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It's almost been a year

**FYI TMI** In July it will be a year since we started trying. Thinking it would be an easy road. Lots of our friends had success in two months and others four. I never thought it'd be an issue for me because every time my mom thought about having another baby she was pregnant. You know, coming from six kids makes me automatically think I'm a fertile myrtle. HA! The April before last I went to my doc to talk about my irregular cycles. I'm far from having 28 day cycles...And always have been...Mine are more like 44 days one month and then 65 days the next. The doc's conclusion is that I'm anovulotry . We can still work with this. I started taking biphasic tinctures. These are hormone enhancing herbs to help my body get back in cycle sync. They worked for about 3 months and then I gave up. The taste is horrid. Imagine taking a shot of rubbing alcohol mixed with tree bark, licorice, and black tea. I'm not sure what's in them, but that's what it tastes like. My next step was Acupuncture. I started in January and stopped last month. While going to acupuncture I was drinking these blood enhancing teas. They were awful! Made the tinctures seem like chocolate. I really liked going to acupuncture, but I guess I was hoping after going every other week for five months I would have seen more of a change. So I'm back on the tinctures. I've been taking them for a month now and it seems to be working. I have my next doctors appointment in July and we'll see what the next is from there.

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