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TMI..Birth Control to control your cycle during wedding/honeymoon?

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Re: TMI..Birth Control to control your cycle during wedding/honeymoon?

  • Knottie27515700Knottie27515700 member
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    I'm not on birth control pills anymore and I'm worried about getting my period. I wish I could control it. How can I plan around my period.
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  • AddieCakeAddieCake member
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    Knottie27515700 said:
    I'm not on birth control pills anymore and I'm worried about getting my period. I wish I could control it. How can I plan around my period.
    Use an ovulation/fertility app. You enter your info, and it tells you each month when you should expect your period. But remember that stress does things to your body, so you can't always know for sure. My period came like clockwork for months and then made a surprise appearance at my rehearsal dinner. 
    What did you think would happen if you walked up to a group of internet strangers and told them to get shoehorned by their lady doc?~StageManager14
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    AddieCake said:
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    Knottie27515700 said:
    I'm not on birth control pills anymore and I'm worried about getting my period. I wish I could control it. How can I plan around my period.
    Use an ovulation/fertility app. You enter your info, and it tells you each month when you should expect your period. But remember that stress does things to your body, so you can't always know for sure. My period came like clockwork for months and then made a surprise appearance at my rehearsal dinner. 
    I just went off the pill in May after 10+ years on it. I started using the ovulation/fertility app, but at this point it isn't helping with anything because my cycle is so abnormal right now. I've only had one period since going off, and that didn't happen until two months after.

    I would very much prefer not to have my period during the wedding, but I don't feel like there's much I can do about it, save going back on BCP. I don't want to do that, since the whole reason I went off BCP was to give my cycle time to regulate before TTC (as soon as the wedding happens). I'm just going to hope for the best, and if it still happens, I'll deal with it.
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  • AddieCakeAddieCake member
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    Yeah, accepting it could happen and just dealing with it are the best things to do, IMO. It's not the end of the world if it happens.
    What did you think would happen if you walked up to a group of internet strangers and told them to get shoehorned by their lady doc?~StageManager14
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  • banana468banana468 member
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    Ditto looking into a charting app and you could even read Taking Charge of Your Fertility.   It's a long book but easy to read and goes into the ways that you can monitor your cycles to understand when you're fertile and when to expect your period.     Of course as @AddieCake says, stress is going to do funky things to your body but by monitoring signs (like your temp and cervical mucous) you can start to know when to expect things to occur.

    There's also a natural family planning protocol called Marquette that uses the Clear Blue Easy fertility monitor.  
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