Evening Primrose Oil... have you used it? looking for feedback

[Deethehippy]

I guess I need to increase my dosage!

Thanks and congrats on the success!

What is your doseage? I took 2 x 500mg each morning between AF and ovulation.

 

[deinekatze]

500mg 3X a day...so 1500mg per day

 

[Deethehippy]

500mg 3X a day...so 1500mg per day

It should be plenty hun

 

[deinekatze]

ok thank you

 

[MrsGood2be]

I used it last cycle and it did what it was supposed to but it made me very nauseas so I had to take it with food so I didn't bother with it this cycle.

 

[gingerbread]

YES!!!! I was TTC for 2 years, and starting from day 1 - day 13 I took 3000 mg of EPO once a day, drank green tea, and took vitamin B6. That's the month I finally got pregnant.

Disclosure: My husband had varicocele surgery 6.5 months prior.

Hello & CONGRATULATIONS !!! Were you doing all of those things along with ivf or was it naturally by bd?

 

[deinekatze]

here is all I am now taking just in case:

Naturemade Multi Prenatal
Collagen+C
Calcium 600mgs (2X day)
Evening Primrose Oil 500mg (3x day)
CoQ10 300mg

lets see

 

[LLbean]

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[LLbean]

so today I also bought Vitamin B6 because I have been reading about that one helping too so to sum it up I now take

Naturemade Multi Prenatal
Collagen+C
Calcium 600mgs (2X day)
Evening Primrose Oil 500mg (3x day)
CoQ10 300mg
Vitamin B6 50mgs

come on March conception! we need our to be here in time for Christmas

 

[mommyjill]

so today I also bought Vitamin B6 because I have been reading about that one helping too so to sum it up I now take

Naturemade Multi Prenatal
Collagen+C
Calcium 600mgs (2X day)
Evening Primrose Oil 500mg (3x day)
CoQ10 300mg
Vitamin B6 50mgs

come on March conception! we need our to be here in time for Christmas

You be rattling lol

Fingers x for you hun

 

[LLbean]

well I have been successful at producing EWCM alright... TMI perhaps LOL and today the OPK states positive SO... 5 days of so far and hoping to add one more tonight... poor hubby is drained!

but it has to be done for

 

[TeddyBearPug]

I started taking EPO yesterday and i'm really hoping it helps! I also started taking red raspberry leaves, b100 complex, and chaste tree along with my prenatal vitamin and aspirin. I feel like a pill popping fool! lol!

 

[LiSa2010]

I started taking this at cd8/9 and have seen a huge improvement in my CM. I take the Vitamin Shoppe brand 1300mg once a day.

was also drinking green tea so im not sure which one is helping.

 

[LLbean]

whatever helps... I noticed a difference too...now on my 2WW...lets hope it worked!

 

[leylak]

I don't have a problem with my EWCM but my ovulation is not as early as I want it to be (day 16-18 of a 26-28 day cycle) Does EPO also help with that? I am also taking b6 vit and it helped me move ovulation from 18 to 16 and get my BFP (sadly MC). This time, I want to take EPO along with B6. Any thoughts?

 

[LLbean]

I don't have a problem with my EWCM but my ovulation is not as early as I want it to be (day 16-18 of a 26-28 day cycle) Does EPO also help with that? I am also taking b6 vit and it helped me move ovulation from 18 to 16 and get my BFP (sadly MC). This time, I want to take EPO along with B6. Any thoughts?

well I read that Soy Isoflavones can do that? but not 100% sure... you take it like you would Clomid... only for 4 days (apparently CD 3-7)

 

[MrsGood2be]

So I've been taking EPO for about a week now and I've noticed alot of cm I'm using it as a way to produce more cm so I don't have to use a lubricant my OH is well endowed and it just makes sex more enjoyable since I can't use any type of lubricant and I don't really need to use the preseed stuff.

@TeddyBearPug I know what you mean I've been taking a Prenatal Vitamin, a Vitamin C, a Vitamin E, a B-6 and an Evening Primrose Oil everyday for the past week (that's 5 pills) and my OH has been taking Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and Zinc everyday... it seems a little excessive but at this point if it gets us that I'm willing to try anything!

 

[Seity]

I used EPO. It wasn't until my second cycle on it I noticed an increase, but it was a noticeable increase and I got my BFP that cycle. I'm not sure if it was the EPO, but I also ovulated a few days later than before after starting on it, but I was also only on my 3rd cycle off of birth control, so I can't be sure it was the EPO that shifted my OV date.
laylak - take a b50 complex b6 doesn't work as well on it's own, the complex is a combo of b vits that help increase their effectiveness and it work for lengthening your LP.

 

[leylak]

Thank you, Seity, I couldn't find B complex with enough B6 in it (in my country). The B6 I use has B12 and B1 as well. I think it worked but the reason I was asking was if EPO helps improve the quality of the egg further I would give it a try, since I do not have problem with EWCM.

 

[velo]

I don't have a problem with my EWCM but my ovulation is not as early as I want it to be (day 16-18 of a 26-28 day cycle) Does EPO also help with that? I am also taking b6 vit and it helped me move ovulation from 18 to 16 and get my BFP (sadly MC). This time, I want to take EPO along with B6. Any thoughts?

I think EPO is primarily to help EWCM so you probably won't notice a benefit. Although it has essential fatty acids so is a good thing in general.

Other things you may want to try to lengthen your luteal phase - red raspberry leaf tea (which tones the uterus) and chaste berry - another hormone/cycle regulator.

How much B6 are you taking? I am taking 50 mg, and the TCM practitioner I went to see suggested upping that to 200.