Implantation bleeding or my crazy mucked up cycle?

[KeLe101]

Ok, I guess deep down I will know the answer but do you think it's possible that I have had implantation bleeding?

I thought (but am no way certain) that I ovulated last Friday-ish. We BD'd Wednesday and Friday, but I was expecting AF to arrive next Friday. But, today I have had no cramping, but I have had browny coloured discharge (sorry - tmi!!!) a bit like the stuff you (or at least me) get when AF is starting, but it has only lasted during the day and finished now. Any ideas/comments...? My heart thinks just possibly it could be implantation bleeding, but my head tells me it's my crap pill-damaged body getting ready to have yet another 3 day, brown blooded pitiful period which isn't anything like what it should be, and which just further confirms my worst fear that still, after 5 months I am not ovulating - what is wrong with me????!

Kelly xx

 

[rhian85]

i didnt want to read and run...so i want to reply, it could be an IB if u OV'd over a week ago ,but im not too sure as im still not to up on the ins/ous off TTC yet i hope its an IB for you hun and im sure some of the TTC experts will be on to help answer ur question better than i can

 

[A&J]

Like Rhian says it could be IB! as far as I can remember I am sure that it normally happens between 7-10 dpo.

 

[ejjie]

Ok, I guess deep down I will know the answer but do you think it's possible that I have had implantation bleeding?

I thought (but am no way certain) that I ovulated last Friday-ish. We BD'd Wednesday and Friday, but I was expecting AF to arrive next Friday. But, today I have had no cramping, but I have had browny coloured discharge (sorry - tmi!!!) a bit like the stuff you (or at least me) get when AF is starting, but it has only lasted during the day and finished now. Any ideas/comments...? My heart thinks just possibly it could be implantation bleeding, but my head tells me it's my crap pill-damaged body getting ready to have yet another 3 day, brown blooded pitiful period which isn't anything like what it should be, and which just further confirms my worst fear that still, after 5 months I am not ovulating - what is wrong with me????!

Kelly xx

Hon everything you've said here is how I have been feeling with my crappy cycles since coming off the pill in March...

Re your periods, a 3 day pitiful period might be what you have when you're not on the pill. Remember, periods you have on the pill (mine were 5 days medium flow) are not natural periods, they are withdrawal bleeds so they won't be the same as a proper period. Since coming off the pill mine are 3 days and pitiful too but I posted a thread on here a while back because I had the same worries as you and all the other girls were saying that 3 days light flow can be normal so don't be disheartened

What makes you think you OV last Friday, did you get pains? If you did OV there is definitely hope that this is an IB!!! If it is, you could get a faint line 2 days afterwards so you could test on Monday and find out

I know coming off the pill to crappy cycles and periods is crushing but don't feel down, this could be your month just as much as anybody else on here. This could be your 'normal' and you could have just had yourself an IB!!!

I hope it is for you and you have a bouncing baby in May xxx

 

[KeLe101]

Thanks for your replies guys.

Ellie, thanks for the points about my pitiful periods! I just don't feel like they are normal, but as you said, this could be normal for me - I certainly had the period pains to go with them last month!

I doubt I am lucky enough for this to be implantation bleeding, but I suppose there is a chance. I thought it was ovulation last Friday because I had an odd pain in my left hand side but I did also have really strange bloating and trapped wind. Leading up to Friday I also had a lot of cm.

Another strange thing which happened to me last night/this morning was I woke up at about 5:30AM and I had been dreaming that I felt sick, but when I woke up I really did feel sick which was weird. I had a couple of drinks last night but wasn't drunk so don't think that would have made me feel sick. All very strange, I put it down to hormones - I blame everything on hormones! I wish I had come off the pill much sooner.

Why is it so hard for some of us to get a bfp???!

 

[ejjie]

Frustrating isn't it. My DH really didn't want me to come off the pill any earlier because he thought that we would just get pregnant. I knew I was going to struggle after the last break I had for a year without having a period but because the chance was there he didn't want to risk it...

Next week will be 6 months TTC and 3 cycles I find it so hard not knowing when our time will be.

Do you think you will go back on the pill after? I know it's a long way off but I don't think I will, I don't want to go through this again

Your pain last Friday sounds like OV pain and yesterday's bleed could quite easily be IB, it's the right timing.... Have you got any EBAY cheapies, could you test tomorrow?

 

[KeLe101]

Hi Ellie

No period for a year, that is mad - did you not have anything at all? One of my friends who isn't ttc said she came off the pill a couple of years ago and didn't have a period for a year so she went back on the pill and is still on it now. I want to tell her to come off it because of my own experience and hearing about others, like yourself, but I don't want her to know I'm ttc.

I don't think I would go back on it again because it's really messed me up, though it is an easy form of contraception and I guess I won't know if I would have the same problems again. I really hope the pain I had was ov but I do have some cheapies so I'll do a test tomorrow if AF hasn't started. Fingers crossed!!!

Kelly

 

[xxsammyxx]

I was lucky my Af's started as soon as i stopped the pill and i fell pregnant on the second month i think (although i was not TTC but not bothered if i fell pregnant either) They can really mess up your body though. Why dont you want you friend to know you are TTC?

 

[ejjie]

When I came off the pill for a year I wasn't TTC and went to the docs to tell them something wasn't right but they sent me away until a year had passed. It worked out that I met my husband and went back on the pill so I never sorted it out. Sounds like your friend is in exactly the same situaton...

I went on a different lower strength pill after the year break and I have had some periods since but still wish I hadn't gone back on it now!!! Maybe just suggest to her she swaps to a lower strength pill to try and get her body sorted?

I understand about you not wanting her to know you are TTC. We told some of our friends and I've found it really hard since because we're always being asked about it and I never have good news. Also, if we do catch I would like to keep it a secret for 12 weeks which is hard if everybody knows you are TTC

 

[KeLe101]

The friend I am talking about is a work colleague - she is lovely, and I class her as a friend but I don't want anyone at work to know I'm ttc, particularly since I may be about to get a promotion and whilst it shouldn't make any difference, I would rather just wait until I am preg before saying anything. I did kind of point out quite strongly that the pill can't be normal and maybe all women should take breaks from it every now and then and she did seem to agree, though she's younger than me and not even thinking about having children yet so I doubt she will. I think she's been on the injection as well.

I've told my best friend but nobody else, just because I don't want to keep telling them I have no exciting news. I feel awful because my mum keeps asking me if I've come off the pill but I keep saying no. If I have no luck by Christmas, I will tell her because she'd be so supportive.

This is why I come on here, it's a great site and everyone is so supportive and helpful. I just wish there weren't so many of us having irregular cycles or no luck getting bfp's, despite having regular cycles.

 

[xxsammyxx]

Well your right in doing that.... i strongly believe it does make a difference work wise. When i was pregnant i was temping for a large company, it got to the end of the contract and they could either take me on permanently or let me go. I thought "yeah theres no way i am going to tell them im pregnant at this stage!!!" They took me on and i didnt tell them until i was 16 weeks gone (i sort of needed to by then as i was just about to start "growing" out of my normal work suits!!!) It does influence them i dont care what anyone says

 

[ejjie]

I'm the same - I'm in line for a promoton after Christmas so I'm hoping if I do catch I stay quite small until after then... It totally makes a difference

 

[rusks]

any news hun?

 

[KeLe101]

Nope, I'm afraid not - I just have brown blood, and it's only very light so I am sure it's my mucked up cycle, rather than implantation bleeding as I've had it since Saturday! I'm going to see a nurse next week and see what she thinks and if she can recommend anything to make my normal periods start again. Thanks for asking hun, I appreciate it!!