What supplements are you taking while TTC?

Worth a go pipbin thanks for replying. Hope you get your BFP soon. Let us know so we can raid Aldi for honey!

I pinched this from another conception thread on here but I thought it might be useful, it's a woman's ttc plan based on supplements.
supplement info

PreheatedOven Manuka honey supposedly increases blood flow to you reproductive organs.
All the 'proof' of it working is mainly hearsay. I am taking it as another mumsnetter told me that she had had her BFP on the first month after taking it. So I'm having two teaspoons a day since she said. Its almost certainly coincidence but it's worth a go.
Research told me that you can get it from Aldi for £4 a jar. It's about £10 - £25 most other places!

P.S. I don't know if he's right, just reporting what he said :)

Back from my consultant of whom I asked some questions about vitamins.

He recommended taking vitamin D - there are studies been done and on going showing it is good for conception, and during pg. Can reduce the chance of pre-eclampsia and some other things.

For other mentioned supplements - including man and lady combo vits, he said don't bother. A decent diet should give you everything you need.

Vitamin B complex isn't something they would suggest for LP deficiency or anything, so again he just said he wouldn't bother.

However, he also said there's no harm in them.

I think I will take the vit-b complex and vitamin d, and put my DH on the wellman vits (he's got mild male factor problems). We're doing another SA in 3-4 months, so will be able to see if they seem to have made a difference. First two samples were almost identical.

Hello - thought I'd add in Q10 for egg quality. Please google but I think it supports immune system and is an antioxidant. Also a MNer recommended wheatgrass (which she took as tablets). I'm trying the powder and it's disgusting but I'm used to martyring myself to the cause.

I'm on Viridian pro-fertility general vits. I'm also taking eve prim oil up to ov to increase fertile CM/oestrogen levels. But then I'm a bit of an old duffer.

Omega 3 Pops is supposed to be brill for building new cells, especially good for the brain. Might help with migraines you know. xxx

FYI, I went to Tesco this morning and they currently have a 3-for-2 on all their vitamins, including own-brand, pregnancare and wellman. They also do an own-brand wellman vitamin :)

I take the following:

On consultant's recommendation:
Pregnacare + Omega 3
Vit D3
Low dose aspirin

Off my own bat:
Cinammon (taken for Raynaud's but may help ttc blood flow too)
B6

Other half takes Wellman Conception when he remembers (or I remind him) but he is pretty poor at this. These are quite difficult to find but sometimes my local Boots has them in a double pack with Pregnacare Conception.

Hi Aworryingtrend, So happy you have took the time to give me such a nice reply.
So it looks like we shall both take a trip to our local Boots, and put our "red faces" one side while we buy our vitamins.
He is really very happy there are at least 4,5 million swimmers back, as he has heard some men get nothing back after the reversal op.
Thanks again Aworryingtrend
Fay [Hugs]

Fay 30 there is a male equivalent of the pregnacare ones- something like wellman conception? I've seen them in boots. They contain essential vitamins such as high levels of zinc which will help your partner's sperm count and quality.

Hi every one, [big wave from me] first poster.
I am facinated on the information that is available.
We are TTC for a year, and now decide to try to help things along with some supps. and vits.
DH has low'ish a&b swimmers, after a snip reversal op, so good information for him to start taking zinc.
His a&b swimmers are 4,5 million, which isn't great, but better than zero.
So I will start to take Pregnacare, so his swimmers will have the best chancers of finding my eggs.

Best wishes to all,,

FAY [hug]

Thank you very much worryingtrend :)

Sorry more questions I'm afraid!
High dose VitC is 1000mg ok? Do I take this from CD1 to O?
How much VitB complex should we be having?

Google is so confusing!

What does Manuka honey do?

worrying I think as they're in blisterpacks they're ok to store - it's the ones in tubs that "go off", as apparently the damp gets to them and the level of some vitamins (like vit c) decrease, iykwim. I read you shouldn't store them in the kitchen (because it's damp - all that steam etc) and you should use open tubs within 1 month.

What're the fish oils for, far?

I take pregnacare conception as I'm quite a run-down person anyway; I was taking "normal" vitamins before ttc, but then someone said they can have prohibitively high levels of vit a, so I changed over.

I have been taking Boots own conception tablet and put DH on Boots A - Z as we are both Vegi and I'm worried about his zinc levels.

I'm also taking two teaspoons of Manuka honey a day. Who knows, might help.

Thanks Farfalla, its good you can get them from Amazon, I wasn't sure if you could only get them in London or something. Pregnacare is usually around £10 a month, sometimes you can get them on a Buy 1 Get 1 half price in H&B, i'm wary though of buying them to far in advance as I don't know if the vitamins go off or are less effective after a while?

PreheatedOven I LOVE your name!

Pregnacare and Equazen's Mum Omega. I took them prior to getting pg with DS, all the way through, all through breastfeeding and pretty much ever since.
Both of the ones I take are on permanently 3 for 2 at Boots, so that helps with the cost.

Sorry the yes was in answer to 'do I need a mortgage'. I have no idea how effective they are versus Sanatogen or cheaper brands. Surely they must all do the same sort of thing?

The answer is yes I think so although I don't know how much pregnacare costs. I get it from Amazon as its cheaper than from the Zita West website directly. Its about £17 for a month.

Is there much difference between that Sanatogen?

I take the pregnacare conception vitamins and whilst I haven't got my BFP yet, my skin, hair and nails are the best they've ever been.

Can I ask please where you buy the zita West vitamins from, and will I need to remortgage the house to buy a month's supply?

Apparently Vit C can increase progesterone, this is quite a nice website with some good research which I studied obsessively after my first MC

Apparently it needs to be buffered vitamin c for absorbtion.

sites.google.com/site/miscarriageresearch/vitamins-and-miscarriage/vitamin-c

I started taking the zita west at the recommendation of my accupuncture lady. It seems to have a lot more stuff in it than pregnacare. Its even more expensive though
She is adamanat that the cheaper vitamins are useless as they are not easily absorbed by the body but who knows? I am giving it 3 more months on it and then will probably move to pregnacare.

It isn't a great study... If you've got the money to spend on supplements, fine, but if you've not, then don't worry about it. That study doesn't really show much and certainly doesn't prove anything. If you've got limited money then I would put it towards healthy food rather than vitamins unless you've got a particular problem with your diet!! (eg can't stand veg...)

I'm using superdrug's own brand pregnancy vitamins. Compared to pregnacare etc it has lower levels of everything apart from folic acid but I have a pretty healthy diet so I figure it's OK!

Interesting article Pixie but this quote caught my eye:

'Prof Alison Murdoch, Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Newcastle University said: ?This is not a well designed study; the numbers are small and they have not provided any evidence of causation.'

I was on folic acid and B6 for the first six months of ttc, but have been put off Pregnacare because it's so bloody expensive. I've just started on Morrison's own Pregnancy vitamins which are £4 for 45 so much more pocket friendly! Who knows if it'll do the trick? I'm a bit cynical about a lot of supplements if you have a healthy diet to be honest, for example if you take more than the RDA of vitamin C then you just excrete the left over vitamin, but now that I'm cycle 7 I figure it can't hurt!

I am taking the following

ASDA Folic acid - although I think this leave a funny tablet taste for the rest of the day
ASDA 1000 soluble Vit C (drink when I first get to work to replace my morning coffee - I actually quite enjoy it )
ASDA Selenium with Vit A,C & E

I also have a couple of brazil nuts and cinnamon on my porridge (thanks Generic) when I remember!!!

I have just bought some Pregnacare conception vits on 3 for 2, but haven't started them yet.