Name: Shanna
What was the date of the first day of your last menstrual period?
Do you know the date of fertilizing intercourse? What was it?
I am not sure that I was actually pregnant. I had unprotected sex on February 20th and 21st. I know conception is unlikely at that point in the cycle, but I never miss a period, am very rarely late, and if I am, it's only a day or 2. Also, about a week after the unprotected sex, I began to experience symptoms of pregnancy. I have only experienced them once before, and that time I was pregnant.
What was the date you were expecting menstruation?
When were the herbs started? Please include a summary of dosage information.
How was the pregnancy ended?
Were you successful in using the herbs?
Did you have a pregnancy test? What was the result? and when was it taken?
Is this your first pregnancy?
Were you using birth control? If you were not using birth control, please share why not.
Comments -
I started the herbs on February 25th. I took Vitamin C only (1000 mg every 2 hours, except at night. Then, I took 2000mg before going to bed, and got up once during the night to take another 2000 mg) until February 29th. On the evening of the 29th, I added Dong Quai. First I took 1000 mg every 4 hours.
Then, the morning of March 1st, I upped the dose to 1000 mg every 2 hours. On March 3rd, I forgot my Vitamin C and Dong Quai when leaving home. I stopped at the pharmacy on the way to the office to buy replacements. I got the Vitamin C without a problem. They were out of Dong Quai, though. So, I got some Black Cohosh. I continued to take the Vitamin C as I had been, and started the Black Cohosh, 1000 mg every 2 hours as well. I had been having light cramping since beginning the Dong Quai, but never saw any evidence of menstrual flow. I had experienced dizziness, breast tenderness and swelling, darkening and an enlargement of the area surrounding the nipple, prolonged nausea, fatigue, and vaginal discharge -- all of which were the symptoms I experienced when I was pregnant before. After 2 doses of the Vitamin C, coupled with the Black Cohosh, I began to spot. I continued to take them both for the remainder of the day, and the bleeding increased and became more steady. I bled a little heavier than usual for 5 days (which was a day longer than normal).
Is there anything you would have done differently?
Obviously, I think, I would have ensured that I had used protection in the first place so that I wouldn't have had any worries at all. Regarding the use of the herbs, nothing.
Submitted: March 15, 2000
Weight: 225, 5'10" tall.
Age: 30
Success: Yes
Pregnancy Test: None taken
January 22, 2000. It was a little early.
I expecting it February 23rd. My period is normally like clockwork. I began worrying when it hadn't shown up by February 25th.
Vitamin C (1000 mg every 2 hours, except at night), Dong Quai (1000mg every 2 hours, except at night), and Black Cohosh (1000mg every 2 hours).
Spotting started after the second dose of Black Cohosh. It got heavier as the day went along. I bled for 5 days, just a little heavier and longer than a normal period for me.
The herbs brought on menstruation.
No, I didn't. I was scared of what the results might be. The only time I have ever missed a period before, I was pregnant.
If I was in fact pregnant, no, it is not. I miscarried when I was pregnant before.
I was not using any. I had been having problems with my boyfriend for several weeks, and we'd basically decided to stop seeing each other, at least for a while. I had not expected to be sexually active anytime in the near future. But, we ended up having a long talk and making love. It seemed to catch both of us off guard as it was not something that was intended, so neither of us had prepared.
