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Originally Posted by jenlm  I took regular vitex (lorna vanderhaege kind) for seven months and only had AF three times. I did get AF on my first bottle of femaprin. If I don't take anything I regularly get AF every 5 months. So I might have just gotten lucky. It isn't going to start working instantly. It is recommended that it will take 6 month for your body to adjust to vitex. Just try to keep positive. My doctor gave me an ovulation tester to see if anything is going on this month. He doesn't believe in femaprin. So badly want to prove him wrong!! |
Hi,
I really hope you can prove your doctor wrong too, and good luck with ovulation!! My doctor didn't even know what Vitex was, and laughed when I told her it was a natural supplement.
I purchased the Lorna VDH Vitex the other day and received it today. In hindsight, I should have checked this before I ordered it, but didn't realise the dosage of each pill is only 80mg. I've now done some research online and discovered that the recommended daily dosage is around 1000mg. So, if I was to get this, I'd have to take 12 pills p/day!
What daily dosage have you been taking, and was the LVDH Vitex you had also only 80mg p/capsule? What time of day do you take it?
Do you (or does anybody else) know what the recommended daily dosage is?
I stopped breastfeeding about 4 months ago, and immediately started taking Vitex (at the time it was the Thompsons brand of 1 1000mg capsule p/day). After just a couple of weeks, I got 3 very normal periods, 28 days apart. Then, as I finished the Vitex bottle I had, we moved overseas, and I thought my cycle was back on track, I stopped taking it. My next period then came 24 days later, the next 27 days, and then about a week later I bled for a few days, got a period 2 weeks later, then 5 days later, bled very heavily for about 7 days.
I'm not sure what's going on with my body, but my cycle is a mess, and I want to get it back on track as we are TTC. I suspect its bc I stopped taking the Vitex, and hope its nothing serious.
Any info/advice you (or anyone else) might have regarding whether vitex could be a solution here, would be greatly appreciated....thanks!!!!