looking for input/similar experience

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Registered: 06-24-2003
looking for input/similar experience
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 12:51am
For women that were on bcp, how long did it take for your system to regulate itself?

I'm starting to panic. I've been off the pill for over 3 mos. now. I didn't start temping until my August cycle. Then I O'd cd19 and got AF on cd 29. The cycle before that was 33 days long. Now, with this past cycle, I O'd on cd23 and got AF cd 34. My LP is appearently 10-11 days long. According to FF, I can O any time between October 9 - 14. That's good except for the fact, that I thought DH was returning around the 8th, but now I hear it's not until the 10th. That's what is freaking me out.

I have had 3 cycles since going off the pill. Average is 31 days. Should I go by that or what? If a baby doesn't happen this cycle, then we're out of the game until next April :(

I guess I'm just looking for encouragement or something. I was so confident when AF showed that we stood a chance at having a July baby. Now I'm having major doubts.

Erika

Erika

mom to Michael, Allison, Alexander and

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Registered: 06-17-2003
Tue, 09-23-2003 - 2:01am
Hey

I cant sleep and was just checking on the message i posted earlier and saw uwere up to, i know how u feel except i came off the Depo-Provera shot almost 2 years ago!! its a very frustrating process for me and DH, we are starting to think its possible he may not have a very high sperm count and we are praying thats not it! about my only adice to you is to relax and let naturetake its course ( i know thats the last thing u wanna hear) people tell me that all the time and i want to tell them to stuff it but it took me 18 months to get pg before so im trying to relax ( yeah right ) and let it happen if its going too, i hope u feel better and many hugs nad lots of luck! i dont know if i will get in trouble for leaving my email adress for u to talk if u ever need to, im kinda there with ya, jigglybutton@hotmail.com ( i hope thats not spam) :s sorry if it is but i hope u feel better.
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Registered: 08-18-2003
Tue, 09-23-2003 - 7:53am
Hi!

We're currently TTC #2, and am in the middle of my second cycle off BCP. It took AF 35 days to arrive the first month off; I am now on CD 21. I never got a clear + OPK, but I feel like I may have been using them wrong, and I think I may have O'd around CD 15-16. I had O like pains, and have had sore bbs since then.

As for encouragement, when I got pg with DS, it took 2 months of trying after AF arrived when I went off BCP. We were in the same predicament as you --- due to timing, if we didn't conceive the month we did, we would have had to wait a 5 months or so. But 9 months later we had a little boy in our arms!

I know it's frustrating. Just syart a majpor BD fest when DH returns and hpefully this will be your month!

GL,

Dana

TTC #2, C2, CD21, 5-6dpo

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Registered: 08-28-2003
Tue, 09-23-2003 - 9:17am
Hi, I'm new here but thought I'd throw in my two cents - when I came off the pill trying to conceive our second child I was convinced I had secondary infertility. We tried for four or five months and then quit because so much was going on in our lives right then that the timing was awful. I didn't go back on the pill but we used protection and then tried again a couple of months later and I got pregnant on the first cycle. I just think it takes a bit of time for your body to adjust, and I'm sure it depends on which pill you were on and on yourself individually, so I don't mean this to be discouraging, but just to say - keep your chin up! I was terribly frustrated as I'm sure you are, but it all worked out in the end : )

Kristin

TTC#3 (too new to know any other lingo to help identify myself here : )

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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 9:59am
Thank you ladies for your advice. I do feel a bit better. I though about my first cycle off bcp, and it was 33 days long. So that means I've had 3 cycles with 33 days and only 1 with 29 days. That gives me hope that this one will be around 31, which would be perfect. Best of luck to you all and sending us a ton of baby dust(a bunch of people around here are pg so I'll just take a bit of their dust and send the rest to you...lol!)

Erika

Erika

mom to Michael, Allison, Alexander and