What were your cycle lengths after stopping birth control PILL???

[Wannabeam]

Hi girls

I stopped Yasmin mid april 2011. Since then my cycles have been: 28 days, 31 days, 39 days and 34 days.

I am asking because I wondered if your cycles are meant to get longer then shorter as they finally sort themselves out. After my mega long 39 day cycle I was happy to finally get a 34 day cycle and thought 'OK so maybe now my cycles will always be between 30 and 35 days long'.

Trouble is now I'm on cycle day 38 again with bfn's and no AF in sight.

Just wanted to do some research to see if it's possible I will get AF or if I really have sailed straight passed my AF due date without even realising it.

Thanks

 

[StarryEyed88]

Hello,

I know exactly how u feel. After stopping bc my first cycle was five weeks, 6 weeks, 6 weeks 2 days and now my current cycle I am up to 6 weeks five days and no Af in sight. It is so frustrating. I have no idea when I ovulate because it varies so much. I wish cycles were getting shorter but in fact they are getting longer. So frustrating.

 

[taylorxx]

My cycles after my withdrawal bleed were 30 (chemical), 62, (started soy isoflavones & chemical still oved late though)48, 31, 30 xx

 

[Wannabeam]

Hello,

I know exactly how u feel. After stopping bc my first cycle was five weeks, 6 weeks, 6 weeks 2 days and now my current cycle I am up to 6 weeks five days and no Af in sight. It is so frustrating. I have no idea when I ovulate because it varies so much. I wish cycles were getting shorter but in fact they are getting longer. So frustrating.

Thanks hun

Frustrating is definatley the word for it lol! And the whole ovulation thing is insane. As soon as I think I have a good idea of when I might ovulate (and I always spread my fertile period over two weeks just incase) I get it wrong EVERY cylce because my cycle decides to play games with me!!!! I will never touch the birth control pill again in my life!!!! It has ruined my cycles and made me feel blind as a bat on our tcc journey! I really hope I'm wrong this cycle and that I am indeed preggo, if not then can come stay with me for afew days then I NEVER want to see her again... not for at least 9 months anyway lol!

 

[taylorxx]

Hello,

I know exactly how u feel. After stopping bc my first cycle was five weeks, 6 weeks, 6 weeks 2 days and now my current cycle I am up to 6 weeks five days and no Af in sight. It is so frustrating. I have no idea when I ovulate because it varies so much. I wish cycles were getting shorter but in fact they are getting longer. So frustrating.

Thanks hun

Frustrating is definatley the word for it lol! And the whole ovulation thing is insane. As soon as I think I have a good idea of when I might ovulate (and I always spread my fertile period over two weeks just incase) I get it wrong EVERY cylce because my cycle decides to play games with me!!!! I will never touch the birth control pill again in my life!!!! It has ruined my cycles and made me feel blind as a bat on our tcc journey! I really hope I'm wrong this cycle and that I am indeed preggo, if not then can come stay with me for afew days then I NEVER want to see her again... not for at least 9 months anyway lol!

Have you thought about using OPKs to help you predict ov and charting bbt to confirm it? xx

 

[StarryEyed88]

Sorry if this sounds a bit silly but how do opks work?

 

[Wannabeam]

Hello,

I know exactly how u feel. After stopping bc my first cycle was five weeks, 6 weeks, 6 weeks 2 days and now my current cycle I am up to 6 weeks five days and no Af in sight. It is so frustrating. I have no idea when I ovulate because it varies so much. I wish cycles were getting shorter but in fact they are getting longer. So frustrating.

Thanks hun

Frustrating is definatley the word for it lol! And the whole ovulation thing is insane. As soon as I think I have a good idea of when I might ovulate (and I always spread my fertile period over two weeks just incase) I get it wrong EVERY cylce because my cycle decides to play games with me!!!! I will never touch the birth control pill again in my life!!!! It has ruined my cycles and made me feel blind as a bat on our tcc journey! I really hope I'm wrong this cycle and that I am indeed preggo, if not then can come stay with me for afew days then I NEVER want to see her again... not for at least 9 months anyway lol!

Have you thought about using OPKs to help you predict ov and charting bbt to confirm it? xx

Hey hun
Well I decided I would try that after 9months of tcc as thats the average time it takes for 85% of couples my age to conceive. I just make sure we BD from cycle day 16 to cycle day 25 that way whether I've ovulated or not I have covered the best days. If my cycles don't sort themselves out after a year then I will defo get some opks.

 

[Wannabeam]

Sorry if this sounds a bit silly but how do opks work?

Not sure about what the lines mean on them, think it's about a certain hormone surge you get just before you ovulate, but I know they are just like preggo tests, you dip them or pee on them.

 

[AmandaBaby]

I was on the acne pill for about 6 years and I took it continuously (skipped periods) each year I would probably have 3-4 periods because I wouldn't take the sugar pills, I would just start a new pill. I eventually went off it a year ago because I started getting really bad nausea. My doctor thinks that I may have endometriosis (strong family history). Anyway, when I went off it, it took me about 3-4 months so get an actual period. Since then, my cycles have been crazy and sometimes long. My first one was about 30 days, then about 60-70 days and since then have averaged around 45 days.

 

[Nectar]

My cycles have been crazy since BCP (Yasmin) too...check my sig. I know how frustrating it is! I guess i'm just glad to have any cycle at all after waiting 5 months for first AF. That was so tough!

I agree, not going back on the pill!

Good luck

 

[taylorxx]

140 days??!?! Omg poor you!! I was going crazy when I had a 62 day cycle, I can't imagine 140days!! That would be a great thing if we weren't ttc lol! Glad to see it's getting back to normal. Did you do anything in specific to help regulate them? xx

 

[Wannabeam]

My cycles have been crazy since BCP (Yasmin) too...check my sig. I know how frustrating it is! I guess i'm just glad to have any cycle at all after waiting 5 months for first AF. That was so tough!

I agree, not going back on the pill!

Good luck

Wow! That's the longest I have heard of so far... poor you. Bet you're glad things are getting back on track. I pretty much started my periods straight away after stopping and having a withdrawal bleed too so I should count myself as lucky.... that being said I don't kow whats going on with this cycle lol!!! Goodluck to you hun and loads of babydust.xxx

 

[Twinkie210]

I stopped using the nuvaring Jan 30th here are my cycle lengths:

#1: 28
#2: 40
#3: 34
#4: 31
#5: 54 (MC at 7 weeks)
#6: 35 (first cycle after MC so I O'd late)
#7: 18 and counting

 

[Wannabeam]

I stopped using the nuvaring Jan 30th here are my cycle lengths:

#1: 28
#2: 40
#3: 34
#4: 31
#5: 54 (MC at 7 weeks)
#6: 35 (first cycle after MC so I O'd late)
#7: 18 and counting

Thanks hun, so sorry to hear about your MC, FX for your sticky BFP xxx

 

[Nectar]

140 days??!?! Omg poor you!! I was going crazy when I had a 62 day cycle, I can't imagine 140days!! That would be a great thing if we weren't ttc lol! Glad to see it's getting back to normal. Did you do anything in specific to help regulate them? xx

Oh yeah, I was going crazy! Went I went off the pill in Feb I was really excited and thought I'd get the BFP in a month or two...but couldn't even O/get AF

I went to my GP after waiting about 3 months and she said it is totally normal and my body was just laying dormant waiting for the hormones to kick in. She did a blood test for liver, thyroid, chicken pox, rubella and just a general blood test but she said just wait.

I'm a pretty impatient person so I don't know how I did it! I was planning a trip back to GP when I got AF!

This hugely coincidental thing was, I was randomly taking OPKs during that first cycle but obviously not that often (as I didn't have 140 of them!). One night in June I was watching a tv show about pregnancy and I thought I'm going to go take an OPK. And it was positive! The one time I tested and I caught my LH surge! So of course I BD-ed a couple of times but no luck.

The next month I BD-ed at the wrong times because my cycle was so long and I thought I had O-ed already.

This month I only got in one BD the night before O (again, I was BD-ing a lot a few weeks too early). Crossing my fingers!!!

My cycles have been crazy since BCP (Yasmin) too...check my sig. I know how frustrating it is! I guess i'm just glad to have any cycle at all after waiting 5 months for first AF. That was so tough!

I agree, not going back on the pill!

Good luck

Wow! That's the longest I have heard of so far... poor you. Bet you're glad things are getting back on track. I pretty much started my periods straight away after stopping and having a withdrawal bleed too so I should count myself as lucky.... that being said I don't kow whats going on with this cycle lol!!! Goodluck to you hun and loads of babydust.xxx

Yes, thank goodness things are back on track - well sort of. I am still keen to shorten my cycle length (or even better, just get that BFP so I don't have to worry about it!). Thanks and babydust to you too!

 

[Wannabeam]

1 week late and finally arrived.

I said "What time do you call this?"

She said "If you talk to me like that I won't come at all next month!"

I said "Deal!... And make that 9 months!!!!"

So now my longest cycle is 40days!!!!

On the up side, now I know that we stopped BDing way too early as I thought I had already ovulated, and so now I know to keep going no matter what!!!! hehe!!!

 

[Nectar]

1 week late and finally arrived.

I said "What time do you call this?"

She said "If you talk to me like that I won't come at all next month!"

I said "Deal!... And make that 9 months!!!!"

So now my longest cycle is 40days!!!!

On the up side, now I know that we stopped BDing way too early as I thought I had already ovulated, and so now I know to keep going no matter what!!!! hehe!!!

Haha that is exactly what happened to me last month too with my 41 day cycle. Stopped BD too early! Thought I already O-ed. The problem I find is if you start BDing around CD11 then it is a lot of work to keep it up for weeks! You know, life just gets in the way sometimes...

What is your strategy going to be next month?

I sure hope AF remembers your deal!

 

[StarryEyed88]

1 week late and finally arrived.

I said "What time do you call this?"

She said "If you talk to me like that I won't come at all next month!"

I said "Deal!... And make that 9 months!!!!"

So now my longest cycle is 40days!!!!

On the up side, now I know that we stopped BDing way too early as I thought I had already ovulated, and so now I know to keep going no matter what!!!! hehe!!!

I am up to seven weeks 1 day now and I am having the very very very lightest bleed. Basically on when i wipe. I'm really hoping she will just hurry up and get here so we can start again.

Fingers crossed that she does stay away for the next nine months

 

[babycrazy1706]

I stopped bcp in may 2011. My cycles have been 35 then 38 then 34 days long so far.... At cycle 4 now.

 

[Wannabeam]

1 week late and finally arrived.

I said "What time do you call this?"

She said "If you talk to me like that I won't come at all next month!"

I said "Deal!... And make that 9 months!!!!"

So now my longest cycle is 40days!!!!

On the up side, now I know that we stopped BDing way too early as I thought I had already ovulated, and so now I know to keep going no matter what!!!! hehe!!!

Haha that is exactly what happened to me last month too with my 41 day cycle. Stopped BD too early! Thought I already O-ed. The problem I find is if you start BDing around CD11 then it is a lot of work to keep it up for weeks! You know, life just gets in the way sometimes...

What is your strategy going to be next month?

I sure hope AF remembers your deal!

My plan is to start on cycle day 12, BD every other day, then after cycle day 18 BD every day for a week, then have a day off, then BD everyday from cycle day 24 to 27 then back to BDing every other day untill cycle day 30. That way my tww will probably only be afew days long. Sounds abit mental I know, but I am SOOOOO fed up with missing my ovulation, that this time we will stock up on lucozade and keep going untill the end. I am not going to wait two weeks, I will just keep going untill I get my bfp or AF. It is REALLY hard to keep BDing for weeks from cycle day 11/12, but I have decided that this is the month! So we will see what happens. For once I have colour coded my calendar with highlight pens so that we can see what days are REALLY important for BDing and what days can be missed if we are too tired.

Yellow highlight= Even if the house is burning down we stay in bed BDing.
Pink highlight= We shud really BD but if a good film is on with pizza at hand I might be swayed to the latter. Green highlight= Breathe, it's a day off- hubby make some more please.

I've never paid much attention really to my cycle, just had a vague idea of when I'm fertile. But now I am reborn a tcc mad woman!!!

And to keep the romance alive we will treat each yellow highlighted day as a date and an early night. I may have to hide the tv remote, internet rooter, car keys, mobile phones and anything gadget like that lowers sperm levels lol!!!

Goodluck to you hun and loads of babydust... we will get our bfps soon!!!