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

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.
 
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 :baby:!!! Were you doing all of those things along with ivf or was it naturally by bd?
 
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:baby::baby:
 
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

:happydance:come on March conception!:happydance: we need our :baby::baby: to be here in time for Christmas :winkwink:
 
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

:happydance:come on March conception!:happydance: we need our :baby::baby: to be here in time for Christmas :winkwink:

You be rattling lol:haha:

Fingers x for you hun :hugs:
 
well I have been successful at producing EWCM alright... TMI perhaps LOL and today the OPK states positive SO... 5 days of :sex: so far and hoping to add one more tonight... poor hubby is drained! :haha:
:dust:
but it has to be done for :baby::baby:
 
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! :winkwink:
 
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.
 
whatever helps... I noticed a difference too...now on my 2WW...lets hope it worked!
 
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 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)
 
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 :bfp: I'm willing to try anything!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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