Blackroseuk
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I belong in WTT ATM but in the new year we'll be TCC for our first baby. I have written a long post in WTT before, but felt these questions would best be suited here as they are a mixture of different things.:
1.Stopping the pill.
I am currently taking the cerazatte pill and have been for a few years now since I didn't get on with microgenan(sp)?. I think thr cerezatte pill is a combined mini pill as I am taking it everyday without a break. So I want to stop it in 15 days instead of using up the last two months I got. Is this too close to TTC? I heard there are more chances of MC if you stop the pill too close to trying. Other times I read that yoire at your most fertile and so maybe I should come off it a month or even a week or so before trying? I want to catch as soon as possible but I'm scared I'll be taking any risks?
I have no idea what my cycles are what with having no period at all for eight months due to anorexia and I got them back probably about six months ago? Maybe more. But now they are irregular. People dont often get periods on this pill anyway but I pretty much always did when I was at a heavier weight. I've never been on this pill at an ideal weight for long basically. It is said to have at least two or three complete cycles once coming off the pill before you try for a baby, but if I try and catch with irregular periods will that harm the baby or cause more chance of MC or other problems?
2. Stopping smoking.
I have smoked for years and I chain smoke a lot too. I'd say I smoke anywhere between 13-18 a day,,I could be way off so I dunno. It is going to be the hardest thing to do but I know I have to stop even though people do end up pregnant while smoking, taking the pill, drinking, doing drugs snd all sorts! I dont do drugs but I do like to drink wine and the last couple of months i have had loads...not so much the last couple weeks. I went a bit too crazy last week and had a bottle and a half, and all the other times like last night I have a bottle. We always have two bottles and split them between us so it ends up about a bottle each at 6 glasses. We only drink red wine btw. When I first started I had quite a lot and it was always at least a bottle and the first week it was about four nights out the whole week...not all in a row. I have a very addictive personality and my OCD doesn't always help either. I've always been like that with drink though. I will miss very much going outside at nights for walks with my husband and smoking a couple of cigs and especially when we have wine we are up very late and drinking, smoking loads and walking. When we have a baby of course even just walking at night and nothing else will be out of the question. We will be too tired and cant take the baby out in the cold at that hour. We prefer walking at night when it is quiet and relaxing when noones around. Of course it is worth it all and for ourselves too.
So lol I guess after all that my main question is how long after quitting can you safely try for a baby? Mainly I'm thinking of myself and am I safe home for one and also thinking of my husbands sperm. I've read a month is long enough without nicotine products too.
Is there more risk of complications, still birth or MC if I have smoked?
Those are my main two questions and vents. I'm sure I'll have many more. But for now I'll just ask
Are there any other things i should be doing during these last couple of WTT months? I'm booking myself in at the doctors next week for a talk about these things and a urine test. I'm then booking in a blood test for the same week or week after. I've had bloods done recently, a couple of months ago and they came back all clear, and I'm sure one of the things was a fertility test. Also clear for diabetes. I'm being discharged very soon from my heath team as I have been told ages ago I can stop going if I want for my anorexia and I have been given the all clear to try for a baby then. I just got too comfy there lol.
I want to make sure alls ok in advance. So shall I start taking folic acid when I stop the pill? It may not be long enough? It's only sbout two months and two weeks or so from now that I am TTC so is this all not long enough for the pill or folic acid? If I take a long time to catch is is dangerous to keep taking folic acid...I'm worried I'll overdose? If I've recently had bloods done will I need more done or can the docs just look it up on the system records? When I went last week or the week before the doctor told me I needed to start folic acid and have a blood test done three months before trying and also to check if I'm immune to rubella. I'm sure I had that jab in skl anyway but wouldn't it show up in my last blood test if I was or not? I hate needles. If I do have to have more done then does it matter if it's two months before or does it have to be three? Csn I start taking folic acid two months before instead of three? I don't mind taking folic acid now but I'm worried it'll interact with my pill or something? And I got this overpowering bad feeling somethings gonna happen so we can't try and then there I am off the pill, taking folic acid, fainting at blood tests and heartbroken!!
Thsnkyou for your time and any advice, ideas or if anyone wants to share their WTT plans I'd love to hear them.
1.Stopping the pill.
I am currently taking the cerazatte pill and have been for a few years now since I didn't get on with microgenan(sp)?. I think thr cerezatte pill is a combined mini pill as I am taking it everyday without a break. So I want to stop it in 15 days instead of using up the last two months I got. Is this too close to TTC? I heard there are more chances of MC if you stop the pill too close to trying. Other times I read that yoire at your most fertile and so maybe I should come off it a month or even a week or so before trying? I want to catch as soon as possible but I'm scared I'll be taking any risks?
I have no idea what my cycles are what with having no period at all for eight months due to anorexia and I got them back probably about six months ago? Maybe more. But now they are irregular. People dont often get periods on this pill anyway but I pretty much always did when I was at a heavier weight. I've never been on this pill at an ideal weight for long basically. It is said to have at least two or three complete cycles once coming off the pill before you try for a baby, but if I try and catch with irregular periods will that harm the baby or cause more chance of MC or other problems?
2. Stopping smoking.
I have smoked for years and I chain smoke a lot too. I'd say I smoke anywhere between 13-18 a day,,I could be way off so I dunno. It is going to be the hardest thing to do but I know I have to stop even though people do end up pregnant while smoking, taking the pill, drinking, doing drugs snd all sorts! I dont do drugs but I do like to drink wine and the last couple of months i have had loads...not so much the last couple weeks. I went a bit too crazy last week and had a bottle and a half, and all the other times like last night I have a bottle. We always have two bottles and split them between us so it ends up about a bottle each at 6 glasses. We only drink red wine btw. When I first started I had quite a lot and it was always at least a bottle and the first week it was about four nights out the whole week...not all in a row. I have a very addictive personality and my OCD doesn't always help either. I've always been like that with drink though. I will miss very much going outside at nights for walks with my husband and smoking a couple of cigs and especially when we have wine we are up very late and drinking, smoking loads and walking. When we have a baby of course even just walking at night and nothing else will be out of the question. We will be too tired and cant take the baby out in the cold at that hour. We prefer walking at night when it is quiet and relaxing when noones around. Of course it is worth it all and for ourselves too.
So lol I guess after all that my main question is how long after quitting can you safely try for a baby? Mainly I'm thinking of myself and am I safe home for one and also thinking of my husbands sperm. I've read a month is long enough without nicotine products too.
Is there more risk of complications, still birth or MC if I have smoked?
Those are my main two questions and vents. I'm sure I'll have many more. But for now I'll just ask
Are there any other things i should be doing during these last couple of WTT months? I'm booking myself in at the doctors next week for a talk about these things and a urine test. I'm then booking in a blood test for the same week or week after. I've had bloods done recently, a couple of months ago and they came back all clear, and I'm sure one of the things was a fertility test. Also clear for diabetes. I'm being discharged very soon from my heath team as I have been told ages ago I can stop going if I want for my anorexia and I have been given the all clear to try for a baby then. I just got too comfy there lol.
I want to make sure alls ok in advance. So shall I start taking folic acid when I stop the pill? It may not be long enough? It's only sbout two months and two weeks or so from now that I am TTC so is this all not long enough for the pill or folic acid? If I take a long time to catch is is dangerous to keep taking folic acid...I'm worried I'll overdose? If I've recently had bloods done will I need more done or can the docs just look it up on the system records? When I went last week or the week before the doctor told me I needed to start folic acid and have a blood test done three months before trying and also to check if I'm immune to rubella. I'm sure I had that jab in skl anyway but wouldn't it show up in my last blood test if I was or not? I hate needles. If I do have to have more done then does it matter if it's two months before or does it have to be three? Csn I start taking folic acid two months before instead of three? I don't mind taking folic acid now but I'm worried it'll interact with my pill or something? And I got this overpowering bad feeling somethings gonna happen so we can't try and then there I am off the pill, taking folic acid, fainting at blood tests and heartbroken!!
Thsnkyou for your time and any advice, ideas or if anyone wants to share their WTT plans I'd love to hear them.
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