Hi, I started taking Maca root, on off, from Sep'09 till early this month when I had my bfp. I have stopped taking since and I'm 6 weeks pregnant now. Maca definitely helped in regulating my cycles and reducing PMS. Every month I was suffering from headaches and bodyaches and AF cramps were unbearable. After taking, I felt much better generally and i'm always more cheerful. But most importantly, it increases my sex drive, which I find really helpful especially when we had to BD a few consecutive days during the fertile period. I do not know how some ladies can BD more than once a day. My body's not easily tuned!

Hello Ladies! I have just read your post and I'm going to get me and OH some of this Maca! WelshRose where did you order yours from? Can you just get it anywhere or do you think some are better than others?

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Aww wow...what a nice surprise to come back to ....

Marrissa_E.......Huge congratulations Hun...and thank-you for posting on here....it's stories like yours that give us hope hun...hopefully they'll be a few more maca joining you in first tri soon

SBB....Welcome Hun! There are a lot of places online that you can get hold of it...I ended up using creative-nature.co.uk....it came really quickly and was reasonably priced...£16.54 for 200 (500mg) capsules.

Feeling really excited for us girls....even if it's only regulation of our cycles...it will be worth having a virtual with you all

Heaps of and Luck girls...can't wait to get to know you better

Awww thanks - he's such a special doggy. Bono is 10 and will be 11 in September. He was my hubby's dog and when we bought our house in 04 Bono came too. I soon turned him into my dog and he's spoiled rotten. He suffered a horrible torn cruciate ligament last summer and had to have an op but he's all recovered now although he has been left with arthritis in both knees. He's not as active as he once was but he still loves his walks.

Marrissa_E That's great news - thanks for sharing that - certainly gives me hope

WelshRose I am so eager to get my cycles back to normal. I was taking Agnus Castus for a few months and it was working (OV brought forward from the CD20s to CD16 & CD17 consecutively) but then I stopped it last month cos of the blood results on my thyroid. As it turned out I don't have any thyroid antibodies so am classed as subclinicial hypothyroid and my GP won't treat that as there's less than 3% chance of me going to overt hypothyroidism! - but I'm back on the Agnus Castus now as it can't hurt, plus I'm back charting my BBT this month. I'm really doing my best to try and help my body get back on track and in the meantime, I'm sure the tests will just back things up

Thanks Welshrose - just ordered them!

I am on CD23 my last cycles have been 44-65 days, I think I have endo or PCOS or both... Hopefully this will help... I'm also taking EPO and getting TCM Acupunture on Tuesday! My OH feels the pressure and can't 'perform' if he knows I'm ovulating, so I keep it secret but hopefully the Maca might give him a little extra sex drive!

Hollybush, firstly agree Bono is beautiful! Also, do you mind me asking you about hypothyroidism / thyroid in general. My doc is testing me for it (I think) but I know nothing at all about it - do you mind filling me in? What symptoms do you get and how does it affect ttc?

Thanks girls!

Hey Lovelys...

Holly...Bless him, he looks like such a sweetie. I must put a pic of my furbaby on....she's 9mths old...a black and tan cavalier king charles spaniel...I love her to bits.

I sympathise girls with the cycles being all over the place...mine have been an absolute nightmare these past few months...
I've had one day since the 29th Dec that I've not been bleeding/spotting and no real clue as to why. I used to get spotting around O and then typically spotting at 8/9dpo until the after an 11/12 day LP.
My gyne isn't being very proactive at the moment which is driving me nuts to be honest....hence I'm out there trying to sort myself out

SBB...That's great that you've ordered them....they should be with you by thursday.
I also see a TCM Dr Hun She doesn't do acu on me at the moment thou just keeps me rattling with herbs...apparently my energies need nourishing first before acu.

I don't know what you think of the Maca banner in the sig but thought it would get us a bit more publicity....If either of you can design a better one I really wont be offended and equally I won't be offended if you didn't want to add one
The link thou is Just add the [IMG] at the start and [/IMG] at the end.

Hope you're all having a good evening....I'm off to dunk our Pickle in the bath in a minute....half-term has ended....

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Wow the spotting must be getting really frustrating - I've got it right now too, have had for about 4/5 days... It's so annoying!

I will add the ticker thanks hun (I just need to work out how to do it!)

I'm hoping if you highlight it hun and then right click copy and then paste and add the [IMG][/IMG] around it in your sig area it will work....but I'm no I.T wizard

I think I've done it!

hi ladies, i too read a couple of success stories before deciding to purchase maca. Unfortunately not many from this forum.. Most of them were diagnosed with pcos and the luckier ones strike only a month after taking maca! I was frustrated of course when I didn't get that bfp within a month.. hopefully u ladies will be one of e lucky ones! but i continued taking maca patiently & here we r now. Oh, hubby took it too but stopped after sometime coz he found maca a bit heaty.

Btw, I took the powder form purchased from Amazon,com.. Navitas brand. Heard powder form is better than capsule. u'll will need a higher dosage of capsule to get the same effect as 1 tsp of powder. But powder taste horrible!