Vitex questions

mamabear73 · January 2018

i will preface this by saying I know I am older (just turned 45 Monday), but I don’t want to focus on that like the OB/GYN did after my mc back in July. Hell, he wanted to hit me over the head with it and it was all he focused on. I will also add that the women in my family do wait a bit longer to have children and have had them, sometimes a first, into their 40’s. Anyway, after that mc at 8 weeks, I got pregnant again within two cycles but had another mc two weeks after a pos pregnancy test. I do have an 11 year old child and had a chemical pregnancy when she was about four. Anyway, I started reading about supplements and even went to a holistic doctor who gave me sepia. I have to admit I didn’t take that one regularly. I did stumble upon Vitex. I want to know if anyone else has had a negative experience with it. Since taking it, I have not registered any ovulation at all, and this cycle only lasted 20 days. I stopped it after that happened. If you have had an experience like mine while on Vitex, how long did it take for your cycle to go back to normal? I will also add I went to another OB/GYN who did genetic, etc. testing and said I’m good to go. And while I know it’s possible to be perimenopausal at my age, women on both sides of my family tree did not stop periods til mid 50’s.

lurvleybunchococonuts · January 2018

mamabear73 said:

i will preface this by saying I know I am older (just turned 45 Monday), but I don’t want to focus on that like the OB/GYN did after my mc back in July. Hell, he wanted to hit me over the head with it and it was all he focused on. I will also add that the women in my family do wait a bit longer to have children and have had them, sometimes a first, into their 40’s. Anyway, after that mc at 8 weeks, I got pregnant again within two cycles but had another mc two weeks after a pos pregnancy test. I do have an 11 year old child and had a chemical pregnancy when she was about four. Anyway, I started reading about supplements and even went to a holistic doctor who gave me sepia. I have to admit I didn’t take that one regularly. I did stumble upon Vitex. I want to know if anyone else has had a negative experience with it. Since taking it, I have not registered any ovulation at all, and this cycle only lasted 20 days. I stopped it after that happened. If you have had an experience like mine while on Vitex, how long did it take for your cycle to go back to normal? I will also add I went to another OB/GYN who did genetic, etc. testing and said I’m good to go. And while I know it’s possible to be perimenopausal at my age, women on both sides of my family tree did not stop periods til mid 50’s.

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[Deleted User] · January 2018

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Hey there. So I took Vitex for about 2 months until I found out that it can actually have some negative consequences (like changing the effectiveness of fertility drugs - which I needed to go on). The good news is that it apparently takes a long time to actually build up in your system. If you just took it for two or three weeks it's unlikely that it was the cause of your short cycle. If anything Vitex would have elongated your cycle. I think you might be better served by reading It Starts with the Egg. That book focuses on improving egg and sperm quality. It's likely your losses have stemmed from problems with egg/sperm quality which is something ALL women and men can deal with but it does definitely become more of a problem when you get into your 40s and 50s. I know you don't want to focus too much on age (I don't blame you!) but you do need to know what you're up against and how to best approach that potential obstacle. Best of luck.

PrimRoseMama · January 2018

Avoid Vitex. It can mess you up. If you continue to have CP; that needs investigation by a medical professionals. Holistic remedies have their place, but altering hormone levels is not one of them.

mamabear73 · February 2018

Thanks. I certainly won’t be doing Vitex or Sepia anymore. I am going to see if I ovulate this month. If not, it’s back to the OB.

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