Ok, so hubby and I have decided to add to the family. Our son is almost 20 months old, and we had no trouble last time. I stopped taking the pill near the end of April, and we started counting days (caveman-style fertility planning).
Now, I am totally irregular! For the first time ever! The last time I came off the pill, I was as regular as clockwork, and had no problem getting pregnant. I am now having a full-on period every two weeks or so! Just when I think it’s time to ovulate, I have a period. What is going on?!?
Any experience with this? I know that I COULD call my OB/GYN, but why bother when I can get my medical information from the teeming millions (who just play doctor in their spare time)?
This is really pissing me off, as I started another one last night…
You’re really going to have to give it more time. You’ve only been off the Pill for less than two full months! It’s great that you were still regular the last time you went off pills, but generally speaking, it takes a while longer for most women to become regular again. From the Planned Parenthood website:
Sounds like you would benefit from waiting for your body to resume its normal functions so that you’ll be able to time things a little better. Good luck!
I, too, am currently trying to get pregnant. I went off the pill in Dec. 2000, and my Gyn at the time told me that it can take up to 6 months for your body to get back to its own cycle. My period has been irregular also- a couple months ago it was 3 weeks late & I thought I was pregnant. I was only late like that once before, in high school (BIG panic then). Last month it was 2 weeks late.
I would recommend the book ‘Taking Charge of Your Fertility’ by Toni Weschler (sp?). In it, she details different ways to find out when you’re ovulating (temperature, vaginal fluid, cervical changes) and how to keep track of them. It’s an eye-opening book, and very informative. Good Luck!
First of all I’m not any kind of medically trained person. However, I did go through years of infertility treatment. So, that said, my recommendation is for you to call your OBGYN now. The reason for this is because it sounds like you’re not having real periods. (What’s that called…anovulatory bleeding, I think) When I did that my OBGYN had me take progesterone for 14 days so that my body would think that I did ovulate and then it would try to get on cycles. (BTW, he told me “never go off the pill without consulting your dr. first. Then you know what to do.”)
Or you could just wait out the whole three months and see what happens, but personally I wouldn’t want to be bleeding that much.
Thanks girls, I appreciate it. I don’t why I am still surprised that my body is COMPLETELY different now that I’ve had a child. As if having a completely different life wasn’t enough…
Good luck moggy, will this be your first? Or have you been on this thrill ride already and just want more?
I have probably heard no less than a dozen independent recommendations of the very book moggy is recommending. I haven’t read it, but it’s gotten so I pass the recommendation on regardless.
I’m having the problem of skipped or late periods. The Gyn told me I have something called PolyCystic Ovaries. Since I can’t take the pill as it interacts with some of my other meds, I just have to wait and see if it will show up. If not, I have to take hormomes to make myself have a period. I had one normally this month, and oh THE PAIN!!!
My fiance and I have agreed we are not going to have kids (combination of a lot of factors: my medical problems and our propensity to plan things spur of the moment being the main ones). The tubes are going to get tied eventually.
Ever since our first child was born, Mrs. Mojo has practically never had a regular period. Well, our youngest was born 8½ years ago, and recently it’s been becoming close to regular. Mrs. Mojo has never used The Pill. She’s gotten so used to irregular periods that the other month when she actually got a regular period, she worried something was wrong!
