Anyone use vitamin b6 to help lengthen your LP?

[rambopeep]

Hi everyone. Haven't posted in a while because ttc again has become so depressing and I needed some time to just check out for awhile and just live life and keep my marriage healthy. But now I am back with my last attempt at ttc #2. Here is some info about me. I am 35, overweight (considered obese for my height) but I don't feel that way. Married for 7 years with a 6 and a half year old girl. Hubby and I have been trying for our second child for way too long, almost 5 years of not preventing but only the last 2 years of actively trying. I always felt that something was wrong with me, but could never prove it because doctors always waved off any concerns that I had with being irrelevant. So I went many years without any medical support.

I finally got frustrated with feeling that time has run out and decided to take matters into my own hands and really started paying closer attention to my cycles. I have always had a very short cycle since I can remember. Only 23 to 24 days long, with only 3 days of menses and always extremely regular. Many people had told me that I was lucky and that I O'd very early in my cycle. My MD also told me that it was completely normal so I didn't think much about it. I tried using OPK's to help me detect if I indeed O'd early since I had no clue when I actually O'd each month but after 2 months of no LH surge detected I went in for a blood test and an ultrasound, which both come out normal. Extremely frustrated and positive that something is indeed wrong, I then started charting my bbt. Now 4 months later, I have seen the light. Apparently I don't ovulate early as previously believed. In fact it is actually between days 14 and 16 each month, but instead have a short LP which is anywhere between 7 to 9 days long. I wish I knew this information much earlier and want to kick myself for being so ignorant about my cycles and believing other people for so long.

After doing some research about ways of lengthening my LP, I starting taking 100 mg of vitamin b6 and 10 mg of folic acid yesterday in hopes of seeing a change in my cycle length. I feel that we may have achieved pregnancy before but it never took due to the unfavorable conditions along with my low bbts. As you can tell, I don't like to run to my MD about every concern because I don't usually get much support. My question to you is: Has anyone ever had success with lengthening their LP with just vitamin b6 supplements or did you also need the progesterone creme to achieve it? I am thinking about making an app't soon about my findings but don't want to get ignored again. Time is not on my side, and I am very bitter about having a 7 year age gab between children, but I will take it if I can. I am very close to losing all hope and have been on a roller coaster of emotions for many years now, but still don't want to give up just yet.

Any insight will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance ladies!

[rambopeep]

Glad to hear about your success! Congratulations! I started with the 100mg to better increase my chance of a good kick start. Hope it is enough. I will try with my doctor again to inquire about the progesterone cream too. I am terrible with pills, and never remember to take them, so I hope to not need too many.

I am not sure what an RE is. I am Canadian, so we have our family doctors, who refer you to a fertility clinic if you need it, and we have OB/GYN's but I think you also need a referral for one of them too. I haven't seen any specialists or been referred to one before. Getting a second opinion is difficult because our doctors are few and finding one who is accepting new patients is almost impossible, so switching doctors is always a challenge so, everyone sticks to which ever doctor you can get, or you get stuck with walk in's only, which doesn't offer personalize care.

Thanks for your input, and congrats!

[bny807]

so sorry to hear about your struggles.. I always had spotting once i got off the pill about 8 or so days into my LP.. i tried B6 only with no luck.. i did have to use progesterone  (however they think the spotting was due to endometriosis that they ended up finding). however we finally got pregnant (and have stayed pregnant!!!) when i was on a "cocktail" of 50mg B6, 1000mcg B12, 4mg folic acid + the 1mg folic acid thats in my prental (+ 300mg DHA) and 81 mg asprin!... haha i take a lot of pills!! however it seems to do the trick! we got pregnant naturally on my first month of taking all of those pills and that was without projesterone.. but on all our fertility treatment cycles i did use projesterone just to be safe.. have you tried going to an RE instead of an Obgyn? good luck!!!