TTC - 42 day cycle. Only "Highs" on Fertility Testing (No Peaks)

[SALICE42]

Hello everyone,

I am in my early 30’s and gave birth to my first LO in March 2021. It took us a while to become pregnant, so much so that we’re now considering another one. After breastfeeding for as long as I could, my periods restarted on my 7th month post delivery. I had one ‘normal’ cycle of length and flow - to which I thought "this is amazing, everything seems to returned back to normal". I spoke
too soon and since that one "normal period", I have gone from 32 day cycles (give or take +1/-1 each side) to 42/43 day cycles.

I’ve been tracking ovulation with the Clearblue advanced fertility monitor and it never shows me any peaks just highs (last month for example I had 14days of highs and it then told me to stop testing.- It would have been far too early for me to have ovulated at this point based on a 42d cycle).

I’ve had both slippery and EWCM daily (! Yes daily !), quantity -variable. I’m worried that I’m not just ovulating. Very frustrating trying to work out when and if I’m having any ‘fertile’ days. The monitor for me so far is proving to not be useful as it won't allow any further testing in the month if you have so many highs.

TTC is becoming stressful yet again. I was scanned for PCOS prior to my first pregnancy and this was negative. Sounds like my hormones are all over the place. GREAT. (grrr!). I would have thought they would have settled down by now, seeing as next month I'll be a year post delivery.

Apologies for the essay.
Any advice ?
Getting very low about it.

I would go back and ask for a scan again just incase! It sounds like you aren't ovulating x

Thank you for your comment @xoJellyBean

Not ovulating is certainly my worry and I just don't understand why / what is happening!!

I wonder whether it would be useful for me to buy cheap OPK's to test later on in the month and track BBT to see if I have actually ovulated?

I dont think your GP will be equipped to handle this. Ask for a referral to a fertility expert, or an endocrinologist to check what's going on

@IsabelHerna - Thanks for the reply.

You reckon they would agree to a referral under the NHS since I already conceived one naturally (albeit it took ~2years).
I'll try and get an appt with GP soon - they're only currently seeing emergencies his week.

@SALICE42 I don't think they will refer you for ivf/fertility treatments, but they might do for some tests. At least I hope they do. Keep us posted on how it goes x

Are you stopping the ovulation tests when the app tells you to? I'd keep going, I was told to stop after maybe 6 days of "high" but didn't and my "peak" was 1/2 weeks afterwards. I recall having some barriers to testing after it told me not to (maybe a banner on the app etc) but I still got the smiley face on the stick.

(and the peak was a real peak, the resulting baby is in my arms at the moment! In the cycle I got pregnant I tested everyday from the end of my period until I got "peak" at day 27)