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I am officially in the hut. Allow me to just take a moment to say... "IT'S ABOUT FREAKIN' TIME!!!"

I have been having horrendeously irregular periods since stopping the pill back in April. I posted last week ranting all about that little issue, but what I didn't mention was that I did some research on herbs to regulate the menstral cycle and turned up some marvelous emmenogouges. I went the slighly passive/agressive route and started drinking a ton of raspberry leaf tea (Traditional Medicinals in case anyone is wondering) and taking 30 drops of dong quai tincture a day for the last week. Yesterday, it paid off. I started bleeding! Yay me! I'm a girl again!

Okay, that's all I have to say. :)

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[kwokj.livejournal.com]

Dong quai can be nasty tasting stuff, but my mom knows what to have with it to make it an unusual, though appealing soup. In the way she learned from her female relatives, having it each cycle following the bleeding keeps you regular. It's also supposed to (possibly a poor translation) replenish you in some sense. Taking the it to induce a period is new to me, but whatever works :)