sweetpea
February 9th, 2012, 03:22 PM
Okay, so I am in the process of starting my pre-sway plan, I guess you could say. I will be starting Vitex on CD1 (whenever AF decides to show!) but I'm having a bit of a problem. For the last several months, I've had lots of spotting DAYS before AF, as well as days after. The spotting sometimes is constant, sometimes it comes and goes, sometimes is sort of heavy spotting, sometimes it's very light. I can never actually be sure what day is CD1, because my flow has been kind of fading in and fading out. It's driving me crazy!
So, here is what has been going on this cycle. I started spotting on CD23 (I think - again, I'm not really sure when CD1 was). I had 1 day of quite noticeable, bright red spotting (but definitely NOT a flow), then yesterday it seemed kind of brownish and then completely disappeared, and now it's back again - noticeable/kind of heavy spotting, bright red. Yesterday and today I've had menstrual cramps. I still don't yet have an actual flow, it's very much like heavy spotting, but it's now the second day of cramps and I feel super bloated. Is this CD1?
I really want to just start taking the Vitex, because it really helps to normalize my cycles, and I want to get started on my Vitex regimen for TTC pink in a few months. I already know, from past cycle histories, that my first cycle on Vitex is going to be really strange anyway, and then it starts to regulate my cycles nicely. I guess my question is - can I just start the Vitex now, or should I wait until I'm absolutely sure AF has come (which has been really hard to determine which day that is).
UGH! This is so annoying! I've never had a problem with figuring out this stuff before, and I've been charting for at least 5+ years! But with this strange fade-in-fade-out of AF, and no super heavy flow in between (it's never been really heavy for me), it's making me crazy trying to figure out when CD1 is!
Anyway, thanks for letting me rant...any suggestions on what I should do about the Vitex?
So, here is what has been going on this cycle. I started spotting on CD23 (I think - again, I'm not really sure when CD1 was). I had 1 day of quite noticeable, bright red spotting (but definitely NOT a flow), then yesterday it seemed kind of brownish and then completely disappeared, and now it's back again - noticeable/kind of heavy spotting, bright red. Yesterday and today I've had menstrual cramps. I still don't yet have an actual flow, it's very much like heavy spotting, but it's now the second day of cramps and I feel super bloated. Is this CD1?
I really want to just start taking the Vitex, because it really helps to normalize my cycles, and I want to get started on my Vitex regimen for TTC pink in a few months. I already know, from past cycle histories, that my first cycle on Vitex is going to be really strange anyway, and then it starts to regulate my cycles nicely. I guess my question is - can I just start the Vitex now, or should I wait until I'm absolutely sure AF has come (which has been really hard to determine which day that is).
UGH! This is so annoying! I've never had a problem with figuring out this stuff before, and I've been charting for at least 5+ years! But with this strange fade-in-fade-out of AF, and no super heavy flow in between (it's never been really heavy for me), it's making me crazy trying to figure out when CD1 is!
Anyway, thanks for letting me rant...any suggestions on what I should do about the Vitex?