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[the-marionette.livejournal.com]

*Takes a seat in the hut*

Thanks to the parsley tea, my period has come a full week early. I will be able to keep my ob/gyn appointment. I am using my keeper for the first time and am in love. I wore it overnight with only one small problem. Seeing the small pool of blood when emptying it was a little weird but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

The parsley tea and keeper have totally changed my attitude towards my menstrual cycle. I used to look on my period as a burden -- something that I had no control over and that I had to plan around. The birth control pills I take never gave me a feeling of control but did make things a little more predictable. I'm now realizing that I do have a certain amount of control over my period and it's a very liberating feeling.

I'd like to thank everyone in this wonderful community for all the great information, support and fun. I always love reading entries here.

Comments

[sugarpuss.livejournal.com]

How exactly does this parsley tea thing work? Is it safe?

[the-marionette.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure how it works. [Unknown site tag] in this entry (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?itemid=20353184&nc=17) answered a lot of my questions about the parsley tea. Basically you take 1 tablespoon of parsley flakes from the spice aisle of a the supermarket and put it in a mug of hot but not boiling water. Let it steep for 10-15 minutes, strain off the parsley and drink. Do this three times a day and your period should arrive in a day or two. I actually only had to drink two mug fulls before my period came in full force. The only safety issue I heard was told to me by another user. Parsley is a diuretic and it can cause loss of potassium. There is also another tea recipe listed in comments of that entry but it calls for unusual ingredients such as mugwort and pennyroyal herb which you can't exactly go to the corner market for.

[sugarpuss.livejournal.com]

Well, my period has always been REALLY irregular. Last year I went *seven months* without one, and I'm almost at three months right now. I've been to the gyno for it, and they've never found anything wrong (had an ultrasound and everything). I mean, I guess it's not so bad NOT bleeding every month, but I'd really kind of like my period to come... so this idea sounds neat.

How does it taste?

[the-marionette.livejournal.com]

Some women who have tried it say that it doesn't taste as bad as they think it's going to. I'm sure you could add honey to it but I didn't. I just brewed it and drank it straight. I'm a purist when it comes to my tea, no milk no sugar ever. I thought it tasted like crap to me, like I'd taken grass clippings from outside and made tea out of them. I'd go out and buy a new bottle of parsley flakes rather than fish through your mother's spice cabinet. I think if I'd used new flakes it might have turned out better.

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

How about fresh parsley? It's usually cheap, and it's really easy to grow.

[the-marionette.livejournal.com]

Fresh parsley was brought up in the other post. I have no idea how much you'd have to eat or if brewing the fresh parsley would work or not. Give it a shot :)

yay

[tyrsalvia.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad the parsely tea thing worked for you. The first time I tried it, I was so in shock that I could control something that for so long had in effect controlled me. It was amazingly liberating, hard to explain to someone who hasn't had that experience. How many cups did you drink over how long?

Re: yay

[the-marionette.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY! That's exactly how it made me feel. It was just so liberating and I cannot describe it. My mother wanted to know why on earth I was taking a bottle of parsley flakes to work. I told her. She said it was a load of bullshit. I told her it wasn't that I was on my period right now. I think she's converted :)

I drank one cup before I went to bed Tuesday. I drank another cup Wednesday morning. I made another cup Wednesday afternoon but went to the bathroom before I drank it and there was my period.

I used two tablespoons instead of one as the parsley flakes were old and sort of stale.

Re: yay

[mary-contrary.livejournal.com]

Damn. That's so cool. Next time mine decides to act up and be late again, I'll have to try that.

[tyrsalvia.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't say you *have* to go to the doctor, but the thing is, if your uterus lining doesn't want to shed, there might be something else going on like a pregnancy. Parsely tea is not an abortificant, so if you are pregnant, it will not make you bleed. However, it's not good for the fetus either, so you should stop if it doesn't work after that long. The other thing is that if your uterus lining doesn't want to shed, you could have some other kind of disease you should get checked out for.

Besides, I know three days doesn't sound like a long time, but in reality, this stuff works fast. The longest I've ever had to do this was a day and a half.

[ailbhe]

Parsely tea is not an abortificant, so if you are pregnant, it will not make you bleed.

Hey, I can start using it! Very cool.

[the-marionette.livejournal.com]

tyrsalvia is right. The stuff works amazingly fast. Two mugs of the tea was all it took for me.