Bear with me…
Currently the mum of a 14 month old DS, breastfeeding very frequently but openly quite ‘bad’ with my pill in the sense that in a pill pack, I probably will forget a couple of times and need to follow the regime for a missed pill (ie. Take the next one, then abstain for x amount of days).
DH aware. It’s not great but struggling to get booked in for the jab (GP doesn’t offer it, GUM clinic is tricky to work around) and the coil is not an option for me at the moment. I bleed all of the time on my current pill and have tried lots of brands, so I’m doubly not happy with being on it.
As a result I take OPKs and tend to abstain if I know that I have missed a pill and I can see anything that resembles LH increase. Disclaimer- I absolutely know that this is useless and LH can be in the cycle at all times and peaks missed if I’m not doing it regularly, and it’s absolute madness. But I have tons left over from TTC and I see it as a way of using them up. I follow the missed pill protocol each time I am sloppy, so this is just anxiety and double checking I haven’t done it right.
My last missed pill was about 3 weeks ago, and I’ve had funny bleeding since. I stopped bleeding last week, and have been doing OPKs since. They have shown nothing, no increase, just a very very pale test line which shows nothing.
Until mid morning today, which was mentally going to be my last one. On an OPK, I got an absolute dye stealing, blazing positive. The one I wished for when I was TTC to signal that it was go time.
my initial worries-
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I have heard about OPKs detecting early pregnancy. I don’t know how true this is. This is a worry because I had no sign of LH increases for the last week, this just jumped to a positive today.
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We uncharacteristically have had a lot of sex in the past week, which if this is just a standard OPK peak - I am worried about. Am I too late for the morning after pill?
are these valid worries? Should I go buy Ella one OTC?
please be kind :( no need to come down like a ton of bricks on me about the weird OPK taking or missing my pill at least once a month- I will definitely go get the injection done privately once I have some clarity.