Post-pill irregular cycles support thread!!

[Reba]

EWCM does not mean that you are for sure ovulating... my body loves to produce EWCM and then not ovulate.

Prenatal vitamins are great to be taking. Good on your DH for also taking some vitamins.

The irregular cycle length could be due to the pill or it could be PCOS or any number of other things.

I'd recommend taking your basal body temperature (BBT) a great site for that can be found in my signature. Fertility Friend. Click on my chart with CD22 or whatever and it'll take you there. Feel free to check out my charts too they might be helpful.

Welcome and hope you get some answers soon!!

 

[dodgercpkl]

EWCM does not mean that you are for sure ovulating... my body loves to produce EWCM and then not ovulate.

Prenatal vitamins are great to be taking. Good on your DH for also taking some vitamins.

The irregular cycle length could be due to the pill or it could be PCOS or any number of other things.

I'd recommend taking your basal body temperature (BBT) a great site for that can be found in my signature. Fertility Friend. Click on my chart with CD22 or whatever and it'll take you there. Feel free to check out my charts too they might be helpful.

Welcome and hope you get some answers soon!!

Agreed on all of this although I'm lucky and my body only seems to produce EWCM when I'm ovulating or close to it.

I heartily agree on the temping. It's what's really helped to show me that I started ovulating (I wasn't for well over a year).

Going off the pill CAN affect women for up to a year afterwards (from what I've read), whether it's very long cycles, or just irregular ones, and it can easily be causing the other issues as well. Hormones are a pretty potent thing and just a slight imbalance throws everything off kilter. As Reba says, it could also be pcos. Typically though I think most ladies that find out they have pcos after going off the pill, had irregular cycles prior to going on the pill as well.

 

[Amelia09]

Haven't posted for a while as I started a new job and was busy with that but as the title says I haven't had an af in 169 days! I'm booked to see gynae in couple of weeks but something very strange for me happened last night and I would appreciate your views,

When I wiped last night there was red slimy discharge on the paper. This happened three times last night and this morning it was brown. Sorry for the details! It's gone now but does it mean anything?? I felt as if my af was coming.

Last time we bd'd was 18 days ago - could it be implantation, am probably clutching at straws here

 

[Reba]

It could be af coming or it could be ovulation it could also be break through bleeding since you haven't had an af in 169 days no idea but I hope it's a positive sign!!!

 

[Trishg21]

How are you feeling Trish?

I'm doing much better thanks! I had my 2 week follow up today and I seem to be healing well. My doctor has assured me that I still have a good chance of conceiving (if we could just get me to ovulate!) and basically that the ovary that is still there will take over and will stimulate the eggs.

I actually think I O'd on my own last week which will be the 2nd month in a row w/o meds! (It was also the 2nd month that we've been banned from BDing though) so I am hoping that maybe my body is starting to regulate. I'm going to see a endocrinologist rather than a fertility specialist and see if we can get me regulated rather than jumping right back into fertility meds. We are a little nervous to try that stuff again.

Thank you all for all your kind words and thoughts!

 

[MrsReiver]

AF arrived again this morning.

Beginning to put things together and form an idea of my own of what might be going on. My luteal phase is generally between 10 or 11 days and I have had pink watery spotting 4 days before the witch in every cycle since the m/c. So this all points to a luteal phase defect caused by low progesterone, which can be a contributing factor in early miscarriages - it also fits with my blood tests last March which showed my progesterone levels were low. Made a GP's appointment with my favourite GP next Friday and will go to see her clutching the information I've found. Fortunately I know she will read it and listen to my opinion!

Trish I am so glad to hear from you, and you are sounding really positive with a clear plan of action. When do you see the endo? All the best xx

 

[Reba]

to all
Thanks for the update Trish
Sorry to hear Fluffette I hope you get some answers soon

 

[luvmykids0810]

Hey ladies. I was on the pill in november, and stopped mid pack in december. Af showed 12/10/11 i didnt O til CD31. Today i started af all on my own which would make me have a 49 day cycle. Im not charting or using opks this cycle. Im going to let whatever happens happen. Dh is a sex machine anyway so if we hit that eggy we hit it. Ive had several ttc readings and they all said a baby this yr. So if its meant to be so be it. I just wanted to introduce myself and say hello.

 

[struth]

Trish - so glad to hear from you and to hear that you are feeling more positive than you were. My thoughts are with you and I hope that you continue to recover well and that those ovulations continue when you are no longer banned!

Fluffette - sorry to hear that AF got you again. I hope that your dr listens and sorts something out for you. What are you hoping to come away with? Just as a bit of encouragement - I spotted from 7/8dpo every cycle but managed to conceive three times. It IS possible honey

 

[Amelia09]

It could be af coming or it could be ovulation it could also be break through bleeding since you haven't had an af in 169 days no idea but I hope it's a positive sign!!!

Hi still no af. I gave in an test but surprise surprise BFN. Not shocked really, I hope it a good sign that my af is starting to come on again. I've app with gynae in two weeks time (waiting for 3 months), I'm afraid that they'll do nothing. All they told me to bring was a urine sample, no mention of scans. Does anyone think they'll do anything examination wise?? Would love to know what to expect

 

[MrsReiver]

Fluffette - sorry to hear that AF got you again. I hope that your dr listens and sorts something out for you. What are you hoping to come away with? Just as a bit of encouragement - I spotted from 7/8dpo every cycle but managed to conceive three times. It IS possible honey

Aww thank you - that does give me hope.

As for what I want out the GP's appointment, when we saw her after the mc and talked about my cycle she told us that if it carried on at 5 weeks at a time we were to go back. I'm not sure what help she's going to give us - but she seemed positive that my cycle could be whipped into behaving pretty easily. I am really really lucky to have such a lovely, understanding GP - I can imagine not all docs would refer to gynae simply for having a 5 week cycle or a short luteal phase. I imagine the first step would be to repeat the blood work I had done in March to find out if my progesterone levels have remained low.

 

[MrsReiver]

Awesome appointment with my simply wonderful GP. She agrees that my symptoms suggest low levels of progesterone so I have an appointment in 2 weeks to have blood taken and have to have it taken again 7 days after that. Hopefully the hormones will inform us whether I am "ovulating convincingly" which made me chuckle!

Keeping up the walking - am walking from our house to my husband's work 4 miles away 3 times a week arriving just in time for him to give me a lift back. That's got to be helping.

I feel so positive about things today, long may this feeling continue.

 

[Reba]

yay glad you had a good appt - hope you can get some help after the progesterone tests come back!

 

[Heidi]

:wave: Hey ladies hope your all doing ok.
I've just had a 104 days cycle! so glad to be back on a fresh cycle now!

Hope to see lots of BFP in this thread this year

 

[Trishg21]

Awesome appointment with my simply wonderful GP. She agrees that my symptoms suggest low levels of progesterone so I have an appointment in 2 weeks to have blood taken and have to have it taken again 7 days after that. Hopefully the hormones will inform us whether I am "ovulating convincingly" which made me chuckle!

Keeping up the walking - am walking from our house to my husband's work 4 miles away 3 times a week arriving just in time for him to give me a lift back. That's got to be helping.

I feel so positive about things today, long may this feeling continue.

Glad you are feeling so good! Hopefully they can get those hormones under control for you!

:wave: Hey ladies hope your all doing ok.
I've just had a 104 days cycle! so glad to be back on a fresh cycle now!

Hope to see lots of BFP in this thread this year

Congrats! I know that feeling is a huge weight off your shoulders.

 

[Reba]

On to another cycle for me. OMG a natural cycle only my second in 9 months!! I even have a confirmed ovulation. It's just too bad I have to wait on TTC now until I've had surgery

 

[Amelia09]

:wave: Hey ladies hope your all doing ok.
I've just had a 104 days cycle! so glad to be back on a fresh cycle now!

Hope to see lots of BFP in this thread this year

Hi am currently on 181!!!!

 

[Amelia09]

Hi I've finally my appointment with a gynae dr on Tuesday (waiting for over 3 months), I petrified that she'll do nothing and just tell me to wait a year...we've been ttc since august I came off the pill and bleed a few days later. I am now on 181 and still no af. however last Tues when I wiped on three different occasions there was some blood on the tissue. I actually felt like I was getting my af and then it went again. Does that count as an af?? Am soooooooo fed up with the whole thing.

I have to take a urine sample with me and that it. I'm hoping they'll give me some med to help bring on af, as you can't get your 21 day bloods done without af?? right??

Say a prayer for me, I just hope they'll do something.

 

[struth]

Awesome appointment with my simply wonderful GP. She agrees that my symptoms suggest low levels of progesterone so I have an appointment in 2 weeks to have blood taken and have to have it taken again 7 days after that. Hopefully the hormones will inform us whether I am "ovulating convincingly" which made me chuckle!

Keeping up the walking - am walking from our house to my husband's work 4 miles away 3 times a week arriving just in time for him to give me a lift back. That's got to be helping.

I feel so positive about things today, long may this feeling continue.

Glad the appointment went well and that you are feeling positive. Bring on those tests and some progesterone!! Keep us posted as to how the tests go x

:wave: Hey ladies hope your all doing ok.
I've just had a 104 days cycle! so glad to be back on a fresh cycle now!

Hope to see lots of BFP in this thread this year

It feels good to get back to CD1 doesn't it? I hope your cycle is much shorter this time x

On to another cycle for me. OMG a natural cycle only my second in 9 months!! I even have a confirmed ovulation. It's just too bad I have to wait on TTC now until I've had surgery

love it x

Hi I've finally my appointment with a gynae dr on Tuesday (waiting for over 3 months), I petrified that she'll do nothing and just tell me to wait a year...we've been ttc since august I came off the pill and bleed a few days later. I am now on 181 and still no af. however last Tues when I wiped on three different occasions there was some blood on the tissue. I actually felt like I was getting my af and then it went again. Does that count as an af?? Am soooooooo fed up with the whole thing.

I have to take a urine sample with me and that it. I'm hoping they'll give me some med to help bring on af, as you can't get your 21 day bloods done without af?? right??

Say a prayer for me, I just hope they'll do something.

GL - I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. Let us know how you got on. I wonder whether your spotting was ovulation (some ladies do spot at ovulation) or perhaps it was break through bleeding? I would think that the gynae has to take notice with such a long cycle. Let us know how you get on x

 

[Amelia09]

Thank you for replying , looking forward to getting tomorrow over with and hoping some news to help me progress.