what is the BEST way to lower testosterone?

[stephk]

Yep, now you have seen it happen! Its not mega mega but this is not normal for me. If it was a pos test, I really wouldn't mind. As its not a pos test ill hold out until January with last BCP on new years eve. I remember you saying to stay on the pill as there has been some sway success with conceptions straight after the pill (wow i would be so lucky to conceive the first month!) To be honest we so rarely BD anyway if I got PG from that with the daily exercise Im doing and the diet change so far I would probably have a great chance. It is tempting not to continue with the pill once this pack has run out but I really would prefer not to conceive until Jan.

I do love pep tea, although I have only been drinking it every day because of the sway. I need something mid afternoon and I used to have rooibos (with a snack!) but that is so healthy and full of antioxidants I gave it up in favour of the pep tea (sometimes with a lighter snack sometimes not, its so hard not to sometimes). Maybe a camomile and vanilla tea would be better. Camomile is OK I hope.

[atomic sagebrush]

anything on occasion is fine, chamomile should be ok - while IG tells people never to drink anything, I've never heard or seen any property of chamomile that would affect a sway in particular at the one a day level!

[stephk]

Although I have the sway plan I thought I should update on here as it may help others as well as myself. Since my last post to this thread, I continued as normal with BCP and had another period in the 7 day break. I didn't have pep tea for a few days, maybe a week. Then I thought about it and thought, well I actually like pep tea and so what if it makes BCP less effective, what's meant to be and all that. So I've had my 2bag cup most afternoons at work and continued as normal with BCP. Well what do you know, I've just been to the loo and I'm bleeding! I have another week of BCP left so the 7 day break is coming up. I just counted the days on my calendar and if I count the first day of bleeding from last month to yesterday, that's 29 days. When I last came off BCP my cycle settled to 29 days so it would appear that the BCP isn't working. This may sound odd but I think I'm just going to continue as planned with taking BCP to New Year's Eve and drinking the 2bag cup at work. We haven't even BD since I last post. Shameful isn't it. Well now I really don't dare, DS was conceived the week before Xmas and I would prefer not to conceive at the same time. I might start temping tomorrow just to see if there is a rise in a couple of weeks.

If you think I'm totally in the wrong doing things this way please let me know it's just that I may be coming to the wrong conclusion and would rather stick to the plan if possible. Of course if I have an oops then what's meant to be will be.

Hopefully this is interesting and helpful to others anyway

[stephk]

By the way I wasn't planning on taking a 7 day break this time, I was just going to keep taking to 31 dec. It's ok to do that on these particular pills.

[atomic sagebrush]

We honestly don't know what the best way to do the BCP is, and that method makes a good deal of sense to me. I don't want you to actually get pg while taking the BCP OR pep tea, of course, but as sway tactics go, if you're not TTC right then it makes sense to me! Thanks for sharing.