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TTC After Birth Control
Did you recently -- or some time ago -- come off birth control to TTC? What birth control were you using? Have your periods/cycles returned to your normal? Are you waiting a few months, or trying right away?

Really stressing out!

Posted by: KM85 on Fri Apr 8, 2011
Hi everyone

This is my first post on this site.. it's reassuring reading other people's comments but nevertheless I'm quite stressed out.

I'm 26 now - I was on the pill for about 1yr 8months after I got married. Prior to that I used to have a period roughly every 35 days so regular in my own way. I also used to have sore boobs, feel a bit down and get a bit spot on my chin the week before my period was due!

I came off the pill in June last year as I knew it would take some time to get back to normal and that I should have a few cycles before we start TTC. I had period exactly 28 days (17th July) after I stopped the pill and then the next one came about 35 days later (21st Aug at which point I thought boy that was quick, I've gotten back to normal already). Then I didn't have one until 4th October (44 days later). After that I had no real periods, spotting on 16th Nov then again on 23rd Nov for a week. Then spotting on 11th Dec for a week and 17th Jan for a week. In the meantime I had been using OPKs which always told me I wasn't ovulating. So I saw the doctor who ran blood tests and told me everything looked normal except for my progesterone which was a bit high. I also never had any of the previous PMS symptoms I used to get prior to the pill.

After this I spoke to my homeopath about it ( I had been seeing her for my allergies and asthma) and she gave me a remedy to take. I took this on 10th Feb and ovulated later that day and started my period on 13th Feb.

Since this I have had nothing and I am now on CD54. It has been 13 days since my husband and I last 'tried' but apart from headaches I have had no symptoms or signs of my period coming nor of feeling pregnant. I have taken a couple of HPT and they have been negative. I don't really know when the right time to take them is as my periods have not been regular but this has been the longest I have gone without some sort of bleeding since being off the pill.
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