I think my body is gone LOCO!!!

I have no idea what is going on with my body. I had my last normal period in December 23-27. I went off BC 1/1/10. Had a period Jan3,4 then skipped February, had one March 11,12 and didn't start in April. I have tried to track my ovulation and whenever I do use those test it doesn't show up. Is it possible to never ovulate? The doctor doesn't want to do anything until we have been trying a year. We can't wait that long because in December my hubby deploys to Afganistan! This whole situation is just stressing me out in general. I know that I am impatient and maybe I just need to relax. I think the main part of me freaking out was that my hubby and I had a converstation yesterday about the whole not getting pregnant. He told me that maybe it is him because in his last marriage (which didn't last long) they never used BC and he never pulled out and she never got pregnant. The same situation with his ex-fiancee. I keep thinking since neither relationships lasted long at the point that it won't be him.
But what is up with my period?
How can I try to check my ovulation if my period is this nuts? Should I try to do an ovulation kit for every day of the month?
Should I try that pre-seed stuff? Will it help?
Any other suggestions?

There are a few possibilities, the most likely culprits though are your body regulating itself off the pill, or PCOS. I strongly suggest to take your basal body temperature (BBT) every morning (you can get a special thermometer at a drug store for around $10) and plug the temp into www.fertilityfriend.com.  Of course, you need to start a new cycle before that will tell you anything.  Can you see a doctor to give you a drug to start your period (I THINK provera is the most common one, someone who's used it before will chime in I'm sure)?  Also, you can certainly use an OPK every day if you want, it might get a bit expensive though - check out www.early-pregnancy-tests.com for some cheap (but good) ones.  

Lastly, Preseed won't help ovulation, it is used to provide a healthy environment for sperm, but if you make good and lots of egg white cervical mucus, you don't really need it.  I don't make any and there's nowhere around me to get Preseed easily (and with the winter I didn't want it shipped to me) so I have been using real egg whites instead of Preseed.  Most people don't want to but that another (cheap and effective for many women) option.  

Let me know if I lost you anywhere... been TTC on and off for 7.5 years so I've picked up a lot of information.  There are a few good message boards out there devoted to TTC, the Actively Trying board on babycenter.com has huge amounts of awesome info.

T :)

How do you do the egg whites?  I had read that in the 'Taking Charge of my Fertility' book...but wondered...exactly how do you do it?  I was considering trying that myself...because pre-seed is expensive and also not readily available other than the internet.

Pretty simple (much easier than I expected!!) actually... for your own comfort, take the egg out of the fridge (if you refrigerate them) for about an hour or so before DTD.  When you're about ready to go, crack it (some wash the shell 1st) and separate it.  Make sure that the yolk doesn't break into the white.  When they are separated, take a needle-less syringe and suck up about 1/2-1 teaspoon of the white (any more than that unless you need lube for sex and it'll come flying right back out lol).  

When it's time to BD (I put it in *TMI WARNING* after I've come but before DH climbs on lol) put the syringe in as far as it will go and press it fairly slowly (fast and it'll whoosh out).  Probably similar to Preseed, but I haven't tried it, so can't say for sure.

And despite the numerous Chicken Littles and comedians out there (you'll die of salmonella!!!!!!1!!!! or doesn't that make meringues?!? ha ha ha) I've used it for a few cycles now and absolutely no problems.  No BFPs yet either but I got the exact procedure from a woman who also doesn't make EWCM and has used real whites for a couple successful pregnancies. 

Let me know if I missed anything :)

LOL...I know my DH will think I've lost my freaking mind and gone over the edge...but I think I will try the egg whites.  It will literally be EWCM then!!!  Sounds simple enough. I'll definitely have to wash the eggs here though...the rest of the world doesn't wash their eggs like in the U.S., so they have chicken poo on them most of the time.  Ugh. 

Hope the eggs work for you soon...thanks for the info!

LOL I know mine knows that I lost my mind a LOOOOOOONG time ago, so this wasn't a huge shock.  I'm pretty sure he thinks my fistfulls of vitamins and herbals 3x daily is crazier than egg whites! lol  And I don't even malabsorb... I shudder to think how many MORE I'd be taking if I was!

Yeah, I would probably wash the eggs too then if I were you, eww! lol  And just don't tell him it's egg whites, pretend it's Preseed, he won't know the difference ;)  Hope they work for you too!

I'd talk to your dr re at least helping get your cycles regulated.  It's hard to figure out when/how to do anything w/o a regular cycle.

Re the hubby being the problem...it is possible...and it's pretty easy to figure out.  He'd just have to go do his thing in a cup and the drs could test and see what his counts are. 

Even if they're very low...I know next to nothign about it - don't give up hope.  There are a few women on here who's spouses had very low/slow counts...and they've had multiple pregnancies.

Good luck.

Thank you so much for the replies! The doctor said I didn't have that one condition that some women have where they have too much hormone and grow facial hair. ( I don't know what it was called.) The military docs are just refusing to do anything until 1 year of trying. I will talk to him about making my period start though. It's so annoying though because I get my hopes up. I just have no clue anymore when it's suppose to start each month! And as of getting my birth control outta my system... when you all went off BC how long did it take to regulate and were they shorter? A different day?

The condition is PCOS so it's good that you don't have that. 

I was never diagnosed with PCOS but I'm sure I had it, I had almost every single classic symptom.  I suspect I may still have a very mild form of it but since starting to lose weight I have a much more regular cycle.  It varies but is usually 29-33 days for the last year.  Before that, for 21 years I had my period only anywhere from 2-6 times a year.  2 was at my heaviest.  Made it wicked hard to TTC!  I would get frustrated and give up.  Then try again a year or 2 later - lather, rinse, repeat.  Since I never had a regular cycle and I don't remember what it was like going off the pill either, I'm no help there.  I vaguely remember hearing sometimes it would take 3 months for your hormones to regulate themselves.

There are herbals you can take to help with various aspects of trying to conceive, I strongly suggest researching them if your doc won't cooperate.  Soy isoflavones are a popular alternative to Clomid.  Vitex is supposed to be good to balance hormones.  Evening Primrose Oil is good as is L-Arginine for helping your body make more EWCM.  That's just a small sample :)

Seriously, head here and start reading and asking questions.  There are some very knowledgeable people on this board, but that link has over 13K members, and I learned more there just reading for a month than I'd learned everywhere else combined in 7 years.  There's also a charting (BBT) board and they are extremely helpful there too.

How long have you been TTC? Why don't you get hubby sperm tested just to see if everything is all right with him. My RE did that as a first step into helping us. He also did a test to check that my tubes were clear.

I think that all the plumbing for you both is fine before going down a road to medication to regulate your periods!

Traci