or what I believe may have been ovulation and it was a BFN at that point. Cant imagine it would be any different now as it was a stark one liner, and now I’m 26DPO I can’t say I feel any different to then. I think Mother Nature is just being mean! So annoying as my first AF came around quicker than this wait. I thought I would just need the first one to come around and be over and done with, then the rest that followed would slowly regulate into a pattern meaning shorter waits between cycles. How wrong was I?! 😩 CD41 today so if she doesn’t arrive tomorrow I’ll be waiting longer than I was for my first post patch AF...How annoying!

@chillysT 😒 unfortunately I know that frustration all too well! It can take up to a year to regulate fully after coming off the pill... but hopefully you won't need to wait that long!

@cams50 yes, I take the Conceive+ fertility support (as my standard pre netal) and the Conceive+ ovulation support on top. I so take Vit D and in my LP I'm taking a B Complex to keep AF at bay!

@Kay00 I hope not, I’m just glad I decided to come off contraception when I did! My partner wanted to wait another year but being in this situation now I’m thinking we definitely made the right decision letting my body figure itself out before wanting to go straight in!

After 70-45 day cycles I’m on track to have a 36d cycle this month. Not sure if it’s the soy iso I took, my body just waking up after so long on the pill or the q10 I started taking on CD10 but I am I definitely ovulated and way earlier than any other cycle so far. Hope everyone is doing better this month!

@allycat31 hello! That's great news! I would assume it was the Soy Iso or just your periods naturally adjusting themselves. Where are you in your cycle now?

Hey @Kay00 I am 3DPO and CD28. Gonna do the soy again if AF shows up cause I think that might have done it but I guess it’s so hard to know if any of the supplements are really doing anything. How are you?