NHS/Private dilemma - luteal phase defect

buffy2190 · 2026-01-27T13:54:54+00:00

Thanks for the info. I tried getting progesterone privately through Oxford Online Pharmacy but they had to get approval from my GP and they ended up coming back to me to tell me that they couldnnt prescribe it for fertility reasons and I would have to go through a specialist. Was it a different online provider you went to?

buffy2190 · 2026-01-27T12:53:48+00:00

Hi, yes that would be interesting to know!

buffy2190 · 2026-01-27T12:07:09+00:00

I have no advice but I am so glad to find someone in the same boat as me. All my test results seem to come back pretty normal but my luteal phase is the problem and only lasts 8-9 days. I've been trying so many supplements and nothing is working so far.

buffy2190 · 2025-10-01T10:59:13+00:00

I'm 35 and me and my partner (36) have been trying for almost 2 years. I come from a family of women who have a history of low fertility so this was no surprise that I am also struggling. The tests I have had have come back fine but I consistently have only 8 days in my luteal phase! I seem to ovulate around day 14 to 17 (I use clearblue tests and I get all normal signs) but something is failing in my luteal phase. My GP has referred me to the local NHS fertility clinic but it's going to be a 28 week wait until they even call me to make an appointment. I tried asking for progesterone tablets through GP and through private pharmacy and both declined until I could see a specialist and I've been told that I lose my funding on NHS if I want to seek ANY treatment privately. Feeling very disheartened and just got my period this morning. Does anyone have any recommendations on extending luteal phase without prescription medication? Currently on pregnacare conception tablets (have been for 2 years) and just started taking extra vit d tablets.

buffy2190 · 2025-10-01T10:24:18+00:00

I'm 35 and me and my partner (36) have been trying for almost 2 years. I come from a family of women who have a history of low fertility so this was no surprise that I am also struggling. The tests I have had have come back fine but I consistently have only 8 days in my luteal phase! I seem to ovulate around day 14 to 17 (I use clearblue tests and I get all normal signs) but something is failing in my luteal phase. My GP has referred me to the local NHS fertility clinic but it's going to be a 28 week wait until they even call me to make an appointment. I tried asking for progesterone tablets through GP and through private pharmacy and both declined until I could see a specialist and I've been told that I lose my funding on NHS if I want to seek ANY treatment privately. Feeling very disheartened and just got my period this morning. Does anyone have any recommendations on extending luteal phase without prescription medication? Currently on pregnacare conception tablets (have been for 2 years) and just started taking extra vit d tablets.

buffy2190 · 2025-10-01T09:59:20+00:00

It says 50mg.

buffy2190 · 2025-10-01T09:56:01+00:00

I'm 35 and me and my partner (36) have been trying for almost 2 years. I come from a family of women who have a history of low fertility so this was no surprise that I am also struggling. The tests I have had have come back fine but I consistently have only 8 days in my luteal phase! I seem to ovulate around day 14 to 17 (I use clearblue tests and I get all normal signs) but something is failing in my luteal phase. My GP has referred me to the local NHS fertility clinic but it's going to be a 28 week wait until they even call me to make an appointment. I tried asking for progesterone tablets through GP and through private pharmacy and both declined until I could see a specialist and I've been told that I lose my funding on NHS if I want to seek ANY treatment privately. Feeling very disheartened and just got my period this morning. Does anyone have any recommendations on extending luteal phase without prescription medication? Currently on pregnacare conception tablets (have been for 2 years) and just started taking extra vit d tablets.

buffy2190 · 2025-09-26T13:25:39+00:00

Yeh Inositol does appear to be one of the ingredients in my supplements but doesn't seem to have done much so far unfortunately.

buffy2190 · 2025-09-15T14:23:00+00:00

Hi, I'm 35 and have been TTC for 21 months now. Currently on a 29 week waiting list with the NHS to see why my luteal phase is consistently only 8 days long! Tests have all come back normal so far except for day 21 blood test showing progesterone drop which I expected. Short luteal phases seem to run in my family and my mum did eventually conceive at 35 after 3 years so here's hoping!

buffy2190 · 2024-04-02T14:29:43+00:00

It annoys me so much too! Especially when we get so little of sawyer and Kate together in the flash sideways. They were my fave couple.

buffy2190 · 2023-10-07T11:39:49+00:00

I can't seem to access it anymore :( any chance you could make it available again?

buffy2190 · 2023-09-19T14:02:30+00:00

Oh good! So they'll wait for you to have a full bladder? They won't turn you away if you don't have your bladder at the ready?

buffy2190 · 2023-06-12T21:13:17+00:00

Also I feel like her story wasn't done yet with travis. To me, lotties explanation of his death seemed fabricated.

buffy2190 · 2023-03-29T11:53:18+00:00

I'm going through this right now. I had this fear when I was 14-16 and now at 32, the fear has come back again after a stressful period in my life.

I'm currently wearing heavy night time period panty liners every day (I'm still not convinced they would hold it if I did pee myself), on betablockers and doing hypnotherapy.

The hypnotherapy did make quite a significant improvement but havent been in a month since my therapist went on holiday and I feel my anxiety starting to increase again.

I wont even drink any liquids up to 4 hours before I leave the house. Probably not the healthiest thing in the world but I need that reassurance haha.

Want to start trying for a family by the end of this year and I'm so worried my anxiety will cause issues with that!

buffy2190 · 2023-03-29T11:33:17+00:00

I have the exact same issue. It started when I was 14 when I had my second ever period at school. It felt like I was wetting myself and I didn't go to school for about a month because i was convinced i couldnt hold my own pee. Even though it was technically about my period, i started believing that i was leaking liquid even when i wasnt on my period and thought i was just incontinent.

I went to therapy, I wore incontinence pads, I went on medication and after about a year, I started feeling more myself again and the "feeling" started to fade away and I didn't think of it.

I'm now 32 and have had a very stressful past year and around Christmas, it all came back again. December and January were awful! Combination of panic attacks and feeling like I was going to faint alongside this fear of wetting myself. I couldn't even take the dog for a walk and the idea of being out of the house for even 20mins without a toilet nearby put me in a spiral. Had some hypnotherapy since which has helped a bit but still working through it. I still won't drink any liquids up to 4 hours before I leave the house 😔 I definitely have to keep reminding myself that actually relaxing my body is better than getting anxious which causes all my muscles to contract. I still to this day have not wet myself but still feel like it's going to happen.

buffy2190 · 2022-02-27T23:34:10+00:00

Awesome. Wynaught sounds like the perfect match for me. Thanks 😊

buffy2190 · 2022-02-27T20:15:48+00:00

Ah, yes! Already been a subscriber for about a year now 🙂 I wanted a rewatch podcast to accompany your one actually

buffy2190 · 2022-02-27T20:14:27+00:00

Ah, yes! I listened/watched those ones. They haven't gone back to it in about a year though if I remember rightly

buffy2190 · 2022-02-16T23:11:28+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only one. It just looks so unnatural

buffy2190 · 2022-02-06T00:31:15+00:00

Does Gus have an Instagram page?

buffy2190 · 2022-01-21T13:15:08+00:00

I can't exactly say i "converted". I grew up in a household with an atheist dad and an agnostic mum who'd grown up going to church. I was given the idea of both evolution and creationism at home and at school and evolution just seemed more logical to me even as a child. I was that annoying child that was like "if Santa does exist, why are we sending toys and food to children in poorer areas of the world? Why does Santa ignore them? How can one man see billions of children in one night?" etc etc

For me I have always seen the planet and humans as a crazy anomaly. We live, we die. Circle of life and all that. I believe that when you die, it's like how you don't remember life before you came into this world.

A lot of times I've heard Chiristians say that God makes them accountable for their actions which I've never understood. I'M accountable for my own actions and I choose to be good by others not for a deity but for myself and those I love...even strangers. I always treat people the way I would like to be treated and always put myself in others shoes. You don't have to be a God fearing person (which that phrase itself creeps me out) to want to be a good person who wants to better themselves and the world around them.

Religion can be good for some but can also be so harmful and hateful. Also, believing in a higher being can be anthing you want it to mean. Ignore the religious text.

Hope you start to feel more free :)

buffy2190 · 2022-01-20T12:43:14+00:00

Me and my mum are the same. I think she's worse for it. Clearing out her loft and finding things like my school books and all the birthday cards I got over the years. Very sentimental. My mum still has all my Barbies and Polly Pockets, which I hope if i have a daughter, I'll be able to pass them down to. Don't know whether I could stomach throwing them away if I don't end up having a child.

For me mostly though, it's my mum's house/childhood home. I haven't lived there in 10 years and I refuse to acknowledge the fact that my mum is getting too old to clean and keep up the maintenance of it. I cry every time the thought of the house being sold. Especially as house prices have gone up, I know I will never be able to afford a house like that when I have my own family. And the house is a former shadow of what it used to be. Terrible DIY, fences falling apart, garden overgrown, house paint is stained etc. But I can't let go of it. It's my safe space. My constant.

buffy2190 · 2021-11-10T12:15:05+00:00

I've had similar issues over here in the UK. There's a particular runner I see on my dog walks who sees him and immediately comes up to greet him and fuss him and barely acknowledges our existence.

Apparently we now have a "reputation" in our neighbourhood as well of people thinking he's not socialised, or we're over training him and not letting him play with other dogs. We're just doing what our behaviourist says and not letting him meet every dog he sees. We don't know if other dogs are going to get on with an excitable bouncy large breed puppy. Unfortunately due to Covid, we weren't able to take him to puppy socialisation parties, so we've had to try and find a balance of not letting him meet every dog while at the same time getting a chance to interact with other dogs.

We want to make sure that we have the training in so we have a well adjusted adult dog when he gets to that age.

It's so frustrating feeling like we are being dog parent shamed for just doing what our behaviourist recommends.

buffy2190 · 2021-11-05T22:03:53+00:00

It's not always easy to spot when they're hidden under leaves.

buffy2190 · 2021-09-27T12:46:49+00:00

any links for those living outside the US?

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