I am new to charting and only started on day 10 of my current cycle. I came off the pill at the end of August and my husband and I are TTC. Before my Sept period, I had very odd symptoms, including light dark brown spotting for a couple of days before my period, which led me to believe I was pregnant (I had read about implantation bleeding and wondered if it was that), although all tests were negative and I did eventually come on my period a few days late. I put these strange symptoms and late period down to only just recently stopping the pill.
Before my Oct period, I had 6 days of dark brown-black spotting accompanied by twinges and cramps similar to period pains.
I am now on day 23 of my current cycle. Today is my 4th day of cramps and quite heavy dark brown-black spotting. Yesterday, I woke with cramps and went to the toilet to see what was going on. I had lots of dark brown-black spotting and my cramps suddenly worsened and worsened. They suddenly got so bad they were even worse than my worst period pains. It was very scary and I was sweating and it upset me. It lasted maybe 15 minutes or so before it suddenly calmed down to a mild-moderate cramping as I got back into bed.
Yesterday's (day 22) BBT shot up to 98.34 after staying around 97.25 - 97.72 since day 10. I took this to mean i must have ovulated. This morning i have woken up with moderate cramps, still, and my temp has plummeted to 96.8! I took it a 2nd time straight after to be sure and it was slightly higher at 97.18.
What can this possibly mean and why would I experience such severe pains and dark brown-black spotting a week before I am due to come on my period? Could this all be down to coming off the pill 3 months ago?
Btw, I take my BBT at the same time every morning. The night before day 23 (the sudden shoot up to 98.34), I had a couple of glasses of wine (since I figured I couldn't possibly be pregnant since my BBT chart showed that I hadn't ovulated yet this cycle). Is the wine enough to make my BBT jump that high? And what were the severe pains about??
I am going to a doctor today for advice.
Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!