Hello everyone, hope you are all doing good..
Something strange happened to me this month and i can not stop wondering what the heck happened..
I miscarried in November (was a silent MC that should have happend at around 5 weeks but found out at 11 weeks) and soon after i began taking the wellwoman (pregnacare) conception tablets.
I didnt track my ovulation for december because i was just looking forward to having my period so that i know that everything is back in working order.
I noticed i had alot of heavy discharge mid december (around 15th december and a few days over) so i assumed that was around when i ovulated.
Because i was determined to get my body back to being healthy as i felt i was not physically ready for the previous pregnancy that ended in MC i decided to add raspberry leaf capsules to my diet around the 17th december.
I took these raspberry leaf capsules religiously every night along with the pregnacare conception tablets and i had my period that lasted the usual amount of days (7 days) as it used to before my last pregnancy and the date it stopped was the 4th January.
Now normally, i would start getting my LH surge around the 17th of january as my cycle is 30 days long.
I used the clearblue ovulation tracker and i got that flashy smiley face that shows my LH are rising and normally after a few days of a flashing smiley i get the smiley face that doesnt flash which means my LH are at a peak. This time however, i got the flashy smiley for two days and by then my pack had finished so then i bought a new pack for the next day (yesterday) and when i tested, i got the blank circle which showed there was no LH surge..
I was gutted and worried at the same time as that had never happened to me before where i tested with clearblue everyday and not got the non flashy smiley face.
I thought "okay maybe my LH didnt peak and i probably didnt ovulate" so left it at that.
I told my husband and he told me it could be the raspberry leaf capsules because thats the only new addition that i had to my usual diet. So i stopped taking these yesterday.
Today, i just decided to take a test out of curiosity and i have the flashy smiley face again! 😧
Idk whats going on..
Could it be that the raspberry leaf was causing my LH levels to rise causing me to have a false reading? And this LH rise is the real one?
Has anyone else had this experience?
I mean.. how can you go from the flashy smiley indicating that your LH is surging but then turn to a blank circle the next day and then back to a flashy smiley the day after that to show your LH is surging again??
It is very upsetting.. i do not have PCOS by the way and no symptoms of PCOS either (i know what the symptoms are because my older sister has it) so i dont know why this is happening to me 😞