I have had Nexplanon back to back for almost 9 years now 😅 I’m 31 years old now. Thinking of taking it out in June/July and seeing what happens - our approach is very much - If we get pregnant great, if we don’t we don’t and that’s also okay. If we don’t, we won’t be pursuing the IVF route.
My period pre-contraception was always a nightmare, extremely long and just horrible and always always irregular.
While on Nexplanon, I’ve been feeling good, with no side effects at all, sometimes I have a period sometimes I don’t, sometimes is very long and sometimes is super short or just spotting, it’s very much wet finger in the air situation…
In the last couple of years I’ve been officially diagnosed with endometriosis - I had keyhole surgery done privately. I’ve seen the pictures after the procedure - it’s there, but not severe. This would explain my irregular, painful periods. I was offered a Mirena coil but I refused it. I also have a simple cyst on one of my ovaries🙄 - nothing to worry about.
I don’t know how my body will react when I take the implant out, my biggest worry is that due to how irregular my period has always been, I was never able to correctly track my cycle. I don’t expect my periods to be miraculously regular after I stop contraception.
I’m a bit lost on how to track it, should I try measuring my temperature? Should I just don’t bother with counting days and go with the flow? There is of course small chance that I will get pregnant straight away after stopping the implant, but knowing our luck (or shall I say complete lack of it ! ) that’s probably not gonna happen.