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Yeah, if you've been on it for 6 months straight then I'd probably do something more along the lines of cutting back on it over a month or two instead. I have to say that I have only ever seen a handful of people take that high of a dose and it makes me nervous, but it's your sway, your way. :)
Since licorice root can cause high blood pressure we have come up with a pattern of taking it where he takes 450 mg 1-3x a day from your CD 1 thru CD 14 and then takes the rest of your cycle off. He should take it no longer than 6 months straight and then he needs at least a month or 6 weeks off it. Usually, I have people stop using it at this point anyway because at that point I like to start dropping things that are not super effective in favor of odds of conception.
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Thanks for all the great Atomic. And - let me know if I am doing this right - do I start a new thread or keep on with this one so you can see all the previous details? Thanks!/Sorry if I'm doing it wrong!
Anyways - it's been a while since I posted. I am weaned off EVERYTHING except for:
4,200 fresh fruit equivalent Cranberry pills
300 mg CoQ10 as Ubiquinol
and 450 mg folic acid
500 mg Vitex
magnesium chloride body spray every night to help with sleep and hopefully ease nausea when I do get pregnant and also to perhaps sway girl?...
Hubby is on
300 mg CoQ10
4200 Cranberry
and 450 licorice root.
I have also started running 60 minutes every morning and skipping breakfast - I try not to eat until noon and on early rising days or days where I teach yoga in the morning I have just some pineapple or a Noosa Yogurt a few hours after rising. I spoke with my midwife who said that vitex is safe for pregnancy but that she prefers progesterone creams for luteal defficiency if I truly have a luteal defficiency. My last luteal phase (according to Fertility Friend) was 10, the cycle before that was 13 (before I weaned off my B vitamins and 1000 mg vitex to 500) and I am currently on day 9 of luteal phase. I hope these shifts rebalance and I am able to conceive the first go like I did with my son.
Here is my question: should I wait another cycle (would be three months) to start Trying for a daughter to strengthen the sway and reduce vitamin overload from all the supplements I was taking just a month and half ago (esp. that MEGA does of B vitamins!) or would it be ok to start trying in Feb with a STRONG sway. I am open to advice. My husband wants to wait til March but I want to start in Feb. because I know with the every 4th day timing it might take longer to conceive and so I want a little head start so we stay close to our ideal 4 year age gap we are hoping between children. In the end, I would prefer a larger age gap and one of each though, so am open to advice!
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whatever's more convenient for you. I try to answer all posts (except in support threads) so I will see them eventually no matter how you post them.
thoughts on magnesium - if you need it that is fine. I do want to mention that the reason why people take mag for swaying is to help calcium work better. Magnesium has never been thought to sway pink on its own. But if it is helping you sleep that is up to you if you wish to continue it.
I personally disagree with your midwife about vitex being safe in pregnancy (not saying it isn't safe but it certainly isn't proven) but totally up to you. DO wean off it when you're ready to stop, don't just quit cold turkey.
Can you get Clomid or Femara?? that will benefit your sway and your LP.
Whether to try in Feb or Mar is one of those darn crystal ball questions that I honestly can't say. There's just no way for me to know if Feb. is soon enough or you should wait till March. If you do wish to have a strong sway in other ways then what many people do, is sway very strictly the first month and then just count on getting BFN. If they get pregnant, they are happy to have done a strong sway (altho be warned many of the "strict" tactics have not seemed to really do anything other than cut odds of conception) and if htey don't they have that much longer on diet. :)
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Thanks Atomic! I always appreciate your info. :) :)
Ha! That's exactly what I was thinking: a STRICT sway in FEB: cut calories, loads of exercise, and sex once every 4 days. Is there anything else you would add to make it a strict sway??...
Then maybe once every 3 days in March if Feb doesn't do the trick.
I am currently on day 11 of Luteal Phase - which is a good sign that I don't have a luteal defficiency. I think I will taper off the Vitex then. Do you have a recommended way of decreasing and tapering? Currently taking 500 mg/day and plan to not take when I get my period in the next day or so (I usually don't take it when I bleed). Then start again but start with tapering. Also might be the cycle I try to conceive!!
Since Luteal phase is strong, I would rather not mess with clomid etc since I am an all natural kind of mama.
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Well, that's not really a strict sway. What a strict sway is, is doing things like jelly, timing, frequency that cuts odds of conception a lot. I actually don't generally recommend doing those things but we can go over them if you want.
Diet, exericse, and one attempt is a NORMAL sway. :)
I would just go to every other day, then every 2, then 3, till down to one per week, then drop.
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Oh ha! Felt strict to me, guess bc I love eating so much ha! Tell me more about the strict sway timing and frequency and ??JELLY???
In terms of cutting down vitex - is it one week with one every other day, then one week one every three days, or more like Day 1 vitex Day 2 none Day 3 Vitex Day 4 none Day 5 none Day 6 Vitex Day 7 none Day 8 non Day 9 none Day 10 vitex...etc. til I'm down to none?
Also with the timing once in a fertile cycle - is it ok to aim for the one time the day before ovulation to increase odds (goes against Shettles, but I get from these boards that that is ok!)
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It would be using Shettles timing plus either abstain or daily release for hubby (or "hurry up FR" as a last resort) and the jellies are things like Acijel, Sylk, RepHresh, or if you REALLY wanted to be strict, some even douche or use spermicide, but I don't recommend that. You'd also want to do shallow release and immediate J and D.
However you want to do it. The point is jsut that you're gradually letting your body adjust to not having it instead of shocking it by dropping totally. Should take about 3 weeks.
Yes yes it's fine to DTD the day before O. That is what got me my daughter. Most of us on here have 2-3-4 Shettles opposites.
