Found it!

Well I just took my first dose of B6 - 500 mg sustained release! I was so excited when I found it, which didn't happen until I visited three more stores today, putting my grand total at eight. When I looked at it on the shelf, I thought it was a beautiful B6 mirage. After stared at it for a while, and reading "sustained release" like ten times just to be sure, I believe I let out a little yelp in the middle of the store.

By the way, my quest took me to a lot of health food and high-end organic grocery stores. I felt like I was seeing how the other half lives! Seriously, though, who can afford this stuff? I had hoped to get a couple things we need at the one store since I had gone all the way there, but the couple dollars that my budget would allow wouldn't have gotten me much, that's for sure! Things cost nearly twice as much as normal! I just hope I get pregnant before it dawns on me that I need to eat organic to help my hormones. Deep down I know that's probably best, but holy cow, it's expensive!

So I've heard you can see results pretty soon from the B6, and I'm hoping I didn't miss my chance to have it do its magic this month. Today is cycle day 15. I saw some 10KL (stretchy, clear and lubricative) this morning, and only 10K (not lubricative) since then. So ovulation is coming, but it is anyone's guess how quickly.

Another interesting side note, I've posted a little bit about a sensation I get in my legs right before a cycle is coming to an end. It always happens, without fail. Well, I totally have had the feeling for a few days now. I also had it around ovulation time last cycle as well. So I'm just curious what it means, because I think it's so interesting. I'm guessing that whatever hormone causes it at the end is also rising mid cycle now as well.. estrogen perhaps? That rises mid cycle, right? (You'd really think I'd be more educated about this stuff, seeing that it is my obsession, but I really don't have a clue). Ya, I think it does.

Thanks for your vitamin advice, by the way. I also decided to keep my GN.C prenatals. The upside is the folic acid is the highest I've found (1,000 mcg), while the downside is it involves taking four pills. That's right, four. I found one today at Who.le Foo.ds that has 1,000 mcg folic acid and comes in one pill, but I'd already opened mine so I'm stuck with them for 30 days.

Well, not much else to talk about. That's usually what happens this time of the cycle for me, I think. I'm not yet waiting, not depressed about anything, but right in the middle of it. I'm going to pray tonight that the B6 creates some wonderful mucus, that my follicles are mature, that my eggs are good quality and that they find their way to the right places. Yes, I meant that to be plural. I might as well ask God for big things!

Vitamin questions

So I am in need of some B6. The Tamoxifen has apparently dried me up, and even though I'm on day 14 of my cycle, I still went in search a bottle of 500 mg timed release B6 (Tues. was day 14). I haven't ovulated yet, as far as I know, so I'm hoping it's not too late for it to help me this cycle.

Just like I expected, I could not find it anywhere. We went to five stores that I can remember. There may have been more.

How do you all find it? The reason I haven't taken it in years (besides the fact that I didn't really need it) was because I thought you had to order it from that special pharmacy in Omaha. But then I read on several blogs that it can be found in health food stores, even Walm.art. Well, apparently not where I live.

The closest we found was a bottle of 300 mg timed release and another bottle of 500 mg that isn't timed release. A friend told me that taking two 300 mg, one in the morning and one in the evening, would be fine, so I'm going back out in the morning to buy that one.

While we were on our quest for B6, I also bought some new prenatal vitamins. I'm constantly confused about what separates good ones from not-as-good ones, but I found a box at G.NC that had more folic acid - 1000 mg(?) - that any of the rest I had seen, so I bought them. They weren't too expensive ($20), but that actually made me nervous because I have heard good ones are more costly. I haven't opened them yet, so is there anything else I should look for to determine if they're good? Any other vitamins that should be in certain amounts?

I just feel so clueless when it comes to this. I should just relax, I know. When it comes to the B6, it's not like I've had no mucus, it just hasn't been lubricative. Today (Tuesday.. I haven't gone to bed yet) I will chart 10K x3. Yesterday was 10K x1, if I remember correctly. It's just not the same, though. But, then again, different is good!

Okay, this is sort of stream of consciousness, so I'm going to go to bed. I'd appreciate any advice you have, though!