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Posted: 27 June 2008 at 11:15am | IP Logged

hello,

before i start i just want to say that i hope i do have the right forum as we are kind of trying... but as you read more you will see what i mean :)

firstly, i'm new - as you can probally tell by the amount of posts (this is the first!) me and partner are in our 20s, just about to buy our 1st house and i am a mummy to a lil monster (at times i should say, but it's probally most of the time if im being honest! haha) who was 2 in feb. i'm not with his dad no more, but of course things happen and everything happens for a reason and life is much happier right now for us all.

been with current partner since last year and we had a talk about what we wanted from our future etc etc as you do and decided that it might be an idea for me to go on the pill - before that time i had never been on the pill, had used condoms.

i was on the pop (mini) pill, my gp put me on this due to me having a stroke around 8years ago - the risks for things like strokes/blood clots is apparntly higher on the combined pill.

i took the pop pill for around a month - going to sound  strange but i felt like my body was broken when i didn't come on, i missed it - i suppose i use it as a sign that my body isn't broken when i bleed? anyway a day or 2 after stopping the pop pill i came on. i was pretty regular then and came on around the 25-27th of each month. during this month of pop pill taking, i think it made me and my partner really think about what we wanted and not just that but when. we both decided we wanted a baby together. and didn't want to wait a year or 2 to try, but when i say 'try' now i mean we carry on with our sex life as normal and if something happens it happens, if it doesn't then we get pretty gutted when my period arrives... then carry on the next month - that kind of trying. i guess we want a 'surprise' and don't want to plan everything, but mainly because if we don't really make it blatantly obvious we are trying and start charting/temping/tilting hips this that and other way and going days without sex in the lead up/making drastic diet changes/finding new mobile phone pockets etc etc etc you get the idea then somehow it wont be as disapointing because we 'wasn't really trying anyway'. kwim?

anyway i took the pop pill in around feb - for past few months since feb i have been on around the 20th of each month. quick idea: april - 23rd,may - 24th,june - still waiting to come on. i tested on the 24th and it was neg. do i test agin? as it may have been too early if i am preg to show up or do i wait? i'm kind of hoping and hoping i don't come on - but don't want to test and see a neg. again. kwim?

can it honestly take so long for you body to sort its self out? i mean i only took the pop pill for 1 month which was only 1 missed period and then i came on 2days after stopping the pop pill wich was a day or 2 after i should have been on. i don't really know what to do - feel a bit like in limbo right now. partner says period might be working it's self back to the date i was before taking pill - is that possible, as i haven't heard that can happen before?

even things like pregnancy or period symptoms i can't tell by as since i had my son every time i've been due on i've always had the symptoms i had when i was preg with him! which doesn't help in making things clearer, as you can imagine! i keep saying i'm going to ask my gp but just 'never get around to it'.

any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. thank you.

xXx

Posted: 27 June 2008 at 1:44pm | IP Logged

Hi hun

Welcome to the site.....

I've been on a couple of pills but not heard of the pop pill..... (unless your refering to popping one in your mouth and swallow?). As far as i know it all depends on how long you've been on it as to how quickly it works it's way out of your system.... it can take upto 6mths.

You also from the sounds of it have had a stressful and hectic few weeks/mths moving etc, if i'm right these too can affect your cycle..... I'd personally try and leave it another couple of weeks and then if nothing i'd do a test for peace of mind.... but it could be your body returning to normal and trying to find it's own clock and time to work too.

Good luck with the bedroom dancing and i hope you get a bfp soon.

(also hope spd stays at bay for you this time.... )

Posted: 27 June 2008 at 3:44pm | IP Logged

heya

thank you for your reply :)

the pop pill  just means 'Progestogen Only Pill' it was called 'cerazette' (maybe i have spelt that wrong, not got packet on me here to check) - it was one of the newer pop pills.

gosh yes! spd - remembering what it was like when i typed that post earlier on was enough to make me stop and think about how i would actually cope with a toddler and being pregnant! lol! that was an awful pain.

yes stress can deffinitly do some awful things to your body but i've never been one of them people whos periods get messed up when they are stressed etc. until i started taking that pill my body had been working reguarly and fine (as far as i was aware without having medicals of course). really wish i had never took it - hate all this wondering and uncertainties. so hard to resist temptation to just go and test 'just to put my mind at ease'. we'll have to take out a 2nd mortgage at this rate just to cover pregnancy tests! haha.

xXx

Posted: 27 June 2008 at 4:57pm | IP Logged

I found that you can test too early.

While trying to conceive our 2nd child, I charted, used ovulation sticks and checked cervical mucous. I was quieltly confident that we had conceived. Two weeks later I tested and a negitive. One week later and a very distinct positive. Even though we had not BD after ovulation  (DH was travelling)

From what I understand the whole 14 days after ovulation thing is an approxamate. Some embryos are faster at getting to the womb, some sperm are slower but have a longer life span. Lets face it every body is made up slightly differently. All this can equal a false negitive.

If this is not your month... I hope next month isxxxx