ryanandmaran

I just realized that while you're responding to my post on chasteberry, I've been responding to yours on Monk's pepper!

Anyway, I don't know if I actually have low progesterone. I have just started charting my basal body temp, as well as looking for cervical fluid, and both months I did it, my charts showed no sign of ovulation (they just bounced around, but never really went up or down), and I didn't detect any cervical fluid.

So I don't know if this means I don't ovulate, or if I just didn't ovulate these past two months. But since my husband and I have had unprotected sex for two years without conceiving, (although we just officially started "trying") I can safely assume something's going on. Plus, some months my period comes right on time (usually about 32-34 day cycle), but sometimes it'll be a week or two late for no apparent reason.

Next month, in addition to charting my temps and looking for cervical fluid, I am also going to try a fertility monitor, and see what that tells me.

I want to try and do lots of things on my own before I actually go to a doctor for treatment. So I've been taking vitamins, and I just started taking Primrose oil. Then, when I heard that Vitex can have a balancing effect, I thought it would be worth a shot. If anything, it should at least make my periods more regular.

Can you please tell me how you found out your pregosterone levels were low? I called a clinic yesterday that I thought could do a hormone test very easily, only to be told that it was not a simple procedure.

[This message has been edited by ryanandmaran (edited 10-25-2003).]