hi! i've made the huge mistake to go onto hormonal contraceptives (tried two different mini pills) four months ago (Nov'07). From day one got very bad side effects, possibly because of interaction with my thyroid medication, which i take to control my hypoothyroidism.
Anyway, because of the side effects i was taken off the minipill and now am using condoms. Since i have come off the pill (last month) I have had 2 very heavy periods with a cycle length of about 2 weeks, and i am losing lots of blood clots (size of pingpong balls) and have bad migraine at start of period.
I had been very interested to use fertility awareness method in combination with condoms for contraceptive method. But with such short cycles it is so difficult to determine fertile days. In addition to this my body temp is not really following a recognisable pattern (fluctuates a lot and no rise mid cycle, although i could very well be that these cycles are just too short...).
Was just wondering if anyone has similar experiences of irregular heavy periods, short cycles after coming off pill. I am just hoping i'll go back to normal soon (used to be very regular 27-29 days a cycle), as these short cycles make me very tired. Also wondered if there are users of fertility awareness method on here that could advise me when I could reliably depend on this method. My guess would be that i need to wait untill back to regular periods...
Any advice and suggestions welcome!