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443102 tn?1222125946

Can someone tell me how to use Evening Primrose Oil and what the benefits of it are?

So, I am preparing for AF.  My temp plummeted this morning...and I am cramping like heck.  So I am preparing for the next cycle.  We were going to go to the next step....injectables (Follistim) but DH wants to wait.  As you all know, it is really expensive and we have no fertility insurance like so many others on this forum.  We are lucky in the sense that we have insurance coverage for the meds, but the procedures are really expensive too.  It is about $1500 a cycle for us to do the Follistim and IUI.  When DH heard that, in combination with the fact that it isn't a guarantee to work the first time, he was really disheartened.  So, I want this to be something we both want to do, as much as I want it.....so I didn't push it.  If I had, he would have found a way for us to scrounge up the money, but I don't want to be that way.  Anyway, we have been taking the last two cycles off of meds and now we are going to continue that break.  (can I say GRRRRR..... :(  )  Anyway, we have been using preseed, OPK, BBT with Fertility Friend, prenatals, DH is on a daily multi vitamin and I was looking for anything else I could try this month.  This, along with a prayer my cleaning lady gave me, we are hoping it works this month.  She gave me a prayer she used 11 years ago during her fertility battles, pulled her family together and asked them to pray it everyday along with her for abour 15 days.  We are catholic, you know how we love those patron saints!  St. Anne is the patron saint of housewives, women in labor and a couple other things.  I know I have prayed to St. Anthony many times when I have misplaced something, and he always pull through and I find what I lost!  St. Anne is also Mary's mother.  Anyway, if anyone is interested in this, please let me know.  This worked for my cleaning lady after trying for 10 years and many many IVF's later, on their last ditch effort, they implemented this prayer at her aunt's request (who is also a nun) and it worked.  I will try anything.  I pray every night for this, why not say a special prayer for my request?

Any help with some extra's I could be doing would be appreciated....

SSBD to all....

Heather
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443102 tn?1222125946
Thank you guys so much!

Guess what?  DH blurted out tonight on our way home from golfing at another course...."How much was this cycle going to cost us if we did the injectables?"  I told him....and he said, "Let's do it..."  I cried and cried.  So we are doing it!  AF has not showed up yet, but I am expecting her ugly warted face anytime....I am cramping like there's no tomorrow and today I felt like complete sh*%.  So, I am expecting to start tomorrow and that means injections will start on Tuesday.  I am going to visit a friend who just got pregnant with twins on her first IVF!  She used Follistim and goes to the same RE...so she will help me get acquainted with the injections.  Not hard, is it?

Thanks for all your support...

Heather
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I just started taking primerose.  On the bottle it says to take 3 pills a day.  I am currently just taking 2 pills a day versus the 3 pills a day on the bottle.  I'll let you know how it goes as I take the pills.  So far no difference yet.
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Hi Heather! EPO helps with CM. I've used it a few times, and it did seem to work, but the recommended dose (up to 3,000 mg a day) made me very crampy and that month my O was also delayed and the cycle seemed kinda off, so I never used the full dose again. I did use  just 1 pill a day, though, for a couple of cycles, and it still seemed to help, but for some reason, I would get the fertile CM a bit too early. It would be abundant a few days before O, but then kinda get back to normal right before and the day of O. That might just be me, though...LOL!

So sorry about stupid AF :-(
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