Irregular Cycle Sisters

[HotChillies]

Hey,

I am on CD 90 and I do not feel anything. There was a stressful event in May and after that my body just refused to move on I guess. My doctor was confused whether I have hormonal imbalance ot whether I have an endocronological prb. My gynac's answer to all prbs is clomid.
My acupuncturist says that taking the pill/ patch messes up with your brain. Your body gets used to external hormones and is not able to start by itself when it goes back to not taking the pill. It takes the body a while to self-start. Sometimes even upto a year. To add to that stress affects me very easily.
I read about herbs but I did not want to medicate myself.
Yesterday was my 2nd session of acupuncutre. I sleep lightly during the sessions. I feel very relaxed and I look very tired after the sessions. I feel a lot of movement in my stomach today. The herbs come in later. I am going again on Saturday. Will keep you all posted.

Lotsa love and baby dust to all.

 

[redhead31]

Hi Ladies! I too have irregular cycles. TTC 2 years, my shortest cylce was 12 days and my longest over 90 days. The doc had me take provera to induce the next cycle where I took clomid. Clomid does seem to help make the cycle 28 days at least. I did get pregnant after my second round of clomid and had a very early MC. Tried clomid a few more times but no BFP. On a break now, thinking of trying clomid again in a few months. Was kind of hoping it would just happen durring this break but so far no luck. Currently on cd 40. I had some EWCM on day 24 and was hoping for the O, but so far I have tested and all BFN.

Good luck to you all!

Hey everyone, glad to see this thread is still keeping going - we girls need to stick together!!

Kristy - I know what you mean about the clomid - it is great for getting you to a regular cycle. However, I was worried what would happen once I have to come off it - will I just go back to my constant bleeding and no ovulation!! If you are on CD40 it sounds like your body has just reverted back to how it was before the clomid.

Hotchillies - interesting to hear about the acupuncture, it sound really relaxing. It's interesting what he says about the pill/external hormones messing up your system - I seem to live on hormone tablets, every month I'm on ones to stop my spotting, ones to get a period started and then clomid to try and get me to ovulate - basically I think I'm stuffed!! Hmmm if this clomid doesn't produce any results I think I will give acupuncture a go.

Mari - we are totally with you at least you get something that is like a cycle. For the last two years I've had fairly heavy spotting every day, no ovulation, no period, just constant bleeding. It does make me angry that so many women seem to suffer from really irregular periods and yet doctors dont seem to have a clue what its all about.

Aries - I know what you mean, they don't want to know unless you have got at least a year (for me it was 18 months) of TTC under your belt.

Good luck everyone xx

 

[trying4no.1]

finally! lol! not been on here since 1st june as my laptop wouldn't load the site

i am currently on CD59, getting fed up! was told when i had my op in nov 09 i would have "normal" cycles, the last few i have had were 35, 40, 45, 50 and currently 59!

roll on my next appt with the hospital at the end of october!

 

[Sparklegirl]

hey ladies i have been bleeding & spotting since the 16th July, i really dnt wont to go to the Dr. again coz he will go on about my weight again (bmi 40), not sure what to do :

 

[WhisperOfHope]

could i please join you ladys on day 88 of my cycle now

 

[sugarcrystal8]

Hi everyone! Newbie here! TTC #1, I'm 37 years old and have had an irregular cycle for years and years. Was averaging about 4-6 periods per year and finally last January 09 I was at 60 days pretty regularly with acupuncture and herbs. Then in August 09 I was hit with kidney stones and am back to crazy irregular cycles.

I am graduating in April with my master's in acupuncture, so now I'm back to seeing my own acupuncturist to focus again on regulating my menstrual cycle since the past year has been focused on getting me off my meds for hypothyroidism, which I now have no need for! yay!

We've been trying since last August when we stopped using protection, but we just kind of let it go to see what would happen. Yeah, nothing happened and now we're really trying. I just started doing my BBT chart last week and tomorrow I will start using OPK's. I just need to figure out what my body is doing. I'm so glad to see others here with really irregular cycles too!

 

[HotChillies]

Hi sugarcrystal8:
Interesting. I have just started acupuncture. It has been only 3 sessions. No herbs yet. My case is similar to yours. I am on CD 90 and seem to have some PMS. I have been TTC for 2 months.
Earlier, my doctor had put me on hypothyroid medicines (though I was not clearly hypothyroid from test results etc.) because it helped to make my cycles regular. I was worried about that. Because that again is external hormones. (Read my earlier post about doctors & medicines). I am pay
ing through my nose for the acupuncture. I hope it helps.

 

[HotChillies]

Has anybody tried any fertility cleanse kit etc?
https://natural-fertility-info.com/prepare-for-conception

This sounds like a propaganda. Wonder how much truth there is to this.

 

[sugarcrystal8]

Luckily I'm still a student, so I get treatments at our own clinic for $20, but I know fertility specialists that charge more than $100 a visit. I worked 2 semesters ago as an intern on a womens health & infertility shift and saw all kinds of issues. Remember that every person is different and each person responds differently to treatment. I hope it works for you. I have seen great results in practice. My sister in law is 12 weeks pregnant after a year and a half of trying and she went once a week for 12 weeks for treatments and herbs. Good Luck!

Okay, question, I just got my OPK's in the mail today and I was reading here that people test twice a day. Is that necessary? It's my understanding that a positive test means you'll ovulate within 24-36 hours, so why do I need to test twice a day? I bought a pack of 60, but that'll only last a month if I need to do this twice a day. I'm excited to use these and just want to know what's best for me!

 

[kristyny02]

redhead- I have heard about the soy isoflavones and have been giving it some thought. I can tell my body is trying to O but cant quite get there! I get EWCM, cramps, sore boobs, but not +opk! Dr said we can talk about clomid in January (after 1 year). Im not sure if I would be a candidate though. I feel I have low estrogen maybe??

Best of Luck Ladies!

Once my OB/Gyn discovered I was not ovulating she ran some test and we started treatment with clomid. I think I was off BC for 6 months. She said that they like to see 1 year of ttc before treatment unless there is an obvious problem, like lack of ovulation or irregular cycles. So maybe you can talk to your doctor again and move forward????

 

[HotChillies]

I use these cheap tests I find online on Amazon for both the Ovulation prediction and the pregnancy test. They are sold by Formosa Medicals and some other companies. They are pretty good and accurate. A lot of women on cafemom.org forum use these. They have pictures of BFPs posted on the forum. They recommended these to me.

Hope that helps.

 

[Aries28]

Hello irregular cycle sisters! Hope all of you are having some progress with your long cycles! I thought I may have been but not sure what happened. Had a few days that I thought had a positive OPK ( line was as dark as control) but now seems to be decreasing. Havent confirmed temp shift though. I assume it is possible to have more then one LH surge in a cycle. I feel like my body was trying to O (all the signs were there) but didnt quite make it . What is going on with my body is beyond me! Anybody confirmed O yet this month? If so, when are you going to test? it would be great if at least one of us got our this month! to you all!

 

[sugarcrystal8]

I'm testing everyday but just started this week, so we'll see how it goes. Also taking temp daily. I too would like to know if it's possible to have a surge more than once in an irregular cycle?

Also started taking Maca (along with the hubby) and Vitex. I did some research and hope that it will help regulate my menses. We'll see how that goes too.

 

[redhead31]

Hey girls, well I'm out for this month, AF got me this morning - so hotchillies I think I will try acupuncuture this month. I've only got two months left on the clomid and then I know my body will go back to the weeks and weeks of spotting and no ovulation that I usually have to endure.

Good luck everyone - I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we get a on this thread soon

 

[Shey]

Still no sign of AF for me. 4 days late

 

[WhisperOfHope]

hey ladies getting very depressed this cycle have ended up taking parsley tea and vit c again to try bring witch on but also taking agnus castus to try bring on ov if i havent ovd yet i really do need to cut my stress out of my life

 

[dandybrush]

:wave: shey

just found this group...can I join??

im currently on CD84 or something and waiting on blood test results to see whats going on with me, my cycles suck!!

 

[ACCmummyof2]

hi i would like to join as well please, my cylces are all over the place from 169 days to 54 days
i just tryed vitex and it cut it down to 54 days but now going to try cloimd this month (af came 3 days ago)

 

[Aries28]

Hey girls! I was wondering if any of you have determined why you have long cycles? It is PCOS? Ur natural cycle? Other hormone imbalances? I was on BCP for so long but I think it was just masking my true cycles..which are very long.

 

[Shey]

Aries my cycle is irregular cause after I had my son 2 yrs ago it just never went back to normal