anyone ttc after bcp?

[Carolina]

Hi guys! Af came a week early so i couldnt even waste some hpts My cycles are all over the place since coming of bcp (i was on yasmin) for about 8 years.
cycle 1- 27 days
cycle2- 33 days
cycle 3- 32 days (thought they were starting to regulate)
cycle 4- 24 days!!! (ive never has one this short in my life)

My bleeding this month is sooo heavy i actually cant go to work today due the fear of leaking everywhere!

This cycle and my last cycle my menses are starting out brown (which they didnt do on the bcp or my 1st 2 cycles of bcp so im hoping this is them starting o regualate.

I did opks last month and they were all neg so im assumin since ive been on bcp so long my ovulation is still supressed! Hopefully ill start ovulating this month! Anyone els in the same boat?

 

[Mrs-N]

well i came off the pill on 18 th september and now im nearly 6 weeks pregnant.

so only took 2 cycles.

 

[loopylew]

i think everyones difference hun, i'm in the same boat as you, (think i've said in a different thread), came off bcp Sept 07 first cycle 36 days , next one 26 days and i'm still waiting this one on CD30 today. How long was you on bcp?

 

[Jojo]

I'm in my first cycle since BCP, but they think I've probably got PCOS, so I don't know how likely I am to ovulate at all.

 

[Carolina]

hey loopylou i was on it for about 8 years how about u?

 

[loopylew]

i was bcp about 11 years so no hope for early bfp i don't think. Other friends who got pregnant after bcp took between 3-6mths so i think we're still in the "norm"

 

[Carolina]

yeah i think we are! I didnt even think about how long i had actually been on bcp until the other day!! My doctor prescribed me tablets for the pain and the heaviness of my periods. Your meant to start tking them 3 days before af and then for the next 3 days but now im ttc ive to take them just the 1st 3 days of my cycle. (Im waiting to see a gyno incase i have endometriosis). My mum had very heavy periods and had loads of kids so im hoping im just prone to heavy periods and its nothing else!

Maybe you will get a bfp this month! I think maybe the longer you have been on bcp the longer it may take for cycles to regualte. I read on a site that people who have only been on it for 1-2 years tend to regulate very quickly. So maybe it will take us a bit longer!

 

[loopylew]

yeah thats what i was expecting, DH keeps telling me not to worry. When your ttc to concieve you want to straight away despite everything you know/read about about affects of bcp on ovulation.
Hopefully gyno will sort you out, mine are definately lighter now. Is that why you were prescribed bcp in the first place? suppose your dr would know that from your records. I can't remember periods 4 bcp it was that long ago.

 

[Carolina]

hi jojo! let us know how you get on, you never know you might get pregnant in your first omnth off bcp...it does happen.How do you find out if you have pcos or not do you have to have surgery?

loopy- yeah thats why i went on bcp in the first place but it was more for the pain than heaviness. I know they were heavy before but i was about 16/17 then and i really cant remember if they were this heavy or not! Ive been on 3 differetn brands of bcp i was never really happy with any of them!

 

[loopylew]

I've was on the same pill for 11 years, my body must just think its part of me and will feel like its losing a limb gettign rid of it all, lol.
have you got any better throughout the day? I'm off work this week, taking my Mum to LOndon at the w'end, you just know AF will show then just to be a pain !!

 

[dakini]

I was on BCP for about 13.5 years...only on cycle 3 so we'll see.

I know a friend of mine got pg the second cycle off BCP, but she was only on for 4-5 years? Maybe a little less.

And it really doesn't take long for BCP to get out of your system...really doctors want you to wait 3 months so that they can tell better when you conceived! But BFPs can happen quickly.

I hope you both get your BFPs soon! I know that my cycle is a few days off this cycle, so we'll see what happens next cycle (though I'm hoping I won't find out for about 9 months...)

 

[loopylew]

must be the time of year for cycles to go a it iffy. good luck