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TTC Vitamin advice.

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Nmmck93 · 26/03/2023 20:38

I’m currently taking folic acid & vitamin D vitamins. But I’m not sure if the ones I’m taking would be the right strength if anyone else is taking these exact ones? (I know my folic acid is fine it’s these vitamin D ones)

I have ordered the seven seas trying for a baby, but after read on this forum that quite a lot of people have found they have really messed with their cycle, I’m not sure I’m going to take them.

any advice welcome, or what else I should also take ontop of these?

TTC Vitamin advice.
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Nmmck93 · 10/04/2023 10:24

@MK85 yeah, I’m sure it’ll cause no harm taking abit extra.

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MK85 · 09/04/2023 23:44

@Nmmck93 well fertility did advise me to take a vitamin d on top of a conception multivitamin which also contains vitamin d so I assume the higher dose must be safe. They surely wouldn't advise me to take a dose that is unsafe. Alot of the advice I've read online too suggest a higher dose of vitamin d when trying to get pregnant . Alot of us here are actually deficient in vitamin d anyways

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Nmmck93 · 03/04/2023 17:13

@Madwife123 im not sure on my BMI as I don’t weigh myself due to having an unhealthy obsession with weighing myself a few years ago.
But I have the palest white skin ever and a natural ginger. I also live in Northern Ireland where the sun shows itself for a whole month in a year lol.

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Madwife123 · 31/03/2023 02:39

@Nmmck93 What’s your BMI and also your ethnicity as that affects how much folic acid and vit D you should be taking.

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Nmmck93 · 30/03/2023 10:08

@Un7breakable thank you, I actually just bit the bullet and started seven seas last night with the rest of my vitamins and hoping for the best.
thank you.

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Un7breakable · 29/03/2023 18:59

Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 14:52

@Un7breakable pregnacare or seven seas?

@Reugny thank you for that, I could nearly bet that I’m low due to living in such a miserable city where we get sun for like 2 weeks on a year 🙈 but I do appreciate your advice. I’m definitely going to sit down tonight and look into the home kit and maybe contact my doctor for a test there first.

@Mushroo oh, so maybe stay away from those. It’s just so hard to know what to give your body in preparation.

Pregnacare. I'm on seven seas now and no issue.

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Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 17:40

@MK85 yeah, I wouldn’t say they’ll even speak to me lol. Oh my PCOS was never that severe, I always had a period but it was so messed up.
Yeah I had my to laparoscopy with it a year of each other, first one was private as they where messing me about constantly saying it was a flare up in the appendix by my family knew it was something more, thankfully the doctor privately took me so serious and done his upmost best and had me in surgery within 4 weeks. Hopefully you get seen soon!
Yeah, I’ve been doing that for years with foods. Aswell.
i called to boots after work and grabbed omega 3, calcium with vitamin D&K and Vitamin C and have them all in a little tablet holder with my seven seas trying for a baby. If you shook me I’d rattle the amount I’m going to take. I did get a chat with my cousin who is a doctor and she said I 100% need vitamin D without even testing because of where I live and how I’m always wrapped up because I’m such a cold person. I’m only ever warm in a foreign country!
fingers crossed we both get the results we want very soon 🤞🏻

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MK85 · 29/03/2023 17:19

@Nmmck93 that's great your cycles seem regular so hopefully you do ovulate every month. Since you are regular gps probably won't do much for you with testing levels unless you've been trying unsuccessfully for 2 years.
Fingers crossed my regular cycles stick. I was previously having one to 2 periods a year 😔 I was prescribed metformin and clomid but it was all the supplements that ive found really helped and I'm now having a period every month and ovulating.
Since you said you have endo aswell try and focus on anti inflammatory foods which is really important if you have endo. Things like blueberries, brocolli , tumeric , almonds ect worthwhile looking up.
I don't have confirmed endo , just suspected at this stage . I'm awaiting a laproscopy . On the one month I conceived I was taking tumeric tablets which i read is apparently highly recommended for endo as its great for immflamation. Interestingly I got pregnant that month but you can only take it upto ovulation. It definitely helps immflamation as I had an ultrasound showed swelling around one tube and the sent me for a dye followed by another scan when I went to RFC and they said everything looks fine but my local consultant wanted me to go ahead with the investigative surgery anyway to check it out and to check for endo

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Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 16:10

@Matildahoney oh I know, I mostly go on reviews on other people. If there's more negative than positive reviews I'll make the decision on that.
I do however have trying for a bay seven seas, read some bad reviews about it but then since starting this thread more people have said it's been fine for them so I'm going to give them a go instead before switching to something else as I have a two month supply of them.
I usually order things in bulk so this is what I did for them lol.

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Matildahoney · 29/03/2023 16:07

I've been on pregnacara about 1 year and my cycles have been fine. Just because something has affected someone else doesn't mean it'll affect yours.

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Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 15:34

@MK85 - my cycles are anything between 28-33 days. It differs each month depending on when I ovulate. This month I didnt ovulate until CD17/18 so has pushed my AF abit for next month again.
My doctors are awful in fairness, so I doubt they would help me. My PCOS hasn't been overly bad symptoms wise, my endo though has given me quite a lot of flare ups in the last year & I've had 2 surgeries already (last one being around 10 years ago when I was 18/19)
Oh I'm so sorry to hear, sending you loads of baby dust & hope this is your cycle.
It's hard to know what you need to give your body to help getting pregnant without getting tests and just a guessing game.

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MK85 · 29/03/2023 15:29

@Nmmck93 Gps will very likely offer you routine testing if they think you need it like blood pressure, blood sugars, thyroid stuff like that to check general health when trying for a baby. Weather or not they would offer hormone testing or not really depends on the doctor and how much of a stiffer they are for saving money. Are your cycles regular? As if so I found gps wouldn't help us at all. It was only when my cycles became very irregular that the gp ordered bloods to check my hormone levels . My pcos was quite bad tho at that time and we have since been referred on to fertility clinic in belfast , Although in past few months I've had regular periods and managed to get pregnant in december but ended up in a loss so I'm really hoping we get lucky again

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Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 15:14

@MK85 you too! The TWW is taking its time. Trying to hold out as long as I can to test. 🙈

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Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 15:14

@MK85 thank you, yeah there’s a place in the city that does all kinds of tests they send me multiple emails ever since I got a covid test for going to Spain so might look into there aswell as my doctor.
oh thank you, I’ll look into an omega supplement aswell.

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MK85 · 29/03/2023 15:12

Oh and good luck for this cycle 🤞 I'm currently 4DPO

MK85 · 29/03/2023 15:11

I haven't tried the seven seas but I've had no issue with the pregnacare but I suppose it all depends. Those people who found it lengthend their luteal phase may have accumulated too much in the body. Our bodies are really temperamental. Too much of something, too little of something, stress, even one night of bad sleep can all wreck havoc on our cycle.
If you can afford it , there's lots of health and wellbeing centres around that offer testing for vitamin and mineral levels so you can gather where your at and what your lacking ect . Alot of places that offer acupuncture ect would offer it. It's around £50

Since you have pcos If your not getting enough fish I'd also really recommend supplementing with an omega or vegan algae supplement to support egg quality

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Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 14:52

@Un7breakable pregnacare or seven seas?

@Reugny thank you for that, I could nearly bet that I’m low due to living in such a miserable city where we get sun for like 2 weeks on a year 🙈 but I do appreciate your advice. I’m definitely going to sit down tonight and look into the home kit and maybe contact my doctor for a test there first.

@Mushroo oh, so maybe stay away from those. It’s just so hard to know what to give your body in preparation.

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Mushroo · 29/03/2023 14:48

Pregnacare also messed up my cycle - started taking them and had a 37 day cycle.

Back to normal once I stopped.

Reugny · 29/03/2023 14:47

There are other providers of vitamin and mineral tests but they don't do home test kits.

Sorry that isn't strictly true but their home test kits that you post off often can't give you all the results they list due to the amount of blood taken being too little.

Reugny · 29/03/2023 14:46

OP if you are going to spend money on supplements then it is worth getting tested first.

If you just want to find out your vitamin D level, as it is a fat soluble vitamin, you can get a private vitamin D test if you haven't had one from a NHS lab that does private work - https://www.vitamindtest.org.uk/

Then once you have had your test if you are low you can supplement at the right amount to increase your levels.

There are other providers of vitamin and mineral tests but they don't do home test kits.

In regards to B vitamins like folic acid as they are water soluble you can supplement them but you will end up pee them out if you take excess and don't have kidney problems.

Un7breakable · 29/03/2023 14:46

Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 14:26

I've just went onto boots and seen that these seem to be highly reviewed and on offer so was considering maybe this?
Although as I've stated I do have seven seas trying for a baby at home but have read some negative reviews on those so I haven't started taking those yet.

These messed up my cycle

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Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 14:39

@dementedpixie thank you very much! i’m also going to get some Calcium as I’ve read on google that also needs to be increased and I don’t eat dairy - not for any reason other than I don’t really like it lol

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dementedpixie · 29/03/2023 14:37

You could always take the seven seas ones with a vitamin d tablet on top as that wouldn't exceed the vitamin d limit

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Nmmck93 · 29/03/2023 14:34

@dementedpixie and this is the trying for a baby, which has less vitamin D.

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dementedpixie · 29/03/2023 14:34

I just think it's a lot of money to pay to pee most of it all out again. All nhs advises is folic acid and vitamin d.