https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:12:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-very-early-days-off-bcp-warning-tmi-zone#post-263495 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 19:13:30 +0000 Mrs squirreld 263495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Your post made me laugh i I totally get why you couldn't talk to DH about that. I was very excited to see you on the September thread!! Lots of baby dust to you! I also think its a good sign that you GOT AF as lots of ladies who come off BC don't get them for a few months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-very-early-days-off-bcp-warning-tmi-zone#post-263258 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:07:32 +0000 Foodnerd81 263258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree that your body is pissed about the on and off w the pill and that's why it's so crazy. Just want to offer you some hope though- my periods were awful bf going on the pill, just like you described. So I thought they would be after too but no! They are fine! One day of cramps that advil can control, pretty normal flow. I was so relieved! So maybe after thi one you will have grown out of it too. Or, maybe no period bc of a BFP:) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-very-early-days-off-bcp-warning-tmi-zone#post-263212 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:04:51 +0000 singingbee 263212@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I read the whole thing and it made me smile and giggle, in a good way. If our husbands knew what we talked about, they would die!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-very-early-days-off-bcp-warning-tmi-zone#post-263178 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:06:12 +0000 Cherrybee 263178@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know what I want to blurt out first.... okay, I'll go with this...</p> <p>I've just had sex without contraception for the first time in my life! Ever! Eeeeep! I won't be ovulating yet but it doesn't hurt to practice...!</p> <p>The other thing I want to shout out it this: I'm going to pee on a stick in September (maybe, we'll see how it goes!). I just saw the POAS September thread and thought "OMG, I might get to do that!"</p> <p>I've been off BCP, officially, for one week and, well, my body is all over the place. It doesn't help that, the previous weekend, we went to a 3 day music festival and I forgot to take my pills with me (genuine accident, I promise). I missed Friday, Saturday and Sunday's pills and had a fairly standard withdrawal bleed. I suggested to DH, on the Monday, that I should not go back on the pill but he took 5 days to decide (well, the truth is I took 5 days to be clear about what I was trying to say!) so I took my pill again Monday - Friday. Then, last weekend we agreed to TTC and I took my last pill Friday night. </p> <p>Well.....! The Horror!!!</p> <p>My withdrawal bleeds are light, painless and predictable. No PMS, no mood swings, nothing! They have been for the 13 years I've been on BCP and the 4 years, prior to that, when I was on the mini pill (prescribed to help me with heavy, painful periods!). </p> <p>But this time, those first few days off BCP, I felt like I was dying! I had cramping, nausea, sore boobs (so sore I had to take my bra off - while driving!) and two significant dizzy spells over the course of a few days. I was moody, kept bursting into tears - I started to wonder if I'd gotten pregnant, randomly, before coming off the pill.... Then, the bleeding started... and when I say it started I mean it gushed forth like a damn had been broken - heavy, bright red, full of little clots (Sorry, I warned you TMI). The bleeding lasted 4 days and, despite taking iron supplements, the inside of my lower eyelids were really pale (indicating low iron levels). </p> <p>I'd forgotten periods could be like that!! Mine were like that every month when I was a teenager! My mum's have been like that her whole life. </p> <p>I'm taking this as a positive sign that my cycles will return to normal very quickly (although I don't doubt that my body is just screaming at me for messing it about so much - on the pill, off the pill, on, off....). I like to think that this means that it hasn't forgotten what to do! </p> <p>My mum got pregnant with me the only time she ever had unprotected sex; My dad was working away for a few months and she came off the pill "for a break". He came back for the weekend and I popped out 9 months later - she can even tell me what was on the TV when I was conceived - it was Girl on a Motorcycle if anyone's interested?! I'm just hoping that, just as the nightmarish periods are hereditary, the super-fertility is, too. Fingers crossed! </p> <p>Thanks for letting me share, bees! It really was TMI (!!) but I need to tell someone and I don't want to tell hubby such revolting tales about my, erm, you know where - in case it puts him off BDing (lol). </p>