Trying to Conceive Baby#1 after stopping desogeatral .. anyone else??

[Minnierose11]

Have been on the pill for years, since a teenager. I stopped in 2020 as planned to start TTC conceive after wedding but ended up postponing due to covid (twice) was previously on microgynon but was put back into desogeatral second time round (due to age apparently) now 30.
I stopped by pill on May 4th, had my withdrawal bleed on may 7th which lasted a few days and was very light. Then got my first period on May 22nd which lasted 5 days. Medium flow.
I've been tracking with easy@home ovulation strips since the day after my period, which I got a clear second line... since then though, it's virtually been non existent to not even there! I'll attach a photo below...

Just looking for anyone else on this journey, or who's a bit further on who could share some experiences with me. Feel like I'm beating myself up... feeling like my body isn't functioning properly!

Test photos below

Hey @Minnierose11 i was on microgynon for years and then they switched me to cerazette which is degestrol as i approached 30s too! Came off it to have my daughter n fell within 2 weeks no withdrawl bleed no period it was that instant. Went on it again after havin my daughter and just stopped it in feb there again to ttc #2 and its been polar opposite started to surge a week after stopping pill thot amazinnnn! Nope done the whole tww nothing. Waited further 2 weeks an then comes another surge so skipped a whole period in between!! Finally got my period and now ive learnt my cycles are pretty reg always peak on cd14 and ov cd15 and 13 day leutal phase. Sorry if thats not wat u wana hear at this time of uncertainty about wat ur body is doin but there are 2 examples of how it really can go one way and then the complete opposite! Its so frustrating. U are testin at right times it jus takes the body a while to adjust i think in comin off the pill! Keep testing n dtd every other day just incase and fingers crossed for you xxx

@Freya8 thank you for taking the time to reply to me freya.

Hopefully then, next month I'll see a little normality. I am currently cycle day 14 and still testing super low, I'm hopeful I may see a peak this month but if not I'm praying it levels itself out next month. Do you use the easy@home strips also, or an alternative brand? I've always been using the Premom app for I can document everything and track my patterns, when there becomes one haha!

Amazing how quickly you got pregnant though! And I'm hopeful you'll achieve the same again very soon! Have you been taking any prenatal vitamins? I went to buy folic acid and my pharmacist recommend the pregncare conception him and her tablets, so I've brought some and been taking them all this cycle but I've always read really negative reviews. So I'm doubtful weather I should or shouldn't.

Hey yeh i started pregnacare at very start and then stopped and im just on folic acid at the min and it was simply as i read it can alter cycles!! I abso love the premom app and scannin the easy at home strips in to see wat level lol i think im actually addicted to that!!! Awh i really hope yours levels out sooner than later as ttc is such whirlwind of emotions as is!! Last cycle i had a chemical unfort but was lucky my cycle stayed on track! 13dpo today n due af started spottin earlier so i think im pretty much out again but sure onwards n upwards xx

@Freya8 still testing super low this morning, 0.2 haha! It's so disheartening, even though I know it shouldn't be, just convincing myself their is something wrong with my body. I genuinely thought I'd come off the pill and it would all just swing back into action, if I see nothing this month, and my period comes in just hopeful that next month I do! Otherwise I can see this is going to drive me a little crazy

I keep getting lower abdominal pain, which felt almost similar to period pains on and off all week so I thought maybe it may have been ovulation coming on, but nothing.

I wish they taught us all about this stuff properly in school! I never really understood much about a women's cycle until now and it's so much more complex than I could or imagined!

Sorry to hear AF is arriving! But at least it means your a few days closer to being able to start again!