03-01-2012, 00:24
Hi Jul,
Its good that you are going to have a talk with your Doctor. Maybe you can have a hormone test.
As to taking fennel, you can start low and increase the dosage slowly until you get growing pains - then you can stay steady at that dosage. You may need more than one menstrual cycle to figure out which dosage works best for you.
I don't think you should just take it two times and abandon it. In one of my earlier responses, I posted the link to a menstrual graph. The graph tells you when estrogen and progesterone levels should rise and drop. According to the graph, if you have a 28 day cycle, progesterone should begin to rise slowly from day 11 or 12 and peak at day 24 or 25. These are the days you should take fennel or other phytoprogesterone. Since you do BBT charting, my advice would be to introduce phytoprogesterone's after you ovulate till a few days before the start of your period.
Goats rue is also called galega officianalis. Do a google search with both names. I buy goats rue from herbalcom.com. It comes in powdered form, so you'll have to buy tea bags (you can get it from Amazon or there might be health food stores in your area that stock it) and put the powder in the tea bags in order to make your tea. I think you can also buy goats rue extract from amazon (think its made by Mother's love brand).
I used Robust for a bit. Then I bought the liquid extract from ainterol. I finally stopped buying any of the above because it was getting too pricy for me. What I did was buy the PM powder (in bulk) from the ainterol website and I make my own PM liquid extract.
I steep the pm powder in 160 proof vodka for a two week period. Its advisable to stir it twice a day. After two week, I filter out the PM with a cheese cloth. Because I do not want the alcohol content to be too high, I dilute the extract with distilled water
Its good that you are going to have a talk with your Doctor. Maybe you can have a hormone test.
As to taking fennel, you can start low and increase the dosage slowly until you get growing pains - then you can stay steady at that dosage. You may need more than one menstrual cycle to figure out which dosage works best for you.
I don't think you should just take it two times and abandon it. In one of my earlier responses, I posted the link to a menstrual graph. The graph tells you when estrogen and progesterone levels should rise and drop. According to the graph, if you have a 28 day cycle, progesterone should begin to rise slowly from day 11 or 12 and peak at day 24 or 25. These are the days you should take fennel or other phytoprogesterone. Since you do BBT charting, my advice would be to introduce phytoprogesterone's after you ovulate till a few days before the start of your period.
Goats rue is also called galega officianalis. Do a google search with both names. I buy goats rue from herbalcom.com. It comes in powdered form, so you'll have to buy tea bags (you can get it from Amazon or there might be health food stores in your area that stock it) and put the powder in the tea bags in order to make your tea. I think you can also buy goats rue extract from amazon (think its made by Mother's love brand).
I used Robust for a bit. Then I bought the liquid extract from ainterol. I finally stopped buying any of the above because it was getting too pricy for me. What I did was buy the PM powder (in bulk) from the ainterol website and I make my own PM liquid extract.
I steep the pm powder in 160 proof vodka for a two week period. Its advisable to stir it twice a day. After two week, I filter out the PM with a cheese cloth. Because I do not want the alcohol content to be too high, I dilute the extract with distilled water