I am a 26 years old and have been married for 14 months now. My husband and I have been ttc since oct. Without success. I was on birth control pills on and off during college and since coming off of them in july I have only had 5 periods. Some sites that I have read say that this is common when coming off of birth control, but I never had this problem when I wasn't taking my pills before. I know that I can get pregnant b/c in college I got pregnant with my old boyfriend and had a miscarriage at 10 weeks.

I have been having a slight pain over my left ovary for the past three months and I am going to have a transvaginal ultrasound on friday. When I use ovulation predictor kits I can never seem to tell when I am ovulating, so I am getting worried that I don't ovulate every month. My 22 year old sister got diagnosed with pcos this past monday so I am hoping and praying that I don't have that. Just keep a positive attitude and try not to stress yourself out about getting pregnant and I am sure you will be fine. I know several people who have gotten pregnant with irregular periods. It just takes a little longer to conceive. Try using ovulation predictor kits to see if you ovulate around the same time each month.

Hi amy:

thanks for the advice! I guess I will just tackle it when the time comes. I just can't stand the thought of not being able to be a mom!! I wish you the best!

Hi amy & scrdat,
i have no idea if you are going to get this, it's a few months late. I am so sorry to hear that both of you are going through all of this.
I am 25 yrs old.
I have been going though this same sort of thing. I have always had irregular, heavy periods. I also have a lot of pain. I had no idea when I was going to get my period each month.
About 2 yrs. Ago I got married. I was trying to get pregnant, as well.
I'm not sure about when i'm ovulating, really hard to tell.
I had quite a few ultra sounds done. I also had transvaginal ultra sounds done. On the ultrasounds it showed I had some cysts. So my Dr. Tried me on birth control pills to try & regulate my cysts. The bc pills didn't work. So then I switched ob/gyn's. My Dr. Noticed my cysts weren't shrinking with the bc pills. So he then did laproscopic surgery (tiny cut under the belly button). To try & either shrink or remove the cyst.
I had the laproscopic surgery done last month. During the surgery my Dr. Found that my ovary had become a huge cyst. So my Dr. Tried to drain my ovary as much as he could, but could not do it. He was looking around all over & found another larger cyst that was covering my uterus.
Well at my last Dr. Appt. My Dr. Told me he had to go in again & open me up to remove the huge cyst & my left ovary.
On wednesday I had open surgery done. I had half of my left ovary removed, my left fallopian tube removed & huge cyst removed.
I was trying to become pregnant, but had a lot of trouble with it. My Dr. Said it would be difficult to become pregnant for me, but he said he could help with that. So that's really nice.

I really hope you both don't have this happen to you. I just thought I would let you know what happened to me in case you have to go through surgery.

Bonnie