I've just started using these items recently to conceive. My periods are semi regular…I was almost a week late this month and started using Vitex/Chaste Tree which brought on my cycle thank GOD, started EPO the day my cycle started, started drinking Green tea the week before my cycle started and religously taking my prenatals. Has anyone had positive results due to taking any of the above or am I wasting my time and have my hopes up for nothing? Please only helpful answers…also I am experiencing pretty frequent headaches..not sure if this is a side effect…any help is greatly appreciated!!
I'm not pregnant…I am asking if anyone has gotten pregnant as a result of using the items I have listed..sorry if I wasn't clear.
AGAIN, I am not pregnant…READ THE QUESTION. Just wondering if anyone has gotten pregnant using the above items…DANG!!!!!!
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1 Christina J // Jul, 2008
Unless you are on certain fertility drugs ( I am not sure of the names), you should only get a positive if you are pregnant, recently gave birth, or recently miscarried. All of the herbal things you are taking would not result in a positive test. I would say that if you have a positive pregnancy test, you are more than likely pregnant and should call your doctor to schedule an appointment for prenatal care.
I get really bad headaches throughout my pregnancies, right from the start to the very end. I think it is the hormones because I am the same way on birth control.
2 Kupedeville // Jul, 2008
You cannot get a false positive pregnancy test it is impossible. You can only get fasle negatives. If you take a test and it says you are pregnant, then you are pregnant. It says right on the instructions and in the pregancy books I have been reading.
3 Jeneanne G // Jul, 2008
i hope you know you souldnot be drinking a lot of green tea!
Limit Green Tea Consumption During the First Trimester of Pregnancy
According to a study published in the March 2005 issue of Cancer Research, ECGC, a catechin present in green tea in amounts about 5 times higher than in black tea, inhibits the enzyme dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), which cancer cells need to be able to grow, and which is a well recognized target of anti-cancer drugs.
Scientists decided to look at ECGC after they realized the green tea catechin looks a lot like the cancer drug methotrexate, which prevents cancer cells from making DNA by inhibiting the DHFR enzyme. They discovered that ECGC kills cancer cells in the same way as the drug.
Although ECGC binds strongly to DHFR, which is essential in both healthy and cancerous cells, it does not bind as tightly as methotrexate, so its side effects on healthy cells are less severe than those of the drug.
ECGC's binding to DHFR may also explain why women who drink large amounts of green tea around the time they conceive and early in their pregnancy may have an increased risk of having a child with spina bifida or other neural tube disorders.
Women are advised to take supplements of folic acid when trying to conceive and during the first trimester (the first 3 months) of pregnancy because it is during this time period that the baby's neural tube is developing. Folic acid helps ensure normal development and protects against spina bifida by enabling the production of the enzyme DHFR. While a cup or two of green tea is unlikely to pose a problem, drinking large amounts of green tea could decrease the activity of DHFR, increasing risk of neural tube defects.
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