How to figure out when I will ovulate.

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Excuse my fecklessness about this. I am usually an intelligent and educated soul but I can’t get my head around ovulation predictions. And the nurse at my GPs has thrown me.
I have a DD already, but her conception was more lucky than anything else.

I have stopped my pill this week and started a withdrawal bleed on Friday.
The nurse says from this withdrawal bleed until my next period, I can’t conceive as I won’t be ovulating until after the next bleed - my real period as she called it. She said I would likely ovulate 7 days after I stop bleeding but… I take tranexemic acid and that lengthens my periods; often up to 14 days. The nurse told me I would then be ovulating straight away at the end of my 14 day bleed as my cycle is 28 days. Or it was with DD.

Anyone got any clues. I’m so confused and the nurse made me feel like an idiot for not understanding.

Thank you.

I’m not sure about that. Were you on the combined pill or the mini pill? I came off the mini pill in mid-Dec, I conceived 2 weeks later. I hadn’t had a period so couldn’t understand how, but then someone told me ovulation is what causes the period, not the other way around! So you would ovulate first and then have a period. Which makes sense if you think about it. Unfortunately that ended in a miscarriage, I had a scan on 23rd March as I was still testing positive 3 weeks after surgery (although all bleeding had stopped and no period since) and that scan showed I was ovulating. So I’m now waiting for a period.

Hope this helps? I think I’m trying to say you will likely ovulate before your next “real” period x

No experience with tranexemic but I've just come off the combined pill mid march, I had a breakthrough bleed within a couple of days and I have just now ovulated on what would be cycle day 16 as I always have done pre-pill cycles.

I know most NHS advice is to wait to TTC until after you're first natural period as it's easier then date your pregnancy but if your cycle returns to 'normal' straight away there's no reason why you can't try straight away.

Your uterus walls thicken to accept the egg if it's been fertilized, if is hasn't been then the lining of your walls shred = period ☺️

Thank you! I was on the combined pill.
I have been reading all sorts this weekend and I think the nurse will be incorrect with her theory of if I’m having a longer bleed because of tranexemic acid, I will ovulate at the end of the bleed. I think it’s more I will have a gap after bleeding then ovulate as i usually have 21 days before I get a period again; so where my usual cycle would be 28 days - 7 days period, 21 days for everything else pre tranexemic acid usage, my bleeding window is longer but everything else is the same.
I think. As I say, DD was obviously more luck than planning.

I think you’re right - the medication surely has an effect on your whole cycle, so all the time you’re having a period and bleeding, your body probably isn’t geared up to ovulate straight after? X

@CupidStunt24 it has to doesn’t it; I mean, if you have a regular 5-7 day period, you don’t ovulate straight away, biology isn’t my strong point but the reproductive system obviously does something in the days between period and ovulate; I doubt it would just skip what ever it does in those days even after an extended due to medication period.

My thoughts exactly! Your body surely has to prepare to ovulate, and I’m not sure that would happen whilst you’re on a period, hence there usually always being a gap between period & ovulation, medication or no medication. Either way your body can get back into a cycle very quickly after the pill, I’ve come off the pill twice and very quickly either fell into a cycle or fell pregnant! So hopefully you should have some predictability soon x