Peppermint tea and ovulation

Hi Maiden,

I BD on CD15 and CD17. I got a positive Opk on CD18 but did not BD that day or any day thereafter until ovulation was well and truly over xx

I normally ovulate on day 21 but judging by Opk I think I ovulated on CD19 this time xx

While technically 2 attempts, the sperm from CD15 were likely mostly gone by the time you Oed so closer to 1 attempt really!

It can delay O or bring it forward depending on circumstance. Thus I recommend using it from AF-CD 14 or positive OPK whichever comes first, and if you do not O at that point, stay off it, don't restart till O occurs.

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Originally Posted by maidentomother

It can definitely delay O, or prevent it altogether. I've never heard of it bringing O forward, no herbs do that reliably, unfortunately.

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Not reliably, but actually in many women who have PCO-tendencies, these herbs that for SOME people delay O, can actually move it forward (same with Vitex and saw palmetto.) So if a gal was normally Oing late because of PCO-tendencies it's a possibility (albeit not reliably so) that it can move their O day up significantly.

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Originally Posted by maidentomother

While technically 2 attempts, the sperm from CD15 were likely mostly gone by the time you Oed so closer to 1 attempt really!

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:agree: I consider this one attempt

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Originally Posted by Pinkbutterfly16

Thanks maiden, I wasn't on the diet. Just my normal diet and only added in peppermint tea, magnesium calcium and cranberry here and there. I don't have pcos. Don't know what could have made me ovulate early then really, if not the pep tea xx

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If you are not on a sway diet I strongly recommend against just taking cal/mag/cranberry because in that case you're only adding nutrients.

If you believe in cal-mag that's at your discretion but I really do not recommend taking it without doing some form of diet. When I was on the InGender site, there were many swayers who did that and virtually all go boys. You don't need to do their very strict type of diet, but I do recommend doing some kind of diet or dropping the supps.

You can have some tendencies to develop PCO without actually having the syndrome.

Thanks Atomic! Damn... I didn't stop drinking it at positive Opk. I drank it for quite a long time afterwards.. And I'm pretty sure now that the tea is what bought my ovulation forward :/ x

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Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush

:agree: I consider this one attempt

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What if I happened to ovulate on positive Opk day? That would make the CD15 attempt 3 days from ovulation instead of 4. Would that then become two attempts instead? X

pep tea brought my ov forward.
i ov on day 11 last month after drinking it from AF - O

tested twice and both time brought ov foward :-)