Getting pregnant with irregular periods - Women's Health Message Board

dugzgirl · 02-15-2004, 08:44 PM

Looking for some advice here. I'm 30 years old and have always had irregular periods (except for when I was on birth control pills). I've been off of the BCP for a year now and my periods are even more irregular than they were before I went on the pill. Starting to be 8-10 weeks between cycles. Normally, that wouldn't really bother me except that my husband and I would like to get pregnant. How do you know when or even if you are ovulating? It's really frustrating because I want to get pregnant, but I don't want to wait several years. As I said, I'm already 30 and I'm sure not getting any younger.

If anyone else has been through this and/or has any tips, words of advice, comforting thoughts...please share!

TexasMom73 · 02-15-2004, 10:30 PM

I myself am 30 & trying for my 3rd child but have irregular periods! I know your frustration. We've been trying for 4 yrs now.
Have you ever tried charting your temperature? It's really not all that hard to do. If you do a search for places to chart your BBT you will come up with places to keep track of your temps & you'll learn lots! Most of the places that allow you too chart online also have message boards & you will learn tons of helpful imformayion on how to tell when your fertile.

They will teach you how to track your cervical position, cervical mucus, & your temps will teach you alot about when to expect ovulation/Aunt Flow. I hope some of this imfo helpped?

index.html · 02-16-2004, 02:47 PM

If you're really wanting to get pregnant and are only having periods every 8-10 weeks, I wouldn't waste time trying to get pregnant on my own. I'd go ahead and talk to my GYN about it.

abbygirl2 · 02-17-2004, 02:15 AM

I got pg after trying for 7 months. My periods came every 3-4 months or whenever they feel like it. My sister went a year without a period, but then a month after starting thyroid meds, she was pg.
However, the best way to go about it is probably to talk to a gyn about it, and try to get regular periods, and of course doing your own work(charting etc) I did all that but wasn't commited enough to it, so it didn't really help me. I am sure I didn't offer you much help, just wanted to let you know it IS possible. Good luck,

dugzgirl · 02-17-2004, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by index.html

If you're really wanting to get pregnant and are only having periods every 8-10 weeks, I wouldn't waste time trying to get pregnant on my own. I'd go ahead and talk to my GYN about it.

He already knows I've been having the problems with irregularity and my annual appointment is March 2nd. He said we would talk about options when we got together. I really don't want to go on fertility medicine because I'm afraid of the multiple births. Not necessarily twins, but more than that is scary. I actually would love to have twins. My aunt had twins, so I know what having twins entails. I'm not crazy. I promise.

Anyway, hopefully we'll exhaust other options first. I bought a basal thermometer and an ovulation checker yesterday to see if I'm even ovulating. If I'm ovulating regularly, I should be fertile in about a week. We'll see.